The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-03
NJ ADOO BEATEN
BY VOTES FOR
LAFOLLETTE
Called Democratic Votes to
overwheIm cOoIidge-How
Delegates Stand.
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against Coolidge and the relative
defeat Of McAdoo by Smith.
Smith had refused to be a candi-
date in Wisconsin, and was run
against his will or at any rate
without his win.
There were two national contests
in the Democratic primary in Wis
consin. One was on the straight
general theoretical preference" be.
tween McAdoo, of California and
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
Where McAdOO Won.
In this contest, which was State.
wide. the victory was crushingly
won by McAdoo.
The preference" thus expressed,
however, is merely advisory and not
compulsive. The delegates are not
by law commanded to pay any at
tention to it.
The other contest was for dele.
gates to the Democratic national
convention, both Statewide dele.
gatestat-large and district delegates.
In this contest Smith Is thought
to have won the large
who number four. In other words,
he II thought to have won a ma.
jority of the total number of Demo.
cratic primary votes in the State.
The reasons for his doing so are as
follows:
First, the call by the La Toilette
organization to the railroad work
-ers who were for McAdoo, but who
were taken out of the Democratic
primary by this call and put into
the Republican primary.
Helped By Storm.
Two. there was a frightfTl storm
Of rain and wind and slet in Wis
consin. which was swept off the
streets in the cities and towns, but
which just about destroyed the
roads in the country districts
The country districts are dry"
McAdoo is dry" Many Of the city
and town districts are wet" Smith
Is wet"
The storm kept large numbers Of
the McAdoo country voters at home,
and left thousands of the city and
town Smith voters free and able
to go to the polls.
These two causes made McAdoO
APPARENTLY lose to Smith on the State
wide scale for the delegates-at-large.
1t is also thought, however. that
IL may be possible that when all
the returns are in and counted, the
Smith State delegates-at-large may
be partly broken in favor Of Nc
Adoo.
Meanwhile in the matter Of the
district delegates the case stands as
follows:
The McAdoo followers, claim at
least twenty-five district delegates.
This claim will quite possibly be
verified when the full returns have
been received from the country dis
tricts. where the telephone and tele-
graph wires have been thrown down
and put out OF good service by the
storm. It may even be that the
McAdoo district delegates will num-
Der not ten but twelve out Of the
full twenty-five.
McAdOO Still Strong.
The net results therefore are
clearly in favor Of the idea that
McAdoo retains enormous strength
in spite of the alleged scandal Of
his employment by E. L. Doheny,
the oil magnate, who loaned $780,
900 to ex-Secretary OF the Interior
Fall.
In this State of Wisconsin, which
has large and numerous wet"
spots in its eastern border and
which was devastated by a muddy.
ing storm in its western dry" agri-
| cultural districts, McAdoo apparent
ly has broken just about even, or
almost even, with Smith, the demon
darling Of all the "wets" Of the
| country.
Meanwhile McAdoo, this weel,
has also won the six votes of Ari
IONA. which are "uninstructed." but
| which personally are known to be
pro-McAdoo. He also has won ali
the votes Of Kansas, which have
been reported to be instructed for
Governor Davis of Kansas, but
which in underneath fact are
pledged to go to McAdoc after two
, ballots.
Smith. meanwhile has won the
ninety New York delegates for the
first ballot together with the
twelve or fourteen Smith delegates
from Wisconsin, and Underwood
has won the twenty-four delegates
from Alabama and Davis is favored
by four Of the twelve "uninstruct
ed" delegates so far elected, mum
bering approximately 116 and com
ing from Maine, New Hampshire
Georgia. North Dakota, South Da
! kota, Arizona. Kansas, Wisconsin
Philippine Island, Porto Rico, and
the Panama Canal Zone, are imme
diately bound to McAdoo or else
personally preferentially on thei:
way to McAdoo!
| McAdoo SO far Is undeniably tho
| Democratic candidate who is out
| in front.
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