Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1924, Page 26

.York outside McAdoo or Smith now has ithe convention, 26 KLAN BATTLE KILLS HOPES OF LEADERS Smith and McAdoo Camps Determined to Fight Each Other to Death. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. NEW YORK, June 30.—Balloting for the presidential candidate who can heal the Klan-league schism in the Democratic party is now in progress. As it procecds, the bitter need of such 4 man becomes increasingly urgent in delegates’ minds. The convention reassembled, after a week end of soul searching unparalleled in Demo- cratic annals, amid an external show of philosophic calm and restored unity. Leaders exude relief, not re- morse. They pretend to believe that a useful housecleaning has taken place. They claim that party pros- pects for victory in November are better than they were before Satur- day night's cyclonic storm. But as- sertions of this sort mask resentment and rancor that honeycombd the con- vention through and through. It will take more than a New York week end to blot out the painful memories of the Klan controversy and the league | = conflict. Time heals in politics as in other things. Democratic leaders comfort themselves with the hope it will not = fail the party now. | Seek Wound Healer. Meantime the convention, admit- ting that the knife of dissension has cut a deep gash in plans for victory in November, has set itself the task of choosing the man most capable of binding up the wound. Platforms ex- cite conventions, but seldom stir the people. That is held to be particular- ¥ the case this year, now that neith er the Republicans nor the Democrats have found it expedient to hoist para- mount issues to the main mast. Had the Democrats gone to the country cither on the league of nations or on straight-out issue of anti-Klan- ism, they would have had a battle- cry’ with an emotional appeal. Now. leaders here confess, they have little or mnothing that be got hold of popular purposes—nothing that i e “16 to 1 or or “free trade,” or “keep us out of war.” They ac- knowledge regretfully that their plat- form is as platiudinous, inspiring and negative as the Republican platform is. ing the sorrowful state of affairs, the wisest Democrats in New York real The whose man th name. re constitute a platform in themseives. He st be a man so outstanding and of such pre-eminent quality that | > can make warring Democrats for- | et their internecine strife and rally around him in a united fight for the overthrow of Calvin Coolidge. The the man was difficult | fore the events of the past | Toduy the que: has become more baffling than ever. | Leaders’ Hopes Wrecked. The league and Klan votes, taken In the stressful hours of Saturday night, have undoubtedly wrecked the 1opes of various outstanding as- pirants for the nomination. De!Pile‘ their intrepid claims, no ome in New York outside of their comps believe + leg to stand on. If it was certain 2 week ago that the leaders in dele- | zate strength would “eat each others | off” sooner later, it is| and trebly certain toda; | the animosities en- K t to thank . McAdoo people nothing to defeat | Smith and Smith people will do any- h rival group easily controls a third of its veto power is ab- molute in a situation that requires two-thirds to nominate As the Klan controversy, with its bitterness and its bickerings has Pl havoc with the plans of Mc- Adoo and Smith, so it has likewise disarrayed the prospects of Senator Oscar W. Tnderwood and Senato: amuel M. Ralston. The argument that if the convention, at the end of | dramatic discussion, Yejected the ! f conden Ku : e ey ory is although, the its religious freedom plank is 100 pe; cent anti-Klan and that nobody fits the_platform containing it so ideally as Underwood. But the much wider view is that the brilliant and experi- enced statesman from Alabama has become unavailable. Democratic | Hoosler home and through his New York captain, Tom Taggart, has not proven convineing. The fight for the nomination has opened with the Indiana senator’s stock in a slump. Out of Indiana's thirty delegates, pledged as a body to promote Ral- ston’s fortunes, only five were counted against the Klan on Satur- day night. Twenty-five voted in favor of condemning it with faint disapproval. It will be difficult to convince the convention that the majority of the Hoosier delegation was not voicing the Klan views of Indiana’s . favorite son. Thus. the Smith anti-Klan phalanx, with its power to annihilate McAdoo, is not likely to spare a candidate Who is suspected of toleranc “hooded menace.” These are hours in which merely a breath of sus- picion is as capable of destroying as a volcanic blast. The Democratic convention's choice is going to fall on no one a whit less pure than Caesar's wifé. Many Now Ellminaged. With MecAdoo, Smith, Underwood and Ralston eliminated—as in the average mind in convention hall they are eliminated—the dark-horse bri- gade prances to the front. Théke telltale league and Klan ballots in the, temptestuous hou: betw T Lo Cleveland Park Section $12.500-2 to 14,5002 Have you seen our NEW SEMI-DETACHED BRICK HOMES in this close-in desirable suburb? : —if not, DRIVE OUT ,CONN. AVE. to Porter St. then west to . then one square north and see these ULTRA-MODERN, DIDLY BUILT houses containing 6 rooms and bath, sleep- 34th St SPLE ing porch, breakfast rooms, etc. ( ments are first class and the design eminently satisfactory. BE SURE TO INSPECT these before you buy. premises from 10 AM. to 9 P.M. WM. H. SAUNDERS CO, Inc. Realtors E 1433 K St. N.W. At 1 of office equipment. National every requirement. 712 13th St. N.W. Ralston’s emphatic denial of Klan | leanings, both personally from his | > [ers with kid gloves. —*“Yes, Send Him In” The unknown caller. impression of you as reflected in your selection Flush Construction Desks Sikes Office Easy Chairs are characteristic of big men and will convey the impression of prosperity, without creating an atmosphere of extravagance. The price range is wide enough to meet See Them Today. OfficeFurniture —Found Where Business Succeeds THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. o'clock on Saturday night and 2 |o'clock on Sunday morning here | again point si They count { out former Gov. Cox of Ohio because he entered the convention as its one simor-pure pro-leaguer. They abol- ish Newton D. Baker, who destiny might have crowned if his brilliant appeal had not fallen on deaf ears. They dethrone Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land, who is anti-Klan to the core, even if Ritchie's wetness were not a bar to the convention's favor. They remove from serious consideration Senator Robinson of Arkansas, for Arkansas stood up and was bodily counted for the Kian. They jeopar- dize Senator Walsh of Montana, who rot only is himself a Roman Catholic, like Smith, but whose state voted 7 to 1 in favor of handling the Klux- Five dark horses thus having been withdrawn from the entry list, “scratched” by the relentless fate that has seared this convention wi discord, the fleld is materially nar- rowed. ' It reveals, as favorites, John W. Davis_of West Virginia, Carter lags of Virginia, Homer Cummings onnecticut, Edwin T. Meredith of . Huston Thompson of Colorado, the trio of western governors—Bryan of Nebraska, Davis of Kansas, and Sweet of Colorado—and Senator Cope- of New York. Except for the | of William Jennings Bryan to ar to the knife on “Morgan's " John W. Davis would be far d of ‘all other contestants in the land, some with garage). 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This is the eituation in which men like Cummings, Meredith, Thompeon and Copeland may come into their own. Of the quartet just named, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to many men seems the most logical. The plat- form went out of its way to acclaim the commission_achievements against mon- opolistic ~trade practices. Thompson stands high among the western progres- , and probably the farming ele- t The possibility that La Follette would indorse Thompson is not being forgot- ten. No Democrat at New York e . high prices and “predatory more fully than Thompson. He also in an unusual sense represents ‘Wilsonism. He is a Protestant an prohibitionist. fighter. Thompson's name will be kept before the convention on every bailot without exception. There is one delegate from Penn- sylvanla_who_nominat: —through a Star Classified ad — and you'll be surprised how quickly you can supply it. 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