Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-01
BRYAN STOCK UP
SOME DEMOCRATS BELIEVE he
MAY be NOMINEE.
Nsbraskan VIII Force Labor Issue
and May Dictate Platform Which
VIII Force His Own Nemlnstlen-
Views 10 Be STATED a jackson Din.
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washington. Jan. Las politicians
scan the horizon for presidential can
didates and appealing planks for the
1920 platforms they arc leaning to the
vie-' that the chief issues arc likely to
be concerned with the Industrial situ-
alton. and the relations between labor
and capital
While there will be other issues, suoh
a. those growing out Of the war; and
perhaps the traditional tars0 doo-
trines, democrats who have come here
for tho meeting OF the national com.
mittee, Jan. ., report that the all.
absorbing problem Is the situation re-
garding capital and labor. They say
that William Jennings Bryan intends
TO make this his chief weapon In his
fight for party control. and perhaps
for the nomination Of himself. The
platforms Of both parties will be built,
some political observers say, with In
dustr1al and treaty planks prominent.
Democratic candidates for presi-
dent have not yet entered the race
openly In ~ great numbers as in the
republican ranks. They have been
waiting word from President Wilson
on o third term. This 10 expected
while the democratic chieftains are
here next month for the nationai
committee meeting and the jackson
Day dinner.
Enough aspirants viii enter the race
next month to produoe q favorite son
contest in the democratic party.
Among them are expected to be for
mer Secretary MoAdoo, Attorney Gen.
eral Palmer, ex-senator Clark, Sena-
tors Pomerene and Governor Cox, Of
Ohio; Secretary Daniels. Herbert
Hoover, Of California, and Senator
Hitchcock, Of Nebraska. Looming In
the horizon. eager to take advantage
Of deadlock at the convention under
the two-thirds rule, keen democratic
observers say. will be Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan. It Is believed. will work
for the adoption of radical platform.
Mr.. McAdoo might be considered q lib-
eral, willing to espouse the cause Of
labor and at the same time deal Just
ly with capital. Attorney General Pal
mer and Herbert Hoover may be class
ed as conservatives with the others,
aside from Mr.. Bryan, willing to go
before the country on a middle Of the
road platform.
Admit Bryan 10 Factor.
Some of the democratic leaders are
conceding that Mr.. Bryan, because Of
the Illness Of the president and rad
zeal pressure on the party. is q factor
no. A. h> ~lI >t< -, Ia
rupt the party or shape its platform
and dictate It's candidate. The ques-
ton being asked in the lull before the
gathering Of the nationa. committee
is whether Mr.. Bryan will demand the
nomination for himself or select
candidate and write the platform as he
did In Baltimore in 1912.
A friend Of Mr.. Bryan start d his
colleagues in congress the other day
by saying that Mr.. Bryan was seek
ing vindication: that he was disap-
pointed with the present administra-
ton because of his treatment while
secretary of state and that he means
to capture the nomination for himself
or ruin the prospects Of those urged
for the nomination by President Will
son.
There are reports that neithe. for
mer Secretary McAdoo nor Attorney
General Palmer meets Mr.. Bryan's
approval. Political gossip has 1t that
Mr.. Bryan, II he suppressed his own
ambitions, might support Herbert
Hoover provided Mr.. Hoover met his
views as to an Industrial platform. On
the other hand. Secretary Daniels is
the only real Bryanite among the
prospective candidates.
Mr.. Bryan's position. It IL expected.
Will be outlined at the Jackson Day
dinner, when all the leading Dresi-
Dental candidates will have an oppor-
tunity to lay before the party their
views and the principles for which
they stand.
Even If Mr.. Bryan should dominate
the democratic councils and force the
selection Of a candidate and Mot
form espousing the demands OF labor
and even more radial government.
steps. republican leaders say their
party would not swing to radicalism
but would content itself with following
precedent and adopt its platform to
the changed conditions brought about
by the war disturbance in tho indus
trial and labor fields.
AS the democratic platform will
probably approve President Wilson's
attitude on tho league Of nations, so
will the republican platform accept
the reservations made by the senate
and inject "Amer1canism" into tho
campaign as opposed to what repub-
leans call t"internationalism" rs rep
resented in the original draft Of the CO.
venant
In the opinion Of the leaders Of both
parties the. coming campaign will be
the most. important since the civil war
and will face the problem Of settling
questions that have been pressing for
years, but not with the same force as
today.
HOUSE TO OPPOSE WILSON.
viii Fight President In. Third Term
Aspirations.
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