The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
EARLY BALLOT WILL FORECAST OUTCOME
 OF M'ADOO'S RACE
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leading members of the administration
 group backing the McAdoo movement said "President Wilson has made it
 nearly impossible to nominate Me- Adoo." The President has done this l by his policy of hanging on to the con l trcl of his party up to now. Had the President taken himself out of the race l for the presidency three or four months ] ago, with statement that he would
 under no conditions accept renomi- nation, party control would have shifted into other hands. This would not be a | Wilson dominated conventions
 The significance of efforts like those I Of Postmaster General Burlesbn in be- half of McAdoo would have gone on
 without raising sharply the crown prince issue. Wilson himself woup have disappeared from the picture suf- ficiently for that. But Wilson himself by clinging power in his party has kept the antiWilson issue alive and with it the dynasty issue.
 The McAdoo promoters would like to get rid of it. Some of them privately express the wish that MT. Burleson and Senator Glass had stayed in Washing ton, or that they would support some
 other candidate than MT. McAdoo. They feel that the activity of the>members of the administration in behalf of their candidate is liability. They also em- phasize the "disinherted sonin- law idea. They do their best to spread the report that the President preferss ome other candidate than his sen Jaw and that relations between the two have been distant for some time. To impress the delegates they say that the crown prince argument is republican propaganda put out by the opposition to prevent McAdoo's nomi- nation because the republicans fear Linn as candidate more than any one else the democrats could put in the field.
 CUMMINGS STRENGTH
 With the McAdoo reaction on. the suggestion that Homer Cummings will be the final choice of the convention strengthens.
 There is no possibility of exaggerat- iAs the impression MT. Cummings key note speech made. As dark horse he Is off to a good start, Mir. Cummings availability as a compromise candidate is great. He is Wilson's spokesman here. He was chosen by the President to deliver the keynote speech because he was the best man to do it. But more than that. if LIT. Wilson means to say anything to the convention, he will say i. through MT. Cummings.
 Moreover. the national chairman has been extremely sympathetic with the desire fsthe state leaders to distribute Iatronage He has gone to the bat for them when they were discontented with Postmaster General Burlesons strict enforcement of the civil service rules It was MT Cummings who went to the Iftsident and had the Burleson prac- uces softened so that the organization obtained more posto-fice Jobs. Mr Cummings has travelled all ever the country. He has seen democrats every where, and everywhere he has lent sympathetic ear to their complaints ahUut patronage.
 Mir. Cummings is that rare thing. a Eigh brow in politics who haSf the im- agination to look at the gate from the district leaders point of view That ca pacity of his will be, worth nfany votes on the convention floor if tn delegates raks by McAdoo and look fNr candi- date farther down the line.9 No real 1aoveinent toward Cummings Gan be de-