The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1921-11-05
PARTY LEADERS
 NOT HARMONIOUS President Harding Handicapped by Arogncy of Eastern Members
 of U. S. Senate

as iI llo Republican organization n" Che Senate has narrowly escaped Q split of such seriousness as to threat cn Che disruption Of the party in Che nation Tho matter hos been patch ed uD and Che evil day postponed. but hose who consider Che fundo- mental differences between Che Re- pubucau Senatorial group of Che West and Che Senate bosses of Che East feel that Che inevitable cloay- are between tboso divergent inter- csis cannot hc iarof. 10 is Ono old. old contest between those who owe thc.r aoas to Che people and those who receive lbcIr commissions at he hands of Che political bosses. who m turn arc Financed by preda- tory wealth.
 Republican high politics wus in a critical satc Go causc Senator Lodge
 he Nev Enelaud Brhmin. to 80 to rbe home of scnator Cappor where n score of Western Republicans fnFoucuc Borab McNary Norris rnd tho rest or tbo so-c1llcd "Aui. cultural Bloc" mu of light. wor, -udv to join Che Democrats if noe. .y to reconstruct ho bis taa m.,.ur. Thuc LoJrc pleaded wlth
 hom to moot Che regulars in com promises on Che bW which would som permit it to bo called Ropuhl. cam lo-sauou. How remIudtul o. tbc day whom Che Western Repubii cans of Che House formed % coalition with One Democrats to destroy Cam uon.smi
 Lodge conceded much so mucl nat che people win probably set hotter doaI In Che taxation bill II look. ubo aucr some forty oltcra lions i'm thc plans oi tho loadcr0 th' .ur..1es ou Che swollen Incomes wil eo as high as 5o per cent iustcad o es and that Che tax on excess profit win be repealed as ot next January
 nstead Of lost January This schom. to mako .bc roneal date back would have ieu in Che hands Of Che corpo nuons au Che oSccss thcy had charec dhc public to pay Che fedora tay Tho buI win probably carry ar
 nerc.so u Che corporation tax u or.et some Of Che nuisance uXc which Che Insurgents desire to hovO repealed
 The Republican newspapers ar. pleased to rclcr Go thc Western Sen ator forming Che usurgont group as the Horticultural B'oc' Th. purpose of tbIs Is to isuorc thc deep or fac. Cha. it is Che same old pro gro .ye movement chat wrecked th. Republican party a decade ago. II represents no irceonccIyobic dif ference. between che wings of th' rsrtv. a difference so deep and iu euIi.abIc tbat I. is impossible fo. nam to a-rcc on action that is ' r.mIt u legislation They got to eetHer while Che party was out and could not IcrsIato whou thcr' could be mo contest as Co which sc. of ideas should bo rw.auzcd into law but now chat Che views Of on, side hayo to al if Che ideas Of th' otHrr arc to prevail there is dccl trouble for thc partv if this tenn poury natcb.ur-up Of a truce .s t, result permanently between th0 wings Che country win know i within fcw weeks. but old obsorv .n n Washington are vcry skopti eai
 TaIs session bce.n In April an, One whole world uev Chat 10 wa. thc Intention Go pass a new taxation measure and uc viuia hul am, arrange for thc financing of thC mH-oal None of these things ar. within euushot ol accomplishment au.r six months have passed Oull nr.e bills of importance have be .ome law che Farm Loan Act. th' "Fumcrs TarT Act' and Che ac to regulate Che packers The 0m mentioned Is good legislation. Th' arT act was advertised as ereo measure designed to enable Che far mar to got moro for h'a crops Can ldm wheat todoy brings better ur.re n Minneapolis than wheat grown Iu Che United states. an th. farmers products have shrunk scri 1usly in rrico excepting cotton which has responded Go lho shortest crop u tbc history of Che country Tho rackers control act was s, amended at thc dication of Che pack eu themselves that it Is useless Senator InFo'Io.tc drew attention Co Che fact Chat thc important amend monts made to it were n Che hand writing ol Che chief attorney for th' packers who made Che remark aWcU let 1t paa-we have pulIe, I,s teeth"
 And tha is One history Of on' measure after another. honest leg Hiators who remain within Che Re- publican party dud that there or' powers cnthroned in Washington who are greater chan they Tho mon who brrkod Che packers control