The Washington times., 1922-05-20


and committeewomen throughout
the State the influence of the organ
ization and also of the leading local
Democratic Observation-Disclosures OH
committees or not-is quite over
whelmingly for Long. Also the
grandstand Is at the present time
most Of It for Long Long is In
the lead. Most Of the spe ctators at
| the present time are voting for him,
and want him to be In the lead.
Just the same they turn their eyes
to the horse that is laundering and
roaring along behind and :hey want
to see him run. They like TO see him
run. He amuses them. lie angers
them. They root for Long and look
at Reed. Can he catch up? They
hope not But how they like TO see
him run!
| He Is an institution. Long Is q
duty. 1 hear nothing against Long.
] hear much against Reed. In the
Reed part Of the grandstand the talk
is about Reed. Under the grand
stand among the people who would
rather eat than look at the race. and
who do not give a sandwich how the
race comes out the talk = about
Reed. Long has the advantage Of
being the correct thing. Reed has
the advantage of being tho conver-
sation.
Reed found fault with Woodrow
Wilson's Federal reserve bank law.
He found fault with Woodrow vii.
sons selective service law. He found
fault with Woodrow Wilson's Mr..
Hoover a %,
row Wilson's League of Nations. He
| found fault with Woodrow Wilson.
And when the Democratic party or.
ganization Of the sovereign State OF
Missouri told him to quit being like
that, he just got more like that. One
hundred and twelve counties out OF
ia counties in the Democratic State
convention OF 1920 refused to permit
him TO be even a delegate to the
Democratic national convention. They
broke the riding crop on him. He
never felt II. He never. anyway, paid
any attention to II except that he
rose on his hind legs and foamed at
the mouth. Now the idea is that he
should be thoroughly chastised both
for having run away from under the
great jockey from Princeton. n. J.,
who wore the White House and
Democratic party colors, and for
having foamed and kept on running
when the matter was called TO his
attention.
He and Long are running from
train to train and town to town and
opera house to opera house and park
to park all over Missouri. 1t is
gruelling. heart breaking. long dis.
tance. cross-country. steeplechase az
fair. Long has youth. He has an
edge of perhaps twenty years on
Reed. He ought to have more endur.
ance Of limb. But the friends-and
even the enemies-of Reed are hop.
ing or fearing that in the home
stretch the old horse will show that
even now he has them all beaten for
wind.
Long runs in the colors Of interna.
tional amity, Geneva, Genoa, and all
places east Of New York and west
Of San Francisco. So a captious
spectator might put II. Reed runs
on staying at home and giving the
United States ingrowing pains. SO
those differing from him say. Reed
Is for Isolation" according to Long.
l<OnS tHc DoyS dot Odh
to die In foreign quarrels. according
to Reed. Longs friends tell me that
the Democratic countryside OF Mis-
souri, is pining to get away from
isolation" and to enter into the
broad affairs Of the world through
the-or a-league. Charming and
highly intelligent ladies belonging to
high circles in the National League
Of Women Voters tell me that the
women Of Missouri. pine similarly.
Reeds friends ask me to tell them
whether the countryside Of California
and the women OF California in the
presidential primary Of 1920 voted
for Hoover and abroad or for John
son and home. Reeds friends say
that Californias pining was for the
league and its voting was for John
son and that while Missouri may
dream that 1t would like to elope
abroad with Long II will In the end
decide to keep on staying at home
and quarreling with Reed.
The women in their higher circles
Of education and Of public civic
activity are dominantly against
Reed. They resent a sort Of get
thee to the kitchen" attitude which
they they feel in Reed The Anti.
Saloon League Is against Reed and
has promised to spend a lot Of money
to keep him from gathering speed.
I believe thai he has been gathering
speed ever since he started, and he
is gathering speed still. Longs
friends tell me that the great
throngs at Reeds meetings are COM
posed very largely of rejoicing Re
publicans, who love to see Demo
Gratis trampling on Democrats.
Newspaper correspondents callously
Indifferent to the results Of races
end to the fates OF empires tell me
that Reed is gaining votes at every
meeting and that the gap between
him and Long is closing-but!
II Is big gap. The dope sheet
shows-as II were-a line OF time
ext ending frnm nnw To AuRliat