New Britain herald., 1926-01-30
A POLITICAL pOuLrICE

punic shuns the polls because many candidates after getting elected, cast aside their principles This causes blocs. he ayerrcd. and then spoke kind word for q re- turn to the old party system. In the same breath he deplored the fact that some candidates use n party name in order 10 win an election.
 Blocs always existed even in parties. But 1t was only recently that they were recognized and tabulated by party men that did not like the type of blocs that have been developed largely because the blocs running the parties failed to include the needs of all the people,
 The most potent bocs operating within q party gumshoeing with in if, 30 10 speak - have been the financial and industrial blocs, So long as these blocs were the only ones with influence they were the only ones tolerated.; and they are still tolerated and meet with no audible disapproyal. But as soon as recalcitrants within the parties began 10 form their own blocs in order 10 give better battle to the existing subterranean bocs, | great outcry was heard.
 Mir. Root apparently lives mostly in past age. When he thinks of a Republican he thinks of such as existed during the time of Mckin- ley, Garfield or Grant. But today no party can claim the adhesion of voters having the same views on political and economic questions, There is as much difference be- tween Il Massachusetts Republican and a western Republican as there is between q New York Democrat and a southern Democrat. None of them can agree upon the things which their parties are supposed 10 stand. The eastern Republicans have "got theirs and the western Republicans want thelrs;' the New York Democrats are soaking wet and the southern Democrats are saharaesQuely dry. Republl- cans in the east oppose the ku KIuy Klan, while as close as h. diana they trucklc to 1t, as Sena- tors Watson and Robinson did when they changed their vote against the World Court. In the northeastern states the Democrats fight the Kan, while in the south the Democrats ut least tolerate it.
 Eastern Republicans are bound up with a high protective tarllL and "thc protection of American labor;" in the northwcs. they are sore at the tariff ana KrpubIcan papers are filled with tir1d.8 against II. In inc eIsj Republicans look with dismuy at tho western Republican plan to have the gov ernment regulate farm "r'c' q. while in the vert Republicans loo'- with dlsmay q, tat gov' 'raa"n'1 regulation of indus rial prices through the hlGo tariH and claim that i. tho meOeoi of price resola- ton is followed 10 favor inta.,.., it also oGsa- to lu 'o"-E.1 10 favor agrica!tarr,
 Northern D,morr's @Ad <omh- crn pemoelYs "r, so far apart that f,ala 'a,. @5.adF b. n o&- pressed tha. ta. u.aj rmo~ranc national con, .a.o4 vIl n. a r'pa- ca O. tho h. oa,.
 North~ ,.o k rooiI"3o- are 50 . ou1spoh,u D. a rgoHo!non Wucs- ton N5- uooo 7 ,a3 .,a,jly t'U where aoa. D. r.m Haa4 on it the result ,a- '.,> u. ~.t and dry >ojra r.s raa.>. In 'h" a's' . Rcppblic,.a |, .a ro h. drN arl get rb~ 1,., *v.., lo in. @rs" wcs,tru rl..s 1a.. .o4il" 'a. i>- suo and .. ".a o.. auI " . votes. In t., u"ra T., n mo. 4's 1 are usually ~.. a.l sp aura H' . votes as do 5o' s.,. for th dry Republicans o5 mistake; in tDe south tm u.mon4',e ,aud,a-.s can aGord -o claim urIltty al- . though t is not necessary at all . times to practice il.
 Speaker I.onEHorlh recently wrote fl ma agazinu article in ~LH". j. he pointed out tho varying inter- ests that congressman represent nowadays. irrespective Of party