Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1920 — CONTESTS GO TO CONVENTIONS [ARTICLE]

CONTESTS GO TO CONVENTIONS

REP U B LICAN PRESIDENTIAL AND DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL UP TO DELEGATES The candidate the Republicans favor in Indiana for president must be decided tin the state convention to be held in Indianapolis next Wednesday and Thursday, May lit and 13. Leonard Wood has secured a .plurality in the state of nearly 6,000 votes, but under the law the plurality does not bind the delegates to the national convention. Carleton B. McCulloch of Indianapolis has 24,000 more votes than his nearest opponent, but he does not have a majority of the Democratic votes in the state and. . that nomination will have to be deaided in the Democratic state convention. Following’ will be found an unofficial tabulation of votes cast in Indiana Tuesday in primary, contests to determine the state’s choice for the Republican nomination for President - and the Republican and Democratic nominees for Governor. Returns thus far sent by correspondents iin the' ninety-tWo counties of the state show: Presidential Preference (Complete). Republicans. Leonard Wood _—— 85,776 Hiram W. Johnson 79,829 Frank O. Lowden 31,118 Warren G. Harding 20,819 Plurality for Wood, 9,577. No Democrats entered Indiana’s primaries to determine that party’s choice in the state for the nomination for President. - Nomination For Governor. (3,150 -out of 3,387 precincts .in Indiana). Republicans. Warren T. McCray 100,738 James W. Fesler 59,551 Edward C. Toner 38,713 Majority for. McCray, 2,474. Democrats. (2,603*0ut of precincts in Indiana). Carleton B. McCulloch 40,768 Mason J. Niblack 1 16,898 John Isenbarger 1 14,909 J. Kirby Risk 13,546 Under the state primary law a presidential preference or a governorship nomination candidate miist obtain a majority of all the votes cast in order to be chosen. If the leading candidate obtains only a plurality, nominations for Governor are made by the state conventions of the parties ,which also decide whether or not to instruct for any presidential candidate. The vote in Benton county for joint representative was as follows: Simpkins . 533 Rich ,300 Tolan 80