The Washington times., 1924-08-30

followers in New York city should
dappen to succeed in electing some
Socialists to the House of Repre-.
sentatives. they will vote in favor
or taking the Government into
various business enterprises.
II, on the other hand, the
Gompers element in the La Toilette
following should be able to elect
some straight trade-unionists to
Congress, these gentlemen will pre-
sumably follow the Gompers policy
and win vote strongly against TAX
Ing the Government into any bust
ness enterprises.
Mr.. La Toilette has behind him
an arch-priest of individualism in
samuel Gompers and an arch.priest
OF socialism in Morris Hillquit; and
his rank-and.file followers are giIni.
larry sharply divided into Socialist
and anti-Socialist.
They also are sharply divided into
pro.Leaguers and anti-Leaguers.
They begin to cease to jeer at the
Republicans and Democrats fer
their respective internal differences.
They begin to be concession of in
ternal differences Of their own. If
they should have thirty or forty
members Of the next Congress,
these members will be far, indeed,
from acting as q unit on all things.
Might Be 80 Parties.
This campaign accordingly is
making it clearer and clearer that
in order to have a system OF parties
each Of which would be entirely
consistent within itself, it would be
necessary to have perhaps seventy
or eighty parties.
Mr.. Gompers, for instance, is to.
day essentially q conservative Re.
publican in wanting to keep the
Government out of business and an
extreme Democrat in his passion for
the League Of Nations, and a true
La Toilette in his devotion to labor.
To fully suit his precise comb.
nation Of views there would have
to be a fourth party.
II all important public questions
are considered and tabulated, at
least seventy or eighty different
combinations Of views can readily
be perceived and listed in the poll
tics Of this country today.
The advocates of q new party
party would change our party lines
into lines of logic and consistency
are seen to have been thoroughly
in error.
We shall continue to have blocs,
II we care to call them blocs. with
In the Republican party, and we
shall have blocs within hte new
party as soon as its members have
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Democrats UnruIy.
Meanwhile in the Democratic
party an internal situation exists
which is almost equally complex.
The McAdoo element in the Dem.
ocratic party and the ex-Al-Smith
element are now quite we'll united
in a common regard for Mr.. Davis
but they also continue to exhibit
a vigorous disregard and distrust
for each other.
Mr.. Coolidge, as the head Of the
Republican party, Is driving a
team of horses which hate to be
driven but which submit to the
lash in order to arrive in the
stable and stand before the manger
and which accordingly go rather
morosely but quite peaceably along.
Mr.. Davis, as the head of the
Democratic party, is driving
team of horses which are quite
willing to be driven but which
bite at one anothers ears as they
proceed.
That Is the difference between the
two teams at present. It explains
why the Democratic Organization"
has been so long In getting itself
Some Of the McAd0o
forces out in the West and North
west have maintained that not
wheel can be turned out there If
any wicked horse like George Bren.
nan, Of Illinois, is allowed to help
turn it. Mr.. Davis has pretty well
in making all his horses
eat out of his hand. His next task
Is to make them wear blinkers and
forget one another and pull straight
ahead. -
Then will appear certain ultimate
divisions Of opinion which exist in
the Democratic party regarding ma.
tonal policies in spite Of Mr.. Davis
unity.
1t is perhaps true that in policies
the Democrats are more united than
the Republicans but It 10 only by
scant margin.
Mr.. Davis himself, for instance,
Is against the proposed Federal de.
partnent of education. Mr.. Cool.
idge is for 1t. Mr.. Davis, being a
true Jeffersonian, Is against 1t. AS
these words are written, he has
not yet publicly declared himself
against 1t. He, nevertheless. is
against 1t totally and emphatically,
and he will say so whenever
proper opportunity for saying so IL
offered. He is against extensions