Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-02-22
DEMOCRATS WILL
REORGAHIzE PARTY
w. ,. BRYAN TAKING ACTIVE PART
IN WORK N WITH THE
MAD0O FACTION

WASHINGTON. ID. C.. Feb. 81
Powerful democratic leaders are now
stirring 10 rcorganlze their party. which
went down In tho WORT defeat in rs
history last November. There has been
talk OF reorganization ever since the
November dchacle. but now the move
mont IN really under way.
A meeting o. the Democratic National
Committee was demanded. according TO
the original telegram 10 Chairman
white. which was signed by forty'nine
Of the i0e members 81 the committee.
Elm order that tho forces ~ progress
may be organized for continued. con.
structive. patriotic action In the sue
ceedlng four years. and for a righteous
and richly earned victory In 1874" This
sounds well a. the beginniag ~ n new
campaign SLOGAN for the party. bat no
mention was made 81 the congressional
elections In 1899. plans for which are
alrcady beginning 10 h. made by the
National Republican Congressional
Committee. In view II tho overwhcIsn.
ing republican majority In House and
Senate. particularly the House. the
slgners q the call may have thought II
practically usciess 10 mention the next
Congres. sonai elections. or II may have
been overlooked.
There II one significant fact in the
'round robin" signed BY the forty.nine
committeeman who asked Chairman
White 20 call the meeting. That il that
practically every signer II n McAdoo
supporter. or allied 90 the wing anxious
20 eliminate Cox. In this II seen. In the
opinion % many members OF Congress
the beginning 81 n movement TO de-
throne former Governor Cox from the
leadership q the party. Just who will
succced Chairman White. should he re-
sign. which seems unlikely ne this was
written. arems 20 be a puzzle here, even
20 the hest Informed congressman Of
tho denocratci faith.
William Jennings Bryan. u il report.
ed on the best of authority. IL allied
with the McAdoo wing. in the plan 90
eliminate presidential candidate Cox. and
Eef control ~ the committee with the
McAoo partisans. II a meeting u the
committee should result IN the McAdoo-
Bryan forces getting control Governor
Cor win BE- entirely left out IN the cold
and any chances that be may have had
20 come hack" AZ a presidential can.
didate four years hence. like Grover
Cleveland once did. will have forever
disappeared Control q the committee
tT Bryan and McAdoo will eliminate
Cox from the high councils" for all
time. II Il said that this IL on the
cards and likely TO b. done. II not now
later.
Governor Cox and his friends are said
TO he aware Of the plans on foot to elm,
mate him. and according to some Of
Cox's friends aer' In Congress the
scheme win not b. put through with.
out . big fight being made by cox's
supporters In the committee.
Control Of the committee by the Ne.
Adoo-Bryan faction would mean a biz
step toward the democratic nomination
f1ur years hence IL either Bryan or
McAdoo for the presidency. Those who
know Bryan well here do not doubt
that by that time. with Cox completely
eliminated. Bryan and his friends will
have been able 10 sldetrack the Nc.
ADO ambitions for the nomination. and
the ''commoner" will himself become
again the standard bearer Of the party
In the is.s presidential campaign. Those
who know Bryan well know that he has
never given up the idea Of being presI.
dat and never wgll.
Bryan In now an old man. lie Is rich.
lie realizes n do his friends. that 1924
viii probably 10 his very las, chance
for anoth-r presidential nomination. lie
and his friends viii Try hard to bring
that about. The Bryan.McAdoo coail.
ton 20 Gust Cox IL the first move In
that direction. The plan may succeed
At any rate Il II regarded here that
eventually STR. Cox will be put on the
political toboggan.
Recently when Cox was IN Washing
Ton and talked with the ncwspapcrmcr
the impression was clear that the for
fner Ohio governor In getting ready 4
again b a candidate for the PRESIDENCY
HIS conference with President Wilson
sfron things that were learned after
wards. was surmised. with good reasons
20 have been on that subject.
However. the Wilson influence. ono
% powerful. win Be practically nil Al
soon as Mr.. Wilson leaves the Whit
House. The Wilson influence viii carr,
about az much weight with the leader
a the democrats an Mfr. Taft now pos
stsses with the republican leaders. Blu
whatever remains OF the once sironi
Wilson political Dictatorship. no ma;
ter how feeble. will b. cast very mai
uraily for Mr.. McAdoo In the Demo