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Show THE CITIZEN square to square, according to the plan of the one who is playing the game. If we accept the Bryan analysis we shall see that the party has been split through three ways. The lines of cleavage may best be expressed, perhaps, by this formula drys versus wets, Wilson-ian- s versus rebels, Wall street versus labor. Not since the nomiiiation of Parker have the Democrats cohorts been rent by such a spirit of dissension. Parker was nominated on a silver plank inserted by Bryan to handicap him and promptly declared himself a goldbug. Bryan campaigned for Parker in such fashion as to persuade the Bryanites to vote for Roosevelt. The Democratic reckoning is that Cox will be able to carry the pivotal state of Ohio as well as the solid south and that he will run strong in New York, New Jersey and several other eastern states where the spirit of revolt against the Volstead act is intense. Even the most optimistic Democrats hardly expect their candidate to notion that carry the western states, but they cherish a the peppery campaigning for which Cox is famous in his own state may win him sudden popularity west of the Mississippi. half-heart- ed THE SNOB IN POLITICS Will a political boss ever be able to know what is in the min of a woman? Now that women are to participate in national politics the party chieftains must find an answer to this question. If he would hold high position in the councils of his party he must be able to tell how the women will vote. At the San Francisco convention there were some disquieting evidences that the problem would prove as complex as mere man has anticipated. For the first time at a Democratic convention the women talked. Perhaps a wise boss, after hearkening to their various opinions, came to some conclusion. If so, he probably asked himself, will they vote as they talk? Experience had taught him that even dependable men do not always vote the way they talk. Experience has convinced those of us who have lived long in suffrage states that women do not often vote en masse on issues and candidates. Normally they vote with their party and even on such an issue as prohibition opinion is divided among them about as it is among the men. It was a Mrs. Julia Brown of West Virginia who essayed to tell the convention just what kind of a man women would support for president. Judging by the brief excerpts from her speech one would say that she was preaching snobbery, but such a conclusion might be an error. Here are the qualifications she seemed to be demanding of a presidential candidate : He must be well born. His moral record must be above reproach. He must practice what preachers preach. He must be home-breWe must be well-reaHis wife must have the social graces requisite to adorn the position of first lady of the land. If nominees are to be chosen according to these rules there will be an entirely new order in American politics. As one reads the list one is astonished to find that by almost every rule, even to the last, Lincoln would have been barred. And more than one Democratic president would have been excluded by a test which Lincoln would have passed successfully. One is led to suspect the element of snobbery by the fact that Mrs. Brown was urging the candidacy of our ambassadol to Great Britain, an estimable gentleman with a gifted wife. If snobbery is to figure in the nominations we shall have a new hypocrisy in politics. We shall have social leaders, real or pretended, going about the country telling us that some Abraham Lincoln who was born of, poor white folks in a western cabin is all right in his way but that he is handicapped by his own boorishness and by the fact that his wife lacks the social graces. By most of Mrs. Browns rules Franklin D. Roosevelt ought to be the Democratic nominee d. d. for president, although the skill Mr. Cox has shown in golf migl (i compensate for his having been born on a farm. q th is But, as we have suggested, the woman voter as variable as ,jp man. Mrs. Browns standard of excellence might appeal to only; small number of aristocratic political dames. After all, the- wome who lack the social graces, and possess only the despised domesti virtues, are in the majority and would be tempted to prefer Abrahat Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt or to Ambassador Davis adorned in a I his splendor of short pants, silk stockings and patent leather pump, at the Court of St. James. Or, are we behind the times? Hai. fashions changed over there since Governor Hogg of Texas gambole- .J from the offer of an ambassadorship because of the qualification abbreviated attire. Some were so mean as to say that Hogg shunne;;fl the offer because he weighed 400 pounds and not because he oppostvtl the royal custom on democratic grounds. v There is the incident of Mitchell Palmers spats to tell us th: snobbery might not count much in the naming of a candidate, l.fl is related that two women delegates, seated near Palmer in a restau: ant, fell to discussing him. One said that she could not help votin "foT a man w ho had glorious silver hair crowning a young face. Ar j - ;-- ! - . y other said: I wouldnt vote for such a man. See, he wears spats. To which still another woman delegate responded: We choosing a candidate, not for his feet, but for his head. From which we must conclude that we dont know much abo: women after all. RUSS ENIGMA AGAIN The expected cry of help us or we perish comes up out c Poland to the allies. One would suppose that the cry would awake even the ghosts of the League of Nations, that league which pledge-itselto preserve the territorial integrity and existing independence' of member nations. Poland is a member of the League of Nations and is entitle to receive support even though she sinned against the premiers. The advised her not to attack Russia, warning her that the day of retrib tion would not be delayed long. And now that day is at haiu Though millions of the czars moujiks were left upon the battl fields of the world war millions are still in battle formation tramplli. down the puny armies of their foes. In Siberia they hold the Japaney at bay ; in the west and south Poland and Ukrania are beginning i wilt beneath the hammer blows. At the very time when Lenine and Trotzky are enabled to a: nounce in resounding terms their military achievements Great Brita? dismisses Krassin, the soviet envoy who was sent to London i effect a resumption of commercial relations. The mysterious aF i magnetic Krassin made roseate promises of what the soviet gover M i Cl demanded the British be able but to would ment gua do, practical antees and securities instead of the glowing phrases of a congcnr br i oi optimist. In the end, Krassin was sent packing because he could m the goods. Here we have the element of a profound enigma. Irresistible? of the field, Russia is bankrupt financially and weak commercially. Pr Cil haps the explanation is simple. Some one has said that the Russians are the most of people. At all events they show a wonderful vvxb propaganda Serbia w solidarity. Had there been no not have dared to resent the insults and affronts of Austria-Hunga- ;. and there would have been no war. It was because Serbia reh as i c upon the solidarity of the Slavic bloc that she found courage to the ally of Germany.' The Russian people are willing, perhaps, that the Russian empi: tc shall lose certain of the elements which constituted its territnif t integrity under the czars, but they are determined that a stvof Russia shall continue to exist. They resented the Polish invasi' II even though the Poles hardly moved beyond the regions historical o : f 1 1 intense-nationalisti- pan-Russi- c an 1 , j a part of ancient Poland. The Russian peasants and workmen have not been conviKi |