Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-14
CHANCE OF A SENATOR
BECOMING PRESIDENT
Despite Lack of Historical ENCOURAGEMENT
There's No Dearth of Candidates
for 1920 Runnind.

iicans in his state in past republican
| national conventions for the nominal
| tion for President. But there are re-
publicans in Wisconsin who say this
will not occur again. and there are
7 others who are wondering if the bel
| ligerent little senator will seek the
| nomination of the labor party, which
| is now organizing.
Run down the list of senators who
| are making the race for nomination
as President. or whose names may be
| considered by the two great parties
| There is Harding of Ohio. genial,
isuave-patterned along the same lines
as William Mckinley. his friends say
! He has been a newspaper publisher.
governor of his state. He is consid-
cred a conservative and he is
Across the aisle of the Senate chamber
sits his colleague. Atlee Pomerene,
democrat, who is out after the demo-
cratic nomination Senator Pomerene
has twice been elected to the Senate,
the second time when it was thought
he had little chance of getting by.
He has shown himself an active and
capable senator. Serious is his mid
die name.
Back In &. o. p. Fold.
Then there are Hiram Johnson and
Miles Poindexter. republicans. from
the Pacific coast. Both of them were
followers of Theodore Roosevelt in
the old days when the colonel split the
republican party wide open and en-
abled Woodrow Wilson to carry off
the honors. Johnson was on the pro-
gressive ticket with Roosevelt as
nominee for Vice President. and Poin-
dexter when he put his name in the
Congressional Directory designated
himself as a progressive They
have been back in the republican fold
!! for some time now. They are both
takers, Johnson an orator with
high staccato tone now and then
which reminds one of his old chief, the
colonel Senator Poindexter booms
like bittern. But he is a hard hit
ter and he has announced himself as
running on solid American platform
In Senator Owen of Oklahoma the
democrats will put forward. if they
should choose him as candidate for
President. probably the handsomest
man in the Senate. Incidentally, he
is part Indian. Though he comes to
he Senate from Oklahoma. he was
born in Lynchburg. Va. and gives his
ancestry as Scotch-Irish and Indian
Teacher. lawyer. banker and bust
ness man. not to mention politician,
is his record. AS chairman of the
TO hon nd
tee he had charge of the bill creating
the federal reserve system, now
law.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska is
another of the democrats regarded as
presidential possibilities. He has
taken the lead in the fight for the
ratification of the peace treaty with
Germany as President Wilson sent
it to the Senate. Between an infexible
President and a stubborn Senate, his
path has not been one of roses. But
he has stuck to his guns. and his
name will be linked with the treaty,
whether the pact lives or dies. Hitch
cock has been bitter opponent of
William Jennings Bryan in Nebraska,
and while that may be recorded to his
credit by many persons. on the other
hand it may make his chances for the
democratic nomination considerably
less bright than they might other
wise be.
Underwood a Possibility.
Senator Oscar Underwood of Ala
bama was one of the strongest con-
tenders for the democratic nomina-
ton when President Wilson was NOM
mated the first time. 1t may we'll be
that he will not seek the nomination
again, but will remain content with
his place in the Senate. He is today
! candidate for the democratic leader
/ ship of the Senate, competing with
/ Senator Hitchcock for that office. He
i is considered a conservative. That he
would make an able President is con-
! ceded even by republicans.
! One of the latest Of the presidential
booms among the senators is that of
Senator Howard Sutherland of West
F; Virginia. He was born in Missouri
! about ffty-four years ago. At one
| time he was a clerk in the census Of
fee here. becoming chief of division,
and while he was here he studied law
at the Columbian University, no"
Georee Washington. He went to west
Virginia in the early nineties ana
into business and politics. and sue
ceeded in both. He comes of scotch
ancestry, and looks like noun
t.ineer He has plenty OF deter
mination and decision. During the
treaty. debate in the Senate he IN
| ,,od the cloture rule against Sen