The Washington times., 1924-06-25
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Delegates Puzzled to Find
East Has Progressivism
of Its Own
BY WILLIAM HARD.

By WILLIAM HARD.
NEW YORK, June 25.-New York
has been a terrible town for these
.Westerners.
They see New York as a siren,
trying at midnight hours at the
theater parties and at supper
parties to sing them away from
their Western horror Of mammon
and the money power.
They see New York as a. rough
stuff crowd throwing pop bottles at
the visiting pitcher, Bill McAdoo.
They see New York as a soap
box orator preaching a kind Of
progressivism that is almost the
precise opposite OF the ,progressiv-
ism Of the West.
They see New York as all these
three things. That is the intimate
human national side Of the con-
vention.
One McAdoo delegate who scorn-
ed New York as q siren, or did not
know it to be a siren. got here
two weeks ago. Now he comes
around the McAdoo precincts in
New York hotels and indistinctly
wonders Just what it Is that he
came down here to do against the
minions and janissaries Of preda.
tory wealth.
Has Lost His Cue.
He has been spending his days
r-or, rather, his nights-with those
1ainions and janissaries and they
seem to him now to be perfectly
fine people. He wonders what It
was that he was going to 90
against them.
Meade managers in some cases
think that there is a conspiracy or
hospitality against them in New
York.
; The fact certainly is that some
Of the McAdoo delegates have made
the unexpected discovery that there
Is a certain common humanity be-
tween Western progressives ana
Eastern reactionaries.
If they stay here two weeks
longer, their conviction that New
Yorker does nothing but spend all
his time exploiting and depressing
the common people will get quite
worn out. This is a considerable
danger to the McAdoo candidacy
# the convention is prolonged.
On the other hand, there is a
khing that helps the McAdoo can
Glidacy. This is the feeling on the
part of McAdoo delegates who keep
to their hotels, and who do not go
abroad much in the city, to the
strong effect that many of the
Manhattan newspapers are not CIV
ing McAdoo a fair square deal.
If Smith loses some votes in the
Connecticut delegation, these news
papers have a tendency to bury it
on an inside page underneath some
sassy remark made by a Missouri
player as he went back to the
bench.
Seen as "ShOrt Sports"
This sort Of thing has made a
lot of the McAdoo delegation boil
ing mad. They hate the Metropolis
now as they never hated it before.
They think Of 1t now not only as
being a siren but as being the
country's greatest collection OF
short sports.
along the third aspect Of New York.
The Westerners discover that all
their talk about New York dem
and the citadel of privilege and the
pole Of reaction, is more or less be-
lated and Anticipated.
They discover that while they, in
the West, as Democrats, are on
the whole less progressive" than
the radical Republicans, like La
Toilette and 'Brookhart, the opposite
situation exists in the East, where
the Democrats, relatively to any
important group Of the Republicans,
are most certainly the progress
sive" wing of things.
In New York. especially. the Tam
many organization has given itself
strongly to promoting so-called
progressive" and go-called human
itarian" legislation at Albany.
The McAdoo ana Bryan attacks
upon Tammany as "a reactionary
Clique" begin to sound more like an
hitorical echo than like immediate
practical politics. They begin to
sound hollow.
Further. and most particularly. e.