Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-03

patter Tiger has ever been swal-
lowed by a Lady of the Plains.
Loved La Toilette Then
BY all precedent, Senator La Fol
lette was entitled to the chairman
ship of the committee on interstate
commerce. In experience and know-l
edge of railroad questions, as we'll
as by senatorial precedence. the
place belonged to him. But he had
opposed the subsidy given to the rail-
roads. He was opposed to the I1sch-
Cunmins act. He had opposed the
high tariff that imposes a tax Of 49,
900, 900 a year on the consumers for
the enrichment of the benefciaries
of that tariff. These same Repub-
licans, now saying they will not vote
for La Toilette, made up to him
when in 1919 his vie was needed t
organize the senate in the days when
the Republican majority was "out
on bail" He was all right then.
And the standpatters would embrace
him now if he would take any other
honor and leave them in control of
the transportation committee.
1t has been disheartening to the
real Progressives of America to see
senators like Capper voting with the
standpatters in the senate and in his
paper preaching / progressive doc
trine.. | mention Capper because he
has stood with Kenyon and others
in the war on Newberryism and the
like. There is about as much in
common between Capper and Bran
degee as between William Jennings
Bryan and Alton B. Parker. How
much longer are men to sleep in the
same bed when they want to kick
their bed-fellw ut? Isn't that put.
ting party above country and moth
ing else? Kansas wants nothing
that Brandegee stands for-whether
high tariff subsidies, Esch-Cummins
acts, isolation prohibition or any
thing else. And yet they are tied
together in the same party caucus,
going down the road unable it seems.
each to go his own way. BE not un-
equally yoked together"
Fate of Others
Congress is organized officially but
there is no unity in the majority. The
union can continue only by the sac
rifice of principle by the one or the
other. If the men elected on progress
sive policies, like all the western
senators were elected, continue to
be unequally yoke4I together, how
can they hope to redeem the pledges
on which they were elcted? If the
conservatives abandon their we'll
known stand-still policies, will not
their constituents repudiate them?
The progressives won ten seats by
arraigning privilege and promising
to cut loose from standpat reaction.
If rom desire to preserve party
harmony" they fail to represent their
constituents, the same thing will
happen to them that happened to
kellogg, McCumber, Poindexter,
Myers, Mondell and other western
ers whose constituents believed they
had subordinated the interests Of the
west to privilege a seen in the Esch-
Cummins, the McCumber Fordney
tariff and subsidy and special priv
lege measures.
The same thing is equally true Of
the Democratic minority. There is
no place in America for two conser-
vative or standpat parties. The Re-
publicans occupy that field. II any
body doubted that, a reading OF
Coolidge's message would be proof
The Democratic party must oppose
privilege, subsidies, favoritism unjust
taxation, high tariff and It makes
no difference aMeer what guiss they