Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-24
NJ ADOO FORCES IN
SAIL FRANCISCO ARE
LITERALLY Up IN AIR
Strength Already Disinte-
grating as Result of His
Statement That He Does
Not Want Name Used
ny DAVID LAWRENCE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-Gov'
ernor Cox, of Ohio, has proflted most
by the efforts of William Gibbs Nc
Adoo to eliminate himself from the
list of avowed candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomination
That isn't saying Cox will be nomi
mated, for the situation has hardly
crystalized an dthe real purpose Of
| Messrs. Wilson and McAdoo have
not yet carried conviction with the
delegates.
They can't believe that Mr.. vii
son wants a third term and they
can't believe that McAdoo doesn'1
want the nomination. Yet the truth
| is so simple and SO obvious thai
| delegates are reluctant to credit 1t
Here are some facts upon which the
reader can base his own conclu
| sions:
/. President Wilson talked for al
hour and a half with Homer Cum
mings, Democratic national chairman
at the White House three weeks agt
and never showed the slightest in
terest in his own political future, MOI
did he explain any preference as be-
tween candidates.
McAdoo Seeking Health
2. Mr.. Cummings is in constaIi
l'touch by wire with the White House
and is really the presidents mair
channel Of communication with thi!
l'convention and if a stampede o,
| movement for Wilson were to b.
started Cummings would know of it
And all the newspaper talk of thirt
| term is incomprehensible to Mr.
Cummings.
g. Mr.. McAdoo never intended tt
be an. active candidate for the nomi
nation but his friends always under
stood that the would accept if draft
ed by the convention. All plan!
were made for that kind of an ap
proach to the nomination.
| 4. Mr.. McAdoo has been resting
in southern California and spendin,
as much time as possible out of door
in an effort to regain his health. H
is is said to have tuberculosis of thu
! throat.
| 5. Mr.. McAdoo went east a weel
ago and when the writer saw him il
| Chicago he looked well, but said h
was bound for a quiet summer oil
Long Island. He took a deep inter
est in the Republican national con
vention and gave the impression tina
he would welcome a chance to ge
into the campaign and fight.
| Two Conclusions
6. Less than a week later Mr.. Nc
| Adoo announced his irrevocable de
| cision not to allow his name to b
| presented to the Democratic nationa
convention.
That ends the catalogue of fact
and - circumstances, but somethin
happened when McAdoo went east
ward. The writer knows that Mr.. Nc
Adoo didn't go to Washington an
didn't consult the White House be
fore he issued his statement. Onl,
two conclusions would seem plausi
BILE, therefore,:
Either Mr.. McAdoo consulted hi
physician, who absolutely forbad
his entering a campaign, or else MI
McAdoo found a personal note sen
to him directly or indirectly b.
President Woodrow Wilson tellin
him the most obvious thing in tn
! world, namely, that in view of thei
relationship, it would be embarrass
ing to have Mr.. McAdoo permit hi
name or his candidacy to be pre-
scented to the Democratic nationa
convention.
On the same day Mr.. Wilson reit
crates in the public prints what h
told Mr.. Cummings three weeks be
fore-that he would not dictate t
the Democratic party on the choic
of a nominee.
McAdoo Forces UP in Air
Woodrow Wilson is shrewde
him with being. He knows that tn
Republicans would say he obtaine
the nomination for his son-in-law o
that the latter won the nominatio
| through the influence of the Wilso
administration, and he realized tina
the only thing to do was to kee
hands off. Then, if the Democrat
( saw fit to nominate McAdoo, it woul
be the free and untrammeled choic
of the convention.
So thorough has the hands-off poll
cy been carried out, that when som
leaders here appealed by te1egrap
today to Daniel G. Roper, forme
commissioner of internal revenue an
the recognized McAdoo manager, I
come to San Francisco to act as &C
wiser to the party irrespective of tn
McAdoo situation, a telegram cam
back promptly from Mr.. Roper say
ing that he feared his coming t
San Francisco might be construe
as a reflection upon the sincerity c
Mr. McAdoo's public statement d,
clining to be a candidate. So the M
Adoo forces here are literally up i
, the air. Many delegates and leader
insist that they are going throug
Fwith the plan to draft McAdoo fl
the nomination. They will find it di
, ficult to do so. as already the NJ
Adoo strength is disintegratinG b.
cause of his public statement al
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