The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
CANDIDATES GROOMING
FOR PRESIDENT RACE
GOVERNORS ARE WILLING, AND
SENATOR'S, CABINET MEM
BERs AND TWO GENER-
AIS MENTIONED
Presidential booms, always in 9 !,
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just now. ;non+ ms
.ono onenly announced tina hey
h move heard the still, small V OF
t H"'J neople calling upon the run
e snu Fnresident in Novembe the
n nUl wear. Still others are sus-
ppacted by political dopesters Of hav-
mo their ears very close TO tne
nr0ound and some are being urged
h. their friends as being mt for the
S;cb Office of president of the United
yates and equal to the hard job he
n Di have during the next four years:
Those ,p wears, it is contended, should
COO the reconstruction of the world
vol under way. The next president
will will have to fight radicalism to the
Snish, He will have to determine
exactly what part the Unltee
States is to play the worlds affairs.
He will be charged with the problem
of bringing together capital and la
bor. In fact his tasks are legion.
With national conventions several
months distant, some of the booms
that have been started have filckered
out. But no man with his eye on the
office is eliminated until the national
convention eliminates him by select
ing some one else. The convention
may nominate men never heard OF
before in political sense. .
General Leonard Wood was one OF
the first candidates to enter the field
for republican nomination, and it is
generally admitted that he will be a
strong contender. General Wood
was born in Winchester, N. H., IN
1860. He entered the army from
civil life as a surgeon.
Herbert Hoover, former federal
food administrator, is being urged
by his friends to become an avowed
candidate for the presidency. He
claims no political affiliations. He
is a native of Iowa, but has spent
most of his life in Great Britain.
Governors Are Arbitrators
This seems to be the year when
governors of states are aiming to-
ward higher things. Gov. William
C. Sproul, of Pennsylvania, was one
of the first governors to enter the
presidential field. He is business
man, being a shipbuilder with a plant
at Chester, Pa. 4-.
Gov. James M. Cox, Of Ohio, has
the claim of having been reared on
a farm. Later he was printer,
country school teacher, then a re-
porter, a publisher, a congressman
and finally governor of Ohio.
Governor Alfred E. Smith, of
New York, became popular with the
wet" forces of the nation when he
asked the 1920 legislature to reverse
the action of the 1919 legislature
in ratifying the prohibition amend
ment.
Gov. Lowden, of Illinois, Gov. AL
len, of Kansas, Gov. Edwin P. Nor
row, recently elected in Kentucky,
all have become objects of boomlets.
1t is a strange thing but most of
these governors will retire from
office in 1921, just in time to step
into the presidential chair.
The boom for Governor Coolidge,
of Massachusetts,, was started when
he was reelected governor, on an an
ti-radical platform. Coolidge is a
lawyer.
Gov. Edwards, of New Jersey, who
was elected on wet platform, is
making considerable noise in the po-
litical pond, and carefully nursing a
presidential boom.
Cabinet Members and Senators
A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gen.
eral, is reported to be hard after the
nomination. In some quarters it is
held that President Wilson has paved
the way for Palmer by giving him
chance to show what is in him IN the
various positions he has held with the
administration.
w. G. McAdoo, former secretary
Of the treasury, stands prominently
forward as a democratic possibility.
He is son-in-law of the president,
lawyer, an engineer of ability and
a recognized business leader.
When it comes to the senate of
the United States there appears to be
no dearth of men willing to take up
their abode in the white house. Sem
ator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and
senator Owen Of Oklahoma are
mentioned as democratic possibill-
IIeS If the treaty of Versailles and
the league of nations are to become
political issue Senator Henry Cab
Dot Lodge may be regarded as a
logical candidate. Other republi-
cans prominently mentioned are Sem
StCrs William E. Borah, of Idaho,
robert M. La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
hiram Johnson, of California, War
ZEN &. Harding, Of Ohio, Philander c.
nnnox, of Pennsylvania, and Senator
[olndexter, of Oregon. Each has
Oeeh a strong opponent of Wilson.
Gerard and Clark
James w. Gerard, former ambas-
Sador from the United States to Ger
many, native of New York, is an
aVowed candidate. He is the gentle
nlan who told the kaiser he would
waIt until hell froze over before he
S would change his position on certain
ppdtters. He was decorated by the
Itfltlsh government for work during
rne war. After his return from Ger
many IN 1917 Gerard retired to pri-
'a[e life and the practice of law.
II oGamp Clark, former speaker Of
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