The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-19
History of Republicans
TO Be Repeated, Be-
lieves MurdOck
HOPEFUL FOR il.
PROGRESSIVES
General Realignment
OF Parties In u. S.
Is Predicted
Nv gibson oARpNER.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-That the
Y Democratic party is on the point,
4 OF breaking up and that from the
/. disintegration viii come the ele-
4 uisnts of new radical party. is
], saxs recent events mean 10 Victor
( Murdoch, chairman OF the Progress
x.slve party national committee.
& Murdock foresees bitter fight in
& the House OF Representatives on
Il the administration program, and
predicts that the fight win be led
BY Claude Kitchin. of North Caro-
Tina. and Walter l.. Hensley, of Mis-
souri,.
~Wilson has become the leader OF
M The conservative Democracy said
4 Murdoch. THE preparedness issue
Is the thing which momentarily is
s scattering attention, but more i'm
: p0rtant than the preparedness issue
!, III it's ultimate effects, is the division
between the Bryan OF radical Dem
pcrats and the McAdoo or Conserva
tive Democrats. Bryan left the cab
u met because he was not wanted BY
/, the cabinet. He was out OF sympa-
thy with what the rest OF the caoi.
net had come to stand for. The sig
Il ni1cant thing In Bryan's recent In.
N texview was his allusion to the place
Manhattan clnb-where the
fprssident's preparedness speech was
deIivered. That was to Bryan the
abode OF Mammon' That Is Bry-
ans trouble. He believes. and his
< friends and followers believe, that
Wilson has become the safe and
sane Democrat, the reliable Demo
4 crat, the friend of business and pro-
4 motcr-of.prosperity Democrat, and
\ THAT radicalism and principle can go
y hang.
As Bryan has quit for his radi
cal principles, there will be lot OF
Euther Democrats who will quit.
There are a lot of honest, earnest
Inen in the Democratic party who
klhavs been much closer to the Pro
$Eressive point of view than they
have to the Underwood-Simmo
B 0Tprman-McAdoo Democratic point
n W <lew. These men accepted VIII
soa on Bryan's say-so; they believ-
1 n. a. Bryan believed. that Wilson
s. 49, d sire thing radical And let
\ ne ray here that 1t was Bryan's In.
X fuence which put through the viii
son legislative program. At every
4 crisis when votes were needed and
the president was unable to get
h them. It was Bryan who stepped 10
\ the front and delivered his follow
Ing. without his help there would
have been no federal reserve law.
and the tariff would have been a
& mighty different performance.
sBuf Bryan gradually found that
he had been used up and had be
"a come from the Wilson point OF view
political liability. He found that
most Of the things he regarded as
important had become unimportant
\ 70 the administration and he had
: unQuestfonabfy come to feet that
Y those conservative counsels which
had so long dominated In one wing
Of the Democratic party and which
had completely dominated the old
1tandpat Republican party had
come to be the controlling voice in
the Wilson administration, and +
predict that as time goes on the di-
4 vision between the radical and the
Dtandpat sections OF the Democratic
y party will become more evident and
that In the end the Democratic
party will experience the same thing
that happened when the forward
looking Republicans broke away and
QrgRnized- the Progressive party
which leads to my reason for
4 believing that the Progressive party
should by all means hold together
ot this time. Personally do not
!, care whether the radical Democrats
come to us. or whether they form q
new party and we 20 to them. The
4 point is that we belong together
Inoro are two unreconciliable ele
Qneats In both the old parties ant
theoe elements have got TO separate
& M mingie each with its own kind
%xAon We will have a proper and log
MI party alignment--a radica
8 basty and a conservative party; {
porty which stands for human
t>9hts and party which stands 70
Dfoperty rights; a party which Il
Wl1line to move on to new and\ bet
~ things and a party which C~,ii
q hockled to the past and will for
E1&er Be q acknowledging party
y We must be governed by two
A oSty' system. that Is what the two
Dostiss ought 10 be-"
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