The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-30

CnlcuBO.--1HOStb OL tue OIC Wilson days, when democracy wa, at one of its rare <zeniths of power and of the McAdoo-sm period when the party went on the rocks of sectional and religious hatred are packing this democratic ma. tional convention.
 Some of them are very live ghosts, virile and effective in thii latest Donnybrook Fair. such as only democratcs love to stage.
 Others. are mere wraiths. obscure and shorn of prestige and power.
 woodrow Wilson might well be slightly dazed at the realignment of his friends and enemies as cx- hibitcd in this fight. So might Will liam Jennings Bryan. who turned one convention after another up- side down. As for the causes they last stood for, who yet has heard the League of Nations mentioned here except as something no man dares endorse? And what must the fervently dry Bryan think of . party whose strongest thought on prohibition is to be wetter than the republicans? t.f
 We'll, anyway, many of the vet erans of the Wilson, Bryan, Me Adoo fights are here.
 Wilson is dead and Bryan is dead. Charlie Murphy of Tam. many Hall is dead and George Ol- vaney has been succeeded by John Curry. Tom Tasgaret of Indiana is gone. and so are. Roger Sulll- van and George Brennan of HI. nois, Ed Moore of Ohio and others
 Others simply stayed away. Col Edward M. House is at his Massachusetts home, although ht declared long ago for Roosevelt Vance Mccormack, the campaign manager of 1916 who won witt the slogan, "He kept us out ol war;" q sincere dry who boltet Smith four years ago. is in Harris. burg, Pa, with his newspapers. Newton D. Baker, Wilson's secre, tary of war, did not come. But hii prestige has been enhanced. if any thing, since war time. At pre-cmi nent lawyer and still a great public man, Baker perhaps was ltht strongest "second choice" of tht delegates.
 And there's William c. McAdoo
 Wilson's gon-in-law and secretar, of the treasury. under his regime the unsuccessful "crown prince candidate for the succession 1T 1920. McAdoo, the progressive hero who finally fell before A Smith and the eastern boss 1T 1924, now leading California; Garner delegation, a candidate fol senator and a strong figure amont the anti Roosevelt leaders.
 Several old Wilson men ar' among the Roosevelt leaders. Col onel Daniel C, Roper, one of thu original Wilson supporters and h ter collector of internal revenue is one of the six or eight mos trusted 1ieutenants. Roper Is a can ny but honest type of politician. Senator Cordell Hull, who framed our income tax system and the fed eral inheritance tax. later spending much of his time at the treasur! to assist in formulating the wal taxes. Is one of the most dis tinguished statesmen on the Roose welt side.
 Former secretary of the navy Josephus Daniels, one-timc su perior of the New York governor older but little changed in genera appearance, is here both as [ North Carolina delegate at larg, and as a newspapermp. A Mitchell Palmer. Wilson's attorney general who tried to succeed to the presi dency in 1920. is a Roosevelt dele gate from the District of Colum bia.
 Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebras ka, senate defender of the. Leagu of Nations 13 years ago, was giv en the important post of chairman Of the resolutions committee. Tall white haired, spectacled and of in tellectual. aspect, he sat listeninl patiently to the pleading of causes He is publisher of the Omah World Herald. It was James w. Gerard. pre-wa ambassador to Germafly under WI son and until recently nations party treasurer. who was used D l Roosevelt to make the first officia retort to Frank Hague's charg that Roosevelt was the weakest c the candidates. Housto Thompson, once chairman of th | federal Trade commission and sti tall, large and healthy. is q Roose welt aItcrnate from Colorado. Dr Cary T. Grayson. once famou as the White House physician came with his wife to see the sho,
 but not to play any politics.
 On the anti Roosevelt side .of .th fence-