The Washington times., 1924-06-21
N AD0O IN n. Y.
ADDS ZEST TO
FIGHT
Candidate inspires Followers
With Dynamic Personality,
Says Hard
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EoVUt%IkUns IuSy nave tItGO W thAS
his good name away from him. He
Is going to show them.
He Is Just az much interested in
this fight as II he were ten years
old. Some other boys have hit
him. He Il going to hit them back
and make them holler nuff.
It IL impossible to mistake this
temper in him as he goes from
room TO room in his headquarters
and consults with his Tnanagers
and receives delegates. some Of
whom are for him already and sons
Of whom are trying to find cut
whether they Will be for him or
not.
He is blazing hot. He goes from
group to group 40 tirelessly and
az buoyantly In the late evening
as in the early morning. He is
certain that he IL going to be nom
mated. He transmits certain
amount Of this certainty in vary.
ing degrees. to all whom he NETS.
He breathes defiance to his enemies.
No friend Of his among the dele.
gates can visit him without beinK
revived In his courage. McAdoo
was right to come here.
Divides Field With Smith.
II he had left the field here to
the personality Of Al Smith, his fol-
lowers might have wilted a bit
under the warmth Of the Smith
personality and of the Smith en-.
thusiasm in this town. Today
there is a contest here not only be-
tween the somewhat varying ideas
which Smith and McAdoo represent,
but also and even more Importantly
between two amazingly dynamic
and impressive individual char.
acters.
Each has manhood. Each has
fire. Each can take punishment
and come back for more. Each will
see virtually every doubtful dele.
gate in the whole convention. The
superiority In certain ways of a
convention over q direct prim.
airy will be strongly illustrated. In
the mind now Of vortually every
delegate who is at all in doubt be-
tween Smith and McAdoo the two
men will no longer be mere names
on q ballot. They will be individ-
ualties whose hands he has grasp.
ed, whose eyes he has looked into,
whose characters he has estimated
by observation and by comparison.
these two men are the most vivid
men who names are before the con-
vention. Diminishing Smith for fur.
Their comment later, 1t may be said
that McAdoo retains In age. as belli.
gerent and cocky q spirit as Smith
has in relative youth.
Has Remained Alert.
A tall man. McAdoo In advanced
years has remained lean, alert. In.
curably vivacious. fond Of waving
his arms, emphatic, challenging, in.
defatigable, negligent of his years,
at home with his juniors, refusing
IN fact to make any distinction
between them and him, youthful.
exuberant, able when angry las he
now is) to raise him to his full
height and stretch his arms straight
and long UP above his head and
seem to dance from the floor in a
war-dance against his detractors
In this convention in New York.
McAdoo is not going to lose this
nomination through any failure Of
personality. He has in him the go
that makes men follow other men.
and he has in him the stubborn
sticking power that makes men
stand by other men when they are
hard pressed. The first problem
which McAdoo has to face here is
the fact that he has received pre-.
sumably many Ku Klux Khan votes
IN many States, and that his enc
mics are bringing forward a resolu-
ton in the convention against the
Khan in order to put him into a
difficulty.
This difficulty has to be sur
mounted. 1t Is the first hurdle In
his path. His method Of taking 1t
IL characteristic.
Deiies His Enemies.
He simply defies his enemies to
show that he ever had entertained
any prejudices against Jews or
Catholics. His first appointment as
Secretary Of the Treasury was when
he named a treasurer of the United
States--and he named John Burke,
Catholic. He was persistent as
Secretary Of the Treasury and as a
member of President Wilson'S Cabi.
net in promoting the Senatorial
ratification of the appointment to
the Supreme Court of Louis D.
Brandeis, a Jew. It is commended
by McAdoo's friends that a Presi-
dent can do nothing one way or the
other about Catholics and Jews ex-
cept to recognize them or not to
recognize them in appointments,
and 1t is claimed that McAdoo when
in office recognized them generously
and sympathetically.
That IA the MA dna ,nn.,Atnr 80
II implies that the McAdoo forces
will accent n resolution for the
principle Of religious freedom but
VIII resent resolution naming the
KAN ana making any special point
of the khan in particular.
Held Dat Of U. s. Power.
The McAdoo forces claim that
acts OF violence committed by the
khan are punishable by the state
and not by the Federal Government
and that the effort to bring the
Federal Government into the mat.
ter through a resolution in a ma.
tional convention is contrary to the
existing and proper division of
powers between the Federal Gov
eminent and the states.
They point out that Oscar Under.
wood or Alabama, who now Is the
CHIEF promoter of an anti.klan reso.
luton In a national convention,
was also the chief promoter lately
IN the United States Senate of the
filibuster against the Dyer anti.
lynching bull which would have called
the Federal Government into the
duty OF furnishing crimes Of violence
within the several states. Mr..
Underwood, they point out, did not
wish the Federal Government 20