| Show ni A 4 l 7 St Ti ewar t 1 LOn REEl REED IS DEMOCRATIC flOIt By Br Charles P Stewart NEt NE Service Writer Watch WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Watch Senator James A Reed Heed of 2 Missouri All he h signs are ar that he h Is gaining strength every ery day as a Democratic presidential possibility ity Among politicIans politician stilt in Wash Wa h Ington tho Congressional 1 rece recess they're constantly drifting out and In with tidings from alii all allover allover over the th the country country th Increasing of at references reference to him himas such auch uch Is I surprising Here Her are ar sonIc sonn of ot the th things one hoar har In his favor He H has a tremendous personal personal- ity itT personality He H has hu ability lIe H an In Indomitable tighter fighter In his hi home state ho he h has proved himself a wonderful campaigner and vote getter gUer Al Smith has all these thue qualities but hes he's known too ex cx cx as a a wet So Is Gov Albeit Albert C RitchIe or of Maryland While Reeds Heeds a wet he h standS sund for numerous num rous other policies which ought to take lake tak come of ot the th curse cUrie oft off his wetness evin In dry tern terri territory tory William G 0 McAdoo would be beall beall ball all right richt for tor tho the dry drys dryl but hu has nothing to recommend him to any or of the th wets wet No wet could find any fault with Reed ned and as previously re- re remarked ro r marked marked he doe have hav certain M w I things thing to recommend ud him to some at least leut ot of the th drys dru Another thing the th west mid Is placito clearlY arly Indicated as al a a good to pick presidential candidates from In Rood Reed n d Is western mid-western man manSmith Smith and RitchIe are ar Just juat as a far faret east as AI they possibly could bo be without falling Into the th Atlantic 2 McAdoo Is western west rn but the Pacific coast cout Is II rather lather too far we west at I Therell There'll 1 be t e tak talk of ot Atlee Porn Pom Pom-eren Pom erene If It Ohio elect him to the th senate In November However he hmay may not be b Even If he I Is therell there'll be b talk also allo of or GOY Coy Governor Vie Vic Donahey and both be Ing inc Ohioans Ohioan they'll tend to nul- nul nul nullity lit lity Ury one on another Furthermore geographically not as well situated u as aR Reed d with reference to the th corn belt Neither although both hav bue na reputations has haj either one onea onea on I a national reputation of or Reeds Reed's I proportions Reeds Reed's Red a and pro pro- pro ro seems to be b In tho the at- at atmosphere atmosphere at atmosphere throughout a consider consider- considerable considerable able part or of o the tho United States Ills His HI endear him to the th big bic wit Wilt eastern state states and to some som few ones which show damp tendencies It will hurt him In the th dry south but to offset that the south Is strongly foreign anti and no part of or e ds d's career has more distinguished him hint than his fight against foreign entanglements He H voted against the corn belts belt's pet farm relief relict measure but not because he h doesn't believe In farm relief He H simpi doesn't believe In a subsidy The Tho Th corn belt belt dl- dl dis I appears appear pra to have abandoned the th Idea of a sub sub- sub subsidy sidy anyway and to be concen- concen concentrating concentrating on tariff reduction Reeds Reed's for tariff Democratic hopes are ar grutly stimulated by the th undoubted split In the th Republican ranks rank How How- However However ever they have hav a split of or their own to be b closed up It tr they're to get any good out of the th Republicans cans It Reed can Coln manage manace It tt hes he's a 8 wizard |