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COOLIDGE WINS ON FIRST
Sproul Dramatically Turns
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to Decide Day.
STATE RETURNS ARE CHEERED
Lowden Forces Throw Most
of Strength to Senator When
Own Cause Is Hopeless.
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CHICAGO. June 12. Warren G.
Harding, United States senator from
Ohio, was nominated for the presi
dency today by the republican na
tional convention on the tenth bal
lot, after deadlock which had
lasted for nine ballots and which
finally forced out of the running all
the original favorites.
As his running mate, the conven
tion named Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts, upsetting a plan
of a combination of the Harding
hackers to nominate for the place
Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wis
consin. Coolidge was nominated by
Wallace McCamant, Oregon.
The collapse of the forces of Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowden and their
transfer in large part to Senator
Harding put the Ohio candidate
over.
Winner Is Dark Horse.
General Wood lost heavily, how
ever, when the Harding drift began,
and Senator Johnson, the third of
the trio of leaders on the early bal
loting yesterday, also went steadily
down hill.
Entering the convention four days
ago as a candidate distinctly of the
"dark horse" class, Senator Harding
got only 64 votes on the first ballot
yesterday and on the second he
dropped to 56. When the convention
adjourned last night at the end of
the fourth ballot he had 61.
In all-night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, he was men
tioned many times as the most
likely to break the nomination dead
lock should neither Wood, Lowden
nor Johnson take a commanding lead
today. They all failed to do so, Wood
and Lowden running a neck-and-neck
race for leadership on four
ballots, while the strength of the Cal
ifornia candidate dwindled steadily.
Johnson Gains Respite.
Meantime Harding pushed his to
tal to 133, individual delegates from
many states swinging to him from
the columns of the leaders and of
various favorite sons. The Johnson
managers, fearing a landslide was
impending, then made a last play to
save the fortune of their candidate.
They moved to recess for a couple of
hours in order to take an inventory
and seek a new combination. The
Wood and Lowden forces, both vir
tually at the peak of their strength
but disheartened at the long string
of ballots without material gains,
fell in with the recess plan and the
convention adopted it.
In the dramatic succession of con
ferences that followed the fate of
the candidates virtually was sealed.
Some of the Wood and Lowden man
agers tried ineffectually for an
agreement which would hold their
delegates in line and kill off the
Harding boom. Some tried to get a
Wood-Lowden-Johnson agreement to
adjourn till Monday without making
a nomination. There also was a con
ference between Johnson and Hard-
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Screeching for Johnson Causes
Audience to Wish Some One
Would Shoot Woman.
BY EDGAR B. PIPER.
CHICAGO. June 12. (Editorial
correspondence.)-This is the ereat
day and probably the final day of
the republican convention. It is
as hot as ever, and seems .hotter.
There is a great lake near Chicago
but no lake ' breezes." The breezes
come from the sun-baked prairies or
the west and, being- hot when they
start, increase in hydrophobic tor-
ridity in exact proportion as the dis
tance to Chicago decreases.
The delegates gathered at the con
vention hall with no special signs of
distemper. They will , need all their
good humor before night falls. Tour
correspondent will try to . keep his
during the day's developments.
The convention got to work in busi
ness-like fashion. ' It was the fifth
ballot. Mississippi created . a small
commotion by casting 13 votes when
it is entitled only to 12. The chair
man revised his calculation and again
announced 13.
"Count your cash again," yelled a
delegate. They do not often make a
mistake on convention figures at ;
republican convention, never a mis
take against themselves. 'The ' air
is full of dark horse rumors. This
time Harding is having quite a little
boom. Harding is in a tight fix.
Friday was the final day for filing
senatorial nominations and the sena
tor had to decide between a senatorial
and presidential candidacy. He eought
to cut the Gordian knot by telegraph
ing last night to Columbus the an
nouncement that he would stand
again for senator. Evidently at this
time he does not take his presidential
chances seriously. Perhaps the con
vention will. Just now the delegates
are looking in his direction. They
may not look long.- They do not ap
parently look anywhere long.
Dark Horses Get Little Attention.
No dark horse has as yet been able
to get undivided attention. The Ohio
delegation got into some kind of a
row and was polled with no new
results. Oregon then got into the
spotlight by demanding a roll call of
the delegates. The result was John
son 5, Wood 4, Lowden 1. Judge
Carey had voted for Lowden.' As the
ballot proceeded it was evident that
the high hopes of Wood for large in
creases were not to be realized. But
there were accessions for Lowden. He
may reach the Wood total. But they
do not Intend to nominate Lowden.
The great game is to destroy Wood
and then to eliminate Lowden. The
Borah threat to bolt either Wood or
Lowden is having its effect. The con
yentiott is not exactly alarmed, mers
ly cautious. That's it. Why ' scuttle '
the ship yourself - because somebody
named Borah or Johnson is holding a
pistol at your head? Just wait your
chance to throw him overboard. The
fifth ballot shows Lowden ahead of
Wood.
The peak for the general has been
passed, but the big- gamesters are
playing with Lowden. Ho is a handy
club with which to beat down Wood.
What then? Not Johnson. That's set-
led. Perhaps Coolidge, Sproul. Har
ding, Hughes or Hoover, who knows?
Georgia, the sors thumb of the con
vention demands to be polled. All
that developed was that somebody
was absent.
Then came Michigan instructed for
Johnson, but like Oregon, loving an-
otner. The chairman sought to cast
the entira 30 for Johnson but was
challengad. The anti-Johnson groip
there had evidently decided tuat it
was their time to bolt. Wood got 11
votes. He needs them, and moffc,
badly. - Missouri shows signs, of weak
ening on Lowden and casts a bunch of
votes for Harding. Ohio causes a gen
eral groan by asking a poll. Bad feel
ing there. Probably having trouble
holding 39 Harding men in line. If
Ohio doesn't really believe in Harding,
wnat aDout the rer. of the country?
A woman with, a death rattle lust
above the press scats is upsetting the
nerves ot the writing reporters by
noisily sounding- it whencver John
son's name is mentioned. The" police
finally suppress the nuisance. Ohio
breaks and gives, Wood four more
votes. Just a littia sortie, perhaps, to
make somebody feci-good.
Oregon creates a diversion by cast
ing the first vote from that state for
Hoover. . Probably Judge Carey. There
will be more. Bu- the convention will
not easily catch the Hoover contagion.
The absentee colored Georgia gentle
man returned from somewhere and
voted for wood. .
Irvln Cobb Cashes Check.
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.ixiu x.uuu Bija iic was out cashing
a check. Tie at 311 between WnnH
and Lowden the political gold dust
twins, says Cobb. . They'll both go out
together with a protracted uproar.
, yjn tne next ballot trouble de
veloped anew in Michigan. The chair.
man Insisted on casting the entire
30 for Johnson, but the Wood men
resisted, . The Johnson lunatic breaks
out again with her death rattle. Why
don't they shoot her? . Wood gets 13
in Michigan. So much for the presi
dential preference primary.
New York abandoned Butler, but
gives him two. . No college professors
for this- convention. Texas stops the
show by demanding a polL Harding
picks up a few.
Wisconsin continues to advertise its
bad eminence by voting for La Toilette
and the galleries boo a mouthfuL
Harding seems to new recruits to be
the rising sun, and cries for the
Ohloan start up everywhere.
Seventh inning is over and nothing
doing, jso rules to this game.
great tumult follows the announce
ment of. the Harding vote passing
the 100 mark. Perhaps they have
started something. Wood one-half
a vote ahead of Lowden. A real horse
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HARDING 'VERY HAPPY'
OVER HIS NOMINATION
SENATOR AXD WIFE BOTH ARE
ELATED AT REbULT.
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Couple Joke About Price of Mil
linery While Eacins Battery
of Cameramen.
CHICAGO. June 12 Caught at the
hotel to which he rushed from the
Coliseum after his nomination. Sena
tor Harding made no formal state
ment, but declared he was "very hap
py" and "deeply grateful to his
many friends."
The republican nominee showed
plainly his elation- when he emerged
from his rooms with Mrs. Harding
to face a battery of camera men.
"If you want to make Mrs. Harding
look pleased," said the man' on whom
the republican ' party had just con
ferred the greatest honor in its gift,
tell her something about the price of
millinery coming down."
There was a burst of laughter in
which Mrs. Harding joined and the
cameras clicked a lively accompani
ment as the photographers adopted
the suggesti on.
Mrs. Harding was beaming with
happiness. Asked for some comment
upon her feeling as to the distinction
given her husband by his fellow re
publicans, she said:
"I am tremendously pleased, of
course, but 1 think my husband is
worthy of this honor and I am con
tent to be in the reflected light."
Senator and Mrs. Harding were busy
with preparations to enable them to
catch a train leaving for Washington
within a few hours. The senator had
been up nearly all night in the round
of conferences with party chieftains
which led to his nomination and today
spent hours in the heat and strain at
the Coliseum while the battle from
which he emerged a victor by an over
whelming vote was being brought to
its dramatic close.
The pleasure of the victory had re
laxed the physical strain, however.
and the Ohio - senator showed little
evidence of It after he had bathed and
put on fresh clothing.
AMERICA GETS TANKERS
Vessels, Claimed by Several Na
tions, Are Awarded.
PARIS. June 12 Eight oil tankers
belonging to a German subsidiary of
the Standard Oil company finally have
been allotted to the United States for
the transport of petrol and oil to
Europe, according to an official com
munication issued this evening by the
reparation commission. '
These vessels had been the subject
of controversy since January, 1919.
The rights of nations, among them
France, Italy and Great Britain, were
Iuvulved.
HARDING'S HOME CITY
WILDLY ENTHUSIASTIC
35,00 0 PEOPLE OF MARION, O.,
JOYOUS OVER NOMINATION.
Factory Whistles Tooted, Bells
Rung and Laughing and
Shouting Groups Gather.
MARION. Ohio, June 12. This lit
tle central Ohio city of nearly 35,000
people went wild with joy and enthu
siasm tonight when it learned that
one of its citizens. Warren G., Hard
ing, had been nominated for the pres
idency by the republican national con
vention, -i .
Minutes before it was announced
officially at Chicago that Harding
had been . nominated, Marion started
celebrating what it considered a sure
thing. Factory whistles were tooted.
church bells rung and Harding's
friends and neighbors gathered on the
streets in shouting, laughing groups.
No one was at the Harding home to
receive the news. The house, one of
the modest dwellings of the city, was
dark.
Harding's father and sister who
live here, were the center of enthu
siastic groups of townspeople, who
discussed excitedly the developments
of the day at the Chicago convention,
The father, Dr. G T. Harding, a
practicing physician, received the
news of the honor to his son on his
76th birthday. He seemed highly
elated, as did a sister, Abigail Hard
ing, who teaches English in the Mar
ion schools. , '
The elder Harding received the
news without excitement. He de
Glared that he had not wanted his son
to be nominated, but now that he was
nominated, he declared he would vote
for him for president.
Earlier in the day when Harding's
nomination appeared likely, the fath
er told intimate friends he hoped
"Warren" would not.be nominated as
so many presidents and men in high
office are assassinated. He -said he
didn't want his "boy" harmed. Never
theless, Dr. Harding appeared to be
the happiest man in the world to
night.
Mrs. Harding was with her husband
at Chicago when the nomination was
made. The Hardings have no chil
dren.
Senator Harding is a successful
newspaper publisher.
Since 1884 he has owned and pub
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lished the Marion Star. He has been
in newspaper work' since he was 19.
When in Marion he spends all of his
time at the Star office in the active
management of the paper. He is a
practical printer, and delights in
spending hours in his composing room
handling type.
He began his newspaper work in
the Marion Mirror, which was a demo
cratic newspaper, at $9 a week salary,
and was discharged from the staff of
that paper during the Bla'ine cam
paign because his sympathies were
with Blaine' and because he insisted
upon wearing the high hat of the
Blaine partisans.
The republican presidential nominee
was born on November 2, 1865, at
Blooming Grove, Morrow county, Ohio,
19 miles east of Marion. When a boy
his family moved to Caledonia, nine
miles nearer Marion, where Harding
taught school for two years. He
played a cornet In the Caledonia brass
band, and later, attended a little Bap
tist college at Iberia,. O.
When he was 19 Harding moved to
Marion to study law, but law did not
hold his fancy long. In college he
had been editor of the college paper
and newspaper work thrilled him. It
was then that he began work on the
Mirror, from which paper he was
"fired."
. His political life began In 1899.
when he was elected to the state sen
ate from the 13th Ohio district. In
1903 he was elected lieutenant-governor
of Ohio and was elected to the
United States senate in 1914.
He was married in 1891 to Miss
Florence Kling of Marion.
Golf is Senator Harding's particular
hobby. He also is a baseball fan.
He is a great home man, and likes
nothing better than to sit at his own
fireside entertaining friends, assisted
by -Mrs. . Harding. He takes great
pride in the fact that he has never
had any labor trouble at his news
paper plant. .
Senator Harding is a trustee of the
Trinity Baptist church, of which he
is a member and upon whose services
he is a regular attendant when In
Marion;
Senator -Harding s middle name is
"Gamaliel.
The republican nominee knows how
to smile even under defeat. This was
shown in the 1910 Ohio campaign
when he opposed Judson Harmon for
governor and was defeated by the
democratic candidate by more than
100,000. despite campaign assistance
from Theodore Roosevelt: .
McADOO SCOUTS POLITICS
Ex-Secretary "Won't Even" Attend
Democratic Convention.
NEW TORK. June 12. William G.
McAdoo and Mrs. McAdoo returned
here today from a trip through the
west. - -
His trip, he said, had no political
significance.
Mr. McAdoo announced he would
not attend the democratic national
convention In. San Francisco.
NAMING OF COOLIDGE
IS OREGON'S HONOR
RESPONSE
TO
McCAMANT'S
SPEECH CAVSES THRILL.
Massachusetts Delegation Seems
Dazed by Nomination Coining
, From Far-A way State.
BY CHARLES CT HART.
CHICAGT). Juno 12. (Special.)
Oregon suddenly jumped into the
limelight in the republican national
convention this af ternoonVnd grab
ted off the honor of naming the can
didate for vice-president.
Senator Medill McCormick had just
closed a ringing speech, made from
the platform nominating Senator
Irvin L. Lenroot of. Wisconsin for
vice-president, when Judge Wallace
McCamant, delegate at large from
Oregon, gained the recognition of the
chair and in a brief but eloquent ora
tion which rang nut clear through the
convention hall placed Governor Cal
vin Coolidge of Massachusetts in
nomination.
Judge McCamant prefaced his
speech with an explanation of the ac
tion of the Oregon voters in instruct
ing the delegation for Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge for vice-president. He
said that Senator Lodge had declined
the nomination and that Oregon
wished to put forward another dis
tinguished son of Massachusetts. The
response which came from delegates
and galleries was equal to any thrill
following the nominations of candi
dates for president.
A Massachusetts delegate seconded
the nomination and other seconds
came in a volley from many delega
tions. The Massachusetts delegation
appeared to be dazed for the moment,
a nomination for the bay state's pop
ular governor coming from such a
remote quarter of the country as Ore
gon that is, remote to New Eng
landers being the most unexpected of
developments. Coolidge's nomination
was foretold n the uproarous approval
of the McCamant nomination. The
rest of .the story is best told simply
by saying that the Oregon suggestion
went through with a whoop.
Oregon did not participate to any
great extent in the nomination of
Senator Harding as the presidential
nominee." Five of the delegation
went down fighting for Hiram John
son, although not one of them at heart
favored his nomination. Judge
Charles H. Carey voted for Harding
on the last four ballots and E. J.
Adams supported him on the 10th and
last ballot. On the last ballot D. J.
Cooper, a Wood man, was absent,
and his alternate. M. Z. Donnell. of
The Dalles, voted for Johnson. By
Mr. Adams leaving Johnson and go
ing to Harding on the last ballot, the
Johson votes on this ballot stood:
Rand, Tooze. Johnstone, Olson, who
never left Johnson on any ballot, and
Donnell.
The three Wood votes on the last
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Plans, of Party Leaders
Carry Perfectly.
HARDING WANTED ALL ALONG
Elimination of Wood and Low
den Necessary.
0HI0AN LOGICAL . CHOICE
Chances for General and Illinois
Governor Badly Damaged by
Expense Disclosures.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright y the New York Evening Post. ,
Inc. Published by Arrangement. )
CHICAGO, June 12. (Special.)
The recess was over and the ninth,
ballot "began. Alabama stood pat and
then came Arizona. For the ninth,
time that gallant Arizona Wood man
arose. This time for the first occa
sion he varied the formula. He rolled
his voice out in a shrill "Arizona
again casts nine votes for Wood."
Arkansas recorded no change. Cali
fornia no change. She still threw
her votes for Johnson. Colorado made
no change.
And then the thing happened. Ths
chairman called Connecticut, Up to
now Connecticut had always voted
the same one for Johnson and 13 for
Lowden. Now the 13 Lowden votes
were cast for Harding. That was the
biggest suitch that had yet taken
place. It looked like the big break,
to be verified in a minute. Sure .
enough, when it c?.me to Florida, the
bulk of that delegation went to Hard
ing. At Kansas it was all over with
Wood. That state, which had started
out with a large majority for Wood,
had later veered to Lowden. Now
it cast its entire 20 for Harding. That
settled it. The big break was on.
Then Kentucky switched her whole
26 votes from Lowden to Harding.
That meant that the beating of Wood
was complete and that Lowden was
to be put out. Missouri clinched ths
evidence. The entire 3S delegates of
that state switched to Harding.
The rest was a hurried rush to the
band wagon. Finally even Pennsyl
vania broke and joined the rush that
all must take who expected to have
access to the pie counter of a suc
cessful nominee: Sixty delegates
from that state left their favorite.
Sproul. and voted for Harding.
Plans Carry Perfectly.
The nomination of Harding was
brought about by a group of repub
lican senators who are friends of his.
The thought behind it was that both
Wood and Lowden must be killed off.
The senators who brought It about
believed that both these men had
been so impaired by the campaign
fund disclosures as to make them
unavaila-ble. These senators say that
Harding was the only man who could
take enough delegates away from
both Wood and Lowden to accomplish
the purpose. The plan was based on
a careful survey of these delegates.
Tho senators say that was the rea
son they choose Harding. But it is
also true that this republican sena
torial group has wanted Harding
from the beginning.
tireat Fight Reviewed.
The first day the light had boen
not "Wood against Lowden," but
"Wood and anti-Wood."
When the adjournment came Hitch
cock went to his hotrl room, disturbed
but not defeated. He was not even
very discouraged. He knew he still
had reserves of delegates, plenty of
them. He knew the bulk of Nebraska
would come to him as soon as John
son was through. He knew the bulk
of California would come to him at
the same time. With Michigan he
had a definite agreement that he
knew would bring him 20 delegates on
he very next ballot. He was going
to get more from Oregon. He knew
he would get Washington if Poindex
ter should quit, and the bulk of
Massachusetts if Coolidge should
quit. He could see not far from 109
new delegates plainly in sight new
delegates, yes. but it was the thing
that was happening to his old dele
gates that disturbed him. They were
slipping away, one or two at a tim
and in scattered spots.
Hitchcock had the troubled concern
of a building owner who has ob
served an occasional brick in his
foundation walls slipping out. Four
delegates from Arkansas who had
been with Wood on the first ballot
left him on the second. Three from
Tennessee did the same. And . the
worst of it was, that this undermining
was' not merely occasional and acci
dental; it was systematic.
Workrd-Ont Plan Seen.
In each case the delegates who left
Wood went precisely to the spot
where in the general scheme of things
he would do most harm to the Wood
cause. It was systematic, organized:
it reflected a worked-out plan. It
suggested that Wood had against him
not merely Lowden as an individual;
it showed that there was an organ
ized anti-Wood force. It was not a
combination of the other candidates.
It was a balance of power group of
leaders. A few old guard leaders
Jong in politics had spent weeks ac
quainting . themselves with the indi
vidual delegates and bringing some
200 of them into a common under-
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