The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-06-26


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OF Bryan for publlcation7" says q news
paper friend.
'"You can say anything In regard to
Bryan you. want TO and I'll stand Tor
IT," Mullen replied.
| Now q group OF Westerners are ask
Ing somebody TO point out Charles r.
Murphy OF New York, but In vain one
looks In this thick and growing mob for
tho New York statesman. lie sits up
stairs receiving viAitors as OF old. They
como 10 him. He dosen't 10 TO them,
But Norman u. Mack Of New York.
spruce OF dress. pink Of face. blue OF
eye, goes In and out and remarks that.
what with seeing people late at night
and early IN the morning he has not
had moro than three hours sleep at a
atretch sincS he Eot In town.
| Viee-P President Marshall's idea OF mix
ing II up with the crowds before tho
convention Is 10 get a motor car and
ride down the peninsula, watching ItAl-
! ians gardening on steep hlllsides or else
TO mediate and philosophizs In hts
rooms. He persists In the notion that he
Is not n candidate for anything, not oven
! for Vice -Prosident What are you try
ing to do?" he says. Make LOWS mad
| at me?"
He won't discuss the platform because
he says they won't let him write II on u
postcard lie 10 earnest when he says
that the Democratic platform must not
have a compromising syllable but talks
when he remarks, apropos the Eighteenth
Amendment, that he Is obeying laws
every day that he has no respect for
| OF the favorite sons there are kind
| words for Gerard of New York, compli-
ments for Hitchcock of Nebraska and
bouquets for this one and that one, but
| everybody recognizes that II Ia ideal TO
! speculate about candidates while the
President preserves silence. One word
| from the White House would smash
any candidacy or all Of them. and the
absence of any word has made a mess
OF mems ambltionA For Mr.. Wilson is
holding this convention In terrorism by
tho singular power Of silence.
McAdoo Real Dark Horse.
The whole body covers beneath an
unseen hand. There is serious discus
sion as TO whom the President 10 sup
posed to favor. He Is not supposed 10
favor either Cox or Palmer. Therefore
| their booms wither, The recollection of
his bad treatment Of Gerard shows that
Gerard can expect nothing from the
| White House to support his hopes. So
| II goes,
The men seriously discussed are Nc
Adoo- Cummings. Davis and Colby In
the order named and not one Of these
Is really a candidate, although West
Nlrsihla uiu INSTRUCT lor Davis as her
most prominent democrat Ihese are
the real dark war horses McAaoo was
stable, but II is noticeable that his halter
rope 70 hanslhs OUT OF inc wlnuo", rug
McAuoo SsterS - the o'sssst PuAAi0
OF AL OUTSIDE OF the never ehalhS 1ues-
tioh as 10 Nhsoh thira term Sinultions'
| McAuoos support Wnlch on SATURDAY
was oroheN anu scattereu' 10 cohNa'
lesclng, over night he becomes again
one OF the prominent possibilities II
makes no difference what he says thou
sands of miles away or what he tele-
graphs. His bullheaded friends insist
that he shall he nominated any way,
Carter Glass took minute off from
| polishing up the platform to say "he
lHuu9hl hCAuOo was NcTy mum III hhN
race" He thinks McAdoO will be nom
/ mated on the fifth or sixth ballot,
I'm comes Burieson with Texas delega-
tion clinging to one-eighth o. vote
that he managed to grab In his Lone
Star State, asserting that McAdoo is
! the one and only candidate AMI that
{ Texas will cast her forty votes FOR Nc
Adoo on every ballot. Labor men are
! moving among the widely scattered state
delegations preaching McAdoo ana guar
anteeing the full support OF union labor
II the convention names hiin'
""P0FS I" A~~e ""'
Gompers will be here tomorrow -
| lead a labor fight for McAdoo. Cf the
of again. on again candidates closest
! friends Stuart Gibboney OF New York
arrived to-day to contribute to the
/ mystery.
| Gibboney refused to afirm or deny
personal agent OF AlcAooo he admitted
before leaving FOR San Eraneisco II
was learned ON excellent authority that
| Gibbonev has let n he known that Me-