Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-04
THOUSANDS TAKEN IN u. s. RAIDS ON REDS
WILSON TO TELL
PARTY HE WON'T
TAKE AID TERM
Jackson Day Dinner Jan.
8, Set For Announce
ment Is Word

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Presi-
dent Wilson will formally announce
IN a message to the guests at the
jackson Day dinner to be held here
on Jan. s, that he will not be a can
didate for third term in the White
House.
This statement was printed here
this week by the Washington Post
and investigation tends to support it.
The President will write a letter to
the guests announcing his intention
not to continue in political life after
March 4, 1921.
The Jackson dinner IS a great
Democratic event and will be the oc-
casion for the airing of many candi-
dacies. If Wilson does as Democrat
ic leaders say he is going to do, the
way will be open for a number of
the personal friends of the Pre- sident
TO make definite announcement of
their aspirations which they nave
withheld up to this time because of
the possibility that Mr. Wilson might
run again, in which event they would
nave packed up their little booms and
remain in political obscurity.
Bryan to Be There.
William Jennings Bryan will be
one of the chief speakers at the ban
quet and he is expected to let it be
known in the course of his address
whether the candidates he will sup
port for the Democratic nomination
will be Josephus Daniels or William
Jennings Bryan. Hope springs eter-
nal in the Bryan breast, and it would
not surprise many if the Nebraskaa
offered himself again to the country.
This possibility, however, is secuted
by the party leaders, who say that
Bryan feels he can do more in be-
half of another's candidacy than for
his own.
Once definite statement comes
from the President that he will not
in any circumstances be a contes-
tant in the election race a dozen or
more candidates will spring into full
bloom. Among those now furthest
along are the following:
William G. McAdoo, former Sec
retary of the Treasury and former
Director General of Railroads.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney Cen
eral
William Jennings Bryan, former
Secretary of State.
Atlee Pomerene, Senator from
Ohio.
Oscar Underwood, Senator from
Alabama.
Champ Clark, Representative from
Missouri, former Speaker, and lead.
ing candidate in the convention of
1912 in Baltimore.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy.
Many to Become Active.
Newton D. Baker. Secretary of
War.
James W. Gerard, Ambassador to
Germany at the entry of the United
States into the war.
Gilbert Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
Democratic minority leader and lead
er of the treaty fight in the senate
for the President.
Some of the foregoing at present
are on lotential candidates, but
they will become active ones once the
lid is taken off by the Presidents an
nouncement. Gerard has been so
funk as to announce that he is ac-
lively in the race but that he will
withdraw if Mr.. llson runs. Nc
Adoo, on the other hand, has been
more seriously embarrassed and has
refused to say anything at all, wait.
ing for some statement from the
White House as to the intentions of
Mr.. Wilson. Others with aspirations
are similarly playing a waiting game.
McAdoo has declined an invitation
to speak at the Jackson Day dinner,
saying that professional engage
ment for that day will keep him away
from Washington. Since the dinner
will be the occasion for important
party conferences, Democratic lead
ers express genuine regret that the
former Secretary of the Treatury
viii not be here.