The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-30

MeAdoo plan 10 nave their man receive
not more than $50 votes on the first bal
lots. The Palmer men are driving for
maximum. They probably will never
get more than $50 or 500 votes and then
the numerical building for Cox and Nc
Adoo will begin. There seems to be
some doubt as to whether the McAdoo
people will throw In their resources and |
forge ahead as soon as Palmer is elm
mated or hold their strength intact while |
the drive on Cox is tested out. But |
while there is significant talk every |
where of McAdoo triumph, the votes |
are not yet on the horizon The manag- |
ers are counting on psychological effect
and breaks as the balloting progresses
| 1t would not be at all surprising if Me-
Adoo got up TO 600 votes and failed to
I ret any more for several ballots. Then
| the crucial moment will come The Nc
Adoo strength is the kind that sticks
just as Wilson's following did at Balti-
more in 1912, but there is always dan
| ger when a deadlock comes that the dele
gates will begin turning to compromise
4 candidates. If that happens. the In
diana delegation will start movement
4 for Vice President Marshall and may get
4 some support from New York and Ohio
and Illinois, as Marshall is supposed to
have wet leanings.2 On the other hand.
lsueh situation might be met by the
Wilson forces by a counter-drive with
| Homer Cummings, chairman of the Dem
ocratic, national committee, who is more
or less friendly to the vets, at least
I Bryan considers him SO. Just what effect
this turn from the big three would have
is entirely conjectural.
Mr.. Cummings made a splendid impress
J sion with his keynote speech and of
|, course he is personally known to most
of the delegates and would be acceptable
to President Wilson. But It is true, that
at this writing few people here expect
any such developments. All minds are
, fixed on the big three, Palmer, Cox and
, MeAdoo,-with an almost universal feel
ing throughout San Francisco that Nc
+ Adoo has the best chance Members of
the New York delegation who are bit
: terly opposed to McAdoo, privately con-
eede he has the best prospects and are
whispering to their betting friends to
place their money on HIM McAdoo's
stock went up following the victory OF
the administration forces in the choice
of Senator Carter Glass to be chairman
of the resolutions committed Although
a vote was not taken it was apparent
that the Wilson forces controlled the
situation by a ma jority-they claimed il
by 30 to $50 Senator Walsh of Mon.
ttana withdrew from the race and the Sc
lection was made unanimous.
The platform committee went to work
at once. Two things appear to be set
tled-one is that the Democratic sena
tors who voted for the Lodge reservation.
will not be denounced as was the case il
the Virginia platform
Second, the majority of the COMMITTEE,
will favor a compromise on the liduDl
question. Senator Glass, himself a dry
has drawn a plank that may not satisf,
the extreme vets but will, if adopted
win the support of many who favol
some modification of existing condi
lions with respect to the Nolstead law
The significant thing is that most o
the drys-eXcluding, of course. BRYAN
see the necessity of saying something t,
appease the demand for statement o,
the prohibition question which will no
! be interpreted by the voter in wet state
as infiexible and immutable.
Another vital point is the apparen
certainty that once the platform i
adopted an opportunity will come 70
Governor Cox and MIR McAdoo to tele
graph to the chairman of the resolution
committee their approval of the plat
form. This will mean the elimination
OF all doubt concerning the willingness
OF candidates to run on the platform
adopted and if AIcAdoo should expires
his approval of whatever compromis
plank may be offered on the prohibtio
issue some of the delegates who bav
been inclined toward Cox on this aues
tlon would shift toward MeAdoo. One
the wet and dry plank is disposed o.
New Iork's delegates are not unlikely t
SWING to MeAdoo as they viii want t
be on the band wagon. Bryan is repre-
scented as softening in his opposition t
MeAdoo, but it all depends on whethe
he approves or disapproves the plan
drawn by McAdoo's friends.