Show 16 1 6 DE DEMOCRATIC BOOr BOOMS S STARTED Presidential Candidacy Situation Complicated By McAdoo's Stand StandBY BY ny ROBERT T SMALL Special Correspondent ot or lh Iho Slam Copyright 1927 By The Consoli- Consoli Consolidated Consolidated dAted dated Press Association SAN A ANTONIO 1 0 Texas Jan 29 Surveying Surveying the national political political cal field even en from from this tar far dis distant tant horizon one can sense the coming of o the storm In the next Democratic national convention Already there aro are something like 1 16 G or 17 booms or under und underway underway w way y In various parts of ot the coun coun- country coun- coun country country try and there thero are lire likely to be bemore bemore bemore more before the gavel savel falls faits on oem the assembled delegates In 1928 COMPLICATES SITUATION A good many of ot the booms and are little more than favorite son gestures but the they help to complicate the tho general sit sit- sit situation nation and nd show a decided trend against explicitly Instructed dole dele del delegations gallons Favorite sons SOliS are to b be brought forward and voted for tor until there thero can bo be something like Ilk a consensus of o opinion The fire firo under tho the DemocratIc pot has been Riven given quite qUito Istir a I stir this week bytho by tho appearance of William Gibbs McAdoo loo be before Core the Ohio State Bar association at association lit at 10 To Toledo ledo More lloro firmly then than ever the Democratic leader ro- ro re reversing the old adage of hitching hitching- your wagon to a star hitched his star to the water wagon Ill Mr McAdoo Is determined that tM the wet forces of ot the tho cast east shall not run away with the Democratic banner bannor He believes the majority ot of tho the Democrats the tho country their hearts an and over are t i dry In Sn not In their throats and he has determined to make his fight tight for forthe the tho presidential nomination on a platform so bone bono dry that even en evenEr Er 1111 looks a little damp In iii comparison nAPS STATES TIC RIGhTS niGHTS And Mr McAdoo has kicked rule for forthe forthe over the lamp ot of home homa the states stales he ho e has knocked th old and supposedly DemocratIc Democrat doctrine ot of states stated rights into the proverbial cocked hat lie He Wants th federal arm so that it can exercise sufficient po- po po police lice power to bring recalcitrant wet wet states Into line Sir Mr McAdoo 1 has two eastern states In mind One ot of them Is New York which bad an enforcement law and then repeal repealed ed It it The other Is la Maryland Marland which has never passed an are en- en en enforcement law It so happens that both New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and nd Maryland 1 have formiC formiC- formidable able candidates for tor the Demo Demo q nomination Governor Al A Smith of ot New York Turk has frankly admitted he would take the nomination it If It vas was tendered him and Governor Albert ot of Maryland Maryland heard himself very ery openly boomed for tor the presidency at his Ms recent third Inauguration lit at Annapolis What Is to be 10 the remedy asked Mr r McAdoo In his hll Toledo speech It a a state refuses to do Its ita duty and nullities nullifies the Eight EIght- EIghteenth Eighteenth Eighteenth amendment to the tho constitution and the law of o the tho United States In pursuance there there- thereon thereof thereof on of The remedy Is for tor the president president dent to report the situation to congress and to request the necessary necessary sary appropriations and measures to enable hint him to enforce the con constitution and laws of o the tho Unite United States Slates In such nullification and recalcitrant states These meas meas- measures meas- meas measures measures ures need not nol take the form torn ot of forCe They may take the form forr r f a sufficiently y organized t oice I power Dower authorized by the Eight Eight- nth am amendment In tn such states as to enable the federal govern soVern government ment to enforce respect and obel obel-lonco obel lonee lonce to tho the laws of ot tho the United States DEFENDS PROHIBITION Mr McAdoo devoted his entire Toledo speech to the subject of prohibition nullification and lawlessness lie hie defended pro pro- pro prohibition i front from every angle deny deny- denyIng denying ing log in particular that It was III any way responsible tor for the wave of major crimes This wave was under wa way he ho pointed out out before pro prohibition hi bill on ever went Into effect air Mr McAdoo cAdoo denounced efforts effort at nullification in In- some of ot the tates Ho Ito said that under the constitution as it now stands Elands there Is no possibility Of ot enacting valid regulatory e which will permit traffic In liquor contain contain- containIng containIng ing a 0 percentage ot of alcohol high enough to bp Intoxicating The Californian took the Jho ho forward ground that the repeal ot of tIme the act would bo declared unconstitutional b by the supreme court ot of the United States Hay Hav Having ing log once adopted a law In la support ot of the Eighteenth amendment congress ho he said cannot undo such an act AVOIDS A ANNO Mr McAdoo has s carefully avoided announcing himself as an aspirant for the Democratic nom norn next year Even some ot of othis othis his staunchest supporters like 1110 Thomas B D Lovo Love In this state will not admit Mr McAdoo's sombrero Is In the ring In any ony event when and If It ho he does make mako the an- an announcement announcement an announcement of ot his candidacy lie he has placed In a I position to command the tho entire army of dry dry bone delegates delegate who will fight both a wet candidate and any at- at attempt attempt at attempt tempt to write a bit ot of dampness Into the national platform nn |