The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-01
new PARTY IS
HELDlNSINCERE
Capital Politicians Think Labor
Organization Is Only
Political Club.
DOOM rs FORESEEN
It Is Being Freely Predicted Or
ganization Will Not Weather
the First Storm.
DOOM is FORESEEN
BY GEORGE H. MANNING

Washington. Nov. 3O-Experienced
politicians about the national capital
decline to consider with any degree Of
seriousness the effort launched at Chi
cago few days ago to form new ma
tional political party to be known as
The Labor party.
The movement is not really sincere,
but only an effort to club one Of the
two big political parties into putting
some of the radical and bolshevist plans
of the so-called Labor party leaders into
the platforms of the democratic or re-
publican parties, the political students
hold
The Labor party will not survive the
first national campaign, and republican
and democratic leaders insist, but like
the old Populist and Progressive par
ties will fade and wither away leaving
nothing behind but memory and dis
appointment here and there among peo-
pie who may be lead to support the
new political idea.
The first set OF resolutions adopted
by the representatives of the party
who met in Chicago last week, which
demand impreachment of Judge An
derson and release from prison OF
anarchists and socialists is sufficient
to doom the new party to quick and
sure death. it is believed.
Washington officials have serious
doubts that this new party designed
ito organize all hand and brain work
ers of the country to support the
principles OF political, social and in
dustrial< democracy" will secure the
support of but few OF the most rndi-
cal minds in the ranks OF labor. The
great mass of the American laboring
men, they believe, Will shun affilia-
tion with an organization founded on
such un-American principles.
The real purpose of the movement,
it is held here, is to have something
with which to approach the two old
parties with demand for concessions
that will satisfy the labor radicals. in
exchange for throwing the vote of the
radicals to the party making the most
generous oyertures. 1t is considered
doubtful, however, that either party
will take much pains to gain support
of such a character, because the party
playing for such backing would doubt
less lose an equal number OF votes OF
persons whose friendship would be
alienated by trucking to such radical
element.
The Labor party movement is held
by political leaders to be similar in
many respects to the Populist move
ment of about thirty years ago. The
Populiss party was formed to increase
prices of farm products by legislation
although some camoflage was spread
about it. 1t sprang from unrest among
the farmers who had suffered greatly
from drought and the grasshopper. The
republican party lost some votes to the
Populists in the West and Northwest
and a little like amount of support
was lost by the democrats in the
South. But the movement soon peter
ed out without doing much harm to
either party.
The ultimate purpose OF the Labor
party is undoubtedly to increase day
labor wages through legislation. and
the movement grows out Of unrest in
the ranks of labor.
The Labor party may fix upon some
prominent man with very liberal views
regarding labor as its candidate. poll
ticians believe, and urge the republi-
can or democratic parties to accept him
as their standard bearer, as the Pro-
gressives (Bull Moosers1 urged the re-
nublicans to take Theodore Roosevelt
in 1916. AS they will likely fail in this
# is expected, and the new Labor party
will die aborning.