Arizona republican., 1919-06-25
b|G DEMOCRATIC
 HEADS HERE LIN
 HARMONY HUNT
Chairman of National Con1-
 mittee with Others Confer with Local Party Leaders At Stadium in Evening


 Chairman Cummings accompanied by J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, vice chairman of the democratic national committee; Mrs. George Bass Of Illinois, chairman of the associate Woman'S democratic national committee; w. R. Hollister, executive secretary; w. j. Cochran, director of publicity. and Charles r. Mcguire. private secretary to the chairman arrived in the city yes terday morning.
 Mir. Cochran is the Washington cor respondent for the St. Louis Republic. He met here an old acquaintance, r. H. 1 (Pat) Madden of the office of the coun- | ty attorney. Not large but fairly representative delegation of the demo- i cratic leaders of the state greeted the party here and in the afternoon met ! the chairman and his party in love | feast. Republicans and eavesdroppers were excluded, but it was stated guard edly that the matter largely under dis cussion was harmony which has been the chief theme of MT. Cummings in
 his journey across the country. He
 probably found the greatest need of it
 here Of any place he had visited.
 It was felt that something should be done to close the disastrous rift which began to manifest itself four
 years ago and which brought defeat to the party in 1916 and more decisively
 last year.
 County Chairman Resigned
 The feature of the meeting yesterday was a speech by Vice Chairman Kremer
 who spoke of the republican charge of extravagance of expenditures during the war which he reviewed from the entrance of the country into the war
 and the preparation made by the last congress for the work of reconstruction.
 The proceedings at the meeting were
 generally informal, consisting of dis
 cussions Of the local situation and of
 plans for getting together. It was de- veloped that the resignation Of State Chairman George Rabbit had for some time been in the hands of the state committee. No action was taken on il yesterday and there was an expression against action before the meeting next fall. Names of several men have been
 suggested for the chairmanship, the
 more prominent being those of W. l. Barnum and c. W. Miller of Tempe
 It is the prevailing belief that if the
 resignation is accepted Judge Barnum 
 It was reported that the resignation of Chairman Babbitt has a string at tached to it; rather, that it is made witf the intention of forcing it's acceptance unless several of the candidates of tht campaign last fall redeem their finan-
 cial pledges. It is understod that there l are now outstanding unredeemet l pledges amounting to about $1,500. Not Many at Stadium
 The proceedings yesterday were pre- l liminary to another meeting of the com | mittee today when some decisive actioI
 may be taken.
 | Mrs. Bass of the party met with sev eral democratic women, and preiimi
 nary associate committee was formed
 probably to be completed today. Thi work is understood to be in the hands o
 Miss Alice BirdsaT.
 The concluding event of the day wa 8 the speech of Chairman Cummings a :, the Y NJ. c. A. stadium last night
 There was not as large an attendanc . as the first visit of 8 national chair n man to Phoenix should have evoke t and the enthusiasm was somewhat re 0 strained. The latter phenomenon, how = ever, may be associated with the stat t of Salt River valley thermometers e Judge Barnum introduced the chair c man who first called attention to tn s fact that the people of Arizona wer
 looking upon something that had neve y happened before, the presence of na t tional chairman of either party. Non n of either, during a national campaig e or prior to it had ever crossed tn r Missouri. MT. Cummings said, thougf = that new condition had arisen, tn s world was being made over. It was n | oI -fr DIo <Aot toiy ysv> e place; it was more than a national af e fair. The contest was international i = character and if it should end in tn s overthrow of the democratic party } would be the worse for humanity. d It was gathered from the remarks (
 the chairman that the democratic part if was Woodow Wilson.
 p He said further:
 e' Chairman Cummings Address # Apparently we have reached perio if in our political history when the part = out of power has become so desperat
 ir it's attempts to secure political con
 trol that a concerted effort is bein e made by republican leaders to under h mine the influence of the president ( F. the United States. Unmindful of th Is mighty issues at stake, desregardiu e all of the limitations which ordinaril is cOnLfOi pOlLcdl diScuSSlon anu lDdl1 n ferent to the peace of the world, thes n feeders pursue a policy which amour, .e to a political conspiracy. Much ca s. be given to the zeal of partisanshi le but what place in history will be allo,
 ted to men who, forgetful of America l. honor, have united in 8 deliberate al 1T tempt to destroy the influence ( n Americas delegates as they sit at th le peace council of the world. The rom Il robin and the pendign Knox resolu ct tion are part and parcel of delit s crate purpose to disrupt the peace COT y ference and to throw it into confusion to rendering it's deliberations abortive an le leaving the world to chaos. This is tt st price which partisanship is prepared |; n pay in order that President Wilso ,e may be discredited as a world leads
 and the reactionary clements restore = to power.
 As I read the reports of the
 speeches of strict and unrelenting pa,
 tisanship, wonder what phrases
 abuse, what language Of vitupatio
 what invective, what recital of blur
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