The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-13
HOLSTERS URGE
SAM RALST0N FOR
THE NOMINATION
MANY PARTY LEADERS RE-
GARD INDIANA SENATOR AS
THE MAN OF DESTINY.
CLEVELAND TYPE STATESMAN
Friends Wipe All Other Aspirants Off
The Blackboard, and Tell Why. Is
Involved in No Feuds, and Is Well
Liked by All Factions.


Involved in No Feuds, and Is Well
Liked by All Factions.
Writing from Terre Haute, Ind,
Arthur M. Evans, well-knoWn news
paper correspondent, says Hoozier
democrats seem to have an abiding
conviction that the finger of fate is
pointing squarely at Senator Samuel
NJ. Ralston, of Indiana, as the choice
OF the democratic party for president.
With much fervor they are shouting
that Ralston is far more than a mere
'favorite son. and that OF the score
and more democrats who are pursuing
the nomination he is the one man who
hasn't a political hindrance of some
sort or other dragging at his coat tail.
By a process of elimination the
IIoosiers joyfully wipe all other en-
tries off the blackboard, and are al
ready chalking up Ralston as the sure
enough man of destiny at the New
York convention. Not for the world,
OF course. would Hoosier leaders rap
one OF the candidates from outside,
but still, by heck, facts are facts, and
far be it from any Indiana politician
to dodge them.
They eliminate thus:
All Others Eliminated.
William G.. McAdoo is rounding up
nice little bunch OF delegates, but
in 1924 he is no stronger than he was
in 1920 and in that year he did not
get far at San Francisco. This time,
too. the anointment with petroleum
has not increased McAdoo's efficiency
as vote getter in the middle west.
Too bad for Mac, but that let's him
out; that's the general Indiana view
point
Senator Oscar Underwood is from
the south, and doesn't understand the
farming and industrial problems OF the
north. and besides he represents the
same conservative element as does
President Coolidge. A race between
1.-TWO conservatives would not be race
| at all. and the Hoosi5rs rub. out Os-
cars name.
Governor Smith is eliminated by his
wetness, in Hoosier eyes. Regardless
of anything else, Smiths attitude on
fkker would bowl him over in the
west. Not that the politicians them
selves are against the cup that cheers,
but when it comes to attracting the
votes an elbow crocking plank, al
though it might be grabbed as life
saver by denizens of the cities would
get less than nowhere out in the sticks
Cox Poor Vote Getter
lanes NJ. Cox, OF Ohio who won a
favorite son delegation at the Ohio
primaries, as Hoosiers regard it, is
automatically erased by the poor
showing he made four years ago.
Davis. of West Virginia, is consid-
cred rather negligible quantity, be-
cause he is not popularity known west
of the Ohio.
Gov. Charles Bryan, OF Nebraska,
is regarded weak because he is not
particularly well-known east OF the
Mississippi excepting as an organizer
OF the campaigns of his brother, Viii
liam Jennings Bryan, and as editor OF
the Commoner, also as 1mpressario OF
the Denver platform in 1908. Brother
Charles stands too far within the pc
numbra of Brother Bills fame to get
far in New York on his own. And
so, with the rest of the score or so
OF candidates, a we'll trained Hoosier
and they start learning politics in
the cradle in this state-can find an
impeachment that will hobble each Of
them, favorites and dark horses alike,
when it comes to the roll call in New
York
There is one solitary exception
Name him? The Hon. Sam Ralston,
of Indiana. The home democrats of
Indiana say Ralston is we'll liked by
both vets and drys, by conservatives
and progressives; by ku kluxers and
anti-ku kluxers; by capital and labor
No hatreds are localized on him. Be
sides, Indiana and Ohio may be the
key to the strategy in the western
campaign this year, and Ralston is the
one centralized candidate. That's the
Hoosier view.