Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-15
NJ 'ADOO TIDE RISING,
OBSERVER DECLARES
Virtual Collapse of Others Can
didacy Believed to Have
Helped His Chances.
. ,,rrespondence baltimore Sun.

correspondence baltimore Sun.
New York, May 14.-McAdoo ana |
better cheer -
That is what good many of the Demo.
crats who are watching the national
situation think they see. They are not
certain Of it. No Democrat Is quite certain
what is coming to him next TALL but iot
OF them think they see McAdoo ana Il |
chance.
MADoo TALK INCREASING.
From end to end of the country, OF
late. there has been more and more taik
of McAdoo rs the probable choice Tor
President at the San Francisco cohNch-
tion. ACCOMMODATING that talk IN the
last few davS there has been much talk
of n great organization working secretly
10 bring about the nomination OF McAdoo
and slnplied with money after the tasl-
ION Senator Borah has been saying Cen
rrai Wood has been supplied IN ms cam
Daicn for the Republican nomination
Possibly this talk of the last few days
IL right. but one of the two or three men
who are being talked about rs manaeing
the great secret campaign ana putting
lin the hulging barrels looks one dlFectIE
in the eve, crosses his heart and declared
that he has done no organization WoIh
for NcAdoo and has not put up the prlce
q
nomination. And if that gentleman Is not
telling the truth, he has fooled me, NJ
least.
What is happening, according to him.
and what the general signs indicate =
haDneninc, is growth of ground-sWel
ror McAdoo. And il seems to be due TO
both negative and positive causes.
HELD As HELPING MS STOCK.
IN be one side of the situation may
10 seen the virtual collapse OF Mr.. Pal
n,cr's capd idacv, so far rs general sentl-
mcnt is concernedy the growing ieelInng
that MIR. Hoover has most cftcctuaiy
eliminated himself, and, il must be sand,
growing feeling that he has lately demon
strated such lack Of political talent rs 70
make his elimination less regrettabc than
II was some weeks ago; cooling on
toward Governor Cox. who doomed con-
snicnouslv 4 while ago, kindly rejection
III Nice-Presidenf Marshall dismissal OF
senator Owen, and old-fashioncd thumbs
down on the possibility Of Mr.. Bryan
An of that spells McAdoo 10 many minds.
And on tho other side of the situation =
! fresh stock taking Of the assets that may
he found in McAdoo's public record;
Naturally. all Of this appeared 70 lead
crs who move around at the bottom oi
things before it appeared on the surface,
and il follows that among state ana
lesser leaders here and there some work
NAV have been done for MeAdoo by
uoI. of moving thinus expedItiously
alnnc the path that they seemed dest med
ia move Such work would have some
thing of the appearance Of an oTgani-
zation movement. but essentially the
NcAdoo movement seems 70 hc due
the causes negative and positive, glver
ahoye And those causes appear to
have their effect in the country as Z
whole. rather than IN any restricted
unit of great power Outwardly. at least
there Is nothing to show that the New
Work crowd is now tied 70 NcAdoo.
The State convention here was silent
on the League Of Nations, which hardly
would have been the case if the men
close 10 McAdoo had been potent behind
the scenes of that convention.
one Of the men very frankly saws that
If he had been influential IN the New
York convention he would have used hls
power to cause an indorsem~t Of tho
League.
THOUGHT GOOD VOTE GETTER.
The better cheer which some Demo
Gratis think they see IS due partly 70 The
Dositive element of NcAdoo's strength =
fhat which comes from i fresh stock
taking of such assets as are TO be found
in his public record. 1t Is being recalled
that when MIR McAdoo left the Treas
ury Department his work was glver
wide and warm approval by bushes
men and that he was lauded as great
business administrator, and II IS being
argued that II McAdoo were the candI-
date, and the business mans mind was
concentrated on him that approval would
come to life again.
Again it is being recalled that McAdoo
won the favor of labor while at Wash
inCton. and during the same time that he
won the favor of business people, and
there are a good many politicians who
look upon McAdoo as the sort of man
who can capitalize into votes the favor
of labor, something that not all candi-
dates NAV do Still again, there is the
quiet talk going out that McAdoo is
damp" His frie nds do not call him g
regular wet Not that. But they tall,
more or less significantly the possibility
that there viii be damp" feature in
the platform, or of the possibility that il
MIR. BRYAN prevents that, some Other
wav viii be found to achieve the same
effect. and the impression Is gathered
that McAdoo would fit into such {
situation.
WOULD oUTCLAss FIELD.
Finally there is 8 belief expressed BY
men higher up IN affairs that strctl,
as a candidate McAdoo would outclas
anv man the Republicans can nominate
barring possibly Johnson. What Is mean
bv that IS that as Z candidate Meade
could make better use Of whatever h
had in his shop than any Republican