Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-05
EFFORTS OF WILSON TO BE DE.
VOTED TO HARMONY PROGRAM
UNTIL HIS RETURN.
PLANS TO LEAVE PARTY
STRONG AT END OF TERM
Leaders Accept at Par Presidents Dec.
laration That He Will Not Be Can.
didate For Third Term-Plans to
Write History of His Peace Making
Efforts-euricson Greatest Burden.
IBy T.. q. Doughcrty.l

ccptance by the peace conference VI
the revised covenant of the league oil
nations as the beginning of another
happy period for the party. lf the
terms of the peace treaty, they say
shall be satisfactory to the American
people as they believe the covenant is'
the future will belong TO their party
for a long time. Some of the demo-
cratic executives who have been tour
ino the middle west nave returned 10
Washington convinced that the coun-
try is for the league OF nations apooH
five to one. and, therefore, hopeful th"'
the republicans will continue TO Oppose
IL, tho they express no DOUBT 'hat ''e
covenant and the treaty VIII De ac-
cepted by the senate.
II is the talk in democratic party
inner circles that the return OF the
president from Paris with the league
anC peace and the beginning Of the
special session of congress Will marx
an entirely new deal in democratic
family affairs. From ncw on II is saio'
there will be complete solidarity pe-
tween the president and deSlocrdti@
members of congress, which is to. De
based or a policy of intimacy between
the president and his party members
that has not hitherto existed. The pan
Is that hereafter the president anu
party leaders will confer and agree
on party policies and courses-and thll
there will be no more aloofness WHICH
has made the president personally even
more unpopular with members or MS
own party in congress than he Is Win
the republicans The idea is for the
president and democrats In congress TO
at,air and keep a united front with a
view to taking advantage of the predi-
Gated discussions among the repup-
licans in the house and like dissenslons
in the senate coupled with a narrow
majority. The president is reported 10
be in a conciliatory and conhdentiai
mood and anxious to have the last two
Years of his term marked by party
harmony and parliamentary efficiency.
Ii is hoped that starting on the OASIS
OF a new deal Of understanding ard
mutual confidence the democrats VIII
be able before the fall Of 1920 to get
out from under tie cloud of gloom that
now covers them.
Wilson Not Candidate.
Until recently" said the national
leader of the democratic party today,
as the party in power we have had
all the criticism. fault finding and gem
eral grumbling that have naturally
arisen from the million opportunities
the war gave to maze mistakes anu
give offense. without getting any
credit for the big things the govern
inert did under our control. Now,
thanks to our good fortune in losing
control of congress last fall 1t VIII DC
the republicans henceforth mo VIII De
held responsible. Between now and the
next election the air will be full OF
criticisms Of congress for .he mistakes
il is sure to make and the failures that
will come. The republicans VIII start
4 lot of post-bellum Investigations, but
they will simply bore the people. AS
the war recedes into the past and all
the mistakes and blunders that the
war government made will fade from
view and victory will be the big out
standing fact The party that was in
power when the job was done viii get
the credit and all the shortcomings VIII
be forgotten. A victorious war follow
ing eight years OF constructive legls-
lation and by two years Of an impotent
congress controlled by wrangling and
undisciplined party opposed by COM
pact minority strongly supported by
the executive will be showing enough
TO get us back In power"
Democratic leaders accept at par the
presidents statement to the democratic
national committee that he will not be
a third term candidate. SO they are
carefully considering who will be the
partys presidential candidate. Mr.
Wilson, it is definitely learned, has fol-
lowed up his statement with detailed
arrangements for his career after leav-
ing the White House. Nothing, his in
Inmates say, can make him change ms
mind, After being the central figure
in a great epoch he now proposes TO
leave the stage and become the MS
,orian OF that epoch. The business ar
rangcments with the prospective pub
fishers are said to be of such a gen.
erous nature that the president VIII
now be able to add great wealth TO
universal fame and spend the remain
der. of his life in affluence.
Burleson Continues a Burden.
That Postmaster General Burleson is
giving the democratic party even more
concern on account of his effect on the
party organization than he is by rea-
son OF the reaction of his administra-
ton acts on the reputation OF the ad-
ministration, was, admitted here To-
day. While the latter are admitted TO
be very subversive of party interest,"
the former Is reported as tending 10
put spokes in the wheels of the ma
chine all over the country.
While the presidential order putting
first, second and third class postmas-
tiers under the civil service rules, Win
special notifications. which was made
at Burleson's suggestion, sore spots are
being made in the party organization
turnout the country. Since this scheme
went into effect some months ago.
about half OF the postmasters appoint
ed in the northern states and even
some in the southern states have been
republicans. The democrats are not
only leading these valuable points OF
support for their organization, It Is
said, but they are seeing many OF their
best party workers turned into mall
contents.
The result is that Mr.. Burleson Is
even more strongly condemned within
the party than he is without. SO. both
for internal and external reasons. the
party leaders would like to see him go.
Az the same time they deprecAte the
Campaigns that IN being openly and BIT
tcrly conducted for his deposition on