PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 14 June 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian auci N.Z. vaule Association.) NEW YORK, Saturday. At the Chicago Convention. Mr Warren G. Harding, a- Senator from Ohio, secured the Republican nomination for the Presidency with 520 votes. The balloting was conducted amidst wild excitement, unprecedented in the history of American Conventions. The" city lay under a torrid heat wave, the delegates sitting in their shirt sleeves. Women seconded a number of nominations for the first time in history. There is much disappointment among Do Valera’s supporters, owing to the rejection from the Republican .platform ,of any mention of the Irish' aspirations; The Labour Party, comprising a section of that which has broken away from the; American Federation of Labour, is meeting at Chicago. It is incensed at the endorsement of compulsory arbitration and threatens to turn its full support to the Democrats.- •; WILD SCENES AT CONVENTIONWASH LNGTON, Saturday. There were wild scenes, throughout the Convention. Suffragettes picketed the Republican Convention at Chicago, as they are dissatisfied with the suffrage plant adopted by l the Republicans. .Prominent suffragettes stated- ; that unless the Republicans induce the thirty-sixth State to ratify the Suff-rage-Amendment Act, they will trail flic. Republican Presidential nominee on his speaking tour, picketing every meeting. LABOUR SYMPATHY ALIENATED. 1 MONTREAL, Saturday.. The American Federation of Labour meeting here unanimously condemend the Republican Convention as reactionary towards Labour’ s legitimate claims. If was decided to present Labour’sease to the Democratic Convention.