Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1920 — ALL HARMONY AT CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

ALL HARMONY AT CONVENTION

WOOD, 18; JOHNSON, 8, IS PROBABLE DELEGATE VOTE IN INDIANA. Indianapolis, May 12.—Twentysix delegates to the national convention were elected tonight at the thirteen district meetings of the Republican state convention. It was believed when the balloting began that Senator Johnson would get 8 and Gen. Wood 18. The four delegates at large, in accordance with the plurality given Wood in the primary, will go to him. Harmony was the theme of the speeches delivered at the opening session today. .... That the party leaders in Indiana had reached an agreement, and the forces of United States Senator James E. Watson had buried the hatchet, became apparent early in .the day when it was announced that E. M. Wasmuth had been unanimously re-elected state chairman. It was also proclaimed later in the convention, when i t was announced that Indiana s the delegates at large, would abide by the vote of the people and support Gen. Wood, he having receded a plurality in the recent presidential preference primary for the presidency. w* Indosement by both Senator Watson, temporary chairman, and Senator Harry S. New, permanent chairman, of the administration of Governor Jas. S. Goodrich, was another step in the “harmony’ movement, and a further stride in the get-together plan came near the close of the session when former Senator Albert J.. Beveridge was called upon to address the delegates. Several of the districts contained woman delegates and many women were seated in the galleries and on the stage. This new element in politics was represented on the program by Mrs. John Glover South of Frankfort, Ky., chairman of the Women’s National Republican executive committee. Senator New, speaking as permanent chairman, charged that when “President Wilson turns the government over to his Republican successor in March' of next year he will hand to him a legacy of public debt of $30,000,000,000 or more. He said it cost as much to pay the interest on this total as it.did to run the government before the war.