Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Senator Glass of Virginia to
Be Official Spokesman for
White House at Democratic
National Convention.
PRESENTS PEACE PACT
AS PARAMOUNT ISSUE
President Keeps Attitude
Toward Nomination Secret
Condemns Reservations to
Leagues Covenant.
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.

Chicago, June Z0.-Nhile the po-
litical breezes were waiting west
ward more straws indicating that
President Wilson is willing TO run
for third term in the White House,
United States Senator Glass of Vir-
ginia, fresh from a 40-mirute con-
ference with the president Saturday
afternoon, passed through Chicago
tonight bearing the Wilson platform
to San Francisco.
Senator Glass, who is slated for
chairman of the resolutions COM
f>ittee, received from the president
his draft OF the league of nations
and other planks the dem cratic ma
tional convention will lie asked to-
incorporate in the platform. With
the presidents parting instructions
as to the attitude Mr.. Wilson de-
sres all friends of the administra-
ton TO take on the party issues,
Senator Glass goes to the conven-
ton as spokesman for. the White
House on all platform questions at
least.
The Wilson platform presents the
peace treaty as the paramount issue
of the presidential election and con-
tains a league Of nations plank Of
the presidents authorship, denounc-
ing reservations which would im-
pair" the Essential integrity of the
covenant. The presidents platform
contains no wet plank, no Irish
independence plank and no plank
favoring soldiers bonus.
Keeps Attitude Secret
If Mr.. Wilson conhded his atti-
tude toward the nomination to Mr..
Glass, the senator is ketping it
secret. He admitted tonight that he
denied they had touched on the
question of candidates. and pro-
fessed to be as much at sea as any
one concerning the nomination.
Senator Glass was accompanied by
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Jouette Shouse, one of the original
McAdoo boomers, who also con-
fessed himself up in the air" on the
situation
The only certainty, in the opinion
OF Mr.. Shouse and other McAdoo
boosters, is that the presidents som
ln-law is definitely out of the reckon
ing and will not be considered by the
convention. In this connection it
transpired that Daniel c. Roper, for
mer commissioner of internal rev.
enue, who was going to the con-
vention to handle the democratic
job holders forces in the interest OF
McAdoo, cancelled his reservations
IN San Francisco last Saturday
night.
Speculation on the reason for Nc
Adoo's withdrawal was more ami
mated than ever following the. ar
rival of Washington officials to-
night. Some democratic leaders are
convinced that nothing could have
caused McAdoo to eliminate him-
self save the desire of his father
ln-law to take the nomination for a
third term. They viewed the act
OF self abnegation a sure, sign that
dutiful son-in-law was clearing
the way for the convention to turn
to Mr.. Wilson as the political savi-
or OF the democratic party.
Playing Politics.
10 these leaders the failure Of the
president to remove himself from
consideration in his New York
World interview bulked large with
significance OF Mr.. Wilson's will
lngneSs to accept denomination.
They think the president is playing
mastetly politics to achieve either
denomination or dramatic and i'm
pressive vindication at the hands of
his party. They foresee the con-
vention deadlocked and turning in
stinctively to Wilson, whereupon
the president will either accept the
honor or decline it in a message to
the convention on the ground of
physical infirmity.
One of the significant bits OF news
brought from Washington is thar
the president had himself photo
sraphed at the White House on Sat
urday III various poses, standing
and walking, to demonstrate his re-
covery of physical vigor. This IN.
telllgence was communicated as "a
tip on the situation by friends of
the president to men who will be
in control OF large delegations in
the convention. 1t was accepted as
further proof that the president is
looking for denomination and was
pronounced particularly significant
by Washington officials who have
talked with Mr.. Wilson within .hc
last fortnight and have been I'M
pressed with his belief that he has
practically recovered his physical
vigor, 1t has been known for some
time that Mr.. Wilson considered
stronger than his physi-
clans pronounced him and has been
restrained with difficulty from at
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