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Chicago, June 8 Governor Lowden
goes into the Republican convention
undisputed master in his home state
as a result of his victory last night
tn the Illinois caucus over Mayor
William Hale Thompson of Chicago,
but probably will lose the 17 Cook
county (Chicago) votes, which
Thompson controls.
The governor's slate went through
after one test vote in which his forces
defeated those of Thompson 36 to 23.
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman was
chosen national committeeman to
succeed Thompson and Senator Me
dill McCormick was named for the
convention committee on resolutions,
which Thompson sought.
Delaware's six votes in the conven
tion are expected to be cast on the
first ballot for T. Coleman DuPont,
national committeeman. Daniel O.
Hastings of Wilmington, will make the
nominating speech.
Henry Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta
negro who led the fight of the Low
den delegates before the Republican
National Committee, was today elect
ed national committeeman from
Georgia 'by the state delegation.
The Wood delegates headed by Ros-
coe Pickett, the defeated candidate for
national committeeman, announced
tc-sy would carry 'eir fight to the
credentials committee of the conven
tion. Johnson at the hearings held today,
said he would forego his hopes of be
ing national committeeman if the
Lowden deelgates were seated.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 8 TJ. S.
Senator A. B. Cummins was leading
Smith W. Brookhart for the Repub
lican senatorial nomination by 10,000
votes in 706 precincts out of 2,347 la
Iowa, according to the unofficial tabu
lation of returns from yesterday's
primary, made today by the Des
Moines "OSpital.
Cummins' vote was 46,384; Brook
hart's 36,506.
