The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-23
THE TREND OF THE TIMES

'i' American people to get business man Who IS not ticd down Inv the various political organizations throughout the country for President Is haVlhg the effect sending those who usually regarded as President makers hotoot after the right sort of tim Der to meet the demand It also is having the eff feet of cooling the ardor of those who, following the rules of the game have been attempting to negotiate the understandings and arrangements nee essary get enough of the powerful combinations and organizations into master combination that would be strong enough ts put over this particular candidate or that. The result has been many with drawals candidates and potential candidates for the nomination, and waning of many hohouse campaigns.
 As people have listened more and more to the demands of the people who think independently of party organizations hear and more talk of the merits of individual candidates, of their exper fence and their fitness for high executive positions, and less of who will dictate to patronage in the various States. In fact. there is a disposition in evidence everywhere to find candidate who will make the division of the spells his first concern Not only do the people want able executive for a candidate but they want who is also free of entangling political alliances.
 There several men prominently mentioned for the Presidency in both parties of proved eXecu- tive ability. and wide executive experience Those most prominently mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination who meet this requirement Mir. Hoover and Gov Lowden. and those with proved executive capacities most usually con sdered in connection with the Democratic nomina- ton are MT Hoover. former Secretary McAdoo and Gov Cox. It Is generally conceded that Hoover ranks pre-eminently the greatest executive of them all However Gov. Lowden. after successful career as a lawyer, became a very capable business man, and, incidently served two three terms in Congress. Then he became Governor of Illinois, and presided the affairs of the third State of the Union dur ing the war, and he has made very satisfactory record there. McAdoo, probably the most of ton spoken of in connection with the Democratic Hoover and very brilliant official record Secre, tary of the Treasury behind him. Gov Cox, the present very able Democratic Governor of Ohio, where producing Presidents is industry is the only who served three terms as Governor of that State He started al the bottom newspaper man, working reported, editor and then pub fisher. Though under fifty years of age he has accumulated fortune; served several terms in Con gress where he member of the great Ways and Means Committed, and four times for Gov ernor of Ohio, winning in three elections. His ad- ministration is conceded to have been very sue cessful. He two three newspapers
 The business and executive records all these men should measure up the demands of the most exacting business However. among them all Hoover is the most likely be from the in- tluence of politics and the political organizations and combinations, and he has proved himself to be a genius for organization and execution He is conceded to be of the best informed men of the world on international affairs. and he has made an exhaustive study of industrial and social problems He is apparently designed by Nature to command when readjustment. reorganization and reconstruc- ton are the war-made necessities of the times. If the Independent thinking people of the country could force his nomination by both political parties it would take the government of the nation out of the hands of those whose trade is politics. It would do away with-the system whereby those most success ful in forming alliances among organizations and combinations of politicians control the destines of the nation and substitute for it government by real workers of the nation-because we readily mag inc that President of the United Mir Hoover would divorce the greater things of government from spolss and office holding rewards for success in use of political influence or manipulation In the end we would, of return political parties but they would not be organizations to get the of fices. and they would be arbitrary divisions of the people. They would be organizations of people with kindred ideas and theories of government IL would usher in another epoch in American history great those which accompanied the ascendency of Jefferson. of Jackson and of Lincoln to the Pres idency.