The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-26
The Future of the Parties.

New Orleans States
 What Is termed the new Democ racy. the radical party which MT. Bryan is now quite busy organizing is a sub tect that is attracting considerable at tention. and there seems to be gen. eral agreement that 1t will consist of an1a larger ger cont contingent of Republicans ership and policies of the Nebraskan. At the present time there is much speculation as to whether the Repub- was in 1896, offset by corresponding g movement of conservative Democrats into the Republican Party. but 1t is safe to say this is matter that will not be deetrmined until the next elec- tion is held.
 However, there is a rather lively ex- change of opinion on the subject going on between some of the leading news is being discussed in a very interesting fashion by The New York Sun and our Massachusetts contemporary, The Springfield Republican. The Sun holds existing between the Roosevelt Repub- lcans and the Bryan Democrats is the result of President Roosevelts ior to Bryan. rather than a flop of Bryan Springfield Republican agrees to a cer- tain extent with this view and says Nevertheless, the truth Is that there ping I,h ' on eft either % side. There i has as n ions existed in the Republican Party a strong element, at heart in sympathy with the Bryan reorganization of the Democracy, but held to its old party allegiance by the ties of habit and
 prejudice. strengthened nightly by the continued presence of a solid South Nationally this element has been se- curely held in line and under the dom- | ination of the conservative and corpor- ate powers within the Republican Par
 ty. But locally 1t has now and then porarily, as under the leadership of
 Pingree in Michigan. La Toilette in Wisconsin and Cummins in Iowa-af- fording occasional and striking evi- canic forces within the mighty noun tain of conservative. vested Republi- canism."
 The Republican fixes the political radical. but not a dangerous radical after the class of Bryan, and then sketching the course of events that placed Mir. Roosevelt in the leadership of the Republican Party. 1t says:
 And that Is how the radical Repub- lican element comes to be at the mo- ment in the ascendency of the party and the control of the Government. position Is a question full of national interest and replete with possibilities in relation to party reaiignments in should prove a thorough going reform CT of the radical type throughout hls full term. 1t is not impossible that the liberal masses within the Republican Party will have been at last cut away from the conservative control. and left free either permanently to assume the party mastery with the support of the Bryan Democrats, or, moro likely, to join the latter in a reorganized De- mocracy. which will appeal to the in i dustrial classes of the North. and let the solid South shift for itself. But all depends on the depth and breadth remains to be determined.
 The Washington Post enters the dis cussicn ny saying that 1t is impossible to believe that MT. Roosevelt will in- tentionally play the role of a party wrecker, but, on the contrary. that hIs present purpose is to keep his party up tu ts duty and by so doing strengthen it as the ruling power of the country. It admits, however. that he may fail In this purpose and by fail ing cause an exodus of the radical ele- ment Of the party. But regardless of what President Roosevelt may or may not do.' adds The Post. we have no doubt that there will be something like realignment of parties in 1908; that there will he formidable organ iZation of the radicals of all parties un- der the Democatic name, and that the conservatives will ally under the Re publican standard. The magnitude of the inevitable Republican defectiOn will depend on how many and which of its mistakes and offenses the Re-