The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
POLITICAL PARTY DISRUPTIONS
By SAW OYARD

Washington, September 1S.-(Special.)- That President Taft's Hamilton speech has hopelessly disrupted the republican rarty there is no longer room for doubt, and that the breach will widen may be confidently expected. The situation makes more or less opportune glance at former ruptures in political alignments of which our history affords numerous ' examples.
 In 1924 there were four tickets voted for at the presidential election all claim ing to hold to the doctrines of Thomas Jefferson but the seeds of dissension were sown in fruitful soil, and by 1882 we had tho political separation of the people into whigs and democrats, Henry Clay the head of the former and Andrew Jackson the leader of the latter. The whigs were for the bank the tariff, internal improve ments and the parceling of the proceeds of the sales of public lands among the states. The democrats opposed all these and were victorious.
 Alittle later both parties were diveded on the annexation of Texas and the extension of African slavery. Alexander
 
 eith Toombs and William H. Seward, Henry A. Wise, who hanged John Brown, and Thaddeus Stevens, who idealized John Brown, all belonged to the same partly, just as Taft and LaFollette do now Jefferson Davis and Stephen A. Douglas, John c. Breckinridge and Caleb Cushing, William l.. Yancey and Oliver P. Morton all belonged to the same party. Just as Albert B. Cummins and John Dal- zell do now.
 But there were disruptions. Anti-slav- cry whigs and anti-slavery democrats Joined together and made new party in 1854, and pro-slavery whigs joined the democratic party, which was dominated by its pro-slavery leaders But the demo- crats split at Charleston in 1860. The southern democrats insisted on obedience to the law of Congress. which the SUI Ireme court declared constitutional. The republicans clamored for the nullification of that law The northern democrats under the lead of MT Douglas, trimmed and two democratic tickets were in the field, with momentous results that are now history
 In 1872 there was a serious schsm in the republican party. Greeley, Sumner Trumbull. Adams, Schurz led a rebellion that promised hopeless disruption. They nominated a ticket at Cincinnati that was indorsed by the democrats at Balti- more, and it Is absolutely certain that Greeley and Brown would have been selected if the democrats had supported fthem as Loyalty as they had Seymour and Blair four years earlier, or were to sup port Tilden and Hendricks four years later
 After the south was reconstructed" the electorate began to divide on economic lines. There was a greenback pShty com posed of dissenters from both the leading parties, both of which paid it the tribute Of sycophancy in party platform and in congressional legislation. Had Thad Stevens lived and retained his physical strength there is nothing more certain than that he would have followed him into that camp where Ben Butler lodged on his way back into the democratic party. & .a
 But the rag money men dropped the creenback for the dollar of the dads" nnd on that issue. too, both the old parties were hypocrites. In 1S96 the re- publican party was reluctantly goldbug because there was democratic adminis- tration at Washington. 1t was the