The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-27
AyorHrn NEW ONE.

ANOTHER NEW ONE.
 Thoss of our readers who have kept track on trivial events will remember one wharton Barker. who ran for President in isoe and received several votes. We don't call to mind how many there were but not enough to as- tonish the country. We are not even sure that we remember what issue he ran on. but think he posed as Popu- list and . 0reenbAcker. It is not out of place to say that both of these is- sues are dead. so far as any effset they could have on national politics.
 Well. this out-of-date statesman Is preparing to launch new party on the trouhlous sea of politics Launch ins new parties, by the way is a fa- vorite amusement of the down-and- out statesmen. When the old parties fail to recognize them as leaders they forthwith proceed to organize q new one of their own and then get busy. They rarely accomplish anything, but they get themselves talked about and strut their brief hour On the stage. and thus for time save themselves from becoming political cadavers. Wharton Barker Is no exception to the rule. As the people failed to regard him as Noses eight years ago, and as the old parties show no disposition to hail him as leader, he win have a party of his own and warm up things perhaps. He is going to call 1t ''The American Party" and claims that he will be able to gather to himself all the Populist element of the country. The Hartford Times claims that he makes a great mistake here, because 1t says 'the Populist Party is the private property of William J. Bryan" However, we will let that pass. as the opinion of The Times. which pro- ceeds to point out another mistake Barker makes in naming his prospect. i've nedgIing There vas" remarks The Times ''an American Party which once controlled the House of Repre- sentatives at Washington and made N. P. Banks Of Massachusetts its Speaker. but this was a prospective political organization, and did not last long. As we said yesterday. the country now has a Roosevelt party, Q Bryan party and Hearst party and if MT. Barker really hopes that people will pay much attention to his new political organization he should call it the Barker party As the American Party 1t will have no distinctiveness and make little progress. But. as the Barker party. 1t may amount to some I thing. This is the era of political ehieftainship. Parties are merely agen- cfes which q thrifty popular idol uses in evoking the worship and the dollars that he is seeking. As the organizer of one party Mir. wharton Barker is in danger of making himself ridieu. lous. If he wishes to be regarded al real reformer. let him get into thl limelight, do stunts for t25o a nigh and keep the country guessing wha' he is going to do and say next ", very much fear that Philadelphia hal lost the capacity to add anything ol interest to our politics. except occa, siohally a new variety of graft,
 Well. perhaps it is cruel to set tt work to discourage the amDitioui statesmen of the Keystone State whs ] wants to do things. No doubt h.
 poans and wrinss his hands over thu woes of the downtrodden masses and wants to lift them up and plant then on the rock of universal prosperity We have some curiosity to read thu manifesto he will issue when he get ready to beat the tom-tom and cal on all who would be free to strike one great blow for liberty. We pre-. dict that it will be q peach in the way of political literature.
 We are rather inclined to welcom, Wharton to the arena of deadly strife Let him and Hearst eat up each other if they can. Perhaps they will serv' as an offset to each other and so act as sort of balance in politics. So Hay on MeDuH." and let joy-anC | voonav ha V,n~nnAnnN