Show WASI N LUTE POLITICIANS P WILL BELIEVE JUST ANYTHING A YOU OU MUST CON CON- CONCEDE CONCEDE CONCEDE CEDE AND A D THEN SOME SOIE BY RODNEY nODI DUTCHER NEA Service Writer I WASHINGTON Oct 5 Politicians 5 will 1 believe anything thing They seldom agree on anything with wills unanimity but here arc are some of o f the things tome some of them believe That Governor Al Smith is the strongest s candidate the Democrats could c run and is the only man who can c an win That AIs AI's nomination would be a rightful frightful f boner and that he would run millions of votes voles behind any nice re respectable re- re respectable s dry Democrat That President Pr ident Coolidge either cither be be- because because because cause of his own desire or that of others or both is definitely out of next years year's presidential race rue That President Coolidge will w be drafted by a a. worried party which feels that he is by far its safest can can- candidate That Herbert Hoover cant can't possibly win wits because he doesn't fit with the politicians and cant can't gain enough strength h in farm regions and the cast east That Hoover Hooter is riding on a a. rising tide of popularity among the busi busl- business ness fleas men and the people which I win easily give him a majority at the convention They're sure That Jim Reed Heed is the Ute strongest Democratic candidate because he is Li bound to inherit the Smith strength I when Smith definitely fails falls to break breal breakthrough breakthrough through the two thirds rule That Jim hasn't a a- chance chaises because hes he's wet because the farmers are i isore sore at him and because he deserted I Woodrow Wilson That Frank Low Lowden den knows he cant can't I Iwin win with his prospective p bloc of tarn farm 1 state delegates and that he will be bequeath be- be bequeath them to Dawes as s soon as he h i has had a a. brief fling nIng at the conven convert tion That Lorden Lowden has a chance to win 1 because well because well come to think of It nobody really believes this one omit That Charles Evans Hughes will be bi nominated w se w the support of Andy And Mellon the eastern Republicans the thi international bankers and the Stand Stand- Standard Standard ard and Oil company That Hughes wont won't be nominated because the electorate knows he has ha S the support of Andy Mellon the in international In- In International international bankers and the Standard i Oil company That Smith can carry New York Massachusetts and Illinois against the th 5 Republican candidate That Smith cant can't carry Massachusetts Massachusetts setta and Illinois in any event and am couldn couldn't t beat Hushes Hughes Iu I-Iu hes In hi New York They know That Hiram Johnson will w ham ham- hamstring hamstring string Hoover in California by reason of his long standing enmity thus de dc de- de delivering livering a 0 probably fatal blow to the tb Hoover hopes That Johnson will support Hoover Hoove in order to save his own skin at the tb next senatorial election That the most roost likely event ev nt in the th Republican party is the nominator nomination of a dark horse not now figured in ii the running That Tha t that tha t is I the most unlikely event even t because the G G. G O. O P. P P can cant can't t afford to ti take chances with any candidate who hasn't t already established a popular ular ula appeal That the Democrats will nominate another compromise man like John Johe 1 Davis That the tho Democrats are sick of compromise candidates whom the people refuse to get excited about That the voters will wilt become all het bet up over the alleged corruption and of the a. a 0 O. O P. P That they wont won't give a whoop In That the Catholic voters oters will silent silent- silently ly bolt the party if Smith isn't nomi nomI- nominated misted naud in the belief belle that they are vIe vic Urns tim of religious prejudice That the Catholic voters will be good fellows about it That some rome of the candidates candidate on both boIls sides aides arent aren't bellowing their am om because they actually believe that the nomination should hould seek the I man That each of these candidates is doing everything possible in an in in- in indirect indirect direct way to encompass his Isis nomina nomina- nomination nomination tion lion being restrained in his hia bellow- bellow logs ings only by tho the exigencies of smart politics And a whole lot more Copyright 1927 NEA mA Service Inc Ine |