Putnam patriot., 1924-07-18
CONN. DEMOCRATS
 IN GARDEN FIGHT
Full Details Now of Row at New York That Defeated
 Homer s. Cummings
Intense Feeling Bes~een Two Fac tions.-No Conn. Dark Horse'
BULKLEY S. GRIFFIN Special Correspondence Co fke PatnaB
 Patriot

Washington. D. c. July l6. 1924
 The Democratic party emerged from the Madison Square Garden en- durance contest somewhat battered how much battered will answer the November result. perhaps.
 The bitterness engendered in New York will not die out too quickly. If it abides unabated the Democrats are beaten.
 But every political observer ex- poets some recession from the warm personalities and hatreds of the bat tie of the garden.
 In broad outline. the Democrats chose wisely in John W. Davis. and wisely again in Gov. Charles Bryan. The wet and dry issue and the klan matter won't be played up much by the Democrats in the coming cam paign. 1t may be incidentally predict | ed.
 John W. Davis Is a good citizen. distinguished internationally. rather conservative. at heart kindly towards the League of Nations. Bryan is much more liberal than I Davis. As such he will appeal to the west. and this is where the Democrats must gain votes.
 l With Al Smith out of the race. the i Democrats probably did as well as l they could for the east in choosing Da- ! wis, who is now q New Yorker and who is liked by the conservative ele- ment in New York. By the same tok- en he will appeal to all the conserva- tive east.
 Battle of East and West
 al skr,.,wk sk. n..4ss s,sftI have to battle Coolidge. who will make almost the same general sort of ap- peal. IL will be a fine achievement if Davis gets New England state except perhaps Rhode Island away from Coolidge. He may have chance in New York and New Jersey. Just how much of chance Al Smith can do much to answer.
 So it is in the west that the Demo- crats must hope for gains. Here is where Bryan comes in. He will ap- peal as neither Coolidge and Dawes can.
 Time will tell how much he can do i in the way of getting votes from the i Republicans and preventing LaFel- lette from taking votes away from the l Democrats. Davis probably won't set E the west on fire. It is up 10 the Bryan ! brothers.
 Walsh was the only other candi- date, excepting possibly Meredith and Coy. Davis of Kansas. who might have made as good or better a run in the west than Bryan.
 So 1t is, that with Al Smith out of ! the way, the man who would have made the largest appeal to the east, the Democrats did as well as they probably could have for the east In the ticket they named.
 But all this is after the convention.
 However, the convention is not dead vet It's historic deadlock k living in the hearts Of the smith and MeAdoo dexotees. Probably not for many decades will there be two such strong forces, each everiastingly loyal Co it's leader. to hold up in like fashion the business of a convention. The armies of Smith and McAdoo could not be broken as long as the leaders were in the race.
 City vs. Country
 Many have said that T was kian and anti-Klan fight, many said it was a wet and dry fight. In was some of both. But back of these issues it was i fight of the east against the south and west. or New York against the rural sections IL was big city, with all it stood for and stands for of wet ness and pleasure and lax morals and liberalism" of 1924. against the smaller cities and towns with their drvness. and anti Romanism and re- Ics of puritanism and ther ideas of ''liberalism"
 The two did not mix, did not want Co mix. Each, in the recesses of tts heart and behind the inevitable bla- tant politics probably had spark Of the ctusading instinct. Two forces met two tendaneies,- the Puritan and I Cavalier. No matter if Smith had 1 puritan attributes -he had. of course ; and no matter if MeAdoo liked many | of the sins of New York The broad. general issue. hardly under stood. never articuiated. was there.
 Those at the death of the eonven= ton will not soon forget the animosity with which the eastern states recieyed the nomination of Bf- van. New England was obtrusively of the Bryan band wagon that morn ing and no mistake. Time will heal many snap decisions. but consider able time will be required Co make. say, the Boston Democrates, get up early to work for il ticket which car ries the brother of William Jennings Bryan.
 Here lies a real danger for Demo cratic hope in New England. There lis possibility that 1920 may be re- peated when many New England Democrats sulked in their tents on election day or else voted for Hard ing.
 Many signs point the Democrats to the west-the while they do what they can to hold New York and New Jer- sey.