THE MORNING OltEGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920
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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. That she or her hus
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band may have been influenced fur
ther by a sense that Mr. Wilson was
embarrassed by his son-in-law's can
didacy is almost equally probable. .
Explanation ot iiiven.
Kxactly what is the precise reason
for Mr'. Wilson's distate for his eon-in-law's
candidacy cannot ' be known.
The reason occasionally given, which
is based on the assumption that the
most obviously selfish motive always
prevail, is to the effect that the pres
ident wants it himself. Anyone whe
wants to make that guess its welcome
to. It might readily be true, but it
could only be true upon the assump
tion that Mr. Wilson is not aware
of the public idea as to how com
pletely he is rendered unavailable by
the state of his health.
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
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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.
The steam roller exhibitions which
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of the Examiner this morning, said
he was through with the "Wilson
party." After stating that he favored
a third party with a real democrat
at the head opposed to the league or
nations, he continued:
"I am, therefore, first of all and
most of all, opposed to the Wilson
party. The success of the Wilson
party would be an unmeasurable ca
lamity. The success of the republi
can party would be less of a calam
ity."
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
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