The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-04-16
Astute Political Observer Ger
tain Attorney General Has
Won Commanding Number OF
Democratic Delegates.
PRE- CONVENTION ESTIMATES
Believes Hoover 10 a Negligible Factor
Because II 10 Uncomfortable That the
Democracy at San Francisco Will
Vote for the cast-off Candidate Of
the Republican Convention.

Observation-Disclosures are beginning
to talk in the pre-convention campaign
Of the candidates for the presidential
nomination of both parties, and, while
their first words carry the wabbly lisp
OF the baby tongue, they appeal to the
hearts of the papa and mamma politi.
clans whose hopes and ambitions are
inseparably linked with the words of
truth that will drop from the mouth of
the prodigy who has never yet been
known to lie and whose growth will be
to that of giants strength by the
time the conventions are called to or.
der.
Apencil and a pad of paper in the
hands of an astute political observer
can work wonders of representation
and especially If that observer is broad
minded and clear-visioned enough to,
calculate not what he would like to
have happen, but what is likely to hap
pen when the count of noses on the
floor of the convention is completed.
The head political writer of the
Philadelphia Evening Ledger, one of
the publications of Cyrus II. X. Curtis
and hog-tied with its owners grave
yard campaign for Herbert Hoover,
asked for some figures few days ago
from man whom he describes as "a
member of the Democratic organiza-
ton who should know as much about
the prospects as any one does" and he
got them. And, to his credit be it said,
he published them. This is what he
said:
He figures after a careful study
that Attorney Genera Palmer will lead
In the first ballot with $50 votes Nc
Adoo will be second with $50 votes and
Hoover third with 90 votes. For pur
poses OF Jockeying until some one an
Swers the great question whether the
party can win with either Palmer or
McAdoo as a candidate the rest of the
votes will be scattered around IN a
highly complimentary fashion amons a
lot OF men who will feel fiattered 20
have their names among the others
voted for"
MT Hoover's recent action in declar-
ing himself to be a Republican and a
receptive candidate for the nomination
at the hands of the Republican M.
uohal Convention, of course, e!imi-
mates him from consideration at the
hands of the Democracy. 1t is not rea.
s"hahie TO suppose that any Democrat.
r delegates would be willing to vote
Tor the CASTOR candidate of the Re-
publican Convention. It is therefore
probable that Mr. Palmer will get his
snare OF the 9O votes which thu politi-
cal expert quoted assigns to Hoover.
Inc hgures given above allot to
Palmer not only more votes than anv
0ther candidate for the Democratic
nomination, but more than can con.
scientouSly be claimed for any candi.
date on the Republican ticket from the
present outlook. Any one of the sew.
Pral Republican candidates who could
figure block Of $50 delegates to vote
Tor him on the first ballot in the Chi.
cago convention would consider him.
self rich indeed In chances for the
nomination
Every day that passes brings new
bitterness into the Republican nre.
convention campaign and opens new
wounds that will be difficult in the
heallng. Breaches are being opened In
state delegations that defy bridging by
tie most earnest efforts of accom-
plished leaders, and not a delegation
has been selected to the Chicago con
vcntion from what might he termed
real fighting ground for the several
candidates which is not torn by bitter
feuds and hOpelessly split upon the
candidate to whom 1t shall throw its
support.
Lavish use of money, as charged
aga INST the managers of two Of the
candidates-the leading candidates.
for the nomination has developed into
national scandal and has been made
the subject for denunciation by such
leaders of the progressive wing of the
party as Senators Hiram Johnson, an
avowed candidate on his own behalf,
and lSorah, who is supporting the can.
didacy of Johnson and is by no means
eliminated as a dark horse in the race
Ci''AlNA OOhilSOl Iull VI lllG
These men and the great force
which they represent within the party
the true progressives and followers
Of Theodore Roosevelt-who fail to
see in the free expenditure of money
on behalf of General Leonard Wood
any traits of the residuary legatees of
their dead leader are voicing their
protest over what they charge to be
an attempt TO override the party
through the use of money, and quick
action will follow their protests if
they find that through the use of large
sans Of money the action of the Chi,
cago convention has been influenced in
advance. If there is to be a third par
Is in the field it viii be born of the
Republican party in protest against