Curiosity about next year's presidential nominations grows keener as time goes on, though the situation does not clear up yet. This, offers excellent opportunity for the guessers and prognosticators. The New York Herald has a despatch from Washington which says that ex-Secretary McAdoo's aspirations for the Democratic nomination are now taken for granted. It adds that they are based on the assumption that President Wilson had definitely decided not to be a candidate for renomination, and will devote the rest of his life to leadership of the League of Nations and to literary pursuits. This attractive future for the next ex-President is expanded into fascinating detail, which locates the headquarters of the League of Nations in Constantinople where President Wilson, "now the idol of the liberal elements of Europe, will be the spokesman for a more liberal form of international democracy." Jealous Europe, it is also assumed, will be quite as eager to get him in this place of burden and responsibility, relieving it of tasks which it dreaded, as it has been to get the country to assume trusteeship for the Near East.

The country will be much more willing, we suspect, to let President Wilson go over there and run things, after he ceases to be President, than it will be to have him assume for the United States Government now an undertaking which will cost so much in money and in the civil and military outfit necessary. WATERBURY AMERICAN.