The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-03

English ambassador. returned to London
without having been received by the
President. il is stated that the Presi-
dent. just prior to Lord Grey's return,
agreed to make extraordinary efforts TO
receive the ambassador. but that the am
bassador declined to permit the Presl-
dent to incur what he thought to be
grave risk, thus showing more regard
for the health of the chief executive than
the republican membership of the Tor
egn relations committee. which by
solid republican and against sohd DEM
ocratic vote. sent its representatives, IN
Guiding the vitrolie Senator Fall, TO assam
the President at his bedside.
In connection with the Jackson DAY
dinner, with which all democrats are al
ready agog there is another interesting
development Secretary W. G. McAdoo'
/ son-in-law of President Wilson, and TOT
many months considered one OF ing
strongest presidential arpirantS, VIII hot
| attend. He has declined on the groune
that he viii have another engagement OF
great import and of prior making. lie re-
Trained from further explanation, put
when pressed did say that ne mignt oe
many hundreds of miles away from
Washington when the democrats sat
down to dinner
otherwise. however the affair VIII pc
carried to a conclusion according 10 pr
gramme. The greatest interest hNotNeu
Is due TO the fact that w. j. Bryan
has served notice that he win deliver the
keynote speech, and in course OF ina.
speech let it be known who Will ano
who will not, among the presidential can
didates, be acceptable to him. ne loea
prevails that Mr.. Bryan, still drunk WIN
a longing for power, has planned 70 s'ep
into the Presidents shoes as leaoer OF
the marty that he is prepared to rule or
.lox
down the rules by which the game snaii
! be played.
| The understanding in political circles
| in Washington Is that Mr.. Bryan IS
| candidate for the presidency, and woula
| be. an avowed candidate but Tor inc rae.
| that his repeated and singularly meian-
cholv failures have made him trifle
| sensitive if not tinid AT any rate, he
| has let it be known that the candidate
who is selected must be measured by MS
patfern He has let it be known further
| that the candidate of the democratic
marty must swear allegiance to prohibl-
! ton, the eighteenth amendment. 10 az
/ things the prohibtionists in congress
| have done and threaten to do. 1t IS un-
| Gnrstood that Mr.. Bryan has had hard
sailing in finding the man-other thah
ll,imself-who would fill the bill. IL Nay
4 be stated that he has three in mind
w. j BRYAN of Nebraska, Josephus Ian
] iels of North Carolina and Morris Shep-
rard of Texas.
+ Mr., McAdoe Mr.. Palmer, Mr.. onder-
wood. Mr.. Clark and others with whom
/ liz democratic party has speculated do
s,ot ,,,eet the Bryan requirements. lie
] tesitates regarding Herbert Hoover Tor
| two reasons He does not know whether
| Hoover. when food administrator desired
| to conserve grain by taooong It's Trains.
| formation into alcohol because solely OF
! the necessity of making bread Tor Europe
/ o., whether he was animated by his fond
Eness for prohibition And in the second
nIaces If cannot be ascertained, definitely
p,bather Hoover is a republican or a DEM
ocrat -,
| Rut there is no gainsaying that Mr..
/ BRYAN will be the central figure at ene
dinner 1t is generally known that ne Is
not strong enough to nominate himseil.
Al the same time it is known that should
history run true to form and repeat itself
he will be strong enough to prevent the
nomination of any man he desires to de-.
feat His grape juice diplomacy. brewed
with a generous proportion of cross OF
gold oratorv, still retains potency
to eliminate the undergraduates OF many
men, a fact which produces on the part
| Of practical republicans fierce and raucous
chuckles.
n is limited as a reason for the declna-
ton of Mr. McAdoo that he was averse
to appearing at dinner at which he
| would be expected to outline his position
| on all the great questions of the day
which will be thrust into q campaign
six mouths hence. In that aversion, II
| true, Mr.. NfcAdoo might have pursued
1.-the course Of wisdom. He will have the
1 advantage Of reading what all other pros
pective candidates have said in way of
4 con,tnittals, for all others will be COM
PEELED to burn their bridges behind them,
and of eliminating all proposed planks
| which encounter the acute opposition OF
/ the press and the public. At the same
] time. it is history that presidents have
been made at these dinners.
At the Jackson day dinner OF eight
wears ago. Mr. Wilson, though he had