Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1920 — LOWDEN GETS ILLINOIS VOTE [ARTICLE]

LOWDEN GETS ILLINOIS VOTE

Springfield, 111., May 10.—Illinois republicans in state convention here today elected ton delegates at Irage to the national convention and unanimously adopted resolutions providing that the delegation vote for Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for the presidency at the Chicago convention until released from such vote by the governor. Each of the delegates at large win have four-fifths' of a vote. The convention voted down 1,110 to 631, a platform plank of principles supported by Mayor WiHiam Hale Thompson of Chicago, national committeeman, and decided to postpone action on a platform until after the national convention.