Evening star., 1920-07-13
EXTREME POLICY
OF THIRD PARTY
KILLS ITS CHANCE
Both Big Parties Have Even
Break to Win Progress
sive Voters.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

CHICAGO, July 13.-Outside of the
ranks of the professional politicians,
the nominees of the republican and
democratic conventions have awak-
ened no popular chord in the west,
and were it not for the suspicion that
in troublous times like the present a
third party would add to the govern
ment confusion rather than stability,
this would be an ideal third party
year.
AS it is. there are progressives ga
lore who are eager to take refuge
somewhere, but the tendency of the
minority groups meeting in Chicago
to go to the extremes of radicalsm
will keep large mum bers of voters in
the two old-line parties as a choice
between lesser evils. But both Sena-
tor Harding and Gov. Cox have splen-
did opportunities of winning much of
this disaffected vote. BY showing
themselves able to rise above the or
Ganization environment whence they
came they will regain much of what
would otherwise be a dead loss For
this time the disgruntled voter isn't
going to express himself necessarily
in third party, but by something in
finitely more subversive of campaign
calculation, namely. staying away
from the polls.
McAdOo Typified Wilson.
Inside the republican party the situa-
ton is different only in degree from
that which exists in the democratic
party. For the fact is decided senti-
ment prevailed in the west for Hiram
johnson, Herbert Hoover, Leonard Wood
and William Gibbs McAdoo. Neither
Cox nor Harding could awaken ripple
OF interest where any of the first four
would produce an emotional unheava1
Leonard Wood appealed to the youth of
the nation and to business folk as a de-
cisive character who typified national
efficiency. Hiram Johnson came forth
as the crusader of the west, uninfiuenced
and uncontrolled by party bosses or or
ganizations. but full of a doctrine of
America first" that sounded plausible.
Herbert Hoover stood out as the heroic
product of the war, master mind in
executive and administrative tasks. an
altogether eliminated from future con-
SideratlOn simply because he hupgIad
his cards this year
William Gibbs McAdoo typified Will
sonism in international affairs and
friendship for labor To the millions
who We're carried away. bv presidanf
Wilson's appeal for the league of ma
tlons on his trip west last wear Nc
Adoo seemed to be more nearly the
helr or wilson policies than either
Wood or Johnson were of the Roose
welt policies. McAdoo, in the demo
cratic. and Wood, Johnson and Hoover
in the republican party. do represent
decided waves of popular sentiment
Whlch have not been submerged bv
the party nominations
About -Four Years Hence,
The average American is no Boomer
done with one campaign than he looks
forward to the next contest. And iude-
ing by the expressions which the
writer heard on his western trip, it is
safe to assume that unless Cox and
Harding both discover the roots of the
power which Messrs Wood. Johnson
Hoover and McAdoo held in the west
ern country. those four individuals
will be heard from in the contest four
years from now. Surely if Gov Cox
is defeated, the opportunity of Nc
Adoo to lead the party in 1924 will be
greater than it was this time With
the absence of Woodrow Wilson from
office for four years there will be no
plausibility behind the cry of Grown
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