The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-01-08
Politicians.
Will Hold.
Big Meets
Democrats and Anti-Saloon
League Call Important Con
fcrences for This Week
and Next.
McAdoo Is Storm Center
By MARX Sullivan.

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Washington, Jan. This week
Rnd the week following, there will be
n series of important political meet
ings. The first, tomorrow night, Will
he number Of Jackson day meetings
held simultaneously throughout the
country. There will be one at An
napois. Md. under the patron
age of Governor Ritchie. at which
Senator Oscar Underwood and several
other democrats of national promi-
nenee will be present. At Columbus,
o., ex-Gov. James N. Cox will speak.
1.-TWO same night. there will be sew
eral other jackson day meetings
throughout the country.
One week later. there will be held
in Washington the biennial meeting
of the democratic national committee,
composed of the 1o2 men and women,
who compose the official leadership
OF the party in the various states and
territories.
All these meetings have purpoes
other than the selections Of the can
didates for president. Nevertheless,
1t is certain that on the present oc-
casion, two groups VIII emerge-one
determined to put McAdoo over" the
other determined to hold McAdoo
where he now is For the moment.
the latter group has rather the
greater energy and activity. for it
represents a very recent meeting OF
minds on the part Of those who don't
want to see McAdoo get the nomina-
f,ar "a nnnneiTfnn
10 McAdoo was lukewarm in spirit
and diffused among several possible
candidates. Today. the determination
to hold McAdoo at his present
strength is strong.
Opponent Not Picked.
As to the candidate whom the op-
position wants to substitute for Nc
Adoo, there is not yet complete agree
ment: hut nearly every element OF
the situation makes it probable that
during the coming 10 days the op-
position to McAdoo viii unite more
or less openly on Senator Underwood
as their choice. There will be other
favorite son candidates. but the real
intention Of the opponents Of Nc
Adoo will be to make tho big fight
in the convention for Underwood.
The determination is to hold Nc
~e 90 where he now is. And where
McAdoo now is is somewhere be
tween ago and 450 out of the total OF
/ 094 delegates. That is so close to
majority that If democratic eonven-
tons had the majority rule, he could
not be beaten. For this reason, some
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have the majority rule adopted. Their
success is improbable. for even among
McAdoo's own advocates there are
some who will cling to the two.
thirds rule which is the S0year old
tradition of the party.
Bonus Stumbling Block.
For the recent increase Of deter
mination on the part Of McAdoo's op-
ponents, there are more reasons than
could be stated with all their quail
fications In so brief a space as this.
one of them was McAdoo's state
ment in behalf of the bonus. Prob.
ably more than half the democratic
leaders are against the bonus on
principle. Some Of McAdoo's strong
est friends are against 1t. Some Of
the democrats In congress are will
ing to vote for the bonus as a means
OF embarrassing the republicans, but
would prefer not to see it win; and
most decidedly would stop short Of
adopting it as an official democratic
principle. IN the same way, some of
the democrats in congress will vote
for the bonus because of local condi-
tions in their districts but would op-
pose putting it in the party platform
or making presidential campaign on
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