The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-10
RIFT Between WILSON
AND HIS SON-IN-LAW
HE AND M'ADOO HAVE DIFF
FERENT IDEAS ABOUT THE
LEAGUE AS AN ISSUE.

iticians at the national capital are get
ting a series of thrills out OF rival en-
dorsements for the Colorado senator
ship.
Recent developments have started
a food of rumors to the effect that
former President Wilson and his SON
in-law William g. McAdoo are at
cross purposes, politically
The politicians were somewhat sur
prised when the former president ask
ed Governor Sweet, of Colorado, TO
appoint Huston Thompson, now a
member of the federal trade commits
sion, to the vacant Colorado senator
ship Another thrill came to the poll
ticians when Mr.. McAdoo asked the
Colorado governor to appoint Morri-
son Shafroth, son of the late Sena-
tor Shafroth, to the vacant senator
ship; so has W. ]. Bryan.
Doesn't Admire Son-inLaw.
Always ready, as they are, to draw
differences on the slightest provocation
the politicians are asking if it can be
possible that Wilson and McAdoo are
at outs politically.
The political speculation that has
resulted from the two recommends
tons to the Colorado governor is
largely due to the fact that Wilson
has never looked on the political am
billions of his son-inlaw with an
admiring eye. In 1920 McAdoo, it is
pretty we'll understood, hesitated to
become an out-and-out candidate tor
the presidency because he had rea-
son to believe that Mr.. Wilson did
not look with favor upon such step.
1t is generally understood that Mr..
McAdoo probably will be candidate
for the democratic nomination next
year and there is good deal OF spec
ulation as to what the attitude OF Mr..
Wilson will be. Some talk has gone
around to the effect that he is oppos-
ed to the McAdoo candidacy, but the
former president has not said any
thing, so far as is publicly known,
that would warrant this view.
Wilson Disappointed.
The politicians recall in discussing
the political relationship that exists be-
tween Wilson and McAdoo that Mr..
Wilson, to say the least, was some
what disappointed because McAdoo
in 1920 did not give the league of ma
tons enthusiastic support. The poll
ticians now hear that If McAdoo runs
for the democratic nomination next
year he will probably run on plat
form favoring government ownership
of the railroads. Mr.. Wilson has new
er advocated outright government
ownership. On the contrary, he has
expressed the view in times past that
what he called the Bryan program for
government ownership was not sound.
Wilson Favors Clark.
They now say that Mr.. Wilson will
favor for the democratic nomination
Gay Clark, of Ohio, former associate
justice of the United States supreme
court, and now head of the organiza
ton to promote league OF nations
sentiment in this country.
Those who say they are on the in
side" OF the democratic political situa
ton assert that the underlying rea
son for the Wilson-McAdoo split is
that Mr.. Wilson wants to keep inter
national issues before the people and
wants the league OF nations to play
a prominent part in the next demo-
cratic platform while Mr. McAdoo
wants to forget the league of nations
and concentrate on domestic issues.
Thompson Was McAdoo's Friend.
The first impression made by the
news that Mr. McAdoo had asked the
governor of Colorado to appoint a son
of the late Senator Shafroth to the eX
listing vacancy was that this showed
very little appreciation Of Thompson's
efforts at the San Francisco conven-
ton to nominate McAdoo for presi-
dent The general assumption was
that McAdoo, observing that former
President Wilson had requested Gov
ernor Sweet to name Thompson,
seized the opportunity to demon
strate, by suggesting somebody
else. that son-in-law is quite indie
pendent of father-in-law and paddles
his own canoe" politically.
In the meanwhile, the Hon. Will
liam Jennings Bryan had elected him
self in the situation by seconding the
MCAdoo Endorsement of Shafroth.
Mr.. Thompson is bound to feel a
bit panied because OF the fact that Mr..
McAdoo did not think OF him first, as
Thompson thought of McAdoo at San
Francisco.
Caught Out on Limb.
Mr. McAdoo cannot help feeling a
bit embarrassed over the pesky Incl
dent Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Bryan will
doubtless each stand pat on their IN
dorsements as already made, one of
them championing Thompson and the
other Shafroth. 1t is not impossible
that they may unite (howcver far
apart otherwise in a smile over Mr..
McAdoo's being caught out on limb
in the Colorado orchard
Gov Sweet may do his laughing
last by ignoring all the distinguished
outsidc-oi Colorado advice and max
ing an appointment OF his own Sc
lection-perhaps Alva Adams, jr., son
of the ex-governor.
WORK HARD TO MAKE HONEY
No wonder they say the busy bee"
To make a pound OF honey the bee