The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-06
UNDERWOOD MEN READY
TO MOVE IN HIS BEHALF
FRIENDS PREPARE TO PUT
SENATOR'S HAT INTO THE
PRESIDENTIAL RING.
is THE LEADING CANDIDATE
Strong in All Sections of Country, and
Will Have Enthusiastic Support.
McAdoo Is Probably the Favorite
With Labor Element.

With Labor Element.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-No doubt
exists in the minds of politicians here
that Senator Oscar w. Underwood, OF
Alabama, will be the foremost conten-
der for the democratic nomination for
president of the United States next
year. Without regard to the personal
attitude of Senator Underwood, it is
apparent that strong undercurrent
of sentiment in his favor, which he
will be unable to resist, has already
developed in the democratic party.
That this sentiment is certain to make
Roadway during the two months or
more that the senator is in Europe
and Egypt is very generally assumed.
Mr. Underwood sailed from New
York yesterday on the Adriatic, &C
companied by Mrs. Underwood.
While Mr.. Underwood has not
thrown his hat in the ring enthusiast
tic Underwood men are seeking a
specimen of the senator's headgear,
and will cast it into the ring them
selves when they regard the situation
justihes them in doing so.
Senator Underwood is strong with
party leaders in every section OF the
country. Among those who favor his
candidacy is A Mitchell Palmer, of
Pennsylvania, who was attorney gen.
eral in the Wilson cabinet and for
midable contender for the last demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
McAdoo Seeks Place.
Up to this time the only aspirant
for the democratic nomination for
president whose ultimate formal can
didacy was foreseen is William G..
McAdoo, now a resident of California.
When Mr.. McAdoo was in Washing
ton recently he told his friends that
he was not a candidate. None of them
appears to have accepted that state
ment as meaning that Mr.. McAdoo
would not permit his name to go be-
fore the democratic convention in
1924, but merely as modest disclaim
err of an intention personally to or
ganize a movement in his own behalf
to become the party's nominee. His
position now is similar to that which
he assumed in 1920 But Mr. McAdoo,
while he at no time made an open
declaration that he was a candidate,
and publicly gave no sanction to the
efforts of those at San Francisco who
were managing his campaign, he was
an out-and-out aspirant for the noml-
nation. According to political lore
casters, Mr.. McAdoo will not be able
to repeat that course with reference
to the ante convention contest of this
year and next. 1t is being predicted
that he will be obliged to come out
in the open in this campaign.
Strong With Labor.
Already it is foreseen that there will
be hard struggle between the I'm
derwood and McAdoo candidates.. He
has considerable strength among the
labor element, particularly the railway
brotherhoods, due mainly to his in
crease of wage for railway workers
when he had charge OF the govern
ment operation of railways during and
after the world war. He has strength
ened his position with organized la
Dor by statements favorable to their
contentious, and few days ago came
out in advocacy Of the organized la
Dor view of living wage.
Some politicians see in the nomina-
ton of Underwood the opportunity OF
bringing into the democratic ranks
number of republican voters. That
this is likely is admitted by some re-
publican politicians here.
One view expressed in democratic
quarters is that contest for the nom
ination between Underwood and Nc
Adoo is likely to be so bitter that
with the two-thirds rule of democratic
national conventions a deadlock may
come over the presidential nomination
which will compel a compromise on
the candidate In these circumstances,
it is commended, it would be necessary
for the convention to name some dem
ocrat of outstanding Importance who
would appeal to the country. The
names of John w. Davis, of West Vir-
ginia former ambassador to Great
Britain, and John H. Clarke, of Ohio,
former associate justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States, are
mentioned in this connection.
Senator-elect Ralston, of Indiana
who is a Grover Cleveland kind of
democrat, is being considerably dis
cussed for the nomination, as Govern
or Smith, of New York, the Tam
mantle who piled up the greatest ma
jority ever given a successful candi-
date in that state.