The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-25
ARE AMERICANS BECOMING
CHANGEABLE.

There is great deal discussion in the news
papers and elsewhere of the circumstance that the
people of North Dakota nominated former Governor
Frazier for United States within less than a
year of the date when they recalled him from the
Governorship. The people is used purposely
for while the nomination technically at the hands
of political party nearly all those of all parties
voted in the Republican primary just they did at
the recall election. In fact is becoming
habit under the election laws for the people to
flock into the other of the political pri-
Enthusiastically in the Northwest into the Re-
publican primary while in the South they all vote
in the Democratic primary. In Alaska in 1918 they
nearly all voted in the Democratic primary and in
1920 and 1922 in the Republican
This quick rev ersa of public sentiment as to for
Governor Frazier is a repetition of the action
of the of Seattle who recalled the late Mayor
Gill and shortly aerwaFd reelected him twice to the
office. These instances being used
basis for the charge that American voters very
changeabe and do not know how the modern
governmental machinery adopted for the purpose of
curing ills arising under democracy by the appca-
ton of democracy. Ii is charged, and possibly
with degree of accuracy that Americans becom-
ing restless and subject quicker and more
drastic reactions than formerly
However even If this is true. it would not mean
that Americans different from people elsewhere.
1t is rarely indeed. that Government lasts for a
year IN Spa1n Italy and other countries
in Europe. Even the German Scandinav Wan
countries usually change Governments often
than they changed in the United States.
1t might be that Americans becoming little
like the people of Continental Europe and less
like those of England. century ago the Americans
far conservative in their reactions than
now Jefferson the accepted leader of the Amer
lean people from the time he elected President
in 1900 until his death in 1926, and then Jackson
a preceding
death. with the exception of brief time after the
panic of 1877, which brought victory to the Wings
in the Tippecanoe and hard cider campaign of 1870
Indeed, it would be strange if the great influx
of immigrants from Continental Europe did not have
the effect of causing the American people to
somew hat from the rigid conservatism of the original
British parent stock 1t said by great English
economist that every English male child born
Liberal Conservative. Likewise, there
time when nearly every American boy born
either Wing Democrat-and aferward, a
Democrat a Republican.
There had been periods in this country before
the beginning of immigrant influence when issues
destroyed political parties and caused realignments
One came when the New England Federalists OPP
posed the of 1912 and the ant-Jeferson party
went to pieces completely-the remnant of it to APP
pear again as the Webster faction of the old Whig
Party when the latter made possible by the de-
lection of Clay, Harrison and others of the Jefferson
ans because of the ascendency of Jackson the
throne" long filled by Jefferson. Another such
period when the slavery question became acute
and Northern Democrats by the thousands under the
leadership of Chase, Trumbull and others went
to the Republican Party-many of them to
turn again after the when they helped strengthen
the party OF Tilden and Cleveland which controlled
The popular branch of Congress for sixteen the
twenty years following the middle of the second
Grant Administration and carried Presidential cleo
tons three times in that period.
However, with the coming of radcasm in the
's0s and its tremendous influence in those States
where the population largely Influenced by those
from European countries frequent change to
have been the role instead of the exception.
The Republican Party in complete power for
fourteen consecutive years between 1897 and 1911
but the period marked by a change from Nc
Knley Republication to Roosevelt Republicansm and
then back to the Republicansm of Taft during the
first two years of his Administration Then in the
Kaleidoscope changes which followed the Democrats
held Congress for eight until the middle the
second Wilson Administration.
Whether the change. like that from Nc
Kinley to Roosevelt. will be change within the
Party whether it will result in another
control only time will tell but that there
will be early change seems to be indicated.