Evening star., 1923-03-22
TEN ON 1924L|ST
. OF BRYAN AND cox
Democratic Leaders Give
Names of Men Considered
Presidential Timber.
FIGHT FOR DELEGATES ON
None of Possible Contenders Has
Declared Himself-Dark Horse
May Appear.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

MIAMI, Fla. March 22.-Now that
attorney General Daugherty has
nominated President Harding as the
next republican candidate for the
presidency, the writer besoueht Will
liam Jennings Bryan and James NJ.
Cox to make a newspaper nomination
on the democratic ticket.
Both these men who have carried
the democratic standard in national
campaigns have learned. however.
that In the game of politics it is not
dlscreet to discuss personalities
Whatever they might say might be
ihlsconstrued. Yet both have well
defined ideas on the men who ought
not IN their judgment to be nomi
mated
List of Possibilities.
Combing the two lists which each
man gave the writer. the catalogue
OIL candidates for the democratic
nomination would seem to include
the following:
Samuel Ralston, Governor of In
diana.
John w. Davis of West Virginia
lormer ambassador to Great Britain
ana former solicitor general under
lhe wilson administration.
William Gibbs McAdoo- former Sec
retary of the Treasury and director
general of railroads W.
senator Oscar w. Underwood of
Gov. Ar Smith of New York
GOV. a. V. Donahey of Ohio.
gov. Jonathfn NJ. Davis of Kansas
representative Ayres of Kansas
Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile
Former President Woodrow Wilson
When William Jennings BRYAN and
rormer Gov. Cox are added to the list
they nave many supporters
5nroughout the rank and file of the
democratic party-the roster would
appear to be complete. out of This
group. therefore. will the next nomi-
nee be picked. That, at least. is the
Judgment of one of the two men in
terviewed here, though the other
seems to think the next Congress- may
develop leader for democracy.
Delegate Hunt Is On.
There are political advantages and
disadvantages which could be re-
corded opposite all the names men
toned. and whether the defects in
each case are really controlling is
something which will be determined
as the pre-convention campaign de-
velops. But this much is certain-the
active workers who already are trav-
cling around the country corralling
delegates are using arguments
against practically every one of the
men listed except, of course, their
own.
Samuel Ralston is rega rded as a.
~nnh n In,
comes from Indiana and is popular
there, but he is relatively unknown
to the party as whole and his sup
porters will have to do some strenu-
GUS advertising about him before his
merits begin to make an impression.
John w. Davis is a man of acknowI-
edged ability. His record as chair
man of the judiciary committee of the
House. the fact that he stands for in
ternational cooperation and was a
Wilson appointee, are expected to win
him progressive support, but his op-
ponents are saying he is a lawyer for
the J. P. Morgan interests and that
the democrats would never nominate
a Morgan lawyer.
There was a time when such a de-
feet would cause good bit of a stir.
but some of the Wilson men in the
democratic party who remember that
their chief appointed Wall street men
like Bernard NJ. Baruch and Thomas
important missions in his admins
tration will not eliminate John w.
Davis so readily on that account
Some of the democratic scouts are
saying that Wall street is working
Davis in the north and Underwood in
the SOUTH and that at the opportune
moment the southern votes in the
democratic convention would be
thrown to a northern candidate.
The Dry Issue.
Mr.. Underwood is conservative
and has many friends in the north,
but whether the democrats would
nominate a man from the south when
they have always hoped to carry some
pivotal state by choosing a northern
er is a question much more likely to
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