The sun., 1919-04-05
PALMER BOOM FOR
PRESIDENT HEARD
Announcement May Be Made
by Democrats at Jefferson
Day Dinner.
OTHERS READY FOR RACE
+. D. Roosevelt, Secretary
Glass and Senator Walsh
Will Be Present.

II was strongly indicated yesterday
that boom for A. Mitchell Palmer as
a candidate for next years Democratic
Presidential nomination will be exposed
/ to view at the Jefferson Day dinner.
which the National Democratic Club Is
to hold next Saturday night at the Hotel
Astor. Mr.. Palmer 10 to be one OF the
speakers, and THE Sun was told yes
, terday that before the evening is over
the guests will witness a demonstration
more significant than a mere display Of
personal affection.
Democrats in Washington have been
assured by their friends here that the
history OF the campaig- of 1890. 90 far
as the Democratic party is concerned,
will date from the Jefferson Day dinner.
II will be the largest dinner the club has
had since the reunion following the
, O'Dwyer-Murphy break of a few years
ago, and the announced list OF speakers
and guests seems to bear out the sug
gestion that something OF more than
ordinary interest Is in the wind.
Mr.. Palmer has been mentioned of late
wherever the possibilities of next year
have been discussed, but he personally
| has laid low and 80 have his most
intimate boosters. That Is, they have
discouraged publicity. Now. however,
| the Democratic group which sees in the
Pennsylvania the most acceptable can
didate for the party, next to President
Wilson himself. are represented as sens
ing that the time for a public revelation
has about arrived.
It looks now as II the Astor grand
| ballroom will encompass several puta-
| tive booms. Franklin d. Roosevelt. who
is mentioned" will be a speaker, Sec
rotary of the Treasury Glass another.
| Francis and Senator Walsh of Massa-
| chusetts have accepted invitations. not
| to mention Gov Smith, who is satisfied
| with Albany for the present; Secretary
OF the Interior Lane. who everybody is
certain would be Presiden. some day
but for the disqualification of birth on
| Prince Edward Island Joseph p. Tum-
| ulty. the Presidents secretary, and
Ma jor-Gen. John F. Organ.
| A. Mitchell Palmer was not only the
! handsomest man in Congress when he
| served in the House. as Sam Blythe
easily discovered, but his record po-
| litically and in the way of national ser
| vice apparently has endeared him to a
| greater part OF the party organization.
| There is no question of his devotion 10
President Wilson. and any talk of his
trying for the nomination Is predicated
| on the idea that Mr.. Wilson will not be
| a candidate for a third term.
Palmer is Quaker. His ancestors
! came to America with William Penn
He has always advocated equal suffrage
| for women, which fact would not hurt
him In a Presidential canvass. He IL
~ years old. Is graduate Of Swarth-
more College and a lawyer by profession
While in the House of Representatives
| where he served three terms. he ran fol
| Nd u-aG al hp
Penrose. He has been the Democratic
National Committeeman from Pennsyl'
| vania since 1912, when he defeated
James NJ. Guffey, and worked hard fol
| the Wilson nomination at Baltimore ir
1912.
He refused nomination from Pres,.
dent Wilson for Associate Judge OF the
United States Court OF Appeals in 1915
and It was said at that time that his
| Quaker scruples prevented him from
| taking place in the Cabinet as Secre-
tary Of War in the first Wilson Admin
istration. In April. 1915, he was APP
pointed Judge OF the Court of Claims
but resigned after six months,
| He was serving as a member Of a
J Pennsylvania Draft Board when tn,
, President made him Alien Property Gus
, todian in 1917. He took from enemy
control property and enterprises valued
at 500, 100000. In various reports h,
has told the country how active German
capital was in this country before ths
war and how skiltully II had got hole
Of industries having to do with vita
| war necessities. In the course of tn,
work Palmer'e office administered $4,000
trusts. principally enemy owned corpora
tions.
He was nominated February 81 b,
the President TO be Attorny- General o.
the United States. succeeding Attorney
General Gregory.