Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-30
NJ 'ADOO LODMS LARGE
ON PARTY HORIZON
Sharp Advan in Hi Pres Dental
Stock in the Democratic
Party.
Correspondence Baltimore sun.


Washington, March 30.--There has
been n sudden rise in Nc Adoo Presidential
stock coincident with the decline of the
Hoover stock insofar as the latter is
considered n Democratic possibility.
At this moment the former Secretary
of the Treasury is regarded as the best
bet in the race, Notwithstanding the fact
that Attorney-GeneralP Palmer as a cam
paigner, is several jumps ahead of his
party associates.
The stimulation gwen the McAdoo
candidacy, it is generally known, arises
from the fact that after many months
of apparent unwillingness to enter the
fight and after going so far rs TO urge
that the States send uninstructed dolcga-
tions to San Francisco. Mr.. Nc Adoo let
il be publicly known that he is n candi-
date and stands ready to be drafted at
any hour of the dav or night that the
party summons shall come.
IL Is evident TO most of his friends
here that before abandoning his noncom-
initial attitude MIR. McAdoo first ascer-
tanned 20 his complete satisfaction that
the President positively would not seek
a third term, then ascertained that the
President would net have a favorite in
the fight, meaning that the latter does
not now incline to some such figure as
Herbert Hoover upon whom he would
like 10 cast his political mantle
Having assured himself, it appears,
that the Presidential race is wide open,
that he will not have the President rs
competitor and that more and more old
line Democrats are making it PLAIN that
they would rather 20 down to defeat
with a straight Democratic ticket than
WIN with n candidate whose Democracy
was open TO question, the former Sec
retary has plunged right in and the coun-
try will hear more and more OF him as
the convention draws nearer.
At the time MIR McAdoo retired from
the Treasury and from the Railroad Ad-
ministration he was looked upon by
party prophets as the most likely man
in or out of the Administration to win
the nomination. He withdrew at the
very peak of the Administrations popu-
larity, following the winning OF the war.
The reaction galnst the party IN
power had not set in. The troublous
peace times had not come and it seemed
TO all hands that he had selected time
TO go while going was good Moreover,
he went for an announced reason that
made strong appeal, because he was an
almost ruined man financially regardless
of the fact that he had handled nearly
$4,000, 100000 in one Office and more
than S5,OO0.O00 600 in another
He docs not shrink from being an lad
ministration heir He probably knows,
as do others of broad outlook, that TO be
n straight product. exponent and de-
fender of the Administration just now Is
not the most popular position for presi-
dental candidate TO occupy. But this
does not disturb or discourage Mr.. Nc
Adoo He proceeds upon the PROPOSE
tion that before the campaign Is over, to
he a Wilson man will he a matter of in
rreasing strength instead of one of weak
ness.
Mr.. McAdoo's friends urge that he
has more sincere support on the part of
labor than any other candidate for the
Presidency; that he Is inclined to q lib
eral view Of prohibition, which marks 8
line between him and Attorney-General
Palmer. and that as successful business
Secretary Of the Treasury, he viii make
a powerful appeal to the conservative
element of the country, particularly so,
If the Republicans nominate a candidate
of the Leonard Wood type
Mir McAdoo telegraphed to Senator
Morris Sheppard, of Texas, his views on
pre-convention and prediction eXpendi-
lures. taking the position that full pub
licity should be gwen to both.