Evening star., 1920-06-25
VEIL OF DOUBT
OVER NJ 'ADOO SAID
TOHAVE TED
Friends of Former Secretary
at Frisco Determined to
Nominate Him.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

| SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-The
lveil of doubt concerning the McAdoo
candidacy is lifting. Friends of the
! former Secretary of the Treasury
| have formed a militant organization
determined to nominate him over ms
own protest. kilograms are coming
| to several of these men to stop their
activity and take Mr.. McAdoo at his
word but they are unavailing.
| Indeed, the latter is reliably report
ed to have told Senator Glass in
conference in New York last week
/ that if his name were presented Tor
nomination. the Virginia senator was
authorized to say it was being done
| without his consent or sanction. New
iertheless, Senator Glass is openly 1or
McAdoo's nomination and Will make
flight for it.
| The story told by men in the con-
| fidence of Mr. McAdoo bears out the
reasons given publicly by the former
| director general of railroads Ihey
say he has considered the question
| from every angle and that he has
horror of having the crown prince
argument and criticism of similar
iyein concerning his relationship with
/ President Wilson flung at him and
his family during political cam
paign.
They declare. moreover, that Mrs.
McAdoo has been consistently opposed
| to the return of her husband to public
| life. She knows the extent to which
Ipublic and private criticism. together
| of the White House itself, can in
lterfere with personal comfort and
happiness; her own father broke down
in health and her mother died while
in the White House.
Every friend of McAdoo here says
he is thoroughly sincere in his dis
inclination to run for office. Why
nominate him, then?
To that question comes the uniform
lanswer from these same McAdoo men
THAT in a time like this personal
tastes or convenience cannot out
weigh the duty that man may owe
to his party and his country. They
| are absolutely determined that Nc
Adoo is the man of the hour and must
make the run, and with that idea in
mind they are planning to draft MIN
for the nomination.
No Word From President.
So far as President Wilson is con-
cerned, nobody here has had a word
from him on candidates, and Senator
Glass. who talked with Mr.. Wilson
about plans for the convention, espe-
cially the platform, is authority for
| the statement that the name of Mr..
McAdoo or any other candidate did
not come from the lips of the President
during the entire conversation.
The same holds true with respect
to the Wilson office holders and faith
| full supporters. They haven't had any
word from the White House, so they
are backing Palmer, or Cox. or Mere
dith, while the original group which
has been for McAdoo from the start
is standing firmly for his nomination.
| Adoo himself has recognized that the
call of the country must be supercede
personal considera ton, for they point
to his public statement, made at the
time of the withdrawal of his name
from the Georgia primaries, namely,
that no man could refuse the nomina-
tion for the presidency.
When Mr.. McAdoo asked, therefore,
What more can l do?" the answer
made by forces opposed to McAdoo
was that he could say he wouldn't
take the nomination if proffered to
him. This. however. it is argued by
his friends, would be inconsistent
with his first declaration at the tim;
of the Georgia primaries
Declined to Take "NO."
, So while Mr.. McAdoo is earnestly
| trying to prevent his friends here
| from putting him in the embarrassing
position of appearing as candidate,
they are going ahead with remark
able steadfastness to put him in NOM
| ination. 1t may be excessive zeal and
it may prove a mistaken compliment.
| but the folks who are working for
McAdoo here are loyal set who will
not take mo" from McAdoo. They
have talked the situation over and
| have planned to go ahead to the finish.
| Talk of giving the vice presidential
nomination to Victor Murdock of
Kansas. former Bull Moose leader,
comes from the McAdoo supporters,
though many of them would prefer
Gov. Cox of Ohio to go on the ticket
with McAdoo. They insist that the
ticket 'McAdoo and Cox" would be a
winner.
( (COpyrieht 192O4