Show 1920 I POSSIBILITIES S ALREADY BEING r TALKED ABOUT r Wilson May Again Be Hope of Bourbons Johnson Likely GOP Bidder By GILSON GARDNER S I I By Th Tt 1 N New Senit 3 I si WASHINGTON i Nov 21 The presidential lineup in 1920 Insists upon forcing itself upon the attention of politicians It isa is isa is isa a far cry to 1920 and men mayS may maydie S die lle and Issues may be born between now flow and then but hut speculation based on the results of the recent election will not down Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch who is isa isa a better politician than most men aspirations politicians politician predicts third term tl tOns ns on the part of Woodrow Wilson She says she ehe has made a study tudY of Wilsons Wilson's writing wilting and finds therein a statement that he considers the third and term jerm tradition a senseless bogey quotes him to the effect that when a president is la a. good president he ought to be returned as often as the people want him Certain It Is that Wilson did lid not feel bound by the plank in the Baltimore platform put there b by Sir Mr Bryan committing the party candidate to one term terra On the contrary he wrote a a. letter to iu ci Mitchell Palmer then the Democratic house leader discouraging any Rny attempt to amend the constitution for tor such a limitation S SIf If It the third-term third prejudice is as assumed assumed assumed as- as to eliminate Wilson the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party Is left rather short of presIdential presidential presidential pres pres- timber There is Champ Clarko Clark o of ot course who is getting on in years and O Oscar car Underwood who represented the t the e element In his party part four tour toury y years gars ars ago Neither can b be regarded as asa asa asa a growing candidate their booms are rather on the wane Looking to new and younger men speculation busies Itel it itself It- It self el with possible development ment of some present or future member of the cab cab- inet met Secretary of War ar Newton D. D Baker of Ohio seems the only possibility possibility in the present cabinet Johnson Looms Bryan BIJan is not seriously considered I and does not himself apparently seriously seriously seri seri- r consider the possibility ty of ever running ronning again for president 5 On the Republican side the situation is interesting Without question Hiram Johnson of California looms as the most promising candidate The sceptre of oJ party control passes logically from the We reactionary leadership to the pro pro- I The reactionaries under the management of Penrose and Willcox r failed to win with as good gooda a a. candidate It will be e as In the case cise Demo ratie party in iii 1904 aft after i the t J S i campaign when the radical of the party part resumed control i c a the Progressive element in the ReIt Re- Re It j- j n party must find a candidate II party leadership The The tradition wi at New York or oi Ohio must furnish gf Candidate has forever blasted In j j IS California became the thet II t tal al state became so o spectacularly I d' d dramatically J Nobody will Nobody will S 'S counting of the California vote and will for th that t Hiram Johnson S. S ild the fate late of the tle presidency In the thelow low ow of his hand and that he hand handed 1 5 6 presidency to Wilson instead of ot S j hes The The he reactionary leaders in ia the Re- Re party will of course cherish fudge against Johnson but the ders' ders are not the voters and the rank file of If 1 the Republican party like likeS S iB i Hiram Johnson kind of candidate bater er than uan the ne Hughes kind Pa sing of Teddy Roosevelt evelt has passed naturally into w Bryan class It may be that some ted development new Issues i tew lines of political thought mayI may I Colonel Roosevelt again into a of leadership It is unwise for forjione one ever er to lo consign Roosevelt to toe I e grave He has a habit of ot to the discomfort of his I i ml nies s and the exultation of his 1 B But t at present Roosevelt's i friends feel that he is entirely unable un- un flable able lable as a candidate He lie could have i r this thia recent election at least he heill ill 1 ha have hae e made a a. very strong race race race- jel stronger race than Hughes Hughes' j the 1 Jie i reactionaries dictionaries of his party part uia not give him the nomination and 1 desertion of the progressive wing A him in the confidence of the theE i p E His course taken with i M most most conscientious motives has J 1 YI 7 questionably alienated most of of the s V wing of the Republican party tI awl jI d it will take ke more than a lapse of I f Ur years probably to heal th the hurt I e The preliminaries to the 1920 campaign cam cam- will be e worked out in congress A group in m the senate will b begin gln to coagulate consisting of Johnson Poin- Poin dexter ter Norris La Follette and Ken Kenyon on 7 Tip the house it looks now as if th the I little p group of Progressives and IndeS Inde'S Inde- Inde S 'S Republicans will have lave the say lay to who shall be the next speaker and who shall hall organize the house S o groups In senate and house will C constitute the beginnings of an or organization organ organ- anIz an- an Iz which will presumably later control the Republican convention and the platform and party Issues |