The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09

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Wall Street has Coolidge and
Dawes" and it is not worrying if the
democrats in New York City eat out
their vitals fighting over the Khan, the
wet and dry issue and similar play
thing problems.
Capitalism never did worry much
about the middle class, the little bour-
geoisie. big biz" knows that it can
always depend on Little biz" except
where the members of this latter class
are plunged hopelessly into the ranks
Of oppressed toll
1.-THE South" with its new indus
tries, with its dry rule to stop the
white trash" and the Negroes from
drinking, while maintaining private
cellars, with it's love Of the Ku Klux
Khan as a weapon against any new,
developing idea, carries on its sham
battle against the big bankers and the
big industries of Wall St. In Madison
Square Garden 1t is in alliance with
the little bankers, the farm owners
and landlords of the West, and the
new industrialists of the Pacific coast.
1 1t was Doheny and Sinclair, of Cali
fornia, who bought up William Gibbs
McAdoo, not John D. Rockefeller of
Standard Oil and the National City
Bank.
THE South" and 1.-THE West" and
"The Coast" are against the slum po-
liticians of the great centers of popu-
lation, Tammany Hall, of New York
City; Brennan, of Illinois; Curley, OF
Massachusetts, and Taggart, of In.
diana. Brennan, coming from repub.
lican Illinois, is having a hard time
trying to fill the shoes of the late
Boss" Murphy, of Tammany. He is
doing the best he can as the chief of
the anti-McAdoo block, aided by the
fact that the convention is being held
in Tammany's own bailiwick, with the
New York World and other demo.
cratic sheets yelling for AL Smith,
their own pet child.
| The throat-cutting schiSm in Madi-
son Square Garden is proof, if it indi
Gates anything, that Big Business
wants its own party. 1t would be glad
to see the democratic ranks shattered
with the northern democrats, the
Smiths, the Brennans and the Tag.
CARTS, crawling onto the G.. o. P,
bandwagon, and the southerners or.
ganizing what one of them called "the
true democracy" and the West lining
up with LaFollette's fake liberalism
This is the dream of such spokes,
men of Wall Street, as Frank Nun
sey, the newspaper and steel mag
nate, and Nicholas Murray Butler, Of
Columbia University. They often re
peat it,-that capitalism has need OF
only one party.
Between McAdoo and LaFollette
there is no preceptible political shad
ing. They both claim to be 'progres
sives," enemies of Wall Street. 1t is
merely territorial difference that
McAdoo is dry and LaFollette wet. II
McAdoo lived in Milwaukee, the
Brewery City, he, like Victor Berger
or the most reactionary, would also
be wet.
McAdoo has Ku Klux Khan backing
The LaFollette gathering at Cleveland
refused to adopt a resolution against
the Khan. The Khan is strong in Wis
consin, so strong that ii has wormed
its way into the Wisconsin socialist
party, and no denunciation of it was
made at the last Wisconsin Socialist
convention.
The Negro this year, more than
ever, gets no relief from the demo
Gratis or republicans. McAdoos Khan
affiliations makes him the foe of the
Negro workers interests, and LaFol
lette program in 1920 also lodged this
ton of the Negro problem. The LaFol
lette program in 100 also lodged this
important issue directly affecting
100000 of the American popula
ton, and indirectly the whole nation
LaFollette's claims to prominence
during the war outside Of his efforts