The Washington times., 1920-05-13
REVIVE THIRD
TERN RUM0RS
Some Democrats Believe Presi-
, dent Wilson's Friends May
Launch II At Frisco.
Dy WHLMM PHILIP SIMNS,
IatepuatieaaI News Service.

Iatepaatiessl News Service.
:, The political battle-plans Of Wood
row Wilson, 1t was learned today,
can be summed up in three words:
"A Vigorous offensive.
d Democratic leaders in q position
70 know the Presidents intentions
as nearly as any. declare that the
President. feeling the Administra-
don guiltless of any serious blunders,
does not propose to have the Dem
scratic party assume a defensive at
.ttude. but to the contrary. every
movement from this time on, must
De an aggressive movement right up
10 the November elections.
=, Believes In Policies.
- Likewise the President is known to
he Inspired by positive conviction
that not only has the course Of his
starty been in the main correct, In
,1eace and at war. but that 1t has
sseen consistently constructive as well,
hence the plan to take the rield on
sthis record. Those who know him
SwelI declare he will not tolerate any
mere digging-in behind the Admins
tration's record, but will insist upon
Marrying II forward as a weapon
asQuarely into the enemy's lines In
mighty endeavor to break through.
a. The fight has just begun. so far as
aEhey are concerned. the Administra-
stion's hackers insist. and in the
s3ourse of the next month or SO, many
stelieve, President Wilson will spring
.1nore than one strategic surprise.
some expect the President to act in
sthe political campaign pretty much
,en the advice he gave the American
navy when 1t sailed to war:
"a "I should like to see something un-
Usual happen, something that was
never done before. Be auda-
tious."
To Wage Offensive.
While the Presidents general po-
htical attitude is no longer q mys-
terry, and though 1t IL known that he
intends to wage a terrific offensive
for the things the Administration
stands for-some of which he recent
ly characterized as "the hope Of the
world"-the details of his campaign
have yet to be revealed.
Will spring a surprise by offering
himself for a third term on the
grounds that the League of Nations
has been made the paramount issue
Of the campaign, and he and the
league are insparable? The highest
available Democratic authorities say
no, yet party opinion on the subject
il not unanimous. Some Democrats
today persist in believing that some
thing that was never done before"
will happen in this campaign. and
that this something unusuaf will be
Q nomination for third term.
Those who scott at the idea OF
third term, admit the President Will
1t least insist upon the nomination
of a Democrat of his own school OF
opinion as far as the treaty and
League OF Nations are concerned.
Treaty Row Certain
Laaders of the two big parties now
make no attempt to conceal their be-
lief that an internal row over the
treaty is Inevitable, both at Chicago
and San Francisco. Nor is the re-
sut of either absolutely certain, a
bolt continuing to be mentioned as a
possibility at both conventions.
Nevertheless Democrats here claim
that by the time the delegates to the
convention on the coast convene next
month, the President will have the
situation within his party fairly well
in hand. They assert that while Will
lam Jennings Bryan. backed by the
influence Of such party men as Sena-
tors Owen, of Oklahoma; Reed, of
Missouri; Chamberlain, Of Oregon;
Hoke Smith, of Georgia: former Sena-
tor Bailey, OF Texas, and others of
the "reservationist," or bitter end"
school. will undoubtedly battle for a
showdown, and get It, the President
will be able to put over his program.
The President is desc. iSed as in his
old fighting form, eager for the fray,
and entirely able to give to the poll
tical campaign in his party the pre-
ctse orientation which he believes the
party's record and platform-to-be call
for.
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