Evening star., 1920-05-09
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

3TIS a wise manor wom-
an-who can today pick
with certainty the presf-
Dental candidate that
will be nominated by the repub-
licans at Chicago or by the DEM
ocrats at San Francisco. There's
a fine crop Of citizens with their
lightning rods hoisted. waiting
for the bolt to strike. 1t may be
the lightning Will strike one Of
the bakers dozen-perhaps one
more than bakers dozen in these
days-whom I have discussed so
far. But, in the language of
Shakespeare. there are others"
Here goes for the Others"
On the republican side Of the
fence we find Gen. John ]. Per-
shing. U. S. A.; Gov. Calvin Cool
idge Of Massachusetts, Senator
Philander c. Knox. Sena tor Irvine L.
Lenroot Of Wisconsin, Senator How
ard Sutherland Of West Virginia and
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler Of New
York. whose friends and supporters
are putting them forward for con-
sideration.
In the democratic ranks. first
and foremost is the White House
sphinx-President Wilson. Then
there are Col. William Jennings
Bryan, who blossoms forth once
every four years as a presidential
possibility: Champ Clark. who
eight years ago came about as
close to being the democratic NOM
inee as he could without actually
going over; Vice President Thom-
as r. Marshall, an "old-fashioned
democrat" who insists he is not
q candidate for any Office what
ever; Senator Oscar w. Under
wood of Alabama, democratic
leader of the Senate; Carter Glass.
senator from Virginia and former
1y Secretary Of the Terasury, and
James w. Gerard, former ambas-
sador to Germany. Quite an array.
There's a new song chanted by
chief executive. entitled IF Only
Woody Would Speak" Various
methods have been tried to smoke
the President out on the third
term question. But Charles E.
Hughes. when he was an associate
justice on the Supreme bench, had
nothing on Mr.. Wilson in the mat
ter of keeping his mouth tightly
closed in regard to his candidacy
for President. In we'll Informed
quarters. however. it is asserted
a candidate again-that he Is say
ing nothing, because to announce
now that he was giving UP all in
tention Of again being President
would only lessen his prestige as
party leader.
Woodrow Wilson. the twenty
eighth President Of the United
States. will be sixty-four years old
next December. He was born in
President from New Jersey. where
he had been. first. president of
Princeton University and later
governor of the state. He was
chosen President in 1912. when the
row between the old guard in the
republican party and Col. Roose-
welt split that organization wide
open. Four years later he was
again elected on the ground that
'he kept us out of war" Under
his leadership the United States a
few months later entered the war
and did a commendable share to-
ward winning 1t. Now the repub-
licans are charging that "he kept
US out of peace" since he and the
Senate have failed to get together
on the treaty. If he is candidate
again it will be on q league OF ma
tions platform. But the President
was stricken with serious illness
last September while touring the
country for the league of nations
idea. Since that time he has been
kept to the White House. except
for recent automobile rides. 1t is
regarded as extremely doubtful
that he could stand another cam
paign.
Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice
President Of the United States, for
mer Governor OF Indiana, undoubt-
ing II he would come out for the
democratic nomination. He'll play
an important part in the democrat
ic national convention in any
event. Tho Vice President already
has announced in no uncertain
terms that the democracy had bet
ter get back to the principles of
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
jackson and throw overheard some
Of the later day "isms."
Mr.. Marshall is a native OF In
diana, where he was born a little
over sixty-six years ago. He's q