The Washington times., 1920-01-17
MADO0 WILL
Be CANDIDATE
Friend OF Former Treasury
Chief Places Him in Presl-
dental Race.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMs.
International News Service Stan
CorresD0pdeDt

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International News Service Stan
Correspondent.
William Gibbs McAdoo will be a
candidate for the Presidency. This
positive. assertion was made here to-
LAY by a friend Of the former Sec
retary OF the Treasury, and one Of
the 'inners' of the McAdoo circle in
New York.
Is Playing Game.
'DfcAdoo," said this friend, sis
merely playing good politics in keep
ing his boom deflated. His name
viii be brought forward in due time,
never fear, and the San Francisco
convention next June will have ample
occasion to pronounce upon II. You
can bet your last copper on that
The speaker has the reputation of
knowing more of the inside of what
is going on in New York and Wash
lngton than almost any other one
man. He Is not, and never has been.
an office-seeker but is wealthy
New Yorker who has for years WELD
ed considerable influence in the East.
Ills name is withheld at his own re-
quest:
II don't want to give the impress
sion that I am trying to climb aboard
'che McAdoo, or any other, band
wagon" he said.
MasterfuI Politics.
McAdoo's absence from the Jack
son Day dinners here on January
WAS considered by the same author
lty as masterful politics.
"one thing, though. seems to have
pretty generally escaped the atten-
lion of press and public alike" he
said. "And that was that though Nc
Sdoo declined the invitation of the
Democratic National Committee on
the ground of being an exceedingly
busy man, 1t was he, perhaps more
than anyone else, who sounded the
keynote" of the banquet. Merely
Tead out as 1t was by the toastmas-
ters at the two dinners. 1t failed to
get the attention there that it de-
served. and is bound 70 get later. For
IL you will but consider this wichita
falls message of McAdoo's an instant,
YOU will discover in it, a whole plat
form for the party, complete from do
lnestic policy to foreign relations.
Platform for Party.
Reduction Of war tlxes; prompt
'restoration of world peace: effective
legislation on International, financial
and economic questions; improved re-
lations between capital and labor;
protection Of the public against need
less industrial disputes: promotion or
the welfare of our soldiers and sail
aoh Nft hn
in time of peace; progress by ballot
instead of by bullet; law and order;
prosecution Of profteers; non-perse-
cution of legitimate business; protec-
ton of American citizens in every
land; America as a dominant influence
for good in the world" These are
some of the planks-a real, progress
sive platform.
Funny how narly everybody over
looked that speech--for that is what
il was: A speech by wire, not to the
Democrats at the rally, but to the
millions of voters scattered through
out the land.
Hoover Mentioned.
Another thing / might call your
attention to is that though McAdoo
had too much business on hand
week ago to shift a date and be pres
mt at the Jackson Day rally, he and
Barney Baruch left Washington day
before yesterday for the South, where
they are squeezing in q few days of
shooting Some of those Shots /
venture to predict. will carry SO far
that the seventy-mile efforts of Big
Ecrtha firing on Paris will be made
70 resemble the puny doings of a
epper-cap pistol"
so much for McAdoo, the clever
politician.
There are those in Washington who
iIst as categorically affirm that Her
bert Hoover, former Food Adminstra-
tor, is in the race and will remain
there long after some of those whose
hoOms, now already well advanced,
gro mere political memories.
Like McAdoo, Hoover Is being ac-
rused of--or credited with-being a
rory astute politician, and lots of
people here are watching his every
move and weighing his every word.
Old timers see something particularly
dangerous in his very coyncss, and,
,omehow or other, that remark Of
his about there being nothing in the
story about his becoming a candidate
md that somebody must have been
Gooling with a ouija board" failed en-
'irely az soporifc to their fears.
Rather II gave some of them the po-
litical shivers.
Tbere ia no official Hoover boom on,