POLITICAL LEADERS MAKE IT CLEAR, HENRY FORD NOT WANTED AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On July 8, 1923, Robert T. Small of the Sunday Star reports that "there is every evidence of a gentleman's agreement being formed among democrats and republican political leaders against Henry Ford for President."
Republicans are clearly behind President Warren G. Harding's renomination in 1924 and expected re-election. The Democrats, according to Small, are "talking big" against the "flivver multi-millionaire" but have "a wholesome fear" of his potential candidacy.
"As matters stand today," writes Small, "there is a tacit understanding...that Henry Ford shall be stopped at all hazards."
SOURCE
"He Shall Not Pass, Old Party Chiefs Defiance To Ford," by Robert T. Small, The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., July 8, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
