The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-02
Who TO BEAT
M'ADOO? CRY
OF OPPONENTS
Presidents Son-in-law Strong
est Single Force, Says
Blythe-Enemies Seek a
Concentration Point.
B RYAN IS DISTURBER
By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE

By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
Copyright, 1920, by the Cen.-a. Press
Associationl
SAN FRANCISCO, July I'm al
political struggle Of the kind going on
here the losers always discover they
are losers before the winners find
themselves winners.
Some losers take defeat standing
up, and some take It lying down;
some get angry and some get alco-
holic; some lament loudly and some
say "Maskee" which is Chinese for
"wot-t-ell".
Demonstration Of these similar kid
ney began last night, and continued
through the day, and into the evening,
because 1t Is definitely known, by
both, by the losers, the managers, the
friends and delegates who the said
losers are, and It is not yet certain
who the winners will be.
Balloting was to begin Friday, unless
Mr.. Bryan can drag out the platform
fight unconscionably. Probably the
dragging out will be more Of Bryan,
not the fight Not many of those
placed in nomination and set before
IAO oSACSdICo Will SuCn 0lSu Ol
tory, have chance.
Indeed, the ratio of chance to candi-
dates is that sacred ratio of bygone
days, 16 to one, with this difference:
the ratio here has the reverse English
on It. It is one to 1e-one chance to
win out Of 16 to lose, and that chance
held to be somewhat slim by large
and cohesive body Of husky citizens
with votes.
oIuttons For Punishment
Being gluttonous for punishment,
several others rushed up Thursday and
had themselves spread-eagled before
this convention. These ceremonies
over, adjournment was taken to await
the grand and gorgeous and glittering
entrance of w. J. Bryan into the arena,
firm in the determination to separate,
segregate and hold up SO all may see,
the drys and the vets and with one
or two other little knicknacks, cal
culated to cause trouble.
Pending that performance, It being
actually apparent to the manager of
the anti McAdoo combination that II
is extremely difficult, not to say i'm
possible, to beat some one with no
ona and that the time is rapidly ap-
preaching when talk will cease to be
consequential
And candidate to oppose McAdoo
becomes imperative, after the hopes
and vanities of numerous patriots are
taken out and deposited in the dump
The anti McAdoo managers assert
stoutly, that their combination control
ling considerable excess more than
one third Of votes holds staunch and
say that after Mr. Bryan has finished
with the platform, he will add his in
fluence.
Also, 1t is reported that various Of
the state leaders who are not out in
the open will arrive in the open when
necessary, and cast their lot with the
McAdoo cause. So much for that
McAdoo Men Are lIvest
Meantime, the McAdoo men are the
livest and most energetic of the vote
hustlers in the place and they are
working necessarily. They profess
not to be frightened over the combina-
ton against them and say that McAdoo
starting with 900 or $50 votes will
have 500 votes by the third or fourth
ballot. and that it will then become
merely a procession.
The day was raucous with claims
and counter-claims. mysterious with
conferences and machiavellian with
intrigue.
Each delegate with a vote proud to
call his own, was sought, be-sought,
and be-devilled. But out Of the welte.
two facts project. The first is that
the man with the greater number Of
actual and potential votes is McAdoo
provided his managers can cash in
! the potentialities, as they believe they
can.
The second fact is, that this being
the case, the man who can be united
upon to defeat McAdoo, and attain the
nomination. has not yet been found.
No Miracle Will Help 'Em.
Neither Palmer nor Cox can win,
unless the miraculous happens, and
this Is the closed season for such
denominations as far as Democratic
conventions are concerned.
McAdoo is helped materially by the
report not disavowed, that the emf
nent campaigner, Postmaster General
Burleson, has said the president
wishes McAdoo nominated.
That is helped in some quarters and
hurt In others. The bulk of those
placed in nomination, are impossible,
and their managers know it, and they
know it themselves. Those concerned
with eliminating McAdoo and sorting.
re-sorting and consorting, in the hopo
of securing a person who shall be at
once a happy medium and medtumly
| happy as choice.
If they don't find him tonight, they
must find him tomorrow, and have
him In readiness for injection into
the ceremonies, because this conven.
ton is in no temper for a long dead
lock, nor can the men heading big
delegations bring about a deadlock.
Most of the delegates are fluid rather
! than fixed. After the preliminaries
voting is likely to be by individual
preferences rather than by boss dicta
| ton.
All Ready to Go Home.
Also. everybody wants to go home
That is the real danger that besets
the anti-McAdoo combination. 1t may
disintegrate because it has not the
strong cohesiveness of one man con
troll. Also that is the weakness of the
McAdoo forces; they are not held by
any strong ties, nor by anything else