The Washington herald., 1920-05-18

/ BY way of explaining the disaster
/ that bcfell him in Texas. Joe Bailey
said bitterly: The women and the
preachers beat me- To which
George Bailey, paragrapher of the
! Houston Post added, Likewise the
men. the children. the poultry and
! the livestock OF all Texas.
! II. II. Childe-s. we'll known in
! Washington and New York, who
was a candidate for delegate to the
! Angeles. has letter from Col
House in which that gentleman de-
Clares that he will not attend the
convention. as he has never attend
! ed Il national convention and does
1 not wish to break the record of a
: lifetime.
/ Gov. Frank .Lowden. being re-
lated by marriage to the Pullman
! Company, may we'll wish that the
corporation had delayed boosting
! its rates 20 per cent until the con-
vention at least. Travelling men re-
sent 1t bitterly. In a smoker the
other day one remarked, Between
! the hotels that won't give you a de-
cent room for less than s. a day.
I the increased railroad rates, and
/ this Pullman raise a man can't
make any money on the road any
longer. I'm going to quit travelling.
, IL ] want scenery l can stay at home
and look at the kids picture book
Democrats may be interested in
the fact that San Francisco has
1.345 restaurants. 1917 hotels and
l.76S apartment houses. The hotels
alone. at two people to the room,
can accommodate 237,129 persons at
time. The figures are those of
the Chamber of Commerce. At least
San Francisco has not yet been
forced to the expedient of Seattle
and Tacoma. where -four minute
men" are employed to speak in the
movie theaters begging people to
at the time of the Shriners' con-
Vention in June. lest there be not
roofs enough for all.
! Barely 10 per cent OF the regis
tered voters cast their ballots in
the Texas primaries. In California
despite a hot fight. much less than
half of those registered for the
primaries actually voted in them.
In Illinois. New Jersey and Massa
chusetts about the same ratio OF
, votes cast to votes registered was
maintained. The fact that people
will not turn out to primaries is
what makes the bosses task easy.
primary vote is to so great a de-
gree a professional politicians vote
that it is easily controlled by the
machine.
| 1t Is not easy to determine from
tho results of popular primaries
thus far held exactly the degree Of
esteem in which the administration
Is hold by Democrats. In Texas
Bailey, denouncing the works of
Wilson, was soundly thrashed. In
Nebraska Senator Hitchcock strenu-
ously supporting the administration.
and long recognized as the Presi-
dents mouthpiece in the Senate, met
| like disaster. In Georgia, Mitchell
Palmer, running as an administra-
tion candidate. won, but the joint
vote of Hoke Smith and Tom Wat
son, antis both, vastly exceeded his.
But 1t is not easy to deduce a rule.
Watson and Smith were Georgians
both and Palmer an outlander. In
Nebraska Bryan had the powerful
aid OF the woman vote against the
wetness of Hitchcock. In Texas the
weu-disciplined Burleson machine
was In operation, and Bailey suf-
fered also from the fact that he
had virtually abandoned Texas as
place of residence. 1t Is, how
ever, safe to say that the Presi-
dent possesses enough of reserve
strength in his own party. despite
common rumor. to make things very
interesting in the San Francisco
convention IL he desires to take an
active part. In the Southern States.
while the mass of the people are
rather. outspoken in criticism of the
Administration, the politicians are
suspiciously silent or even lauda-
tory of Mr.. Wilson's purposes. il
not of his attainments. And the
fact that he has allowed practically
oil the primaries to be held with
out indicating, even, by indirection.
his desires or purpose leads to a
general feeling that at the last mo-
ment he may come out with dec
laration that will set at naught all
political plans thus far laid.
Apropos of the disintegration of
parties. John NJ. Parker is the new
ly tnaugurated governor of Louis
iana-elected of course on the Dem
ocratic ticket During a recent call
at his Office in New Orleans, / not
iced that the sole ornaments of his
desk were two large. framed panel
photographs. They were portraits