The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-05-25
WILSON NOTE ON
LEAGUE FATAL To
NJ ADOO CHANCES
SoN-rN-LAw vICTM or 1ESEN3
MENT CAUSED BY PRESDENTS
ACTION.
GOV. Cox NOW Democratic aanytnS
Point But Is Merely
Tentative.
Nv MARX SULLIVAN.

Especial Dispatch to The Evening POst.l
(Copyright. 1920, by \. Y. Evening POST.
Inc.)
WASHINGTON, May 23.-lt Is now
nearly ten days since President Wilson
issued his Oregon telegram calling oil.
the country to support the League OF
Nations. to condemn the Lodge reseV-
vations. and to accept Article qua.
anteeing the territorial integrity" o.
tho other nations in the League.
Enough time has elapsed TO observe inc
effect of that call on the country AMI
the Democratic party
NAV think that the results are satis-
factory. So far as one can guess ~hss
motives may have decided him 10 ISSUE
tho call at that particular moment. /
is probablc that they include a Wish
70 arrest q rapidly growing momentum
among the Democratic state con'ea-
,tions then and now being held to ignore
his previous demand in January tnaS
The narty should endorse the orSinhI
TQafy ana mako the coming election a
So ,un referendum
within four days. Just before ne
gave out inc Oregon telegram TWO
Democratic state conventions Sn Sai
treated Mr.. Wilson and tho league
cayalierly.
coming the next day ana seH fsr!
Wilson wanted to call the runaway
SDemocratic conventions back to their
duty as expressed by him in January.
meets Widespread Resentment
Apparently and specifically, he has
succeeded. There has been nothing
further in the way OF speSinc repuoia at
Georgia, in which the matter mao
really been determined already by
the primaries; and two states
Colorado and Virginia. have enoorsea IL
;or are in process OF endorsing II eouSS'
But platform planks IN state conSen-
tons may he. and often arc, Tar from
true indications OF the state or teellng
OF the party leaders. Looking more
Ssnce. that Mr.. Wilson'S action has met
with widespread resentment.
The explosive uproar amonE tne
Democratic senator's is sufficient EVIL
Rut the most spectacular result Of
President Wilson's message Is the e1-
feet on the political fortunes OF MS son.
ip-law. Those Democrats VINO resen'
fhe attitude Of the President are wreak-
ing & vIcarious revenge upon NIX me-
about tho time the message was is
sued Mr.. McAdoo's fortunes were a.
TO nominate him were just being
brought into organized play. Az tnat
time any one who made inquiry among
Democratic leaders would have peer
'finaIfty, that the ticket would be Nc
Adoo for President and Cox Tor vice
President. To-day the same inquiry IN
the same quarters receives with an
equal degree OF positiyeness inc an
swer that tho ticket will be Cox lot
President and McAdoo Tor nothihS al
all
Appointment Of Judge Damaging.
AS things stand to-day Mr.. Mcadoo
will not get the delegation from his
own state. Within tho past ten days
he has been told so.
In strict accuracy. the tresidentS
message on the league ia not the whoIe
cause OF the change of front so 1ar as
AZ applies TO New York state. An adoi-
the anpointment of Federal Judge In
New York against the wishes OF the state
The circumstances Of that appoint
ment would probably appear 10 the
Presidents credit from the point or
view Of the independent citizen not con.
cerned with partisan patronage. But
machines patience.
In the words OF ono OF the New York
leaders, when the news of the appoint
mont came out: This is the end" =.
Not to have his own state back OF
him Is q serious handicap to Mr. NC
Ndoo, but II Is not final. Grover C1eye-
land rSceived his first nomination
against the will OF the Democratic or
Ranizatlon In his home state.
In fact to have the opposition or
Tammany Is often an asset In other
parts Of the country. But In MT. NC
Adoo's case II Is not merely New York
also has turned away from him. Any
one who attended the Democratic state
GAnvention in Illinois last week. and
gathered the consensus OF the feeling