The Washington times., 1923-11-09
NJ ADOO STUDIES
CONSERVATIVE
MOVEMENT
Extends His Stay in Washing
ton-Party Leaders in
0uandary.
By WILLIAM HARD.

and ex-director general OF rail.
roads and now the most prominent
inactive" and undeclared oandi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency, has decided to
prolong his stay in Washington till
| Sunday; and one OF his principal
reasons for this decision is thought
to be matter which has to do
not 20 much with himself as with
the opposition to him.
His friends are eagerly watching
that opposition while it does its
best TO find some new "conserVa-
tive" Democratic Presidential run
ner whom it can add to Senator
Underwood Of Alabama in the run
ming against McAdoo.
The Democratic Presidential run
ming race has come to q new turn.
McAdoo, as the progressive" run.
ner, is still hugging the fence. and
| is still far in the lead. The prob
lem has been to find a ''conserva-
tive" runner who could nose MIN
away from the fence. First the
conservative" element backed John
w. Davis. OF West Virginia, to do
it.
Stumbles As Candidate.
Then Mr.. Davis went to New
York and started practicing law
there on q grand scale and became
attorney for large interests dark
ly called Morgan interests and
attorney also for the Sugar Elk.
change while it was being man.
fully prosecuted by Attorney Gen.
| eral Daugherty for being, as he
alleged, cause Of the increased
cost Of living Tor the economical
housewife.
Thus Mr.. Davis, in the opinion
OF his conservative" hackers, did
perfectly well and behaved per-
fectly honorably as q man and a
lawyer, but stumbled and fell as
candidate.
Thereupon they shifted their
money to Oscar Underwood. He
started strong, but soon, in the
| opinion of many Of them, sprinted
1 too much. He declared himself
boldly az 1.-THE Southern Candi-
date" and declared himself equally
boldly against the Kh Klux Khan.
BY the former declaration he
aroused the fears Of the North and
OF the northern West and actually
increased McAdoo's strength in
| otAeSS aAS LOnnSyANauA1 s@Atu 6Adn'
saS.
BY the latter declaration he weak.
ened himself in the pro-klan States
Ct the South itself, particularly in
the region west Of the Mississippi,
and virtually surrendered Texas and
Arkansas and Oklahoma to his enc
mics, according to the best and most
competent observers here.
His Enemies Active.
/ These enemies, having nobody else
in particular to turn to, have turned
to McAdoo even more than before:
and today the McAdoo managers are
confident that from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific slope they win
come in bearing sheaves Of majority
delegates from almost all States.
| They convfncingly claim also Ken
| lucky and some other States south
OF the Potomac and some New Eng
land States, as well as Pennsylvania.
where they seem sure Of having the
friendship of Vance Mccormick and
Of A: Mitchell Palmer, formerly high
chieftains in the politics Of the
woodrow Wilson administration
In these circumstances the "con-
sentative" element in the Demo-
cratic party is looking for g. candi.
date who will not go and be EN-.
ployed by the Morgan interests
or by the Sugar Trust" and who
will not make the North fear that
II he is elected the South will be
I'm the saddle" or the Ku Klux
Khan fear that he will call ont the
Federal troops against Il,
Underwood's stand against +hA
Klan is admired but such is the
secret terror which this secret or
ganiZation has instilled in the secret
councils Of party leaders that I'm
derwood's stand Is politically regret
ted by many political partisans OF
his who have wished him well in
his presidential endeavors.
They look now for some new
conservative" Democratic presldcn.
tial runner on whom thew would
like to place at least some of their
money, since they fear that their
bets on Underwood and Davis are
lost.
If Pomerene of Ohio had not heer
defeated for the United States sen.
ate by Simeon D. Tess, Renublican
in the elections Of last fall. he
would now be precisely the "conser-
vative" Democratic Presidential run
| ner needed and wanted and PRAYED
for.
During his temporary elinina.
ton from the national field, a
satisfactory conservative Demo
cratic runner is now difficult to
| find.
Samuel Ralston of Indiana is
standing by the race course with
blankets on, and with his shrevvd
professional trainer, Tom Tapeert
| Democratic "boss" Of Indiana stand
ing at his head; but it is feared in
some quarters that Ralston at times
might break into a progressive"
gait.
Reliable Conservative Sought.
The present situation is that Raj.
ston has not started running. that
Davis has at least for the time
being, dropped out; that All Smith
is pocketed into the northwestern
middle State seaboard territory. that
Oscar Underwood is pocketed into
Alabama and whatever non.Klan
territory he can find in the South
that McAdoo as the only outrightlv
progressive" candidate is running
freely and rampingly around most
of the course, and that the "con-
servative" Grover Cleveland element
of the Democratic party is scour-
ing the stables of the national
democracy to find a staunch and
reliable conservative" iet-hIack
horse who can thrill the electorate
| and catch up with McAdoo ere all
IL lost.
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