Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1920 — VOTERS IN CONTROL TODAY [ARTICLE]

VOTERS IN CONTROL TODAY

- - : — - --- — — ; ■ INDIANA, PIVOT STATE, AND CALIFORNIA. OCCUPY THE LIMELIGHT. The Indiana primary campaign came to a close last night and today the voters will register their choice. Chief interest, of course, centers on the Republican ballots because of the hot race among the presidential and gubernatorial candidates, and all indications point to an unusually large vote today. The absence of a spirited contest among the Democrats leads to the belief that that party poll a small vote. The eyes of the nation are watching for the Indiana result because of the bearing it will have on the presidential race and while California will also hold a primary today, the Hoosier contest transcends it in national importance. Three presidential contestants, Senator Warren G. Harding, Senator Hiram W. Johnson and MajGen. Leonard Wood, kept up their drives until the last minute last night, while the fourth entrant, Governor Frank O. Lowden, remained at his home in Springfield, 111., to await the final verdict. Senator Harding stopped at his 'headquarters in the Claypool hotel yesterday afternoon for a few , minutes en route from his home in Marion, 0., to Connersville, where he made the closing speech of his campaign last night. Senator Johnson fired his final shot at Marion last night, having addressed crowds at Lafayette in the morning and Wabash in the afternoon. Gen. Wood ended his campaign at Anderson after having addressed a monster mass meeting at Tomlinson hall in Indianapolis at noon. The general also spoke to big crowds at Seymour, Richmond and Muncie during the day. None of the presidential campaign managers would make definite predictions on the outcome, with the exception of Harry G. Hogan, Gen. Wood’s manager. Mr. Hogan declared that on the basis of estimates received from all parts of the state he believed the general’s plurality would be around 20,000The four presidential candidates have conducted strenuous campaigns in the state, all of them having entered practically every district on stumping tours. They have been supported by smoothly running organizations, and it is probably the first time in the history of the state that so much interest has been created in the candidacy of office seekers who- are not native Hoosiers. J , The gubernatorial contest, however, has divided interest with the presidential race. Since the first of the year the three candidates, J W. Fesler, Warren T. McCray and Edward C. Toner, have been sweeping the state and they also kept it up until the last moment last night. Mr. Fesler addressed a meeting in Martinsville last night, Mr. Toner spoke in Muncie and Mr. McCray in Gary. At the outset of the campaign four contestants were seeking the nomination, but Edgar T. Bush of Salem dropped out several weeks ago. All three of the headquarters expressed confidence yesterday that they would be victorious, the Fesler and Toner camps predicting pluralittes and the McCray camp openly claiming a majority.