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Show EFFORT TO DROP TWO THIRD RULE MCADOO AND SMITH SUPPORT. ERS ENDORSE PLAN AND INCLUDE IN-CLUDE UNIT VOTE Former Rivals Still Leading Characters Charac-ters In Party; Situation May Be Changed; Two-Third Rule Begun In Iowa Washington, D. C The present growing movement within the Democratic Demo-cratic party to get rid of its two-third rule began in Iowa with a resolution passed unanimously by the local Democratic Dem-ocratic state centra', committee. Thereafter There-after Democratic national committeemen committee-men and commltteewomen of Iowa sent a letter to the Democratic committeemen com-mitteemen and committeewomen of all other states, which described the rule as "a blot on the Democratic escutcheon," escut-cheon," and solicited the judgment of the others about abrogating it. The first reply came from New York, in which Norman Mack of Buffalo and Miss Elizabeth Marbury of New York endorsed the Iowa denunciation of the two-thirds rule, and added, possibly with significance, that the unit rule should go with it. Since the Iowa committeeman who initiated the movement was a McAdoo partisan and the New York committeeman commit-teeman who assented was a Smith, manager, it is apparent that the growing grow-ing support of the proposal has no relation re-lation to individual favorites or candidates can-didates for the presidential nomination. nomina-tion. It was supposed that opposition-would opposition-would come from the south, but a southern paper, the Chattanooga News which is edited by a McAdoo partisan, George F. Milton, expresses the hope-"that hope-"that this effort to rid the Democratic Democrat-ic party of its old man of the sea will succeed." This paper includes both the two-thirds rule and the unit rule in its condemnation. The two-thirds rule is merely one which says that a Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for the presidential nomination must get two-thirds of the delegates instead of a mere majority, as is the case in the Republican party. par-ty. The unit rule is one which enables en-ables or requires the delegates from a given state to vote solidly as determined deter-mined by a majority of the delegates from the state. If the unit rule were abolished, each delegate would vote individually. To abolish the unit rule involves some complexity because several sev-eral states have primary laws which, gave the unit rule the status not merely mere-ly of a party regulation, but of a formal for-mal statute. In this sense the question ques-tion whether the delegates from a state shall vote as a unit or individuals individ-uals embarrasses the Republican party par-ty as well as the Democrats. For example, ex-ample, in 1920, Hiram Johnson carried the primaries in Oregon. Thereafter, however, one Oregon delegate, Mc-Camant, Mc-Camant, did not vote for Johnson. Largely because of this, Johnson, within the past few months, has successfully suc-cessfully resisted the appointment by President Coolidge of McCamant as a federal judge. |