The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-24
CANDIDATES ROW
MUCH UNSETTLED
Wilson Talked of and
McAdoo Still Looms
| Up at Frisco.
WEN IS IN COMBINE
bklahoman Links Up With
Bryan to Defeat President
Nearly Score on List.

1International News Service staff
n Correspondent)
n BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
san Francisco, June "a
xh.cken with its head cut off. flop
Inr around In the back yard knows
1xactly where II is going. compared
the hosts of democrats gathering
Acre to select their candidate for
H. presidency and build their plat
Form.
with the two-thirds vote neces-
Asrv for a nomination, instead of a
majority with the republicans the
ufhaos OF the pre-convcntion days
thas descended upon san Francisco,
Dag and baggage, leaving the ar
living delegates confused and con
tounded
william !. Bryan. Il is claimed by
Dsome, with his "dry" backing can
Iprevcnt tho nomination OF anybody
Ewho doesn't suit him. 1t will take
hut 365 votes--a third, plus one OF
fthe total of l,092 delegates-to do
This.
4 But, warn the friends OF Governor
Edward l. Edwards. Of New Jersey.
lido not overlook the "wets" They
fwill control at least 365 votes in
tthe convention and 1t is assured they
1will in turn prevent the nomination
sot any candidate unfavorable to
Nthem.
Owen With Bryan.
Senator Robert l.. owen, of Okla
fhoma, will form a coalition with
1willam ]. Bryan and will pre-
acipitate rough and tumble op-
tposltion the moment the cohorts of
Athe administration insist upon an
| plt and out ratification of the
Vague OF nations plank. And with
Hrot few delegates behind them,
<many believe this combination will
he able 10 rally more than a third
fof the delegates to their side. thus
Nhlocking the selection OF a Wilson
ian nominee.
Counting VIM. G. McAdoo and
president Wilson, and no list OF
democratic presidential possibilities
is considered by the party men now
here to be complete without the
names of both--there are pretty
nearly a score OF candidates in the
open or potential. | already under
n tVISlINl hAA'lis
1 Alphabetically, there are Bryan.
ACox, Clark, Cummings. Davis.
Edwards, Glass, Gerard, Hitchcock,
KicAdoo, Marshall. Meridth, owen,
EPalmer, Payne, Simmons and Will
son to name those most frequently
mentioned here.
The McAdoo boom has refused TO
stay dead. Its corpse insists on
coming to life. Finished, cead and
buried, as McAdoo himself insists
his boom must he considered. the
managers of other candidates now
how here drumming up support for
their men keep on talking of Nc
Adoo. In the same breath they treat
him OF a dead one and as one still
TO be watched.
"McAdoo" they say "is entirely
out Of the race. Whatever support
lhe ever had is now gone. split ar
Iamong the other candidates, II
McAdoo cannot win, proving he Is
livery much feared by the aspirants
The general belief here, four day'
since the McAdoo.-Shouse tele'
4 gram, is that McAdoos name vii
be presented to the democratic con
< Nention AS to what Will happeT
then. opinion Is divided.
h Some say afteS the first ballot Of
two when McAdoO will receive
complimentary and scattering vote
hs name will disappear. Others be
lieve along about the eighth ballo
or so McAdoo will be put across
with a rush just as Senator Harding
= was In Chicago. \ clever piece o
b political maneuvering-that is wha
Is latter school calls McAdoo's tele
gram refusing to consent to hi
b being placed in nomination.