Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1920 — EYES FOCUSED ON INDIANA [ARTICLE]

EYES FOCUSED ON INDIANA

INDIANA AND CALIFORNIA ARE 'MOOT STATES IN - PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES. * Washington, April 30.—Two candidates, Herbert Hoover and Senator Warren G Harding next Tuesday will reach a decisive stage in their respective campaigns for the republican nomination at Chicago, according to non-partisan opinion here. Hoover and Senator Hiram Johnson will fight it out in the primaries of their native state of California, while * Senator Harding will conae to grips on the same day with both Johnson and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood at the Indiana state convention. Maryland On Monday. .— — As a sort of preliminary, Wood and Johnson will match their strength Monday in Maryland, on | which day the state wide primar- ; ies will be held. Johnson has swept across the state in a whirlwind stumping tour and on Saturday Senator Wm. E. Borah, of Idaho, will wind up the Johnson campaign in that bailiwick by a speech at Baltimore. The main centers of republican interest, however, further West. Hot Fight In Indiana. The three cornered fight in Indiana has been and still is, of the no-quarter kind, and when the smoke of the state primary clears next Tuesday there may be one or i two candidates missing. In republican circles, it is felt that . Senator Harding’s candidacy will receive its crucial test on that day and he will enter the fray some- • what handicapped by the small i plurality obtained by him over the I field in his own state —Ohio—as revealed by the count of yesterday. | Borah Goes To Maryland. ' Senator Borah is now stumping Indiana in behalf of Senator Johnson. His tour will be brief, however, only four speeches being in his date book —at Gary, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne- । After addressing the voters of the ; last nained place, he leaves for Bali timore to be in at the finish in Maryland. Gen. Wood, according to his Washington headquarters, will in all likelihood return to Indiana before the final round there. ; Hoover Not In Indiana Fight. Herbert Hoover is not officially entered in the Indiana contest. However, and notwithstanding the former food administrator will not go without his fighting next Tuesday. He will have a man s sized job on his hands in California, where, in a state wide primary, he and the other native son, Hiram Johnson, have the entire landscape to themselves.