The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

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House and to enact progressive"
legislation along with 'liberaliZed''
rules.
Heads Strong Group.
Huddleston is one of the outstand-
ing members of the Democratic ele
ment of the progressive group" in
the House Among other members
of that element may be mentioned
Mead and Jacobstein of New York.
McNulty of New Jersey, Casey of
Pennsylvania, Sherwood and Crosser
of Ohio, Rainey of Illinois, Howard
of Nebraska, Thomas of Kentucky,
Ward of North Carolina, Logan of
South Carolina, and Collins of Mis-
sissippi-all Democrats and all in
sympathy with the general tendencies
of the progressive group" and it's
La Toilette Wisconsin leadership.
1.-THE Democratic leaders are
Under the same influences that
dictate the action of the Republican
Old Guard" says Congressman BuG-
dleston. There is not particle Of
difference between these reaction
airy elements. The Democratic lead
ers were in control of the House of
Representatives for years and could
have liberalized the rules then.
They did not want to do it then;
and they do not want to 10 it now"
Attack On Leaders.
This savage attack is made direct
ly at Congressman Garrett of
Tennessee, official leader of the
Democrats in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and at Congressman
Garner of Texas, who is one of
Congressman CARROTS principal
assistants. These supreme Demo-
cratic leaders successfully resisted
the effort of a large minority of
Democrats to join forces outrighrly
with the Wisconsin Republican PRO
gressives" in the organizing Of the
House of Representatives. They
now are getting attacked by that
minority in precisely the same way
in which the regular Republican
leaders IN both houses of Congress
are now getting attacked by their
own Republican "progreSsives" on
their own side of the party battle.
A still more serious color is given
to this situation by the behavior
of the periodical called Labor"
This weekly newspaper was more
responsible than any other one
printed influence for the recent sue
cesses of the radicals" and
"farmer-laborites" in the Northwest.
1t is managed and edited by the
battling publlcist Edward Heating,
of Colorado, an Congressman, an
experienced politician, and a Demo-
crat.
In spite of being a Democrat, and
in spite of the fact that most of
his several hundred thousand read
a. o;r,kr
are Democrats, Heating begins his
current issue of Labor with an
editorial in five columns, going all
the way across the top of his first
page, saying that the Democratic
Party in the House of Representa-
tives has lined itself up with the
"Old discredited standpat Republi-
can machine" and that this
blunder may cost the Democratic
party the next presidential cleo
ton.
The American voters are ready
to overthrow the reactionary Re-
publican machine" says Heating,
but they are not ready to accept
in its place a reactiOnary Demo
cratic machine. They will not
swap .Tweedledee for Tweedledum.
Considering that William G.. Nc
AdoO is a first-class hero among
railroad trade unionists, and con-
sIdering that he has always been
one Of the top favorite statesmen
of Heating and of Labor" this
editorial is taken here to be an
outright warning to McAdoO to get
busy and make the Democratic
party progressive" if he wishes
to have the railroad labor vote on
his way to the Presidency next
year.
Bryan Urges Union.
William J. Bryan has already
responded to this sort OF challenge.
Two weeks ago he failed to per-
suade Congressman Garrett to make
an alliance in the House of Repre-
sentatives between the wholes Demo
cratic party and the Republican
"progressives." Now he has gone
step farther. Now he is urging an
internal Democratic uprising against
Garrett and the other regular Of
fetal Democratic leaders. He says:
THE Democratic progressives and
the Republican prOgressives should
now unite in Congress to defeat the
men of both parties who stand In
the way of progress"
Such incidents are beginning to
convince observers here that they
have misinterpreted the new organ
ICED progressive" movement in Con
gress. They have regarded that
movement as likely 20 help the
Democratic party at the expense OF
the Republican party. They now
think they perceive that it will help
or hurt both parties approximately
equally.
Copyright 1929, Washington Press