Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-01-12
WANTS
PARTY CHANGES

Senator Newlands is one IF those
who evidently believes that no party
is ever entirely without fault or tha,
no political body ever existed without
there being some parts that needed
the pruning knife, to improve them
The dispatches tell OF interesting re.
marks made yesterday to che United
States Senate by opr senior senator in
which he plainly points out some OF
The things which he thinks VIII have
to he changed 10 keep the democratic
pJrty in the forefront us the organi:a.
tion which remains abreast of the
times and which has the common
sense to change as the condition OF
the country demands IL.
Senator Newlands said, in part:
THAT no political party can hope
to remain in power which adopts radi.
cal instead of evolutionary methods
of reform"
Danger of a democratic defeat IN
the congressional elections OF 1914, he
said, was averted only by the Euro.
pean war which brought into sudden
contrast the presidents policy OF
watchful waiting regarding Mexico
with the mad haste of the European
nations as they rushed into war, and
which made that policy as popular as
1t had heretofore been unpopular"
THE realization that similar pru.
dence would keep us out of European
complications" he added, saved the
party at the last election from the de-
feat which would have surely come as
the result of the general prostrati0n
of business, popularity attributed to our
economic legislation.
'It would not do to charge this to
the European war, first because that
war, though injurious to our produc.
tion and trade in its inception, has
since become stimulant to produc.
ton and export, and second, because
the commencement of this depression
antedates the European war and was
contemporaneous with our legislation
regarding the tariff. banking and
trade.
I'VE are about to face united Re
publican party, chastened by adversely
and eager to persuade, and the ques.
tion Is whether the Democratic party
having done much under this admins.
tration in the interest of genuine re.
form, is again TO be thrown out OF
power and deprived of the opportunity
of continued usefulness, simply be.
cause an intervening period of depres,
sion subjects us again to the charge
of Democratic hard times with It's
accompanying loss of votes.
ut is safe to say that the manufac.
turing, the banking and the large cor.
porate interests are hostile to the
Democratic party and that their EN-.
ployes are also preparing to throw
their weight against it, not because its
administration has brought good times
but on the contrary has, IN their judg.
ment, brought bad times.
Regarding the tariff, my view was
that our undertaking was not imme-
diately to adopt theoretically correct
tariff system, but simply to climb
gradually down from the protective
heights upon which the Republican
party had placed the manufacturing
interests of the country; not to jump
down at the risk of destruction, but to
climb down slowly and laborlously
with view to preserving, as far as
practicable every American industry
and injuring none.
when we came to practical real.
ization of what we had promised by
Legislation, we were inclined, thought
to go too fast and too far.
THE effect of the tariff legislation
was what feared II would be. The
tying up of production in this country
was the result, not OF malicious et.
fort Of the manufacturers to teach the
country lesson, but of the caution
and timidity which can in many cases
be proved without reason. but which
nevertheless always exist under like
conditions.
80 also with banking legislation
Instead of providing some method of
.nobilizing the banking reserves Of
late and national banks under tie
control of non.partisan board or com.
mission resembling the interstate com.
merce commission, which would grad.
ually, through powers OF investigation.
publicity correction and recommen.
dation to congress, work out further
reforms, we were intent upon leglsle
tion which alarmed the banks by the
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