The Washington herald., 1920-01-18

FEAR M'ADOO
Speculation as to Features
OF His Pan American
Speech Rife.
NEW CALL FOR CAUCUS
Friends Of Underwood and
Hitchcock Eager to End
Deadlock.
NEW CALL FOR CAUCUS

The two men who are creating much
Presidential talk within the Demo
cratic party at the present time. Will
lam J. Bryan and w. G. McAdoo.
will both be in the National Capital
tomorrow. 1t was learned yesterday.
Mr.. McAdoo. accompanied by Mrs.
McAdoo. and Bernard NJ. Baruch.
whose name again recurs as the sue
cessor to Secretary of the Treasury
Glass. now a member Of the Senate.
visited the White House for a few
hours Thursday evening and then left
for the South on, the Baruch special
train. Word was given out at the
time that Mr.. McAdoo would remain
at the Baruch hunting lodge in the
South for a week or ten days and
that Mrs. McAdoo would remain with
President and Mrs. Wilson at the
White House until the return of her
husband.
Mr.. McAdoo. however will be I'M
able to remain very long with the
Baruch hunting party as he is 10 be
the presiding officer at the first gen
eral session of the Second Pan Ameri-
can Financial Conference tomorrow,
and is scheduled to deliver an ad-
dress entitled The Credit Situation
| of the World"
Politicians watch Bryan and
McAdoo.
Mr.. Bryan. who yas in Washing
ton to help usher I'm official aridity
for the United States. departed for
New York late yesterday, but is ex-
pected back in the city tomorrow.
IT Is known that he has several APP
potntments with Democratic Sena-
tors who have since the jackson
Day banquet declared publicly that
Bryan is right" Keen observers of
the political situation comment upon
the presence in Washington at the
same time of Messrs. McAdoo and
Bryan. Many Republicans as well as
Democrats are beginning to look
back over the files of newspapers Of
the morning following the Jackson
feast and peruse the McAdoo mes
sage to the diners and Mr.. Bryan's
epochal address urging the Demo-
Gratis to compromise. More signifi-
canoe is attached now by politicians
lof both political faiths to the mes
sage of both Bryan and McAdoo
dinner. The idea that the Com
moner and the former Secretary of
the Treasury each presented the as,
sembled Democrats with part,
platform for the coming campaign
was at first a mere suspicion, but
has now crystalized into certain be-
lief
| Republicans and Democrats alike
lcanvassed as to their views regard
ing the present political situation do
not hesitate to admit that the treaty
Is at present the paramount con-
Isideration not only in the formulat-
ing OF the party campaigns but in
the selection of candidates.
Senator Borah last night told The
Washington Herald that whether or
not the treaty is ratified before the
coming campaign it will still be the
chief issue at the conventions this
summer and at the polls in the fall.
You might as well try and change
the moon into the sun as to endeavor
70 eliminate the treaty as an issue
from the next PresidentiaT campaign"
stated the Idaho solon, regarded as
the most irreconcilabIe of the irrecon-
cilables. Senator Borah and other
prominent Republicans who are either
against the treaty altogether. or who
will favor ratification only with strong
reservations. last night stated that il
the treaty We're to become an issue
during the campaign it would prove
more helpful to the Republicans than
the Democrats.
On the other hand. Senators McNary,
Kellogg, Townsend, McCumber and a
number of those favoring a treaty
with mild reservations argue that il
would be the height of folly for the
Republicans TO allow the treaty to be
taken into the campaign
Astute politicians point out that
should treaty compromise be
reached in the Senate within the
next few weeks Mr.. Bryan would
undoubtedly be in position to
put the treaty over" This would
certainly be a strategic advantage
for the COmmoner, they say, in case
he should decide to become a can
didate later on.
Democratic Senators "Up in the
Air,
Senators Hitchcock and Under
wood, who each received nineteen
votes for Minority Leader of the
Senate in the Democratic caucus on
Thursday. are expected to issue
call for another caucus within the
next week or ten days.
When the next caucus is called.
however. Senator Glass will vote
and will cast his lot with Senator