San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-23
Bryan and Cox Tell Names
of Possible Candidates
Of Their Party.
THEY ARE RECEPTIVE
Ford May Be Formidable
Contender If He Assents
to Being Considered.
Rr DAVID LAWRENCE.

Miami Beach, Fla. March 23.-NoW
that Attorney General Daugherty has
nominated President Harding as the
next Republican candidate for the
presidency. the writer besought Will
liam Jennings Bryan and James J.
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 dis
Greet 10 discuss personalities. What
ever they might say might be miScon-
strued. Yet both have well defined
ideas on the men who ought not, in
their Judgment, be nominated.
Combinc the two lists of POSSIBLE
ties which each man gave the writer,
the catalogue of candidates for the
Democratic nomination would seem to
include the following:
Samuel Ralston, governor Of In
diana.
John ". Davis Of West Virginia.
former ambassador 10 Great Britain
and former solicitor-g general, under the
Wilson administration.
William Gibbs McAdoo, former sec
rotary Of the treasury and director
general of railroads.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood Of
Alabama.
Governor al" Smith of New
York.
Governor 4. V. Donahey of Ohio.
Governor Jonathan VI. Davis
of Kansas.
Representative Ayres Of Kansas.
Henry Ford. the Detroit automo-
bile king.
Former President Woodrow Wilson.
New Leaders May Develop.
When William Jennings Bryan and
former Governor Cox are added to the
list-for they have many supporters
throughout the rank and file of the
Demoratic 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 two men inter-
viewed here. though the other seems
TO think the next Congress may de-
velop a leader for democracy.
There are political advantages and
disadvantages which could be recorded
opposite all the names mentioned and
whether the defects in each case are
really controlling is something which
will be determined as the pre-conven-
ton campaign develops. But this
much is certain-the active workers
who already are travelling around the
country corraling delegates are using
arguments against practically every
one Of the men listed except, of course,
their own.
Samuel Ralston Is regarded as n
good candidate in the sense that he
comes from Indiana and is popular
there, but he is relatively unknown
TO the party rs whole and his sup
p porters will have to do some strenu-
Gus advertising about him before his
merits begin 10 make an impression.
John w. Davis is man Of aclInowl-
/ edged ability. His record as chair
man of the judiciary committee of
the House, the fact that he stands for
international cooperation and was u
Wilson appointee. is expected to win
him progressive support, but his op-
ponents are saying he is lawyer for
the J. 2. Morgan interests, and that
the Democrats would never nominate
a Morgan lawyer. There was a time
when such a defect would cause a
good bit of stir, but some of the VII
son men in the Democratic party who
remember that their chief appointed
Wall street men like Bernard VI.
Baruch and Thomas W. Lamont of
j. p. Morgan & Company to import
ant missions in his administration.
will not eliminate John W. Davis so
readily on that account.
Underwood Has Location Handicap.
Some of the Democratic scouts ale
saying that Wall street j. "working
Davis in the North and Underwood