Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-05
DEMOCRATS SEEK MAN.
To BEAT COOLIDGE
IN COMING ELECTION
Admitted That G. o. P. Must
Win Or Lose With Man Now
In White House
CAN'T NOMINATE M'ADOO
Homer Cummings Regarded AS
Most Likely Among Dark
Horses To Get Nomination
By HARRY B. HUNT

WASHINGTON, March 81
These are the dopey days for the
Democrats.
Wherever two or more Democrats
foregather, the inevitable first
question is:
well, what's the dope?"
Meaning, always, the deep inside
political representation as evolved
by the boys with their ears to the
ground and their eyes on the presi-
dency. Here it is.
Coolidge will be the Republican
nominee. No Democrat disputes
that. The G. o. P. must win or lose
with the man now in the White
House.
To repudiate him would be to ,ad-
NIT a mistake in 1920 and concede
failure of the present administra-
ton.
With that settled, the Democrat
ic dopesters then set about picking
the man to unseat Coolidge. That's
more involved problem!
Cox? Outdistanced in 1920. A
good campaigner, forceful magnetic
but handicapped by his former de-
feat. Little chance.
McAdoo? A favorite, irreparably
famed as candidate because of his
Oil connections. Personally and
politically tn best fighter and most
alert brain in the party, but now
too Invaluable. His candidacy
would tie the hands of his party in
using effectively the chief bludgeon
by which the Democrats may be
able to beat down the G. o. p.
Oil!
Ralstn? Well-a possibility. Not
too well known. No enemies. Mace
a good governor. Rather old, rath-
er conservative, but born in Ohio
and residing in Indiana is geogra-
Fhieally well placed. A possibility
hardly a. probability.
Al Smith of New York? Too bad.
He has the sort of personality and
popularity that would be invaluable.
But Tammany Catholic could gar
ner few votes in the debatable mid
die west and west, where the battlo
must be won. Not available.
If none Of these, then who? Well
of New York, progress
sive, vigorous, magnets. A doctor
president might restore the body
politics to health.
John w. Davis? Um-m. Not like
ly. A charming fellow personally,
but bit up-stage for a popular
candidate. A silk stocking air Nope!
Josephus Daniels? Well. perhaps.
He headed the Navy Department
when the sailors covered Themselves
with glory in the World War. He
was the object of many jibes, but
he defended the naval oil lands
from many assaults of these who
wanted to exploit them.
Cordell Hull? Carter Glass? HON.
er Cummings?
Wait a bit! Homer Cummings.
There's a good politician. Foxy
Think this over:
If McAdoo can't be nominated
the man who is nominated will need
the votes of McAdoo supporters.
The decision of McAdoo's hackers
at Chicago to keep him in the fight
insures his friends having the veto
power in the New York convention.
If they can't put him across they
can say who will or will not get
across.
And while all other potential dem
ocratic candidates were sitting
back smugly, smiling to themselves
at McAdoo's discontinue, figuring
how his seeming elimination had
helped their chances, Homer Cum
mings was up at Chicago himself
shouting for McAdoo, proclaiming
him the hope of progressive demo-
cracy-and incidentally making
himself solid with the McAdoo
forces as potential dark horse
when and if it is established Nc
Adoo cannot pull down the nomin-
alton.
Well, that's the dope. Unsatis-
factory stuff, always creating an
appetite for more. But the supply
in Washington is endless.
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