The Washington times., 1924-09-27
EUROPEAN
SYSTEM
COMING
9. Q. r purified BY seces-
sion, Sees Doom Of Demo-
Gratis in New Era
BY WILLIAM HARE.

BY WILLIAM HARE
The Republicans and the Ii
Follettites in this campaign arr
now, both Of them, aiming at !
revolutionary change in TIE M.
Gure Of American politics.
The inward Developments Of the
last fortnight in all campaign
staff headquarters have sharpenec
the current contest into q pointed
determined effort by the Republi-
cans and the La Follettites to in.
troduce new political system
into the United States, while the
Democrats, with equal determina-
ton, are struggling to maintain
the old system and to keep il
surviving.
Under the old system each
party has had a conservative
wing and progressive" OF
radical" wing. Under the old
system each party has been in
consistent in this respect within
itself.
End Of TWO-Wing Party.
Under the new system, IT, it can
be introduced, each party will in
this respect be harmonious Within
itself and the old-fashioned Ameri
can two-wing party will disappear.
The Republicans and the La Fol
lettites are agreed in trying to cause
II to disappear.
That is the outstanding ultimate
historical Importance of this cam
paign.
This campaign is not merely a
struggle between three parties. We
often have had struggles between
three parties. The popularity, the
uniqueness, of this campaign is that
It is also a struggle to determine
whether or not the internal nature
OF American political parties shah
be shifted from being inconsistent
and two-sided into being logical and
0ne-sided.
Senator George Wharton Pepper
Of Pennsylvania, one Of the suavest
and most persuasive and most pen.
etrating Of all Republican campaign
orators, is making this point album.
dainty clear In his technical cam.
paign-method speeches to Republi.
can campaign workers.
The La Toilette secession. saws
Senator Pepper, has purified, has
clarified, the Republican party. The
Republican party now has a unity
q philosophy. It is all one thing.
Radicals Quit G. 0. p.
The radicals" who used to In.
habit it at their ease have either
left 1t or else at least have been
deprived of all standing and All
power in its leadership.
The Republican party, says Sen.
0tor Pepper to Republican campaign
workers, has dug itself in now
into logical line of political
trenches.
The La Follettites also, saws Sena,
TOR Pepper, have dug and are oc.
Cupying q logical line of political
trenches across the country'a
thought.
Shoot then at the La Follettites
says Senator Pepper to Republican
campaign workers. That is the
way to fight the Democrats. saws
Senator Pepper.
The Democrats, says Senator Pen
per, have Presidential candidate
who looks like Republican. They
have a Vice Presidential candidate
who looks like La Follettite. They
have platform, says Senator Pen
per, which contains La Eollettlft
premises and arguments and Repub
Hcan conclusions and policies.
The Democrats, therefore, are
nothing" It is their DESTINY. tC
get confounded and confused and
split. '
Shoot at La FoIlettites.
SHOOT at the La Follettitea A.
their trenches" says Senator Pep
per to Republican campaign work
ers, and thus-thus-you viii
slaughter the Democrats as thew "a
20 and fro in norman s-land."
80 speaks Senator Pepper in ex
ncrtations and instructions to the
sHepublican shock troops.
Inc outcome OF his strategy. II
suceessful, would mean that ali NO
man STAND would be mopped up an6
tne Whole american electorate would
divide into inhabitants Of trenches
outrlghtly a la Coolidge and inhabi
Toilette. . "a "a "a
PCSuAudUly, IN SenatOY
Peppers view, the inhabitants ~
the Coolidge trenches would outvots
the inhabitants of the IA FoIIetts
trenches for many years to come
ana the Republicans win serenel,,
hold another long lease OF poway
Hill. l,.9 - OapiIOi
Such is the Republican Etrats.,
at its farthest stretch OF foresish,
and audacity. ~
The La Follettes welcome n
They, too. want one party All IN.
way and one party ali the otbns
way. They want two one.sidad M !.
ties, consistent. logical. clean or,
N the matter OF CONSERVATISM versus
progressivisim They do not U,a,..
three parties. They are as firmIS
Tor the two.party system as thai,
critics are. They are called 4 thSrS
party. EVERY new party begins :,
being q third party. II has 10 ~
The Republicans in 1856 were I
third party. They succeeded. how
ever. in killing off the America {
WING party and by 1864 we had
the two'party system again.
See End Of Democrats.
The La FolIettites today intand