The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-27
SEE RESULTS
OF CHANGE
IN POLITICS
Success of Beveridge in In
diana and Pinchot in Penn
sylvania Stirs up Opposition
to Standpatters.
SITUATION IN STATES
Ry MARk SULLIVAN


success of Beveridge in Indiana, and
even more conspicuously as a result
of Pinchot's success in Pennsylvania
That Pennsylvania result was moth
ing short of political revolution, and
It's results are easily apparent among
both politicians and the wider public
One result of it, out of which you
can get smile. if you don't take pol
Itics too seriously. has been the stir
ring up of opposition to various stand
pat Republican senators and congress
men who thought themselves secure.
A congressman or senator who re-
garded the political weather in his own
district as perfectly fair, with every
thing going smoothly and no trouble in
sight, is now gravely disturber to re-
Ccive kilograms from his home district
announcing that some ambitious out
slider, seeing what Beveridge accom-
rished in Indiana, and Pinchot accom-
r!ished in Pennsylvania, mas determ-
iped TO throw his own hat into the
local ring.
Is Most Disturbing.
To the congressman or senator most
concerned, it is most disturbing. He
thinks that 10 rumple up a perfectly
smooth sea in this manner is little
short of disgusting.
A congressman who counted on get
Ting his denomination and his re-elec-
lion, with no substantial opposition.
or none at ALL and who counted on
giving his district the spectacle or
remaining here at Washington hard at
work on the tariff, now finds himself
obliged to go back home and make
a fight against some venturesome up
start whose head has been stirred with
'awless ambition over the spectacle
of what Clifford Pinchot did to the
machine in Pennsylvania.
All this is amusing and interesting
and in some .cases 1t may result IN
The induction of able outsiders into
public life Unhappily it is also true
that in other cases it merely results
in encouragement to fly-by night op-
portunists with no particular ability
and no definite convictions one way or
the other who merely see in the state
of public mind an opportunity to ride
into public life on the wave OF the dis
content made manifest in Indiana and
Pennsylvania.
Third Party Bunk.
Another result has been good deal
of loose talk about third party, to
be led by the old Progressive leaders.
That is about as impossible as any
thing imaginable. Most of the old
Progressive leaders have had as much
with third parties as will last them
life time.
There is nothing in current Amer
lean politics less probable than third
party under the leadership of the old
Progressive. But while there won't be
any third party, it is quite certain that
there will be a contest for dominance
in the Republican party between the
two wings described as stand part and
progressive.
1t is equally certain that the Pro-
gressive will win it, The Progressives
will win it because the present lead
ership of the Republican party, in the
person of President Harding and 9TH
ers, won't offer any stubborn opposl-
ton 10 the triumph of the ideas and
personalities represented by men like
Beveridge and Pinchot.
If the old Progressive leaders have
had stomach full of third party
movements. the old stand pat leaders
have equally had a stomach full OF
stubborn opposition to new ideas and
progressive persons. There is not the
faintest chance OF the thing that hap
pened in 1912 being duplicated now.
Accepts Verdicts
President Harding has spent polit-
ical lifetime in accepting the verdicts
of Republican primaries and Republi-
can conventions and abiding by them
To him, when Albert ]. Beveridge
wins the Republican primary in Indi,
ana, that settles it. Thereafter, Bev-
eridge is an orthodox Republican and
within his bailiwick what he says
goes. And when Clifford Pinchot
smashes the Republican machine in
Pennsylvania, gets control of the local
! organization, and makes it certain that
he will be governor, thereafter. in the
sight of President Harding, Pinchot IS
a perfectly orthodox Republican blood
brother.
In short, there isn't going to be any
spectacular strain between the leader
ship of the Republican party under
President Harding, and the rising pro
gressive policies and personalities. The
victories of these old progressives IN
Indiana and in Pennsylvania mean in
disputably that there is a rising tide
of strength among the Republican vot
ers favorable to this kind of leader
ship. And this tide is going to b.
allowed 10 sweep lHlO pONSI "IlHOu
any stubborn opposition.
Record Not Strong
In looking about for other states
which might duplicate the thing thai
happened in Indiana and Pennsylvania
some have lit upon New Jersey. i
is true that the incumbent Republican
senator in that state, who comes
up for reelection this year. is frienc
of President Harding = Joseph Ere
linghuysen. 1t is also true that Ere
linghuysen is going to be opposed IL
the Republican primaries by Georg'
Record of Jersey City.
Finally. it is true that Mr.. RECORD
has some identification with the ole
Progressive party. But from this poin
onward the parallel fails between New
Jersey. on the one hand. and Indian;
and Pennsylvania on the other. Rec
ord will not make by any means tht
same degree of appeal to the progress
D sive Republican voters of New Jerse!