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Show BIG JOB FACING COX IS HEALING OF OLD WOUNDS Sullivan Says Republican Morale Mor-ale Just Now Is Better Than Democratic CLEAVAGES IN BOTH ORGANIZATIONS, CLAIM What Will Close Friends of Wilson Do for Party Is Question B1 MARK M I-Ll (Copyright, 1920, by New Vork Evening Eve-ning Post.) DAYTON. 11., Aug 14. This article alms to consider tho morale to use the military term of the two parties, the solidarity of their organizations and the fighting quality of each as they enter the campaign. There have been cleavages in both parties, I do not now refer to thvi cuavage among voters on the question of the league ol nations that cleavago may result In proleague Republicans voting for Cox and anti-league Democrats Demo-crats voting for Harding but 1 am referring re-ferring not to cleavage :imong the rank and file but to cleavage among the leaders. What I um referring to is the state of feellniT of what ma be termed the ' innei' family circle"" "0T iho leadership of each party CLK.M n; IDE. There was a cleavage among I he Republicans Re-publicans which was open and notorious, no-torious, this was the hostility between the conservatives and the progressive leaders of that party. That rupture lasted up to and through the recent Republican convention upon the nomination nomi-nation of Harding it flared up strong. The Pregresslvea In the party were Frankly dismayed at the nomination ol so thorough-going a representative of tl.o conservative group. Two of Iho Progressive leaders whom I know were SO disturbed that thy went in poison to the San Francisco convention conven-tion to see If the Democrats might be I . 1 s u : i . ! . .J I,, U'llovv .1 '"Uis' w 1 1 1 1 would make It possible fo Progi cs-sive cs-sive voters to align with them. But when the balloting c.ime and when the choice of the Democratic nominee fell so largely Into the hands of the T.iinniany .unl the New Jirscy machine ma-chine and the Chicago machine these Progressiva leaden hurried baolc home Id the shocked alarm of little boys from the boulevards who have Wi n pfnytng with boys from the railroad yardfl and have had their clean pinafores pina-fores muddled. The fact that the Democratic Dem-ocratic nomination was made by Tammany Tam-many and the associates of Tammany ended all thought of sympathy between be-tween the old Progressives and the Democrats. The Republican party enters en-ters the campaign with a morale almost al-most 100 per cent perfect. Moreover, tne Republican organization machine Is running smoothly and with the por-fectlon por-fectlon of a high class business organization. orga-nization. t ORG tNIZATIOK Among the I emocrals. however, there IS not only cleavage but lack of organization. The Democratic machine ma-chine is in the disorder of transfer fiom one group of leaders tc anothei group, with the added handicap' 01 suspicion and unfriendliness between the tWO groups. Between the Democratic Demo-cratic group that nominated Cox and the ilson-McAdoo group, whn h has b.Sd control of the Democratic organization organi-zation for the past eight years, there is a cleavage which Includes all the unyielding hostility that goes with fundamentally fun-damentally antagonistic tcmpera-mfnts. tcmpera-mfnts. purposes and points of view. Cox was nominated by an element Is the Democratic party which has been out of power for eight yeurs. It ia an slemeni of the party to whn h President Wilson Is antipathttlc by every ev-ery law n his nature and which he discriminated against In nearly every one of his official acts and what la (Continued on Pago Tnn.) Big Job Facing Cox is Healing of Old Wounds (Continued from Pugc One) lot more consequence In this connection connec-tion In nearly every' one of his offl-l ( hil appointments. The naming of Cox by this . antl-1 w.isn element represented p a sin-1 tie act the K.itiaf.ictlon of revenge and hunger for future power. The men Iwho compose this group, through whom Governor Cox wan nominated, me in the main Edmund H Moore, thei Pemocratlr national committeeman! I from Ohio, a representativ e of tho very henrt of the old guard and thfl 1 "wet" element In the I lemocrat le par-! ty; Charles F. Murphy and .Tammany l.'oll. Nugent and the New Jersey ma- hine, Brennan and the rest of the Sulllvaii mm hlne In Chicago and to a less degree Taggart and the old guard, organisation of lows Toward these 'men, with possibly one exception, and toward thesn organisations Wilson has always had no emotion which it is not too much to describe ns hate In his official acts and appointments' 1 Wilson discriminated against these' i men nnd sought to destroy their or-' I ganlzatlons by depriving them of thi nourishment of patronage Wilson's! distaste for these men and these orga-' nidations was returned by them in full i nire. They hated Wilson and all 'his woi ks, they hated Wilson's friends. Specifically and especially they h d Wilson's 6on-ln-law. They thought i-.:t b preventing the nomination ofl his son-in-law they would humiliate Mm. Arguing from their own pretty crude point of view they assumed that Wilsons dearest wish would bo to have his son-in-law succeod him. Whether or not they were right about, this does not matter. I happen to think they were wrong. But they thought and gloried In the thought of' preventing . the McAdoo nomination' they were getting even with Wilson I lor eight yeurs of enforced separation from federal patronage. HUNGRY FOR KKVENGK. They came together at San Fran-1 Cisco hungry for revenge and they got 1L These men and those organizations agreed upon Cox for the purpose of; beating McAdoo, and when they suc-1 cecded they gloated In a way that OOUld not be concealed. For that met-j i'. r they did not want to conceal their gloating. In fact, several of them' gave exultant and insulting messages! oi triumphant revenge to various friends of Wilson and McAdoo, and I told these friends to givo the message I to the objects of their revenge Cox's nomination was a triumph of the 1 ne-niles ne-niles of Wilson, of McAdoo, and tho administration generally. These antl-Wllson leaders who nominated nom-inated Cox constitute one group, Let us now consider the other group, the group of friends of Wilson. Every ops knows who they are. They are, tli one exception, the men who nominated nom-inated Wilson and managed his campaign cam-paign in 1913 and 1916 They are thfl men who have had the i un of tho White House, who have been close to Wilson whose recommendations have had weight In mutters of patronage. WILSON'S FRIENDS. I do not mean the little office-holding friends of Wilson, i mean tho big nun eveiybody knows who the) are Vance McCormlck, B. M Baruih. Hi nry Morgenthnu Colonel House, Thomas L Chadbourne, Charles R. Crane, and several others less well known to the. public These nu n who have been close to Wilson, the men whose recommendation! have Influenced Influ-enced him in matters of patronage and otherwise, the met; who have been personally loyal to him, are a distinct group. They arc the men who havol been the Insiders for the last eight years With the nomination of Coji and the taking over of the party ma-1 chlnery by Cox's friends, these friends of Wlison, by every law of practical politics, become the outsiders. Under these circumstances, will this llson group help Cox to win .' This Is the question that Is troubling Cox. and ll Is the question on which hangs He solidarity, the morale, ind all thoj other elements that would make for ai gcod showing on the part of the Democrats Dem-ocrats this campaign. Under ordinary circumstances and! With ordinary party men the answer i to this question would be yes, regular; party men never sulk They know the, rules of the game Regular party men know that when you lose a fight within the family you should shake, 'hands and present 8 solid front to the common enemj. But the trouble la, ! llson's friends, and Wlison himself Ifor that matter, are riot regulai party men. They were rcallj outsiders in j politics, they worked hard and gave big contributions to tho two Wilson campaigiiSi not because they were thick-and-thln Democrats, but because thJrj had affection for Wilson person-1 ally They arc not subject to tho ordl- nary rules of the game. They don t have to turn and support their sue- Cessful enemy ua regular party work-eis work-eis must These men don't want any offices merely for the cake of the Job. Thev have position and power and wealth In their own right If they don't like the way things are going fhev milt nnrl there Isn't nra vvav uf subjecting them to the ordinary party j discipline. PRODI EM 1 OK CU That situation, and how to remedy it is the question that now confronts Cox and a most difficult question it Is for him It isn't whether Cox pays a courteous visit to the White House; It "isn't a mere question of Whether President Wilson ticats him courto ously when he comes, it Isn't a mere question of whether 'ox stands, or 'does not stand, for Wilson's league of nations. Th- question is whether these friends of Wilson, who have been the party leaders nnd party managers man-agers for the last eight years and who lare entrenched In the strategic positions posi-tions within tho party organization, will put their muscles and their brains not to mention their pocketbooks llryally and whole-heartedly Into service serv-ice of making Cox successful. That Is lexactly the question which will deter-mlne deter-mlne whether or not the Democratli party can or cannot make a good fight ;und get out the full party strength Cos knows this Is the question as well as any disinterested observer knows It, and If can be expected that Cox Will put the last ounce of his intelligence intelli-gence Into the work of getting the support of these Wilson leaders. In ciur correspondent's JudgUK rtl this was one of the factors which in-fv:enced in-fv:enced Cox In taklnp the Wilson po-Isltlon po-Isltlon on the league of nations so completely, com-pletely, will Cox be successful In this 'effort? So far there Is evidence thai he has I made much progress. Of course. McAdoo Mc-Adoo has come, out and said he will I support Cox. But that is merely cour-Uy cour-Uy of eustom. Every defeated can-dl can-dl late does thin SX Spl those who, like BryeUi have convictions or emotions deeper than more courtesy iaiis for. That Is only because McAdoo Is" that kind of a man. It isn't merely a niat-tci niat-tci of that sort of thing, it is a mallei mal-lei of these big and able and rich I party leaders who managed the campaign cam-paign in 19M and 1916 Jumping in und managing the present campaign with the same enthusiasm and the same vigor and the same resourcefulness resourceful-ness that they gave to Wlison then. Without the aid of these men Cox can't Win. Wild THEY HELP? Will these Wilson leaders come In and work and ;rlve their lime and en-cigv en-cigv and enthusiasm and theli money '' So far there- Is little sign Ihut they will. Why should they. These friends Ot Wilson and of McAdoo can afford to be much more Independent towards Tammany and Tammany's u.-?o. tales than Tammany can offord to be towards to-wards them If Murphy and Nugent and Bmnnan and Morse und Mooic and the rest of those who put Cox over if the) gloated gloat-ed over beating McAdoo. why ihQUld McAdoo s friends now help them elect Cox and put them In positions of pi wcr for the next four yurs positions posi-tions where they can intrench themselves them-selves and continue their power and prevent the s-lection of McAdoo four y ars from now? There is real antipathy between 'these groups, not merely a conflict of Interest and ambition, but an irreconcilable irrecon-cilable differenct of temperament, t stes. and character. The leaders v.ho nominated Cox ore of the city boss, rough-and-ready politician type The leaders who have been friends nnd Intimates of Woodrow Wilson for eight y ars are of nn utterly different ty po. In the raging of Wilson's enemies and even the quieter dissatisfaction of more reasonable persons with him, it must always be conceded that he ia an idealist, even on the occasions when he 16 a self-righteous and disagreeable ldallst And the men who gravitated gravitat-ed towards Wilson all hud some share ot his Idealism. This type of man has little in common with ihe type of city boss that put Cox over Whether these two elements can ever get together in support of Cox is the Democratic problem prob-lem in Ihls campaign It will be a tr'umph of tact on Cox's part if he con bring it about, h will be more than a triumph of tact. It will be a triumph of cnaracter These Wilson ll aders will never help Cjx Into the White House unless he "comes across" to their satisfaction By "coining across" I mean putting him elf In sympathy with them, sharing shar-ing their Ideals and establishing fel-. lowship with them, except by turning down tho other group to whom he is ... everlastingly indented fur his nomination. nom-ination. He can t turn down this group without violating the first law ct politics i'ox must stand by those who stood by him. If he Acre not a man who understands and lives up ti these obligations of practical politics, he would never have got as far in politics poli-tics as he already has. MK II DISTRUST. Between these two groups there Is fundamental and Irreconcilable dis-lri.ot dis-lri.ot The point of view t Wilson s friends Is not personal fo i.ox at all. IThcy have nothing against Cox To It hem he Is a stranger. So far as Cox personally IS concerned, they would be glad enough to seo hlrn president But 'decidedly and emphatically they win , , - i.-. Uline t rive it to him quite at much through hate of McAdoo and W llson as through love lor him. Tin point of view of Wilson's friends la tnat they arc not going to exert themselves them-selves to elect Cox unless Cox gets rid of what they regard as the Wet' and Otherwise undesirable elements who , ' minuted him Cox can only be successful, he can only get tho lull strength of the Democratic Demo-cratic party at the polls, by finding some way of divorcing blmsell from the elements who gave him the nomination; nomi-nation; c-ui otil., get the lull enthusiasm enthusi-asm and strength of tho Democratic party by achieving such an elevation of character as will appeal to those I leaders t show Wilson's character appealed! ap-pealed! With these men Indifferent, the party can never got anywhere in this campaign The strain between I these two groups is just now acute and 'It Is giving 'ox s good deal of con-i con-i ern. The Wilson leaders were In the positions ot power n tho party and they aro being turned out. Homer CumittlhgS as national chairman Wag one of their men. and lie w:; turned out The group that named Co was 'not satisfied with that and wanted to 'make 8 clean sweep. They wanted to get rid of Hollister and Cochran and other minor officials, but Cox stepped lu and saved thorn. But most of all the situation Is made a ute by the question of finances The Democratic national committee Is bidke deud broke, and s goo.i '. over u hundred thousand dollars in the hole Wl'son's friends could und would enrich the Democratic treASUrj overnight If things, were to their satisfaction. sat-isfaction. In twenty-four hours they could give llu Democratic machine the momentum which carried It to suc- , s.t In 10 I J and 1 9 1 Wtlhout them i his . an hardly be done, even though Cox has rich friends The lime Is too short barely ninety days to reorga- irze the machine, re-finance it nnd man it with new workers Cox has a question of party organization on his hinds fully as Imperative as his need to Impress his personality and his Is-ues Is-ues on the public aMarge. |