Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — INDIANA SPLIT AFTER SECOND [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SPLIT AFTER SECOND

BOTH WOOD AND LOWDEN LORE VOTES TO OTHER CANDI* DATES— BIG 4 FIRM. Indianapolis, Ind., June 11.—The Indiana delegates to the republican national convention at Chicago showed a tendency to shift their vote today after the second ballot. The first two were cast according to pluralities given the candidatea at the state primary convention, 8 for Johnson and 22 for Wood. A special dispatch to the Indianapolis Star shows how the delegates voted on the other three ballots. On the third ballot Jet Moonnan and E. F.‘ Kitselman of the eighth district switched from Wood to Harding, while Newt Myers of the third district, and Lett of the fourth district changed 'from Wood to Lowden. Johnson lost his first two Indiana votes on the fourth ballot, when James A. Hemenway and W. H. McCurdy of the first district joined Newt Myers of the third district in voting for Lowden. Harding’s throe votes on this ballot camo num Jet Moorman and E. F. Kitselman of the eighth district and Estel Beilby of the fourth district. The last named had previously voted for Wood and his defran was offset when Lett returned to Wood on the fourth bdllot after supporting Lowden on the third ballot. All the “big'four” delegates are voting for Wood.