The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-13
NcAdooandPaLmer
 Fight h New York
nges on Governor Smiths Ambition to Be Delegate to Dan Francisco-House Democrats Split With Pres
 ident on Universal Military Training
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

1 home is impertinent, and will result 1T | failure.
 This struggle is of prime interest inas. much as it is staged in reality by the 1 two democrats with whose names the
 democracy of the country IS most wont tc l speculate, and in state the winning ol
 which. in all normal times is essential
 to the party which elects the President The democracy of the east watches the
 New York row with more than interest Tor its denouement will certainly be a
 straw indicating the direction of the po- litical wind.
 | With the exception of the agitation in Gotham, including the recent statement l of Herbert Hoover tha, ne was not neces- ! sarily either a democrat or a republican,
 but in effect would align himself with | that one of the two organizations which behaved itself best between this date and the date of the convention. the situa- tin as it concerns democrats is very qfiet. All prospective candidates have aisLmed the watchful waiting attitude.
 This indicates that at any moment which
 flight be termed psychological the fur igill fly
 II Greater activity characterizes renub- lican candidates. In New York repub-
 iican leaders are permitting Nicholas
 Murray Butler to run away with things
 the Idea being that the president of Co
 lunbia. at the proper time will be an excellent peg on which to hang a baf. Tn other words, he will be a candidate who can easily be dropped when dropping nun IS considered pertinent In Wash lngton the field is divided between the tw6 conservatives, called by their enemies s.re- actlonaries Senator Harding and Gov ernor Lowden. and the two radicals, de- TlslVeiy called 'progressives," Senator Jonnson and General Wood The latter palr' moth struggling to walk about in koosevelts s mucll-too-big shoes. are flying Lilher and thither throughout the United states. Harding and Lowden ara con ducting more dignifed campaigns and cam palgns which are doubtless equally as effective. ''' s lhe most active republican candidate m ms courtship of the press is Governor Lowden. He maintains magnificent head quarters in Washington, and a most tire less publicity bureau. Local correspon- aents are regaled every day by charming Word pictures from the pens of the ver- satlle Lowden scribes-pictures which show, first, the governor as a boy. very poor mad ambitious: then as a youth at tempting the impossible, and paying for HIS uarlng by near-death drowning: is1ter as young man emulating Lincoln m acquiring knowledge by the assistance or llghtwood knot; and last as goyer- nor Of a great state, the expenses of which, even in time of war. he reduced s.oO0oO0 per annum. Very little is said O. the part the Pullman. miiiions played in the meteoric ascension of the Illinois ex- ecutive
 Behind the Lowden boom is one dars, cloud. Mayor Thompson of Chicago. no. other than Big Bill himself" whose pa triotism during time of war was gen erally suspected and whose attitude was constantly criticised. has challenged the Americanism of Governor Lowden. This fact would appear only in the nature of joke but for the hold which Thomp- son retains on the heart of his following in Chicago. And Lowden, to obtain the limos delegation in tied-to-the-d death manner, needs Chicago very badly.