The north Mississippi herald., 1918-11-29
WHO is RESPONSIBLE
FOR REPUBLICAN, MA
JORITY In CONGRESS?
Seven Alleged Blunders
of Democratic Leader
Cause of Much Fear A
nong NJ e m b ers of
Party.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

WASHINGTON, Nov. &c. Presi-
dent Wilson is himself so strong an
advocate of frankness in public busi-
ness and politics that he will not mis-
take the sincerity of purpose and dis
interestedness of his many friends
who believe that he is face to face
as the leader of the Democratic
party and the representative of Amer
lea at the peace conference.
Briefly, there is dissatisfaction and
discomfort inside the Democratic
party of which the public has hither-
to had no hint but which it left un-
corrected by the president himself
will mean that as he goes to Europe,
he will leave behind detected and
depressed following whose enthusi-
asm for him will have been seriously
diminished.
Men who are not Office holders, but
unseifish friends of the president are
grieved and disappointed. They are
not Republicans, they are not his po-
litical foes, but they are the men
who helped elect him in 1912 and in
1916 and they are talking earnestly
dAlOIR IilclIlS6lNCS dDOuJ WlldI Cdt
be done to make the president see
that he must clean house, that he must
reorganize his entire cabinet, and that
he must, indeed, reorganize the Dem
ocratic party in congress so that he
will have advisers in the executive
branch of the government and lead
ers in the legislative branch, who are
in sympathy with the true wishes and
spirit of the American people.
Seven Mistakes.
After talking with dozens of these
men, the names of any one of which,
If published, would carry conviction
that they are seeking only the things
which will help and not hurt the presi-
dent, one gets concensus of opinion,
which is unmistakable. Here and
there are suggestions of method which
differ, here and there are different
degrees of dissatisfaction, but, put
categorically, these are some of mis-
takes which the president himself is
declared to have made, or be MAX
ing today;
First-The president in his absorp-
tion in foreign questions, has gotten
out of touch with the true spirit of
America on domestic questions. lie
hrs stc~ei 90 . s-'~li GROUP of ad-
visers who have Aad hia c.rr 10 tae
exclusion of the greater group of
friends who come from the Middle
West and West sections of the Eust
where the people are finding it diff
I cult to reconcile the brand of De-
enocracy which Mr.. Wilson preached
the outset of his administration
ith the retention Of distinctly au-
cratic and bureaucratic advisers
ID with his own seclusiveness.
Second-The friends of the presi-
mt are unable to understand why
gorge Creel should be taken to Eu
)pe as the head of any committee
n public information when Mr..
reel, Notwithstanding his fine per-
n onality and close personal friendship
tor the president and sympathy with
The Wilson ideas, has lost the conf
dence of the American press, and
thereby the people.
Third-The friends of Mr.. Wilson
Neelieve grave mistake was made in
announcing the dispatch of Mr.. Creel
Europe at the same time Postmast-
r General Burleson was permitted to
I axe over control of the Atlantic
cables. These things have been de-
bounced as Colossal blunders," not
merely by Republicans, but by Mr..
Wilson'S most loyal friends, who mean
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