Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-30
CANDIDATES WATCH
PRESIDENTS TOUR.
DEMOCRATIC ASPiRANTs HOPING
He MAY IN SOME WAY HELP
THEIR AMBITIONS.
GOSSIP CENTERS ON PALMER
Attorney General Just Now Occupies
Strategic Position-oId PoIiti-
clans Wonder If Bryan Intends to
Seek the Nomination Again.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.


BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
Observation-Disclosures is await
ing with interest the political effects
OF President Wilson's tour through the
country. His first speech was deliv-
cred in Columbus o. Opinion in it's
rebound from that state is being
caught by the politicians, for Ohio
holds within her borders two candi-
dates for the presidency-Warren G.
Harding. Republican, and James M.
Cox, Democrat.
Politicians here, and especially
these Of! them who have presidential
ambitions, are wondering just how the
winds Of league favor or disfavor are
TO blow from the people after the
president has completed his trip. The
wonder is if some of the politically
ambitious are to trim their sails so
as to go smoothly with the wind or,
because they think the atmospheric
conditions have set the breezes blow
ing wrong. viii attempt to beat ''up
Wind
AT least four or five Democratic
candidates known to be in receptive
mood are hanging on the presidents
utterances day by day as he goes
through the country, hoping that
somewhere cheering word for their
individual ambitions may be let fall.
To these gentlemen the presidents ut
tarances on the league will be mat
tiers of secondary Importance because
all of them have espoused his views
on the matter. The thing of prime
Importance to them will be some pos
sible word from the chief executive
which will indicate that he is strong
~ in favor of some specific national
doctrine for which one or the other of
them may have taken stand.
Gossip Turns to Palmer.
One still hears more from the poll
ticians in Washington, so far as the
Democratic nomination is concerned,
of the aspirations or supposed aspira-
lions of Champ Clark and William G..
McAdoo than of those of other promi-
nent Democrats. Today. however, the,
trend of the talk in the cloakrooms
and elsewhere is turning to some ex-
tent to Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer as a possible candidate for
the Democratic nomination. Mr.. Pal
mer today is in something of strate-
gic position, for his work is init
mately connected with the attempts
to bring down the high cost of living,
a subject which is pretty close to the
hearts of all people who do not happen
to be millionaires.
The Democrats also have taken
cOgniZance of recent pronouncement
of William Jennings Bryan. Some Of
the old politicians are wondering if
Mr. Bryan will try it again. He al
ways has managed to hold on to the
affections of a strong following.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy. said something a little bit cryp-
tic the other day. The interpreters
Of his utterance think that possibly
It means Mr., Daniels is in a receptive
mood.
Some of the Republican senator's
seem to have approved, temporarily at
least, the ambitions of one of their
number who, 1t is Known, would like
much to be president of the United
States. There are some rather cold
political analyzers of conditions who
say the Republican senator's attitude
in this matter is assumed for present
purposes only. and that later they will
part company one with another to
take positions behind what is called
the heart candidate of each one of
them. This may be or may not be
true. but such condition is not at
all unprecedented for this kind of
thing has been recognized for years
as being part of the political game
First to Parade in Washington.
Congress in joint session is about
TO honod Gen. John j. Pershing. Al
ready the bill making him a general
for life has been signed by the presi-
dent. He has been nominated, and has
been confirmed by the senate. 1t is
probable that congress will give him
It's thanks, and present him with a
sword as a further evidence of its
recognition of his services.
There is to be in a few DAYS a pa
rade of the First division of the A. r.
f. in this city. 1t will be headed by
General Pershing, who. while not the
direct commander of the division. com
handed the army of which it formed
a part. Washington has had no great
parade of troops like unto that of May.
1865. when the armies of Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan marched up the
broad avenue in review before the
president and the commanding gen
erals, and took two days to complete
The march.
There have been several small pa
rades recently of returned soldiers in
the town. The one in which the First
division will appear win be greater
than any OF. its predecessors. Wash
ington was made so war-weary that if
never has responded enthusiastically
TO soldiers homecomings. The war-torn
veterans have marched through streets
lined with apathetic crowds. 1t Isl
hoped that the parade about to take
place will reverse the rule of former