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Show Democrats About Ready To Quit Cold Through Lack of Funds, Is Claim By MARK SULLIVAN NETT YORK, Sept. 23. The financial finan-cial condition of the Democratic National Na-tional hoadejuarters here could be described de-scribed In terms that would bo sen-national sen-national If one chose to treat it In that nay. It is a fact that within the past I two wcekn at a full meeting of the National Finance committee a proposal propos-al was seriously eonslderoel to cIok' tho doorn of the Democratic National hadiuartPr.s and quit- TrK- same proposal has been repeated repeat-ed within the past few days and is still advocated b some among the party managers who are most astute, and have the best political sense There is murh to commend the Idea. It would serve notice on those who believe in the league of nations that If they wish their cause to have anything like a decent show In the coming election It Is up to them to do the necessary work. Such a moe would throw the responsibility of the 'campaign on Professor Irving Fisher's recently organized league of independent independ-ent voters and on similar organizations. organiza-tions. If the friends of the league of Inatlons wro made awaro that the responsibility re-sponsibility is on them they might do 'something at least. As thing6 aro now ! substantial nothing Is being done. As things stand toda . substantially the1 whole burden or mo uemocraue cam pslgn and of the league of nation rests squarely on the shoulders of oni man. That man is Governor Cox. Wha comes out of his mouth Is practlcall" the whole of what Is being done. t( elect him. It would be an exaggcra tion of course, to say that the cam palgn for the Democratic party aiu tho league of nations Is limited b the distance Governor Cox can throw his voice, for the newspapers carr at least a few of his words throughout the country. .But It Is truo that Governor Gov-ernor Cox's brain and personality ane voice constitutes practically all there la of the Democratic campaign. From any point of view, that is a pity I don't know any one een th' most hardened Republicans who doesnt feel that Governor Cox Is making mak-ing a gallant personal campaign. Even those who most deplore some of the things that Governor Cox under the pressure of carrying the whole burden of the campaign hax .iU! and done nevertheless have a sportsman -like- feeling that the candidate Is entitled to the help that in past campaigns has always been given to the candidates b tho parte organization MUCH RECRIMINATION Whenever a condition like this exists ex-ists there Is always a multitude of explanations ex-planations and they always include a good deal of re rlmlnat.lon. There la recrimination now. So far as this re-. re-. rlminatlon Is directed at individuals in the Democratic National headquarters headquar-ters it Is nearly all uhjqsl Chairman George White H an able man and his assistant Congressman Cantrell oi" Kentucky is a man of exceptional character and political sense. Chairman Chair-man White h every bit as able iih Vance Mc-Cormlck who ran the 1 9 1 ,; campaign or William V McCoombs who ran the 1912 campaign If thlnps happen to be going as well now as they were in i o g and 1912 everybody would b- saying that Chairman Whit' is a wonder Chairman White has all the ability that is called for except the ability to conjure money out of empty pockets. Tho National committer commit-ter has good plans. 1 am familiar with them and know them to be good But they can't bo carried into effect because there is no money. There are men hero in New York, who are ready to go west to do important campalgr work who can t go because there Li no money to pay their railroad fare It one were free to tell some of the ' things that are happening because ol the lack of money the., would sound sensational. U hut is the reason for the empt)nes 'of the Democratic treasury? It Isn't I" ause there are not plenty of Demo- rats ind plenty of willingness lo give i in reasonable proportion to their means. Hut the national committee ha.s no mechanism for collecting the I money. At least it ha.s no machinery t for collecting small sums over a wide spread area. There was such a me-jchanism me-jchanism but it wa.s discontinued. A .'ood deal of the difficulty Is due to the change in the personnel of the party organization that attended Cox's nomination. When the forces that nominated Cox came east from tho San Francisco convention they wero a little too much in the flush of victory vic-tory They wanted to make a clean sweep of headquarters and put their own men In charge They got it partly part-ly done before Cox bocame aware of It und put s stop to It COX WAS TOO LATE Cox tried to save tho ex-Chairman.' Hnmer s. Cummlngs Just as he waa being be-ing deposed but it was too late Cox did save some of the minor officials but a rift was created by the aggressiveness aggres-siveness of the man who named Cox which has never healed It was too late for the new crowd to build up an effective mechanism for collecting small contributions. The time was to,j short. Then when they turned to getting large contributions from a few rich Democrats the;, found that many of these Democrats while willing tn jslve within reason were not disposed to go to the limits that thev went for Wilson In 1916 and 1912. Wilson was their man, Cox Is the other crowd's 'man. Undoubtedly, prejudice against ; Murphy, Nugent and some of the other ,lanti-Wilson bosses who had a hand In jramlng Cox has chilled these Democrats Demo-crats who are friends of Wilson and Vfl 1-MeAdoo McAdoo personally plaved W the game as a loyal party man He I I has given a thousand dollars In money He has v,rltten to every delegate who voted for him at San Francisco asking leach of them to do his best for Cox He has presided at a Cox meeting ln 'New York, and he has offerod to d three weeks of campaigning. But the J friends of Wilson and of McAdoo , aren't behind the present campaign in If (the same way they were behind the campaign of 1!U6. Thev can't be expected ex-pected to be. Wilson's friends provid-ed provid-ed the energy and enthusiasm for his campaign. Cox's friends must be expected ex-pected to provide the energy and enthusiasm en-thusiasm for this one. oo H |