Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-19 | Page 4 | A President in the Making

I A PRESIDENT IN TiHE MAKING. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are experiencing a contest in which "favorite sons" are being supported by their states. On the Republican side '.Hon end Leonard Wood is winning a wider support than Johnson, Lowden or liarding, but the followers j of Johnson and Lowden are more ardent, in their allegiance than the Wood men, Johnson arouses more enthusiasm and appeals more t-the t-the imagination than does Wood, whose strongest backing is centered cen-tered in the "big interest." On the Democratic side, the rivalry is rather tame, the most enlivening en-livening feature being the personal differences of Bryan and Ilitch-?ock Ilitch-?ock cropping out in the fight between the two men in the Nebraska "primaries. Hitchcock claims Bryan is upsetting the majority rule ' m announcing he will not vote for Hitchcock evpn though elected and instructed, but allow his alternate to feast his'viitc.' This is not j in conflict with the rule and Bryan takes the right position, if Hitch-j Hitch-j "cock is to him an impossibility. Senator Hitchcock would be a disappointing candidate for Democracy. De-mocracy. During the war the Xebraskan-was not aggressively on , the side of those devoted to throwing into the struggle all the resources re-sources of the United Slates. ,