Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-12-18

Republican representations Of Demo-
cratic discord are about all the G. 0. P. has
to comfort it these days. and apparently
these prophesies Of discord are no more
likely to be fulfilled than were President
Hoovers promises Of continuing and in
creased prosperity, on the strength Of which
he was elected in 1928.
The theory that Northern and Southern
Consressmen would split asunder In a
scramble for committee chairmanships and
other honors and preferment among the
the Lew Democratic majority in the House
OF Representatives has gone glimmerine
with the accession Of Garner. OF Texas. to
the speakership and Of Rainey. Of Illinois. to
the floor leadership. To the embsrass-
ment of the erstwhile majority party the
Democrats have started work soberly and
intelligently, composing their differences
with the minimum Of heart-burnines and
with no visible signs Of implacable feuds
eneendered. leaving whatever there is Of
soreness to the Republicans who testified
their disesteem Of their President by sup
planting his choice. John Q. Tilson. Of
Connecticut. with Smell. Of New York. as
minority leader.
Meanwhile in the Senate the Republicans
are having trouble bringing their insuseent
faction to agree that George Moses. Of New
Hampshire. should continue in the empty
glory Of be- ng President pro tenn. OF
Senate in which his party. though II retains
a paper majority Of single vote. is utterly
incapable Of functionine as the dominant
element by reason Of the detection Of Is or
more Of its members who are more prone to
vote with Democrats than with the admin
istration. II the Senate Democrats took as
cheap view of their responsibilities az
did the Republicans in the closing years Of
the Woodrow Wilson administration. they
could negative any action sought by Presi-
dent Hoover.
1t is doubtful II any administration in
cur history ever fell to such q low estate
in potency or capacity for accomplishment
as has the Hoover administration. What
ever it effects through the remainder Of
the term must be by grace Of it's political
foes an extraordinary phenomenon con-
sidering that its party retains numerical
superiority in the Senate.
The decentralization among the Republi-
can national Legislators is only equal to
their bewlderment. Though they occupy
apositon that should insure them DONNA
ton over all legislation in the session Of
Congress that has just begun. they appear
to be all at sea. II they have any program.
they seem to be at loss how to promul-
gate it. They are avid for leadership
leadership is denied them. and they are so
far at loss as to what to do that they
are talking of Indicating organization
of the Senate and leaving the direction OF
affairs to the Democrats-an example OF
party bankruptcy unparalleled in our political
and governmental records.
The whole situation goes to show that
the present administration at Washington
is b liz on sand. As long as things went
on without trouble or necessity for decision
it was serene. but when the sunshine and
calm of prosperity was succeeded by the
mists Of adversely il was left fiounderine
The Republican President is suspicious
Of the Republicans in Congress: the Re-
publicaus In Congress are suspicious Of the
President Neither knows the way through
the fog. so it remains with the Democrats
officially still in the minority. to chart the
course and bring order out Of chaos.