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...coming log drive. George Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois, and: Thomas Fortune Ryan of Virginia: were the most active of the axemen. The object of their activity was evidently to find among the tall trees some timber with durable and ornamental qualities equal to those of William G. McAdoo...
...Woodrow Wilson was the objective of a visit to Washington by Mr. Brennan. They discussed a number of possible candidates, notably Mr. McAdoo. Afterwards Mr. Brennan let it leak out that Mr. Wilson had intimated that he might let himself be called upon as the candidate of his Party next year. If this report was true it is more significant as a curiosity of the news than a possibility of politics. Mr. Wilson, if he made such a statement, doubtless qualified it to the point of extinction...
William G. McAdoo is a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924, but he is not the man in the moon. In the East especially he has been faced by a strenuous dislike of his management of the nation's railroads during the War. In a letter to Senator Couzens, of Michigan, he set forth his defense as Director General of the railroads...
...Although I was Director General for only one year, 1918, and was succeeded by Walker D. Hines, who ran the roads for 14 months after I retired, you always hear McAdoo alone charged with everything that happened under Federal control...
Even the New Republic's Presidential poll for " liberals" favors Ford. The Detroiter has passed Borah and is neck and neck with La Follette, who is distanced only by McAdoo...