Convention be controlled by the conservative wing of the party, not only as to the nomination of the candidate for the presidency but also as to the platform on which he will stand, the nomination will not improbably fall either to Mr. W. G. McAdoo, son-in-law of the President and Secretary of the Treasury from 1913 to 1918, the Attorney General (Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer) or Governor Cox of Ohio.
During the six years or nearly that he held office Mr. McAdoo was regarded as the ablest member of the cabinet. The chief objection likely to be urged against him is his advocacy of Government owner. ship of railroads, which has now very few supporters except in the ranks of the labour unions, whic are hoping to make railroad con trol their first successful onslaught on capital.
The Attorney-General is persona gratissima with the prohibitionists on account of his rigorous carryinzout of the prohibition Jaw, and his prosecution of the Bolsheviks and other disloyal agitators has commended him to all thorough-going Americans. Governor Cox will be strongly supported in the Conven= tion, both as an able executive and as & popular citizen of Ohio, always a doubtful state.
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