Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-29
Democratic Party in Worse
Tactical Position Than Re-
pubIiCanS, is Frank Admis-
sion of Leaders lust Now.
PRESIDENT WILSON is
NO LONGER POPULAR
General Wood and Governor
LoWden in Lead on One
Side; MCAdoo, Baker, Pal
mer and Cox on Other.
Fly Louis SeiboId.
(Spec'al correspondent Of the Albu-
querque Morning Journal and
the New York WORLDLY


the New York World.)
Washington Aug. 2S.-The leaders
of all political parties who are trying
to guess what is going to happen dur
ing the intervening ten months before
the next nominating conventions are
pretty firmly convinced that the pres
idential campaign to follow will par
take somewhat of a dog fight.
The rebellious elements predict
and the leaders of the regular parties
fear that out of the mixed conditions
that they anticipate there will emerge
a leader under circumstances not dis
similar to those that brought William
Jennings Bryan to the front twenty
three years ago, and marked the be-
ginning of an era of radicalism that
changed the current of the political
history of the country.
The chief difference lies in the fact
that only the democratic party was
affected by the adoption of the Bryan
program whereas both the major
parties are now threatened with the
same embarrassments. Half a dozen
ventures that hold potentialities that
may sweep both the republicans and
the democrats into the discard are in
the making.
There are more elements of discord
in both than ever before-eertainly is
the democratic party is discord pre-
dominant. If these are not promptly
met by the adoption of policies that
will discourage independent projects
one of them is likely to provide an
axis that will attract all the others
and result in the creation of a new
party to sound the death knell of one
or both of the old parties
The new party movements are not
particularly concerned with the con-
troVersy between the democratic
president and the republican congress
over the German peace treaty and the
covenant of the league of nations in
terwoven in ii, except for the posi-
BILE effect of one or both on domestic
problems that are held to be of para
mount importance. While the pres,-
dent and his senatorial critics are
wrangling over interpretations that
are generally viewed as reflecting per-
sonal views and ambitions of the pres
ident and his personal following and
the senators and others, the promo
tion of movements that are projected
to attract recruits from both parties
is proceeding in various parts of the
country.
Leader Only Is Lacking.
Only a leader is lacking to provide
a program to which the Independent
ventures can subscribe. The situa
tion in 1896 produced Mr.. Bryan. The
situation in 1920 may bring forth a
man who can draw upon both the re-
publican and democratic parties and
at the same time orientate the points
of conflict between them and the re-
bellious elements.
The promoters of the independent
movements base their ambitions on
two theories One is that Mr.. Wilson
has made the democratic party a one
man affair by discouraging the de-
velopment of leadership of president
ial standard in the party and that the
country is wearied of Mr.. Wilson him.
self.
Some democratic leaders concede
the probability of the second asser-
tion and explain it on the ground that
voters, like children. cry for new toys
and soon tire OF old ones.
The other theory that exists among