The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-27
barometer of Public Opinion


NASHINGTON Jan. 2j.-Democratc leaders
IN Washington who have not reacted ftvorably
10 the suggestion OF Herbert g. Hoover as a
candidate for the presidency are endeavoring 10
discover how closely tho Hoover candidacy is
connected with the white house. Close analysis
OF the Hoover support, both editorial and per
eonal runs back to the sources which have been
the chief support OF the president in the past
and carry tho suggeetion that there may he
presidential support for the and novel sug-
gestion of candidate without "A party
rho suggestion also carries with II the cor
rollary that the president, who has been the en-
tire democratic party since his advent into the
white house looks forward TO the organization
or "a new party, which may bear the old party
label, but which shall he representative OF the
things In which the president personally believes
and which shall officially get away from the old
democratic tenets which have been nnofricially
abandoned during the present regime in the
executive mansion.
This Is the Interpretation which democratic
leaders place upon the New York World edi-
torial. which has been assumed TO speak for the
president ever since he entered the white house
and which now virtually indicates the entire
democratic party as politically bankrupt
ganizaton which is no bettcr than what the
same publication can see in the republican
party.
other supporters OF the Hoover movement
have also been closely identified with the presi-
dent, and the presence OF Col. r.. NJ. House mt
tho recent Hoover dinner In New York adds to
the suspicion which has been raised in the demo
cratic mind.
Tho result has been a carefully organized
search for information on the part OF demo
cratic leaders who are not prepared to accept
the elimination from tho leadership OF their
party even at the behest OF the president and TO
abandon the tenets OF democratic faith to which
they have long adhered In order to turn the or
ganizhtion over TO a candidate whose aloofness
from party affiliations seems to them to make
him international candidate rather than a
party representative.
The democratic organization leaders who see
In the strange moves that are being made pro-
gram for the organization of practically "A new
party movement are said to have the singular
support OF William Jennings Bryan, who Is alert
to take a potshot at anything that savors Of
wet" influence In democratic politics, Mr.
Bryan Is credited with having sensed, with sus-
picion. insistence upon the terms human lib
erties'' with which the editorial support for
Hoover Is tinctured, and who is reported to re-
gard this squirting at the old-fashioned use
of this term AS applied In debates on the wet
and dry issue.
That the Hoover dinner and the editorial sup
balloon TO test out sentiment is accepted here.
and that it has not taken well is the reason
qsCrbcd to the haste with which julius II.
Barnes, head OF the United Grain corporation,
has declared Mr. Hoover will not be a candidate
unless there is evidence OF popular demand
for him
Up to the present moment the evidence of
popular demand" It is thought, has not boen !
forthcoming, and there is feeling that the
trial flight essayed in New York has been pre-
mature,
Opposition to the Hoover talk from sources
friendly To Bryan is also evidenced from those
who support Bryan opposition in favor of an
arrangement on the the league which would
keep that issue out OF politics.
II Is assumed that II the administration Is
willing TO go so far as to support democratic
movement carrying with II a nohpartisan ap-
peal with Hoover as the league candidate, II
follows that President Wilson will make good
his Jackson day dinner threat of carrying the
league into the national election The Bryan
adhercnts opposed to this, and, while they
are not disturbed over administration dismissal
of the alleged almer-Tumuity combination.
they are disturbed at the effort To carry the
league into the next campaign,
The presence of Niscount Grey at the Hoover |
dinner has given another talking point to the
anti Hoover sentiment which democratic leaders
building up. since II offers another sugges- (
ton them of n determination To carry inter- J
nauonalism into the next campaign. They shy |
at the acceptance OF the unique idea that the |
am assador ofsanother country should sit i'm at
coming out patty given in honor of new pres /
idential candidate. They acknowledge that 1t is |
an unheard- OF precedent and they frankly fear !
II as giving an impression to a policy OF inter-
nationalism which would regard nationalsm as
of such slight importance as to be regarded as a
form of mere sectonalism