The Washington times., 1924-06-26
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Khan Battle viii Determine
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empire claims to be able
to prevent any party which de-
nounces it from ever being able to
become the elected government Of
the American people.
Klansmen here today outrightly
declared that II this convention de-
.nounces their organization by name
they will drag the Democratic
party down to defeat in November
and will destroy it In American
politics for generation.
Leading McAdoo politicians In
McAdoo headquarters declared that
resolution denouncing the khan
by name would split the party and
split the country and bring upon
the American people q chaos of
religious strife and of religious and
racial town-by-town and street-by-
street contention and conflict.
In the face of these declarations
the supporters of the proposed reso.
name were ready to adopt it by
convention and were beginning TO
prove to tho McAdoo politicians
that 1t would be better for them
to accept such a resolution in the
resolutions committee itself rather
than force 1t to a fight on the con.
Vention floor.
The McAdoo politicians today
confronted the following desperate.
ly disagreeable alternatives:
Face Two Alternatives.
If in the resolutions committee
meeting today to consider thd
report Of the subcommittee on
platform, they support the propesd
plank outrightly denouncing !, the
Khan by name, they will in many
cases be grievously outraging their
Khan supporters back home.
2-If. on the other hand. they
support the other proposed plank,
merely defending the idea of re-
ligious liberty without naming the
organization which is promoting
and producing religious discrimina-
tions in the United States. then
George Brennan and Ed Moore will
go to the convention floor with a
minority report denouncing thel
Khan by name and this report
stands a strong and firm chance Of
getting adopted on the convention
floor by majority vote OF all the
delegates.
Moreover, even II It does not get
adopted on the floor, the debate
about 1t would rend the party from
stem to stern and would stamp
! McAdoo as the candidate Of only
one side Of the party. And would
Individually and beyond any Ques-
II he were nominated.
Oddly and amazingly It thereupon
becomes really to the advantage of
the McAdoo adherents to support
a stern and complete denunciation
Of the khan In the resolutions c"m-
mittee in order thereby to prevent
a debate and possible defeat for
their candidate on the convention
floor.
Brennan Strategy.
Meanwhile, and on the other
hand, 1t becomes oddly and amaz.
ingly politically advantageous to
George Brennan and to Ed Moore
to permit or induce the resolutions
committee to adopt a mere religious
liberty plank, vacant Of any specific
mention OF the khan.
Friends Of Brennan and Of Moore
were working today to get the
McAdoo followers into that trap.
II they can succeed in getting
them into it, and If they can sue
coed in getting the McAdoo major
ity In the resolutions committee in
to adopting q merely religious lib
erty vague, general anonymous
plank, they then will go into the
convention with a clear. specific
unhesitating plank, naming the
khan by name and they win tie Nc.
Adoo to the opposition to it and will
hope to kill him in this convention
and in American national political
life forever as they vote that op-
position down and put their specific
plank VIGOROUSLY into the plat
form.
Thus the most immediate personal
fractional Quarrels Join with the most
tremendous and lofty issues Of re-
ligious and racial constitutional in.
depreciation to make q day as low
and as high as any national con.
vention In our times has produced.
Find Choice Difficult.
The McAdoo leaders, who have
been supporting the idea Of a mild
religious liberty plank in place of
stern anti-Klan plank, were try.
ing today to choose between accept.
ing a defeat in the resolutions COM
mittee and running the risk Of de.