The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-17
Advises Roosevelt to
Change Name of His
Organization.
SPLlT-UP CERTAIN
Party in Power Certain to
Become More Conserva-
tive as Time Passes.

son administration four months old
the regular July inventory makes a
creditable showing. The stock of po-
litical goods on hand is being turned
over with gratifying ranidity. Tariff
lines are proving in much demand
and generally satisfactory. The cur
rency stock is fairly popular, and is
being rapidly taken. AS for investiga-
tons, it is hard for the managers to
keep a sufficient stock in hand. The
public Is eating EN- up.
Which mean that, SO far, the dem
%ocratic government has been intelli-
gently directed, and has met good
fortune. AT the Baltimore convention
last year it vas hardly possible to
conceive of the party getting harmon
iousIy together, progressives n
standpatters following a Common
leader. But today the two wings oil
the party are marching in line with
no serious dissensions in sight.
Better off Than Tafts Party.
The Wilson administration is in far
better shape in this respect than the
Taft administration was in m%id-July
four years ago, when the progressives
already had refused to acquiesce in
the sham revision proposed by the
st%andpatters.
But it is evident that conditions in
Washington, as throughout the coun-
try, still remain in unstable equilib-
rum. A progressive democrat was eX-
planning today the reason the demo
cratic caucus rejected the scheme of
the leaders for a systematiZed budget
for the national government, in which
a single committee would apportion
the appropriations so as to keep them
within the
I'VE weren't opposed to some plan
of that sort" he said, but the way it
was proposed it would have delivered
over the control of the House into the
hands of standpatters."
'Standpatters? You don't mean re-
publicans?"
Feared Standpat Budget Control
mo, the %standpat democrats. The
plan would have put s~tandpatters
from Georgia, from Alabama, from
New York in strategic positions. We
wouldn't stand for it,"
He had left al opening so the ques-
ton was put to him direct: when is
the democratic party going to break
up as the republican did. into pro
gressives and standpatters?"
The answer wasn't ready offhand.
He went on to explain that it was
quite possible that the standpatters
could be coerced into going along
with the progressives in h hope of
continuing in office. If, however,
they should become disgruntled they
might split off and join the republic
-. -. ~ ,raIJ ,1~.,N,,nt- ala -,
1896. That would only happen if the
administration should make such a
progressive record that there would
be no need of a progressive party.
Wilson to Lead all Progressives.
Progressive policies are going to
win" he said. 1.-The folks back home
won't stand for anything else. 1t is
my belief that Wilson is eventually
going to be recognized as the leader
of all progressives, and that the
democratic party is going to be the
progressive party, with the republican
party the conservative, standpat or
g~anization."
Another view is taken by an en-
inent democrat, a member of the cab
met. This leader went to h length of
sending word to Colonel Roosevelt at
tltS SllCtSo lohi1l ChtC Iaot "
ber-though the message was never
delivered-that if the progressive
party should change its name to the
Liberal party, it would get a large
democratic accessions eventually. 1t
was his view then, and he reiterated
it today, that parties in this coun-
try are on the verge of a complete
breakup and ~realignment.
ssrha nnp,av dom nnratir' and trp-
publican, he said, have lost their
meaning. We ought to have Il Liberal
and Conservative party. The name
progressive is no longer distinctive.
Everybody claims to be a progress
i've Taft insisted he was a progress
sive.' Wilson is a progressive La
Toilette, Cummins, O'Gorman, John
Sharp Williams. all are 'progressives.'
Always Becomes Conservative.
with the democratic party in
power / believe the conservative fore
es of the country will naturally gra-
vitate TO it in an effort to control it.
Every party in power becomes con-
sentative. That is history. Mean
While the progressives, bidding more
and more strongly for popular favor,
are going to become the strongly ra-
dical party. | look for a gradual alb
sorption of the conservative elements
by the party in power and the grad
ual rallying of the new liberal party
of all the radical elements. Then we
will have the two parties-the Lib
eral and the Conservative"
When a cabinet officer talks like
that it is a fair guess that the future
is more or less uncertain.
At any rate it is perfectly nlain
that the democratic party is going to
be subjected to something of a strain
when the question of national versus
state conservation comes up to be
followed at once by the question of
national versus state regulation of
corporations.
viii desire to stay regular" keep
the state Fighters from the South in
line for national conservation? And
what will happen on the trust ques-