The New York herald., 1922-08-14
REPUBLICANS FEAR
REVOLT MORE Than
DEMOCRATIC DRIVE
Think Cut i'm Majority in
House Might Make Unit
Easier to Handle.
MISTAKES ADMITTED
Opposition, However, Fails
With Program to Swing
Election Vote.
BLUNDERERs GOING OUT
Primaries Expected to Elm
mate the McCumbers and
to Insure Winners.
BLUNDERERs GOING OUT
by LOUIS sEIBoLD.
Special Dispatch TO THE NEw YoRK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., Aug. 13.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. Aug. 13. !
National Republican leaders are con-
vinced that any new ventures in the
line of independent political move
ments will crystalline after If not be-
fore the coming Congressional cleo
tions.
This also is the opinion OF Demo-
cratic national leaders. The chief con-
Germ of both Is to compel candidates
for the two houses to hew as closely to
general party program as varying
local conditions will permit. In adj
mitting the difficulties of preventing
candidates from chasing rainbows
painted by the authors of doctrines
cnunclated by the promoters of groups
or blocs intent on debating to the two
major parties the leaders who want to
keep their national organizations in
tact are inclined to think that they
should permit nature to take its course
as the best means for meeting the
situation.
Consequently the leaders of Both
parties display n tendency to ignore
sporadic or sectional movements that
come in conflict with so-called funda-
mental policies that really mark actual
divisions between tho two organiza-
tions. They believe that before pro-
ceeding to analyze the effect OF the
bloc system in politics there should be
test of popular sentiment over the
record of the Harding Administration
and to determine the amount of con-
fidence voters may express in the
ability of the Democratic party to COR
rect Republican mistakes"
Admit Dissatisfaction.
Republican leaders concede a sub
stantial increase of liberal sentiment
in their party. The Democratic ap-
rraisement of the probable extent of
it Is naturally far in excess of the Re-
publican estimate. According to the
Republican leaders the primaries to
date have established the fact that
there is a substantial wave Of dissatis-
faction with the record of the Repub-
lican Administration and majority in
Congress. But they dissent from the
Democratic view that II is AS large and
expansive as the Democratic estimate.
which is predicated on the belief that
1t will approximate the proportions of
political revolution.
Republican leaders who have dis
sected recent political manifestations
are not nearly so pessimistic over the
outcome of the fight for Congress as
Democratic spokesmen assert. 1t Is
the Republican theory that the Demo-
Gratis have failed so far to produce a
program that will make for any ma
terial Improvement in existing condl-
tons.
The opinion is expressed by one Of
the most experienced of Republican
leaders that the people have yet TO
he convinced that, bad as is the Re-
publican record. the country would be
much worse or if the Democrats
should carry the lower house of Con-
gress."
In support OF this statement the
argument was advanced that the only
hope for permanent Improvement in
political. agricultural and industrial
conditions lies in perpetuating the re-
sponsibility for 1t In the hands OF Re-
publicans. A Democratic House would.
in Republican judgment. make for
greater confusion and further de-
moralization than has resulted from
the omissions. procrastination and
negligence of the Republicans.
Republican leaders contend that the