The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-04
LEADERS
ARE RECONChED
McAdoo and McCombs Are
Brought Together by Presi-
dent in New York.
JEALOUS OF EACH OTHER
Treasury Secretary and National
Chairman Emulate Bryan
and Clark.

The second reconciliation or TWO men
prominently identified with the Wilson
administration who had been estranged
because Of personal differences has oc-
CURED, according to reports brought
back to Washington by those who ac-
companied President Wilson on his flying
campaign into New Jersey yesterday and
the day before The men who were
brought together were William r. Nc
Combs. chairman of the national commit
tee, who had charge of the campaign
which resulted in President Wilson's
election. and william G. McAdoo. vice
chairman of this committee and Secre-
tary of the Treasury, to a place.
The first reconciliation of this nature
occurred a few weeks ago when Speaker
Champ Clark and Secretary Of State
Bryan accepted invitations to luncheon
at the New Willard Hotel and afterward
by mutual consent gave out statements
announcing that they had buried the
Ratchet and resumed their friendship,
which had been of long standing before
the Democratic national convention at
Baltimore last June. The estrangement
of the two Democratic leaders resulted
from the course pursued by Mr.. Bryan
at the convention. Speaker Clark openly
charged that Mr.. Bryan had been res
ponsible for his own failure to land the
Presidential nomination for which he
was defeated by Woodrow Wilson.
President Guest OF House.
The McAdoo-McCombs meeting is said
to have occurred in the presence Of Mr..
Wilson at the residence of Col. z. M.
House, whose guest the President was
for the night after making speeches at
Newark and Elizabeth. N. ].
The fact that relations between the
national chairman and Mr.. McAdoo had
been strained since the Baltimore con-
vention had been an open secret among
persons familiar with the workings of
the national committee. The differences
between the two men first made their
appearance at Baltimore, where Mr..
McAdoo was present only as an unof-
ciaI leader of the Wilson forces. He
is said to have expressed among VIII
son leaders his dissatisfaction with GER
tain steps taken by Mr.. McCombs.
Later. when Mr.. McAdoo became vice
chairman of the national committee, the
difference between the two men became
more intense. and difficulties encoun-
tered by mutual friends In their at
tempts to conceal the split in the ma
tional committee were enhanced.
When Chairman McCcmbs illness COM
PEELED his retirement from the active di-
rection of the national campaign anc
the increased power was placed In the
hands of Mr.. McAdoo. friends OF the
chairman, II is said. did not consider
that the acting chairman gave sufficient
consideration to the views and wishe:
of their chief. The GOODNESS between the
two officials was remarked upon more
and more as the campaign moved to its
close.
McCeombs Was Jealous.
The reasons assigned for the apparent
enmity existing varied Some observers
held that McAdoo's assumption of the
Acting Chairman had aroused Mr..
McCombs' jealousy This was the opinion
that was expressed most frequently.
After the election other stories center.
ing around the rivalry of the two men for
the privilege of being the Presidents clos
est adviser began to circulate. Mr.. Nc
Combs, ii has been stated by President
Wilson himself, informed the President
that he did not wish to become a member
of the Cabinet. but there were those
among his friends who declared that out
of consideration for him the President
should have refrained from appointing
Mr.. McAdoo to a Cabinet position.
In the second month of the admins
tration, after Mr.. McCombs had declined
the Enthusiastically to France, public in
MIR. McAdoo as Secretary of the Treas
ury evidently had established himself ir
the Presidents favor with some dcgreo
of firmness and Mr.. McCombs' visits tc
the White House grew more and NOR,
infrequent. The belief that, if there had
been a contest between the two men fol
the Presidents good graces, it had beer
decided in favor of the Secretary CT the
Treasury, which accelerated the hast:
with which the public lost interest ir
speculationas to this rivalry.
The fact was evident that "McAdot
men, were more numerous. The re
ported reconciliation of the two men II
the presence of Mr.. Wilson gave rise tc
renewed speculations as to the possibility
that Mr.. McCombs may yet accept the
Presidents tender of the ambassadorshiI
to France. 1t Is we'll known here tina,
tue national chairman can have the po
sition IL he wants It. The President has
not yet sought another man. for the pos
and it has been freely stated that he is
holding it open in the hope that MI
McCombs will recon slider his declination
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