Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-03
NJ ADOO'S STRENGTH
SAME As WILSON s
EIGHT YEARS AGO
ny DAVID LAWRENCE

Combinations work both ways. One
hears it outlined in menacing pro
portions that a combination OF VOTES
has been collected which will pre-
sary two-thirds. This sort of talk
proceeds naturally and inevitably
from the camps of the opposing can
didates who recognize that McAdoo
must be cut down before balloting
actually starts in order to brighten
the prospects of their own men to
accumulate votes in progression as
the successive ballots are taken.
But as the veto on McAdoo is con
siderable, so is the veto held by the
McAdoo forces over any other can
didate. The strength of the former
secretary of the treasury in this con.
won for Wilson at Baltimore in 1912.
His supporters will stick:
The existence of an anti-comp1na-
ton might better be described as
lesire rather than actually. One
of the so-caIled Organization bosses
from a midwestern state is common
ly reported to be part of the coah-
ton to defeat McAdoo. Today ne
was in conference with McAdo?
support to McAdoo after a few early
Cummings Movement Serious
PROFESSIONALLY the movement for
Homer Cummings, of Connecticut, Is
the most serious factor affecting the
chances of William Gibbs McAdoo.
Scattering strength for Cummings is
making it's appearance in delegations
from practically every section OF the
country. Men pledged to McAdoo are
reported to be saying that if their
own candidate cannot win, they Will
be glad to go over to Cummings at
the psychological moment
This is a species, ,S of convention nnyeniNa
ton politics. 1t is the effort at
trading delegations for expected
patronage if the nominee of the con-
vention should win the election.
for years rarely play just one can,
anchor to windward and get in on
the ground floor with an expected
winner espeeiallly insist DARK That h0f the
nomination was due to. their strate;,
gy. Woodrow Wilson has been told
again and, again how the deciding
| votes were cast for linn in the Ia
nous 1912 convention: ~
So a great, deal Of the talk OF
dark horse can be attributed to an
| carly desire to begin trading on the
future, especially if deadlock IS
| in prospect.
Now it is obviously impossible to
| tell how the delegates will vote after
| the first two or three ballots. The
| leaders have made mathematical cal
| cu1ations to their own satisfaction
| but the trouble about tabulating the
vote in advance of the balloting is
| that the preponderance of strength
is with McAdoo and there is an I'M
| dercurrent of support which is I'M
mistakably ready to go to him when
ever it looks as If he will be the
| winner.
If the McAdoo forces hold tight.
they will get up to 600 votes and
| push their candidate to the necessary
1913. But the McAdoo strength will
| develop slower than that Of any
| Mitchell Palmer will stick to him
| longer than most people have anttci-
pated. The Cox leaders and dele
gates aren't going to give UP with
out real struggle.
vice Presidential Talk
| Some talk is heard Of promising
the vice presidency to Cox If the Nc
Adoo votes should get to- 600 ana
then making serious effort to ac-
uuire Ohios votes and others SYM
pathetic with Cox to make the final
1913 to put McAdoo across the two
thirds margin On the zt other na IN 9
game aren't thinking about the vice
presidency and some McAdoo sup
porters insist that If McAdoo is
| named, Victor Murdock, OF Kansas
former bull moose leader, shall run
for vice president.
It's ali very we'll to talk about
coalitions but the Democratic ma
tional convention Of 1920 is not very
easily controlled except on the issue
Of Wilson or anti-Wilson. There isn't
a one-third veto against the Wilson
forces in this convention. If Nc
Adoo isn't named, some out and out
| Wilson man will be. The people who
are supposed to have formed an anti
MoAdoo combination would not sus-
tain such move II Palmer and Cox
have apparently lost out. For then
the common foe the anti ,adrninistra-
tion candidates. would be trotted
forth.
If McAdoo can't win, the conven-
ton will be indefinitely deadlocked.
Efforts in behalf of Homer Cum
mings already are being made. There
is a distinct drift toward him as a
second choice on the part of both Nc
Adoo and Palmer men and even Cox
supporters. But thus far the lead
still is held by McAdoo with excel
lent chances that his following will
grow from ballot to ballot and with
excellent prospect, moreover. that the
anti-McAdoo combination will never
function as smoothly as it's analogy
| at Chicago which beat Wood.