The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06

! However, but one paragraph was
devoted to the league, and that only
as sop to the anti-league past OF
the republican party during the days
Immediately followed the war when
Harding was the figure-head of the
industrialist combination around Ell
bert H. Gary and U. S. Steel and
Standard Oil, then opposed to the
league.
Roosevelt conveniently forgot that
Coolidge and the republican ad-
ministration put through the propo-
sition of American affiliation to the
world court-the back door of the
league of natlons-in response to the
changing economic interests of the
industrialists, particularly Standard
Oil. Instead of remaining aloof from
the league the conscious aim of i'm
perialist policy now is to get in and
dominate that instrument of interna-
tional brigandage. But it would not
be advisable to inform the masses,
who have been led to believe that the
league is conspiracy against the in
|
Sam, that the republican party has
changed its mind because the eco
nomic interests of it's masters have
changed, SO the league is denounced
in, words while the question of its
court is passed in silence.
| BETWEEN the two old parties there
~ is nothing to choose as far as the
working class is concerned. Both are
parties of capitalism and enemies of
the workers.
Most of the things the republicans
have said and will say about Al Smith
and the democrats are true; likewise
most of the charges of the democrats
against Dawes, Hoover, Coolidge,
Roosevelt and the republicans are
true. We agree with both of them
in this respect.
The main task for the advanced
| section of the labor movement is to
break the masses away from the in
fluence of these parties of the master
class and wage drive for a party of
labor that is separate from and OPP
posed to both old parties.
AS to the particular role of young
Roosevelt, it is clear that he is being
trained to be the republican candidate
for vice-president. That means that
western man will be candidate for
president. Quite possibly it will be
Dawes. Certainly it would be diff
| cult to imagine more openly fascist
combination than Dawes and Roose-
welt. Or it may be that Hoover of
California will be the head of the
ticket with Roosevelt in second place.
| The name of Roosevelt will be a
valuable campaign asset in the
iddle-west, the inter-mountain re-
gion and the far west and the repub-
lican managers will make the most of
this garrulous puppet.
AS to Al Smith, the republican old
guard will be sadly disappointed if
he does not head the democratic tic
lSet. They perceive that to be the end
of the democratic party as major
factor in American political life. They
are anxious to unleash the wave of
SlidJ Will Dc CIidT-
acterised by the most rabid fanaticism
this country has witnessed since head
hunters of 'pro-Germans" prowled
through 1917-18. Comment on the
side-lines at Rochester was clearly
indicative of the desire of the old line
republicans to have Smith as an OPP
ponent. In this as in so many other
things the eminent Times is wrong as
it has stated editorially that the re-
publicans want to prevent Smith from
securing the nomination. Quite con-
trary, the manipulators of the
machine consider Smith the candidate
who can most easily be defeated be-
cause he makes such a fine target
with his Tammany and Catholic con-
nections.