Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-05-10
Approach of a<Z, al Conventions
Brings Increa,W interest in
Nomin S<
LONG LIST OF REPUBL, JAMS
WILSON ONLY DEMOCRAT
While Democratic Convention Will
Have No Opposition to Wilson
Many Republicans Are
Seeking Nomination.


est problem now confronting the
American people and one which will
occupy their attention during the
next six months is who will be the
next President"
With the national conventions only
about month distant, politicians
are intensely active throughout the
entire country, in the attempt to
create sentiment and secure the votes
of delegates to the national conven-
tion for the various candidates.
The democratic situation may be
disposed of in single sentence. It
is a foregone conclusion-in spite of
the one-term platform upon which he
was elected four years ago-that
Wilson will be the nominee. Alike
it is almost a foregone conclusion
that the American people will pu;
that one-term plank into full force
and effect, by their votes at the ball
lot box in November.
All Iowa is for Senator Albert B.
Cummins, every republican standing
Loyalty behind him, in the hope that
he will be the successful candidate
at Chicago and become the next
president of the United States. Never
has the state presented a more unit
ed front for one of its favorite sons,
and seldom if ever has the chance
of success been more promising. Sew
eral of the neighboring states will
join in supporting him upon the first
ballot, and much encouragement
comes to his managers from far off
states of the west and other sec
tions of the country, indicating that
he will be one of the principal fac
tors to be reckoned with in the con-
vention.
AT this time, no candidate may be
said to have strong lead in the
race. Justice Hughes of the U. S.
Supreme Court stands in high favor
in all sections of the country, but he
has not yet consented to become
candidate and many prominent politi-
clans believe he will not permit his
name to be presented to the conven-
tion. The sentiment is quite preva.
lent that a member of the U. S. Su-
preme Court ought to keep entirely
out of politics, and this is said TO be
the personal opinion of Mr.. Hughes.
who desires to remain in the exalted
position he occupies.
The inimitable Theodore Roose-
welt has developed much strength of
late, and bids fair to again be an i'm
posing figure in the convention. He
has not said he would be candidate,
but he has stated the conditions up
on which he would accept the
nomination, and upon which the Pro-
gressives as represented by the form
er president would return to the re-
publican fold-the nomination of a
candidate of Progressive" princi-
Piles and tendencies.
Various other prominent Ameri-
cans are ''favorite son" candidates
of their respective states. Among
these may be mentioned former Vice
President Fairbanks of Indiana, SEN
ators Root of New York, Burton of
Ohio, Weeks of Massachusetts,, Sher-
man of Illinois, Borah of Idaho and
Henry Ford, the famous automobile
manufacturer and peace advocate.
The list might be continued at length
but the names given constitute at
least those "most prominently men
toned
We have omitted from the above
the name of one whose candidacy has
been rapidly assuming extensive pro-
portions in various sections of the
country and seems to be gaining
strength rapidly. His candidacy ap-
pears to respond to the call for the
application of business principles in
the administration of governmental
affairs, and is based upon an extern
sive and successful career, from hum
BILE Kentucky birth and boyhood to
one of the greatest masters of busi-
ness and finance the country has
known. The man is Coleman Dupont
of Delaware.
The record and career of all the
other candidates named above is
more or less familiar to every reader
of this paper, but here comes what
may seem to us dark horse" who
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