The Washington herald., 1921-02-09
Captains of Party Deploy
Lines in First Moves
OF Civil War.
M'ADOO FACTIONS
SEEK WHITES END
Both Sides Claim Enough
Votes to Determine
Future Policy.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
| Unless advance Indications fail, the
Democratic party within a week
will be torn wide open by factionaI
strife. An internecine squabbIe o.
hkelkenny proportions is foreshad-
owed over the attempt to throw
George White out OF the national
craftsmanship.
! James NJ. CoN's campaign mana
ger is headed for Washington in
j full war paint. when ne gets here
he will find plenty of Democratic
braves similarly dolled up. They
are in training for a battle to the
finish. Before their arguments are
ended. the Democratic rooster is
certain to be a very de-feathereo
bird.
Opening SkIrmish.
, The opening skirmish in the fam
! lily row is scheduled to take place
when George White calls together
here his ewly-appointel executive
committee of sixteen. One of the
first intimations to be conveyed TO
White from the enemy trenches Is
that his double octette looks to GER
tain Democrats very like packed"
committee.
Presumably, white will submit to
the committee 'the petition signed
by Thomas b. Love. national com
mitteeman from Texas. ana nrJy-
five colleagues. calling for an carly
meeting Of the national committee
for the primary purpose Of unhors-
ing the chairman. The executive
committee may decline to aCqUlesc-
I in the Love suggestion. although
the anti-White forces claim at least
! half its membership is with tncuI
Whether II agrees to cal a national
committee meeting or not. the anti
/ White people declared last night
they would ,surDzIon ono. - - -
sure OF Majority.
/ They affirm their original host OF
/ fifty now has grown to nearly
seVenty-siX. They are certain. in
any event. they sa. OF big working
majority in the national committee.
/ II they have to. they are prepared
to take the law into their own
! ihOnds on the decentralization
| principles majority rules. They are
ready, in other words. to erect a
national chairman on their own &C
count, leaving George white. IL he
desires, 10 continue to rule a mi
nority and unrepresentative aggre-
cation.
/ sharp Lines Drawn.
Meantime through the smoke Of
| gathering combat the personnel of
the rival forces begins to be visible
| The existing reEime-the White
! chairmanship-appears to be boil
| stored up chiefly by a combination
! consisting of James NJ. Cox. Attor-
ney General A. Mitchell Palmer and
| Senator Oscar w. Underwood, of
Alabama. Those coherts also in
clude influential Democrats like
! Champ Clark and Henry d. Flood
of Virginia, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee.
! The anti-White Sorces consist for
the most part of leaders identified
during the past year mainly as
"McAdoo men" Thomas B. Love
was the McAdoo floor manager at
the San Francisco convention. 1t is
understood he is ably aided and
| IN l0e CTuSdut dEd
! White by Democrats like Angus w.
Mclean. Robert w. WOolley, Thom
as L. Chadbourne, Jouett ShOuse
and Daniel c. Roper.
Seek Party Good.
The McAdooites vehemently dis
claim the project to decapitate
White is conceived in the interest
of William Gibbs McAdOo's designs
on the 1924 Presidential nomina-
ton, or of any other single Demo-
crat. They say they're altruistic
and have party interests in general
at heart. The ydon't think Napo-
leon himself could have organized
/ victory for the Democrats in 1920,
but they say they don't want any
more Organizers of defeat" like
James NJ CoX's personal political
! Iieutenants. One of the straws in
| dicating Democrats even in Cox
White territory want a change is