The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-01
COX-M'A DOO FACTIONS
At ODDS OVER WHITE
THE GUARDIANSHIP SQUAD
BILE MENACES 1922 CONGRESS
SIGNAL CAMPAIGN.
NEED DEMOCRATIC WILL HAYS
To Compose Differences of Warning
Elements in the Party. Fight Is EX-
pected to Come to Head at Meeting
In St. Louis Today.

pecteQ to come TO I1Sed at hSSIAAAS
In ST. Louis Today.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The dem
ocrats are going to hold their national
committee meeting on November lst
but they are no nearer peace than they
have been. For a year one group has
been pulling and hauling to GUST the
present chairman, George White, OF
Ohio, and another group has been IN
sisting that he stay in. At various
times Chairman White seems to have
given the impression that he would be
willing to get out under certain condl-
tons as fulfilled, and it seems likely
that the fight will come to head at
the November meeting
Partisans of McAdoo.
Mr.. Whites friends assert that those
who are trying to get him out are par
tisaus OF William g. MCAdoo, and that
their purpose is to fill the office with
some one who will help Mr.. MCAdoo
towards getting the democratic noml-
nation in 1924 This allegation is de-
MED BY those who demand change,
They declare that all they want IS
new deal and active men i'll the offices
of chairman and treasurer. They say
they merely want the energy and or
ganizing vitality that would come with
a new group of officers, carefully Sc
lected with these qualities III mind.
They assert that their movement IS not
primarily a MCAdoO movement, and
does not look to his nomination in
1924. They charge, too, that those who
are irving to keep Mr.. White in are
friends of James NJ Cox, and that their
interest lies in keeping the Organlza-
ton within the control OF Mr.. Cox and
his friends.
1t is difficult to arrive at just Judg-
ment as to how much merit there IS
in these charges and Counter-ChargeS.
Undoubtedly Mr. White was originally
put in the craftsmanship as the direct
choice Of Mr.. Cox Undoubtedly, also,
most of those who want to keep Mr..
White in are partisans OF Mr. Cox. 1t
is equally certain that most OF those
who are most active i'll the effort to
supplant White with a new chairman
are persons who in the past have been
closely identified with Mr.. MCAdOo's
ambitions for the presidency. SO to
what extent the issue is merely fac
tional one Of Coxs friends versus Nc
Adoo's friends, and to what extent 1t
is inspired by a real desire on the part
of disinterested and loyal democrats
to achieve harmony and energy is not
easy to determine.
Result Will Be Demoralizing.
About the net result OF it there can
be no doubt The result will be like
the result of all factionalism in any
orqanization-a degree OF inertness
and a lack of forward movement III
the organization which is most un
promising for future results. The or
ganization has wabbled along in this
state for a year past. At one time eX-
Congressman Scott Ferris, OF Oklaho-
ma, was informally more or less agreed
upon as a compromise choice Then it
occurred to somebody that Mr. Ferris
had been identified with one OF the
most unfortunate episodes from dem
ocratic point OF view, OF recent years,
namely, the letter in which eX-Pres1-
dent Wilson, in the fall OF 1918, asked
the country to give him a partisan
democratic congress This episode APP
pears to have ruled Mr.. Ferris out.
At present the man who the ad-
vocates OF change are putting Tor
ward strongly is Daniel S. Roper, OF
North Carolina, who was commission
er OF internal revenue under Mr.. Nc
Adoo when the latter was secretary
Of the treasury. The effect to put Mr..
Roper in control will undoubtedly
come to a head at the November meet
ing. Everybody admits that Mr.. Roper
is man OF high quality, with much
organizing ability. But everybody also
admits that Mr. White is a man OF
high character, whose personal quality
is an asset to the democratic organiza-
tiCn.
A Great Pity.
The whole middle is a great pity
from the democratic point OF view
What the democrats most need, in an
ticipation OF next year, is a live-wire
chairman, whose past affiliations dc