The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
EANY PRESIDENTIAL
Rooms ARE LAUNCHED
unrEs" IN BOTH PARTIES
rrx TO HIVE. REPUBLI-
CANS HAVE SEVEN.

WASHlNGlois, -1:.:.I
III season closed the political
P0'O ;s about to open. A record
Ss, ,ino list of entries in the presi-
sa 'ial handicap is already INDUCING
sD nractice as preliminary to the
final opening of the big flgnt tor
.s saG and issues.
Thore are a round dozen OF aspl-
for the nominations by the two
or narties, to say nothing of the
! a aonendent ventures projected by
,,arai groups of restless citizens
H. think the time has come to make
Isr on both machines.
Come of these 'Enew movements"
j Genuine reform undertakers, but
ost of them are being exploited for
fading purposes. Opportunities for
gromoting new parties that may have
4 substantial value later on are not
INV promising but reasonably GER
LII Of handsome returns.
Tho leaders of the big parties are
- having much attention to enter
Rises of this character as yet, but
|hev will before the nominating con-
kentions assemble. There is a sneak
suspicion that some of the can
sidates for the regular presidential
formations are keeping in touch
Litb the promoters of several new
Dovements" and possibly financing
hem. -
Those based on industrial, labor
nd agricultural unrest, lukewarm
bolshevism, and which voice de-
End for a change in political condl-
IONS rr seem to be drifting toward the
lomocratic party, on the perfectly
konna theory that the republicans
lin adhere to the conservative" and
Loactionarv doctrines and traditions
b that party: -
The republican policy seems TO De
h force the democratic party to pro
Eide retreat for all the radicals.
Fbis strategy is based on the assump-
ion that the majority of the voters
4 the country will rally q the con
keyative" program that tie republl-
BANS will tut forth in Their platform.
Recent events seem to have convlnc-
Id the republican leaders that the
hext democratic candidate for the
presidency will be loaded down with
In extremely radical platform and
HAT it will prove distasteful to the
Greater number of citizens. The re-
Publican leaders think they have sui
6cient reason to justify the predlc-
h ion that the democratic party will
E'try to corral" the labor vote, the
Organized farmers movement like the
*flon-partisan league, and the nde--
pendent factions of the advanced
thinking" type.
McAdoo's Advantage.
The physical incapacity of Presi-
bent Wilson has left the subordinate
leaders, of his party to shift for them
selves and are likely to drift along
without definite sailing orders until
the national convention of that party
assemblies.
The impression is growing at
Washington that President Wilson
will be entirely eliminated from fur
ther active participation in politics
|and that Mr.. McAdoo, his son-in-law,
is not averse to taking over the lead
|ership of the democratic party.
That Mr.. McAdoo is an active as
|pirant for presidential honors every
republican and the majority of demo-
|crats are fully convinced.
Party leaders throughout the coun-
TRY confess their inability to discov-
Ter any pronounced sentiment in IA
Evor Of any one man. There seems,
however, to be the same pronounced
feeling as prevails in the republican
aparty against naming any man who
has been connected with the govern
sment during the last four years, eth
. er in an executive or a legislative
F. capacity.
Democrats Talked Of.
There is the same sort of prejudice