The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-30
RELIGIOUS FIGHT
IN CONF ABB RUINS
VICTORY CHANCES
Writer Believes Democratic
Party Is Divided Follow
ing Khan Clash,
Bv LOWELL MELLETT,
Times Staff Correspondent.


NEW YORK, June 30.-This is
the next morning after the night
before in the Democratic party. 1t
is BLACK Monday" The party Of
Jefferson and Jackson has an aw
full headache. 1t is drinking ice
water and black coffee and bromo
settler. It is fairly eating aspirin.
There's a cold towel around its head
and it has only one candidate for
anything. His name is-REMORSE.
For the Democratic party went on
one of its periodical DRINKS Satur-
Gay night. Not a whisky drunk, GER
tainly not a beer and light wine
drunk; but an emotional drunk. I.
was one of these Saturday nights
that last till Sunday sun-up and
the party spent most of yesterday
in bed trying to sleep it of.
Hopes Are Slim
Perhaps things aren't as black
as they look to leaders but these
leaders now feel that hopes of win
ming in November are pretty well
gone, for one thing, and that lot of
the candidates for the nomination
have been eliminated in advance of
the balloting. McAdoo is gone, and
Smith, and Ralston, and Baker, and
Cox and Walsh and Underwood.
The Khan fight and the after bit
terness have eliminated all these.
For one reason or another. The
reason is pretty obvious in the case
of McAdoo and Al Smith, since the
fratricidal strike that came to a
head Saturday night was waged
largely in the names of these two
can didates. p
Underwood as one of the first
promoters of the intra-party war
goes out and Cox goes with him.
Newton Baker follows closely. His
clear AYE" on the vote to insert the
Klan-by-name plank was heard by
all the delegates fighting against that
course. The case of Ralston re-
quires a bit of explaining. Tom Tag
CART had Unanswered smoothly to
keep Ralston's name out of the con-
troversy and had succeeded to a
large extent until the roll call came
on the Khan plank Then all but five
of the Hoosiers voted against the
program Of the anti-Klan leaders.
Ralston is out so far as New York.
Illinois and Ohio are concerned. The
leaders of these State delegations
says so frankly today.
Has No Chance
Senator Walsh, as a Catholic, is
not given much consideration today
in the light of the intensified relig-
ious feeling, of course, but an effect
OF the brutal contest on the floor
between Satt,,day midnight and Sun
day morning was 10 win him many
friends in the Khan camp. His dog
ged determination to be a fair chair
man. no matter whose feelings were
hurt, resulted in a lot of sore spots
among the anti-Klan leaders.
John w. Davis, apparently is I'M
touched. The whole business has
worked to the benefit Of his candi-
dacy. according to the general opin-
ion. His name never has been
drawn into the religious dispute, and
his sixteen delegates from West Vir-
GINA managed to divide their votes
so evenly as not to offend either
side, without making it so even as to
appear obvious. They voted seven
one way and nine the other.
1T looks like Davis has the sit
uation made for him." said one of
the shrewdest among the important
politicians here today.
Hopes Wrecked
HE can have the nomination. 1
believe, but as his longtime friend
I'm not sure that l would advise
him to take it. Our hopes for
7 November are just about wrecked az
a result of this damned church
fight" Friends of Davis are think
ing about this seriously. New York's
financial interests are still completely
committed to Davis in the secret
recesses where their hearts should
be. They have gone SO far as to
speed the intimation that if La
Follette's candidacy should seem to
be endangering Coolidge's chances
they viii drop Coolidge in time to
throw their support behind Davis.
Typical of the devastation wrought
by the Saturday night carnival Of
emotion is the case of George White
Of Ohio. White is a former chair
man Of the Democratic national
committee. His chief desire is not
for any particular candidate, but
party success this fall. He was one
OF the many like him who watched
the development of the fury over
ths Khan issue with dread. Satur-
day nigst he voted his convictions
on that subject. He voted against
the Khan plank. He felt it didn't
belong in a political document. Later.
when he knew that his action might
turn the result, so close was it at
that time, after the war had reached
the bitter stage of that moment,
whether the plank was in the plat
form or not. So he switched his
vote to bring himself into personal
alignment with Ed Moore, head Of
the Ohio delegation.
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