Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1920 — LATEST FROM THE PRIMARIES. [ARTICLE]

LATEST FROM THE PRIMARIES.

New Jersey.—With 84 precincts missing. * Wood leads Johnson by 612 yotes. Wood’s total is 51,402, Johnson’s 50,790. Johnson backers have charged fraud in some counties. —o — Ohio—With 1,35 precincts missing, the vote was: Harding, 125,003; Wood, 109,817. Three Harding candidates for delegates at large apparently are elected. . —oi— Idaho—Eight uninstructed delegates at Targe elected, led by Senator Borah, who is -for Johnson; Wood followers claim four. —o—- - Michigan—Ten district delegates chosen, four instructed for Johnson. Four of the other six have declared themselves for Johnson. o Arkansas—Negroes call “rump” convention for contest at Chicago. “Lily Whites’ ’elect eight delegates with half votes each favorable to Lowden. —- ———■—\ ; —o — North Carolina —Negroes organize to carry contest with “Lily Whites” to Chicago. —io■— Newark, N. J.—April 28. —Revised returns in all but eighty-four precincts in New Jersey, tabulated at midnight, gave Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood a majority of 612 votes over Senator Hiram-Johnson, ofCalifornia, in the preferential presidenial primary held yesterday. The vote was: Johnson, 50,790; Wood, 51,402. - Charges that .Johnson had been robbed in at least three counties of ■New Jersey were made tonight by William P. Verdon, Republican leader in Hoboken and one of the most enthusiastic Johnson supporters in the state. Verdon sent a telegram to Senator Johnson, reading: “You were robbed in Camden, Morris and Essex counties.” He expressed the opinion that. Johnson would win at least eleven of the twenty-eight delegates.