Evening star., 1924-07-06
SCORE Of BOSSES
SEEK COMPROMISE
He'd More Likely to Find Way
Out of Deadlock Than
Bulk of Delegates.
GREAT MISTAKES MADE
First Was Coming to New York;
Second Allowing Religious
Hatred to Crystalline.
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.


NEW YORK. July off stage one
hears. through the door opening into
the gilded and gaudy hotel room
where sits the super steering COM
mittee of the Democratic party, the
muffied blows of their mauls upon the
great ice-jam which is choking the
progress of the campaign. This
super committee contains less than
a score of men. In their hands is
more power than has rested in the
hands of a similar gro3p COR years.
They are representatives of the va
rious candidates from the Democratic
convention. who probably would
make as wise group of Democrats
as could be assembled today. For
there are no elder statesmen, no great
leaders of the Democracy. In other
times there were Tilden. Thurman,
Bayard, German and Hill. In more
recent times came Cleveland and
Whitney and Villas and the group
that Cleveland raised to power in the
Sos and 90s.
Since those days only Bran sur
wives as a leader. He is inadequate
He has power, great power The
south of the newer day looks to him
because they feel that Underwood.
Glass and Davis and their other
southern leaders are more in SYM
pathy with the needs of an industrial
civilization, than they are to the
benehtS of a rural population. Despite
ITS large industrial development the
south, like the west. is agricultural.
cotton may not be king in the south
today, but il is still chairman of the
executive committee. So the rural
south has developed no leaders ex-
cept Bryan. transplanted from Ne
braska. The west has developed no
leaders because the Democracy in the
west. save in few states and at odd
times. is minority party. The urban
civillzation of the east and New Eng
land has developed bosses. but the
bosses have not been wise enough to
prevent the great iCe-j jam that has
threatened to destroy the party.
Hence this steering committee, APP
pointed more or less by lot.
Three Great Mistakes.
AS it sits trying to blow out a
channel through which the party may
proceed to nomination. it is liable to
make mistakes: but not the tre-
mendous mistakes that have come
the past four years of Democratic
tncompetency. The three great mis-
takes that have deadlocked this con-
Nentlon arise from money, the mob
and McAdoo. The Democratic party
was a quarter of million dollars in
debt. 1t came to New York with the
convention because New York had
Inc money to pay the debt But New
York also contributed the mob. If
was the mob that injected the re-
l!glouS issue into the convention. If
the convention had met in Cincinnati
st Louis st. Paul or Denver the
mob would not have dared to demand
the fight upon the ku klux Elan.
The fight upon the klux froze into a
solid mass the forces of McAdoo and
produced the ice-jam. 1t also soIidi-
hed the anti McAdoo forces around
smith. did this mob from the great
CITY, and we have had a spectacle for
the past ten days of the two funda-
mental PHILOSOPHERS OF America.
Puritanism and Catholicism grinding
not light: forces which in the nat
uraI process of civilization ameIiorate
and gradually mix. and in the end
make something new and fine and
heautiful of our nation. 1t will be
wears before these forces will be
sufficiently uncongealed to combine
INTO a useful amalgamite.
Types in Conflict.
While the committee is hammerine
upon the jam let us consider for
a moment some of the outward and
physical symbols under which the
Jam has piled up. Behold exhibit A,
which we will call, by the way of
mixing metaphor, the mother of the
deadlock. Mrs. Nellie Hull Root of
Long Beach. Calf. has been sitting
for days in the box above section c
of the press box, the box known as
Sall1e McAdoo's box, and she has been
waving brown and white flag with
California bear on it and an in
scription, The California Republic"
A motherly women in her late fifties
is Mrs. Nellie Hull Root. obviously
rnidWestern either by birth or eXtrac-
ton, with gray patches and streaks
in her rather thin hair tightly
knotted at the back Of her head.
Wifehood, motherhood. maturity and the