Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-02
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MAY RESHAPE TWO
POLITICAL PARTIES
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

ing to Tread out of the party" the
four Republican senator's who did not
support President Coolidge in the
last election,
Although there are many "old
guard" leaders who doubted the wis
dom Of the step when first proposed
and would have preferred to let
we'll enough alone, now that the
action has been taken, men who at
tended the conference are a unit in
declaring they VII not vote to admit
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
Senators Laid and Frazier of North
Dakota and Senator Brookhart, of
Iowa. to any future party confer
ences or to fill any vacancies that
may occur in con mittee chairman
ships.
Here are some of the effects which
now may be expected to flow from
the declaration of war on the in
surgents.
1.-The ostrac ized senators will
form a group of their own and at
tempt to revive the coalition of last
session with the Democrats. Such d
combination can deadlock govern
ment for the next three months and
compel the calling of an extra SEES
sion of congress.
2-The Republican national party
organization will be compelled to
furnish funds for fights to be made
at primaries in the future by regu-
lars who wish to oppose men like
Frazier and Ladd. And there are in
dications that plenty of money will
be forthcoming from conservative
strongholds like New York and Penn
sylvania where the menace of the
radicals has been widely advertised.
3-The Progressive" Republicans
like Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
Borah, of Idaho, Johnson, of Cali
fornia, and perhaps Senator Howell,
of Nebraska, who do not like the ac-
ton of the party conference will
have to decide whether they will
join LaFollette, Frazier, Laid and
Brookhart or go with the regulars.
Senators Shipstead and Magnus
Johnson, of Minnesota, have never
used the Republican label, always
CHASING themselves as of the Famer-
Labor party.
4-Acts of reprisals are being con.
sidered b ythe La Toilette Republi
cans who have the power to upset
the organization of the house of rep
resentatives if they can get the Dem
ocrats to join them.
What Will Democrats Do
The most important question that
has arisen, therefore is: what shall
the Democrats do about it?'
Senator Smoot and others who
have been talking informally with
Democratic cp1otnrc thot fI,a
latter are tired of combining with
the LaFollette group. In the last
election the La Toilette movement
split the Democratic party and
ruined what chance the Democrats
did have in at least eight states
where Mr.. Coolidge was a plurality
choice. Also the La Toilette cam
paign diverted attention from the
campaign of John w. Davis and
drove thousands of conservative
Democrats into the Republican
camp. Under such circumstances
little love is lost bewreen the Demo
Gratis and the insurgent Republi-
cans.
Politics, however, makes strange
bedfellows. And expediency is a
stronger influence than logic. The
La Toilette voters to build up their
own party. The Republican party is
avoWedly conservative. The Demo
Gratis have a conservative wing, too,
which will resist any alliance with
the La Toilette group, yet in the last
session of congress the Democratic
| conservatives joined time and again
with the La Toilette senators for
party reasons.
The same may be expected to
happen again. A minority usually
does all it can to embarrass a ma
jority.
Out of it may emerge a new Demo
cratic party which slowly places It's
conservative constituents in the
minority. Much as the Democratic
conservatives may dislike the radi.
Gals, they may turn from Republican
primary machinery and enter Demo
cratic contests. The purpose of the
La Toilette group heretofore has
been to reform the Republican party
from within.
The action of the Republican con
ference of senators indicates that so
far as the upper house of congress
is concerned the effort is a failure.
Challenge to Democrats
Now the radicals can take up the
task of making the Democratic party
suit their ideas of government The
Republican conservatives will not
be disturbed by that as they have
wanted for some time to see radi-
calls and conservatives classified in
two parties. Will the solid south
which has upon many occasions sent
conservative Democrats to the SEN
ate who differ only in name from con.
sentative Republicans permit the
Democratic party to become the
liberal or radical party? The last
election has left the leaders of the
Democratic party demoralized. The
Republican senatorial conference
losses the LaFollette Republicans
into the arms of the Democrats and
challenges them to take the radicals
unto their bosom and make the fight
between radicalism and conserva-
tism.
Unless the LaF'ollette Republicans
fight back in the coming session of
congress the action of the Republic
an conference has no immediate eff
feet on committee chairmanships be-
cause the organization of congress
remains the same and there will be
no Encouragement of committees till
the new congress meets in December,
1925. or in extra session after March
T. But the action is not a gesture.
It's the beginning Of a real political
battle which NAV reShdpe the two
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