The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-27

A. Reed of Missouri is definitely IN the
field candidate for nomination the democratic ticket as
president the United States His entrance into the race makes
him the outstanding formidable opponent of the lamany
Catholic candidate for the nomination. Smith New York
The two opposing democratic candidates pesonfy the two
groups that strive for leadership of that party Smith represents
the branch of that party which is consciously mperat and
directly dominated by the House of Morgan the vast majority OF
the democratic senators also represent TINS wing as
indicated by the famous Wall Street
coalition that worked party the world court question:
the Mellon tax etc. at the last session OF congress
Reed, the democrat Senator William Borah, the
publican the leaders OF the opposition to the world court
program of the Coolidge Melon-Hoover administration
Reed will be the that section the demo
cratic party which less corresponds to the wing OF an
earlier period which led by the late William Jennings Bryan
Reed however, another Bryan the of being victim
of all the goesque petty bourgeois fundamentals pudces of
that political not much of village yokel
the other antSmith Hefn of Alabama But still he is the
outstanding leader of the small capitalist elements OF that party
Naturally that section of the democratic party requires spkes
responsive to the economic changes that taking place
The of the ndurazaton of the South profoundly
affects the democratic party and the principal reason the lead
of the old section of small capital of the democratic party
find with those republican opposonsts who
resent the ndustrialists Of the Middle and Far West
The smaller and middle capitalist opposition to imperaist
policy sometimes ncoherent though silent
cep the Mellon Coolidge outfit shuts off debate
by invoking rule in order to through its Like
all petty bourgeois elements the ReedBoah crowd tries for the
most part to draw its inspiration from the past from bygone
furnish political trappgs for the living present For in
the famous world court fight the opposition led by Reed
Borah in the senate refectng the weakness well the
s of the class they represent pictured the United States
u and innocent of the malevoent diplomats of the
Grid The mightiest mperialst earth, besrding
hole world and leaving the imprint of its bloody iron heel
weaker peoples in continent pictured weak
The class character of the constituencies of Reed and Borah
nted their facing the fact that the drive enter the world
mad its objective using the court legal cloak for the
perat depredaons of the league of nations further the
interests of the banking houses of Wall Street.
That Reed will realize considerable support from the southern
and mddewes states cannot be doubted His stand against
the Vostead act will weaken him states but the
time will of strength others where al Smith would
obtain support on the wet and dry issue alone There
Der of avorte sons in the democratic who will
convention with their state delegations their pockets will
be able to determine the outcome
If the forces behind Reed they announce the fight
to the bitter end his campaign repetition of the Nc
Adoomh deadlock at Madison Square Garden in New York
1924 where the Morgan attorney John Davis finally secured
the nomination clark horse"
In the campaign Reed will endeavor appeal the agu
tura states by offering panaceas for relief He will
be of number of similar candidates. who really greater
to the development of independent political