The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-02

would be BY bringing out . com
peIIing dark horse attraction
against them
Underwood managers were urged
To begin to make real drive for
Underwood, but the difficulty was
and II that lot Of the Smith dele
gates who were going to 60 to Uns
defWood now think that Smith has
Ia genuine chance for the noKuifin-
ton. It became for the. moment
more likely that Smith would sWal.
low Underwood than that Under
wood would aWaliow Smith.
Al chance developed that Carter
Glass. of Virginia, would be brought
forward a. the immediate successor
Eof John w. Davis. Of West Win.
ginia. IN the dark horse" sweep
stakes IN an effort to break, not
the Smith ranks. but the McAdoo
ranks.
Among the innumerable ironies
OF this convention IL this:
That John w. Davis - resented
and resisted by the McAdoO people
les q conservative, whereas person.
ally he Is quite q progressive. ana
simultaneously Carter Glass IL Quite
acceptable to q lot OF McAdoo pro-
gressive, although the actual fact
III that Glass Is much moro con,
sentative than Davis.
Record u Conservative.
Glass's, record In the Senate
likely has been really staunchly
conservative In many respects. He
voted against the bonus. He has
steadily defended the so-caIled de
flatlon" policy Of the Federal Re
serve Board, which IL. In fact, the
principal radical grievance OF the
farmers Of the West against the
policies recently dominant In Wash.
| ington. He voted also In favor Of
q close approximate to the Andrew
w. Mellon proposed low sur-taxes
on the very rich In the caucus Of
the Democratic Senator's In Wash.
ington last winter.
Carter Glass, to this writer's
knowledge, Ii even more satisEac.
| tory to New York finance than
Underwood or Davis.
Glass, nevertheless, has much
more strength than Underwood
or Davis ever have had, or ever
can possibly have. in the McAdoo
progressive ranks.
Old Friend Of McAdoO.
The reasons are as follows:
Glass is an old dear personal
friend Of McAdoo's.
He also is personally admired for
having put the Federal Reserve
| System law through the House az
Representatives at a time when that
law, instead of being praised ana
supported by our bankers, was
criticised and opposed by them.
He Is also greatly admired Tor
| possessing one OF the sharpest
tongues In the world and for having
proved in the Senate recently that
he can and does criticize and assail
Calvin Coolidge with q vigor ana
with q dramatic power which no.
body else has rivaIed.
Additionally, IL is admitted by all
that he II a man Of extremely high
| personal integrity and unineluencei
independence Of thought and action.
Among all the dark horses, =
Glass ~ the one who most -
feared by the McAdoo managers.
He may be brought out and
| paraded before the conventions al.
most immediately The oddly Of
his case Is that II he fails to break
the McAdoo lines, his own Vir-
GINA delegation win then In all
probability so to McAdoo whom
both he, himself, and his senatorial
colleague from Virginia, Claude
Swanson, are committed to sup
port.
If John w, Davis, OF west vir-
ginia, and Carter Glass. of Virginia,
and Underwood, Of Alabama, all Of
them fail as dark horses" then
the only remining really outstand-
ing dark horse" Is Samuel M. Raj.
ston, OF Indiana, about whom also
there Is an odd fact. He Is. &C.
cused Of being old, while In truth
on the subject Of age there are
two extremely defensive things to
be said In his favor.
Little Older Than Glass.
In the first place. he is only i
few months, older than Carter
Glass, whom virtually nobody &C.
cuses Of being old.
In the second place, he absolutely
IL no older In his mind or In his
power Of body today than he was
twelve years ago when he was
elected governor Of Indiana, and
when he proved himself to be q
most vigorous and effective execu.
| tive.
Superstitions and repeated and
reiterated myths have often more
influence In conventions than facts,
Davis Is q reactionary," ssGlass
Is a progressive" sRalston r
feeble. All these assertions are the
reverse Of the actual truth.
Nevertheless. In a convention there
is scant time to prove them to be
the reverse OF the actual truth.
They continue to have their In.
fluence upon the convention TIRE.
spective OF their untruthfulness.
They hurt Davis and they begin
to hurt Ralston. They help Glass.
At this moment the idea. that Davis
10 q reactionary prevents him from
breaking the McAdoo ranks and the
idea that Ralston is feeble make
Tom Taggart, Of Indiana, reluctant
to bring Ralston out at once as an
immediate dark horse" contender.
while the idea that Carter GIass
| Is in essential harmony with the
McAdoo pregressives points him out
as the next logical dark horse
trotter across the convention arena.
II all these dark horses falter