Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10

that some of the sober and finer force,
OF this country are now devoted To tba
promotion of this new movement a,d
party. ] have known the insurgent =.
publicans a long time
III this new party is preferred on III.
NTH of November, will il be in a NO.
ton to clear the decks and carry ONT tbo
policy which many noble gentlemen ba,-.
conceived that ii was sincerely bent ,,,,,
Politics now at least is intensely ,rs
teal and real. We can not afford ia -.
on the 9th of November and then Oait
announcer -FOUR years. The process of Pc.
FORM IN this country must take place
"lthln the next four years If the Leader
of the third party is made president vba,
VIII be his situation? Does ANYBODY s,rN
pose that he will have third party cor
gress behind him? Is it not inevitstio
that IN such an event there viii he y,
congress such mixture Of elements and
groups and lotteries that the presido,,
can not possibly get any program wbat.
ever put through?
Queer JumbIes in Congress.
We have had samples of the co,r,,s;..
already. We already have ver,, r,,l',,..
assorted senate of the United stat
There are some Democrats. some RenrL
Means and some eXBepublicans. and r.
has been gamblers chance whether tbo,.
would get together on anything or no,
1t has been difficult to guess after q hin
passed the house of representatives ex-
actly what was going to happen to !,
when ii got into the Senate and the roll
call in the several votes has seldom,
showed the same list of names
Now. suppose you had house Of ran
resentatives mixed like the present son
ate? ! think we, could all go fishing for
the next two years, And if al the same
time YOU had leader insistent upon Ger
tam policies. ! think the air would ba
fun of clamorous voices. but the statrte
book would be very empty of fulfilled
promises
But the most certain impediment 80
progress l have not yet spoken Of Tho
new party does OF even propose to clear
the decks and set the government fres
to act. The central proposal of its actual
program is to egalize monopoly. Insteai
OF defeating, instead of reversing ami
remedying the evil things that have been
done under the mistaken leadership of tho
regular Republican leaders il promises
that the results Of their mistakes shall he
legalized and made regular by being taken
under the direct supervision Of the gov,
eminent of the United States Nhate,or
may be the philanthropic purpose of cer-
tain parts of its propram, the inevitable
result of that particular proposal will o..
to confirm by law the partnership he
tween great trusts and the Federal gov
eminent do not say that this is what
the leaders of the new party expect or
propose, but merely that that is what viii
happen, what must happen under such
plan.
Only Democratic Party Left.
Then YOU have only the Democratic
party left; and you will ask me how
can set UP a claim fer the Democratic
party. Well. in the first place it is re-
er fine discipline to have been on the
outside for sixteen years. You have i'm
trusted the government of the United
States to the Democratic party because
the Democratic party has been opposed
all these years to the things that the Re
publican leaders were doing Is not that
a statement of mere fact? Haven't We
been attacking them and opposing them
all these years, and proposing programs
that once looked radical and now loo,
reasonable? We haven't just begun being
progressive. We have been progressive
for sixteen years and we saw the wear
1912 half a generation before it came
Are you going to give US no credit for
vision? DO you not think il counts for
something to stay out in the cold on a
conviction for sixteen years.
The Democratic party is now perhaps
for the first time in generation. united
solid and enthusiastic And the Demo
cratic party is the only organized force
by which YOU can set your government
free l was bred in football college I
know that what wins is teamwork: and
| want to tell YOU that we have now gu'
a Democratic team, schooed in years OF
adversely, that can hold together against
any team that can be put in the field and
as compared with which some teams re-
GENTLY organized are only scrub teams