Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-23
DEMOCRATIC CLAN
IS TORN ASUNDER
BY WILSON POLICY
Washington Correspondent
Sees Disintegration
Approaching

That the Democratic party is
headed for disastrous split over
the wilsonian policies and that the
split is bound to manifest itself in
the near future Is the opinion of the
Washington correspondent Of the
New York Evening Sun expressed
in a special dispatch to that news
paper.
According to the Evening Suns
correspondent the split is bound to
come sooner than most people at
present anticipate and it will be of
! a violence that will shake the party
| to its foundations and make abso-
lutely impossible the election of any
Democratic candidate in 1920.
The Democratic managers are
! alive to the seething discomfort
| within their party which is mani
Testing itself in all sections of the
| country and they are to-day fran
tically endeavoring to find means
for checking this and overriding
| the growing opposition to Wilson
and all things Democratic.
While there is apparent calm in
some Democratic strongholds 1t is
the dead and sullen calm before the
storm and it does not tighten the
lowering clouds which are sweeping
over the Administration from every
part of the land.
In Massachusetts, the most prom
| inent Democrats in the state have
openly repudiated Wilson and, 1t is
said, that many of them will even
vote the Republican ticket to show
their disapproval of some Of his
policies.
In Missouri, Senator James A.
Reed. the most powerful Democrat
in the state, is revolving against the
President and has virtually been
read out of the party by the Demo
cratic State Committee.
The displeasure with which Ken
| tuckians view the Administration is
indicated by the election of Re-
publican to Congress from a district
which is normally Democratic by
5000 majority.
The frantic efforts of the Demo
Gratis of Alabama to retain for their
party the seat in Congress formerly
held by the late John Burnett indi-
cate that the Republicans claim
that they will carry the Seventh
District is we'll founded.
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both the Senate and House who are
ready to abandon Wilson. and in
Texas former Senator Bailey is at
| tempting to form a new Democratic
party in opposition to Mr.. Wilson's
personally conducted Democratic
party.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio, a
Democrat, charges the President
with cowardice in dealing with the
railroad situation and defies him to
pass the buck on the Brotherhood
demands to Congress.
Throughout the North there is a
campaign of denounciation of the
Presidents stand on the Irish ques-
ton while in all sections of the
country business men In the Demo-
cratic party are chafng at the
Presidents tendencies to put all
business under Government control.
AS further evidence Of the grow
ing dissatisfaction with the Demo-
cratic party the country, as a whole.
has an idea that profiteerins and
the high cost of living might have
been abated months ago had the
President stayed at home and at
tended to domestic questions instead
of spending his time in the clouds
with his League of Nations ideal.
AS an evidence of the feeling
against Mr.. Wilson within his own
party, it is stated that almost all Of
the Southern Democrats in the SEN
ate and House cordially despise the
Wilson principles. They are for
States rights. they assert, and they
are opposed to seeing the entire
Government turned over to the
President.
These are the signs. according to
the Suns correspondent, that are
plain to every politician in Wash
ington and they indicate implacably
the coming chaos In the Democratic
party.