The Washington times., 1924-10-25

Joying good health.
Senators show themselves genuine
" repentaht and genuinely capable
Of amendment Of their manners,
they are going to be regarded BY
the present national organization
of the Republican party as hay.
ing qualified themselves to be rele.
gated 10 the ash heap whenever
q good opportunity for doing II I'd
them may come along.
They are the gentlemen" said
a high Republican to this writer
the other day, ''who abandoned us
when with their votes, X they had
been possessed Of the courage to
deliver them, we could have killed
the bonus and could have passed
the Mellon taxation reduction plan,
and everything would now BE- all
right, and the country would be
perfectly satisfied, and the right
policies would have triuImphed.
In other words. the management
OF the Republican party wants
presently to substitute men whom
II regards as courageous cOnserya-
ttves in the Senate ana in the
House for men whom It regards as
hmid and weak klieed and Preacher
GUS conservatives.
This tendency win show itself en-
phatically even on election day. and
Il win show itself even more en-
phattcally as soon as this election
has gone by. 4
GfrOuna ak VVnrlx IN EAnrktaa
Thus while q strong GROUP Of no.
called proeressives" tn the Demo
cratic party viii be trying to revolu.
Homie It toward being more ''pfo-
ereaaive," q strong group Of so,
called common sense Republicans
VIII be trying to revoIutiOnixe the
Republican party into being more
common sensible.
In q way, as win be seen, these
two tendencies are IN opposite dlrec-
ton. Il each Is successful, the
situation win then be 10 follows:
LA Republican party more
conservative than before.
IA Democratic party more
progressive" than before.
Conservative Democrats won.
deflpg where % 30 md thinking
q becoming Republicans and III
thus lettine the Republican party
Into the South.
IA lot Of ex.leepubllcaajs WOr..
dering where % 30 anil trying to
choose betweeu becoming Demo
/ Gratis and becoming members Of
the new La Toilette party n II
gets organized 81 IT, conference
next January.
5The new La Toilette party
wondering how Il can be more
progressive than the new revO-
lutiOniEed progressive" Demo.
cratic party and still make any
appeal 70 any large number Or
voters.
Results Hard 20 Predict.
All these developments win be
simultaneously happening and win
make a situation out Of which the
results are hard to predict, and per-
maps even impossible to predict.
Certain It IL, however, that eHfcrts
70 Cooltdgeize the Republican party
ana Efforts to McAdooi1e the Demo-
cratic party win be the most con-
spicuous ana spectacular and mo-
nentotls outcoEnes Of this campaign
and Of this election, and that Il both
efforts succeed and II thus we get
at last an outrightly conservative
and an oltrightly Progressive
party In the United States, the t,reb.
lem faced by La Toilette in irving
to organize another 'progressive''
party win become extraordinarily
difficult,
It might then be that the net re-
suit OF his endeavors this year would
be to have frightened or forced the
Democratic party into rebufninz the
role Of "progressivism" and radical.
ism which it played under Andrew
jackson.
A leading Democrat said the other
DAY regarding La Toilette in this
campaign:
He IL damaging to the Republic
cans and fatal to the Democrats.''
The leading Democrat meant that
unless the Democrats steal more OF
La Follette's thunder, his new
party may deprive the Democrats
party Of enough votes to debar Il
in the future, even IL not now,
from all hopes Of national victory
and dominance.
No Chaos in washington.
Thus each party Ii going to have
Q fine little drama Of itb own With.
In itself during the immediate Ia.
ture, and in the meantime IL can
almost safely be predicted that PED.
pie who do not like to see much
happening at washington Will BE
gratified. The condition at Wash.
ington will 1Ot be chaos" II It Ii
anything unusual, It ID likely Gas soon
as the next President ID selected
to be deadlock and stale mate.
No matter who the next Presi-
dent may be, the cariety and con-
trariety of views and options IN
Washington will result, at the
worst, in nothing happening.
But II nothing should happen IN
Washington for couple Of years,
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