Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
MOODY DOOMED
FOR PRESIDENCY
Followers of Texas Governor
Find He Can Just Meet
Age Requirement.
BY ROBERT 4. SMALL"

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUSTIN. Tex. January 22.--Dan
Moody. now Governor of Texas, had
no sooner taken his seat in the eX-
ecutive offices Of the State House than
a movement was begun among his
friends to make him the 'favorite
son" candidate of Texas for the next
Democratic presidential nomination.
The Texans you talk with on the
subject are very much in earnest and
they have even gone so far as to con
suit the Constitution of the United
States to see if Dan" as the whole
State calls him, would be old enough
to be President of the United States
on the 4th of March, 1929. They
have discovered the governor would
just get in under the wire. lie will
be IS in the early Summer Of 1928
and that is the age limit set by the
fathers of the country. There never
has been a President that young, but
a precedent of that sort does not deter
the supporters of the youthful gov
ernor.
Theodore Roosevelt was the young
est man ever to sit in the White
House. He was only AZ when the
assassin's bullet snuffed out the life
of William Mckinley at Buffalo in
1901 and the young Rough Rider was
SaACo W JllC NlliSA lilo iS2tA o.
Grant Second Youngest.
1t probably will be surprising to
many persons to know that Gen. Y.
s. Grant was the second youngest
President, being only 46 at the time
of his inauguration in 1859.
Franklin Pierce was az at his
Inauguration and James Knox Polk
and James Garfield each was 40.
"a IN IN
the White House under so. Presi-
dent Coolidge was 81 when he took
up the burdens laid down by PreSi-
dent Harding.
The Texas delegation to the Madi-
son Square Garden convention of
1924 stood solidly behind William @.
McAdoo of California, and was last
to strike its flag when the break
came to John w. Davis. The Nc
Adoo leaders are still powerful IN
the State. They are led by Thomas
b. Love of Dallas, who is serving
now as State Senator. The McAdoo
followers have by no means given
up the idea of a fight for an in
structed McAdoo delegation, but II
the Moody sentiment continues to
grow they can hardly oppose 1t and
may fall in line with the movement
10 make IldIH It6 AS1NOlAbG SOAAs
There is an unexpected number or
Smith followers to be found down
here. but they have no thought of
making a real campaign for in
structed delegates, although feint
in that direction would not be at
all surprising.
In nearly all circles it is conceded
that if the Texas delegates go in
structed at all to the next conven-
ton it will be for Gov. Moody, large
w because Texas is truly proud OF
is young chief executive and wants
to call him to national attention, so
il the lightning should strike in any
other direction in 1928 the situation
might be different in 1882, or even
later than that.
Dan Moody himself is not bothering
about the national convention. His
politicaI career covers only six years,
and he SAYS he has never been to but
one convention in his life and that
was the one which nominated him
for attorney general of the State,
from which office he stepped into the
governorship. His hands are quite
full at the moment, he declares. in
bringing Texas back into the paths
of orderly government.
Earnest and Plain Spoken.
Gov. Moody is very earnest, plain
spoken young man, without frtlls or
furbelows His speeches are straight
to the mark, and devoid, as his friends
say, of all bunk" He is O. devout
and g. devoted churchman, but with
no air of the professional religionist.
He has a winning personality, and it
is an extraordinary thing to an out
slider to find such a unaninity of
belief in the man and admiration for
him.
The commonest expression you hear
is that Dan Moody has opened a new
and bright chapter in Texas history.
Unless he goes far a, whole State viii
be disappointed.
There is a lively interest, too. in the
governors young wife. She is still in
her twenties. is a college girl, trained
for nursing during the war, graduated
from a school Of journalism, and ac-
credited as not only being the young
est mistress of the governors mansion
but also the most attractive.
While most of the Texas papers
speak of her husband as Dan, =
many of them refer to Mrs. Moody
as Mildred" Dan and Mildred. I"
unless all signs fail, have started