New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
White Saws He
Will Not Quit
Cllairrr1ansE1iD
Puts Demand for Meeting
of Democratic National
Committee Up to the
Board of Executives
Blanes Love and Woolley
Says Resignation Plan Was
Prompted by Business
Stress Now Relieved

George White, chairman Of the DEM
ocratic National Committee, says that
he will not call a meeting of the ma
tional committee, as requested by
forty-nine members out of 106 of tho
committee. Chairman White was et
the New York headquarters OF the
committee, 3e6 Madison Avenue, yes
terdoy, and expressed the utmost con-
fidence in his ability TO keep the COM
nittee's business running prosperously
without affording the. McAdoo oolley
Love men in the committee an oppor-
tunity to make trouble.
"Any concerted factional movement
Mt this Tina to force meeting Of the
National Committee, in my judgment
is inopportune and unnecessary" said
Mr.. White. ~ shall put the request
of the forty-nine signers up to the ex-
ecutive committee Of the National Com
mittee, and shall abide by the dec;
Personally l am inclined to let things
run along in natural way for four or
five months before callin.s meeting
movement for calling meeting is be-
ing engineered by Robert Woolley and
Thomas Love, but whether Mr.. McAdoo
is aiding them ia not at ali clear.
"Two Of the members of the commit
tee who signed the call for a meeting
sent me duplicates Of their response to
the trainers of the call, and these two
members have called my attention to
the feet that in their response they did
ing Of the meeting, and apparently
they were ard are willing to leave the
setting of the date to be fixed by the
executive committee.
"Mr. Love, of Dallas, Tex, seems to
lay stress on my statement of some
time back that I expected to resign
the craftsmanship. Ny business affairs
have changed considerably since last
fall. ] am in the. oil we'll digging busi-
was much driven with work. Now
the oil drilling business is dull and I
find | have plenty of time to attend to
the business Of the National Commit
tee
II find nyself quite fully in accord
with the views expressed by Mr.. Nc
!Adoo in his Los Angeles speech, when
mittee chairman should hold Office
through the campaign and for long
time afterward, and that the choice Of
chairman should be left to those who
were likely to name the candidate in
1924. find no sentiment among the
leaders in Washington for turning in
my resignation. | have talked with
near y all of them and there is a fairly
unanimous wish that shall continue
at me head of the committee"
1t is estimated that Mr. McAdoo's
personal choice for chairman of the
committee is Robert Woolley, who
spends much Of his time in New York.
The McAdoo men say that Mr.. Love is
candidate for chairman and that he
has the backing of the southwest ~r-7
delegates Bernard M. Baruch, the
New York broker and financial advIsvl
TO the Wilson Administration, is un-
derstood TO be backing Thomas l.
Chadbourne.
Meanwhile Charles W. Bryan. of Lin
coin, Neb., brother of William Jennings
Bryan, is quietly circularizing progress
slve Democrats all over the country in
the interest of the reform and prohibi-
tlon element in the party, all with the
ldea of retiring James NJ. Cox and Mr.. /
w hlte from the control of the national |
committee.
The friends of Mr.. Bryan say that
Whlle he is not candidate for the I
Presidency he is determined that at
the next Democratic National Conven-
tion the progressive and prohibition
forces shall take the lead in the fram- !
ing of the platform and the declaration
OF the general policies
Bernard M. Baruch denied last night |
that he is supporting Mr.. Chadbourne !!
Tor the Craftsmanship of. the national
committee.
- I'm not backing anybody" he said, |
and l am not participating in the /
hight in any way. Mr.. White has been
a good chairman-he is a very fair /
and honorable gentleman and I see no /
reason for supplanting him if he wants |
to remain chairman. I'm not mem
Der Of any committee of any descrip-
t on and | fail to understand how my |
name has been mentioned in connec- |
ton with Mr.. Chadbourne's.n