Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-27
JUNIOR SENATOR CAN NOT ELM
MATE HIMSELF FROM THE
PRESIDENTIAL TALK.
WILL BE FACTOR If HE
SETTLES STEEL STRIKE
President Wilson Eliminated From
Third-Isrm Possibility by His illness
lin Danger Of Relapse II He At
tempts to Lead Fight in Favor Of
Ratification.
[By Z. G. Doughertyl

Washington, oct. 27.-"No man can
be candidate for president who is
not an orator. and Senator Kenyon
QUALITIES, Fraser Edwards, an obser-
Yer of interesting bits Of information
at the capital. writes in the Washing
ton POST.
Edwards story was about q boom
for the junior Iowa Senator by some
reporter who remarked that IL Ken
yon settled the steel strike by his in
vestigation, it would make him sure
fire presidential candidate"
Kenyon, however, says he had no
ambitions. toward the presidency.
Edwards, however, takes the view
that the Iowa legislator may be over
ruled, remarking:-
But, despite his protestations, Sena-
tor Kenyon may have his present
aversion to the job overruled. Ken
yon's one hobby Is to put the packers
under government control and he
would undoubtedly make that idea a
plank in his presidential platform"
Discussing Senator Kenyons quail
fications as an orator, Mr.. Edwards
wrote. HE has all the silvered tongued
methods of William Jennings Bryan.
some Of the biting invective of T. R., a
few of the motions of Senator La
Toilette. and a Frances e. Willard
face. That combination entities Sena-
tor Kenyon to enter the hall of ora
torical fame without much effort"
President Wilson's Danger.
The coming presidential campaign
has taken on a new significance here
because Of the presidents illness.
While 1t Is admitted that the president
may get completely we'll and again
function as president 1t was pointed
out today that If his Improvement Is
rapid and he gets too confident-suf-
ficiently to prompt him to discharge
This physicians or at least decline to be
guided by their suggestions and direc-
tions-land attempts to direct the fight
toward ratification Of the peace treaty
without amendment he will again face
1.-THE serious consequences that may
cause a relapse or recurrence of the
nervous exhaustion state Of mind
which placed him in bed and made
him so seriously i'll. Senators do not
hesitate in saying that the treaty fight
Is so complicated now that even man
with the keen mind that the presiden!
possesses could not come from sick
bed and hope to take direct command
kof the situation without again LAYING
himself open to the unknown conse-
quneces that might ensue in his ner-
vous condition. Should the president
have q relapse, there Is no questioning
tho fact that his services as the chief
executive of the nation would be at ar
end. It is pointed out that recovery
from second nervous breakdown is
far more tedious than the primary
cure, and 1T Is declared that Thomas
Riley Marshall would be called to per-
form the duties Of the executive office
No Third Term Possible.
So strong Is this probability that II
IS complicating all of the political con-
siderations about the presidential.
campaign next year. The presidents
illness, It is believed absolutely ELI
inmates him as a possible candidate tc
run again. But in opening tae
field to other aspirants the situation is
l.complicated in a way that is not sc
agreeable to them by the possibility
that, once in, Vice President Marshal
may become the logical democratic
nominee. Mr.. Marshall, tho his sense
Of humor fas prevented his taking the
Job of vice president seriously has
demonstrated himself an able execu-
tive when governor Of Indiana. He
has a tremendous following, and comes
from a state which has always been
one of the pivotal, deciding states In
close elections.
Z In the event Of the presidents in.
ability to continue to function, Vice
President Marshall would have a
chance to demonstrate his ability. &c
the country for a period before the
nominating conventions, which do not
meet until the end Of June or the First
Of July, next year. He would also
have control Of the federal patronage
until that time always a powerful
weapon in controlling state delega-
tons. Furthermore he lis very popular
with the influential conservative South