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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AT'RTT. 11, 102O DEMOCRATS LOSE HOPE OF HOOVER deader Would Like to See Oregon Boy on Both Tickets. PARTY GOSSIP RELATED Coiucst for PresJdcncy Narrows to Pulincr and McAUoo; Wilson Unlikely to Run Again. (Continued From First Page. bility. None of the other minor can didates are serious possibilities. Of these minor figures. Senator Hitch cock of Nebraska is probably a little more serious than any of those I have mentioned, for reasons that I will al lude to later. As serious possibilities the demo cratic situation Is now down to a race between Attorney-General Palmer and Mr. McAdoo. That will be the ftgrht from now on until the conven tion meets. Superficially Mr. Palmer Lwlll seem to have the better of it, be cause he Is following the method of Jwettins as many delegates as possible in the primaries, while Mr. McAdoo -is following: the less obvious plan of waiting until the convention meets. TVhile Mr. Palmer will figure more strongly In the news from now until fine meeting of the democratic con- !i-ntlnn ht atnnirh relative la Mr. K - . . - n - - - McAdoo will not be In proportion to khe number of instructed delegates he Picks up. It is not possible for Mr. Palmer to set enough instructed delegates to fissure him the nomination. In the democratic convention It takes two thirds to nominate and Mr. Talmer Mannot conceivably get that number of instructed delegates. Moreover, It is not the intention of the party lead ers that Mr. Palmer shall get enough delegates to nominate him on the opening ballots. The Intention of the party leaders Is to keep the nomina tion open until the convention meets. In this race between Mr. Palmer and Mr. McAdoo the decision rests flargly with the democratic leaders. .Anybody who wants to nnd out in 'advance whether Mr. Palmer or Mr. iftlcAdoo is to win can make the near est approximation to a guess by can ivassing the various democratic state ileaders, the 53 members of the demo loratic national committee. The Demo ferattc convention and the democratic InQmlnatlon will be much less affected looDUlar primaries than the re- nuhlica.n nomination. The democratic Situation is almost wholly a matter of he net result of the wishes and in terests of the leaders, chiefly the Vnembers of the national committee. Palmer Stronger Among Leaders. Among those leaders Mr. Palmer is stronger than Mr. McAdoo. Mr. Pal mer is very popular with the mem bers of the democratic national com mittee. He is himself a member of the committee and also a member of the executive committee of eight. which Is the inner arcanum of the democratic party. In these official party positions Mr. Palmer has so onducted himself as to endear him self to his associates. He has not only been a good party man. In the ense of being regular and looking ut for democrats in the distribution of patronage, but he ha's also been a ;ood party man In the sense that his issociates have come to look upon him as being wise in policy and just in his official party actions. A poll of the individual members of !he democratic national committee would most probably result In Mr. Palmer's favor. But these, members lo not represent equal strength in he national convention; and some of ;hose leaders who are refraining from asting their fortunes with Palmer .re the ones who control the larger ;tate delegations In the convention. toreover, while the greater number rf the members of the national com- nittee are in favor of Palmer, many trong Individual members of the committee and many democratic lead ers who are not official members of he committee, like Bernard Baruch, ire favorable to Mr. McAdoo. In one way the fact that the demo ratic national committee as a whole, ind the party workers as a whole, n,A I'n 1 n r- lioM op fhfln f.&r1nn la tft LlcAdoo's credit. One of the counts t gainst McAdoo In the minds of the arty leaders is the fact that, in his listrlbution of patronage while he .was secretary of the treasury, he was not as completely partial to the ap pointment of democrats as the party leaders would have liked. The crea ion of the federal reserve board and pf the farm loan board, during Mc ydoo's administration of the treas ury, involved a large number of ap pointments to good jobs. In these ap pointments Mr. McAdoo rather leaned fcver backward in giving a cold eye Lnd an Indifferent ear to the pleas of inarty leaders who had good demo crats In mind as candidates for these robs. Mr. Palmer, on the other hand, I ias always rewarded the faithful. iUAfpnvfr. the attorney-general's of fice has expanded greatly during the ast few years, and anybody who travels about the country learns that the local federal attorneys and the fither appointees of Mr. Palmer's of fice are worKing na.ru tor mm. Deadlock Might Be Possible, f And so the race up to the time of Ihm convention will be between K'almer and McAdoo, Mr. Palmer's friends working for delegates in his vAme and Mr. McAdoo s mends work in e- for uninstructed delegates. It is ractlcally certain that neither one Jtif the two will have enough delegates l o mane up mo "i" v uo. Mfter the convention gets under way. I f the contest between these two men vhnuld develop great bitterness, so 0 in rreate a deadlock in the conven :n based on mutual hostility, then fn that event Governor Cox of Ohio .night receive some consideration, al ' hough, from the point of view of the oarty leaders, there are grave objec ' ions to him. And the mention of fiovernor Cox brings us to the impor tant matter of what the democrats ' nv.iii to do on the "wet" and J'dry" issue. There is more than a Wir possibility that the democrats Lay adopt a "wet" plank. By a "wit" plank I do not mean olank in opposition to the prohibi ten amendment. If the democrats fhould adopt a "wet" plank at all, it L,ould probably be along these lines: L ncjr - . , K i V. I . 1 Quality That Is Final and Not Debatable! You know, there are many degrees of quality, where you must use discrimination, but there is one degree of quality where you do not need discrimination so much as the faculty to recognize a good thing when you see it ! Such Is the Quality of Hickey-Freeman Clothes for Men They are so superlatively made that the matter of choosing them is taken completely out of one's hands! To 6ee them is to succumb to their ex cellence. There is no alternative. You do not debate over them at least I didn't. You just give in and give up and are glad of it! See the new Hickey-Freeman models in suits and light topcoats you cannot help but like them! t Exclusively in Portland at My Store. BEN SELLING Leading Clothier MORRISON AT FOURTH Hitchcock of Nebraska. Senator Hitchcock is not only the favorite son of Nebraska, he is also the favorite child. In a political sense, of one of cratic national committee, Mr. Arthur! Mullen, and Mr. Mullen has high am bitions for him.. Just now the "wet and "dry" issue is being fought out in Nebraska with Senator Hitchcock leading the "wets" and Bryan lead ing the "drys." If Senator Hitchcock should win the fight in the primaries on April 20, he may come forward as the candidate of the "wets." Sen ator Hitchcock's friends argue that an additional element in his favor is the fact that because of his senate leadership, he is one of the few men appropriate to make the fight on a league of nations Issue. But the fact is that the Hitchcock possibility and all the other possibilities are in a class wholly inferior to Palmer and McAdoo. At this point, what of Bryan? Bryan is now engaged in a bitter struggle with Senator Hitchcock for a chance to be a. delegate to the con vention. If he succeeds in getting himself elected as a delegate, and if he has a candidate it will probably J be some comparatively unnown per son. He has approached ex-governor Folk, and he has also spoken of Mr. E. T. Meredith, the new secretary of agriculture from Iowa. But the fact is the democratic leaders have rather sewed things up on Bryan this year, and he is not likely to cut any such figure as he did in 1912. President Wilaon Considered. There remains to be "considered President Wilson. It. is quite true that It is witJiin the power of Presi dent Wilson to offset all that has been said in this article. If President Wilson should set himself with de termination in opposition to the nom ination of either Mr. Palmer or Mr. McAdoo; if he should put all of his personal power and all the power he can summon against either or both of these men, he would be successful in defeating them; even more than this, he could probably succeed in nominat ing anyone he might put his heart upon nominating. Anyone, that is to say. except himself. President Wilson is still frequently mentioned as a possible democratic nominee. I do not believe he is a possibility. I say this based upon some knowledge of the minds of the most powerful leaders in the party. They believe that President Wilson's health I3 such that he should not at tempt to be the next president of the United States. They assume that the president and his immediate family w11 see this, and that he will refrain from trying to get the nomination. If President Wilson should fail to see it and should try to get the nomina tion the party leaders will set them selves determinedly in opposition to that course. President Wilson's par ticipation in the democratic nomina tion, in the rather remote contingency of his participating at all, would be limited, at the outside, to naming a dark horse, like Ambassador John W. 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