The Monticellonian., 1917-02-22

able that nine-tenths of the people of the United States who know anything about the ease at all believe implicit | ly that Roosevelt, when he was preSi- dent, made his personal friend. Cap | tain-Doctor Leonard Wood. a brigadier general of the line in the American army Captain-Doctor Wood of the regular army who also at the time was colonel of volunteers, was pro noted from his captaincy to briga- dier generalship of the regulars by William Mckinley, in February, l9Ol.
 Theodore Roosevelt. when he was president, did take two captains Of the army and make brigadier generals out of them. One of them was the present Maj. Gen. John J. PerShing. who commanded the expedition into Mexico, and who has just been or dered back into the United States. There was something of an Hproaf when the then president promoted Pershing because of the fact that the cavalry captain was jumped over the heads of some hundreds of superior officers. There was a reason, however, for Persh.ng's promotion.
 Speculation About 1920.
 President Wilson has not yet taken the oath of office for his second term as president of the United States and yet already busy speculations are circling round, like the busy whisper in the sehoolroom of the ''The Deserted Village" concern ing who's to be who in the next presi- dential campaign.
 Perhaps it seems incredible that tongues already are wagging concern ing the prospects of this man or that man for high preferment at the con ventions which will meet three years from next June, but such is the fact, and there is a reason for it. In nor mal circumstances, of course, 1t is not to be expected that Woodrow Wilson will be candidate to succeed him. self and therefore and thus early it is that the "busy whisper" concern itself with the candidate or the candidates for the next Democratic nomination.
 Sc far as the Republicans are con- cerned, they feel an interest already, and talking one, in the possible can didate who, three years from next summer may be expected to lead the assault against a Democracy en- trenehed for eight years. The new Congressional Dictionary has just been issued. It will be the last directory to contain all the names of the mem- bers of the present senate and house. With the coming of March 1 there will be new directory carrying the bur- den of good many names.
 Are They in the Directory
 Now the Congressional Directory is matter because history shows that in most cases this book has carried the names of the two candidates to be pitted against each other in the presi- dential race.
 Some may say that Woodrow Will sons name was not in the Congress sional Directory at the time that he was talked of for the presidency more than four years ago. It was. The names of the governors of the states appear in the Congressional Directory, and it does not take much of mem- Ory to retain the fact that Mir. Wilson was once governor of New Jersey.
 The name of Charles E. Hughes WAS in the Congressional Directory during all the time that he was being named as q probable Republican candidate and during all the time that he re- fused to break silence on the subject of his desire or lack of desire to enter the contest. The Congressional Direc- tory carries the names of the chief justice and the ase 2eiate justices of the Supreme court.
 Some studiOus person who has looked over the new directory just as it has come from the press has discoy- cred that only two men have seen fit to put in their autobiographies fur nished for the book the fact that they were candidates for the nomination of their parties for the presidency of the United States-Speaker Champ Clark (Dem) and John w. Weeks Rep).
 Some of the Possibilities.
 In the new Congressional Directory, however. are to be found the names of good many men who have received votes in either the Democratic or the Republican national conventions for the nomination for the presidency. Thomas R. Marshall. vice president of the United States. was a fayorite son of Hoosierdom in the days of the con tinuance of the Baltimore convention of 1912. Oscar W. Underwood, Dem ocrat, of Alabama, not only was his states favorite son, but he received a large number of votes in the conven- ton. There are other Democrats in the book who likewise received sup port for the nomination for the highest office in the land.
 Now we turn to the Republicans and we find Senator Lawrence Y. Sher- man. who received the great majority of the votes of Illinois on the first bal lot at the Chicago convention last summer. And there Is Senator Rob- ert NJ. La Toilette of Wisconsin, who has figured in national conventions as a candidate several times. With them are Senator Borah of Idaho and Cum mins of Iowa and some others.
 A member of congress the other day called the congressional directory the Book of Fate." He said that somewhere within it, in all human probability, was the name of the next president of the United States. This may not be, of course, because some