Show f r Ed- Ed f y n Hw to ai f 1 iJ GI aa i a u Surprise leory eory that Wilson Nilson TV T. Jn fin Is the Issue that have hao conducted so soh h 01 of at their campaign as has al- al ready eady taken place So apparent Is this fact that a Democratic leader remarked the other day that IOU it Wil WU- Wilson son should happen to die the Republican Republican lican campaign would collapse collapse- they would have hare nothing 00 o talk takk ta about This remark is so that sooner or later the Republican Republican lIcan leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers must realize It IL And yet while the Republicans are still sUll talking Wilson and WIl WIl- it Is apparent to one who moves about among the party managers mano man- man o alters agers that they have been made a little uncertain and less confident by t the e surprise which the Democrats gave them In turning down McAdoo bud bond naming a candidate as distant distant as possible from being Identified with the Wilson administration And right here Is where the dilemma S ma comes comas up to Cox He knows that the Republicans are eager to keep the Issue Wilson and He naturally and properly wants to get getaway away from Crom that issue He lie wants to run on his own personality his own record and his own Issues But Dut the minute he starts to get away from the Wilson n issue ho encounters ers eraa embarrassments within his bis own c camp mp He dare not act too pointedly pointed pointed- ly h or to get so far away from Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son as to offend Wilson and Wilsons Wilson's friends Wilsons Wilson's friends are among the ablest of the Democratic leaders and spellbinders Cox to be successful successful success success- ful tul must have not merely their perfunctory perfunctory perfunctory per per- support but their enthusiastic enthusiaStic enthusiastic activity In the campaign Cox Has Ills His Own Plans These friends of or Wilson are watching watchIng watchIng watch- watch Ing Cox carefully to see what moves he makes The s strain t r a i n in inthis inthis inthis this situation Is quite apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent to all who move about in the orbits of the two factions It is quite true true that Wilson personally recognizes recognizes that the sceptre of ot 1 party arty leadershIp leadership lead lead- has passed that Cox Is now in command He has told Cox as m much mch much ch But Dut although Wilson has tendered tendered formal Cormal abdication to Cox it is still sUll true that WIson's heart Is IsI I In Ills his great cause and ami no one doubts that if It Cox fails tails to give a per percent cent devotion to the league of nations na na- as Wilson conceives It then Wilson will be deeply offended attended and Wilsons Wilson's Ison's friends as well Your correspondent estimates that eventually Cox will seek to avoid putting the emphasis of or his campaign on Wilson and Wilsons Wilson's league of ot nations Every probability points toward an effort on his part to create cre- cre aVe ate a new issue of his own an issue between progressives and reaction reaction- aries As to the Republicans It Is d doubtful whether they will vm fall fail to see the of ot basing their whole campaign on denunciation of ot one man who before the campaign ends may be eclipsed In the public eye ee by the the- greater energy of ot the new leader who might Indeed to state every possibility cease to exist Inthe in inthe inthe the 1 public eye except as the figure of a martyr passed on Moreover In any event the public Is likely to realize the unfairness of ot making Cox carry all the liabilities of ot his predecessor The 1 public could readily readIly readily read read- ily come to feel tool that there is doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful Justice In the Republican effort to talk to Cox as merely another namo tor Wilson The public Is likely likely likely like like- ly to feel teel that Cox Is entitled to a hearing and even maybe a trIa on his own account Of ot course If it If the Republicans choose to broaden their slogan to the tho old-fashioned old Turn the tho Democrats out out out- that would b be entirely legitimate and would not carT carry the dangers dancers of ot the narrower situ aim at Wilson personality o D |