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THE MORNING OltEGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920 PBESIDEHTSWISIIES KEPT FROM PUBLIC Leaders Consult Constantly With White House. SON-IN-LAW HANDICAPPED relationship Found Kmbarrass mem Instead or Help to Ambi tion or Prospective Candidate. BY MARK SULLIVAN. SAN FRANCISCO. Juno 30. (Spe cial.) Here at the convention we Bather from- the eastern dispatches that there is an almost country-wide assumption that President Wilson wants to bring about the nomination of- McAdoo. It is typical of the lati tude of surmise indulged in concern ing Mr. "Wilson's relation to this con vention that these disaptches and these headlines attributing to him the intention to nomniate McAdoo appear in the same papers and frequently on the samo day and on the same page with the dispatches which say that Mr. Wilson wants the nomination for himself. DineUNKlon Itrsin on Inference. What the president may intend or may wish concerning the nomination of McAdoo. or preventing the nomina tion of McAdoo, is wholly within the mind of one man a subject as to which the farts are contained entirely within the boundaries of one human skull. All discussion about it is nec essarily in the field of surmise and inference, and some of the rumors re most markedly and conspicuously within that field. What Mr. Wilson may be thinking bout this coming nomination is nat urally no more within the knowledge of your correspondent at a distance of 3000 miles than within the knowl edee of anyone else who ventures surmises about it. But omitting all surmi.se. there arc several definite facts which bear upon the situation, and out of which it is possible to make inferences which, in the judg ment of your correspondent, are de pendable. There are in San Francisco four members of Mr. Wilson's cabinet, one former member of his cabinet, who Is his friend and confidant, and the chairman of the party. Homer Cum mings, who is most certainly Mr. Wil son's friend and who had a long con ference at the While House immedi ately before he started out here. Srvrr One Word Said. In addition, there is at all times close communication between the White House and the party manage ment here. All of these men, and some other minor ones, have had rec ord conferences with Mr. Wilson on the subject of the convention. To no one of them, so far as your cor respondent can iearn, did Mr. Wilson say one word as to who the nominee should be; to no one of them, so far as has been revealed here, did he mention the name of Mr. McAdoo or of any other candidate for the presi dency. If thero is on the entire roster of the democratic party throughout the length and breadth of the United Slates one human being to whom Mr. Wilson has indicated a wish that Mr. McAdoo should be his successor, your correspondent can find no evidence of it either from the men themselves who have talked with Mr. Wilson nor elsewhere from politicians and news paper men making it their business to be minutely informed about such mat ters. Plan Charced to Craftiness. To this, of course, those who pro claim that the president is bent on 'perpetuating the dynasty" will re ply that all of this is really the last word in craftiness on his part. In re ply to this, your correspondent can only venture the generalization that in his experience those go wrong most often who seek the indirect mo tive. Not only that, there is definite evi dence, concrete In character even though small in quantity, to the ef fect that the reaction of Mr. Wilson to Mr. McAdoo's candidacy is one of 1 embarrassment .and disinclination. Those of us who think we have most access to the material for understand- 1 lng tho situation are persuaded that one reason for Mr. McAdoo's with drawal was the feeling that he was embarrassing his father-in-law in the White House. The reasons which dictated that withdrawal were of necessity per- vu tonal. Mr. McAdoo In nis wunarawai T went as far as he felt he could de- cently go in discussing: his personal affairs when he said that one of the reasons was his lack of means and Vhis wieh to acquire a competence for himself. That withdrawal was in all f respects an extremely personal thing, jit and even those of us who think we know more of the reasons than he gave hesitate to penetrate further Into such intimacies than Mr. McAdoo himself has. Some IlCBMOna Left Untold. It must be sufficient. without trespassing further into a field which considerations of decent taste make repugnant, to say that the reasons for his withdrawal are all tied up with the human triangle of himself, his wife and his father-in-law in the White House. That these reasons in cluded a fairly definite conviction on his part that his candidacy was dis pleasing to the White House is the belief of those who have closest ac cess to the facts. Within the minds of the triangle concerned, Mr. McAdoo. his wife and his father-in-law, just what emotions were influential cannot be fully known to outsiders and would not be agreeable to discuss publicly if they were known. That Mrs. McAdoo, recalling that the White House is the place where her mother died and her father broke down, might find it less attractive as the end of an ambition than others are able to conceive is fairly certain. 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A simpler supposition would be that Mr. Wilson prefers somebody else, even though he does not feel free to assert himself in behalf of that someone else. Another form of the same reasoning would be that the president, without having any definite candidate of his own, re gards Mr. McAdoo as not a good can didate. Still another reason might be that Mr. Wileon regards it as in tolerable that he should be in the position of either forwarding or im peding the ambitions of one he is so closely related to. A final reason might be a realization on his part that McAdoo as a candidate would be fatally handicapped by any help he might get from his father-in-law in the White House. President Wilson Embarrassed. Whatever the reason may be, there is no doubt on the part of those well informed that President Wilson was embarrassed by the MVrAdoo candi dacy and that consciousness of that embarrassment was one of the lead ing motives McAdoo had in hie with drawal. That there was no consulta tion between the two men, directly or indirectly, everybody who is close to the situation agrees. In-fact, in spite of the mystery which Mr. Wil son's condition has brought about the white House, it is definitely stated by persons in a position to know that Mr. McAdoo has tried to see Mr. Wilson five times within the last month and has never succeeded. The net of it all is that those who are best informed believe that the president has all along been dis pleased by McAdoo's candidacy; that Mr. Wilson is not in favor of McAdoo, but does favor another person, al though he has never said so. The headlines which talk of Wilson "per petuating the dynasty" and "forcing the crown prince on the convention" does not square with the facts, and are ae unfair to Mr. McAdoo as they are to Mr. Wilson. Mr. McAdoo does not depend for- his position in the world on the fact that he married Mr. Wilson's daughter. Connection Proves Handicap. Indeed, that fact is at this moment conspicuously a handicap to him and not a help. Mr. McAdoo had been secretary of the treasury and a growing figure in politics for some yeare before he married. There may be a dozen reasons why McAdoo should not get the nomina tion. There may be two dozen rea sons why he should not be elected, even if he should be nominated. It may even be that the mere fact of his relationship to Mr. Wilson is a good reason. Regardless of whether or not that relationship is being used to help him, the mere fact of that relationship does give enough color to enable the opposition to cry 'rrown prince." But persons who have no partisan relation to anybody and no interest other than to keep the record straight are under the obligation to try, so far as they can. to get the facts clear as to whether Wilson is trying to "force the con vention to name his son-in-law." NURSES' HOURS SHORTER Xew Rule at Hospitals Goes Into Effect Today, This is the day on which the ruling of the industrial welfare commission relative to the employment of stu dent nurses goes into effect, changing the nours rrom 10 hours a day and 60 a week tj eight hours a day and not more than 56 a week. This ruling applies to the whole state, but does not affect graduate nurses, over whom the commission has not juris diction. The ruling was adopted last August by the commission, but did not be come effective on October 14, as did other measures adopted then, because of the need of time for hospitals to adjust their schedules to the new hours. July 1 was fixed as the date at that time. Salem Heat Due for Jlisc. SALEM, Or., June 30. (Special.) G. C. Tierce, general manager of the Northwestern Electric company of Portland, and other officials of the corporation were in Salem today con ferring with members of the Oregon public service commission with rela tion to a proposed application for an increase in rates for heating charges. Although none of the officials would make any definite satement regard ing their visit to Salem they inti mated that plans were being outlined whereby a plea for higher heating rates would be placed before the com mission. Ttead The Oregoninn classified adj Now Playing I WEN NOOilE P YS-3E DESPERATE HERO SMITH NOMINATION E Enthusiasm Is Unfortunate for McAdoo Boom. SPECULATION IS STARTED Delegates Frantically Inquire if Xew York Governor Is Choice of Democratic Bosses. BY CHARLES C. HART. (Washington Correspondent for The Ore Konian.) SAN" FRANCISCO, June 30. (Spe cial.) "Is this it?" inquired a dele gate frantically late this afternoon as he rushed into the presence of friends. Bourke Cockran, celebrated Irish orator, had just completed his ring ing speech nominating for president Governcjr Smith of New York. Doubt less this identical question mark at the same time flashed above the heads of several other delegates who have been waiting around here for several da'ys to be told the "inside" on this convention.' What the delegate wished to know was if Governor Smith was the man picked by the party managers for the delegates to nominate. And there was good reason for his suspicion, be cause the Smith demonstration was the only truly spontaneous outburst that has come from this convention. It was the only demonstration in which every state participated; even Oregon, which is instructed for Mc Adoo, and Washington and Idaho, which came here to support the same candidate, were in line. Appeal Sweeps frond, Several interpretations were placed on this demonstration, one of which was that it was anti-McAdoo. That cannot be altogether true, because scores of delegates fell into line, un wittingly or otherwise, who could not have cherished any antipathy to the president's son-in-law. The fact was that the Irish orator had pictured to the convention a poor east side urchin rising from the slums of the east side of New York to one high office after another until he reached the gover nors chair. It will also bo learned before the convention meets again that the New York governor owes his rise to the governorship iwo years ago solely to the fact th.it a republican candidate. Governor Charles S. Whitman, had the boldness to run for governor in sloppy-wet New York on a bone-dry platform. .At that, Alfred Smith only defeated Whitman by a narrow mar gin of 6000 votes. The Smith victory of two years ago is exactly analogous to the last two successes of Governor Cox of Ohio, another presidential as pirant. But whatever becomes of Smith's candidacy, the demonstration of the New York governor was un fortunate for McAdoo. McAdoo Confidence Dissipated. The surpri.se was that the large army of federal employes and former federal employes here boosting Mc Adoo were not able to stir up any more enthusiasm. Their confidence had been dissipated somewhat before the McAdoo nomination was put on. When Franklin Roosevelt arose and seconded the nomination of Governor Smith it was a severe setback to the McAdoo men, because Roosevelt came here as the acknowledged McAdoo leader and up to a day or two ago was not on speaking terms with Charles F. Murphy's Tammany chief tains. Only last Monday, Mr. Roose velt engaged in a rough and tumble row with the Tammanyites over the New York standard which he wished to carry in the Wilson demonstration. A Tammany chieftain was quoted yesterday as saying, "McAdoo once de clared in the heat of a political cam paign that the support of lainma;iy was a liability. Well, we may decide to hang that little liability on him after a. few ballots, because New York is going 300,000 republican this year and nothing can stop it." McAdoo may be nominated, but there are now 410 delegates who say they wilt oppose him to the last ditch. This is 45 more than required to defeat him. But look out for these last ditchers. The Wilson adminis tration has lots of patronage and no principles nor rules. That San Krancisco newspapers are getting on the nerves of the demo cratic leaders was obvious this after noon when Senator Pat Harrison, sec onding the nomination of Governor Cox, lost his temper and let loose a fierce denunciation of the local jour nals.-With the exception of the Chron icle, all of the local newspapers started out in a friendly tone accord ing to tha California rule of being hospitable and kind to the stranger within the gates. 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For Hearst this was admitting much as to the republican party, which he has always opposed. But who cares anything about can didates now? The demonstrations of today will be nothing as compared to the uprising that- will be led on the convention floor by William Jennings Bryan if it becomes necessary for htm to make his fight there to upset the wet plank which seems to please the sub-committee of the platform committee. l-iegion Women to Picnic. CENTRAL.IA, Wash., June 30. (Spe ial.) All arrangements have been bathing suits for men 6iy7i,8to$15 athletic underwear, union and two-piece, b. v. d., wilson bros., vassar and royford to 10 y a suit, only the best. TH Sichef men's furnisher and haberdasher 331 Washington street New Perkins Hotel Washington and Fifth Sts. 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