| Show SET BACKFIRE TO STOP FO FORD McAdoo and Underwood Booms Are Getting Under Way Bv Ri T SMALL LL Correspondent orre of oC o The Copyright 1923 1323 WASHINGTON Juno June 14 Infer Inform m matlon ulon received here this week no further doubt that tho name of oC Henry Ford will be pro pro- pre presented forthe as a Democratic aspirant for the nomination at nt all presidential pr fc rc nee nce primaries held next Spring Following rollo ln the he methods employed In th the Michigan senatorial primar lee ies primaries alien hn he ran against Senator Mr Fords Ford's rord name nay Jay n also Republican be presented d on the can ticket at some of the primaries but it Is evident that most mod of his ardent backers feel thit th his bis best chance for one ot of tho t o old party lies In tIP the D Di told fold political Acting on the old cal ma lm thit you cant can't belt beit som body with nobody DemocratIC leaders leader everywhere are urging urs-Ing the obvious presidential contestants for tOr the tho pred- pred d nomination to tk tako the tiel lid I 1 against t Ford rord They Tiley frankly f fi ar an th the thc delay in che checking what Is In a drift toward the De- De De troit Detroit In Democratic Irritants They Thy want counter len len- Irrl- Irrl I tants at work woo If It It be he true truo they say thru that t nl Ford oord ord is sweep sweep- ing sweeping the west like A II t prairie fire rever caUsI every rul rule rulo of political safety calls caUs I for tor the traditional setting Betting of oC a back backfire I I fire I TIO FOUND LI ID Consequently In New Now York this I week there was wan a meeting of the backer of or William Gibbs McAdoo and lh the foundations of a nation nation- nationwide nationwide nationwide wide or organization were laid I Here in Washington the back baCk- backers ers rs of Senator Oscar W Under Under- Underwood Underwood Underwood wood ot or Alabama are perfecting the pI of ot their organization and are arc awaiting only the tho psycho psycho- logical psychological In cal moment when whan the senator will wili SI give ve the word to go In New Tori York Yorio also the backor ot of Governor Al Smith wilt not agree he has no DO chance for forthe the tho nomination despite the fact that the tho ravaging old political cry of rum Romanism and rebel rebel- lion liar rebellion hs h been governor s hurled burled at tho rebell gov gov- gov- gov orDer by some of oC the reform or- or or Ca who resent his approval tf Cf tho th repeal of the tho state dry law II Among the other Democratic presidentIal possibilities It IN 16 very I that former Governor Cox ot of Ohio is unwilling at this time I that an organization should tko tako the tied fled In Iii his behalf Governor Cot Coc Ii-els Ii that his record Is clear and It if party desires him agaIn as a ard bearer boorer this Is ono One of tho the when a brave bravo man can wait to tu bo be dratted drafted rather than to volunteer volunteerS S far there has haa been no evIdence ot of an org organization being formed In behalf of at Senator Ralston of In- In Indiana In Indiana diana although he ho Is admittedly In inthe Inthe the tho first rank of ot the tho poUl Th There o m-o two schools ot of thought I In the DE Democratic ranks ranks- One Ono of f these holds hodl that presidential dele delegates gates do not grow on trees waiting to b be hi plucked by any day aspirant that comes along Delegates must be ard say y 8 the members of ot this chool end l the tho cultivation can not tl tOke he without hout and certain legitimate campaign funds Time Tile ot of gathering a a crop ot of has bas grown prodigiously I since Inc Ino State primaries were In to so many parts of et o the country collate T lUy ACTION STRESSED The necessity for tor early and wide In behalf of an aspic aspic- aspirant aspirant ant for the presidential Is in further stressed by those thoe who say that t th Jl Ja prim prim-mes will become a 4 farce if It not In by virtually all the aspirants They still recognize the tho courtesy ot of otono ono one candidate not going Into the state of ot favorite a 0 son to con con- contest con contest test Cst hIs hia J home delegation with him but other u o they believe there should be the tho widest possible par par- participation In the primaries Tb- Tb Th second and older school ot of thought believes that the oS can never er send Bend a II man to toS S Democratic convention conven on with the two thirds third ote Sota ote necessary for tor the ho hoI I C Therefore It is said that the tte ways always will be bo thrown on the floor of oC the con con- convention convention con and thus thul tar far history has tas shown hat the man with the tho great greM- greatest est cat number of preference delegates does docs not get tet e t the nomination The Thern rn reason for this thia Is In that ho be has haa had too much muth of ot a II fight tight on his hand hands gathering In the delegates and has hos c created animosities all ten tell against him when whon the time for compromise C and agreement cement I reached In the convention n This ts Is what whal knows how but Henry Ford says nays all history is ubank bunk and there Is th yea rOil are lra |
