The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Eastern Papers Full of Cos. sip About Party's Next
 Standard Bearer
NO WORD YET FROM
 WILSON AND BRYAN
Underwood, Clark and Bryan Are the re Pig Names Heard in Case Wilson Does Not Care
 to Run Again
By c. E. STEWART

i Washington, July n.-(Special )-Who is going to be the democratic nominee fo, | the presidency in 1916? It is evident that
 there is some ground for the belief ex. pressed by some of the Presidents friends
 that he will not seek the nomination. or at least if there is not the friends of va. rious presidential possibilities in the dem.
 ocratic party entertain that opinion and are accordingly active
 There is a deluge of 1916 talk in Wash 1 ington right now, and the New York and
 eastern papers are full of 1t. So far as can be ascertained there does not seem to be much reason for it. Everyone ad- mits that it is not what the President
 has said that leads to the opinion that
 he will not run, but what de does, and
 Is utter indifference to the game of poli- tics.
 Besides Clark, Underwood and Bryan, who are considered the Big Three who will contest for the nomination in case the President is out of it. several other favorite sons have been mentioned. One source has it that the President is plan ring to let his mantel fall on the shoul- ders of his son-in-law, William Gibbs McAdoo. Secretary of the Treasury, and to this end and for the purpose of build Ing up a McAdoo machine, the President has put the responsibility of running the politics of the administration upon Me- Adoo. It is declared that Albert Sidney Burleson, the Postmaster General. hith- erto the political factotum of the admin is tration no longer wields the influence that lands the jobs This prestige, so 1t is said, now goes to McAdoo. Among senators and representatives of the party in power-so it Is said-the legend which has grown to be respected is
 If you want to get anywhere on mat ters of patronage, see McAdoo.'
 At first, it is said McAdoo's growing powers were taken as meaning that the Presidents son-in-law was to become the partys candidate for United States sena- tor in New York, and this idea is still en- tertained by some. Others, however profess to see that it is the ambition of the son-in-law to raise his standard for a struggle in a wider field.
 It Is conceded by practically all dem ocrats, that If the President wants the nomination for himself, he can get it. But it is by no means conceded that if he decides to retire on one term that he is powerful enough-if he had the disposi- ton to hand the nomination to either Mc- Adoo, or to his Secretary of State, as in both instances it has been intimated he would do
 The report that Secretary Bryan has convinced himself or has been convinced by friends, that he could not be elected, If nominated, and that the nomination admitting the President did not seek it. would be difficult of obtaining, has en- Unused the friends of some of the candi- dates in the hope that for the first time in decade a democratic national conven- ton will be convened with the Nebra skan eliminated from the running. But MT. Bryan's intentions, so far as anything but speculation goes. are as mysterious as are those of the President himself.
 It is conceded that if the race narrows down to Champ Clark and Oscar Under- wood, against Bryan, Underwood will have the advantage. Clark is a much older man than the Alabaman. Clark iA TOW 64, while Underwood is 52, It Is also