Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1920 — NOT IN CARDS TO WIN ON FIRST BALLOT [ARTICLE]

NOT IN CARDS TO WIN ON FIRST BALLOT

New York, May 11. —With all but six of the states having chosen their Republican delegates, it. becomee more apparent that no candidate can hope to win op the first ballot. Instructed delegates at present are apportioned as follows: Wood, 136; Johnson, 106; Lowden, 73; Harding, 39; Senator Miles Poindexter, 14. Counting claims to uninstructed delegates the standing would be: . ~ Wood, 248; Johnson, 150; Lowden, 145; Nicholas Burray Butler, 88; Harding, 40; Gov. Calvin Coolidge, 29; Judge J. P. Richards, 22; Poindexter, 14. Democratic delegates are still widely distributed. Instructions have been made as follows: Governor James Cox- 74; .Hoover, 33; Gov. Edwards, 28; Senator Robert Owen, 20; Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, 16; W. J. Bryan, 10; James W. Gerard, 10. The possibility has thus arisen that two men who may not a handful of votes on the first ballot in the Republican convention will stand as good a chance for the nomination as any of the present “big four” of Johnson, Major General Wood, Governor Frank Lowden and Senator Warren G. Harding. These

men are Philander K. Knox and Herbert Hoover. There is a fairly general understanding that when Senator Boies Penrose endorsed his colleague for the Republican nomination it was intended largely as a “feeler” to learn the sentiment of the rank and file of the party and of the candidates regarding a possible “dark horse.” Knox is recognized as a representative of the old guard apparently wishes to learn partitularTy how Senator Hiram Johnson and the progressive wing regarded Knox as a compromise candidate in the event of a deadlock at Chicago. Even Penrose is understood to have been amazed at the quick response of sentiment for Knox in both branches of the party. And this strength has grown daily, making the Pennsylvania senator loom up formidably among the large stable of dark horses.