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Wood, Lowden, Johnson
Lead In Voting.
"WOOD - OR LOWDEN
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CURES IDAHO SENATOR.
POWERFUL GROUP
RULES CONVENTION
CONFEREES GO TO BED
AFTER VAIN WRANGLE
$100,000,000 ESTATE
TO REMAIN IN TRUST
ATTEMPT TO UPSET WILL OF
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tion Expected to Be Gar
nered in Night.
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CHICAGO, June 11. Four bal
lots in the republican national con
vention today failed to unite the nec
essary majority on a nominee. It
was the first time since 1888 that
more than three ballots found the
party without a choice and the sev
enth time since the nomination of
Lincoln that more than one ballot
had been required.
Wood and Lowden were at their
high-water mark when the conven
tion after the fourth ballot adjourned
until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning,
Johnson had received on the fourth
ballot IVs votes less than he received
on the third.
The contest" then stood: Wood
314, Lowden 289, Johnson 1401,-!,
Hoover 5, Harding 6IV2, Sproul rSQ'z,
Coolidge 25, Butler 20, Knox 2,
Poindexter 15, Sutherland 0, Borah
1, Dupont 2, La Follette 22, Wat
son 4.
Big Three Gain Ballots.
At the adjournment hour it still
remained a three-cornered fight be
tween Wood, Lowden and Johnson,
for the remaining 12 contestants
held only 240 scattering votes among
them and most of them had been los
ing steadily since the first ballot,
some one of the big three making
accessions at their expense. s
With these scattering votes Hiram
Johnson still was holding the bal
ance of power. His 140 Vs votes alone,
even it cast lor either Wood or
Lowden, would not be sufficient to
nominate either, and there was not
the slightest indication of Johnson
delegates deserting their nominee
The four ballots saw various shifts
and changes, with a general declin
ing of the favorite son and compli
mentary vote. The vote for Dr,
Nicholas Murray Butler of New
York steadily dwindled until on the
closing ballot it stood at 20. Low
den forces took most of the acces
sions from New York.
Wisconsin Delegates Hissed.
Twenty-four votes from Wiscon
sin for La Follette on three succes
sive ballots amid hisses and catcalls
fell to 22 at the closing. It was the
first convention in years at which
La Follette himself had not appeared
as a candidate. Philander Knox'
maximum was two. Governor
Sproul's was 83 la on the first ballot.
It was difficult to understand the
sudden adjournment after four bal
lots had been taken. At the end of
the third ballot the Johnson forces
moved an adjournment and insisted
upon a rollcall after the motion had
been defeated by viva voce vote. The
rollcall showed the delegates voting
overwhelmingly to continue the bal
loting. Borah Urges Adjournment.
Toward the close of the fourth
ballot, it was seen that Wood and
Lowden both had made small gains
and that the Johnson vote would
show its first loss.
Senator Borah rushed to the plat
form and urged that an adjournment
be taken. Some of the Lowden peo
ple were appealed to by delegates
who wished to avoid the hard
ship of an all-night session and they
(Concluded on Page Column I.)
"IT Either Is Nominated Issue Will
Be Corruption of People," As
serts Johnson Backer.
CHICAGO, June 11. Senator Borah
of Idaho, one of Senator Johnson's
most ardent supporters, announced to
night that he would not support
eUher Lowden or Wood.
"If either of them is nominated
he declared, "the issue before the
American people will not be on the
platform of the party it will be on
the issue of the corruption of the
American people.
oenaior boran expressed his views
at a public meeting of Johnson dele
gates. "We have reached a time when It
is necessary to talk frankly not only
with reference to the situation in
the convention here," Senator Borah
said, "but also with reference to what
the situation will be when we leave
here with a candidate nominated and
our, platform in our pockets. I'm
not here to gratify personal feeling
for or against any candidate.
"From my standpoint, the interests
of the republican party and of this
country are superior to the right of
any individual to hold office. Our
first object is to nominate Hiram
Johnson, because he holds the con
fidence of the American people.
"I do not pretend to say that there
are not other men who could be
elected if nominated by the conven
tion tomorrow morning. But I do
say with all sincerity that either of
the two candidates now leading be
fore the convention will not receive,
if nominated, hundreds of thousands
of republican votes.
"If cither of these two leading can
didates is nominated the issue will
be the corruption of the electorate
There is no way to avoid the issue.
This cannot be blotted out or Ig
nored. I can take the records of
these two men and they are on file
officially in Washington read them
to an audience and leave it to them
if these men should go into the elec
tion. "Suppose I go into that convention
tomorrow, and ask from the rostrum
lor Mr. Wood's representatives to
stand up and tell us what that nomi
nation has cost?" A dozen voices from
the audience told him to "go to it."
"Suppose I should ask the other
gentleme.i to stand up," he continued.
"and ask how much they have bid
against Wood for the primary. Rome
was in precisely that situation before
its end. ----..
I have been a republican all my
life. I even stayed with Mr. Taft in
1912. and that s going some. I am
willing to support now any clean
man, and I will not support any man
who is not clean."
HARDING PAPERS FILED
Senatorial Candidacy Declaration
Is Just in Time.
COLUMBUS, O., June 11. Senator
Warren G. Harding's declaration of
candidacy for the republican sena
torial nomination was filed at the sec
retary of state's office here two min
utes before midnight, the hour -when
the period for filing for the August
primaries expires.
The necessary papers were brought
to Columbus from Chicago by George
B. Harris of Cleveland.
CHICAGO, June 11. Filing of pa
pers in the Ohio senatorial primary
does not alter his status as a presl
dential candidate, Senator Harding
announced tonight after conference
with his leaders and friends of othe
candidates.
"Our fight is here," Senator Hard
ing said. "I left my papers at Colum
bus and my friends there were free to
file them if they wished, but the fact
that they have been filed does not
mean that I am withdrawing from this
fight. The situation was never better
than tonight and I am well pleased
with the outlook."
BIRD BILL IS REVAMPED
Effort Made to Meet Objections to
Rooseelt Refuge.
SALEM, Or, June 11. (Special.)
W. S. Raker, vice-president of the
Roosevelt Bird Refuge association, to
day filed with the secretary of state
an amendment to tne original In
itiative' petition setting aside certain
lands in Malheur county for the prop
agation and feeding grounds for na
tive Oregon water fowl.
The petition as revamped has been
referred to the attorney-general for
ballot title. Mr. Raker says that in
adoption of the amendment ' to the
proposed bird refuge by the irriga- i
tionists abutting the Malheur Lake re-
Kfrvfi have been eliminated and that
the measure will receive the support I
of all factions.
he measure will go before the
voters at the general election In No
vember. 6-FOOT OCTOPUS CAUGHT
Devil Fish Is Hauled Ashore by
Newport Fislerman.
NEWPORT, Or., June 11. (Special.)
While fishing on a dock here Tues
day, Ivy Howard of Newport, for
merly of southern Oregon, caught an
octopus which measured about six
feet in diameter.
Devil fish have been caught before
in this locality, but they are rare; as
the water is too cold. The largest
one ever known hereabouts was one
caught by Mrs. Hanson, wife of the
keeper of Heceta Head light, In 1913.
The fish was about 15 feet In diam
eter and put up a terrific struggle.
Hand of Controlling "Ele
ment Disclosed.
ADJOURNMENT DEGREE GOES
Action Taken Despite Wishes
of Delegates. '
0HNS0N FORCES LOSING
Defeat of Wood Also Counted All
but Certain Much Expccted
of Night Conferences.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by arrangement.)
CHICAGO. June 11. The adjourn
ment tonight demonstrates how com
pletely the crowd that holds the bal
ance of power is in control of the
convention. At the end of the third
ballot some one among the delegates
tried to bring about an adjournment
The roll was called and the motion to
adjourn was lost by about two to
one.
The delegates wanted to go on vot
ing, but at the end of the fourth bal
lot an adjournment was decreed, not
by the wish of the delegates and not
by consultation with them, but by
decree of the group that controls
the convention. The delegates were
rushed into the adjournment without
chance to protest. The agreement
to adjourn was a friendly undertak
ing among the leaders of the balance
of power group who were in complete
control.
Motive Are Disclosed.
The motive of the adjournment was
partly a matter of convenience to
some of the old guard units. The
Ohio delegation wanted a chance to
meet and discuss things; so also did
the New Tork delegation and the
Pennsylvania delegation. But there
was another and equal motive: To
quite an extent the adjournment was
an act of generosity on the part of
the anti-Wood forces, who control
the situation. They felt confident of
their ability to prevent Wood from
winning, but they felt that it was
sportsmanlike thing to give Wood
chance to see what he could do over
night in the way of making com
binations.
-
The only places where Wood can
get new strength are, first, from
the Johnson group, and secondly, 1
from Pennsylvania. Of course, in
these two groups there are enough
delegates to enable Wood to win,
but Wood cannot get all these dele
gates, nor half of them. It was
hardly conceivable that anything
Wood could do tonight would enable
him to win.
Some Wood Gains Likely.
True, that if the balloting had con
tinued, the Wood forces would have
made a marked gain on the next bal
lot. Probably they will make this
marked gain on the next ballot any
how when it is taken tomorrow.
At the time of the adjournment, the
Johnson group of delegates had just
begun to go to pieces. On the next
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Refusal of Minor Candidates to i
Sacrifice Opportunities Yet
Blocks Progress.
CHICAGO, June 12. Leaders par
ticipating in the all-night confer
ences said at 2 o'clock this morning
on coming-out of them that it had
not been possible to come . to any
agreement and that the convention
would resume in the morning at the
point where it left off at the end of
the fourth ballot.
The leaders Were in accord that
Wood and Lowden must further try
out their strength before efforts to
concentrate on a dark horse could
be successful.
The main difficulty has been the
refusal of minor candidates to sac
rifice their opportunities until they
can receive reasonable assurances
that their votes will furnish the
necessary majority to some candidate
who can win.
Under these- circumstances no one
of them is willing to retire, for each
feels that the pledgee to him may
supply the nucleus for success if a
deadlock betwen those now leading
becomes an established fact. Chief
among these are Harding, Sproul and
Coolidge.
No one has been able to account
for the Johnson vote. The only in
dication came from Senator Borah,
who said neither Wood nor Lowden
should receive the nomination.
As the conferences at the 'down
town hotels were breaking up after
midnight it was plain that many who
participated felt that neither Lowden
nor Wood would be the nominee and
that consideration of the dark horse
list had been the chief subject of dis
cussion.
Opinion was too divided for an
agreement and few were confident of
being able to center upon any one
before tomorrow.
Four ' or five men.
said to include
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LOG OF A DAY
BT EDGAR B, PIPER.
CHICAGO, June 11. (Editorial cor
respondence.) This is to be an
other hot -weather convention
story. Somehow the ordeal must be
survived. Well, delegates who can
endure the terrific rigors of prohibi
tion can stand the comparatively mild
scourge of a thermometer which must
be somewhere about 100.
The convention, racing a long and
hard day, speedily took off its re
spective coats and settled down to
work of speechifying for the many
candidates for president. Governor
Henry Allen of Kansas had been se
lected to present General Wood.
Allen's address was of high order, but
who cares what the orators say? The
spectacle here is the crowd, the event
not in the hands of any man, but of
destiny itself. At the Instant Gov
ernor Allen concluded his aomiraDie
address from a high point near the
ceiling of the Coliseum several barrel
fuls of green and red feathers, emblem
of the Wood candidacy, were released.
Feathers Float Down on Crowd.
They were wafted slowly in great
showers down on the heads of the
loerspiring and shouting delegates. It
Has a new and beautiful stunt. At
the same moment the convention,
defying the consequences to new and
clean shirts, had broken into wild up
roar. It was all quite orthodox in its
fashion of noise, just noise. It is done
in every convention. For Roosevelt in
1912 the crowds shouted continually
for more than 70 minutes, and it was
not a Roosevelt convention. Now that
he is gone, every republican conven
tion 'is a Roosevelt convention. The
MADE A MISTAKE, MADAM!
Court Awards .Widow Dower
Rights In Realty and Gives Noth
ing to Illegitimate Son.
CHICAGO, June 11. Captain Mar
shall Field is entitled to the income
on three-fifths of the estate of his
grandfather and that on the two
fifths share of his mother, Mrs.
Henry Field,' according to the oral
opinion of Judge Charles M. Foell,
circuit court, given today. Imme
diate possession of the entire estate
was denied.
Mrs. Henry Field, now Mrs. Nancy
Perkins Field Tree, was held to bo
entitled to a widow's dower in the
real estate set asido in the will for
Henry Field. The judge held that
Henry Anthony Marsh, an illegitl
mate son of Henry Field, was not
entitled to share in the estate.
In the jurist's decision, denying im
mediate possession of Marshall Field's
$100,000,000 residuary estate. Captain
Field HI lost the main fight he has
waged against the terms of the will
Captain Field contended that the
20th clause of the will which direct
that the huge residuary estate shall
be held in trust until he is 50 is a
violation of the rule governing per
petulties and against public policy.
VETERANS EAT SALMON
Grand Army Convention for Ore
gon Brought to Close.
ASTORIA, Or., June 11. (Special.)
The 39th annual state encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and its affiliated organizations came
to an end tonight with a big salmon
dinner for the 600 visitors. The only
entertainment features consisted of a
musical programme.
Today the delegates went to Seaside
by special train, spending' the greater
part of the day at the beach, as the
guests of the people of Seaside.
AT CHICAGO
quickest response from the galleries
during the Allen speech came when
he introduced the name and memory
of the great American.
Twelve years ago the enthusiastic
rootsrs for Fairbanks kept the tumult
going for an hour or more. They
knew the real Fairbanks a good man
in Indiana, and they were there by the
thousands to show it. Now the Wood
clique has fallen into the cadence of
chorusing "Wood," "Wood," "Wood."
The chair uses his gavel after ten
minutes or more of whistling, ranting,
bawling, trumpeting, but it merely in
creases the commotion. Probably he
thought it would. The crowd has not
shouted itself out of voice so early in
the day. Later the heat will master
the situation and everybody will be
content to let George do it, if he has
the strength.
Policeman Rescaes Depew.
Chauncey Depew creates slight di
version in the press seats by stum
bling over some steps. A policeman
picked him up and Chauncey gaily
wended his venerable way to his
place. Judge McCamant from this
distance is the only visible member of
the Oregon delegation on his feet. He
is madly waving an American flag
and smiling benevolently at a colored
Wood man just behind him.
A California delegate threads his
way through the riot and passes the
word to the . reporters that "this is
nothing, wait for Johnson, he's going
to start something." Well he has
already started some things and
stopped others. A man from Tacoma
sends your chronicler a note convey
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 2.)
WE'RE HAVING A LOVE FEAST,
Break Starts in Third Con
vention Ballot.
MR. COOPER JOINS M'GAMANT
Delegation Divides Half and
Half in Fourth.
WOOD CROWD THEN YELLS
Belief Is That Before Balloting
Goes Far Today Oregon Will
Show NIn-e Wood Votes.
CHICAGO, June 11. (Special.)
One of the first stirs of the conven
tion was created on the first ballot
this afternoon when Hamilton E.
Johnstone, delegate from the Third
Oregon district, challenged the vote
which had been reported by Chairman
Rand as nine for Hiram Johnson and
one for Leonard Wood. All over the
big Coliseum the challenge was taken
by those who knew anything about
the Oregon situation to mean that
some Hiram Johnson supporter was
starting a fight on the floor to force
Judge Wallace McCamant to cast his
vote for the California candidate.
The storm blew over immediately,
however, when a poll of the delega
tion asked by Delegate Johnstone
was granted. Judge McCamant's name
was the first called and he rose to
his feet, and in a voice that could
be heard to the far corners fit the
hall, answered without hesitation,
"Leonard Wood." The other nine
delegates voted for Hiram Johnson
and, much to the surprise of those
observers who thought they under
stood what it was all about, no fur
ther question was raised. Mr. John
Etone made no explanation of his
action.
Dalles Man Goes Over. .
On the third ballot D. J. Cooper,
84-year-old delegate from The Dalles,
boldly crossed over to Wood. Again
Delegate Johnstone called for a poll,
which was taken, revealing to the
cnvention the name of the additional
Oregon delegate who had abandoned
Johnson for Wood.
Wood rooters in all parts of the
big hall undertook to lift the roof off
the building when Oregon divided
half and half on the fourth ballot,
giving five votes to Johnson and five
to wood. On this ballot Delegates
McCamant and Cooper were joined in
the Wood column by Dow V. Walker,
W. H. Brooke and Judge Charles H.
Carey. It was explained afterward
that these delegates left Johnson for
Wood because they felt that John
son's strength had apparently reached
its maximum and could not climb
higher.
Other Breaks Expected.
..In fact, some of the Oregon delega
tion had been assured, it is under
stood, that other Johnson delegations
were to break away from the CaU
fornia candidate on the fourth bal
lot, convinced that he could not win
and that it was their duty to partici
pate in the choosing of the candi
date. The Michigan delegation was
one of the Johnson delegations that
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NOT A FUNERAL.'
Gentlemen From New England De
clared Wary of Ordering Any
one to Do Anything.
BT . JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
(Copyrighted by the Bell Syndicate.
Inc.
Published by arrangement.)
CHICAGO, June 11. (Special.)
There may never bo another national
republican convention, but if there
is one. . it will have a boss. They
tried a de-bssed convention here In
Chicago, ana they didn't like It-
Self-determination may work all
risrht in the primaries, but It 1
total loss in a republican convention.
BV.1- wnnk. the delegates have
been wandering around here in the
untrodden ways of Independence.
They expected Penrose, and Penrose
didn't come. They turned to Uncle
Murray Crane, and found that he
was so wrapped up in a mantle oi
caution that ho would as soon order
a drink as a delegate, and ordering
a drink around here simply isn't
done by rich and respectable old
gentlemen from New England.
For days the delegates went about
piteously begging first one man and
then another to teii them what to do.
The situation got jammeder and
jammeder and still no clarion notes
of command rang out.
When they finally got down to
nominations tfcey had no programme
and work that could have been done
in 20 minutes occupied many dreary
hours.
Now that they have got a candi
date they won't know whether they
like him or not unless somebody will
tell them. There has been no enthu
siasm in the proceedings because
there haa been nobody to start it.
Tt takes a boss even to start a iirsi
class fight.
I'm hot knocking the primary law
or anvthing like that. it. is a gooa
law back home. You can go into
ballot box, pick out your favorite son
nd vote for him, without the aid or
consent of ny boss on eartn.
But when upward of a thousand
men. more than hau oi mem perteci
strangers to one another, meet in i
strange city and are expected with
out any direction to make a momen
tous decision In less than a week's
time, they simply can't do It.
You couldn't get away with that
in business, and you can't get away
with it in politics. If the primary
law is to prevail, the convention must
go. You can't have both of them
v. ithout the same kind of a pointless
snarl that has been going on in Chi
cago this wee!:.
POLICEMAN IS CONVICTED
Gotham Jury Declares Inspector
Quilty of Perjury. '
NEW YORK, June 11. A supreme
court jury tonight returned a verdict
of guilty in the case of Dominick
Henry, police inspector, charged with
perjury.
The charge was the result of tes
timony recently given by Henry be
fore the extraordinary grand jury
charging that James E. Smith, assist
ant district attorney, tried to enter
into a gambling partnership with him
in 1918.
MELON IS 400 PER CENT
Breakfast and Stock. Food Concern
Makes Vast Profits.
ST. LOUIS, June 11. The Ralston
Purina company, manufacturers of
breakfast foods and feeds for cattle,
horses, hogs and poultry, has declared
a 400 per cent stock dividend on its
capitalization of $1,000,000.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tiie Weather.
TESTE RDAT'S Maximum temperature.
62 degrees; minimum, ol degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
Foreign.
Labor proposes to join democrats if party
will meet Its demands, rage o.
Domestic.
Leonard Wood placed in nomination at
Chicago by --Governor Allen. Page 3.
Convention, minus boss, is found not to
delegates' liking. Page 1.
Four ballots fail to bring nomination.
Page 1. .
Will of late Marshall Field upheld and
estate remains in trust. pagfl 1.
Oregon delegation is expected to cast nine
votes for Wood today. Page I.
Johnstone demands poll of Oregon delega
tion s vote on first ballot. Page 2.
Premier convention speech delivered by
sister of Theodore Roosevelt. Page 4
Johnson's chance of winning fades. Page 1.
Convention procedure discloses rule by
powerful group of delegates. Page 1.
Conferees go to bed after fruitless wrangle,
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Schuyleman defeats Holman for place as
democratic delegate to San Francisco.
Page 7.
President Elliott, and other members of
Klwanls. visit aeatue on way to r-ort-land.
Page 7.
Sale of street car tickets In Portland at
present prices ordered discontinued.
Page 6.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Oakland 0,
Portland 2; Vernon 11. beattle 3: Sacra
mento 4, Los Angeles 0: Salt Lake 8.
San Francisco 4. Page 12.
Today will settle state golf championship
Page 12.
Portland assured of Leonard bout- Page 12.
Joe Gorman and Young Brown fight draw,
Page 13.
Robert Gardner of Chicago beaten in
Britisii title golf play. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Washington apple crop smaller than yea
ago. Page 19.
Corn market reacts with heavy selling by
longs. Page is.
Tendency ot stock market is upward.
Page 19.
Norton. Lilly & Co. open Portland office.
Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Drive of state chamber to be continued.
Page 10.
Forty thousand children begin school va
cation. Page 10.
Ex-teacher1! llbet suit dismissed. Page 11.
I Fuel supply la found by dealers. Page 14.
Bishop Shcpard arrives for Methodist work
U Oregon. Pace 5.
Lowden -Wood Fight Is
Regarded Big Issue.
RESULT "YET IN DOUBT
Anything May Happen at Con
vention and Anyone May
Be Nominated.
DARK HORSES CHAMP BITS
Californian Is Not Likely to
Gain as Scattered Votes
Are Shifted.
BV EDGAR B. PIPER.
CHICAGO, June 11. (Editorial
Correspondence.) No man can say
truthfully this midnight that he has
a clearer vision of what will happen
in the republican convention than
he had a week or a month or a year
ago. It is anybody's fight any
body's but Hiram Johnson's.
There was abundant evidence to
day that it is not a Johnson conven
tion. He can knock it around more
or less, in characteristic fashion, on
such matters as a platform, but it
doesn't love him for that. It may
show that it is afraid of him and
what he can do, but it will not give
him the one thing above all others
he wants. There is one remote con
tingency, however, in which Johnson
might win. The convention might in
the end make a grand free gift to
Johnson. .
Unexpected Slay Occur.
In the maneuvering between the
Wood and Lowden forces, increasing
in bitterness and desperation as bal
lot follows ballot without success,
or prospect of it, for either, the
management of the one might con
ceivably throw its forces, or all of
them it could control, to the other.
It is not to be expected, of course,
but the unexpected occasionally hap
pens in politics, and sometimes the
impossible.
If Johnson should win, it would be
because somebody sees that it is the
only way to defeat somebody else.
No great surprises developed from
today's ballotings. Wood was as
strong as impartial opinion thought
he would be, and Lowden just a lit-.
tie stronger. Johnson had what he
was known to have and no more.
He stands to gain from Wisconsin,
which performs its traditional serv
ice to the solitary La Follette by
voting for him against the united
and very hearty displeasure of all
delegates outside of Wisconsin. But
Johnson stands to lose nearly all of
the Michigan votes and more votes
from Nebraska, Oregon, New Jer
sey and Indiana. His natural
strength is less than the total shown
today.
Wood-Lowden Center Battle.
The contest is absolutely a battle
now between Wood and Lowden. It
is not less than it was Wood against
the field. But it is obvious that the
professional political talent, which a
day or two ago was in a grea.t state
of funk about Lowden, has recov
ered its courage and is backing Low
den to beat Wood. It is ' making
Lowden strong and it is again a pos
sible, but not a probable, thing that
Lowden will win. If Lowden con
tinues to gain and if Wood begins
to lose, the old guard captains will
not leave Lowden, but they will
surely begin to go when he seems
to have reached his maximum
strength. The Wood management
contends that it is entirely satisfied
with today's developments. The
Wood forces held well together and
made slow gains, but so, on the
whole, did Lowden. The sufferers
were the newer candidates.
Wood Position Perilous.
It must be stated, however, that.
Wood is in a perilous position. If
he is to get large blocks of delegates
from Pennsylvania and New York,
there was no sign of it in the votes.
On the contrary, Lowden got more
delegates from New York than
Wood a demonstration of the power
of the combination which is trying
first to beat Wood and then to take
the chance of Lowden going over.
It looks like a hard .fight for Wood
with the chances nearly all agaiast
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