The Washington times., 1920-07-01
ALL CANDIDATES
STILL HAVE HOPES
No Single Aspirant Can Lay
Claim to 728 Votes heces-
Sary to Win.
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| CONTINUED from First Iase)
tonight. When that time comes, un-
less lightning has struck in the mean
I time. you may take Il from me that
any mans bet 10 as good as anothers,
except the fact that the undercurrent
is manifestly in favor OF william
| Gibbs McAdoo. though he does not
possess enough OF the necessary stun
10 turn the trick In hurry
Palmer and Cox Will show well on
the first ballot. perhaps about even.
/ Everything else will scatter to the
/ four corners OF the big floor.
I Exactly as planned by his associ-
ates and hackers. McAdoo has the
strategic position. The gesture OF
. the nominator. Burris 5enkins, the
Kansas City editor-preacher, not TO
nominate, but to nominate as surely
and perfectly as man may be nom
/ mated, has percolsted deep into the
minds OF the delegates, and McAdoo
stands revealed on a pedestal no one
OF his out and out rivals may enjoy.
Never mind how sincere the Nc
Adoo desire to shrink from this spot
| light. he's In IL. and concerning those
! who put him there, faithful little
ouija boards spell out HOT
STUFF P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S" yester-
day. while well-known Administra-
! tion press agents. one OF them known
to be on Barney Baruch's payroll for
! 81 900 a month, were running about
with tiding OF the great McAdoo's
nomination.
The writer's for one great press as
sociation even had one OF these art
full dodgers on it's unofficial stan.
Great excitement ensued, OF course.
Mr.. McAdoo wouldn't. Mr.. McAdoo
| would!
GREAT M'ADOO MYSTERY.
| McAdoo had issued a statement nat
| ly refusing. McAdoo statement is
denied by Jenkins! jenkins now says
| he'll make his speech. No. he won't
do anything of the sort! Bob Wooley
has "A telegram from McAdoo declining
the honor! Wooley denies the same!
Great mystery! Great excitement!
Great business That news developed
before the eyes of the newspapermen!
I Today We get more of the same in
another form. McAdoo is not con-
nected with the administration in
any way. There is a rumor that last
two times he was in Washington ne
didn't even visit the White House"
And such like.
l, But no matter what these convcn-
/ tion wire pullers may be up to, the
| fact remains that Il large number Of
the vast assemblage of men and WON
en- on this floor are ready to give the
! former Secretary of the Treasury
| their votes. Maybe there are not
! 12S such. We shall know before very
! long. The McAdoo balloting will be
carried on adroitly. slowly, lest any
weakness should be revealed at the
! start
HIS DEMONSTRATION GENUINE.
There Is no ,gainsaying the fact
! that the McAdoo demonstration V"s
! genuine, unmade, unstaged. "A real ex-
preston of those who participated in
! it yesterday. But sight should not be
! lost of the fact that more than 400
! votes of solid delegations were with
, held from him in that demonstration
Nothing that is really informative
can be said concerning the respective
strength of Governor Cox and Attcr
ney General Palmer on the basis of
the nomination demonstrations for
them, for both were staged, and may
have meant much or little.
The jolly reception of Gov. Al
Smith. Of New York, was not signifi-
cant. though for a moment it did
carry the illusion that he was a real
party favorite. The old-time New
York melodies. East Side, West Side,
All Around the Town." The Bowery,
I'll Never Go There Any More" and
! the magic of Bourke Cochran" dra
matte, oratory, turned the trick for
Smith--an amazing convention scene
indeed. THE Bowery" tune on a gi-
gantic pipe organ would wiring music
from a mute.
The delegates spent the early morn
ing hours lining up their transporta-
tion for Saturday and Sunday The big
exodus may even start Friday night,
but there's the big deadlock IF" in
the question.