The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-09-24
THIRD PARTY
NOT LOOMING
IN INDIANA
People Apparently Are Stick
ing to the Republican and
Democratic Parties
APPROVE COOLIDGE
Much Praise Heard For New
President and Little Talk
Is Heard of Ford


people of Indiana are sticking WITH
the old political parties. Neither
politicians nor casual observers here
expect to see a third party bud and
bloom to victory in the 1924 presi-
Dental campaign.
This is one OF the few middle west
ern states in which an attempt to
amalgamate the farmers and labor
ers in one political unit has failed
almost as soon us the movement was
born. There is more activity among
the farmers as class than few
years ago, through the Farm Bureau
and similar organizations, and an
active hand has been taken in pub
lie affairs. However, the farmers or
carnations are devoted chiefly to de-
vising ways to improve farming, to
search out new methods Of making
money out Of the soil and to CO.
operate along established lines.
The 1924 battle here Is expected to
be between the Republicans and
Democrats, with opinion at this time
pretty well divided among politicsl
observers rs to the outcome. There
is a noticeable absence Of discussion
of Henry Ford. Those who do dis
cuss him usually refer to an inter-
view published in a national maya
zine in which Mr.. Ford was quoted
as saying he believed Mr.. Harding,
then president, was meeting the sit
uation about as we'll as any one could
meet it.
MAKING GOOD IMPRESSION.
President Coolidge, il one may
take the word Of politicians and per.
sons interested in public affairs, is
making a good impression by his re-
fusal to place himself actively in the
race for the 1924 nomination and by
his reticence. It il generally agreed,
however, that the test for the new
president will come with the a..
sembling of Congress, and that an
affirmative position in public affairs
must be taken by him before, the
winter had passed.
There is q new factor in politics
in this state-the Ku Klux Khan. It
is real and potent. Although disap-
proved by the majority Of men in
high public Office and high position,
the Khan is credited with having
beaten two men for state. Office In the
last election. One of them was Gig
ible for membership in the Khan un-
der its rules but he spurned an in
vitation to join and drew the wrath
of the organization upon him.
Khan Not Guilty.
There Khan has not been guilty OF
violence nor has it operated entire
ly in secret. A weekly paper Is pub
lished by the state headquarters. An
authorized emblem often Is seen OF,
motor cars while others bear an
American flag on the radiator
counted a symbol of Khan member
ship. Some stores openly bid for
Khan business. II Is agreed, how
ever, that the Khan has had little ef-
feet on any established business,
though owned by persons not eligi-
BILE to Khan membership. What the
Khan may do in the next political
campaign is matter Of conjecture
among politicians.
An Official Of the Republican state
committee declared his belief that
there would never be farner.labor
alignment in this state. The illus
tration he used was this; In two OF
three communities Of the state which
he visited township school houses
were erected. Union carpenters and
masons drove to the school site in
autom obiles, did eight hours work
for eight hours pay and drove back
to the city, while the farmers who
paid for the school house kept on
toiling. He declares it was impos.
sible to. think Of . successful far.
mer-labor alliance In this state.
The postwar readjuatmens period
has left the future Of politics un.
certain. Republicans profess to be:
1ieve that the year 1924 will find
this state again in the Republican
column. Here the World Court and
League Of Nations still sppssr, e, b
questions Of moment. There 10 very
strong sentiment manifest both
against the United States entering
into any league with foreign nations
and those who firmly adhere to thu
Wilsonian policies. -.