The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
Hum With Excitement as the Struggle for Nominations Dra,us Neal
FEAR RUNAWAY
NOMINATION OF
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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NJ ILL L<NLAO
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thing. Pessimists will tell you that
IL may be the Fourth of July before
nomination takes place.
Conditions Satisfactory.
The argument that weighed so op-
pressively In Chicago in favor Of
short. sharp and decisive action at
the Coliseum, the intolerable heat
is not operating at San Francisco.
The Golden Gate continues to be held
in invincible sunshine. tempered by
the balmiest OF spring sephyrs.
Nearly everybody is willing to tight
II out under such salubrious condi-
tions. even IL 1t should take all
summer.
| Hopeful Democratic souls think
that the convention proper, as
forum for discussion of the con-
| troversial issues. will be as dull as
the Republican cohclave was. They
believe all the wrinkles will be
ironed out In the committee on res
olutons. II is there. they say,
that Bryan will do his worst in the
prohibition question. In the COM
| . - 80 HOpcu lEisn pdrtisdusI
like former Gov. Edward f. Dunno.
OF Illinois. and w. Bourke Cochran,
of New York, will lexhaust their
eloquence and energy on behalf of
Ireland.
| Under the leadership of Senator
Carter Glass. of Virginia, still in
the van for chairmanship there Is
confidence that even in acrimonious
league debate can be carried to a
hnal conclusion in the platform
committee, but minority reports
FRO mthe resolutions committee on
all those porcupines are possible,
II the minority insists on a knock
| down and drag on the conven-
| tion oor.
The San Francisco civic audlto-
rum for a shindig. lillian Jen-
nings Bryan is bursting with zeal
to spread himself anent prohibition
and the league. and is uot likely to
be denied. He is ready with an
Grafton or series of orations of
the cross Of gold variety or of even
more glittering eloquenc..
Bryan on Chief Issue.
Bryan is at his best as protagon-
list of a great moral issue that Is
his description of the drink prob
| lem, which must be confessed. over
shadows all other issues at San
Francisco, combined. The average
| delegates do not care one mint
julep about the league of nations
plank. The only reservation he is
interested in is one that will re-
serve him the right to drink light
wines or beer under the Eighteenth
Anne endment. The average dele
gates thirst for that kind of a plat
form is not quenched by the knowl-
| edge that there isn't the slightest
chance of meeting it. The point is
that liquor, not league, is the para
mount issue at San Francisco.
/ As to the candidate situation, there
is little to add to what these dis
patches for the past two days have
contained. The convention will open
with William Gibbs McAdoo in most
peoples minds as the likely nomi-
nee. Gov. Cox. of Ohio. is his most
! formidable rival. Mitchell Palmer
may show up strongest on the open
ing ballot. His friends claim SS5
votes for him. They say that there
| is a combine among all the Attorney
/ Generals enemies to kill him off.
The antagOnisms between the Cox
and Palmer forces have become
acute in the extreme. They take
the form of a veritable cyclone OF
mutual recriminations. The week
end is being employed on an extern
sive scale by the Cox and Palmer
managers with the view of lining
up the largest possible early ballot
totals for their candidates. Both
Cox and Palmer claim 10 have i'm
mense second choice" reserve
strength throughout the convention.
alleging that, respectively. Palmer
votes will flock to Cox when the At
torney Generals star, begins to
sink. and that Cox delegates are
ready to climb into the Palmer band
wagon.
Only Tenderfeet Deceived.
Those are familiar tactics at the
present convention stage and de-
,Ceive only the tenderfeet. Much
more substantial than such "propa-
ganda" is the invincible growth of
the McAdoo movement Jouett
Shouse. OF Kansas, Assistant Secre-
tary q the Treasury. to whom Nc
Adoo addressed his celebrated mes
sage of Withdrawal" reached San
Francisco yesterday. He said at the
end of a days sensing" OF the situ-
iation. McAdoO will be nominated.
Everybody has been milling around
continually canvassing the strength
and availability of every man in the
field. and the net result is that they
are back where they started. at Nc
Adoo."
Mr.. ShoUse was asked If the White
House at sagaciCuS moment will
not be revealed as I / carI-and- -, rIl
supporter of the candidacy of the
crown prince" president Will
sor." he replied. has never given to
any living soul. as far as ascertain
able. any expression of any kind
whatsoever about whom he fGvors
or opposes for the nomination"
| Former Gov. Joseph W. Folk. of
Missouri. while not a McAdoo adher-
Int. finds that the Presidents SON
in-law is probably stronger on the
eve of the convention than before
he wrote his letter of alleged renun-
citation. "McAdoo cuts the appeal
ing figure of a child looking Ion--
ingly at a doll baby in a toy shop
window" said Mr.. Folk. The child
SAYS: My. amt that a pretty doll?
How I'd love to have il. But / can't.
I'm poor girl And then along
comes a benevolent old gentleman.
full of compassion ano money, and
says: Come in. little girl. and take
the dolly. I'll get it for you"
May Wreck Gov. Cox.
Dryan's opposition is described to-
night as one Of the factors likely to