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Show McAdoo in 1920 Anent the recent announcement of the' resignation nf William O. McAdoo ts secretary of the treasury and also as chief of the railroad administration, there has been revived the Rosip that McAdoo has ambitions leading; toward the White House in !0:n. I It has been argued, and possibly correctly, that by leaving public office at this time he could better aspire to the presidency two vears S hence. Assuredly with the Republicans in control of congress we i can expect the next two years to be far from a love feast for the j Democratic administration. McAdoo, out of office, will escape I much of the political bombast. . Apropos of the present gossip is the speech of Secretary Mc Adoo made at Houston, Texas, on April 15, when an enthusiastic chairman introduced him as the coming president. In disclaimer, Mr. McAdoo said to his audience: It is no time for politics, it is no time for personal . ambitions and that impels me to refer to the suggestion your chairman made in introducing me. He mentioned my name in connection with the m-M exalted office in the gift of the American ijenple. I have a keen sense of humor and I take that humorously, but for fear that the chairman was not altogether humorous 1 want to allude to it because it illustrates what I have In mind. I would have infinite contempt for the man who in this great time sought to take advantage of any phase or aspect of this war to promote a person! ambition. I have no ambition for public office. I want nothing from my fellow countrymen except the opportunity to do this job with all my power and capacity and then go back to , private life. 1 am proud to say that I have three sons in the navy of the United States. ! am in no different category cate-gory front thousands of American fathers and thousand of American mothers who. in this great time are making the supremest sacrifice that any man or woman can make, aside from dying themselves upon the battlefield lam giving all my sons to my country. How can any man f want anything in this time except to serve with all his might and main and give his very Mood, in addition, if he can shorten th'i war and save the life of some Ameri- i can boy? |