Show EffORT TO DA DROP OP P T TWO THIRD RULE t I MCADOO AND SMITH SUPPORT SUPPORT- ERS ENDORSE PLAN AND INCLUDE INCLUDE IN IN- CLUDE UNIT VOTE Former Rivals Still Leading Ch Chara r tea ter In Party Situation May Da De Changed Two-Third Two Rule Begun In Iowa Washington D. D C. C The C.-The The present growing movement within the tho Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party to get rid of Its t two two third third rule began In Iowa with u II resolution passed by the tha local Dom Dem- erratic state central committee Thereafter Thereafter There There- after J Democratic national I committeemen committee committee- men and committeewomen of Iowa sent flent a D loiter letter to Iho the Democratic committeemen com com- and anil of all nil other othor states which described tho the rule us as B n a blot on the tho Democratic escutcheon escutcheon cheon choon and solicited the Judgment of tho the others about abrogating It The first reply came camo from New Now York In which Norman Mack Macic of Buffalo and Miss J Elizabeth Marbury of Now York endorsed tho the Iowa denunciation of the thet t two thirds y rulo rule and added possibly with significance that mat the unit rUle Should 1 go with It it Since Sinco the Iho Iowa committeeman who Initiated the Ilio movement mont was a McAdoo partisan and the tho New Now York committeeman commit commit- teeman who assented was a Smith I manager It la Ia apparent that tho the growIng growing grow grow- Ing support of tho proposal has haM no relation re ro- lation to individual favorites or candidate candidates can can- d for tor tho time presidential nomina I ion tion It was wan supposed that opposition would Mould come rome from front tho the south Routh but hut a n southern paper the tho Chattanooga News which Is edited by a McAdoo partisan F P. P Milton expresses expresseR tho hope hopa that this effort to rid tho the Democrat DemocratIc Ic is party parly of Its Us old man of the tho son sea will succeed This paper Includes both tho the two-thirds two rule rulo and the unit rule In to Its condemnation Tho two thirds rule rulo Is 18 merely ono which says that a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate for tho the presidential nomination two thirds of tho the del delegates gatos instead of ot a mere majority us as is the tho rase raso In tho the Republican party par par- ty The unit rule Is one ono which en en- abler or requires requires' tho time delegates t from fromn froma om n a given Iven state to vote solidly as ns deter detor I mined by a majority of the delegates I from froni tho the state It the unit rulo rule were wera abolished each delegate would ouM vote veto Individually To abolish tho the unit rule rula Involves some complexity because sev several several sev- sev eral states have primary laws which gave the unit rule the s status atus not merely mere mere- I ly Iy of a party regulation but of a formal for mal oral statute In this sense tho ques question question I tion whether the delegates from n R state shall vote veto as ns a unit or I Individuals IItti v III embarrasses the tho Republican party parr par ty ns as well as the Democrats For ex example example ample In 1920 Hiram Johnson carried tho the primaries in Oregon Thereafter however one ono Oregon delegate McCamant Mc Me- I did not vote for tor Johnson Largely ely because of ot this Johnson within the past few tew months has successfully sue suc resisted the appointment by President Coolidge of ot McCamant l as a q federal Judge Judie I |