The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-03-18
THE WEEKLY NEWS LETTER.
tenacia1 Correspondence.)

not has begun to boil so hard that il
is about to boil Overland spill some
beans:
The candidates who have chance
for the Republican nomination are
Harding. Johnson, Lowden and Wood
The candidates who have chance
to be nominated at San Francisco are
Wilson, Palmer, McAdoo, Reed ana
Edwards.
The man who bets on either at this
stage of the game is entitled TO dig
odds.
The professional politicians in New
York and Washington believe that
Harding and Palmer will be the VIII
ners Put professional politicians 90
not ALWAYS guess right, at that.
The Third Party will be in the held
and will be stronger than many per-
sons now think. is candidate will
probablv be either LaFollette, Walsh
or Frazier.
You pay your money and take your
choice.
Edwards campaign is the surprise.
His platform is States Rights and
four per cent beer. 1t sound funny,s
but the real truth is that the New >lef-
sew governor has thrown bofnb-sheI
into politics, and made anxious polit1-
cal managers lie awake nights fgur-
ing on what is going to happen to their !
hccmlets when the darned thing goes
of. I'm sure don't know myself But
it is all very interesting and quite
amusing. |
Mr.. Wilson is waiting to getJ we'll
enough, when his third term candl- ,
dacy will be announced. He will I'M
doubtedly be able to control the San |
Francisco convention and walk away
with the nomination, if he gets we'll.
That "if'' is the unknown factor.
The President has been much sick
Ell than his bodyguard would admit
and he is much sicked now than they !
admit. |
Ny own information makes me doubt
very much that he will ever fully re-
cover Certainly l do not believe he
will be we'll enough to make another
campaign But he hopes to be we'll
enough and he will be a candidate if
he is. You can depend upon that.
The new attitude Of the London,
Paris and Rome Governments toward
the Russian Soviet Government has
been the chief topic Of talk in big bust
ness circles and small political circles
during the week.
AS a matter of fact, the agreement
to recognize the Soviet Government
was made between Litvinoff~ and
OGrady more than month ago, and &
privately there were some pointed re- 7
marks made in Washington over the
fact that Mr.. Lloyd George saw fit to
complete negotiations with Lenine's y
envoy before notifying our government
that anythirg~of the kind was under T
way. T
The inside motive, of course, was G
that the Soviet Government has s
huge amount of gold and products I
ready to swap for machinery and v
tools of all kinds, medicines, locomo- t
tfves, railroad equipment and electric r
equipment and Mr.. George was natu- Y
rally anxious to give British financiers 7
and manufacturers a long start over r
American business. n
So while our State Department was
kept in ignorance Of the new pro- !! s
gram, and was subjecting the Soviet I
representatives, Mr.. Martens and Mr.. \
Nourteva, to surveillance by secret \
service agents and other hindrances,
the enterprising British we're enter !.
tanning other Soviet representatives in
London with marked consideration
and making bargain for more than
one hundred million dollars worth of
profitable trade.
The common idea is that English
men are very decent fellows, but too
slow to keep up with Americans. The
common idea is ludicrously wrong, as
our State Department and business
men have just had a large opportunity
to learn.
The fact is that the English poll
ticians and the English fnanciers are
about as slow as a scared jack rabbit
and remind one of mOlasseS because
they are so different. Lloyd George
let Clemenceau- and Wilson occupy
the center of the stage in Paris, but
If you look over the results you will |
see that the astute Mr.. George was
dlling his bag with about everything
portable while he was modestly keep
ing in the background.
While Northcliffe was over here as
Director of Propaganda during the
war he took friend to a window
Looking down on Broadway and point .