The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-02
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

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BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Dispatch to The Reformer Copy
right 1920
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.--Combina-
tions work both ways. One hears it out
lined in menacing proportions that com
bination of votes has been collected which !
win prevent AIcAdoo from getting the |
necessary two-thirds. This sort of talk
proceeds naturally and inevitably from
The camps Of the opposing candidates who
recognize that 4IcAdoo is in the lead andi
that said lead must be cut down before
5alloting actually starts in order to brighten
he prospects Of their own men to accu-
mnlate votes in progression as the sue
cessiye ballots are taken.
But as the veto on McAdoo is consider
4ble, so is the veto held by the AEeAdoo
forces over any other candidate The
strength of the former secretary of the
reasury in this convention is of the cru
sading kind that won for Wilson at Balti-
more in 1912. His supporters will stick.
For their existence of an anti-combina-
ire rather than actuality, one of the so
allied organization bosses from a mid
western state is commonly reported to be
4 part Of the coalition to defeat McAdoo.
Today he was in conference with a Me
idoo manager and practically promised
support to McAdoo after a few early ball
Iots
UnduestionabIy the movement for Ho-'
per Cummings Of Connecticut Is the most
erious factor affecting the chances of Will
lam Gibbs McAdoo Scattering strength
or Cummings is making its appearance
n delegations from practically every sec
ion of the country. Men pledged to Me-
Adoo are reported to be saying that If
heir own candidate cannot win, they Will
je glad to go over to Cummings at the
psychological moment.
If the McAdoo forces hold tight, they
viii get up to 600 votes and push Their
andidate to the necessary 72S. But the
fcAdoo strength will develop slower than
hat OF any other candidate. The sup
,orters of Mitchell Palmer viii stick to
i'm longer than most people have antici-
,ated. The Cox leaders and delegates
rent going to give up without a real
| truggle. Some talk is-heaFd of-promis-
ng the vice presidency to Cox if the Me
| Ndoo votes should get to GOO and then
| making serious effort to acquire 0hio's
| 'otes and others sympathetic with Cox to
| make the final IDS to put McAdoo across
| he two-thirds margin. On the other hand
| he Cox people at this stage of the game
| rent thinking about the vice presidency
| nd some McAdoo supporters insist that
| MeAdoo is named, Victor Murdoch OF
1 Kansas, former Bull Moose leader, shall
/ un for vice president
\ It's all very well to talk about coali-
| ;ons but the Democratic national conven-
| ion of 1920 is not very easily controlled
| ,xcept. on the issue of Wilson or anti
4 Wilson There isn't one-third veto
4 gainst the Wilson forces in this conven-
1 ION If McAdoo isn't named, some out
l nd-out Wilson man viii be. The people
vhc are supposed to have formed an anti
| TeAdoo combination would not sustain
i uch move il Palmer and Cox have APP
,arently lost out For then the common
1 1e-the anti-administration candidates
| gould be trotted forth If MeAdoo can't
in. the convention will be indefinitely
eadloeked Efforts in behalf Of Homer
cummings are already being made There
| ! distinct drift toward him as second
hoiee on the part of both McAdoo and
Palmer men and even Cox sunporters.
| But thus far the lead is still held bv Me
I Ndoo with excellent chance that his fol-
| owing will grow from ballot to ballot and
18th excellent prospect, moreover, that
he anti-McAdoo' combination will never
'nnetion as smoothly as its analogy at
fhicago which beat Wood.