The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-07
No. 1--COntinued From
Page One

Il aye OAAC
the democratic party and will be
make a serious attempt to be chosen
Is the party nominee again?
win the peace treaty be made
party issue in 1902 !
:. Which of the eight or nine
prominent candidates for president
viii rise above his fellows at the
meeting
Presidenf Wilson will send mes
sage to the gathering at the Jackson
r)av BANQUET from his sick room stat
ing that under no circumstances will
ne accept nomination for third
term. the eading democrats here ex-
pect. That announcement will set off
the booms for the various candidates
who will be present ana a scramble
will commence for the nomination.
with President Wilson out of the
way for tie nomination and some
idea obtainabIe as TO who will be the
democratic standard bearer the re-
publicans uTill be able to shape their
campaign. Up to now they have been
in the air and unable to prepare plans
a. to a car didate or policy
President Wilson viii in his mes
sage to the party gathering point the
way for the party 10 go with regard
to the peaGe treaty, industrial and
economic conditions and issues in
general. it is believed. He viii then,
for the frs time since he waselected,
cease to be the head and shoulders of
the democratic party. No man has
perhaps ever so entirely dominated
his party as President Wilson.
1t VIII then be interesting TO note
the success William Jennings Bryan
gains in MS effort to become the lead
eli Of the party again as successor to
woodrow Wilson. and whether he sue
ceeds in steering the party's course in
a manner that viii bring about his
own nomination for the fourth time.
Mr. Bryan's speech at the banquet
win receive unusual attention.
Mr. McAdoo's declination of all in
vitations to attend the Jackson Day
spirti--to make Pensacola one OF the |
banquet at first puzzled politicians |
who believed he had committed a |
grave tactical error in not seizing on |
the occasion to get his boom well I'M |
der way. A further and deep study |
Of the incident. however. shows that /
McAdoo is ,aking what may turn out
TO be a ver-r shrewd course. BY stay !
ing away he win escape the necessity |
of committing himself to an definite |
platform or statement of policies at
this time. with the convention 6 |
monhs away and the country in an eN-
tremeIy unsettled condition.
The president has been rather gen |
orally criticised for his failure before
now to state his position regarding a |
third term. His friends have taken
peared presumptious for him to decline |
something that was not offered him. |
The republicans for the most part |
have refraHled from attacking his
failure to speak out on the third term !
hoping he would accept another NOM
ination.
The president announcement that |
he viii not again be a candidate will i
be sad news to the republicans who !
have hoped he would run again and |
give them the opposition to a third |
aerm as a telling weapon. The presi- |
dent is expe cted TO announce his in |
tention to retire to private life and |
regain his health. shattering in the |
public service
The jackson Day dinner is expected |
to dispel the gloom that has hung
over the Democratic party since the |,
setback received in the elections of !
1918 when both the senate and house |
were lost.
General LEONARD Wood for the re- |
publicans AMI William c. McAdoo for |
the democrats, provided of course that |
the president is out OF the runnig, ap- |
pear TO be in the lead for nomination |
by their respective parties The sur /
est sign Of this perhaps is that all /
the other prospective republican can !
didates are rrying to smother the /
Wood boom, while the democrats with !
presidential aspirations are trying to |
XIII off the boom for AfcAdoo.
Fear or the Wood boom was exhib-
tied by those. who attended the meet |
ing OF the republican national commit !
tee here early in December The
Wood boomers We're very busy try
ing to pledge the national committee !
men for thei1. man and making as /
much noise as possible. The big |
bosses at the meeting decided the
Wood boom must be snuffed out at |
any cost, and have set about TO do ii.
Now that the McAdoo boomers have
commenced to make some Roadway |
the friends OF al the other candidates, |
actual and hopeful. are trying TO i
smother II. The situation Is very sim |
nar ia each party.-there is the fear