The Washington times., 1924-10-25
SWIM cling.
RN'H AND
LEFT
Third Party to Find Il Hard
to Prove Necessity Il
Trend Continues
By WILLIAM HARD.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
All three political parties ats
now buzzing with plans for thu
future.
While the public is enerosSed
with election, the parties are Look.
ing beyond the election into what
a going to happen To them after
wards.
They let the public more Or lesi
think that the election is BY way
Of being the end Of the world and
that terrible things may happen ii
It and because Of it and that we
may have anarchy" or "chaos" 81
something or other that will stun
and paralyze and upset and sub.
vert the country.
Politicians Look Ahead.
That Is the sort OF propaganda
they set out for the consumption Of
the public. Underneath. and among
themselves, meanwhile, the pOliti,
clans know very well that after the
election politics win 60 on Just the
same and that there 10 going To- be
Congress which Ii not going To
be Bolshevilx and which will not al.
low any President mot even Charles
w. Bryan--to throw the Washing.
ton monument into the Potomac
or 20 do anything else that will
really interrupt the present general
character and development Of the
country.
while then the. voters may be
sticking their noses into supposed
present perils, the politicians are
looking ahead to ensuing months
and years Of the steady practice Of
politics and Of the playing Of party
aEainst party.
Each Of the three parties. II now
appears, has q fine new set OF
troubles and ambitions all III own.
Each Of the old parties, without the
public having really realized il, d
golng through q sort of irternsi
Strife Among Democrats.
The Democratic party, ali through
this campaign, has been torn to
pieces internally by d variety 81
contrary convictions and aspirations.
On the one side, within the Demo
cratic party, there has been the
element called by its opponents
theh element Of .'the bosses. " Among
these bosses the ones most dis
liked and feared by the so.called
anti.bOss element In the party are
the ones inhabiting New York and
Illinois.
It Is claimed by. the anti.boss
element that these bosses-rnean.
ing thereby the gentlemen whom
Illinois Democrats and New York
Democrats have chosen for their
leaders have too much power in
the party in comparison with the
number OF Presidential electoral
votes which they bring to the
Call Bosses. Reactionary.
The anti.boss element clairns
further that these bosses are IRE.
actiOnary.
They think that Mr.. Davis has
given them too much consideration
during the campaign. 10 the
neutral observer they seem quite
unduly sensitive on this point,
This very fact, however, that they
may be unduly sensitive about II
shows the sharpness Of their
feelings.
They intend, immediately aftsr
Olection and during the next tour
years, to, try to Wrest the Demo.
cratic party from whatever doniin.
ating control the so-calIed bosses
may have had over It. They intend,
as they put 1t. to bring It about
that the Democratic party shail
be controlled by IT'S so.calied pr0.
gressive element and by the STATE
which give the Democratic party
it, electoral votes.
They, some OF them, think that
the Democratic party must either
thus internally change itself or eiae
die. They are resolved that Il
shall not die.
New Party 10 Arise.
Therefore, the sure prospect is
SsA0S GOAAAOGEdS4C party internal
politics will hum after this cleo.
ton and that because of this
campaign and because Of this cleo.
ton the Democratic party of four
years from, now may be In MANY
ways a quite fairly different sort
Of institution.
Meanwhile, an equal revolution
70 being attempted within the Re.
publican party.
Much OF the Coolidge element In
the Republican party Is determined
to cleanse 1t absolutely Of ali Gle.
ments which do not 20 along WITH
the general Coolidge and Mellon
policies.
This element, wnicn is deeply de.
voted to Coolidge. is not on this
point thinking any longer Of tic
La Toilette Brookhart- Norris .eIe.
nent In the party. NJ.
It regards all that "radicalS ala.
ment as having really already READ
itself out of the party.
1t 10 thinking now OF Republican
Congressnen and Senators who cAil
themselves conservatives but who
voted for the bonus ana who
voted against the complete Mellon
taxation reduction law.
Unless such Congfessrlien and