The Washington times., 1920-07-01
M'ADOO OPPOSED
. BY 462 DELEGATES
New York, Pennsylvania, and
Illinois Groups Among ex-
Secretary's Foes.
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delegates rightly pledged and in con-
crete and immoysble masses, while
here the strength OF the various can
didates is fluid to a degree, and not
OF that fixed quality that made the
Baltimore deadlock.
1t seems that McAdoo will have at
least $50 votes In the early bslloting,
Cox II5 or theresbouts and Palmer
approximately the same number as
McAdoo, with chances favoring a lead
over McAdoo for Palmer IL must not
be forgotten that demonstrations in
convention halls when speeches are
made change few votes, and are or
ganized and conducted mainly for ad-
vertising purposes. There have been
minor riffs and changes during bhe
last few days, but the earlier esti-
mates Of the initial strength OF the
three leading candidates remain as set
forth in these dispatches.
McADOO MEN HARRAssED.
Meantime, the McAdoo men are har-
rassed by two insistent questions. The
first: viii McAdoo, in the face OF all
he has ssid. accept II he Is nominated?
Their answer to this is. that he will,
because no man is big enough to re-
fuse a Presidential nomination fairly
obtained for him.
The second question Is this: Does
the President desire the nomination
OF McAdoo? Their answer to this is
! that the President mus, naturally.
desire any honor that may come to
his son-in-law. Pressed for definite
Information on this point, the Nc
Adoo men. when they talk frankly.
say they have no direct Information
! that the President is either for or
against McAdoo. just as they have no
definite Information. nor anybody else,
that he is for or against any other
| candidate.
The report Is that the real reason
for McAdoo's sudden disavowal OF his
candidacy was his knowledge that the
| President did not look with favor on
him as a candidate. and that report is
not hushed BY the answer made to
this question. but the report has no
aut thentication. If the President
would come out for McAdoo, or at
least signify that he Is not averse to
McAdoo's nomination, the situation
would be greatly eased for McAdoo.
! Whether there will be balloting to-
day depends on the completion of the
work of the platform committee and
the speed with which the platform
can be adopted by the convention. A
long and bitter fight over various
planks is predicted, but long and bit
ter fights that are predicted often
are neither long nor bitter. However
there Tlll be a wrangle of greater or
less duration and intensity. In any
event, unless the fight breaks all rec
ords, there will be balloting late
Thnrsday night early Friday.
! Politicians are superstitious. 1t
would be bad luck to name candi-
date on Friday, they think. Hence. If
IL comes to an issue they may DO Us
they did in st. Louis, four years ago,
and delay the nomination until after
midnight, provided they are close
enough to definite result to make
the delay superstitiously necessary.
A prolonged struggle will throw the
result over to Saturday. but the DEM
ocrats are in a hurry to finish ami
will work as expedtiously as posi-
| BILE
MARSHALL Still. UNCERTAIN.
The further question. "Who is the
man." was still under debate last
night and this morning. No addf-
tons to those canvassed have as yet
been made The list includes Colby
Davis, Cummings and Marshall, al
though Indiana did not formally put
Marshall in nomination yesterday
thereby causing the inquiry as TO
whether the crafty Thomas Taggart
felt that eventually the old ticket.
Wilson and Marshall, will be named.
No decision has been reached. None
will be reached before tonight.
The plan is to let Cox and Palmer
show what they can do, and develop
the McAdoo and anti-McAdoo forces.
Then after a few ballots, ii will be
time to have a ma nready. and IL is
expected the man will be ready. Nc
Adoo must be beaten, the me nsay
who are running things and they
realize that that will be, quite a task