Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1920 — WOOD WINS IN MARYLAND [ARTICLE]

WOOD WINS IN MARYLAND

DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES WILL GO TO THE CONVENTION UNINSTRUCTED Baltimore, May 3.—Complete returns from Baltimore city and practically complete returns from the counties in today’s presidential preferential primaries give Gen. Leonard Wood. 15,900 votes to 8,059 for SenatoY Hiram Johnson, a majority of 7,841 for the former. Gen. Wood carried Baltimore city by 3,557, his vote beins 8,305 as against 4,478 for Johnson. He also carried twenty-one out of twentythree counties. Johnson obtained the majority only in Alleghany and Washington counties, the heart of the coal mining country. Get* Sixteen Chicago Delegate*. Wood will have 116 out of 129 votes in the state convention, which will select the sixteen delegates to ChicagoAll of the latter will be instructed to vote for him as long as they “conscientiously believ§” he has a chance of being nominated, in accordance with the state primary election law.. There was no Democratic contest, and thestate’s delegation will go to San Francisco uninstructed. Congressmen Renominated. The following congressmen were re-nominated: Democrats —Carville D. Benson, Second district; Charles P. Coady, Third district; J. Charles Linthicum, Fourth district. Republicans —William N. Andrews, First district; Sydney Mudd, Fifth district; Frederick N. Zihlman, Sixth district. United States Senator John Walter Smith, Democrat incumbent, was unopposed for renomination, and O. E. Weller of Baltimore county, the Republican senatorial candidate, also had no opposition. Utah Doe* Not In*truct. Price, Utah, May 4—The Utah state Republican convention today elected four delegates at large to the Chicago convention without instructions. Of the delegates and alternates, six are reported to have expressed a preference for Maj. Gen. Wood. One of the delegates announced before the convention that he favored Gov. Lowden. One woman, Mrs. Jeanette Hyde of Salt Lake, is a delegate. Another woman, Mrs. Lilly Westerholm of Salt Lake, is an alternate. Senator Reed Smoot will head the delegation. , , . .. The resolutions declared for ratification of the peace treaty with the : Lodge reservations; for an immediate declaration of peace, and for a stronger Mexican policy, so that the lives and property of Amencan citizens may be given protection. Hiram I* Far Ahead. . _ Helena, Mont-, May 3.—Official returns from last week’s primary in twenty-eight Montana counties canvassed to date showed today Senator Hiram W. Johnson received 10,153 votes. Gov. Lowden received 3,519, Maj. Gen. Wood, 3,472; Herbert Hoover, 2,444, and Senator Harding, 396.