The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-11-21
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PARTY POLITICS

PARTY POLITICS.
Old Traditions will no longer carry either
party safely into the harbor Of political
control.
The average voter no longer looks back
ward to the old issues which divided the
old parties in the time of Jefferson, Jack
son, Lincoln, Mckinley or even Wilson.
The burning question to him now is, what
of today and tomorrow?'
Mystifying the leading issues of the day
by "high-flutten" phrases and semi-evas-
i've promises, with little wet and dry sop
in order to rally the masses to the colors
is thing of the past with American peo-
pie. -" =:
Delivering the goods counts-nothing
else matters. The name Democrat or Re-
publican no longer has its old meaning.
The old time Democrat and the Old time
Republican uphold practically the same
issues and belong to the same party and
therefore should pool their interests and
form conservative party.
The new time Republicans, Democrats
and Progressives should pool their inter-
ests and form progressive party, so that
men would not be compelled to make ,ex-
cuses for belonging to a party today. -
The time is gone by when the Repub-
licans of the East and the Democrats Of
the South can compel the thinking con-
sumers of the nation to swallow tariff
such as recently became law, without
protest.
While the Republicans sustained losses
in the election the Democrats made, little
if any conclusive gains, while the real
gains have been made by the so-called
radicals. =.
Cleaning the facts from the returns
now compiled the Literary Digest points
it out pretty much as follows:
"Where Democrats of radical tendencies
have faced conservative Republicans, they
have either beaten them or cut down the
previous ma jorities. Where radical Re-
publicans have faced conservative DEM
ocrats.4they have accomplished the same
results. Party names have failed to deter
mine ~thes vote"
Voters with radical sympathies have
lined up with radical candidates almost as
generally as though there existed great
radical party. It has happened in the east
and in the west. The radicalism that has
come into evidence in the last election ex-
ceeds sectional bounds. 1t has eaten into
the very fibre of both old parties. T..
The Fordney- Nc Cumber tariff law blow
ed literal holes into the conservatives. The
people knew how it would work and al
ready feel the effects Of it.
"A law that will license an organized
class of favored few to prey upon the
american people for an indefinite period
will not meet with the approval of the
people, is the cry. It simply perinist these
few to tax the people for their own enrich
ment. ~ =.
The people have made sacrifices galore
in the past few years and these sacrifices
must be shared in, by the big producers
equally with the common people.
> If the party in power, and the big IN,
terests. will study the situation and act
accordingly, nothing but good should come
from the troucing the people have given
them, It was mot only deserved, but timely
, and # the warning it involves is needed
during the pext two years, so that pros
perity will exude in abundance the nation
over, the Republicans may win in 1924. II
not, the party deserves nothing short OF
country vide defeat. Il, :
! People will no longer be called radical
or disloyal The minute they open their
mouths, Free speech and dds; fee press w Is for
the good OF. ALL. no. ....as>~ -. -
T1aBy their. fruits ye shall Know them =
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