Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-11-24
Election Results Give Ev-
idenCe That NewParty
Is Steadily Growing

The following interview has been
given out by the Committee of 48
from it's National Headquarters, Is
East 10th street, New York City,
through it's Executive Chairman, Mr..
j. A. H. Hopkins, who has been singu-
larly accurate in his prediction fore
casts. Mr.. Hopkins said
"The ooutstanding features of the
election returns are the triumph of
Economic Progressivism and the fact
that the American public dsregarded
party labels and voted for men and
measures.
GAS result the New Party move
ment was established as a political
entity in Delaware and Pennsylvania,
and displaced the Democratic party
as major party in Minnesota, Idaho,
and South Dakota, where the New
Party now occupies either first or
second place. In Wisconsin, the Dem
ocratic party lost it's identity alto
gether. On the other hand, the Re-
publican marty, like the Democratic
party in 1920, was emphatically re-
pudiated, and it's most prominent
leaders in the Senate and the House
were disastrously defeated. These
are the significant facts which con-
stitute the handwriting on the wall.
"The election of Democratic candi-
dates in some states was due to the
lack of Progressive organization in
these states, and does not in any way
indicate a revival of confidence in the
Democratic Party. This is borne out
hIr onolx1cic nf fho rof11rnc
"Brookhart in Iowa, Shipstead in
Wheeler in Montana, Howell and Bry-
an in Nebraska, Frazier and Sinclair
in North Dakota, Walton in Okla
homa, were elected not because they
were Republicans or Democrats, but
because they were opposed to prac-
tically everything for which the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties stand.
These men stood for the abolition of
special privilege, the public owner
ship of our transportation system, the
public control OF our natural re-
sources, equal economic, legal and
political rights, and the preservation
of all civil rights guaranteed by the
Constitution. This is the platform of
the Committee of 48 adopted at it's
National Convention in December
1919.
"These are the paramount issues
upon which the Progressive forces of
the country will unite in 1923 and
1924.
"Beveridge went down in defeat in
Indiana because after defeating Harry
S. New, the Harding senatorial mouth
piece, in the primaries he turned
around and joined with the Harding
reactionaries in the election; Dupont
of Delaware, Mondell of Wyoming,
the Republican floor leader in the
House, Volstead of Minnesota, the
chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, Miller of New York,
Townsend of Michigan, Frelinghuysen
of New Jersey, Sutherland of West
Virginia, and Culbertson of Texas,
were all discarded because they rep
resented Special Privilege, while
Lodge only won by a hair breadth in
Massachusetts,.
"The new Senate and House will
include many members who, irrespec-
tive Of party labels, stand squarely
for the Progressive principles of the
Committee of 48. They have nothing
in common with either the purposes
or the political beliefs of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties.
They represent a cohesive force bound
together not by party labels but by
principles They represent the nucleus
of the New Party movement which in
1924 will contest the election with the
reactionary stand-patters of the Re-
publico-Democratic Party.
'In the 1922 election the voters of
the country have demanded a new
political alignment. This alignment
must follow the principles which they
have endorsed.
"Their verdict comes as a culmina-
tion and endorsement of the prepara-
tory work which the Committee of 48
has been carrying on during the last
four years, and its plans are already
under way for the National Conven-
tion at which the New Party will be
formally launched preparatory to the
1924 campaigns"
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