Ford Must Be Reckoned With in McAdoo s Presidential Boom Rift Would Blast Hope of Winning Support of Auto Maker Will Swing to Ex-Treasurer in Convention, Sullivan Predicts. Coolidge Course Clear MARK SULLIVAN. ' Washington, Sept. 8.—The most formidable organization working for any democratic presidential nomina tion Is the one behind McAdoo. But, energetic as that organization Is, It is difficult to foresee how It can come to the convention with more than a maximum of 400 to 450 out of the total of 1,094 delegates. With that large proportion, if the McAdoo can didacy were within the republican par^r he would be almost assured of winning. But the Important differ ence between the republican rule and the democratic rule Is that, whereas In a republican convention a majority is sufficient to nominate. In a demo cratic convention, on the other hand, It requires two-thirds. And two-thirds Is a proportion extremely difficult to achieve even by the most diligent or ganizauon. Under these circumstances there Is one bit of policy which. If McAdoo's friends are willing and able to follow It, will go further than any other one factor toward bringing the difference between McAdoo's potential 400 dele gates and the necessary 730. That policy would be for McAdoo’s friends to avoid Irritating Ford's friends. If McAdoo can go through the prenomin ation campaign In the various states without causing friction with Ford's friends, McAdoo might then be In a position to be the beneficiary of Ford’s strength in the convention after Ford has been eliminated. There Is much that makes this jJolicy possi ble. The advocates are largely the same kind of people. Both groups belong In that Immense area which is not conservative In the standpat ter sense, but at the same time Is also distinguished from the radical fringe. Danger of Antagonism. The hopes of those who would like to see the things done which they think McAdoo would do If he were president, and the hopes of those who have the same feeling about Ford, are largely Identical. In the circum stances It would seem easily possible for Ford and McAdoo to carry on their preconvention campaigns with out friction. But this Is another of those political theories which look well on paper but which are difficult to carry 6ut In practice. Inevitably In several states where primaries oc cur there will be contest* between Ford delegates and McAdoo delegates. Such contests are almost Impossible to carry on In local districts without developing personal antagonism. Frequently the rule is for such anta gonisms to go to such lengths that when the convention arrives the In dividual delegate*, having had their feelings stirred up, are more disposed to do what would hinder than what would aid the other principal con tender. And yet. If there were among the McAdoo leaders a man of suf ficient bigness and patience to arrive at some kind of understanding be tween the Ford strength and the Mc Adoo strength, that would constitute *he most important single Increment to McAdoo’s present chances than he could possibly have. It Is the under standing of such Intangible factors as this and the ability to control them advantageously that make practical politics an art. Coolldge, as the leading possibility for the republican nomination, Is In a stronger position than most persons realize. All the disinterested politi cians realize It. It Is only those who themselves would like to be candi dates or the friends of such who al low their Judgment to be clouded about the strength of Coolldge’s po sition. Coolldge Sure Choice. .Any politician who la astute as well as disinterested will say In confidence that Coolldge Is sure to get the nomi nation unless ha makes some' kind of spectacular mistake. As some of them put It, “Coolldge has JO days to make good.” That limitation of time is ac curate. If there are to be other candi dates January 1 is about the Inst prac ticable day for them to make their an nouncements. If any future announce ments develop they will appear about the time of the assembling of con gress, the first Monday In December. If Coolldge has made a favorable Im pression on the public by that time no other candidate, however eager he or his friends may be, can announce opposition to him. “There may he favorite-son move ments In behalf of minor candidates like J,a Follette or there may be other movementa chiefly for purposes of local political strategy, hut hardly any definite movement on the part of any formidable candidate to take the nom lnatlon away from Coolldge. It Is aolely by avoiding mistakes, by making a good record, that Cool ldga can get the nomination. Ha can not get it by any kind of manipula tion, and he has enough political wis dom not to attempt It. There la no powerful clique In the republican na tional commute* that want* Coolldge nominated for personal ends. There are no politicians close to Coolldge. He has no “pals.” You can search all Washington and all the republican national committee without finding one politician or one man In public life who has to Coolldge the sort of relation that Daugherty hnd to Hard lng. His one Intimate friend, Frank lin Stearns of Boston, Is not a politi cian. If Mr. Stearns knows any pol itics at all he has picked It up from Coolldge. Stearns’s relation to Cool When in Omaha Stop at Hotel Rome Idge Is less a political relation than a benevolent, almost fatherly, one. Under No Obligation. There are many republicans politi cians who think that Coolidge’s nomi nation Is Inevitable or who regard It as desirable, assuming that he makes no mistakes. But there are no politi cians who want to see Coolldge nomi nated because it will help them per sonally. To the same degree that Coolldge has no individual political sponsors or political friends, so also is he with out obligations to any politician. There was only one man in public life who had the sort of relation to less. The farmers think of them selves ns .having economic interests antagonistic to those of the manu facturers in the east. In this conflict they insist that whoever is not for them is against thems For the mo ment they tend to think C'oolidge may be with them. Coolldge No Baron. » They base this on that dramatic picture in which Coolldge took the oath of office in his father's Vermont farmouse; on the simplicity of Coolidgc's life, and on the fact that he Is known to be poor. But never theless there is among the farmers a wish to make sure that Coolldge does I WilliaTt? 6ikW\ UcAaoQ A+~ Coolldge that might create obliga tions on Coolldge'* part. That man is now dead. He was former Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. When Coolldge was a young man In Massachusetts politics Crane was an experienced one. Crane picked Cool idge as a winner and in many ways puchcd him along. Since Crane's death there Is no man In politics, either In Massachusetts or throughout the country, who has the feeling that Coolidge is under obligations to him or the feeling that his word ought to go further with Coolldge than that of any one else. If Coolidge, or Coolldge’.* advocates, should survey the situation with the desire of doing everything possible to make his nomination secure they would Inevitably focus their thoughts on the western farmer. Everybody knows that at the time of Harding's death there was widespread insurgen cy In the republian party. The body of.that Insurgency was in the farm ing west. The farmers had come without any Justification to think that Harding was identified with what they regard as the city classes who exploit them, it was not true at all. Harding, because of things he did during the railway strike a year ago and for other reasons, was fully ns much out of favor with what Is called Wall street as he was with the farmer. This Insurgency among the repub lican farming state* still exists. Out of sense of fairness it refrains from expressing open suspicion of Cool idge. But Coolidge is under close scrultiny from the farmers, neverthe not belong to what the farmers think of as the caste of New England manu-. facturing barons. The political think ing of the farmers goes back to the days of the leadership of men like the late Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, and they tend to think of themselves as being exploited through the republican party by the manufac turers who, in their minds, they lo cate In New England. If Coolldge manages to make the farmers under stand that he Is not Identified with the manufacturing caste, and that ne is sympathetic to the farmer. It will eliminate what is almost the only present obvious obstacle to his re nomination. Aside from this. Coolldge, to make good, has merely to avoid mistakes. And Coolldge In his long political! career has never made any mistakes. Coolldge's position is stronger than, Harding's because the former starts! with a clean slate. Harding was un- i der the handicap of all the liabilities that had accrued to him during two and a half years. It would have been much more difficult for Harding to create the Impression of inevitability than it Is for Coolldge. Apart from Now! i Don’t Delay— || Now Is the Time to Act i Take That Phone—Ask for Patticulars Rogers Furnaces mean an immediate end to all your heating worries. The Rogers Furnace will positively give greater heat at smaller fuel expense. Scientific const ruction, cor rect and complete installation and our experience in successful heating assures you absolute satisfaction. 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By merely avoiding mistakes Coolldge can perpetuate the present situation, In which no other candidate can find the opportunity or the excuse to op pose hln* until such time os it will be too late for any one else to "throw his hat in the ring.” But as regards the election, Coolldge has no such safeguards. There will be a democratic candidate in the natural course of events. Whereas the pub lic feels It would be a kind of gra tuitous criticism for any other re publican to contest the nomination with Coolldge, they will have no such feeing about the subsequent election. After the two nominations are made Coolldge will cease to be the benefi ciary of the factors that favor him now. He and his party will neces sarily be on the defensive, and the outcome will be determined by the merits of the issues and by condi tions as they happen to be during the summer of 1924. One of two things is certain. Either congress, during the early months of its coming session, will take such drastic action for the restrictions of immigration as will satsify the coun try, or, In the lack of that, the plat forms of both political parties next year will call for this drastic action. There Is no sentiment more wide spread in the country today than the feeling that more aliens are now in America than we can absorb, that the additional aliens coming in are largely undesirable, and that dearly cherished American institutions, traditions and customs are menaced. America Gets Wreckage. If the experience of the various United States senators—more than a quarter of the entire body—and the other public men who have spent any portion of this summer In Europe are anything like the experience of the present writer these public men will come home affected by a feeling about immigration in addition to that already existing at home. Practical ly every American official abroad, American consuls and the like, who talk about Immigration at all talk of It in terms of’ alarm. Again and again one heard American officials say. In effect: "For Heaven's sake, go hack and wake America up to the kind of Immigration it is getting. We can't talk because we are officials. Go down and look at It yourself on the docks and see If you want Amer ica filled up with the sort of human beings you find there. America has no notion either of the kind or the quantity of persons who are coming into America by hook or crook.” Not only is the bulk of the Immigra tion coming in by ordinary channels unsatisfactory. In addition, there Is a large amount of ''bootlegging” irn migration which the American people. If they knew about It, would keep out as rigidly as they would keep out an epidemic. Among other devices, our laws are evaded by persons who move to countries close to our bor ders nnd some In surreptitiously. In one foreign city recently the land lord of the building In which the American consul had his offices re quested him to move because of the kind of crowds who came for pass port vises. Mum on Foreign Policy. Everybody expects that foreign re lations In one form or another will be an Issue In next year’s presiden tial election. But the present writer, although he has talked with scores of political leaders In both parties, has found no one who pretends to be able to foresee what form the foreign re lations issue will take. Broadly speak ing, the republicans will be on the side of isolation. It is quite possible that they may put forward Harding’s proposal that we Join the Interna tional court as their only affirmative attitude in regard to Europe. Even to do this will encounter some oppo sition. There is throughout the re publican party, and especially In the republican national committee, deter mined opposition to everything in the foreign field, determined clinging to the isolation position. For the repub licans to phrase their position on foreign affairs In such a way as to give them any dignity Is going to be most difficult. With the democrats, as things stand today, the situation Is not much easier. There are many democrats, as there are many republicans, who keep their faith in the league of nations. But there is hardly any democrat, thinking In terms of winning the elec tion next year, who would favor go ing back to the old Wilson position on the league of nations. In a popular sense, just now. In America as well as In Europe, the league of nation* la In eclipse. Only some dramatic ac tion on the part of the league or ■uch vital and moving leadership as Wilson gave to It can revive the league of nations us a political Issue In such a way as to make It promise success for a political party. May Be Different. All of this Is of the situation today. By a year from now the whole Euro pean situation may have been changed in such a way as to present new Is sues. In one conceivable turn of events, If the present attempts to set tle the Ruhr situation and fix repara tions should succeed, all Europe might leap forward In an Industrial activity which would reflect Itself In Amer ica. In another conceivable turn of events Europe may go from bad to worse and there may be a year from now a situation from which we can no more abstain, either in self-respect or In self-interest, than we were able to avoid being Involved In the war In 1917. To speak In terms of the European situation next year Is to come close to the question of what American bus lness conditions are going to be a year from now. Stated In the broadest way. the fundamental fact Is that you can not have such an Industrial paralysis as now exists In the Ruhr, which Is the heart of European Industry, with out ultimately Infecting the rest of the world. Sooner or later there must come a time when America's business activity will be less than what It might have been because of what has l>een happening In Europe since the first of January. And yet there are curious qualifications or tnn runat mental fact which up to date have de- . feated the predictions of the soundea'^ economists and business men. Amer ican business activity has seen during the present year a greater volume than ever before. Business Goes Elsewhere. The fact Is that paralysis of oen tral Europe has set up curious un anticipated currents. It Is true that because Germany and much of the rest of Europe have been patalyzed Industrially, they have been unable to buy American goods on a normal basis to the extent that might other wise have been possible. But If paralysis has caused Europe to cease to be a purchaser It has to ths sume degree caused Europe to ceass to be a manufacturer and exporter. The result has been that America has secured a certain amount of business In South America and in Asia which would have gone to Europe If Europe had been on a normal basis. There are some American business men who believe that American business In South America and Asia will go on and Increase and absorb America’s normal capacity. These business men are willing to take the most gloomy view of Europe's future, to assent to It that Europe will ceaae to be a Urge consumer of American prod ucts. but. nevertheless, to believe that the Increase of business In South America and Asia will leave the United States no less well off. 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