The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-21

recognition In the field of national Of
fee holding as II was thought would
be the case. There are political lead
ers here who say the women made the
initial mistake of thinking that they
must press for their legislation az
women and not merely as American
citizens seeking that which 's good.
1t is certain, as has been said fire.
quently In Washington correspondence.
that woman has lost some Of her In
fluence with the national Lawmakers
and largely because the women have
not succeeded in getting together upon
any one program of action.
Don't Get Together.
One needs to be in Washington only
for short time to learn something OF
the division in the ranks of the wofn-
en-. There is one woman's organization
which Is spending a large part of its
time and energy in trying to Influence
congress to do away entirely with the
army and navy, to recognize soviet
Russia to condemn the action OF
France in entering the Ruhr, ano to
secure the release Of the prisoners In
penal institutions who were convicted
of sedltion or sedltlous utterances dur
Ing the war.
On the other hand, there Is large
body of women which is seeking to
nulllfy the efforts of their sisters who
are moving along the paths outlined
in the foregoing paragraph.
There is one body of women which
tried and partly succeeded in securing
the passage of legislation In congress
which would in way give to Uncle
Sam control of what might be called
the family affairs of the people. An
other body of women opposed this leg
islation, and 1t Will oppose any other
attempts along like lines.
Troubles of the Party Chairman.
The chalrmen of the national COM
mattees of the two great parties have
had their troubles recently. Cordeil
Hull the Democratic chairman, has
had intentions credited to him when
he has been in haste to deny; while
John T. Adams, now abroad. unques-
tionably has heard the rdmors to the
effect that he might possibly be re-
lieved of his duties.
Investigations show that Mr.. Adams
unquestionably will keep his present
place until the choice of new chair
man is made at ,onventio-- time next
year and that then he will either con-
tinue his work or step down and out
as the party nominee for the presl-
dency shall indicate his wish in the
matter. Chairman Hull mas not been
/ troubled with rumors of coming
change in his office but he has been
troubled otherwise.
A story received ,-ide publication
recently that Mr.. Hull intended to use
his influence as a party man and as
committee chairman to compass the
nomination of a certain candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton. Recently the writer in his Wash
| ,ngton correspondence said this:
in the Democratic nationI- commit
tee headquarters there is NJ sign of
| favoritism toward any one of the
party's candidates. 1t is not within
the province of national committee
to play favorites before the conven-
ton has done its work. The course
of the committee is to extol the party
and not the man."
Hull Denies Favoritsm Rumor.
The quotation expressed and still
expresses doubtless the attitude of the
chairmen of both the Republican and
the Democratic committees. Seeming
ly Chairman Hull did not realize that
some persons, presumably seeking TO
secure advantage Cor their favorite in
the nomination race. would try TO give
the impression that their favorlte was
the chairman's favorite.
The attempt to give this impression.
however, was made and Mr.. Hull was
compelled to issue statement to the
effect that he had held no conference
with other party men and that the
published statement was dntruthful.
He said this directly: Democratic
national headquarters was Lot created
for the purpose either of formulating
n platform or of nominating n candi-
date"
Signs are multiplied today that the
contest for Democratic nomination for
the presidency is to be as brisk and as
breezy as was that in the ever-to-be
remembered Democratic year of 1912.
when prior to the convention at Bal
timore the track was full of runners
with no heavy pdds-on favorite.
Recently William Jennings Bryan
suggested five or six names of men
who in his opinion would make good
Democratic candidates Cor the presi-
dency. The name of one candidate
believed today to have at least fair
show of securing the nomination was
not mentioned by Mr.. Bryan. 1t is
true that the Nebraskan, who now
lives in Florida. omitted tn names OF
several quite prominent candidates.
The fact, however, +hrt he omitted the
name of Senator Underwood seems to