Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-18
0LD-[|NE PARTIES
IMPRISONMENT
AS CAMP A|GN ISSUE
Evidence in West of Radicals
Forming to Throw Sup
port Somewhere.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO, December What
prospective presidential candidate is
planning to round up and gather in
the elements of discomfort which are
now cryStaliZing in the> two radical
parties being formed in the west?
activity in radical circles, showing
that somebody is at work under the
surface with intent to direct the flow
of the disconnected into a politics al
reservoir. where it may be contained,
controlled and conveniently tapped.
Old-line democrats and republicans
view this movement with depreca-
ton whoever got anywhere on a
policy of discontent?" they ask, and
point out that what the country de-
mands now from whichever party the
voters decide to intrust the destinies
of the nation to for the next four
years is constructive program to re-
store. resuscitate and build up. and
not to tear down.
See Move by Some Candidate.
One learns out here that an effort is
expected to be made by some presi-
Dental candidate to weld and ANAL
gamate labor with the discontinued
radicals: that actually it is contem-
plated that such an organization as
the four railway brotherhoods could
be induced to team up and nominate a
man who would draw to his support
every shade of radical opinion in the
country.
The politicians hereabouts do not
think this can be done. They do not
look upon it as a feasible political
proposition possible of being carried
out in the present temper OF the rest
of the country. They think the pro-
ponents of this scheme are rainbow
chasing.
Two Well-Dehned Movements.
Thus far there are two we'll defined
radical movements under way. First
there is the so-called labor party
which met in this city last summer
and adopted a platform which con-
tanned many astounding policies, new
and shocking to the American sense.
The man who was active in furtherlng
this movement was John Fitzgerald,
who later launched the steel strike.
now fiZzling out. The farmers refused
to come in with this group and an
other element dropped out because the
new party wouldn't go wet. This
organization proposes to have con-
ventiOn next summer and nominate
presidential ticket.
The other radical movement was
foisted upon an unsuspecting public at
ST. Louis a week OF SO ago. II called
itself the liberal party. 1t is supposed
to be just shade more conservative
than the Chicago outfit: about the differ
ence between Isle thread ;, and silk
stockings. 1t contains in its directing
membership many avowed socialists, in
Guiding some men who are holding Off
cial position under the national admin
istration. Everybody in Washington
knows. OF course, that the governmental
departments harbOf men with pro-
nounced socialistic tendencies.
So it is assumed out here that the
liberal party win accommodate the par
lor socialists, the broad thinkers and
all that sort of thing. while the labor
party will take care of the radicals, and
that when the time comes-that psy-
Geological moment. you know-the
two can quickly be merged.
In the meantime Judge Anderson.
down at Indianapolis. is making some
pretty strong instructions to federal
grand juries. and the radicals and
discontinued ones will be given to I'M
derstand that in one section of the
great industrial west there is some
body keeping an eye on them.
1t is not in evidence that any alarm
is being created by these STRINGS and
rumbling in the underworld of poll
ties. The politicians look on in curl
osity rather than with apprehension.
They are wondering who is the
master mind directing things and who
hopes to capitalize the discomfort and
use it as lever to bulge the presi-
dency.