The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
WOMEN To AID
. FORCES Of
NJ ADOO
Gratitude for Recognition in
War Times Will Help
Democratic Candidate

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ment's wartime bonds directly to
the public through a vast organ.
ization of volunteer statesmen and
saleSwomen.
Doesn't Neglect Women.
Thousands of these volunteers he
came to know personally. Thou.
sands upon thousands Of them came
to be attached to him politically.
Moreover, he did not forget the
women. More than any other poll
tician in America he never forgets
the women in politics.
He organized the National WON.
ans Liberty Loan Committee" He
gave it executive authority. No
other woman's committee in the
Government during the war had
that sort Of authority. McAdoo's
woman's committee had; and 1t
used it.
In the final wartime loan more
than q quarter Of all the bonds sold
were sold directly or indirectly
through the efforts Of women.
These women, in their local groups
throughout the country numbered
The Democrats among those
women are today In multitudes
found among the special shock
troops Of the McAdoo army. They
are ready to go over the top at any
time for their hero. McAdoo gave
them a personal part in the war.
They regard him as the special
champion Of their sex In the Demo
cratic party.
When the oil investigation storm
and the Doheny employment storm
burst upon McAdoo last winter, 1t
was really his old friendships, made
during the Wilson Administration
that saved him.
AS Secretary Of the Treasury, az
railroad administrator. as promoter
Of the Federal Farm Loan Board. as
the holder and operator Of many
other Federal opportunities Ond &C.
tivities. he hal become acquainted
with an amazing number Of Demo
cratic political leaders, men and
women, in almost every State IN the
Union.
These men and women were now
numerously running for office
themselves. They were running for
governor. They were running for
national committeeman and national
committeewoman. They were run.
ming for mayor and for sheriff. They
were running to be delegates to
State conventions. They were run
ming as declared and committed and
branded McAdoo people.
They and McAdoo were in the
same boat beyond recall. They and
McAdoo had to sink together or
swim together. Almost unanimously
they determined to try to swim.
1t Is true that part Of the reason
why McAdoo was able to hold them
was because his audacity in going
forward to bold new ideas had
made him uniquely the leader of
the Democratic "progressfves" In
their most forward-flapping wing
These "progressives" found it diff
cult to discover a substitute for
McAdoo. 1t is also true, however,
that McAdoo was saved most e..
pecially and essentially by having
been a great and persistent collector
or personal friendships.
Age does not seem to diminish
MS inclination toward ready friend
illness.
Not long ago a newspaper cor
respondent was assigned to the
task OF finding McAdoo somewhere
IN some spacious difficult wild part
OF the Rocky Mountain West. He
Iound him on a barge, moored to
the bank Of a large and wild river.
Does It "Piggie Back"
He got on board the barge. The
barge moved off down stream. He
got his interview. He then wished
TO depart from the barge and to
find his conscientious wav back
Immediately to a telegraph station.
Ine barge was nurSed and nudged
toward the shore. It could not
quite arrive. The rocks in the ahsI.
lows were in the way. The shal.
lows were broken and foaminr.
McAdoo shouted to the CORES.
pondent:
You're going back to town.
You mustn't get wet. I'm going
to stay here. Jump on my back. !"
AOopOuOcALS nave r10Qen
on the back Of a leading Presi.
Dental aspirant. That correspondent
did 1t. McAdoo leaped into the
water. The correspondent wrapped
his legs firmly about the candi.
dates waist and was borne to dry
land.
That little incident is a total par.
able Of McAdoo. For him the
water is always fine to Jump into,
ana Tor him there is always some.
body to come Familiarity to know.
Adventure and acquaintance; those
are the things that have given
him his political strength.
1t remains to consider the nur.
poses to which he would devote that
strength II he should ever OCCUPY
the White House.
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