The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
M 'AD0O ID ENTER
 ILLINOIS PRIMARY
Supporters Greet With De- light Henry Ford's h.
 dorsement Of Coolidge
By RODNEY F. BUTCHER ,ensed Wire To The Age-Hcrald.D

CHICAGO. Dec. 19-Campaign man agers of William G. McAdoe, candl . date for the democratic presidential nomination, sounded their first de- fiance to the powerful Murphy Brennan-Taggart group in the part7 Wednesday, when they announced that the former Secretary of the Treasury would be entered in the Illinois preferential primaries
 This move, which came as the Me Adoo democrats were registering loud mental cheers over the indorsement of President Coolidge by Henry Ford is in direct opposition to the eX- pressed wishes of George Brennan, the Illinois democratic leader, who trecently declared that the 60 Illinois delegates to the national convention should go uninstructed.
 It followed reports of progress sive "gentlemen's, agreement De tween the McAdoo men and the Brennan forces through which the Illinois delegation would have gone unpl edged, with an adequate McAdoo representation in the personnel More than one prominent McAdoo worker had even suggested that Brenna, might eventually be expected to switch to the McAdoo candidacy without reservation. Now, however, as in the republican party, a bitter battle has been pre- cipitated in Illinois-the first big state to hold her preferential pri- maries next spring-and McAdoo boosters here declare the decision to make this fight is the signal for war all along the front against the pig three of democratic machine politics.
 BRENNAN MAKES HINT
 Brennan, on hearing that Judge David l.. Rockwell, McAdoo's na- tional campaign manager had for mallv sounded the McAdoo battiecry' didn't go so far as to name the man he would pick to fight McAdoo' but handed out something of hint.
 "NIr. McAdoo has a perfect right to come into Illinois. as has any other candidate for the presidency salo Brennan. "Governor Smith and sem ator Underwood, for instance, nave the same right.
 Brennan referred sarcastleallY 10 Rockweifs expressed conNlctloh tndt McAdoo secure the limos Ie ae.ga @biUi ha,.e and he said he personally would nave to wait until after the democratic state convention before he would hazard any opinion at all.
 Publicly, the McAdoo democrats can shout we told you so" in connection with Ford's endorsement or presil esd dent Coolidge In South Dakota ana eIsewhefe, their strongest card
 
 against Ford has been their clam that Ford was not democrat. Now they can claim adequate prool ol thiS contention.
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 Nevertheless, although they have professed to believe all along that both Ford's lack of party animation and the probable award of Muscle Shoals to him during the current ses- sion of Congress, would keep nm from the democratic nomination, the McAdoo headquarters aree actually very greatful for their delivery from the Ford bogoX
 In preferential primaries in some of the northwest states Ford was the only man who promised McAdoo any exposition they declare, and there was some chance that a Ford victory m one of the Dakotas, both ot Wnicn have primaries in March, might have the effect of fire -brand on stretch of dry prairie. Most democrats here also vie with the republicans m thelr ioy over the removal of Ford as third party threat.