Evening star., 1932-01-20

Harmony at the Jackson day dinner
CT Democrats at the National Capital
is considered by many who comment
upon the affair as an asset of the organ
ization. Success in Congressional elec-
tions is believed to have furnished mate
lial for forceful utterances. but desire
is expressed 1or clearer statements Of
lne party attitude on current issues.
The Jackson day event, in the opinion
If the Fort Worth Star Telegram tin
dependent Democrat) 'is a labor of
love, ritualistic ceremony and battery
service station activity, wherein the
ideals of Democracy are rechargad in
divers and sundry indiyidualistic ways" ;"
Demanding something more in the form
of "a diagnosis of conditions and a
prescription for their cure" the STAR
Telegram feels that the dinner didn't
offer single practical remedy for the
correction of present 'rattles' in govern
ment, industry or economies"
1T was good deal of love feast"
says the Charleston IS. c. Evening
Post (Democratic), with the three
former nominees of the party making
speeches which aroused no controversy"
The Evening Post declares that "the
dlS dlllLLIlS W NlSgO1y aha
are likely to win without much more
than a passive attitude" but that 1T
will make great difference after they
have been called to power who is at
the head of the party and the leader OF
the Nation; for there are big problems
to deal with and big man is needed
to handle them" That paper holds that
''the party ought to be able to give the
country a government that would throw
into the shadow the drab Harding
Coolidge Hoover dynasty and recall the
brilliance of the Wilson era"
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''It was an old-fashioned exercise In
kicking the elephant all over the lot,
and ID was executed with great gustn,"
AYERS the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot Gnde-
pendent Democrat) while the Dayton
Daily News GN9epcndent Democrat)
remarking that the appreciation of the
Jacksonians the groteSque humor of
the plight G: ;neir political opponents
was just Ar 'rican," feels that "they
also talked c~b-rly of the work of re-
construction lying ahead" The Colum-
bus Ohio State Journal (Republican)
comments: Each of the main orators
obviously was sincere. The state of the
Nation apparently has driven much of
the ballyhoo out of politics, and has
substituted more serious effort. Perhaps
this is one of the blessings of the
depression.
1T is doubtful" in the judgment of
the Chattanooga Times Independent
DemocraO "if there has ever been a
greater exhibition of harmony in the
Democratic camp. If the party sue
ceeds in keeping the peace within itself
and in maintaining it throughout the
convention to be held in Chicago be-
ginning next June 27, it will enter the
last lap of the campaign under en-
coura ging conditions, provided 1t does
not load itself down with an impossible
candidate and lot Of socialistic
THE spirit of conciliation between
opposing factions dominated the din
rer," states the Roanoke World-News
(DemoeraHe) with the conclusion:
THAT solid front Is not going to be
broken II those at the helm can pre-
vent it, and the promise to drop any
individual pet schemes for the sake OF
solidity of purpose and unity of objec-
tive guarantees that the party will go
into its national convention confident
of launching a victorious campaign
which will return it to power after II
years in the slough of defeat"
opSSINils di ObfiOuo CtluSb 10 Dc
fair and not claim all the damage done
by the depression as due to Republic
ons" the Lowell Evening Leader (Re-
publioan) assumes that this must In
a way be due to an exoectation of COM
ing victory and a consequent SOLDERING
CT the arguments, because Democracy
must pick up redhot situation and
deal with it su 2cessfully.' The Okla
homa City Or 'loman independently
says: IF the deliverances Of the eve
ming prove to be what they were de-
signed to be-a definite forecast OF the
Democratic campaign of l932-the