The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-26
DANIELS POINTS
OUT STRENGTH
Of NJ ADO0
Justice to Railroad Men 10
Basis Of It, He Asserts.
Women An Asset
BY JOsEPHUs DANIELS.
Copyright. 1924, by international
News Seryicel

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NEW YORK, June 26.--Are ma
tional conventions to become a test
of lung power and is the candidate
to be selected whose adherents can.
yell the loudest and the longest? !,
If man from Mars could have
dropped down into Madison Square
Garden yesterday, or could attend
any other convention where there
was a contest between strong men,.
he would suppose that it was a con-
test between two factions in which
those who had the strongest lungs
would be awarded the prize.
Yesterday was McAdoo day at
Madison Square Garden. For near
ly an hour, after Senator Phelan's
speech, the McAdoo cohorts paraded
and cheered and hurrahed and:
showed the same sort Of pep" for
which their candidate ig famed.
Mrs. McAdoo was there and it.,
must have cheered her heart. as it
did that of her sister, Miss
Margaret Wilson, who sat not far
away, observing the demonstration.
Praise for California.
It was colorful, too, If may use
that much absurd word. for, the
California colors were displayed,
and beautiful girl in yellow stood
on the platform and waved McAdoo
flags and shouted while they sang
1T love you California" and score
or more songs, started by women S
voices resounded through the hall.
1t was a fifty-six- minute demon
stration, so the watches said.
You have to take off your hat
to California. That State never
does things by halves.
1t is many miles from New York.
but it has a great delegation OF
shouters. They regard McAdoo as
a native Californian. That's the
big thing about California and that's
why California attracts so many
people.
1T gives welcome without strings.
If McAdoo had gone to some other
States could name, they'd require
him to live there a quarter or a
century before they adopted him.
But in California, you're made TO
feel at home at once and nobody
asks where you came from.
California led the McAdoo dem"
onstration, but Texas-that superb
republicans a good second, ana
yscore or more other States fell IN
line.
Some McAdoO Assets.
q r>.sN94.s.s ,,.r.&x NEoASoa hos. Mora
forward looking women from more
States cheered him than any other
candidate.
He has always been a favorite
with the women since he gave the
when he operated the Hudson tun-
nels. And he had no thought Of
politics then.
In the cheering at the Garden
saw something that largely accounts
for McAdoo's strength.
1t was scores of railroad men,
active and enthusiastic.
It is rare in the history OF poll
tics that any candidate has had
such hearty support as the rail-
road men have given McAdoo.
That support has grown all the
time because Of the opposition to
McAdoo upon his alleged favoritism
to labor.
Senator Phelan showed yesterday
that McAdoo raised the wages Of
railroad men four hundred million
dollars, and that afterwards the
labor board made another big in
crease. This is proof that, whilo
McAdoo, as railroad administrator,
was just to labor and made no
discrimination.
Gave What They Earned.
He did not give them anything
beyond what they earned. They
appreciate his justice and fairness,
and resent the criticism Of him be-
cause he was just to them.
That is why so many railroad
men are here working for McAdoo.
have Just been talking to a leader
and know the deep feeling they have
for McAdoo. 1t is something that
must be reckoned with.
Yesterday was McAdoo's day.
Today is AL Smiths inning, and
the rafters will ring when Franklin
Roosevelt presents New York's popu-
lar governor.