The Washington herald., 1920-07-02
M'ADOO KEEPS LEAD
WHILE FOES WAIVER
ON SELECTING MAN
By TREDEnIC wILLIAlG VILE

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ceds that they are 100 or LIS short
OF the 72s necessary to a choice.
But when by the fourth or nth ball
lot the McAdoo column 10 seen u
contain the majestic total Of 500 and
over. representing more than a clear
majority OF the convention. the Nc
Adoo people count upon the band
wagon contingent to do the rest.
The all night and all day council
Of war charged with the duty OF
slashing the McAdoo line. was made
up of the Tammany leaders from
New York, Tom Taggart's Indiana
lieutenants. Fred Lynch, of Minne-
sofa; the Decentralization conttn-
gent from Illinois, and the Walsh
Democrats Of Massachusetts,. In
and out Of their star chamber delib-
erations were Representatives of the
Palmer. Cox and the dark horses.
like Cummings and Davis.
Pennsylvania stubborn.
The leaders found comparatively
little trouble in agreeing among
themselves on a campaign arrange
deadlock the convention II not ac-
OF a man other than McAdoo. But
the leaders frankly admitted that
only in a few cases could they guar
antee to deliver their delegations.
1t was said in particular to be
notoriously impossible to hand over
the Pennsylvania delegation en-
bloc to any man. The Tammany
conferees sasd bluntly that McAdoo
sentiment perneated the New York
delegation. From Indiana, Massa-
chusetts and numbers Of Western
and Southern States reliable word
was Forthcoming that there was too
much McAdoo second-choice senti-
ment in their delegations to war
rant any leader in pledging them
in bulk to q non-McAdoo compro-
mise candidate.
smith Ofer Tempting.
Tammany was tempted with an
offer to give Gov. "Al" Smith sec
ond place. There was talk Of a
Davis and Smith ticket. Davis and
Cox was another projected ticket.
Homer Cummings was seriously
/ considered as a compromise man.
/ Offering perhaps the best chance Of
winning the convention's favor.
! But his name finally was dropped
as that of a man sharing Ambas-
sador Davis's weakness - his
strangeness to the country at large.
1t was reasoned that too much cam
paign time, money and energy
] would have to be spent merely tell
! ing the electorate who John w.
Davis or Homer Cummings is. Then
/ cambridge Colby, Secretary OF
4 State, was X-rayed.
The main objection to- him was his
newness in the Democratic party.
! With a dozen good Democrats and
true, grey in the service, ready to
be inundated on the Presidential
altar, it was decided that a mere
ly reformed Bull Mooser. like Sec
retary Colby, could not be legiti-
| mately made the party standard
bearer in 1920.
Objections to Clark.
Vice Presidential Thomas r.
Marshall was now taken up. Kind
words were showered upon him. but
the consensus that he lacked solid
vote winning qualities in the coun-
try. The conference finally got
down to Champ Clark. the residuary
legatee of Baltimore, in 1912. Two
heavyweight reasons knocked him
outage. and his opposition to the
draft law in 1911 The anti-McAdoo
crowd ended up their pow-wow just
where they began. They had not
CROPPED their way out of the dark
ness. Their sole hope was of being
able to muster by hook or by crook
for some candidate or scatter them
among many. one-third or more OF
the convention votes and thus frus-
trate a McAdoo nomination. The
McAdoo high command claims to-
night to be thoroughly we'll salts
fed with the situation as it Is de-
veloping. 1t is ie- constant tele-
graphic touch with McAdoo himself
and with Daniel c. Roper. former
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