The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-04-08


He visited number OF the leading
towns and cities, and delivered a ser.
les Of addresses on the subject of the
League OF Nations, discussing the
covenant of the League as given out
when the President returned from his
First visit to Paris. Wheeling. Graf
ton and other places had the privilege
Of hearing Senator Sutherland discuss
the subject from his standpoint Of op-
position TO the constitution for the
League as outlined to the public. He
Z handled the issue from patriotic
rather than partisan standpoint, as
serting in all his speeches that 1t was
not party question. There was no
apathy anywhere on the issue, but
Senator Sutherland found his constiI-
uents aroused Interested and particu-
larly we'll yersed in the developments
connected with the so-called covenant,
and eager to hear the matter discuss
ed by others who have made study
Of II in all its particulars. so far as
they are known to the American peo-
pie. He expressed himself well
pleased with his trip with the size.
Cordially and interest of the audi
ences he spoke to. Particularly graft
fled was he with his meeting at
Wheeling, the audience being a large
and attentive one, and undoubtedly
sympathetic with his position.
The Postoffice department announc-
es that an examination will be held
at st. Adams, W. Va, on May I'd, for
the purpose OF selecting postmaster
for the town Of Hurricane, Putnam
county. That office pays salary of
$1,000 per annum. Announcement is
sions to the following fourth class
postmasters in West Virginia: Mary
H. Messenger, Baldwin; Emma G..
Robinson, Golfers; Edward F. Sirk,
Duck; John r. Rich, Erbacon; Cora
NJ. Bosworth, Letart; John R. Eggle-
ton, Mount Carbon; Oslo B. Goodwin.
Rand; and Clifton w. Taylor, oney.
Congressman Woodyard's office re-
ports pension granted to Rebecca E.
Parsons, of Palestine, Writ county, at
the rate of $25 month.
Judge James French Strother, of
WEIGH, is a guest at the Raleigh.
Leaders of the Democratic party in
Congress, and those outside OF both
Congress and the officeholding crowd,
plainly foresee and frankly discuss Il
party split in twain in the forthcoming
presidential campaign.
1t is to be fight between the ultra.
. radicals OF the party and the more
conservative element, they say. Cleve-
land left the White House with party
split in two, and Wilson will leave 1t
under similar unhappy party condi-
tions. But there the analogy ends.
For Cleveland was a solid conserva-
tive, while President Wilson is radi-
cal to the point of advanced social.
ism. Anyway, that is the way they
are talking in Washington.
It was proved by William Jennings
Bryan in the heydey of his phenomen-
Gratis, that the Democratic party. is
hysterical elements avid to chase the
rainbows and dreams of demagogic
politics and set sail in unchartered
channels. The party inherited the
wrecks of other parties. When the
Greenbackers and Populists ceased to
constitute party, they went into the
Democratic party, changing their par
ty label, but not their ideas, political
temperaments and dispositions. In
time, as the advent of Bryan showed
the party had not absorbed them, but
they had taken over the party. Bryan
found it ripe for his fiat money cam.
paign of 1896 and his other contem'
poraneous and succeeding heresies.
Under Wilson, it is asserted, that
the party has steadily drifted back to
its natural and inherent radical bent
and a numerous element of it is show
ing an old timed enthusiasm for it
The attention of the country was
called to this situation, and the threat
ened fight between radicals and con
servatives toward which the party is
inevitably heading, by former Sena
tor Joseph w. Bailey, of Texas
Bailey charged the President with be
ing Socialist, and betraying the prin
ciples and traditions Of the Democrat
ic party. He was the first prominent
Democrat of the conservative wing OF
the party TO speak up; to sound the
warning; and point out the way that
the party is speedily heading. His
words met with more approval on the
part OF Democratic leaders than the
average man in that partys ranks
might think. There is decidedly re
spectacle group of strong Dem
ocrats In the United States Senate
who, If Wilson is radical, may be
classed as staunchly conservative
There is a widening gulf between
them
Such are Martin and Swanson, OF
Virginia; Simmons and overman, OF
North Carolina; Hoke Smith, OF
Georgia; Underwood, and Bankhead
Of Alabama; John Walter Smith. OF
Maryland, and John K. Shields, of Ten
nessee. The common party ground on
which these men can stand with the
President is shrinking rapidly.
The most amazing sign Of the gen
eral tendency of the party under the
Presidents guidance comes now in the
reports from Paris that the American
delegation is flirting with Lenine pre-
liminary to recognition of the Bolshe