The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-11
RAOIcALlsM SEEMS SPENT
FORCE IN UNITED STATES
! Therefore Editors Look with DisfaVor on
DR.. Buffers Suggestion That Old
RarAias Arr,z n 4 Einht Il.
Parties AmaIgamate to Fight It.

Parties Amalqamate to FI9nt H.
The appeal by DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler for IAN honest and sincere division
Of political forces in this country to be
secured through anna gamaticn OF the re-
publican and democratic parties, and
which would have the american people
move toward higher ground in interna-
tional relations" has met with practic-
ally no approval from the press of the
country. DIR. Buffers declaration foIioWS
a variety Of suggestions for the organlza-
ton of a new party before the next pres
idential election, but opinion seems gen
eraI that should any such party be Or
ganized it must prove its right to eX-
stence of a domestic program that Will
satisfy the great mass of the American
people rather than upon enc where inter
nationalism is the chief issue. DR.. Butter $
fears of radicalism triumphins generally
are considered hardly warranted by eN-
listing conditions. 49,
Have We outgrown the old order?"
asks the Washington Star Qnd.), in dis
cussins the international suggestion Is
the form of government shaped and es-
tablished by the fathers and so greatly
praised afterward by the outside world,
and under which we have accomplished
so much. now out of date? Shall it be
discarded for something new? And snail
that something grow out OF a DIVISION Oh
the world into three administrative areas
as outlined by DR.. Butler? The American
onorra We NAV all be sure, will, if they
take this proposition under consideration,
think long and soberly before adopting
It, 1t is a cut in advance of any or the
other propositions that have recently Deeh
cffernd -" "There is considerable signiti-
canoe in DR.. Buffers appeal the chicago
News Und0 feels. inasmuch "as he does
not stand alone by any means. recently
Frank 4. Munsey made a ike plea lor
new liberal conservative party and
severally arraigned present-day repuoh-
canism and pr,r:ent-day democracy as OPP
nortInist 1lnprincipled and divorced from
thn issues that matter and that lmpera-
tiveIv demand solution along positive
lines. Lindley Garrison. fer time secre-
tary OF war in President Wilson'S first
ca binet has ventured the prediction 1haL
a new party would come into cNlslence
before the next presidential election Inc
feeling is widespread that existing party
names and Dartv labels have lost their
meaning" Yet, after all, concedlng thae
there may be much force to all OF the
recent suggestions. and especially 10 tha1
Of Dr. Butler. ''on paper the Newark
News CInd) feels that before the TWO
old parties can be made to unite now
ever, there will have to be some stronger
reason for It than DR.. Buffers fear OF a
spent force like radicalism.
DIR. Buffers idea OF separating ana
segregating the conservatives and radi-
Gals in different camps is not original
with him, says the knoxville Sentinel
(Ind. Dem.), but the trouble would come
with the task of dividing the sheep from
the goats and correctly classifying them
DR.. Butler has chosen most unfor-
tunate time to sound the tocsjn against
peril OF subsersive radicalism For if there
FoD ~, -ayI1 a.
ticn today. it IS the fact that revolution
airy radicaiism is a spent force. Possibly
the real spectre that excites and affTights
Or, Butler IS the impending disntegration
aud destruction Of the 100000 majority
party to which all the radicals and dis