The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-06
Politicians or People?

(New York WOrld)
 Senator Harding of Ohio, who is himself 8 didate for the Republican nomination for President insists that The World has made a mistake in de clarng that it would support an Independent be- cause parties necessary in this country and the people should stick to their political organiza tons.'
 It is true that parties necessary in this country, but they must be honest parties that stand for honest issues; otherwise they menace to the political stability of the Nation.
 The Senator from Ohio is quite mistaken when he says that 'the people should stick to their poll tca organizations It is the duty of the political organization to stick to the people: It is because the organizations have failed mseraby in this duty that voters everywhere demanding deal The party organizations today are merely pat Q themselves, there is not principle to divide be- ween them , Except for the brains and character .e Democratic party except the name Except for the money of the great business interests that have so long sustained it. there is nothing left of the Re- publican party except and appetite The Tribune sadly and sorrowfully tells us that ween the parties '1t may be easy to catalogue he differences. but there is profound conscious is quite sure that there differences. it cannot ,ell what they are Nor can anybody else s even more misrepresentatve than the sixty-fih Congress which Democratic because Demo- cratic Congress was obliged respond to President Wilson's leadership and in that way things ,ged to get done The various aspirants for the Presidency are not presenting issues They are dods ng issues
 The real truth. the Tribune well knows, is 1 hat there is not solitary principle of govern ties are as yet prepared to divide.
 In the meantime the professional politicians of both organizations engaged in gliding the fa miar gold brick that they have used many other occasions when public opinion uninformed wavering and uncertain. All the favore are being brought out, and after the National Con- vention has cast the requisite number of comp nentary votes little handful of bosses will pick 1 the "compromise' candidate Then the country can take it's choice between the kind of Republican ' that the Republican politicians want and the kind of Democrat that the Democratic politicians want The successful party organization will proceed to , govern in it's way, and the people will linue to pay for the support of a government that has been stacked against them
 this fake and fraudulent partisanship and that it that honestly represents something. Senator Lodge i there is power influence behind the Hoover 1 find out what it is" Senator Lodge is right. There is powerful influence behind the Hoover movement, and the Senator from Massachusetts does not recognize it because it happens to be the in- fluence of the American people themselves in seek ing candidate who something to them Naturally, the Senator from Massachusetts is be- widered, yet we him that nobody has done more than he to create the sentiment and the state of mind that turning to MT. Hoover l There is only real issue before the country today-whether the people the professional poli- ticians to the next President of the United States, and Herbert C. Hoover is the embodi ment of that issue.