MY DEAR LATHROP,—I have yours of the eleventh. First question, as to men and women for the Executive Committee,
Answer: Get men who can make a program, something that the party can push, outside Congress, if too cowardly in. People who don't want anything, if possible.
Think of these! (I don't say they will do, but they stand for something.)
Charles W. Eliot. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. (Ex-President of the
University of California. Ex-Chairman, Democratic Committee,
Elmira, New York.) E. M. House. Frank L Cobb. John W. Davis.
Robert Lansing. R. Walton Moore. (Congressman from Virginia, big
fellow.) Gavin McNab. Governor Parker, of Louisiana. James D.
Phelan. Van-Lear Black.
For solid thought I'd choose out of that bunch—Eliot and Moore.
For cleverness—Black and McNab. For diplomacy—House and Davis.
For progressiveness—House and Parker. For Conservative Democracy
—Wheeler and Lansing. For writing ability—Cobb and Eliot.
I know no women who think, particularly. …
The kind of publicity we need is the advocacy by the National Committee, and by Democrats in Congress of first class measures, known to be Democratic measures, part of a program.
I'll tell you how to get all the publicity you want when I see you—or White—a new kind, cheap, but requiring brains. …
F. K L.
To Lathrop Brown