Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-23
Campaign, For 1924 is
For Two-Fold
~ Purpose III.
ARE ORGANIZING
Money and Peace Are The
, Things Democrats Are
After-Money Coming
. Before, All Else
By LAWRENCE MARTIN :

By LAWRENCE MARTIN :
CtfnIsed Press STAFF Correspondent
Copyright, 1923, by United Press
Washington, Feb. 23-The
Democratic national organization
is already hard at work on the
1924 presidential and congress
ional campaign.
Into every state has gone the
word that a two fold campaign
must be begun at once to con-
solidate and increase the gains
registered in the 1922 congress
ional election, so that in 1924 the
Democrats will regain control of
the government. This double
will be aimed TO secure:
Money.
2-Harmony.
Money is put first, because
Democratic leaders realize it will
be comparatively much easier to
get than the party harmony they
so greatly desire, but do not ex-
actly know how to achieve, under
the present order of things. 1t
is put first also because leaders
realize that without it, they will
be powerless in such fight as
is. looming a little more than II
year from now.
Discussion of ways and means
has already taken place here be-
tween Cordell Hull. chairman OF
the Democratic national commit
tee, and Harrison Nesbit, chief H.
nancial adviser of the party
chiefs. Hull will from now on
make a number OF trips into vari-
our sections, partly to discuss fl
nancial matters and partly to talk
organization, party spirit and the
promotion of party harmony.
Democratic leaders, while they
express in public confidence of
complete unity in 1924, just as
the Republicans do, the, among
themselves. fully cognizant OF the
danger to themselves in the exist
ing party disunion. This grows
out of the presidential aspirations
real or eputed, of various men.
These various presidential can
didates are not themselves re-
sponsible for the lack of harmony,
But some of their followers are.
They are constantly alert 70 pre-
vent any adherent of another
candidate, real or potential. from
getting an advantage within the
party. There is constant pulling
and hauling, trivial in itself, and
not in any visible way of affect
ing the actual leadership of the
party as centered in Chairman
Hull and his chief lieutenants
But it is visible when the ma
tional committee itself gets to-
! gether.
The fight for Democratic lead
ership of the senate is one evi.
dence of this. That fight is vir'
tually over, for Senator Joe
Robinson of Arkansas has clear
sailing for the place, but that
fact does not mean that senate
Democrats are united.
Robinson will win, unless al
pledges given him are false, but
will not give him the united back
ing of the Democrats in the
new senate any more than Sena
tor Underwood had it, or Senator
Hitchcock before him.
While the Republican leaders
have served notice that there i.
to be no scrambling in their con
vention for the nomination, the
next Democratic convention prom
ises, at this distance, to be a:
scrappy a conclave as was the
last one, when a whole flock OF
candidates hung on and on, re
|fusing to let go of their votes
! McAdoo, Smith, New York; I'm
derwood, for whom real fight
lprobably will be made; John W
Davis, former Ambassador tt
Great Britain; former Justice
] Clarke, Of Ohio; Senator Pomer
Iene, Ohio, and Gov. Cox, the un
successful nominee in 1920, arr
all listed.
! From which it will readily ap
pear even to the most, casual OBJ
server that the big Democratic
Iproblem is getting together.
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