The Washington times., 1920-06-29
CAN'T SMOKE
M'ADO0 OUT
Several Candidates yearn to
Discover Where Son-in-
Law Stands.
BY MARLEN +. PEW,
International News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2y.-One
day of conversational milling in the
auditorium, and a Tuesday forenoon
steamboat excursion in San Fran
cisco bay have not served to unlock
the secret hiding place Of the Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate; but it
is increasingly evident that the sew
eral avowed candidates yearn, more
than anything in this round world,
to smoke William Gibbs McAdoo into
the open.
But communication between him
and his active little band of Treasury
and former Treasury workers here
has been "cut," they say. and IL he
Is brought out of his hollow log, II
will be COON fashion, right into the
convention hall. There is now no in
dication of McAdoo saying anything,
doing anything, in person or by
proxy. to relieve the super-heated
suspense of not so much his friends
as hts political rivals.
PLAYS ~NEAT LITTLE GAME.~
II, in the distant background, the
astute Mr.. Barney Baruch is rubbing
his dry palms together. as speculative
gentlemen are wont to do when they
have laid a glittering trifle on the
red; or IL the artful Mr.. Thomas L.
Chadbourne, of Lower Manhattan, Is
looking distinctly at objects close at
hand, after the manner OF those
deeply learned in the law and policies,
It may be remarked in the words II
Ind
booms here that it's a meat little
game"
The former Secretary OF the Treas
ury is now generally admitted here
as the high possibility, and his dill
gent friends, whether formerly as
tsociated with him in the United
States Treasury. or otherwise, declare
that the suggestion that he Is play
ing a sleek possum game is an "in-
famous slur upon sincere man.
MAY BALLOT THURSDAY.
There appears to be n fair pros
pect of clearing the party platform
through the convention by Thursday,
and the, ballot performance probably
will start on Friday. perhaps even
Thursday evening.
For that moment the Palmarites,
'Coxites, Davisites, Marshalites, and
all sorts of other smaller '1tes" are
pining; but maybe there will not be
ruuch comfort for them then. because
McAdoo's name may not be formally
given to the convention at all, except
as 1t may rise from the lips OF dele
gates who will announce votes for
him. If this plan is adopted, the Nc
Adoo managers will seek to move the
enterprise along very slowly, permit
ting the avowed candidates to have
their respective filings in the early
balloting and depending upon Nc
Adoo to wax stronger as the game
progresses, with possible band wagon
consequences.
FEARFUL BEANSW WILL BE SPILLED
Some impulsive adherent may spoil
this arrangement by blurting right
out in meeting and then, again, the
McAdoo man may not have the cour-
age merely to set his sail and wait
for favored winds to blow.
There appears no real prospect Of
practical coalition of his leading ad-
versaries to block his progress and
deadlock the convention. The bitter
ness between the camps Of Attorney
General Palmer and Governor Cox is
acrid. The act of Palmer supporter,
as alleged, in starting stories about
Cox's twelve-year-old domestic trou-
bles has caused the deepest hatred to
exist, and Palmerites are on the de-
fensive in their attempt to explain
away the circulation of the story and