The Washington times., 1920-07-01

part of the country.
One of the general organizers, JUL
ian B. Thomas. an old Bull Moose
chieftain of Brooklyn, and Thomas j,
Nahoney, the head of tho provincial
National Executive Committee OF this
new party, gave me letters OF In
| troduction to the heads OF various
branches in the several states whlch
| / visited, and to these later 1 went
seeking Information as to their stand
ing, their numerical strength, their
methods of organizing and the princl-
pes for which they stand.
/ learned an amazing story OF rapid
growth rarely equalled in the history
of any new party. This Ameriesn
Constitutional Party seems 10 have
s,rusG No overnight, as II were.
From a handful Of Bull Moose ana
old-time Hearst men, in the Borough
of Brooklyn, IL spread to Manhattan,
thence to Queens and Long lsland
and back to the Bronx, covering the
entire Greater City.
Organizations began TO appear up
the State in New York, and then the
party ricochetted down into New Jer-
sey, across TO Pennsylvania, ana DC
fore the original organizations rear
ized what was happening IL mad ap-
pcared. out here in chicago anu from
this great city OF the Middle West as
a center IL spread through Illinois 10
Indiana. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan Mime
sofa and Wisconsin.
I have passed through most OF those
States, talking not only to organizers
of this new party, but TO otners
of the rank and file. i have spoken
to workingmen, bankers business men
what the writer's call tine small
capitaI class'-professional men, IN
fact. men of all grades ana classes,
and found them all ready 10 repe,
against the old party dictation anu
eager to follow the banner OF ,he
r.wly-organized American Consttu-
tiOnal Party.
ORGANIZED FOR REVOLT.
r have seen now parties formed IN
the past-in some cases nave SAT III q.
the birth of them-and kho" hu"
slow and tedious is the process ~
which the organizations are ioi,neu
and tho propaganda is spreao.
this newest of third party
:, the swiftest thing l have ever
Ino,,,. II hns Ieaped like the forkeo
ugIt.inr of the keayens. 1t neeeec
-. nronsrnnda. II found the n."
,.rtiIe. The suIIen resentment sI u
n~o,Ie vus organized on every nan"
"a II needed only the appeara.ce "
. leader to call 1t into being.
Evervwhere I have gone the peo-
,,c have been bitter. 1t makes no
difference what State 1t Is, or wnat
citv or village. There Is a teeiins
that, somehow or other, tho hepuo
ia in danger; that somehow 81
while eur bsys were away --,
oehtiux to preserve
s o~ehody back her& on this
- ~ The AtIantic, crushed denoc-
Gr~eSv DroAteers made
Hi. the boyu died in the trenches.
THE people feel that, somehow or
ether the ring that controls wan
street also controls both rings ehas
control the machinery OF the Two o,u
narties. They have seen the peopie
elected in primary after primary, IN
state after State, swept asioe, =.
in his place a favorite OF the 1htereoes
named as the choice OF great par
=. fayorite who failed to carry inc
-eor;es of his own State, and who
renresents anything but the progress
sir. tbonrht and sentiment or MS
party. .; y,
rovernment used, as il it were tho
private plaything of car 10 pro,
mote those who opposed or crlticiheu
the powers that prey, ana, al ln.
same time, efforts made to emoroii
this nation in the foreign govern,
ments of land grabbing diplomats Oh
the old world.
CRY FOR 4 NEW DEAL.
The cumulative effect has been
crv for a new deal-a cry from the
aan+ba 20 il were-a call to save the
republic.
lust at the psychological moment
the American Constitutional Party
was born in the East It's slogan !:
"BacIl to the Constitution and the
principles of the fathers! was con-
sidered with a cry of joy and recos-
milton from all sides.
Its emblem is the Minute Man OF
t77G. wearing the cooked hat or the
American Revolution. Its big Ameri-
canism is hatred OF foreign entangle-
ments, of foreign domination, OF the
yoke under which the people are
sweating in paying the war debt Of
Great Britain and others, caught the
fancy Of the crowd, and they rallied
to the call in numbers.
These organizers, in State after
State, should be carefully indcKed
cards of names of those who have
signed the pledge of allegiance to
this very real American democratic
party. There were thousands and
thousands of names that l saw. There
is no fake about 1t.
was tickled with the way in
which they have organized. They
did not follow word or county lines
thus throwing the old bosses off the
branches of fraternal society.
Their units are called councils, all
subordinate to State bodies and to
the national executive committee, and
as they are entirely American they
select names indicative of some his
toric figure or incident of the Ameri-
can revolutionary period.
HOW UNITS ARE NAMED.
Any one pledging himself to the
Flag. to the Constitution and to the
platform OF the party may become an
organizer and after investigation Sc
cure charter from the parent body,
which Is to be Incorporated. The by