Show Nomination tion of MAdoo Adoo Will Not Be Made at Bourbons' Bourbons Convention Conventi n By David Lawrence z Copyright 1 0 by br The Salt Luke Leke n Herald S DAN AN FRANCISCO CISCO June 28 William William Gibbs McAdoo's wish ish that his U name shall not be bo placed in nomination at the Democratic tlc convention I I will be bc respected His friends f and followers hero here have ape agreed 4 to def defer r that tIm much to the former secretary of the thc treasury but they insist upon voting for him when the tho balloting begins Dr Burns Burris Jenkins of of- Kans Kansas 5 City who was originally selected to tomake tomake make the nominating spee speech h has bas finally been persuaded not to do so 50 This completes one of oC the tho most ex extraordinary extraordinary ex- ex chapters In politics For Por the man who is evidently evident evident- ly most desired by the body of ot delegates delegates dele dele- gates s-ates tp take tho the presidential nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion has kept his h hands absolutely of oft off the tho convention and has refused to permit permit permit per per- mit his cl close so frien friends s even en to r to to go through h the brief brIer formalities formalities- which would put him alongside active candi candi- dates Sk pUN Still Will viII Ill Doubt Of or course there thore will be skeptics who will wUl always doubt not mero merely the sincerity sincerity sincerity sin sin- of ot the tho McAdoo men mon here but who will believe bellevo th there re Is some sort of ot collusion between the man man whose whoso name Is on every ery lip and the active workers for his nomination The writer has just ma made e an ex exhaustive ex- ex investigation of ot the tho McAdoo situation and ancl after alter several days das of ot in inquiry inquiry In- In among amonS' the men who arc are most active in advancing the tho name of ot Mr Ir McAdoo for the presidency these acta stand out conspicuously 1 1 McAdoo cAdoo has not sent a a. single messa message e to an any delegate or leader hero here encouraging activity in his behalf N NOT Nor Jr has ho expressed his views on any iC C Continued on Page Pago 2 i I NOMINATION WILL NOT BE MADE Continued From Page Pase 1 question being considered at this convention con con- Lather cither on strategy or platform platform plat plat- form policy Ho He has hns literally kept his hands off 2 Nobody outside of or San Francisco Is' Is directing ng tho the McAdoo forces hero here Efforts to draw Daniel C C. Roper McAdoo's McAdoo's Mc Me- Adoo's chief political advisor Into convention matters havo have proved fu tu- tu tile hUe House I Is III Passive 3 3 No me message sage o of an any kind oral or written has come como from tho the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House either cither from Secretary Tumult or President Wilson or anyone In directly Indirectly Indirectly indirectly Indi Indi- Washington In touch or with President Wilson bearing In the remotest degree upon candi candi- dates 4 No cabinet officer here has publicly publicly pub pub- or privately lrI said anything to IndiCate in indicate indicate In- In that he knew even by Implication Implication implication tion the wishes of President Wilson with respect to the nomination of ot can can can- G C. C The story ston that McAdoo IcA declined to be a candidate because of Ill health Is s not true It was at first credited by y this correspondent and other people hero because of ot the abruptness of or tho McAdoo announcement at and d because in the councils of tho the party I men high hiSh u. u U r 1 expressed the me lile belief that inui McAdoo H lUU was wiio w. w I suffering from tuberculosis of or tho the I throat The Th writer Is convinced t that the story Is wh wholly wron wrong and that no matter whether McAdoo Is nominated nominated nomi nomi- or or- defeated here any Impression sion which the publication of ot tho ru rumor rumor rumor ru- ru mor may have ha e given Iven should Abe be erased from tho the minds of ot the tho readers renders who like Iko fair play In politics Persons Persona In a a. much better position to know than those hose who ho originally vouched for the stor story have assured the writer In unquestioned unquestioned unquestioned un un- un- un questioned was wa's ways that McAdoo Is In good health and that his reasons for declining the nomination had nothing whatsoever to do with physical fitness Friends Friend Fanatically Ix Loyal yal The fact tact is that Mr McAdoo couldn't stop top his admiring and almost fanatically fanatically call cally loyal friends In this convention from rom trying to nominate him no mater matter matter mat mat- ter er if It he issued a dozen statements Although Thomas B. B Love national committeeman from Texas Issued a n statement saying he was sut suto a McAdoo would accept if It named there thero is absolutely absolutely nothing to show that Love received re received received re- re an any such assurance from McAdoo McAdoo Mc Mc- IcA Ic- Ic A Adoo oo since this convention began and hat It was mere merely 1 a 1 personal opinion of Mr Love based on Mr McAdoo's statement at tho the time of ot the Georgia primaries several eral weeks ago to the tho effect that no man should r refuse use a presidential nomination It also sounds like a game same and there will be those who will say It is in- in creditable but the tho odd part of oC It is that hat it is true that both President Wilson and Mr McAdoo are arc not Influencing Influencing in- in the tho selection of ot a candidate by the well-known well underground methods of ot politics or any other way war |