Suicide

John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain, has been ranked as a not impossible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. But now he has committed political suicide, according to newspaper comment. He allowed himself to be retained as counsel for the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange in the suit against sugar manipulation begun by the Government.

That in itself is no great matter, but it is an almost insurmountable obstacle to his possible candidacy in 1924. Now if he steps into the political limelight, the cry of his enemies will ring out: " Behold the Tool of the Sugar Trust! Lo, the Enemy of the American Breakfast Table!"