The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-13

ToDAY-Both political parties are
 "nervous" over the problem of
 leadership, writes George R.
 Holmes, Washington correspondent.
 Mir. Holmes rounds up the na-
 tionaI political situation in to-
 days letter.
 TOMORROW = What virtually
 amounts to a boycott on Ameri-
 can wheat through limitations of
 bread consumption has been insti-
 tuted in France, Whites Frank E.
 Mason, of Paris, in tomorrow's
 news letter.
 By GEORGE R. HOLMES
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Politi- cal Washington-and politics consti- ute just about three-fourth of Wash ington-is nervous, apprehensive, jumpy. A sort of melancholy fore boding hangs over the town. There is feeling in the air that powder keg and a match are getting chum- my. Nobody, be he Democrat or Republican, knows just what's what, politically.
 That is a truthful picture of the nations capital two weeks after a sensational election, and as the dying 67th Congress swings into it's last long mile.
 The Democrats are chesty over the gains they made. But underneath their chestiness is strong under current of nervousness as to how those gains are to be consolidated, and under whose leadership. They don't know who Is going to lead them or where.
 The Republicans are nervous over the inroads into their majorities, and particularly over the ascendancy to power of the radically Progressive group within their ranks. Still, there is an undercurrent of satisfaction at feeling secure in the control or things for two years more-even though it be by majorities precarious as to size and uncertain as to- tenn per.
 Organization is the bugaboo for both parties, the Democrats no less than the Republicans. Nearly all the old leaders are gone in both parties; the few that remain are leaders in name only.
 The Democrats have nearly as many wings in their party as cen tipede has feet. How to whip them together in cohesive mass that can be driven at entrenched Repub- licans two years hence is prob lem that is keeping many Demo cratic pillow untouched these cool nights.
 There is the Wilson wing, com posed of Democrats who still draw their political sustenance from the fountain at No. 2340 s street-vigi- lant now and more watchful since the former Presidents Armistice Day speech with its renewed bid for leadership. raH
 There Is the Tammany wing, com posed of Democrats of wet 1eanings, numerically more powerful and cocky now since the smashing wet victories tossed up along the Allan tic seaboard, and drawing some strength, too, from Illinois, Mis- | souri, Indiana and Pennsylvania. There is another wing composed chiefly of Western and Mid-Western Democrats of rural persuasion who would like to see an alliance with the progressive elements of other parties-to the ultimate end that the l Democratic Party would be the real l Progressive Party" of the country catering to the farmers, the middle men, the little man. 3v " Which, if any, of these groups is to control? Nobody knows-yet.
 The Republican division is more simple, being merely Conservative and Progressive. The rumblings of discord already are afloat in the lobbies and the cloakrooms of the | Capitol.
 The Progressives, so-called-La- I Toilette, Borah, Johnson, Norris, Ladd, Norbeck, Brookhart, Frazier, Howell Twill hold the balance of power in the Senate for the next two years. l Except in the case of an alliance between Republican conservatives and Democratic conservatives, these