The New York herald., 1922-11-12
SEES CONSERVATIVE
AS NEXT Big PARTY
Col. R. Fl. Montgomery
Looks for Manufacturer
to Be Farmers Ally.
PICKS BARUCH CHIEF
Republicans and Democrats
Declared Total Loss
in Elections.
WAR BOARD HAS REUNION
Speakers Agree Next Conflict
Will Conscript Money and
Industry.

Believing that both old parties, in
the elections this year and two years
ago, proved themselves a total loss"
Col Robert II. Montgomery advocated
yesterday new alignment with con-
servatives on one side and radicals on
the other He suggested that Bernard
M. Baruch would be good man to
go out and bring farmers and manu-
facturers into. their natural alliance
as the nucleus of a conservative party.
Col. Montgomery, who was on the
price fixing commission during the
war and helped later to reorganize the
Shipping Board as comptroller under
Chairman Lasler. was one of the
speakers at the annual meeting of the
War Industries Board Association in
union of the men who under the chair
manship OF Mr.. Baruch coordnated
American industry in war time.
Voters Are Dissatisfied.
Two years ago." Col. Montgomery
said "I gave $1,000 to the Republican
national campaign and I've been kicking
myself ever since. To-day great many
voters are dissatisfied with those In
power who are not delivering the goods
Why shouldn't we take advantage of
this and draw the line between those
who are radical and those who are not
radical? I think the manufacturers of
the country have natural ally in the
farmer. They should work together An
alliance nf tba IA nd ha y.aI i,aI
is illogical, Why not send Mr. Baruch
out to effect an alliance between farmers
and manufacturers? We'd have there
the nucleus of a fine political party. Call
1t the conservative party. and I think
the chief here would make a fine leader
for it, -
Col. Montgomery chuckled as II he
did not mean to be taken too seriously.
Mr.. Baruch. smiling himself, remarked: !:
There is question as to who Is a
radical. l have been called radical
myself"
As an Illustration of how politics
works. Col Montgomery said that last
year he ordered that the force of 5000
Shipping Board employees be reduced
one half by the following Monday, other
wise every second name would be erased.
The cutting was done on time and, said
the Colonel, the 1900 did better work
than the 5000 had done.
Changed Their Politics.
'"rhey told me ! could go as far as
liked with the 1000 to be dropped"
he added, because they were all Demo-
Gratis put In there by Joe Tumulty.
thought wah doing a fine piece of work
for the Republican party. but I found
that most of those dismissed had sud-
denly become Republicans. and Senators
and Representatives by the dozen were
spending time in the offices of the Ship
ping Board. If they had put in that time
in the Capitol attending to the coun-.
try's business instead of looking after
$1,000 year clerks the country would
have been better off,
The speakers were agreed that II there
is ever another war industry and money
as we'll as soldiers should be conscripted
at the start.
Dwelling on the need of standardiza-
tion ]. Leonard Replogle, president of.
the Replogle Steel Company, said that
the railroads have spent hundreds of
millions and his own company has
made many millions" unnecessarily by
the failure of the roads to adopt uni
form type of car, particularly a coal
car. Noting that three-quarters OF the
Idaho potato crop could not be shipped.
he attributes much of the car shortage
TO lack OF Standardization.