Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-16
Party Lines Today Are More Shell
Than Substance,

The attack by DIR. George T. Hard
ing. father of the President, on the
republican candidate for the Iowa
us a socialist and not a republican"
furnished amusement to many edi-
tors, regardless of their political
opinions. The remarks were predi-
Gated on an overplus of sympathy
for his SON. rather than to good "po-
litical judgment" is the opinion of
the majority Of the critics. However,
there is an acceptance in certain
quarters of his action as due to the
present-day inclination nearly every
where to regard party ties as bur-
densome"
"Why should q declaration of this
kind cause q political stir when it is
obvious on it's face that 1t rests on
principle to which no sound exception
can be taken?" asks the Green Bay
Gazette independently. The answer
is that most OF our politicians and
too many Of our citizens have become
slaves to the party label and are
mitted in its name and impostors
elected to positions of public trust
merely because they have. through
trickery and deceit. managed to get
on the party ticket. DR.. Harding is
voicing independence Of character
emulation in innumerable quarters
The Philadelphia Public Ledger Tin
dependency suggests that the doc
tor is possessed of much more pep
than his boy Warren; he can talk
a blue streak and make every word
al go $tN
a room everybody in it is his friend.
Son Warren 10 acquainted personally
with Papa George and knows that no
influence, f1lia1 or otherwise. can stop
that downright person from saying
and doing just what he thinks ne
ever, rather would emphasize that
party lines were being rubbed out"
the Boston Glove independently holds.
and suggests that at last "the dis
tinction between democrats and re-
publicans is being supplanted by lines
Of d eS9s which will mean
Virginian Pilot independent demo-
cratic) says that zone wonders IL DR..
Harding's boy will appreciate his
parents taking up the paternal cud-
gels against one who. radical tenden-
ctes notwithstanding. is a member
of the party which put the admin
istration in Office"
The doctor, the Schenectady Ga
zette (democratic) thinks, has nut
forward a strong and logical plea
with much emotion for voting the
democratic ticket in five or six great
states. If this new advice is taken
the 'progressives' will be driven from
standings in each Individual in
stance. This means in time a great
reborn liberal party which cannot
fail to find greater solace and re-
political science. together with the
best that was in the early Roose-
Welt programs. new Jeffersonian
party Of the people. which will prob
ably search far and wide for any
cratic party" The New York
cally suggests that this puts tho
issue sauarely up to the President.
Is he for Brookhart or for Herring
for the Senate? Surely he will speak
terms. Does he break with his party
or with his famiiy?' And the Min
neapolis Tribune (republican) thinks
it doubtful II DR.. Harding himself
knows the Presidents views" while
the Dayton News tdemocratic) sug::
exposed the skeleton Of disappoint-
ment. The President, he says. has
too many bolsheviki around him now
in Washington. The inference, Of
course. is that any progressive
statesman at the capital is a thorn
in the side of the administration.
Any senator who doesn't continue to
be regular is classed as q bolsheviki..
From q purely political viewpoint
the Charleston Post Independent
democratic) feels that This solicit
tude for warren's comfort is ad-
mirable and his plan Of relief fs to
" extended. II enough democrats
are sent to the Senate, the good doc
tors Warren would have a much
easier time and his responsibility for
the government be consfderably
dependent) also thinks that "the
chances are that DR.. Harding II say
ing Whist most OF the m6re re-