Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-03
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LETTER5
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

word conservative, as brand
for the Old guard group of Re
publicans, has become irksome to
leaders in that clan and definite
campaign is being considered to
wipe out and substitute more
pleasing one.
The tag Of conservative" it is
found, is becoming a ball and chain
to the political progress of indiyid-
uals to whom it is attached. For It
no longer bears its dictionary def
milton, in that connection, a sense
of not only being careful, of hold
ing to things as they are, but Of
pulling backward, or retrogression,
a synonym, in fact, for reaction
ary."
By contrast, the brand of pro
gressive" seems to appeal more IS
a catchy political tag, signifying as
it does progress, advancement,
pushing ahead.
"The Republican party, if II Is 20
continue as a party" says George
B. Lockwood secretary Of the Re
publican National Committee. has
got to get free of the label Of the
! conservative party.
"The word constructive should
be substituted for conservative.
For that is really the Republican
party's claim to perpetuation-i's
lconstructiveness, not its conserve
tismw
Some folks have freak ideas of
light literature; Senator James
Couzens of Michigan, for instance.
| Couzens was recently operated
on at Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Baltimore. While preparing for the
operation the doctors told him 20
take things easy for while, The
nurses might read some to HIM, he
was told, if time got too heavy for
lhim-light literature of some sort.
Whereupon Jim sent for back
numbers of the Congressional Rec
ord and kept the nurses reading
Senate debates to him each evening
until 10 o'clock.
4 And now he wonders whether the
doctors were kidding him when they
said they were surprised it didn't
make him worse.
| The Record does make some folks
Isick, you know!
Friends of Governor Richie of
| Maryland, who will put him for
ward as a favorite son for the Dem
ocratic nomination for president,
really have their hearts set on land
| ing second place on the ticket for
aim.
Richie is famous politically,
down east, as the first man ever to
lie elected to two terms as governor
u Maryland.
| Bill Julian of Cincinnati, million
ire shoe manufacturer, who has
helped the Democratic party in
Ohio over financial shadows many
,mes by generous dips into his pri.
axe purse, is regarded as possible
successor to Wilbur Marsh of Iowa
as treasurer of the Democratic Ma
Aonal Committee. Marsh recently
was defeated as national committee
man from Iowa by Clyde Herring.
Julian's business hobbies are CO.
operation and profit-sharing. His
factories are run by his employees,
Who also get cut in the profits. He
has no children and lavishes his
paternal affection as well as his
time and money on the D, mocratic
party.
One of the prize possessions of
the Republican standpatters who
viii direct the battle against Sen
) ator LaFollette, should the Little
Napoleon" of Wisconsin defy the
powers of the G. 0. P. chis fall. is
a bound file of LA Follette's Mag,
, Iazine."
In this publication La Toilette ha.
put down plainly his views on mos,
of the controversial issues Of the
past several years. By these writ
lngs his enemies will seek to brand
him definitely as radical"