The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-05
WHY HE WANTS A CHANGE

Now and then we hear from cer- tain independent" voices, journalis- tic or individual, that there is no real differences between the major parties and the country would be equally well off under a Republican or a Democratic administration. If that be so it would be gracious and appropriate service to the public if your independent" who is uniform ly impartial and judicial in word, and always partisan in deed, would sup port the Republican ticket. He nev- CT does He discovers the absence of all distinction between the parties only on those occasions when he is on the losers side, or fears that he will be- Then he is filled with a great and holy zeal to suppress all signs of partisan spirit in the oppos- ition. Indeed, in the lexicon of the Independent" when it is Republican it is partisan; when it is Democratic it is non-partisan. The whole theory and scheme of Democratic partisan ship is to persuade any other kind of partisan that he should not sup port the principles nor the can didates of the Republican party.
 Let the professional independents and spurious non-partisans go down south and preach their doctrine there. Let them begin by helping to break up the Solid South and thus reduce the two parties to equal terms, so that the tremendous handicap to free party action of ten or eleven states devoted always to stark partisanship ways clear that the rise of non-parti- sanship in one section of the country may not only serve the aims of par tisanship elsewhere.
 It is a significant fact that in the south there are nine or more states which in fifty or sixty years have voted one way only in presidential years (eXcept under coercion during the "carpet-bag" era); and it is an equally significant fact that there is only a single state north of the Mas | on and Dixon line which in half century has an unbroken record of voting for one party. This means that the Republican party stands for growth, progress, freedom of opin- md nnHyI leaders, new light; it means that the Democratic party is too much welded | to old issues, old habits, old thoughts | all of which spell stagnation and | reaction.
 The president of the United States said once in a public address that the Republican party had not had a new idea in fifty years. This shows the length to which egotism, intoler- ance and pride will go. It was not true. It was probably not expected that it would be accepted as literal truth. It would be interesting to know just what new idea the Demo- cratic party has fostered, in the last half century, that had not first had its origin elsewhere and had not been sponsored by some element within the Republican party. This is not to say that it had always been adopted by the Republican party. Too often it has not been, and at times the failure of the Republican party
 to act has been the opportunity of
 it's enemy. A split among the Re-
 publicans in 1912, for example, led
 to election of President Wilson. A
 catch phrase elected him in 1916.
 But no Republican division exists in
 1920, and the inventors of Demo-
 cratic slogans have been singularly
 unfertile, and everybody knows what
 is going to happen in November.
 Why is it that the people are so