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Show BOSSES DECIDE ON TICKET TO DEFEAT MADDQ Tammany Leader, Taggart and Roger Sullivan Want Marshall and Smith TWELVE TO FIFTEEN BALLOTS HELD NECESSARY Expert Says Antis Need More Sawdust to Stabilize What Brains They Have By JOHN CAIX.AN O'LOUGHMX. (Written for Universal Service SAN FRANCISCO, Jul.v 2. The triumvirate tri-umvirate has decided on a ticket to beat William G. McAdoo. It is Slar-Bhall Slar-Bhall and Smith, the former vd.ee-1 president of the I'nited States, the; latter governor of the state of New York. The triumvirate is made up of three, politicians locally omnipotent, natlon-i all tinvlsioried They are Murphy J the Tammany chieftain; Taggart. the Indiana boss, and Rrennan, the "lajet Wish" Of Roger Bulllvan, Of Illinois Murphv is confident that not more than 16 of the f0 vote3 of the Bni-J plre slate will slip from him to Mc- Adoo. Taggart feels certain of his control of the 36 votes Of Indiana.) Brennan may lose 20 of the ot". cotes! of his state. Upon the remainder he is counting implicitly. t Of course, of the H7 votes which; the three leaders control are not sufficient suf-ficient In themselv es to stop McAdoo, but there arc others scattered throughput through-put the states upon which they l -lle'Ve they ran rely. They believe lh have been helped In their design to rlrfetro MrAJoo by th a'ctfon of the latter's friends in placing his name in nomination Hcfore this move was made the anti-! McAdoo group was fighting an in-, tangible shape that was slowly talcing talc-ing substance and it was admitted by one of the number tonight that they were beaten and that ihe New Yorker York-er held the nomination in his grip I Sine the formal nomination of Mc- Adoo there is a definite figure at. which to turn loose the mustard gas that hs been held In reserve The gas Is now released. Applying the political axiom that there must be somebody with which to beat somebody some-body the bosses have combined upon Marshall nd Smith. slurphj Sour On Cos Murphy Is Satisfied, since he sour-j ed on Cox, and wants his governor to be honored. Taggart Is satisfleal because he has one ambition to real-; i.e. f lection to the senate of the I 'died 'di-ed States and he believes that with Marshall running for the presidency,! Taggart is sure to be swept into thei senate. Brennan is satisfied because' he has staked his leadership of thel Illinois, delegation upen the defeat of . Adoo Should the latter win, Hren-nafl Hren-nafl Will lose all chance of being Sullivan's Sul-livan's successor. The McAdoo forces are loss con-' cerned over the combination of the, triumvirate than perhaps the should be. They figure that few Of the con-, vcntion will want to trail along With I Murphv Tag.irl ami Brennan the three recbgjnlsed bosses in tin convention. con-vention. Bryau Opposes McAdoo. William Jennings Bryan is opposed to McAdoo. Some say he can control jo votes on the nomination, others, not more than forty? Will he support the Tammany ticket? The McAdoo men ask. Bryan will cast his votes, on the first few ballots, for Senator Owen of Oklahoma, But the Nbbrasr kan, as well as his candidate, knows that the chance is hopeless, excellent as has been Owen's service In tho senate. Where, then will Bryan go, particularly as ho cannot get the nomination for himself? Only the Commoner knows and he won't tell 1 All that can be said with any certain-1 ty is that ho Is against McAdoo. Cox,, 1 aimer and everybody else, practically, practi-cally, who is in nomination. N Leaderships. The opposition to Mr .McAdoo ad- mil that they have practically no leadership but, on the other hand I ihey say that the New Yorker has 1 too many leaders In his amp Both Statements arc true. Mr. Murphy Is handling tho situation as If he were i trying to nominate somebody for city I alderman. He 13 surrounded b able sveophants who, when called upon for advice, first learn what is in the , mind of the chief and then, parrot-1 parrot-1 like repeat it. Taggart, as has been said, wants the aenatorship and this I makes him more or less band-wagon in his attitude. Brennan has never ' been classed as a great leader. It ' was Sullivan who did the leading and ' Brennan. for many years, filled the i role of lieutenant. store sawdust Needed. A very wise observer remarked to-' to-' day that what the antl-MeAdoo group 111 . da La additional sawdust in their j lo ads so as to stabilize what brains I 1 hey have. When this was reported I to one of the men closely associated jvvith Murphy, he remarked that the proof of tho pudding would bo the eating and that when the balloting was over tomorrow night, the McAdoo men would know whether or not the iriurnv Irate had brains. There Is no longer talk of three or four ballots. The McAdoo candidacy is in this position: , It Is S bl organized minority opposed op-posed by a headless majority largely of the band-wagon character. The Continued on l'age II Bosses Decide Ticket to Defeat McAdoo (Continued from Rage 1) general impression seems to be that: there will be anywhere from twelve to fifteen ballots. rainier will b the first rolled out. then Cox will ake his drive and when he ia through; the VtcAdOO onrush will taUe place. ! if he can be stopped with Marshall and; Smith, well and good; If another com-j 'lunation Is needed, then, after the: ! first few ballots, WheU It Is evident: how the alignment rxlsts. an attempt will he made to form It, and this Is the hope of Ambassador I (avis (Copyright by Washington Post.) |