The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1913-01-16
FOUR PARTIES hOV
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. H.
CONGRESS LIKELY TO HERD
BY THEMSELVES.
CONDITION is A NEW ONE
Makeup of the Congressional Record;
Proves conciusi.eiy Democrats
Will Recognize No Minority Parry
Except Republicans. ~.
Ry GEORGE CLINTON.

1or1ty doeS$ uos AaeeAo teo. W Aeooe e-.s, A.AS5
any third paay as such In the next
house of repr resentattTes. Now II
seems that another element OF posi-
Bile discord and ase2tment Is TO be
thrown into the house n iEz5iil5ssssS -,
with this party division matter when
the extra session meets. It Is eatd
that number Of Proeressive-Rspuh
licans, who must not be confused With
Progressiyes elected as such, and who
represent a new party, are soon %
confer with a view to decide % to-
whether or not they VIII enter the
caucus called by the Republican lead
ers. These Prosrestve-Republic
all were elected az Republicans, but
for hye or six years those Of tiS
who have been in the house that
have been virtually as progressive Y
are the followers Of Theodore RooseS
velt in the last campaign, and who
gave up all further thought Of cali
ing themselves Republicans. "
II the ProEessive-R Republicans shall
refuse to caucus with the Republicans,
and shall caucus by themselves, there
really will be three parties In the
next house Of Representatives, IN ad-
dition to the fourth majority party. the
Democracy.
Four Party Groups.
It is recognized here as probable
that an attempt may be made IN the
Progressive-Repubhcan caucus to get
the members to agree to act with the
Progressives In most matters as
against the Republicans. An atsI
tempt to secure such action It is be-
neved by many members Of congress-
will be resented and repudiated by
some Of the Progressive-Re Republicans,
possibly a majority q them, who. be-
cause Of certain happenings In the
last six or eight months, dislike the
Progressives more they do the
old line rsanIaE RepubltSa1s. It e
not believed %g non-partisan ozRrv-
'ers here that the Wisconsin Pregress
ive-Republieans. for instance, VIII con-
sent to anything like an amnatton
with the Progressives. The reason
for this is at once apparent TO any
one who has followed the develop.
ments OF the last campaign and OF the
events which led up to the virtual
elimination Of Mr.. La Toilette aS . facs
tor In the campaign-fof the presideE-.
tial nomination. -
The one sole surviving Prog gsssiye-
Republican In the Kansas delegation
in congress. Victor Murdock, it Is said,
is likely to hold aloof from the Repub
lican caucus, and It is expected that
Mr.. Murdock will have in company
with him several members Of the
house from the middle west Il this
shall turn out to be true forecast
of the coming situation, there viii be
four party groups in the-RaE Aossa
Of representatives, Democrats, Repub-;
licans, Progressive-Repubncans and
Progressives. each group caucustng by
itself, and each outlining Its own:
government policies. There has been
nothing parallel to It within the mem-
ory Of present members OF congress-.
Record Makes 40 DistIneHap.
In dispatch Of some few days since
It was told how the Democratic clerk
Of the house, who was charged with
the duty Of making up the list Of
house member Of the next congress,
failed to make any distinction be-
tween Republicans and ProDesstyea
In the list which he prepared The
congressional directory tor the third
session Of the Stxty-second congress-
has just been put into print SIX
pages Of it are given over to the
, names Of members Of the next house.
Now this book, 1t must be remember
ed, is the official book Of congress, pre-
pared under the directtoR of>saa.sua-
iority in congrese, whisR in this CAS-.
is Democratic. Reading the LIST Of
members Of the next house In odtcial
form, no one not entirely familiar with
all the circumstances of the election
! can tell from its perusal who Is a Re-
| publican and who is Progressive.
This seems to prove fairly conciudve-
ly and officially that the Democrat
ic party does not intend to recognize
the Progressive partys representa-,
tfyes as a separate body in the next
house.
Some of the regular Republicans say.
that it makes little difference what
the representatives Of their party may
do in the next house, "for the Demo
Gratis are going to have things their
own way" and that nothing that the
Republican party members can do Sa
ED Of service "tc effect anything worth
while"
The Progressives know what they
are going to do. They are going TO-
stand for the policies outlined In the
Chicago platform, and they are not
going to enter into any. compact eth
er with~the Republicans or WITH the
gresive-Republicaus unless TIE
compact is one to carry out the Pro,
sressive party's platform principles.
What the Progressiye-Re ReDubl blicans
may do is yet to be determined out
It is pretty well assured tst taeZ
win hold conference c, their on 5s
fore long.
We ought to slip over many
thoughts that pass through our minos,
and nretend not 70 see them-Madame
de Sevtgne. e.