Arizona republican., 1920-05-17
MONDAY, MAY IT. 1920
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
 Thomas Carlyle.
Mir. Marshall and the Presidency

There a possibility. and 1t is edging toward probability, Arizona will furnish the democratic party a candidate for the presidency in the person of President Marshall. It is coming to be be- tieved that in the event of deadlock, the thirds rule which prevails in democratic national Conventions invites deadocks Mr. Marshall would be with which to break it.
 He at least equal ability to any democratic scandidate for the nomination far proposed There is nothing to be said against him. He has steered deft between the administration and it's srnies within the He has been loyal to the president could be without servility. On proper occasions he has defended the democracy of SIr. Wilson without holding up Wilsonism some , thing sacred and unprecedented Indeed occa- sion has appeared deprecate certain acts and attitudes of the president inimical both the country and the party.
 Whether or Mr. Marshall could engage the support of MT. Bryan without which it coming be believed the nomination at San Francisco. is uncertain Yet these two have in membership in the church and views on moral questions. They differ slightly not prohibition, which is a foremost consideration with Mr. Bryan, but the methods by which it is 10 be effected. Mir Marshall within week has stated belief that a constitutional amendment the proper instrument for securing prohibition. But that Is the belief of states rights advocate and not that of opponent of prohibition. for Mir. Marshall is pleader for the principles of prohibition as 0Ir Bryan. Moreover the eighteenth amendment Is now a fact to be altered by any occupant of the White House.
 MT. Marshall is of a conservative than Mir Bryan was. but perhaps than MT. Bryan Is, the radcaIisn latter has been falling off with the hairs of his head, beneath the belabor tng of time. These two men have also in intense desire for the welfare of the democratic party. both. we believe share opinion corning the attitude of the democratic party n coming campaign toward the peace treaty.
 Ter was a weak of or presidential nomination than is presented the part the democrats There is Palmer, the most active, whose ptful incompetency attorney general has become a by-word in his party. In times past Mir. McAdoo held to be genius for administration but two short have blurred his achievements only view them dimfy through his colossal failure head of the railroad administration-wh he deserted when its affairs were their As to all the other democratic aspirants for the nomination. they small to become targets for a stroke of lightning.
 We observe that the democratic newspapers of The country turning least. curiously Mir. Marshall who may furnish solution Their attitude far is yet only of hopeful in 1uiry which be easily nursed into enthusiastic support. Tammany has declared him. Why we cannot conceive for there is nothing common be- tween him and Tammany.
 This is not the first estimate that has been made of the presidential stature of Mir. Marshall Tn 1911 with a good record as governor of Indiana he was favorably regarded $ a candidate among such demo- cratic giants as Clark and Underwood He was better and favorably known Woodrow wilson whom Colonel George W. Harvey had dis covered a cIoister. brought who by the grace of Mr. Bryan chosen.
 It does not become to offer advice to demo- cratic brethren but not refrain from offering suggestion whose birth is in local patriotism. the democratic delegation to San Francisco could create some stir there possibly direct course Of events, by making of Arizonas next-to- the- place the roll states by presenting the name of Thomas Riley Marshall.