Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-20
RACE
IS AHEAD FOR
NEXT YEAR
Many Leaders Aspire to
Head the Ticket.
DEMOCRACY THIS TIME HAS \
PLETHORA OF AVAILABLE TIM
DER TO SELECT CANDIDATES
FROM-NOT MANY SEEK THE
VICE PRESIDENCY, THOUGH.

Washington, July 19.-Politicians CT
congress all agree that next year viii
witness one OF the most exciting races
for the Democratic presidential nom
nation that that party has known for
forty years, and now they are begin
ming to realize that there will be a
second fight This will center around
the aspirations of the various posi-
biIities" for the vice presidency.
If it were not for the fact that so
many of the Democratic leaders want
to head the ticket and insist that they
must be first or not at all, the ques-
ton of filing the second place would
be simple proposition. 1t could be
some such ticket as Wilson and Hac-
mon" or Harmon and Wilson" or
Wilson and Folk" or Harmon and
Foss."
But nobody imagines that either
Governor Wilson or Governor Harmon
would be satisfied to bring up the
rear. Both of them want to be the
main standard bearer, in this ambition
they are not alone Governor Foss,
of Massachusetts, has intimated to
friends that he would take anything
short of first and the same is true Il
former Governor Folk, of Missouri
As for Speaker Champ Clark, the
vice presidency presents no attrac-
ton for him. He would rather be
speaker any day than be vice pres1-
dent. In his present position he is n
positive force in the process of law
making If he were to take the Of
flee of presiding officer of the senate
he would be only a passive force
The fact, therefore, that all of this
big timber is bent upon leading the
ticket has caused many of the Demo
cratic leaders now in Washington to
cast about for somebody to take the
second place-somebody who would
feel honored with the position and
who would not assume that he was
doing his party a favor by allowing
his name to go on the ticket
As the wiser politicians see It,
there are two men in the party who
would fill the vice presidential bill on
the Democratic ticket in every partic-
ular. They are Foss and Folk For
instance, if an Eastern man We're
nominated for the presidency-Wood-
row Wilson it might be-Governor
Folk would be the ideal man for he
next place He is a Westerner anu
the geographical demands, which Ii
ways weigh in making up a ticket
would thereby be satisfied
If, on the other hand, a Western
man wins out in the next Democratic
national convention, like Governor
Harmon or Champ Clark. Governor
Foss being an fastener, would seen
to qualify as no other man in his sec
ton. He has carried a strong Repu5-
] Iican state and is looked upon as the
0 most forcible Of all the New England
Democrats.
But both of these leaders have as
pirations for something bigger thar
the vice presidency, and it is not Il
the least likely that either of then
would consent to any program th2
D did not place them at the head of thu
ticket. Governor Folk has the i'll
dorsement for the presidency from hi
own state, and has been a candidate
for more than four years for the hon
c, of leading the Democracy Of The
ration in the battle Of the ballots /
d 1872. 1t is not thought now that he
. can be easily persuaded to yield to hi>
/. Old friend but political rival, Speak
2 5r Clark.
u Governor Foss is not in the sam,
t position exactly, but he is equally am
e bilious to be the presidential nominee
II His friends say that nothing short 0
q the highest honor, and they say flu
Their that they will back him to tn
i last in this ambition They maintain
u that he is decidedly of presidential
/ caliber, and that it has now been
leng time since New England supple
the candidate for the presidency fron
euher party.
Inasmuch, therefore, as these lead
ing lights will devote their time +
- scrambIing for the higher honor, tn
= lesser leaders will fight it out for tn
y vice presidency Among the availabl
, timber for this position on the tickle
a- are Governors Baldwin, of Connect
q cut, and Plaisted, of Maine, both East
erners, Then there are Governo
Marshall, Of Indiana; Governor Shat
% roth of Colorado, and Francis J. Ken
4 ey the graft prosecutor, Of California
all of them Westerners.