The Washington times., 1924-06-13
W|CKW|RE PICKS
DAVIS AND
BRYAN
Big Business Would Rally to
Their Standard, Says
Writer
By JONATHAN WICKWIRE.
Copyright, 1924, by The Washington
Times Company

Times Company
With the din of selecting a Re-
publican candidate for the Vice
Presidency silenced at Cleveland,
the rumblings, soon. to become de-
tonating reverberations, OF the
Democratic earthquake prognUsti'
Gated two weeks hence at New York
already are shaking the Washington
political armament.
AS matters stand, two-thirds,
roughly, of the delegates to the
Democratic National Convention are
pledged, officially or unofficially, to
McAdoo or Smith, the former seem
ing to have the edge. OF the
remaining one-third, some are under
formal obligations to cast at least
their early ballots to favorite sons
like Underwood of Alabama, Glass
of Virginia, and Ralston of Indiana
Other delegations are under no oh.
legations save to follow their state
leader, as in the case of the Illinois
delegation and Brennan.
That either sMcAdoo or Smith,
despite their leads, can attain to
the tWo-thirds necessary 20 nominate
under Democratic convention rules
seems doubtful to-; many of their
supporters with whom this writer
has talked here.
Some few of the CalifornIan's fol-
lowers have expressed an appar.
emily hopeless longing for rap
prochement that might lead to a
ticket reading McAdoo and Smith.
But the majority even Of the most
optimistic Of both forces seem hope.
full of some ticket upon which, when
their principals shall have become
hopelessly deadlocked, the two can
agree and unite.
Among these, many combinations
are juggled about. Daniels, OF
North Carolina, and Walsh, of Mon.
tana, is perhaps the most frequent
ly suggested of these tentative part.
nerships. Huston Thompson, of the
Federal Trade Commission, and
Mayor Dever, of Chicago, is another
combination enthusiastically pressed
by persons more or less influential
in the councils Of the party.
Advocates of these two pairings
are whispering that either Of them
would be viewed kindly and not too
stoutly fought by that Republican
dragon. Fighting Bob" La Toilette,
but this writer has seen no docu.
mentary evidence to. back up this
assertion. -..-.s.
Another combination sometimes
put forward by persons claiming TO
be In the know as likely to bring
about at least a partial fusion of
the McAdoo and Smith cohorts is
Robinson, of Arkansas, and Cope.
land, Of New York. -,
There are many other casual suR.
gestions of McAdoo-Smith combina.
tons advanced by individuals here
and there. But neither side IL neg.
lecting the possibility of effecting
agreements which, they hope. may
consolidate the support Of unpiedgod
and favorite son delegations behind
their principals-or, IL that should
prove impossible, their heirs-to
pane all such suggested alliances
would be to tabulate all known and
many almost unheard of as Demo.
cratic Presidential or Vice Presi.
Dental possibilities.
TO get at the juicy tenderloin OF
the Democratic OK. one must cut
through the McAdoo porterhouse,
the Smith sirloin, the gristle of In,
Vulnerable factions and trim care.
fully from the ribs and backbone
the financial tendons that support
this political animal. And there II
lies, a tempting tidbit, impossible
for hungry patriots, exhausted by
strenuous convention labors, to re.
fuse. At least, so hope the modest
chefs Of Wall Street who have pre-
pared and are willing to pay for
the feast.
Davis and Dever? No. Beauti
fully alliterative but we'll have 10
trim more carefully IL we want to
coax the appetite of the Western
farmers who lately have found II
more profitable to eat their cattle
than feed them.
John w. Davis, erstwhilo am
oassador to the Court, Of st. James
and counsel for the House of MOT,
gan; and Charles w. BRYAN. 90
get-'em governor Of Nebraska and
brother Of the great William IT.
That's the. ticket.
your be surprised, unless you
nave been tipped off, at the en-
tnusiasm with which your banker
your broker. your manufacturer
aha merchants, your corporation
attorneys and, in fact, all your
best people" will support thai
combination when It is proposed
little more than two weeks hence
to convention deadlocked anC
exhausted by days Of bitter fac
tional fighting.
Can they put it over, WIN,
Anyway TN bo soma TINA