FOR PRESIDENT.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1588, 14 June 1920, Page 5

FOR PRESIDENT.

A I*l iEBISCITE OF CANDIDATES. \YJr.D SCENES AT CONVENTION. IBy Electric Cable —Copyright.] I Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 11. Presidential nominations of the Republican Convention are: —General Wood. Senator Johnson and Governor Lowden, of Illinois. The result of the fourth ballot: —Wood 314, Low■dea 289, Johnson 14 0. The final balloting will take place on Saturday. There were wild scenes throughout the Convention. The hall is filled with Turkey feathers as General Wood’s advertisement. There is the usual perspiring procession of bands and cheering, flag-waving lasting for hours. _ Suffragettes picketed the Republican Convention at Chicago, as they were dissatisfied with the suffrage plank adopted by the Republicans Prominent suffragettes state that unless the Republicans induce thirty-six States to ratify the suffrage amendment. they will trail the Republican Presidential nominee on his speaking, and picket every meeting. Additional nominations at Chicago include Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts! Nicholas, Murray and Butler. of New York; Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina, and Herbert Hoover. Hoover’s support is obviously small. An additional nomination was that of Governor Sproule. Senator Poindexter and other relatively unimportant candidates have been nominated. The contest is expected really to involve Lowden. Wood and Johnson. The latter is embarrassed by Hearst’s support. LABOUR (lON DEMN S REPUBLICAN S, (Received Sunday, 11.40 p.m.) MONTREAL. June 12. The American Federation of Labour meeting here lias unanimously condemned the Republican Convention as reactionary towards Labour's legitimate claims. It was decided to present Labour’s case to the Democratic Convention. HARDING SECURES NOMINATION. COOLIDGE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT (Received Monday, 12.5 a.ni.) NEW YORK, June 12. Balloting at Chicago beat all records. The eighth ballot showed Wood 299, Lowden 307, Harding 133. It was then generally conceded that Warren Harding was certain lo win the nomination. He continued to gain in successive ballots, Lowden and Wood remaining almost changed in their positions. When Harding’? selection appeared imminent, supporters of Johnson attempted to induce him to accept the vioePresidency, for which Coolidge later secured the Republican nomination. WARREN HARDING NOMINATED. (Received Sunday, 11.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 12.

At the Chicago Convention, Warren J. Harding 1 , a Senator from Ohio, secured the Republican nomination foe the Presidency, with 520 votes. The was conducted amidst wild excitement, unprecedented in the history of American conventions. The city lay under a torrid heat wave, delegates sitting in their shirt sleeves. Women seconded a number of the nominations for the first time in history. . There is much disappointment among He Valera’s supporters, owing to the rejection from the Republican platform of any mention of the Irish aspirations. The Labour Party, comprising the section that has broken away from the American Federation of Labour, is meeting in Chicago. It Is incensed at the endorsement of compulsory and threatens to turn its full support'to Democrats.