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Show '. . DEMOCRATS NOT UNITED. ' '. . . f Perhaps the severest blow struck the Democratic party so far I in this campaign is the public statement of "William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic national committee from 1912 to 1916, and manager of President "Wilson's 1912 campaign, in which the I former chairman denies that President AVilson represented thena-I thena-I tion or even the Democratic party in the negotiating of the treaty of peace or the league of nations. The Democrats will win or lose the election on the league of nations, na-tions, and if any great number of leading Democrats assume the position po-sition taken by McCombs, the party is distined to meet defeat. In Utah, almost without exception, the Democrats are for the league of nations. They .believe it, they talk it and in state convention conven-tion made a most positive declaration favoring the league. Now comes the man who was directing the campaign of the party in 1912 md he sounds a most discordant note, and the result should be a division di-vision which will affect the welfare of Democracy. I McCombs even denies President Wilson is the leader of the I Dcmocratc party and reprimands the president for pretending to be the head of the organization. This is the first time since 1912, when Roosevelt repudiated Taft's leadership, that a president has been ignored a.s representative of party policies. ' . |