Mc Adoo and Smith Dope Out
Different Formulas To Win
Smith Say* Ea?t and Solid South Will Give Him Victory
With Little or No Help from West, While ftlcAdoo Points
to 1912 or 1916, With LaFollette to Say Which
By DAVID LAWRENCE
(Cverrtftit. int. By The AhaauI
i^rw i otk, June 21. -Kvery con
vention lias In the back of Its mind
one thing?how can the prospective
candidate win If h*? Is nominated?
Each of the two leadinr. candidates
for the Democratic nom i suit ion??
William (JihltH McAdoo aid Governor
At Smith?d? p.-tids 0:1 two
formulas for gi-tiin:: ?nouuh votes li
the electoral colb-ne. it is tlx
rtr? ngtli or vi'iikiM S!* of McAdoo or
Smith accord in?; as you vi?*w their
chalices.
Hut mingling with the d'-le-at.<*
even lit this early stage of the gaitu-.
one encounters the statement on the
part of the Al Smith managers that
he would win by a combination of
Kastern states plus the solid South.
'The McAdoo managers reserve the
right to alter their formula. depend
Inn on whether Senator LaPollette of
Wisconsin runs or simply refrains
from supporting the Coolidge-Dawes
ticket.
Here Is the way the Smith people
look at the electoral table If the gov
ernor of New York who has twice
carried the empire state is the nom
inee of the Democratic party and If
on the ticket with him Is some West
erner of appealing strength like
Charles nryan. governor of Nebras
ka. and brother of William Jennings
Bryan:
Electoral
Suite* Voted.
Alabama 12
Arkansas :? 9
Connecticut 7
Delaware ; 3
Florida ?
Georgia 14
Illinois 29
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 10
Maryland ?:?l? ? 8
Massachusetts 18
Mississippi 19
Missouri 18
New Jersey 1 4
New York 4 5
North Carolina 12
Oklahoma 10
Rhode Island 5
South Carolina 9
Tennessee ? 12
West Virginia ? 8
Total 272
Necmary for a majority, 266.
The Smith supporters do not'con
cede that the West would be for
feited. On the contrary with a West
ern man for Vice Prealdent they
think many states would be won but
they Insist that all th?? West put to
gether doea not count as much as
the sure states of the populous East
where A1 Smith is popular.
Turning now to the McAdoo camp,
one finds that the managers are ap
plying two ideas?th? vote as cast In
the 1916 election If LaFollette does
not run on a third party ticket, and
the rote as cast In the 1912 election
If LaFollette splits the republican
vote by running as an Independent
Republican. With LaFollette in the
field, the McAdoo managers would
count on their favorite carrying
states like Michigan. Indiana. West
Virginia, Illinois. Oregon, in addition
to many Western slates.
"I believe," said Thomas R. Love,
the Texas leader, "that McAdoo
would carry nil the stat?-s Wilson did
in 1912 and that LaFollette wouM
carry the Roosevelt states of that
year."
Daniel C. Rop'-r of South Carolina,
another ardent McAdoo man. be
lieves that If LaFollette does not run
the McAdoo vote in the electoral col
lege would be the Wilson vote of
1916 plus Minnesota, MichiKan. In
diana, Illinois, West Virginia and
South Dakota.
There In no question an the con
vention assembles that McAdoo and
Smith lead the field and that the oth
er dozen candidates are hoping for
a deadlock so that one of their num
ber may be nominated.
The first of the "dark horses" Is
John D. Dalrls of West Virginia, for
mer ambassador to Great Britain,
-who appears to be almost as strong
In the ranks of the .Smith delegate*
as he Is among the McAdoo support
ers. He has more second choice
votes now tlyin any other man In the
convention. The managers of Mc
Adoo and Smith are aware of this
?Ml are. of course, flKhtinu vigorous
ly against the Idea that any one else
should be named but their respective
favorites. Never-the-less the boom
for Davis grows dally.
The contest over the platform
promises plenty of oratory and de
bate. The three main points of con
tention are the planks relating to the
League of Nations, light wines snd
beer and the Ku Klux Klan. Inas
much as the platform Is Adopted be
fore the balloting for President and
Vice President begins, which prob-i
ably will be Thursday, the kind of
pat form accepted by the convention
will In a measure Indicate the kind
of oandlddate who will be chosen.
Th* fight about the Ki< Klux Klan
seems to center on whether that or
ganisation should be named and spe
cifically denounced or whether the
declaration should cover all organi
sations given to taking the law unto
their own hands. As for prohibi
tion. Wood row Wilson sent a light
vine and beer plank to the Demo
cratic National Convention In San
Francisco; but It was not presented
by his spokesmen. It might be re
vived here. On the league of Na
tlens. there are two schools of
theught ? those who wsnt an un
equivocal declaration and those who
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IhkIj- Talked ami Nolio<l\
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iwas wrong about the weather. He
isaid everybody talked about it but
ithnt nobody did anytblnK about it.
Merchants and buyer* and jobbers
j in a Rcore of different sections of the
|country are doing something about
I the weather this Week. They are
buying or preparing to buy large'
quantities of goods. The harvest!
season now is under way and with'
I the advent of warmer weather, the
buying power of the great bulk ofj
the population of the Fnited Slates
has increased.
Industries which have no connec-|
tion with agriculture are benefitting'
from the increase in the farmers' |
purchases. The wheat harvest is on1
in Texas and Oklahoma now and will'
start in Southwestern Kansas about
June 25 to July 1. Reports from
Fort Worth and Amarillo indicate
that the farmers of that section are
not going to hold their wheat. They I
will market it at present prices. That |
means a power to spend between 50?
and X5 cents for every bushel grown
on the thousands of acres planted to
thla crop In the Southwest.
There are enough men to handle
the harvest In the North Central dis
trict off the Texas Pan Handle and
the plains sections of Texas. They ?
are receiving around $4 a day. Thei
official Government labor agents an
nounce, however, that 50.000 men j
will have to be brought In from tlwl
outside to accommodate the needs oi
the Southwest. That means a po- i
tential purchasing power of $200,- j
000 a day from the harvest hands |
alone. Four thousand men will b?
needed in the next week in Harper, j
Deaver and Texas counties Oklaho
ma, and they will be paid not less
than $3 to $3.50 a day with board
and lodging.
Kansas will need 40,000 men from
1 outside the state to harvest its wheat
,crop and will begin paying them
$3.50 to $4 a day and board inside
the next week. The Southern part
of Nebraska will start to spend inon
ev from crops and wage returns
aouut June 25 In the Southern sec-'
tion while the Impetus to trade prob-|
ably will not strike Colorado mer
chants until July 1 or later.
Who benefits? First the mer-|
chants, for the buying of farmers andi
farm hands Is dependent at least Co
tone extent on the harvest and the
weather. Merchants have not had
their shelves over filled. If the
buying of their sections Is active,
they must renew their stocks with
consequent profit to the manufactur
er, the industrial workers, the pre.
think whatever is suid should be;
<iuullfled by the general observation'
that nothing would be done to limit
the sovereignty or interfere with the
independence of the United States.
'ducor of raw materials and the rall-|
| roads.
! Railroads already are making con-'
? ces?ion? to h?ivw>l hands in order to!
1 expedite grain shipment*. Scores of
'thousands ?f r?r? *rt* held on sid
ings awaiting their burdens of wheat
which will yield bit revenue* to the
carriers. These rates are usually ap
plicable only to groups of 25 or more
ridini: on one ticket to a definite'
point. The rain which fell over Kan
sas durin*; the early part of the week,
Is declared by farmers to have bene-'
fitted conditions 100 per cent.
I Crop conditions of the cotton
jgrowinc states are improving, ac
'cording to late reports from Louisi
ana and Mississippi and the prospect
for revenue to growers is far better
than at th? end ?>f May. As a result
of this and the marketing of South
ern fruit and truck cropj. Jobbers in
that section say business is improv
ing. Merchants ni'?* h? ndinu In more
voluntary maii orders ;!mn at any
tin:- in th*? last il?r?e months. Th"s<
generally are for small <|tiaiuities but
for piompt shlpm* nt and indicate' a
revival of consumer buying.
WILL l.WITK tXI.WKXTOX
It. Y. 1\ r. HKKK IN f?2fl
When the delegates from Hlack
well Memorial II. Y. P. I*. to the
convention at Wilmington made their
reports at Sunday school Sunday,
morning the motion wan pissed that
the convention be invited to Eliza
beth City in 1926. The delegates
were also requested to make their'
reports to the church at the evening]
service next Sunday. The delegates;
were Klgln White. Miss Elolse Ayd
lett, and Miss Nellie Hastings, the
latter being elected one of the vice)
president of the State B. Y. P. U.
In last week's crnventlon.
NOTICE
The canc.1 bridge at South Mills
will be closed to road traffic June
26-27. 7 a. m. to 10 a. m., and 1 p.
m. to 4 p. m.. for repairs.
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