The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-22
TWO FORCES AT WORK

acted like man surprised at his sud- den elevation to the chairmanship.
 TWO FORCES AT WORK -
 That elevation took up most of the day. Two forces worked to bring il about. One was the determination of Governor Cox to be the master of the party. The theory that the national committee should pick it's own chair. man and the candidate should abide by it's choice of campaign manager does not work. It hasn't worked in the case of the republican national committee, for the real power over this republican campaign resides elsewhere than in the hands of Chairman Will H. Hays where it nominally lies. "A
 And it hasn't worked in the case
 of the democratic national commit
 fee, for Governor Cox has just done
 what most candidates of both
 parties have always done-he put
 his personal representative in charge of his own campaign.
 The force working for the replacement of Mir Cummings was the desire Of the state leaders who by naming their candl- date for President had wrested the com trol of the democratic machinery from the hands of the administration to make their victory complete.
 You had only to enter the parlor in the Deshler hotel where the national commit tee gathered to realize that something had happened to the party. The Wilson element, so conspicuous for eight years, was strangely ineonspicuous. The odor of sanctity had departed. The lean faced and bright idealist stayed at home MT. Cummings alone spoke a language tna1 might have sounded out of place at a university faculty meeting. Busy heads +no hor i'm rising to 1ndk3 all the motions, listened to with profound respect, were the fat, heavy-Jowled geh- tlemen whom no one could mistake TOT other than the professionals Of whom Washington had been contemptuous Tor eight years: the Brennan, the Marshes the Taggerts and the chief of these oy virtue of his relation to the candldate and the quality of his political inteiii- gence Edmond Moore. MT. Cummings is not fat nor heavy jowled He is lean, distinguished and refined. His chm IS not the most prominent feature of ms face He speaks a language almost as much out of place in the democratic ma tional committee as that of the wealthy
 'forty-eighters" in the labor party con- vention.
 NOT A MIXER
 If you must have it.in the words Of nis critics, Mir Cummings is not good mix CT. Not to be a good mixer in politics, is only to be tolerated in movements ol party idealism When the heavy-Jowled control, those who are not good mixers go to the rear That was count number one against Mir Cummings. Count num- Der two was highly practical. MT. Cum mings belonged to the other crowd. lie had his friends. If he continued to o' chairman, his friends would have to De taken care of to the exclusion or ths friends of MT. Marsh, MT. Brennan NIT. Murphy and Mir. Moore. Cummings, no' being a good mixer, had few friends III common with Mir Marsh and the others They were willing, to please MT. Cum mings. to vote his keynote speech at San Francisco the greatest in the history oi his party and to express the desire thai he 20 upon the stump in the campalsh and make more like it. But they werf not willing to have him remain party chairman.
 It was hard to find his successor when Mr Moore declined to serve. But tns choice finally fell upon MT. White, who Is a graduate of Princeton and was no snoiled for political uses in the educa- tional process. The new chairman studied history under Professor Wilson and iS 2 Klondyke hero. winning a fortune pare handed ;n the Arctic. He has slendel phvsioue. worn face, wrinkled beyond l. it's years. a quick eye. He smiles reaol'S and is promptly intimate in personal re, lations. He is a good mixer. In spite o' Princeton and perhaps because of the klondvke and later of the oil we'll shoot ing he talks a language which the vy-jowled can understand. He ls more human than. Cummings, thousp not his equal intellectually He took ul his new job gravely like Presbyterlan elder assuming the superintendency or Sunday school The young democrats and he is one of the young democrats always have a grave sense Of respoi.s' bility. But his responsibility IS ilini'eu