The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-20
MacVeagh Pleads For Two We'll Balanced POliti-
 cal Parties
IS ONLY WAY TO
 GET BEST RESULTS
With Same Parties Established in North and South the Union of Two Sections Will Be
 Complete

Summerville, S. O. April 1s.-secre- tary Macveagh, speaking before the South Carolina Bankers associati' o here tonight made plea to the soyo !, ern states to breaK from one part
 and become bipartisan in the i,ics for their own good. He dec. ed 1t to be of fundamental importance that any party governed nation should have two available parties and that the political life of all the people shall be at it's best.
 TWO parties with at least fairly equal chances of governing are re- uuired in the work of governing the country, both locally and nationally he said.
 Secretary MacVeagh discussed party conditions in both the north and south Fl friendly spirit and said that while he fully understood the obstacles to the development of bi-party in the south he firmly believed the change could be accomplished.
 II do not speak as a republican, he said, q am a member of the re- publican party and l am member Of 1t because l believe in it. l was a rlember of the democratic party dur ing Cleveland's time and l was mem- Der of it because l believed in it. But my interest in bi-party politics Is not the interest of a party man. but Is the interest of citizen-of an Amer lean. I want you to believe that my interest in seeing the south under two-party system Is wholly independent Of the question whether one party or the other shall prevail.
 The important thing to me Is not that any one party should win It Is that there shall still be two parties with the possibility that either may win; for this Is party government in it's real meaning, and in with it's real equipment. If the south alone were concerned, bi-party everywhere would still be a matter of sincere aspiratio ion to me. But the question is a larger one-its importance is national. It is in the interest of the north and the south alike that I look forward to a time very near when the party una as it has been invaded in the north by the converting influence of an active and snowerfnl bt-party sentitreni.
 Realizes Situation
 q know how long it has taken to ameliorate the situation thrust upon the south by the errors of certain fea- lures of the reconstruction measures adopted by the north I realize as vast numbers of northern people realize. the problem thrust upon you and with which you have wrestled for many years. I do not say that In dealing with these extraordinary conditions you have in every instance found the very best way. What people dealing with political and complex problems. have In every instance found the very best way? Self-preservation Is a stern responsibility. 1t does not always ad- init of the incest discrimination.
 "I am particular friend of the col ored race, and have always wondered that we of the north should have be 1ieved that it was good for that raco to suddenly load them down in their un- prepared condition with a full share of the responsibility of government. And l have always realized the happiness of the north in its exemption from the tremendous problems of the people of the south. But happily time has mainly worked the needed separations and as I conceive it, the south has arrived at time when it is practicable to have that great necessity of party government-two parties-and I know no greater political boon than that opportunity and privi- lege and ' know no greater deprivation than has come to the south out of re- construction days than the necessity of trying to. live under party government with only one party.
 Is Secret of Success
 The whole secret of the success of the party government is the existence of the independent voters. Look at Eng land. All the great growth of her lib critics and all the vast prosperity of her country are bound with the fluctuations of party power and ascendancy.
 Independent voting creates two parties and party government that Is real and actual. Therefore there is no political factor more essential or more powerful or controlling in free country than the factor of the Independent voter. IL means the political emancipation of s' ciety. And 1t does not mean at all hurt ful detachment from party, nor loss of essential party fealty. It does include, however, a higher fealty as well-the fealty gof ideas, to policies, to principles and to country. It means a gathering place for wholesome influence that will keep parties in line with policies and principles and keep party leaders with their ears to the ground. It means tho high promotion of political ideas, it means the cultivation of political thought It means the easier activity of political thought and the easier vitality of prac- tical patriotism. It is the only final support of party government.
 with the same parties established and south-and every where marshaling and dividing the peo- pie on the same lines of thought and action, the last stone will have been added to the immovabe foundations of our perfect union. Our dreams can all then come true and no single sacrifice of the great and terrible civil war will rom in mfth0ut ffS reWar0.'