Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07
Democrats SEEK
LEADER TO GUIDE
STRAYED TO FOLD
Defeated Politicians Drift
Back and Gird Selves for
Battle in 1922.
EXPECT TOP-HEAvY COP.
CONGRESS WILL TEETER
Convinced Republican Party Car
ries Germs Which Will Make
for Ultimate Destruction.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.


Democratic statesmen politicians
who participated in the last campaign
are drifting back to Washington, their
heads bloody. but unbowed." Dis
couraged? Not bit; disappointed, to
be sure, and yet full of fight. and al
ready beginning to grid themselves
for the battle of 1922 for the Congress
campaign. preliminary to the presi-
Dental contest of 1924.
Their unanimous opinion is that the
republican party is top-heavy with
its swollen majority. and will begin
TO teeter shortly after the new Con-
gress comes in, and the new admins
tration tackles the manifold prob
lens confronting it at home and
abroad. Moreover, they are convinced
that the republican party carries
within itself the germs which will
make for its ultimate destruction.
Democrats comfort themselves with
the thought that the election returns
do not mean that democrats have dis
appeared from the land. They still
live. although for reasons good ard
sufficient unto themselves they chose
to vote the republican ticket last
were, it is argued, whether they
wanted a change; whether they
sought to rebuke the alleged Wilson
autocracy; whether it was their pur-
pose to reject the Wilson league Of
nations; whether in view Of the criti-
cal economic and industrial condition
of the country they preferred intrust-
ing the republican party with the task
of reconstruction. or whether they
thought their candidate did not meas
ure up-at any rate none Of these con-
siderations Is likely to apply four
years hence, and they viii still b.
democrats at heart
Hanuerfng Process to Start.
While there win be continual dis
cussion Of the future leadership Of
the democratic party from now on,
some of the wise old owls among
the democratic leaders in Congress
contend that the first thing to do is
to reassemble the straying democrats
into the semblance Of a party. and
this can be done most effectively
through q constructive policy in Con-
gress and constant hammering away
at the republican legislation and the
rev administration.
Let's get our party together be-
fore we squabble over q leader will
be the watchword Of these veterans,
1t 10 declared
The dispatch from New York quot
ing Chairman George White of the
democratic national committee as
saying that the democrats can hence
forth provide the anvil chorus" of
criticism and fault-finding echoes the
sentiments of leading democrats here.
They are convinced that ample op-
portunity will be furnished the
minority for onslaughts on the un-
wieldy republican majority. classed
by them as a conglomeration Of all
kinds Of discordant elements. some
of them absolutely irreconcilable in
human natura
C0ngress Melting Pot.
"A melting pot of policies, prin-
ciples, fads and isms" is the way one
democratic statesman characterized
tho new Congress-. and he said no mar
can foresee what the run-of will be
The democrats are laying great
store by their anticipated unlikelihood
of the progressive and old guard re.
publicans cementing into a permanent
bond the temporary union they formed
for the purposes of this campaign an6
election. Democrats assert that the
reunion of the two factions '1acks
heart" and was effected for q
utilitarian purpose only-to drive the
democratic party from power. Thii
object accomplished, it is contendet
that the factions will revert to form
the progressives setting up theil
standard of principles. the. old guart
remaining the unregenerate and stiff
necked generation it is charged will
being.
That the old guard will be in tn.
saddle in the House and Senate il
indubitable. The democrats do no
expect that faction to show much con-
sideration to those who differ will
tHcIn 4Nc OIfJ tiAhC thC oA0 udi u
it is said, ever manifests disposition
to temporize 10 when it is being
beaten to it's knees; a case Of "wheI
the dell was sick the dell monl
would be: when the dell got well
the dell a monk was he The ole
guard is feeling right pert, now. thanl
you, and the democrats are hoping
that it will start out in a high-handeG
way to do things and enforce its will
One fear. however. besets the demo
Gratis in this connection and that i.
that possibly President Harding may
himself prevent the longed-for spill
between the progressives and tn,
others. Senator Harding has repeat
edly indicated his intention to toll
crate no factions in the republican
party. While he has AFFILIATED will
the regulars. he has long ago ceasec
to harbor grudges against the pro
gressives. even the most radical o.
them. for the events Of the past: fo
1912 and all thereafter.
VIII Recognize Prosressives.
When President he will recognize
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