New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
residential
Room Started
For w adswortll
s.vly Slate Makers Pick
him as Republican Rival
4 Sn,itl, il Democrats
Nominate the Governor
Colleagues Are Friendly
xork Started for All i'm
south and West as Idle
Politicians .Ioiaa Cause
gv Charles r. White


v;,keut waiting for the next two |
...vs of possibly turbulent political
...oYy. in which time the fairese
..ss,.ai fortunes may go bankrupt, |
..ssicisns, both in New York and |
g,.aington, arc talking about United
s..,es Senator Wadsworth opposing
e,,.rror Alfred e. Smith for President
ls.s.
yyssds of Smith believe his political
,xs isrtune will follow him, and that
,,sas next Democratic National Con-
,,.sion he will be nominated to head
IA ticket. The fact that Mayor Hyran
,ss declared for William r. Hearst or
sram Johnson for President makes
HtIe or no impression on the Smith
sen who say that Hylan and Hearst
sere against Governor-elect Smith at
ae Syracuse convention and that they
sii be less potent in 1924 than they
ssrs this year.
It was learned yesterday that the
sands of Smith are already at work
|stis behalf in some of the Western
ID Southern states. The outstanding
8ants in their argument are that Smith
Est the strongest Republican Governor
h, the country by a record breaking
Esqrality in state that gave President
ss,aing more than a million plurality
/ 1920: that the new Governor is a
tsn of the people and that he can carry
ww York.
Smith Boom Well Started
The apparent determination of the
,,sh men to make hard fight for his
.svir ton in 1924 has started a
1ste n ovement of discussion about
Asster Wadsworth as the right man to
.sp,se r. The discussion is of ths
asdthst antedates a national campaign
4 year or two, but in this instance
I, background for the talk seems solid
ssuse Of the work already started in
q s1ith's behalf.
a lfruing from familiar and logical
v,mises, the Republicans both in New
Il isrk and Washington say that IL the
,.macrats run New York man the
g,v York Republicans ought also to
alest favorite son, and they assert
Ink lie finger of destiny points to
4 S.saser Wadsworth. Senator Wads-
vorth's colleagues in the Senate are
,,Yklne shout him as perhaps the most
eIisible candidate TO oppose Smith. Mr..
Wsd,Uofth has record of never hav
inc hsen beaten in an election, while
rsy,rnqysest Smith, on the other
bsna. vssdsfeated in 1920 by Governor
4 Mlsr.
& Tie sresRRers of these rival booms
IN igigsaarely ignore the probability
81 bst Raident Hsrding's supporters
q M3aYsa second term for him, on
i as gpapd that no candidate can ralss3
4 s.tsr record Of the Harding Admin
q Sritisu like the President himself.
n aNitsvc out of the calculation, also,
q kfenuitous possibilities of the next
" rears, in which time any boom
aHsd two years beforetime may be
q e1hed to flinders None of these
# xsngencies hinder the early slate
y siers. 1t costs nothing to hold
Z h,sidential conventions this far off.
il Idle Politicians Flock to Smith
j The impressive victory scored by
Saith has fired the imagination of
sfous Democratic statesmen out of
isb-men who like to enter a big game
Oil a shoestring the idea that
aw is the time TO begin the seed
plsrting for q fruitful crop in the
sweet by-and-by. Many of these .polit-
ieal gamblers like the looks of Al"
and they expect to make themselves
heard every month of the time until
the delegates assemble to choose
Standard bearer.
Smith men are already at gork in
Montana and Idaho and preliminary
work is being done in ssachusetts,
j Connecticut and Rhode Island.
An interesting phase Of the Demo
cratic situation is that the Western
q and Southern Democrats expect Smith
to start 8 fight with Hearst and Muir
ply over something, so that when the
nominating convention assemblies In
ls2i they can once more say that they
love him for the enemies he has
made They want him to walk into, the
next national convention without the
Ehearst-Hylan Murphy Tammany tag.
they hold TO the view that unless he
FREAKS with Iammany he will be un-
available as standard bearer.