The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-24
PARTY ORGANIZATION.

The Eastern papers giving a good deal ot srace to an that is being made to reorganize the Democratic Party of the Nation. There are ap- parently three elements in the Committee One ele- ment is headed by Committeeman Thomas B. Love of Texas, who wants to bring about the removal ot Chairman George White and the selection of Thomas L. Chadbourne of New York for Chairman. This element is often referred to the McAdoo crowd Another element also wants to have Chairman White removed and some elected succeed him that may be designated by MT. Bryan. The other element favors the continuation of Chairman White in office
 A political party's central committee is than a campaign organization. It is the official machinery of the party, the organization through which the party speaks between conventions or between primaries the other proceedings which result in primary participation by the people We have National Com mittees and they speak for the National political party whose affairs they selected to manage the adjournment of the National Convention until the converting of the next. The State Com mitees selected manage the affairs of the party within the State. Congressional District Com nttees provided for in States. In others the duties that deyolve upon such committees are managed by the State Committee Then have County Committees limited Counties and City Committees, limited to the cities. The organization of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are almost exactly similar
 The committee system of party management has been in existence for about ninety years Before that time the various political parties were managed by the representatives of the parties in Congress-Sena tcrs and Representatives. The time came when the Democratic-Repubcan Party of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe became rent with factions That during the second Monroe Administration, and n 1924 there four prominent and contondine candidates for the Presidency all belonging the same political party-Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams Henry Clay and William H. Crawford Adam was Secretary of State, Crawford Secretary of the Treasury Clay had been the floor leader for Madi- and in tho tha 1912, and afterward was one of their leaders in th Senate, Jackson National hero and the recog hized leader of the masses Before that time all the political parties had been lead by the socalled "cu tured artstocracy.' Except in New York, where Tammany already had been functioning for abou three decades, the uneducated, frontersmen, "cod hoppers and aboring had accepted their polite from this cultured aristocracy." Jackson th idol of these humber classes, and most of them him their votes. He received large plurality the popular vote in the 1924 election and a pluralit in the Electoral College bat clear majority ard under the Constitution the election to Con gress where the "cultured artstocracy" arranged coalition of the Adams and Clay forces, and those who had supported Crawford, and Adams wa elected. Four Years later Jackson elected, an among the first things he did was to rule Congres out in party management. He declared that poitica parties belonged to the people and not to Congress and at his insgation the first National Convento" was convened in 1892 dropped the Republican
 
 Party The convention appointed a committee speak for the party until the next convention shoul be held The Whg Patry formed by those ee ments of the old party who had lost out to Jackso. with Clay as its greatest leader. The Jacksonian called 1t the silk stocking party However. quickly followed the Democratic party in the manne of it's organization The Republican Party was organ ized about quarter of a century later. and organized in the same manner the Democrat Party, and its affairs have always been manage under the committee system.
 The people, and not those chosen to represen the people as lawmakers, control their own potica organization They have primaries select delegate to represent them at conventions they choose the delegates by direct votes, and these conventions choose the committees 10 represent the party unu there is another appeal the rank and file IT some of the States the National Committeeman ar selected by direct vote of the people In of th5 States precinct committeeman chosen by direct vote of the people, and thereby become the County Committees. The County Committees then select tn, State Committees. But in all States Territories the Committees speak in the name of the parties between direct appeals to the people