Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-08
CANDIDATES ARE
TALKED Of; NONE
IS YET CERTAIN
oral Wood Leads In Re-
g. 2 on Field While Me-
A. 'sae%,sq q,oa argeSt Demo-
OCratiC Spo4

OCTatlC SaoS
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Washington, Ded An national
political conventions are usually held
by July 4 Of presidential years. Sem
timent in favor Of candidates is being
well crystauzed as Il rule, before the
end of the preceuIng year But TINS
year Things are uI4cl en-. No mal
can give even reasonable argument
Tor beiIeving that any one OF the cam
didateS mentioned Tor standard bearer
Of either party will be named by one
Of the great party conventions next
year,
At this time General Leonard
Wood is clearly in the lead for the re-
publican nomination, with Governor
Coolidge. of Massachusetts, as close
second. There is some task OF Wood
Tor president and Coolidge for vice
president But the advocates of this
combination do not take into Consid-
eration that General Wood is FROM
New Hampshire and Coolidge from
another OF the New England states.
No party would dare name both of its
candidates from the extreme east.
Geogra phiCally Nuod-Cuolidge
tulllpliitAN NlOl 10 llppSslHlti just sAS ~
Coolid dge- Wood combination is not TO
be thought Of seriously. 1t will be
difficult to nominate one candidate
from the New England states, let
alone both of them.
But General Wood is a national
figure, and the west claims him, just
as 1t claimed Rooseveii as Its darling.
General Wood also has the support OF
about all of the two hundred thou
sand men who We're trained under
him at Camp Funston ana 1t is said
that lot of the returned soldiers
who were not trained at Camp Fun
ston believe that If Wood had been
in command In Europe they would
have Jared better
Anti Military Sentiment.
But it cannot be denied that there
is strong sentiment in the country
against anything that savorS of mill
tarism, and that some opposition to
General Wood would be encountered
If he should be the republican nomi-
nee OF course, II is argued that he
is not a West Pointer and that his
abilities as an executive have been
fully dem onstrated and that he is not
saturated with military traditions to
the exclusion of common sense in
civil affairs.
Governor Coolidge acquired ma
tionil fame by promptly crushing the
strike of the Boston policemen. He
took the position that there could be
/ no double allegiance, that whatever
power controls the police of city or
q country is the real governor of that
city or country, that the Boston po-
| licemen had been guilty of desertion
in the face of the enemy ami should
he so regarded by the sentiment OF
the country. This bold position,
clearly stated, struck responsive
chord in the heart of the nation and
talk of Coolidge for president com
meneed at once.
Coolidge Farm Boy.
! Also il is shown that Governor
Coolidge was raised on a small farm
by poor parents, that he worked his
way through college, that he has
been city attorney and district at
torney and county and state chair
man OF his party, and therefore
knows all the people as no other man
mentioned for the presidency knows
them But, because he lives in one
corner of the United states, just
about as far from the center of pop
ulation as he can get. there is not
much likelihood of Coolidge being
named fOr the presidency.
There is some talk of Senator
Knox. There would be much more
talk of him were it not for the fact
that he lives in PENNSYLVANIA, state
Just as sure to go republican as
Texas is to go for the democratic can
dldate. Also he is a United States
senator, and no senator has ever been
nominated for the presidency. Knox
! is an able man of wide experience,
, physically strong and comparatively
young in years But he will not be
the republican nominee.
| There was much talk of Senator
Johnson, of California, when he was
making his tour of the country dis
cussing the league of nations cove
lnant. He was met by enormous
I throngs everywhere and he made able
and popular speeches. But since his
return to the senate much of the talk
regarding his candidacv has ceased,
| He has two handicaps. Like Coolidge,
he lives in an extremely remote state.
and like Knox he is a member "t
the United states senate therefore,
Iaandicapped hv a tradition.
The owdeu Candidacy.
| Governor I.owden Of Illinois IS an
aggressive candidate He has 2 strong
support among the business interests,
| is vote -Getter Rut he has the oppo-
stion of Mayor Thompson of chicago.
That opposition should be more to his
credit than TO his detriment but 1t IS
difficult to believe that any man who
| lacks the unanimous support of his
state delegation will receive the NOM
| nation.
The candidates. of Poindexter Ro-
rah and Cummins may be thrown
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