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Show i shape yet to reorganize: , Certain Amount of Sham Between Be-tween Two Factions. Sullivan Sul-livan Declares WHO WILL BE LEADER SEEMS TO BE IN DOUBT American People Lock for Intelligent In-telligent Exposition of Op position in Congress t EtK SI I.I.IVAN, i WASHINGTON, D. C. Tan. 15. Whenever you talk to any of the Jjem-OCratlC Jjem-OCratlC leaders and ask them what they are going to do in the way of reorganization, re-organization, they reply that' It isn't time yet This attitude does not -x- ; press a conviction, it expresses a mood of doing nothing merely because their circumstances, are such that to do something rails for 0 little trouble. The real reason the Democratic bad-ers bad-ers ixeh'1 doing anything yet, is that there m S certain amount of strain between the factions of the party vs inch I shall describe at length Inter on, and there seems to be no one sufficiently suf-ficiently aggressive or sufficiently im-i im-i pressed with the need and the opportunity oppor-tunity to go to work and either bring ithf- two factions together, or in some vu, bring about solidarity and organisation organ-isation and unified leadership and a program. This attitude Isn't worthy of he, leaders who t-il-.t- i.. a.nd it Isn't jair to th- party nor to the country-lAny country-lAny detached observer Is able to see both a need and an opportunity which increases dally ;md which the Democrats Demo-crats ought to meet and meet , promptly. TRUE I l.ADKKS. The pn M ill situation with the Iem-ocrots Iem-ocrots Is this- mtsidt of the house md senate In unofficial life, there are three- Democratic leaders, MeAdoo, '" and Bryan The MeAdoo faction and the COX taction nr.: distrustful of each other, and watch each other for the first move. Ail three of them are busy to a degree, but their activity confines itsei! o watchful precaution lest one of the others get an adan-':'ur' adan-':'ur' Bpyan, Ul a way. stands alone as a sort of outsider, but as between lli- two leads tow.-vrd tho MeAdoo faction fac-tion lb-, uv well as the two others, has !.' i active recently in some hb-p toward re-organlsatlon which have i been loo cautious to he useful. Mi AJ (M rROGlt IM. The program of McAdou's friends ; was, and is. to pull ihe party together to infuse it with fresh spirit, to let Chairman White out and to supplant him With some activo, Strong man with a gift for organization, whose circumstances circum-stances will permit him to give his whole time to the work. Their pro-gram, pro-gram, of course, included paying off the debt. They were entirely willing to salse this sum if they were permitted per-mitted to control the organization, but CoX'S friends promptly let it be known, thai they weren't dead broke, and that they weren'l either paupers or pikers, and lhat they are entirely willing to take enro "f the defirit if they were permitted to dominate the organisation. The MeAdoo program, I If they could carry It out. not in the interests of their own faction, but un-1 un-1 selfishly In the interests of the party ' its a whole, is exactly what ought to be .ion... The Democratic national .committee should be re-organized. A ! first class man who can give all his , time to It and. who possesses proved organizing abllltj should be placed in charge, and he should begin .ii once th work of country wide organization 'for the election three and a half years from now. That Is BXactlj whul the Republicans did after they suffered I disaster in 1916. It was this continuous work for three years before that gave the Republicans the advantage of vastly superior organization In the recent re-cent campaign. If the Democrats are to have the position they ouj;ht to have in 1924. It Is noi a day loo earl ,for them to go to work, to follow this Kc p Uhl MM II e niple. ANOTHER .l l Come now to the other end of the party leadership from which principles and policies must be expected. That end rests in the Democratic leadership in the senate and house In the senate sen-ate the Democrats arc fairly welp provided pro-vided with lenders. The principal one is Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Ala-bama, who Is the official party leader I nderwood has high ability. Idffer-ent Idffer-ent men have different kinds of ability, abil-ity, and it Is ditficult to make comparisons, compari-sons, but probably no one would hesitate hesi-tate to concede that I'nderwood's title to Democratic leadership in the teiate does not depend merely on his length of service, but is entirely justified in all other respects. If Underwood has a defect in respec t to what is now ne. lid, Unit defect Ilea in a quality that occasionally comes to men who have spent too much time in Washington. Washing-ton. Such men occasionally acquire, an almost excessive urbanity. In the course of lime, because of wholly admirable ad-mirable qualities of personality, the) acquire friendships and fall into a kind of official code of friendly manners man-ners in their personal relationship It Ifl an admirable quality, but It BOmetimi I unfits a man for hard hitting and for l ' OU I Mined uu Page TwOj - - - -j7r. - - " DEIIDCRATS IN NO SHAPE YET TO REORGANIZE (Continued From Page One.) that touch of ruthl'-ssin sx u hi. h Is al- Imost lndlsponstbe to s leader la times I of crisis. Another Democrntlc leaden In the senate, Carter Glass of Virginia, Vir-ginia, will never fall In respect to aggressiveness, ag-gressiveness, lie Is, If anything, a trifle too much to satire, a trifle over' Waspish In hln leadership. It Is only I in bis public capacity :lw a leader that 'this auallty appears tn his personal il lations QlOBS is a most friendly and Ingratiating man. In such conflh-Ls as are to develop between the Itepubllcans and the Democrats In the BeneJiSi Glass I will probably be more active, more ag-1 gresslvr-. nion- plci nn .j u nnfl more willing to hit for bo. il than Cnder-;wood Cnder-;wood will be, VN OTHER LB VDKR, i Another Democratic senator, w"ho hus us much ability us an man In that body und who will compare with th- ablest senators, of any time Is Thomas .1 Walsh of Montana- In th cpnng tariff debates Sonator Simmons Sim-mons of North I '.Molina will show the icsult.-. of his Intelligence und long1 experience geoatpi Gilbert M. Hitchcock of re- iMiiMhii. nag ucnieveu u nei;iee in ie.ul- ership because of hjs responsibility for the management of the league of nations na-tions fight in the recent senati lie, like Senator JnderWOOd, is almost a little too urbane, i little too free from passion, for the kind of fighting lead-.-i.-.hip in . essary to make u gi ippiiu; impreselon on the public 11 LUSADERg lll KI . In the house the D.-mot i as are frankl) badly off for leader:-. Two of the very bet Democrats In the house, men with qualitu entirely ade-quate ade-quate 'r leadership at any time or place, were defeated in the recent election. elec-tion. These two arc Cordell Hull ol Tennessee, and Hepry T. Italney of Illinois. Champ Clark of Missouri, the moat seasoned of all the Democratic leaders ln the nou.se. also lost his place1 in the recent lamlMllde. The official leadpr ot the I n-mncrnLs in the linns' iimi mi, ni, niinie ivitcnin ol .sort 11' Carolina. Kltchin has a powerful and! pipturesaue personality, but ho is rath- Sr over-iolent in manner and speech' lO be Just what Is needed for that' cautious und sure-footed acquiring ..i , public confjdenci that k necessary i.i I DOWM l WORK That covers all that Is most avail-, able in uny present survey of thu Democratic possibilities for leadership' I in either orflcinl or unofficial life, j What is now needed, la for these nun' to come together in kind of board of strategy which should determine the I policies ol the part) ami (five expression expres-sion to ih.-m. . man with organising genius and with the leisure to give all jliis time to the work, should ho made chairman of the national committee land should immediately get down to I thO hard work of detailed organize,' ition ln every precinct in th.- oojintry This man should be In steady consulta. lion with I'nderwood. Kitchln. Qtu land tho other party leaders in thi houso nnd senato whoso utterance I w ill bo taken by tho public us more : jess the official, expressions of iDcmocratie policy. To this combination combina-tion should ie iidderi tho three Democratic Demo-cratic leaders who are In unofficial life, JlcAiloo, Cox and Bryan POSITIONS DH ERGJ Airmwiy in the few Weeks pf the present session there has been the most Illogical dlversenesn in the positions taken by the Democratic lenders Inside In-side and outside of offlciul life, For example a few days after tho Democratic Demo-cratic secretary of treasury had opposed op-posed the war finance corporation, and at the moment when tin- D.-nio. r.iti. president was In the act of vetoing it, -McAdoo came out in favor of It. Ob. thi allied question question of direct-ling direct-ling the Federal 'Reserve to extend :rcat r credit: to farmers, one D.-mo-cratlc senator. Glass of Virginia, i helped lead the opposition while an-othor an-othor Democratic senator. Harrison of Mississippi, was one of lh0 most vehement vehe-ment leaders In favor of t. On another anoth-er occasion when a Democratic secretary secre-tary of the treasury recommended certain cer-tain changes In the tax laws the most jvlolcnt denunciation was that which jcamo from the l mm ratlc leader of , the house, Mr Kitchln. If the Democrats are to respond to tho need which the country now has and will Increasingly have for a party to give expression to that portion of the public which does not like the Republican Re-publican program then these leaders must co-operate end must give the public a clear rind coherent picture of ajl alternative program. The Demo-jcratlc Demo-jcratlc leaders owe tlua to their pnrlv and to the public fCopyright, 1821, by the Now York Evening Post. Inc.) |