Evening journal., 1920-09-04
DEMOCRATS ARE
NOT ORGANIZED
Whites Testimony Shows
Departments Are Not Co
Operating
HALLS DISMISSAL
GLARING INSTANCE

| INV lOiNhf sept. o.-AQmlSSlOn by
Chairman George White OF the Demo-
cratic National Committee that no def
inlte plan OF financing Governor Cox's
campaign has been formed .as vet. 4"
| testliles rather pungently 10 a situa-
| tlOn In the Democratic Headquarters
| here which has been obvious TO oh
servers for some time.
There Is no Doubt that the central
! management OF the Cox campaign Is
| sun far from a perfect running ma
clline. The reasons for this have al
ready been stated-lack OF harmony.
the Iact That Cox was running his
own campaign while President VII
son SUN controlled the party organi-
zatl0n, etc. The processes OF CO
ordination and constructive oreanizo-
tlon nave been woeiully slow in ma-
turing
One illustration Of the more or less
haphazard manuar in which cam
paign plans have been going forward
was found in the summary discharge
wednesday OF Prof. John q. Hall. head
or me scandinavian bureau OF the
llemocr9tlc National Committee whom
senator Pat Harrison, head Of fbe
party speakers bureau. said he never
had heard OF until Republicans in
the ChicaeD Senate probe testified
Hail had offered his services to them
before he accented the Der,ooratt, ,.aVii,
job. 0''''O VI '''0
A condition like this does not exist
IN a well-organized institution. and
Is particularly striking in that IL
nappe1s 70 nave occurred in the pro-
pSsdhua department, regarded as one
el me most vial next 10 the finance
department. With the finance denart-
men: admittedly not vet function ne n,
carefully prepared lines and with the
propaganda department as confused
as ms evidence would Indicate. some
luea OF the general conditions in East
ern headquarters may be easily seen
IL Is small wonder, therefore, that
Governor Cox Is repOrid TO have or
dered an immediate shaking-up OF
oreanlzatlon work in New York p
II. moore, who was COX's convention
manager at San Francisco, and who
ls now ms Campaign COlolel House"
came 10 New York with Cox 10 look
tne situation over. He left Monday
nlsht TO make a report and recon-
llehuailons to the Governor at Column
Dus: lie plans TO return TO New York
next week, and probably headquar-
lers here VIII see much Of Moore
Moore is a Cox enthusiast NJ fhe
nrst water. He is a tireless worker
or the never-say-die type. His forte |
IS putting pep and enthusiasm into |
tne work at hand. He is an organizer |
OF ability, and from all indications. Il /
is going 10 be necessary for him 10 |
exercise all Of those functions upon /
his return here. F0-
The CITY, S'ata and national Demo |
cratc organizations /have moi hcen
working together since Tn campaipn
starpe6 Cox, while here, succeeded /
m ironing out many Of the important /
qlnerences that had existed among /
leaders. But he did not have time 10 /
70 ABOUT tne job Of cO-ordinating the !
effort OF the three ORGANIZATIONS in
a state which the Democrats This
year must almost certainly win N
they are 10 put Cox over
II will be to put his shoulder Ia
such co-ordinating that Moore prob /
ably VIII return to New York and
work in an advisory capacity with |
White.
But the trouble with Moore's par-
tlcipation here is that he was Of fhe
clement that anlagOni1ad the Nilson-
McAdoO forces at San Francisco Will
son leaders like Bernard Baruch have
oeen SLOW 10 reconcile themselves 10
tne Cox leadership, both during and
since the convention. Moore could
scarcely be expected to improve that
'''''
And 10 probably will be found II
investigated at Chicago, that Baruch
m furnishing the funds for the filing
of the League Of Nations story. Uncle
sam OF Freedom Ridge" acted en-
.Hely on MS own responsibility and
no. in conjunction with iho namn- I
cratic headquarters here. Baruoh 4.
holds ne League Of Nations TO be
non-partisan issue. Which NAV ac- Z
count for the fact that Democratic
headquarters here apparently wnre
N Ignorance OF his sponsoring OF the
story. " '''0
But this incident merely illustrates
again the lack OF Coordination ~
mort al Democratic &c. II o."