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*/\ ;-;V • . ; Jitter sectional feeling. (BT CABLK —PBESB ASSOCIATION —COPSRIGHT.) . JiOSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON", March 22. connexion, with tlio oil investigation the assertion is even being made llfat P'esident Coolidgo "benefited ftom'it .all." ■lit is, moreover, only too obvious ' tljat the Republicans now lack a cenf'tial figure around whom to rally, such; as Mr Coolldge in 1924. His third proiquncempnt seems further to strengthen tbe belief that ho will not run 1 igain, and bitter sectional feelings, and enmities -that his personality kept beAlow the Surface, are now clearly cutting cleavages in the Republican ranks. '"'Eepublicans are frankly frightened. Senator Robinson, of Indiana, yesters launched an attack on Governor :•'Smith in an attempt -to show that the /.-democrats themselves arc not 'free from''the oil taint. Senator Robin- ; tin alleged that Mr Sinclair, who is a ioted racing man, was appointed to the New York Racing Commission several J jars ago by Governor Smith. Demo•■tfatic'Senators came to the support of v tSfrtrnor. Smith,. while Senator Robin- < «s&'.was not supported by any Republican. .- lA colleague shouted: Birds of a fcalftr'flock together." • • *1"-; ! Hampered by Disunity. in facing charges of cor- ' liption are , hampered by disunity, 'hey.. arq hardly likely to keep the Wopaign at high level, and enraged l>y-the ] onslaughts of' the delightedItenocrfits, their campaign is not an tppealiiig spectacle, or one likely to be •karly , understood abroad, seditions in the Democratic Party . ll?o are not too good, since their trafitional'inability to agree among them•fives ib still alive to-day. There is, Jftrever, a drift toward forgetting dif•Msnoes by reason of the fact that JPfttocrats see that their chances to to-day brighter than in many (residential years. i.lt is interesting to note that Senled tho defence of Gov- • ®for-Slnith yesterday. Mississippi, *Weh-Sonator Harrison represents, has anti-Smith hitherto. It is W'&rljy however, to predict that tho Jtofoerats can overnight become a uni®S 4 par(.y, but above all these considremains the fact that Amerpeople will, during the next few , '"oaths, be treated to the spectacle of fciek-ralcing on. an unprecedented scale.