Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-05
ONLY ONE NAME CONSIDERED
CHAMP CLARK WILL BE CHOSEN
MINORITY LEADER.
Dissatisfaction Over Work of the
Democratic Congressional Cam
- --paign Committee

The democrats of the House of Rep
resentatives will meet tonight in the
House chamber for the purpose of elect
ing a successor to Minority Leader John
Sharp Williams. The proceedings will be
of the cut-anddried variety, as Champ
Clark of Missouri the homespun states
man who is such a favorite at both ends
OF the Capitol. has no opposition for the
place. -l T.. -frr; --
Representative Lhoydcof Missouri. chair
man of the democratic congressional COM
mittee. is anxious to have the caucus give
some attention, this early in the game, to
the plans for electing a democratic House
in the Sixty-second Congress, but most
members feel that this would be getting
busy too early.
Representative Clayton of Alabama. the
caucus chairman, gave II as his opinion
today that nothing would be done to-
night aside from electing Mr.. Clark to
succeed the Yazoo City senator-elect. and
other democrats of prominent in the
House indicated the same belief.
~ Inefficient Work Charged.
But undoubtedly there will be caucus
of the House democrats some time after
1he Christmas holidays at which sim
cere effort will be made to find out what
is the matter with the congressional COM
rnittee organization. One old democratic
wheel horse, who has been in Congress
Tor many terms, told Star reporter to-
day that although he had been in politics
since 1919 and had never been beaten in
any campaign of which he had personal
charge, ne was satisfied he couldn't have
heaten a yellow dog this year with the
congressional committee organization or
lack OF IT. possessed by the democrats
He cited as an instance of the way things
were run during the campaign-the fact
that thirty-seven carloads of literature
were sent out by the congressional conn
mlttee just in time TO reach the voters
on election day. Moreover this democrat
saws tnat tons and tons of democratic lit
erature never reached the voters for
"nom IL was intended. These were fair
samples, he thought. of the way things
were run
Will Consider Suggestion.
Representative Livingston of Georgia.
dho'her democrat who has also been uni
lormiy successful in the management of
campalens-and he has had some warm
>ones-said today that at the request of
Representative Lloyd he had submitted 10
mat gentleman a number of suggestions
in writing having 10 do with the PROPOSE
ton or electing. a democratic House two
years hence. Other democrats have done
will be general get-together and ex-
change of IDEAS on the subject MANY
democrats seem TO feel that in view OF
conditions which prevailed all over the
country this fall there should have been
trouble in electing democratic
House.
Why" said one of them the people
OF this country were just crazy to vote
the democratic ticket this year Just
glance, for instance, at the state ticket
results. We elected every governor we
put upe and il there had been fine. eff
cient organization to superintend the cleo
ton of a democratic House a democratic
House would have been elected"
IL is not expected that the caucus to-
night will last more than an hour and
most OF that time will be taken up by the
democrats in saying nice things about
their new leader. No democrat appears
TO have any fear that he will do other
than make very good and fill the large
shoes of John Sharp Williams without
any room to spare.