Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

an engaging but somewhat enigmatic
smile when he says it. AS his dis
iinguished father-in law asserted on
one occasion, Mr.. McAdoo insists that
politics is adjourned. This does not
mean that he regards the Democratic
party as moribund. Far from it. He
thinks the party is doing very nicely,
indeed, so well, in fact, that if the
,'corganiZers will just stop reorganiz-
ing for a little while and give every
body chance to get their breath, all
will be well and good
Strong in Kentucky.
Mr.. McAdoo has been strong these
Vast few years here in Kentucky. The
Blue Grass delegation at Madison
Square Garden last June and July
voted for him first, last and all the
time. While here in Kentucky, Mr..
McAdoo has been guest of Gov. Fields,
who headed the delegation at the con-
vention, and of James P. Brown, the
Louisville banker and newspaper own
er, who conducted the pre-convention
fight for McAdoo delegates Mr.. Nc
AdOo also has been in conference here
with Maj John S. Cohen of Atlanta,
the new Democratic national commit
teeman from Georgia. He has been
told anew by his political friends and
admirers that he is the logical candi-
listening to their reasoning with no
little satisfaction.
The McAdoo followers here in the
South do not take any stock in the
reports from New York that Gov. Al
Smiths hackers are going to offer to
withdraw his name from further con-
slderation by the party for presiden-
tial honors, provided Mr.. McAdoo will
do the same thing. In any event the
10 n a a
present time to accede to such a
proposition. They say that Gov.
Smiths adherents know full well he
can never be nominated, and that in
1924 he came nowhere near victory.
nor even close to a Majority, whereas
Mr.. McAdoo did register a majority
and seemed at one time we'll on the
road to the necessary two-thirds.
Majority Rule Favored.
Mr. McAdoos friends have told him
they are more determined than ever
to fight for majority rule and ma
jority nomination in the next conven-
ton and the complete abrogation of
the time-honored provision that nomi-
nations shall be made only by a two
thirds vote of all the delegates present.
The strategy of the campaign to be
waged has not yet been divulged, but
the present trip of Mr.. McAdoo to
the East may mean the opening of
the fight. Mr.. McAdoo is generally
conceded to have control of the Dem
ocratic national committee. Last
year it was reported he would make
his rules fight in the committee, but
this did not materialiZe. AS matter
of fact, there was no real fight along
this line in the convention.
The McAdoo men are aware that the
opposition to him in the East in States
like New York, Massachusetts, Penn
syIvania and New Jersey is sufficiently
powerful and coherent to prevent a
NIcAdoo nomination under the two
thirds-rule system. But they are con-
WINGED he can be nominated in 1928
under majority rule.
They also seem to feel that Demo
cratic chances of success will be far
brighter in 1928 than they were in
1924 or 1920. Mr.. McAdoo is the only
prospective candidate at present on
the horizon. Mr.. Davis has announced
that he is through. Gov. Cox of Ohio
has said the same thing. Mr.. McAdoo
also is the only Democrat with any
thing like a national organization back
of him.
When he leaves here Mr.. McAdoo is
going on to Washington and then to
New York. He is being accompanied
on his trip by Hamilton H. Cotton of
California, one of his most ardent
hackers and one of the prominent
figures at MCAdoo headquarters in
New York last Summer.
Just say I'm as happy as can be,
and not worrying about politics or
anything else" said Mr.. McAdoo to
the writer, and he certainly looked
the part. r. T. S.
(Conyrirbt