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HARDING AND COOLIDGE ARE G. 0. P STANDARD BEARERS
U FOLLETTE MOY
HEAD INDEPENDENT
TIGKETJELEGTION
Campaign in Behalf of G. 0.
P, Nominee Will Be Start
ed Promptly—Not to Await
Notifications
CHICAGO, June 14.—Declaration
by Amos Plnchot, member of the
committee of forty-eight, that there
positively would be a new party pres
idential candidate in the field; ru
mors that Senator LaFollette wold
head a ticket as presidential candi
date, and announcement that the
campaign in behalf of Senator War
ren G. Harding, Republican presi
dential nominee, would be started
promptly, were the outstanding de
velopments following the Republican
national convention.
The statement by Mr. Pinchot de
clared that the “Republican party
has driven out of representation in
its councils the millions of voters
who followed Roosevelt, Johnson
and LaFollette,” and that the new
party will represent these voters and
“present a definite and constructive
program.”
Reports concerning Senator La-
Follette’s possible candidacy were
less clearly defined and in some in
stances were linked with declarations
made in behalf of the committee of
forty-eight.
Harry M. Daugherty, pre-conven
tion campaign manager for Senator
Harding, began preparations for the
presidential nominee campaign by
requesting the national committee to
take “prompt, spappy and energetic
action” in placing the merits of the
Republican issues before the voters
of the country. Party managers, it
was said, would start the campaign
soon after the Demicratic convention
is held and would not wait until
Senator Harding and Governor Cool
idge are officially notified of their
nomination.
A conference will be held in a few
days between Harding and Senator
Lodge, chairman of the committee to
notify the nominee. At that time,
the time and place of the notification
ceremonies wjill be decided. Hard
ing favors notification in his home
town, Marion, Ohio. Similar arrange
ments will be made by William Allen
White, of Kansas, for notification of
Governor Coolidge.
An executive committee to have
direct charge of the campaign also
is to be named after a conference be
tween Harding and a committee to
arrange with him for details of the
campaign. This committee is head
ed by Charles D. Hilles, of New
York. Harding and Will H. Hays
chairman of the national commitee
also are scheduled to talk things
over within a few days.
Hays shortly will call the national
committee together to get to work
on the revision of the basis of repre
sentation, as provided in the resolu
tion adopted by the convention at its
closing session. A subcommittee
probably will be appointed to go over
the situation and make recommenda
tions for a rule under which states
will get representation on the basis
of the actual republican vote. The
national committee has a year to
work this out, and final action prob
ably will be delayed until the census
returns, now being given out, are
completed.
Officers of the committee today
were cleaning up odds and ends fol
lowing the convention.
Before departing for Washington,
Senator Hiram Johnson sent the fol
lowing telegram to Senator Harding:
“Congratulations to you.
“(Signed) HI JOHNSON.”
Senator Harding’s hands were
flooded with telegrams of congratu
lations. Senator Knox wired:
“Am delighted with your nomina
tion and will do all I can to secure
your election.”
Frank Hitchcock, one of the Wood
managers, extended “heartiest con
gratulations,” and similar messages
were received by Herbert S. Hadley,
formerly governor of Missouri; for
mer Senator William Alden Smith,
of Michigan; Judge Pritchard, of
/North Carolina, and hundreds of oth
ers prominent in the party.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
sent this telegram:
“Accept our sincerest personal con
gratulations.”
GOVERNOR COOLIDGE IS
SWAMPED BY LETTERS
BOSTON, June 14.—Hundreds of
telegrams and letters of congratu
lations were piled upon the desk of
Governor Calvin Coolidge today
when the Republican nominee for
the vice presidency arrived at his
office. Most of the messages were
addressed to "Vice President” Cool
idge.
Coolidge today declared he had,
three outstanding distinctions. Dur
ing the past fourteen years he has
only played golf twice; he pays $32
a month for rent and fears a raise;
and he smokes stogies. The latter
practice is for economy’s sake, he
explained.
HARDING’S HOME TOWN
PREPARING BIG WELCOME
MARION, Ohio, June 14. —Marion
is primping for Warren’s homecom
ing.
This town of 28,000 inhabitants is
so proud of having its “boy” sena
tor, Warren G. Harding, nominated
for president that it is still bub
bling over with enthusiasm and joy
today and waiting impatiently for
“Warren” to get back. They expect
him to visit the home town in a
week or two.
Mayor Andrews said he would de
clare a holiday. The Marion Com
mercial club, of which Harding is a
member, is planning to extend him a
"super greeting” as one of the of
ficers phrased it. There will be
bands, oratory and the time-honored
procession of school children clad
in white and bearing American flags;
parades of grown-ups; banner, bunt
ing and banquet.
Mayer Andrews said Marion does
not intende to leave “a single stone
unturned to show Warren what it
thinks of him.”
2CMDIDATESWHO
WONMANY STATES
WERESIDETRACKED
Friends of Will Hays Had
Ambitious Plans but Failed
to Get By— Old Guard
Slipped Only Once /
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
CHICAGO, June 14.—Harry Daugh
erty made a mistake. Three months
ago as campaign manager for War
ren G. Harding, he predicted that
about 2:11 a. m. “in a smoke-filled
room” on a certain night during the
Republican national convention, the
next nominee would be chosen. His
mistake was on the time—it was 3:11
a. m.
That conference will go down In
the history of politics as the final
breakdown of the American primary
system so far as selecting presi
dential nominees is concerned. Sen
ator Harding had carried his own
state in the primaries only with the
greatest difficulty and did not figure
prominently in the nominating cam
paign in any other state. Messrs.
Wood and Johnson carried many a
state, but were sidetracked by the
leaders of the Republican jiarty and
Mr. Harding was chosen because he
was the only man upon whom an
agreement could be reached.
Many a prominent man was pres
ent at the fateful conference. Rep
resentatives of all the candidates
were on hand, several senators, man
agers and friends. Colonel George
Harvey had the historic room to
gether with Thomas W. Lamont, of
J. P. Morgan & Co. Will Hays, the
national chairman, and several or
the national committeemen were
there, too.
Johnson’s Power Belt
Everybody had the feeling that a
president was being chosen, for the
expectation of victory in November
was sure. It was the plan of the
old guard to nominate Lowden, but
the Missouri expose on campaffin
expenditures, together with the
threat of Hiram Johnson and Sena
tor Borah of opposition to the ticket,
prevented the Illinois executive from
getting the prize.
Really, Senator Johnson vetoed
both Lowden and Wood, and the lead
ers of the party decided upon Hard
ing as the most unobjectionable of
all the .dark horses mentioned. Os
course, If Johnson had consented
to run for vice president with KnJx,
the junior senator from Pennsyl
vania today would be the Republican
nominee.
Word was sent to Senator Johnson
during the early hours of the morn
ing asking him to go on the ticket
with Knox, but he absolutely refused.
So the old guard decided on Hard
ing.
Tales galore are going the rounds
about the dark horses held in re
serve. There seems to be no question
about the fact that Senator Penrose
would have made a drive for Knox
at the psychological moment if he
could nave done it. And there is a
well substantiated story that friends
of Will Hays had it all fixed up for
him. Indeed, this convention was
really a struggle between members
of the committee and the
senatorial group. And the latter
quietly took charge of things during
the middle of the week and put
through a man of their own choos
ing from the United States senate.
Kansas Springs Surprise
Old guard strategy went wrong In
only one particular. Word was first
sent to the Kansas delegation that
if twenty votes were swung to Hard
ing, Governor Allen would be made
vice president. And Kansas swung
into the Harding column. Folks
gasped with surprise, as they knew
Kansas didn’t like Republican con
servatives as well as Republican
progressives. But that was the prom
ise and being loyal to Governor Al
len the delegation swung to Harding.
Then came along another group and
insisted that Senator Lenroot be the
vice presidential nominee, and after
Kansas had voted, word was sent
again to the Kansas delegation that
it was deemed best to name the sen
ator from Wisconsin foi; reasons of
party expediency. Senator Medill Mc-
Cormick made the nominating speech
for Lenroot, but even the Lenroot
boom was deflated suddenly, this
time by no wish of the old guard.
Somebody in Oregon nominated
Coolidge and Alexander Moore
jumped to his feet and seconded it
in behalf of Pennsylvania. All
through the day the seventy-six
votes from Pennsylvania had been
watched as the keystone of the con
vention itself. The delegates believed
it must be the wish of Penrose. It
wasn’t. But in the confusion, and
in the desire to get the convention
over with, delegation after delegation
voted for Coolidge.
As usual, there were expressions
of disappointment over the selection
of the presidential nominee. Pro
gressives talked bitterly for a few
hours after the choice was made,
but already they are beginning to
be converted. The situation is best
illustrated by an incident in the lob
by of the Blackstone hotel today,
when a woman, who had supported
the candidacy of Leonard Wood, re
marked:
“Well, I am not reconciled yet.”
“Ah, that’s why we have conven
tions in June and not September,”
answered a Republican editor who
is himself a progressive.
Johnson Regular
The fact is there probably are
more Republicans who dislike the
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GOMPERS DEPLORES
FAILDRE TO RATIFY
LEAGIOFNATIONS
Motion at Federation Session
Scores Union Aid for "Out
law” Strikers Six-Hour
Day Agitated
MONTREAL, June 14. —"It is pit
iable that the United States has not
ratified the League of Nations,” Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, declared
here today in ah address before the
federation’s convention. If the
league covenant were submitted to
the American people "without any
other entangling questions” it would
be overwhelmingly accepted,” he
said.
“It is pitiable that the United
States has not ratified the League of
Nations,” said Mr. Gompers, “but has
forgotten the effort of the nations of
the world to prevent another horrible
conflict such as that which started
six years ago.”
The labor draft of the league cove
nant, he added, would “help in the
reunion of the working people of the
world and would help workers' in the
most backward countries.”
Mr. Gompers made a strong appeal
to the convention to support the
league and “lend a helping hand to
the toilers of the smaller countries
and aid them to take their places
among the civilized nations of the
world.”
Aid for Outlaws Scored
Central labor bodies which aided
the unauthorized strike of unions
during the recent railroad walkout in
t the United States were condemned in
a resolution presented at the conven
tion. The resolution was proposed
by R. C. Cashefn, of Cleveland, in
behalf of the International Switch
men’s union.
Mr. Cashen. charged that a num
ber of central bodies throughout the
country had aided switchmen dur
ing the unauthorized strike by rais
ing strike funds and furnishing them
with meeting halls.
The striking railroad men, he
pointed out, were members of yard
men’s associations which were not
affiliated with the federation and
were members of a rival organiza
tion. They should not have received
labor’s support, the resolution said.
The International Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ union today was pressing
its fight to have the federation urge
the release of all political prisoners
and the repeal of the espionage act.
The central labor conference body
of New York, which is backing the
resolution, has placed before the
delegates a statement declaring that
from April 1, 1917, to February 28,
1920, there were 15,291 men impris
oned as political prisoners, consci
entious objectors and military of
fenders.”
"We feel that through general am
nesty and repeal of the war-time laws
we can wipe out the war-time ani
mosities, and by that regain our
peace at home,” said the statement.
Davor Six-Hour Day
Organized labor is preparing a na
tion-wide fight to establish the six
hour day.
All unions opening the fight now
are assured full support of the
American Federation of Labor under
unanimous decision of the federa
tion’s annual convention in session
here. The convention Includes dele
gates from every section of the Unit
ed States.
Under the labor organization, this
support may take the form of both
moral and financial assistance.
X The convention went on record as
ready to back a fight to displace the
eight-hour day with the six-hour
day in adopting the annual report of
the work day committee, presented
by Secretary-Treasurer Hays, of the
International Typographical Union.
A challenge to Prime Minister
Lloyd George was thrown down in
the convention here today by J. W.
Ogden, representing the British
Trade Union Congress.
“There are only two parties In
England,” said Ogden.
“They are the labor party and the
coalition, headed by Mr. Lloyd
George. Labor will welcome a gen
eral election any time the prime
minister wants to try the issue.”
The non-unionist now is almost
extinct in England. Ogden said.
International organization of the
world union workers to further their
arms and prevent another world war,
was advocated by J. W. Ogden, fra
ternal delegate of the British Trade
Union Congress, in an address.
Mr. Ogden, however, warned the
organization it must ignore any “in
ternationale” similar to that formed
in Russia, and other countries.
"The only internationale we can
recognize is one that is formed on a
right, proper and legal basis,” he
added. "The only way we will be
able to prevent useless conflict is by
linking the workers of the world
into a great international organiza
tion.”
Mr. Cashem was given unanimous
consent to introduce a resolution on
behalf of the switchmen’s union, and
the resolution was referred to com
mittee.
J. A. McClelland, fraternal dele
gate from the Trades and Labor Con
gress of Canada, urged the feder
ation to appoint a committee to in
vestigate the Catholic Labor union
movement and take steps to end its
activities in Canada.
The Catholic union, which has been
in existence about ten years, he as
serted, is opposed to any internation
al labor organization and has been
organized labor’s greatest enemy in
Canada.
“If you see fit to make this nivesti
gation,” he continued, “I am sure you
will find conditions due to this or
ganization are bad, and to say the
least, appalling.”
Mr. McClelland declared that or
ganized labor was “slowly conquer
ing the one big union movement.”
War Cross for Ypres
BRUSSELS, Bel. —The municipal
authorities of Ypres have been in
formed that King George of England
intends to award personally the Brit
ish war cross to the city of Ypres.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920.
REPUBLICANS LOOK
FORTHENOMINATION
OF M'ADOOJR COX
Democrats Change Cam
paign Plans and Prepare
for Drive on Platform of
the Chicago Convention
\
CHICAGO, June 14.—Republican
leaders today began to plan their
presidential campaign on the as
sumption that William G. McAdoo
will be nominated by the Democrats
at their national convention, which
opens in San Francisco June 28.
Prominent Democrats here en route
to the Pacific coast declared the sit
uation in their party had not crystal
lized sufficiently to permit even a
guess to be hazarded as to the prob
able nominee. The Republicans, how
ever, were disposed to save their
Democratic brethren the trouble of
holding a convention by picking their
candidate for them.
This attitude of the Republicans
was illustrated in the speech of
Charles S. Wheeler, San Francisco
attorney, who nominated Senator
Hiram Johnson last week. He bit
terly attacked the Democratic Admin
istration and asked if the Republican
party, by refusing to nominate a
“sure winner,” wished to continue
the "Wilson dynasty” by placing the
“crown prince” in the White House.
Mr. McAdoo, who has refused to
permit an open campaign to be made
in his—behalf and who has cannily
removed himself from active partici
pation in the councils of his party,
is expected to spend the period of the
Democratic convention at his desk in
New York City.
The Republicans have even gone so
far as to assume that James M. Cox,
of Ohio, would be the Democratic
choice for vice president. As the
situation stood today, however, Cox
was probably McAdoo’s most formid
able opponent, and was known to
have the backing of many powerful
leaders within the party.
Other names prominently mention
ed in connection with the Democratic
convention were Vice President
Thomas R. Marshall, Attorney Gen
eral A. Mitchell Palmer, Governor
Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey;
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith,
Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, of Ne
braska; Homer S. Cummings and Sec
reary of War Newton D. Baker.
DEMOCRATS PLAN DRIVE *
ON REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Demo
crats today are planning an imme
diate offensive on the Republican
platform.
Until after the San Francisco con
vention actually chooses a Demo
cratic nominee, it is not probable
that there will be any organized at
tack on Senator Harding except as
such attacks may be incidental to
the drive on the platform.
This is a direct switch from Dem
ocratic plans tentatively framed last
week, when the nomination of Gen
eral Wood or Governor Lowden by
the Republicans was anticipated.
Either Wood or Lowden, the Dem
ocrats believed then, would cause a
bolt by Senators Johnson and Borah.
By constantly keeping the findings of
the senate expenditures committee
in the Wood and Lowden primary
campaigns before the people. Demo
crats hoped to make restoration of
Republican harmony impossible.
The nomination of Harding, how
ever, is apparently to cause no bolt.
Furthermore, Democrats wtn to
wait until they have located the
most convenient angle from which
to attack the senator, they say.
Many Republican leaders were
back in Washington from Chicago
today. At the same time Democrats
who are to take leading parts in
their own convention were prepar
ing for their trip to San Francisco.
By the last of this week the last of
thos'e to attend the Democratic
gathering will have left here.
MISSISSIPPI TO NAME
DELEGATES WEDNESDAY
JACKSON, Miss., June 14.—The
Democratic state convention will
meet here Wednesday morning to
name twenty delegates to represent
Mississippi at the San Francisco con
vention.
Administration supporters will be
in control of the body, a large ma
jority of the county conventions hav
ing adopted resolutions indorsing
President Wilson and the League of
Nations.
Party leaders declared today the
delegation will be uninstructed.
Milledgeville, Ga., Has
Population of 4,619,
Gain of 5.3 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, June 1. —Census
figures announced today follow:
Milledgeville, Ga... 4,619, increase
234, or 5.3 per cent.
Marion, Va„ 3,253, increase 526, or
19.3 per cent.
Sandusky, 0., 22,897, increase 2,908,
or 14.5 per cent.
Fort Scott, Kan., 10,693, Increase
230, or 2.0 per cent.
Cumberland, Md., 29,837, increase
7,998, or 36.5 per cent.
Hoboken, N. J., 68,166, < ecrease
2,158, or 3.1 per cent.
Revere. Mass., 28,823, increase 10,-
604. or 58.2 per cent.
Granite, 111., 14,757, increase 4,854,
or 49.0 per cent.
Moundsville, W. Va., 10,669,
crease 1,751, or 19.6 per cent. "
Slayer Kills Himself
SISTERVILLE, W. Va., June 14—
Fred Zeckman, after killing his wife
and four children at Shirley, W. Va.,
last night, ended his own life by
slashing his thro.at,with the razor
he had used upon his victims, and
jumping into a rain barrel.
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OHIO SENATOR
BREAKS LONG
DEADLOCK ON
TENTH BALLOT
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO. June 12.—Warren G. Harding, United States senator
from Ohio, was nominated for the presidency today by the
Republican national convention after a deadlock which lasted
for nine ballots, and which finally forced out of the running' all the
original favorites.
As his running mate, the convention named Governor Calvin
Coolidge, of Massachusetts, upsetting a plan of combination of the
Harding backers to nominate for the place Senator Irvine L. Len
root, of Wisconsin.
Will H. Hays, of Indiana, was later re-elected chairman of
the Republican national committee.
The collapse of the forces of Governor Frank O. Lowden and
their transfer in large part to Senator Harding put the Ohio candi
date o’ ,r.
General Wood lost heavily, however, when the Harding drift be
gan, and Senator Johnson, the third of the trio of leaders on the
early balloting 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 sixty-four 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 mentioned many times as the most likely to break the nomina
tion deadlock should neither Wood, Lowden nor Johnson take a
commanding lead today. They all failed to do so, Wood and Low
den running a neck and neck race for leadership on four more bal
lots, while the strength of the California candidate dwindled steadily.
liowden Releases Delegates
Meantime, Harding pushed his to
tal to 138, 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 fortunes of their candi
date. They moved to recess for a
couple of hours In order to take an
inventory and seek a new combina
tion. The Wood and Lowden forces,
both virtually at the peak of their
strength, but both disheartened at
the long string of ballots without
material gains, fell in with the re
cess plan and the convention adopted
it. In the dramatic succession of
conferences that followed, the fate
of the candidates virtually was seal
ed. Some of the Wood and Low
den managers 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-
Johhson agreement to adjourn until
Monday without making a nomina
tion. There also was a conference
between Johnson and Harding sup
porters in which the Ohion’s support
ers tried without success to have
the remaining Johnson strength
swung to Harding.
It was the parleys between the
Harding and Lowden men, however,
which apparently bore the most fruit
when the balloting began again, for
Governor Lowden came to the con
vention during the ninth roll call
and, reversing a previous plan to go
before the convention itself, issued
instructions from behind the scenes
releasing his instructed delegates.
Senator Harding also was in rear of
the Coliseum platform during the
voting and conferred with Chairman
Hays.
Pennsylvania Swings Tide
Almost as soon as the alphabeti
cal call of states began after the re
cess the groundswell for Harding
demonstrated that It could not be
forestalled . Connecticut, when he
name was called, took thirteen of
her fourteen votes from Lowden and
gave them to Harding. In Florida
he got seven from Wood and then
Kentucky, almost from the first a
solid Lowden state, flopped complete
into the Harding column.
Amid scenes of rising enthusiasm
other blocks of Lowden delegates
followed ’suit while many of thb
routed Wood supporters also went
into the Harding camp. By the end
of the roll call Senator Harding had
rolled up a total of 374, putting him
far into the lead and several score
of votes nearer the nomination than
any candidate had been before. Low
den at the end of the ninth had only
121 votes left out of the 307 with
which he ended the eighth, and Gen
eral Wood’s strength had fallen from
299 on the eightn to 249 on the ninth.
Johnson dropped from 87 to 82.
As the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit Lowden, Wood and John
son right and left, and the big hall
was in almost continuous applause
as state after state announced ac
cession to the Harding stam .rd. It
w is .eserved for Pennsylvania to add
the crowning touch of enthusiasm.
When th’ keystone state was reach
ed the Ohio senator needed 32 votes
to nominate him and Pennsylvania
gave him 60.
It was Governor Sproul, himself,
the candidate of his state on every
preceding ballot and mentioned
many times as a possible dark horse
to break the deadlock, who announc
ed the big Pennsylvania vote for
Harding. Entering the Coliseum
floor for the first time since the bal-
Iting began, he made his way to
the Pennsylvania, standard and, amid
cheers, released the delegation from
longer supporting him. Then he took
a poll, got the floor anc. threw in the
winning Harding votes.
Coolidge Nominated
A demonstration of several min
utes followed, most of the delegates
and spectators standing and cheer
ing while a procession carrying
large pictures of the candidate and
standards of some of the states that
supported him took up its march
around the hall. But it was too
tired a convention after the gruel
ling excitement of two sweltering
days of balloting to long keep up
such a demonstration. Senator
Lodge, presidin, rapped for order
and the delegates did not argue with
him.
When It was seen that a candidate
had ben nominated the customary
changing of votes began with a
half dozen who had voted for other
candidates switching over so as to
appear in the winning column'on
the last ballot. Most of Illinois de
serted its governor and many of
the Wood men, too, asked to have
their votes recorded for Harding.
The final check up showed 692
for Harding with only twelve left
supporting Lowden, 157 for Wood,
and eighty for Johnson. At their best
earlier in the day the Wood people
had mustered 312 votes ..nd the
Lowden forces 311. Johnson’s
point was 148. recorded on the third
ballot yesterday.
A motion to make the nomination
unanimous was passed in a chorus,
but when opportunity for negative
votes came there were some “Noes”
from Wisconsin whose delegation
throughout the day had voted amid
hisses and cat calls, almost solidly
for Senator Robert M. La Follette.
The plan to nominate Senator
Lenroot for the vice presidency had
the backing of many men who had
help put Harding over, but the nam?
of Governor Coolidge stirred the
delegates and galleries to repeated
cheeijng and he was swept into the
secodni place of the ticket before
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the first roll call had gone two
thirds of its length.
Again it was Pennsylvania which
furnished the winning votes.
Governor Coolidge got 674 votes to
146 for Senator Lenroot and 68 for
Governor Allen, of Kansas. Severa 1
others got scattering support with
out being placed formally in nomina
tion. The result was greeted With
another demonstration and there
was renewed cheering a few min
. utes later when the tired delegates
■were told that their work was done.
It was early evening by the time ad
journment wasr reached, but before
midnight hundreds had checked out
from Chicago and were on their
way home.
Lowden Releases Delegates
In a dramatic session in which
Governor Lowden, of Illinois, releas
ed all his friends and his delegates
turned to Harding in rapid succes
sion, the Harding landslide which
started with a gentle movement ear
ly In the morning steadily and surely
grew and resisted all attempts of the
Wood and Lowden people to check
ft if they had a disposition to do so. 1
Immediately after Senator Hard
ing’s nomination was a fact, it was
decided to attempt to have a brief re
cess on the floor with the delegates
remaining so a choice could be de
cided upon for Second place and the
business of the convention ended to
night.
Senator Harding was in an ante
room nearby while the convention
was casting the ballots which made
him the Republican nominee.
For some of the time he chatted
there with Governor Lowden, who
had given up the fight a few min
utes before. Mrs. Harding also was
with him. Colonel Procter, General
Wood’s manager and others visited
Senator Harding and Governor Low
den there while the convention was
noisily and anxiously making his
tory only a short distance away.
Harding Leaves Coliseum.
When the result was communi
cated to him by Charles B. Warren,
of Michigan, Senator Harding left
son his hotel with Mrs. Harding and
announced that he would have no
statement to make at the time.
It was just about the moment that
Governor Sproul In person in his
seat on the floor was castingthe sixty
votes from Pennsylvania which ran
Harding’s total over 520 and gave
him the nomination.
There was no official total of the
final ballot. Near the close of bal
lot there was a wholesale switching
of votes to the Harding camp and
then a motion to make it unanimous.
This motion failed because of the
opposition of the convention delega
tion.
While the balloting for vice presi
dent was being done, the Suffragists
were active. They unfurled a large
yellow banner from a balcony bear
ing an inscription demanding to
know “why does the Republican
party block suffrage.” Within five
minutes after Senator Harding had
been nominated, the suffragists from
their headquarters across the street
were Issuing statements announc
ing that they proposed to center
their demands for action upon the
constitutional amendment upon the
nominates.
Hayes Elected
Will Hays was re-elected chair*
man of the national committee at a
meeting of the new national com
mittee, presided over by Henry Mc-
Coy, national committeeman from
the Philippines. Harry M. Daugherty,
national manager for Senator Hard
ing, appealed before the committee
and on behalf of the presidential can
didate requested that “something
prompt, snappy and positive be done
forthwith” to launch the fall cam
paign. The work ought not to be
delayed, said Mr. Daugherty.
He asked that a sub-committee be
appointed to confer with Senator
Harding on the selection of assis
tant officers and an executive com
mittee.
Irving A. Caswell has been elected
as national committeeman from
Minnesota. Edwin T. Thayer, of In
diana, was re-elected sergeant-at
arms of the national committee.
The national committe elected
John T. Adams, of lowa, vice chair
man; Clarence B. Miller, of Minne
sota, secretary, and Guy Howard,
als/o of Minnesota, assistant ser
geant-at-arms.
A sub-committee composed of Will
H. Hays, chairman; Senator Weeks
of Massachusetts; Charles D.~ Hilles’
of New York; A. T. Hert, of Ken
tucky; J. L. Harmon, Oklahoma, and
R. E. Williams, of Oregon, was ap
pointed and authorized to select an
executive committee of the national
committee, to be made up of fifteen
members, eight men and seven wom
en, including an assistant
who is to be a woman.
As the convention realized that a
nomination had been made, bedlam cut
loose and there was an unrestrained
demonstration for several minutes
When quiet was restored the calling
of the roll was continued. Contrary
to expectations many of the remain
ing states held their original forma
tions, giving complimentary or fare
well votes to favorite sons or men
whom they had bee nsupporting.
LaFollette held his 24 votes from
Wisconsin to the last ballot, and the
convention and galleries hissed their
delivery as usual.
The Philippines remained faithful
to Wood to the last. On an unofficial
total Harding got 645 votes and sev
en-tenths.
Then came a landslide of changes
in Notes in which most of the dele
gations wanted to climb op the band
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