The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Palmer, McAdoo and Will
son Forces Beaten and
Feel a Little Sour
WEST RATHER COOL
TOWARDS COX, BOOM
Both Cox and Roosevelt Put Oyer BY
Tammany-W wilson Must Help Cox
In the Big Battle Will Be In
the East
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer,
Copyright 1920

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer,
Copyright 1920
SAN FRANCISCO, July Divided
against itself no house stands. Gov
ernor Cox IS Triumphant, Palmer ana
McAdoo are beaten.
Thus falls the house of Wilson in the
great battle between the old Demo
cratic organization which was defeated
at Baltimore in 1912 but which took
sweet revenge in 1920 by eliminating
two members of President Wilson s ad
;on-Attorney General Palmer
and former Secretary of the Treasury |
McAdoo-and nominating candidate |
who has not been identified with the
federal administration in the last eight |
years and who viii, therefore, not in |
herit as much of the resentment against |
the Wilson cabinet as the other two
M :ght have before the electorate next
autumn.
1t was within the power of the Will
son administration to nominate either
Palmer or McAdoo or someone else who
had been a part of the president Is Off
eial family. But Mr.. Wilson literally
kept hands off and his two opponents,
Palmer and McAdoo, suffered from poor
leadership and inexperienced manage
ment. A coalition of Palmer and Nc
Adoo forces early in the convention
would have defeated Cox. When
Palmer released his delegates, the mo-
ment for such a coalition had passed.
The convention had grown SO weary
that the Cox managers knew they had
but to hold out and win their battle on
the basis of a fatigued body of dele
gates.
Today the McAdoo and Palmer men
are unhappy. The defeated always feel
that way.
- But Just as the disappointed friends
of Lowden, Wood and johnson gave
one thought only to the prospect of per-
petuating the Wilson rule so the Demo
Gratis here compare Cox and Harding
and say that between The two, they
can make but one choice. Indeed, the
fact that Cox carried Ohio three times
as governor and is fully expected by
his supporters to carry Ohio over Herd
ing is buoying up the Democrats hopes
of victory next fall.
GIVE will beat Harding in Ohio if
You give us Cox, . was the reiterated
weapon of the Cox men here, and it
sank in the minds of the delegates who
compared Cox with the son-in-law argu-
ment which the Republicans were sure
| to use about McAdoo. Yes, it was the
son.in law relationship that defeated
| McAdoo and set aside all con-
Federation of his executive ability
and it was the nomination of Harding
| at Chicago which gave Cox his impe-
/ tus here.
| The McAdoo forces We're swept of
| their feet in the last 10 ballots by SUI
/ perior strategy. Ed Moore, the Ohio
national committeeman and floor man
ager for Cox, had the assistance OF
such astute politicians as Charlie Muir
| ply of New York, Jim Nugent of New
Jersey, and George Brennan of Hi
nois
Those anti-Wilson forces Won IA vie,
tory over the Wilson people There 5
no doubt of it. They shouted for vii
son and the league of nations on plat
form questions but they nominated d
man who doesn't convey the, same an
tagonism to the old line Democrats thai
w
| Governor Cox ism It antiWilson. Al
a matter of fact the President has al
wavs had high admiration for TIL
Ohio governor and has praised the rec
| ord of Governor Cox as a progressive
There is absolutely no doubt hat tn
President will congratulate Cox ant
help him in his campaign by writer
statements if that be deemed advise
able. 1t may not help Cox in the leas
to have the stamp of Wilson s ap
prevail but that will be somewhat off
set there by the approval of the regu
/ lar Democratic organizations. But il
the West. unless Woodrow Wilson saw
Cox is az progressive and eommends Co
to the electorate, the West will no
warm up to Cox. The present inclira
ton of the West is to go Republics
anyway, and it will take good des
of Wilson s. influence to make Co
known in the western country, let alon
make him a strong candidate.
Considerations of this sort influence
the Cox managers in selecting cand
date for vice president. Franklin |
Roosevelt. assistant secretary of til
navy. who was expected to run for til
United States senate in New Yor
state. had the approval of Tamman
| for the vice presidency
I The first task of Governor Cox is
| bring into line for himself the ives
| ern Democracy which fought so va
| iantIv for McAdoo. The main troub
| Twill be the prohibition question. Brva
/ himself has written articles galore du
| ing this convention calling Cox II
| secandidate of the vets. The womt
| Eof the West are not inclined to vo
/ for wet candidates, especially if tn,
: are championed bv Tammany. Go
- ernor Cox's statement saving the On
- question involved in prohibition VI
CHE of law enforcement viii in {
probability be the line he will tn
z during the campaign, inasmueh as t