Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — WOOD 22 JOHNSON 8 [ARTICLE]

WOOD 22 JOHNSON 8

INDIANA DELEGATION ARE FOR THE GENERAL AND THE CALIFORNIAN. / Nine of the thirteen Indiana congressional districts gave pluralities for General Leonard Wood and four districts give pluralities for Senator Hiram Johnson. The four delegates at large were instructed by a plurality vote of the Republicans of the state and by the Republican state convention in session in Indianapolis this week were instructed for General Wood. This means that Wood will have twentytwo delegates in the Natoinal Republican convention in Chicago and that Johnson will have eight. There were a number of men elected delegates who were formerly Harding and Lowden men but these men though they were not instructed by the delegates of the district from which they were elected, have privately pledged themselves to support the candidate who was favored by the votes of the district they represent* The fight to. instruct the big four was very spirited and the result of the vote was very close, but it showed that besides the plurality vote given General Wood by the Republican voters of the state that enough favor him as a second choice to make that plurality a majority. ' By their success in the Indiana campaign for General Wood two men have gained prominence and are sure to 'be large factors in the future activities of the Republican part in this state. These men are Mayor Charles Jewett of Indianapolis and Harry G. Hogan, Wood manager for Indiana and Republican chairman of the twelfth Indiana congressional district. Another man who is sure to become a very prominent character in the Republican party of this state is Col. George H. Healey of Frankfort. His name was very seriously considered for delegate at large to the' National convention.