The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-28
HEARST EDITOR
TALKS ON U.S.
POLITICS
Human Declares Oil Scandal
Has MuddIed Democrats
More Than Republicans.
By w. BOYD GATEWOOD.
COSMOPOLITAN News Service.

FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. 2S.-
George Wheeler Human, contribut-
ing editor, economist and political
commentator Of the Hearst news
papers, was in Fort Worth today on
the last lap Of a. swing through the
West, Pacific slope and Southwest,
where he has made and Is making
soundings of Industrial, financial and
political conditions.
Mr.. Human is in Fort Worth, as
others of his co-editors have been, to
study the spreading fabric of indus
trial and economic expansion already
under way here.
Alighting from the train here he
had no time to make reliable Obser-
vations of local conditions. AS ne
explained:
II would rather not be quoted on
snap judgment conclusions or speak
&rom curbstone opinions"
That was with reference to Fort
Worth and its adjacent territory.
But ON politics, from national and
west of.the-Mlssissippi angle, he was
willing to be interviewed and was
both articulate and interesting.
Oil Scandal, Effect Cited.
"The Teapot Dome explosion has
scrambled national politics so that
previous outstanding men and meas
ures are highly uncertain" he OBJ.
served. "And singularly enough, it
has muddled the Democratic situa.
hnw
Having just made a comprehensive
survey OF the Pacific coast States,
he was asked concerning the two
outstanding political figures there
Senator Hiram Johnson and William
Gibbs McAdoo. rival candidates for
the Presidential nomination.
Relying on Mr.. Humans very re.
cent soundings made on the coast,
Senator johnson stands a two to.
three chance Of going into the lie.
publican convention with the ina
5ority of the Pacific delegates in his
band.wagon.
1T is generally acknowledged
among political leaders thai John
son will carry California by a strong
majority, will likely swing Oregon,
but is apt to lose Washington" MIR.
6inman advised.
Turning to McAdoo, Mr.. Human
says the extreme West is thrown
into CONSERVATION over the former
Secretary of the Treasury's en-.
tanglement with the Doheny oil
investigation.
Since he has headquarters in Chi.
cago, which is his home, Mr.. Hin
man is intimate with political con.
d1ttons in the middle West, and he
was asked concerning them.
Coolidge Ahead.
Senator johnson is making a
campaign there, but when I left,
It was rather a barefoot cam.
paign. Coolidge's campaign, con.
trary to Johnson's. is luxuriou, with
money. The big business interests.
financial interests are for him to a
man. 1t largely depends upon
what johnson does in Michigan.
Illinois, and Indiana. as to what
ne will do in the convention"
Mr.. Human rather feels that
Coolidge is ahead of his party" in
60 far as being injured by the
teapot e pot" Dome oil inundation: since
Mr.. Human was the giles; here
OF the Jobbers and Manufacturers
Association at a banquet last night.
he was to be guest also today
at a luncheon and dinner in clubs
Of the city. ~
For the next fifteen or eighteen
years, estimating conservatively. we
can depend upon Industrial chaos in
Europe, he predicted In mis- ban.
Quet speech. Therefore, America
must and will become the greatest
workshop the world has ever seen.
Americas expansion, as forecast by
Vauclain and Gary, will excel their
most liberal estimates"