The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-04-02

Progressive split in 1919 gave
them Wilson for President.
Notwithstanding these demon
STATIONS during the course of
years since the civil war, Repub-
licanism meant something con-
crete as opposed to Democracy
until few years ago, and
Democracy meant something con-
crete as opposed to Republican
ism. Then the two parties began
to decay, and for the reasons set
forth; and now they are nothing
SO far as great public and national
policies are concerned.
We need new political parties
In this country We need new
political parties to protect US
from the bureaucracy that is
throttling us; the paternalism that
is suffocating us; the flood of
useless laws that are engulfing
us; the taxation that is political
and not economic that is pauper-
izing US: the special interests that
are constructing individual prog
ress; the fanaticisms that are
depriving us of personal liberty;
the theories that are switching
the legalized conduct of our lives
from one cra<iism to another;
the raids on the treasury that
are organized by expert raiders
who politically terrorize those in
charge of these present parties
and for which the citizenry must
pay in taxes; the spies, special
agents, inspectors and sleuths
that harass us.
We need new parties to get
this Government down to a sane
and constitutional basis; to set up
political principles that shall be
In conformity to our institutions;
to fight and defeat all this vast
domination by special privilege,
and all this mushy, theoretical,
Pollyanna utopianism that has
led and Is leading to Govern
ment that Is autocratic in it's
contacts with the people because
each succeeding demonstration of
1t Is based on an increasing
bureaucracy that is erected to put
the theories into effect and make
the fanaticisms effective.
We need parties that will mean
something, stand for something, do
something. The present Congress
is an example of the utter incom-
petencies of our present parties.
Congress is the direct exposition of
our party politics. No more need
be said.
The great, natural political divi-
sion Of country like ours Is
division along conservative and
radical lines. using the term "radi-
CAL in it's definitive sense and not
in the offensive sense in which the
oldtime politicians employ 1t. In
each of these poor hulks of parties
now representing the organized
political thought of the country
there are two parties, really-two
widely apart sections, rather. There
are definitely radical Republicans,
and definitely conservative Repub-
leans. 1t Is so in the Democratic
party.
NEW LINES OF CLEAVAGE.
There can be no denial of the
fact that the present situation in
sense, but internationally as well.
could best be served politically,
and hence nationally. by the align
ment of our people under one or
the other Of these policies: A con-
sentative that would mean an ad-
herence to the tried and constitu-
tional order OF affairs, to precedent
and practice and policy Of our origi-
nal form of government; or to a
radicalism that would mean a sane
experimentation with such i'm
provements and amendments as
the radical-minded deem vital to
our future progress. A conserva-
tive party need not necessarily be
a reactionary party any more than
a radical party need be either red,
socialist or anarchist in its priA--
ciples.
Fundamentally there are two
schools of political thought in this
country, and one of these is con-
sentative and the other is radical.
Eliminating the hidebound old.
timers and the loose-witted new
timers. the greatest possible gov
ornamental results and the greatest
possible political reform and ad-
vantage would come from the
scrapping OF these present-day
parties, which are neither one
thing nor the other, but weak and
useless combinations of both, and
the erection of two new parties, a
Conservative party and a Radical
party, through which mediums
and on which broad principles the
future could be arranged i'm &c.
cordance with the wishes Of the
majority of the people.
New parties must have leaders