The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-08-29
DEMOCRATS WATCH MOVES
MADE BY RADICALS
National Chairman May Call Meeting
To Discuss Maneuvers.

Leaders Of. the Democratic nationa
organization, with the national con
vention only ten months away, sud
denly have focused their attention OF
the now OPEN maneuvering of thu
\ radicals to gain control of the party
dictate the policies and name the
candidate for president.
To sound the full depths of the
means of meeting it National Chair
man Cummings may shortly assem-
BILE an extraordinary session of the
full national committee.
\ One thing that seems to be feared
as result of present unsettled con-
ditions, is break between organized
labor andthe organized farmers of
the country, precipitating situation
that would tax the most nimble-wit-
ted politicians.
Z At Republican national head
quarters there is frank admission
that the same troublesome prospect
looms ahead, particularly since Re-
publicans are in control of both
branches Of congress and cannot es-
cape responsibility for the character
of whatever legislation may be forth
coming to meet the high cost of liv-
ing as well as cover the wage and
legislative demands of the organized
railway employees of the country.
AS to what the platform of the
Democratic party might be able to
offer to either class he said:
1T may as well be accepted as
settled that platform cannot be
built around any single class interest.
Only when such group interests are
likewise the interests of the whole
people can the Democratic party sup
port them."
This statement Chairman Cummings
let it be known can he accepted as
indicating that no radical class in
terests as such will be able to gain
control of the Democratic organiza-
tion without fight which, if success
full, would split the party organiza-
ton from stem to stern. At the
same time the national chairman
gives clear indication that the radi-
Gals demands on the party organiza-
tlon and on the convention are not
to be turned down out OF hand.
/ Asked if he, as head of the na1
tlonal organization, was talking
among his party colleagues of Presi-
dent Wilson for a third term, Chair
man Cummings said:
Il have not permitted myself to
think of that subject at all"
Returning to a discussion of pol-
lcies in the next campaign, now loom
ing up as possibly the most impor-
tant presidential contest in the his
tory Of the country, Chairman Cum
mings said:
"l.he Republicans naturally insist
that the Democratic party cannot be
trusted. They succeeded in convinc-
ing the people of this in 1918, and on
a platform Of constructive proposals
were given control of the house and
the senate. But they have not con-
structed anything. The house got
itself into such condition of futile
controversy that it finally tried to
quit in disgust with itself, remaining
on thejob only at the presidents in
slstence. The senate has devoted it.
self to the task of delaying ratifca-
tion Of peace.
! That's the pity of it. 1t really is
pitiful. Now is no time for it. The
Democratic party has not been free
from it but there is an honest dis
position among the minority in con-
gress to further reconstruction work,
no matter whose the credit. A gem
Grafton hence the men whose names
are going to be remembered are those
who genuinely sought TO get some
thing DONE"