Show NII N II LET IE J I BY Br RODNEY DUTCHER NEA EA Service Writer WASHINGTON Aug 31 Senator 31 Senator J. J J n McWhorter who not only knows It s ems all he lie reads In Inthe Inthe I the papers but scans between the lines I as well ell says the day of o the war brides Is at hand i The servants of o Mars are about to tobe I Ibe be rewarded was the quaint way I senator zenator put It as he looked up from his paper which he had been shear shear- shearing shearing ing In diligently of all political news particularly little items Hems about Senator I McWhorter Let us look significantly at Her Her- Herbert Herbert Herbert bert Hoover and Charles O. O Dawes the senator proceeded Aint It the truth The war made md cnn cm and these theae two men except for tor Coolidge are now leading candidates for presidential nomination Apparently neither party will ill draw from veterans of the front line trenches next year But 1928 may see seethe seethe seethe the first nomination of anyone con con- connected connected connected with the military or civil ad administration ad- ad administration ministration of the world war It Is thus more or less Interesting to con con- consider consider conSider sider the madams madam's prophecy In the th light of past history The first three presidents were George Washington John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Washington had hed bin bm in commander of the revo revo- revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary army Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence Adams was also on tho the committee which reported the declaration war declaration war service put all three In line for the presidency The first president after the conclusion of the war of 1812 was Monroe who had been en of state sute and secretary of war and had hada a good record as a colonel In the revolution But Andrew Jackson who defend defend- defended ed New Orleans was the real popular lar tar hero of that war He failed to reach the White House In 1824 when the presidency was thrown Into int the house of ot representatives es but was swept In In 1823 1828 and again In 1832 The Mexican war made ronde General Zachary Taylor the Whig candidate In 1848 and General Winfield Scott the Whig candidate In 1852 Taylor beat Senator Cass but it took another general of the same war war Franklin Pierce to lick Scott The first president chosen after the Civil war was General Genera U. U S. S S Grant chief of ot the Union armies elected In 1868 and 1872 Hayes was elected In 1876 and Garfield in 1880 Both had been Union generals Garfield defeat defeat- defeated ed still another veteran officer President Benjamin Harrison had been a general and President William McKinley a major The Spanish war and San Juan Hill had brought Roosevelt to the front and he was elected vice president president dent in 1900 and president in 1904 Even en Bryan who was a candidate so often orten had been an officer during the tho Spanish war If It he had been able able or or allowed allowed to to distinguish him him- himself himself himself self In action as Roose ent did he might ml ht have been elected on one oc oc- oc casion The two parties convening In 1920 refused to follow precedent Gerard the war-time war ambassador to Germany publicly bemoaned the fact that the two conventions Ignored those re responsible re- re responsible for direction of the war and had nominated a senator and a gov gov- governor governor passing over Wilson Vilson Wll n Lansing House Baker McAdoo Palmer Hoover er PershIng and others The war administrators were again I Ignored In 1924 I Even en now one can predict that I while the 1928 candidate of one or both parties artles may have achieved his first Important national during or as a result of the war no candidate is going poing to be nominated or o elected on his war record alone I |