The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-14
WASTED SlMpNTHY.

Considerable sympathy is boing expressed Tor
the democratic party because of The apparently
hopeless and indofcnsblc position IN which It
finds Itself Those citizens who fcel that the
welfare of tho nation requires complete change
IN the administration; who feel, as Committee
man McGrnw said Monday, "that unless thcro is
a complete change In the administration noxt
year It Will not matter much who is elected
president four years later" will do very well
Indeed to save their sympathy FOR "A more de-
serving cause.
For democracy neither needs It nor Is II en-
Titled to IT, Democracy Is doing very we'll
Tho democratic national committee at the
moment occupies two floors 81 one OF the largest
office buildings In Washington. It is paying for
these offices t45 900 annually. In these quar-
tcrs there are installed l76 electric typewrltcrs
and over 800 regular clerks and stcnosraphcrs
Daily there goes out from those offices and into
the malls Of the country tons OF campaign liter
aturc. sent direct to voters from mailing lists
made up from n wealth OF names available to
the committee.
In this connection It should bo remembered
that the administration, ns a result OF
ganzatlon and war drives. has tho name and
financial condition OF practically every voter In
the United states. We do not specifically charge
that all this mass OF confidential information
has bccn placed In the hands OF the democratic
national committee. though Chairman Hayes
of the republican committee does charge It. He
probably knows. we do not Though tho mere
statement ar facts carries suggestion that In
unacceptable.
1t said the other day, before a gathering
OF prominent men, that It was "A matter OF COM
mon gossip In the national capital that the ~
preaching campaign would find tho democrats
with fund unequaod in the annals of Ameri-
can politics It was said that the national COM
mlttce could raise a campaign fund of $l0,-
100000 within 30 days and did expect to eS-
pcpd considerably more than that In ITS de-
termination to elect n democrat to the presl-
dency this year,
1t was further stated. ana tho speaker was a
gentleman conversant with conditions at tho
capital who spends much Of his time there. that
the number OF gentlemen who have climbed into
the millionaire class as a result OF their friendly
relations with the present administration DUR
ing the war run into the hundreds, that each
OF these men still benoftciarios of the peculiar
conditions existing, are determined 20 spend u
very great part OF their "onrnings' to elect an
other democratic president that tho friendly
statute Of limitations may run against certain
acts that an unfriendly and critical admtnistra-
ton is bound to discover. once It gains con-
troll OF the government.
That is tho situation, 1t has been reported
from almost every section OF the republic that
sentiment Is almost universally In favor OF n
change In tho administration OF the government
From that, some have drawn tho conclusion that
democracy vas without friends. That may be,
too. But 1t is not without suppOrters-rich. dar-
ing supporters who realize that disgrace, II not
penal scryitude, awaits them II the records are
made known
Democracy needs no mans sympathy. II the
American people are to reclaim their own gov
crnmcnt and rc-cstablsh national system of
government; II the truth Is to be discovered in
time 10 moto out punshments It will be only