The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-18
SENATOR WANTS HIS
NAME STRICKEN FROM
DEMOCRATIC PETITION

stricken off the recent petition ser
: by fifty-six members of the Demo
! cratic National Committee to Chain
man White and members Of the Ex
ecutive Committee urging that
meeting of the full committee be call
ed for March 1. In letter today t
Robert W. Woolley, former Interstat
Commerce Commissioner and drafte
of the petition, Senator Jones sal
that when he agreed to join in the pc
tition he did not know there was an,
intention to consider "any specifi
question" at the proposed meeting.
"The petition as published presents
a situation which / deem most unfor
tunate," Senator Jones wrote. "In tn,
circumstances, believe it would b,
| unwise to have meeting of the com
mittee at this time"
In letter today replying to Sena.
tor Jones, Woolley said that in ex.
pressing in the petition Cordial SEN
timents as to Mr.. Whites future, il
never occurred to me that ] would Of
fend him."
Woolley announced that he had re-
ceived requests from tive other DEM
ocratic National. Committeeman
Samuel M. Pickett of Nevada and A.
R. Titlow of Washington-that their
names be added to the petition.
Bryan Favors Reorganization
Miami, Fla, Feb. 10.--"If the DEM
pcratic party is goinc. to be force
in this country it must have men,
bers and the voters will not be willing
to act through the Democratic party
unless they can control it," said Will
liam Jennings Bryan at his winter
home here today in discussing the
announcement yesterday in New York
by former Judge R. C. Roper of Ne
braska, that Bryan and his brother,
Charles, planned a reorganization of
the Democratic party.
Bryan said that he had not known
that definite date for the launching
of the movement had been set as an
nounced by Judge Roper.
II am in constant association with
my brother" he added.
"My theory has been that democ-
racy is a government in which the
people rule, and a Democratic party
must recognize taat authority comes
up from the bottom and not down
from the top.
Politicians try to use the party or
CARNATIONS and the voters for their
own benefits, while the voters try to
use the party organization for the adj
yanccment of the public good.
Surface Movements
II do not expect much of any sur
face movements. that is, movements
among the party officials. Progress
will come through activity among the
voters and they cannot act until they
have a chance to select committeeman.
Prior to this they can organize among
themselves, discuss questions, pick out
spokesman and get ready for effective
action when the time for the selection
of the committeeman comes. This,
think, they should do. And this is
what | hope to contribute to through
my paper.
eff the proposed meetings of the
subcommittee or the full commit
tees have no higher purpose than the
boosting Of some particular aspirant
for office they will do little. If, how
ever, the members of the committee
want to outline n constructive plat
form and call upon the rank and file
for an expression of opinion, much
may be accomplished"
Forget Differences"
"Past differences ought to be for
gotten" Bryan continued. "There
can be no harmony in the party Or
ganization as long as the 'wets' or
Wall street. or any other special inter-
est, attempts to use the party organ
ization to keep the party from doing
its duty to the public
"The people are intensely in earnest
and the committee can best serve the
party, not by burning incense before
any particular idol, but by getting
down to work for the protection of
the public against exploiters. Sena-
tor Calder of New York stated the |
other day that the coal men had plum |
dered the public to the extent of &
billion and one-half dollars per year. |
That sum is greater than all the |
stealing done by all the men now con-
fined in the penitentiaries of the Unit
ed States and nothing is being done
10 imprison the exploiters or to pro-
tect the public from them"
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