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...Democratic Party is hopelessly split between supporters of William G. McAdoo and Governor Alfred E. Smith. Nor can any other male Democrat unite the Party...
Meanwhile, Lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
...Margaret. Two are married-Eleanor McAdoo and Jessie Sayre. Mr. Sayre is a Professor at Harvard Law School...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...
...Toledo, William Gibbs McAdoo ("I had almost forgotten his name," shouted Senator Bruce on the floor of the Senate) addressed a meeting of lawyers. He flayed the enemies of Prohibition. He flayed the evil existing, socially and politically, in large centres of population. Next day the time of the Senate was consumed with Democratic jabberdash and poly-wrangle. Pro-Smith Wets raged at McAdoo "bigotry," Anti-Smith Drys lauded the services of Mr. McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18) but regretted that he had felt called upon to re-enter the Presidential lists in the Toledo manner...