The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-23
SENATE DEMOCRATS
NEED SECRET BALLOT
TO PREVENT FEUD
BIZ DAVID LAw8HHCH
(copyriEht By The IntentCrnoer)

WASHINGTON. D. C. ian z:.-secret
ballots may not be popular hut that
ahout the only way the Democrat"
party In the sen't" will be adj"
choose leader without leaving sea-
Of dissatisfaction among the frisn" =.
Senator Underwood, OF Alabama. mo
rival cundIdatrS As things stand now,
tho strength Of each - exactly the same
and onl Carter Glass. The new senator
from Virginia, wh" takes his scat soon
and Senator Hob" smith, OF Georgia.
who declined L. vot" on the last ballot
Gun break IN" tic.
II would APP ar that DIT. Glass favor
S-uat"r ud"rw O"n. Should n" 'r"nT-
s-'1 senator .Ci" for MIR. hitchcock IN"
.,ailut Would Srili h. a tie. The story
Eoex thar Senator Nnks Smith gave Oh
courarrmrut 70 both senators Hitchco X
Nnd rdtrWn"d p,T"r 20 the last caucus
and found hIinS"lC N an cmoarraSSinS
position when IN" voting started. Inc
caucus had - lively d"oat" as 20 whether
o." ruvIr" S"NAtor-clcct Glass 1" pSrti-
crpatC but because n" vote on the IN
,ltaIlor, aaS ~ iu . and not unanim"uS
~" Virginia senator wisely -"frain"a
FROM pnrt3rIpatluS in the contest.
Things have progressed {" tn" point
v here a secret ballot alone Will giEo
N. Democrats a leader ard prevent
hard f."lINgS in the future. Tor whhe
Senator's hitchcock and L Underwood arc
both too bls L. bH personally attect""
l., tn. Nni,S Of their colleagues. som"
OF tn4i- friends have become so wrought
~ ,..,.- ~ ad"rShip question that the
.irrnoCr4'S Will b.. a much more harm
vrious body Il thu leadership question
- AnICabiN settled 'h6i It II IS sol'cu
~" ~! n" Republican battle Ter IraH-
S-~Iip wrs in the h"uS-. AZ between
'r.. Mnudeli ami Mann factions feeling
has no; Yet snur"iN dSanU"ared ana 10
would hav" n'"n Wurh hr,''r an aE"u'i,I
II "A secret ballot hNd o""h 'aN'h 'n
cS"rS case.
The public - MT required 70 S'En
"'lch ballot d"p"Sit"n IN Irn"r3i e'eI-
tibnS and where ~" "h"lc" "t 'ndiN ldual"
from among thor own nnmhcr - con-
cS-rcd senators "u@h' not :" tee' re-.
1uired 20 record publicly thsr likes AMI
ii>likcs "r their = ~p"ct'V" Judgments
d, Z tn, worth uf C"llcnCu"~.
Tho u~\t vur" on he democratic lead
rrShip rI IN" >"H1i" "'ii oH taken Wn"n,
,N,.r Senators N!'' h"""k and ndHr~o"d
acrns - ,SSu.. IN, "aI which Will hH
abour m" nldd'" ~ next 'npn'h. ne
delay - Hrr tr.H f""line that sen
qtnr Hrt"hcn'k ought 1" haN' ire" ha''h
Tn III. n-e"tlnronS t"~ cOtnpr"nliS" on
IN. p-n"'. treaty. lie IS oelnS given
The hearty >Uppur' - all the DemocrtrS
and while ar frs: her" was dlSposi-
iior 10 VIZ hh0ld support on IN" theory
That senator nd"rHuod ought 10 mAh-
Lgc the irnlty rCht for his party, II
~rould appear that m" Democrats arc
not gong rn swap nurses in midstrNam.
<.,,,,,r,nps fnr \ compromise are
,,rnrc, d,,,,. y.-y >rNn In another week
or So rr. puh,r viii known Just what
c.,cL s.5r mas welded and whether IN
d,.cs ,r.rc lave hsrr sufficien, conces-
.,,,,,,,-.,,,,,sc
Tbar,. - no doubt that the friends Of
S.r,,,nr I.,drrwood 700. have t"lt tha,
os tn,,,. ne tho ,r.aty was on tho cal
.,.sar ,h.y could no, MAX" as rtfrc-
,i,n an ,,rrumcnt for hlru as they Nigh,