The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-11
GILBERT SEES LACK OF ORGANIZATION IN
 DEMOCRATIC CAMP
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the newspapers of the country as the republicans have. Cox is personally accessible by telephone or at his home on all publicity questions that arise which is the last thing one newspaper man should complain of. It is fine and democratic, but is 1t good organi- zation? And where does it leave Mir White?
 WHITES POSITION
 And about MT. White. He is an agreeable, aggressive gentleman. frank and honest, but he has yet to show that he has organizing capacity He is Governor Cox's personal choice for chairman. But there are signs that there is no such correlation between MT White and his candidate as Is con sistent with either theory of proper management, namely that the candi- date should conduct his own cam paign through the national chairman or that as announced from Dayton the candidate should make the issues and the chairman should manage the campaign.
 Some whispers went around among the leaders who gathered here for the notification and they were critical of the, national chairman. It is too early to criticize. Mir. White was made N He had had no large experiences in. campaign managing. He had got him self elected>to congress three times in in district consisting of six Ohio coun- ties, normally republican. That was a good piece of political work, but it was not a big piece of political work. A man might do that and still have no special ability for directing national campaign.
 i Judge Edmond Moore in conducting Governor Cox's campaign for the nomination. But Judge Moore is a man of rare political ability and ex- perience and to be his assistant was not difficult task. The national chairman was apparently selected merely as the personal representative of the candidate but it has yet to be shown that the candidate can make the issues, inspire the mana cement of the campaign and be the center and source of publicity even though he has the extraordinary energy and unmis- takable ability of Governor Cox
 One trouble with the democratic party is that its national organization had to be made ever since the nomi- nation of it's candidate. Senator Hard- ing interposed small uhfactional council between himself and Chair man nay ilt GAdCl TeldjlOn or tnlS council composed of Ex-Senator John w. Weeks, Dewey Hills and Harry NJ. Dougherty to Chairman Hays is not tully disclosed but the Hays organiza- Aion remains and it is functioning
 What the Homer Cummings organiza ton amounted to is not disclosed MT Cummings was fine and impressive man himself. with a good deal of the statesman about him But there is one 1a n1ninp fa ot nh Ri His party has oeen in power for seven years. Yet. he handed over to MT. White, his successor, an empty treasury. That ia certain and whatever his organization was, it had to re largely scrapped when new and Inexperienced chairman took his place, having relations to the cam paign which are not yet perfectly de- fined.
 The lack of organization and far-sight. ed planning was evident on notifications day. The Marion ceremonies were well staged. Those at Dayton were not. What happened was not important, but proba- bly, symptomatic The crowd gathered at the fairgrounds and waited while Gov ernor Cox marched at the head or a parade from down town to the speakers stand. This marching was interesting and democratic, f the main show was the parade. The marchers then strag- sled by taking thrice the time necessary. When Cox began to speak, the crown was tired and thinking of dinner. It be- san to filter away. Cox had to hurry and cut his speech. Then too, copies Of the speech had been given to the audi tors who read t before the speaker fin ished it. The response of the crowd to the more effective parts of the address was spoiled. The emphasis was on the parade, not on the candidate or his speech.
 It was not goo6 organization. Cox has been a good organizer as governor, and he may yet pull what he has to- gether. but up till now the democratic organization has been running loose.