Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 272, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 1923 Page: 6 of 48
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6____________________________MA DALE EES, SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1924.________________------------.
M’ADOO AS PROSPECTIVE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD BEARER
FRIENDS NOT YET ORGANIZED
BUT HE HAS SOME ADVANTAGE
: IN NATURE OF GROUP SUPPORT
had. A traveler in Mississippi the
other day felt he had run across an
extraordinary phenomenon Jor no
small political significance when he
found a little colored boy bearing
the name et whitam Gibbs McAdoo
Black. That is a sort of honor more
often paid to Republican presidents
and presidential candidates than to
Ds ml erat le ones.
.
ple.
we, for exam,
his seat in the
Campaign will Have Active Support ef Railway Employes
Throughout Country as Well as a Large Following From
‘ Among the Farmers—Friends Urge His Special Fitness
£ for Handling Transportation Problem, One of ThreeBig
Issues of the Campaign, According to Mark Sullivan,
Noted Political Writer. 1* :
B7 By MARK SULLIVAN
(Copyright, 1923, New York Tribune, Inc.)
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Here in Washington the otherday
there wee a conversation dealing with some of the up and coming traits
-of Mr. McAdoo’s personality, which traits, in the gen-
oea eral judgment, will put s good many hurdles in the
A way of the Underwood presidential boom. In this
GomunWonversation one answer to the question whether Me
751580 would run, was phrased in the slightly cryptic
-opnit sufficiently meaning words: “Can you keep a
0-2cnnl,suirrel from climbing a tree?" The laugh that fol
1E--2 lowed was illustrative of a general conception of Mo
1' Wiesent Adoo’s personality and career-pungent, dynamic
traits of mind, coupled with quick moving physical
puts energy traits that suggest thst old aphorism to the
PNWSE1 effect that "You can’t keep a squirrel on the ground."
M This humorous allusion to merely a portion of Mr.
McAdoo’s qualities was by no means unfriendly. It
was in the same spirit as some verses about McAdoo
Cay which were current in Washington soon after he
A N resigned his office of secretary of the treasury. These
R SULLIVAN verses, so far as the present writer knows, were not
sprint at least, the only copies of them the present writer ever saw
on typewritten sheets that were passed about from hand to hand
in Washington circles, without any identity of ownership attached. As
to who the author was the present writer has no information beyond
the fact, which the reader may deduce from the internal evidence of
the verses themselves, that the author waa probably Republican in his
political learnings. It may serve an additional interesting purpose it
the repetition of the verses here should unearth the author or give re-
newed publicity to the authorship in the event that the verses have
ever been published before. They compose an uncommonly clever ex-
ample of political poetry and political satire as well:
WILLIAM GIBBS MA DOO
The Wke, pre-eminently Who.
William Gibbs, the McAdoo.
(Whom 1 should like to hall, but
darert.
As Royal Prince and Heir Apparent:)
A man of high Intrinsic Worth,
The Greatest Son-in-law on Earth-
With all the burdens thenge accrue
He’s always up and MeAdooing.
From Sun to Star and Star to Sun,
His work la never McAdone.
He regulates our Circumstances,
Our Buildings, Industries, Finances,
And Railways, while the wires buss
To tell us what he McAdoes.
He gave us (Heaven bless the Giver)
The tubes banoath the Hudson
in just such a
in. He appealed
the country dis-
tricts and to the laborers in the
cities, and both classessupported
him. But the politicians who have
watched Brookhart's successful
start do not believe he will be able
to keep it up. If he lives up to the
hopes off the farmers, be must dis-
appoint the laborers and if he lives
up to ths expectations of the labor-
ers hs must disappoint the farmers.
Many of the party leaders here, in
Washington confidently believe that
Brookhart, before his term is end-
sd, will have disappointed one or the
other of these two groups that come
pose his following.
. The farmer wants higher prices
for what he sells and those higher
prices must come chiefly from the
city consumer. • The farmer, at the
same time, complains of high prices
for what he buys, and high prices
senate by
combiners
wi
in a way that
farmer deeply,■
is alfalfa and
ots are diminis
irds as excessive
white McAdoo will have the rail-
road workers as one of his largest
assets, one wonders whether the
possession of this asset may .not
carry with it some accompanying
liabilities. Caa MeAdoo have the
railroad worker and at the same
time have also ths discontented
farmer? Under ordinary circum-
stances many of these farmers, who
In tho Republican party express
themselves, politically by following
radicals or progressives such as
La Follette and Brookhart, would
tend to express themselves in the
Democratic party in an analogous
way by supporting men like Me-
Adoo end Ford. In fact, so long as
tho formers are In their present
mood, and to the degree that they
act within the Democratic party,
Ford and MeAdoo are about the only
Anna among those mentioned for the
Democratic nomination who appeal ___
to them. If the Democratic pres- he is out of line with city labor. At
idential primaries were held today - *-------— -- 4------=2
the greet bulk pf those formers who
are Democrats would vote for one
or the other of those two men. As
between MeAdoo and Ford, probably
Ford would attract the larger num-
ber, of the fanners. But McAdoo,
because of his Identification in a
broad way with progressive policies,
might ordinarily be expected to get
a considerable following in the ag-
ricultural states of the West. 1
high freight mates is the advances
ia railroad wares made by MeAdoo
when he had control of the railroads
during the war, the milkior which
advances' still remain's la “effect.
Whether or not this is strictly ac-
curate, and whether or not the rail-
road worker is, even now getting as
m-h-tenamesaraEt
£292=me
One may readily wonder how Mr.
MeAdoo will come through on this.
Especially hew he will come through
It it Henry Ford, or Word’s friends,
should be talking against him in
any phase of the campaign. If it
comes to comparisons of one Indus-
trial Moses against another indus-
trial Mopes, it may turn out that
Henry Ford will be the men who
will seem to all the workers, include
ing the railroad workers, to be the
real miracle man. Whatever doubts
might be raised by a thoroughgoing
investigation, the fact, sufficient for
political purposes, in that a consid-
srable portion of the public has got
the impression of Henry Ford as s
worker of economic, miracles, the
man who at one and the same time
can pay higher wages to his workers
land sell his product at lower note
a the Unit
I this sort o
is come
EprofitN
able body of voters who are thick-
and-thin McAdoo men. At the heart
of It are the railroad workers, who
like the way McAdoo treated them
when he had charge of the raile
roads during the war. Practically
all the railroad men and others
whose point of view la affected by
that of the railroad workers are for
MeAdoo. This is an asset that
weighs more than the actual num-
ber of voters involved. It Is no
for what the farmer buys are or-
dinarily the accompaniment of high *
wages for the atty workmen. । 4
One description of the present sit- t J
nation of the farmer would nay that •
a moment when the farmer la in
distress because he la getting bare-
ly more than the prewar average
price for hla wheat and his other
products, labor in the cities—espee-
lally labor in the highly unionised
building trades and labor In the coal
mines— haa been able to keep in
wages, practically at the high point
they reached during the war-time
inflation. Labor on the railroads
has been reduced somewhat from its
wartime peak. But the railroad
man haa kept a much greater pro-
portion of hla wartime advancea
than the farmer.
River-
I don’t believe he ever hid
A single thing he MeAdid %
His name appears on Scrip and Tia-
on bonds for each succeeding issue.
On coupons bright end posters rare.
And every Pullman Bill of Fare
, , POSTSCRIP 5
But while with sympathetic crood-
rains his varies Mekdoodlings
And write these eulogistic lines
That thankless McAdoo resigns.
1 While it is s fact that Underwoon
more near ly a fformal ' candidate
for the Democratic nomination
than any other man—in the sense
that certain definite steps have al-
ready been taken in ths way of or-
Fanisation and understanding
among some of the leaders—never-
theless, there’in such a degree of
netivity on the part of McAdoo's
friends and partisans that it is
merely a deference to some et ths
suphemistic reticences of practical
politics to pretend that there is any
longer much doubt about McAdoo
being put forward as a candidate.
ths present stage Underwood’s
candidacy is mors formidable in the
sense thst mors of the activity in
his behalf comes from the top, so to
speak—from mea of power la the
making of nominations. The Mc-
Adoo movement is, for the present,
more diffused and comes from the
as yet uncoordinated activity oof
some of the smaller local leaders
and from groups of voters.
“ There is a definite and consider-
small asset to a candidate to have
moot of the railroad men "rooting"
tor him. Railroad conductors and
brakemen chatting with the smok-
ing-car passengers and always talk-
ins MoAdoo——that is an asset which
many a national committee would
pay tens of thousands of dollars to
bring about. At the Democratic
National Convention at San Francis-
co in 1920 it was said—with whet
waa meant for cynicism, but was
actually in some degree troth ithe)
much of the McAdoo sentiment in
the air of the convention arose .co ...
the fact that the delegatee on their
long tripe across the continent had
net board anybody talk politics "ex-
cept the railroad conductors and the
elation agents.
One ef the assets claimed for Mc-
Adoo Ik that he would take more
colored votes away from the Repub-
leans than any other Democrat
could. One of the conspicious steps
taken by McAdoo when he had con-
trol of the railroads during the war
was to raise the pay of all the
colored railroad workers in the
South to exactly the same as white
moa received for the same work.
McAdoo put it on the basis of equal
pay for equal work. Previous’ to
that time, under private manage-
ment, colored brakemen and fireman
bad been, paid lower wages than
white brakemen and firemen. The
private managers used to go oa the
somewhat older economic theory of
paying no more than you are com-
pelled te pay; and in the South you
could always get colored labor for a
lower wage than white labor.
This equalisation of the pay of
colored workers to the same aa
white men, received for the same
work has gone by word of mouth all
over the country, and wherever
there are colored colonies there la
MeAdoo sentiment et a sort that M>
Democrat since the Civil, War haa
When You Save Food
You Save Money
The impurities in the air in your
refrigerator when you use it
without ice makes food spoil
1quickly. ,
‘ Save it with ice.
Keep a supply of ice in your re-
frigerator and you save the food
that has cost you money and the 5
expense is a mere trifle. “. ■
Hang your card in your window.
If you have no card, phone 8101
and one will be sent immediately.
Our ice is convenient to handle
because it is cut square to fit the
space. *
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Red Letters* Red Letters
And yet one may reasonably ques.
tion whether It is: possible for one
and the same candidate to
through the discussions and debates
of a political campaign with the '
farmers oa one shoulder and rail-
road labor on, the other. To unite
the farmer and the laborer la one
of the commonest dreams of poli-
ticlans. On paper It looks like a
“cinch " Add the number of farm-
era in the country to the number
of laborers in the country and the
aum la more than a majority of all
the voters. But while thia looks
alluring on paper, would it actually
work out in practice? Would the
cement of a paper-combination of
farmers and laborers combination
atand the atraln of discussion
threran a long political campaign?
The fact is, the economic interests
of the laborers are to a large extent
the opposite of the economic inter-
ests of the farmers. And if their
economic interests are diverse, can
their political interests be united,
and: can they be led to act as •
political unit? We are living in a
period when politics la the expres-
sion of economic interest, when
economic groups act as’ political
"blocs.” And at such a time can
79" have * permanent combination -----—----wows ve uuster
% the term bloc and the labor blocs to leave his potatoes in the ground.
It is certain that the railroads-
the transportation question — will
figure largely In the next campaign.
The friends of McAdoo count this
ss one of his assets. They claim
thst ths country during the wsr got
an impression of McAdoo ss a man
who can run ths railroads better
than the private owners. (It le true
there are- many who dispute this
violently, but McAdoo’s friends be-
lieve thst the bulk of the people
will think of McAdoo as a railroad
Moses.)
Since ths railroad question is cer-
lain to be one of the three lending
Issues of the campaign. It follows
that there will be a world of discus-
sion of U. public and private The
farmers will thrash It out wherever
two or more farmers corns together.
To them the railroad question in an
- acute and pressing matter of dol-
a lars and cents. In several sections
of the west last fall thousands of
sores of potatoes were left in the
ground because the price was so
low and ths freight cost of getting
them to the market so high that the
raiser judged he would be belter off
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- - The day that is looked forward to with feelings of
pleasure throughout the land. Seemingly in spirit
with the occasion, Nature puts on its new garb in
J. flowers and fresh foliage so it is only natural that
- the neweapparel should also grace the day.
Displays here afford great leeway in the matter of
selection and the smartest fashions ire presented.
DISTINCTIVE TAILLUERS IN
TWO AND THREE PIECE MODES .
The suit to a favored costume for the Eastern Morn’ and it -
- may be safely chosen in two or three, piece styles.
The showing here affords exclusive models in combinations of
twill cord woolens and beautiful silks.
Two piece suits also in many styles and in both the two and
three piece models one may choose Balkan blouse, box styles
with side fastening or jaunty flared effects, either plain or <
smartly trimmed. 1 . *
Prices range from $29h5 to $136.
FROCKS FOR EASTER 5
IN QUALITY SILKS
Such beauty in frocks has not been presented
before. Rich colorings in flat crepes adorned
with panels and outlined medallions in bright
ribbons. Printed crepes in delightful modes..
Short sleees or shoulder caps, corded or seal-
toped hems, bouffant models or the slender
silhouette with draped waistline are included.
- Priced from $29.75 to $98.76.
THE EASIER BONNET IN
CHARMING EFFECTS
It may be a clever poke, a daring cloche or a
broad drooped style but it will surely be Ear-
terlike in coloring. Rainbow hues in straw
cloth, candy cloth timbo braids, silks and mi-
lans are shown with trimmings of dainty
flowers, ostrich feathers and ribbon. %
SILK GLOVES
Kayser’s make in spring fashions. Tan./ -
whin eras and back.
12 and 16-button fancy sieves at MAS ,
16-button embroidered in colore, .sees
Y
SALE OF NOTIONS MONDAY
Batra-oFoetal values are offered-in needed articles to fit in with
your plans for spring sowing, ,
Good quality safety pins......se Wire hale pins, 180 grade ....10
Best arads hookn.and ** ■“£ wire hair pins, 100 grade.....se
*=*-=* ****a-s inch white elastic for bloom-
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Best grade needles, paper.....se
[Kohinor snaps, blaeh or whits.
52*27.. V.21l Aha £
White and colored tatting edge
at ..........,...............the
for*. ’■ "2. ^-. .these
Cream ell toilet soap, 4 for...Me
Big assortment ear drops, very
special, pair )...............see
Best grade hooks and eyen, SUAE,
anteed not to rust W.. Tu.o.ve
tee grade Stickerie Braid, an col-
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Dainte, white bias lawn tape, all
sizes ...................... 10e
White cotton Rick-Rack braid
for 227lee
Wright's colored bias tape,all
100 quality pearl buttons, per
card ****** Y Se
The best brass pins, card..... Se
Cotter beads. Se, 10c and.... 1H
Klelnert's dress shields, sizes-2
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SILK HOSE
Kayser’s aiimlik Hose in brown or
black at ...7................sa.se
Kayser silk with lisle top at..... $1.93
$5.60 and MAI Armour Plate Silk Hose,
special itonday ---------......41.18
SPRINGTIME IS
CLEANING TIME
The busy housewife, scrubbing, dusting
and cleaning; painters everywhere,
brightening-up the dull spots; every,
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Springtime comes.
Don’t forget that your clothing too re-
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Send it to us for thorough and careful
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