The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
This Is the Season of
Fake Uprisings Within
The Parties Of Capitalism
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

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of the republican party.
The opposition will be weak and vaclating, In many
ways will be difficult to differentiae between the
oppositoniss and the regulars the latter having care
fully and successfully the former in many
respects.
1t is therefore interesting to learn that of the
so-called insurgent republican senators have
just had meeting in Washington with the avowed pur
pose Of raising the standards of opposition in the next
republican convention against the possibilities for the
presidential nomination already mentioned by the old
guard. These include such reactionaries as Hughes,
Hoover, Lowden, Dawes-a dollar loving quartette be-
yond compare.
The "insurgent" meeting was held in the office of
Senator William E. Borah in Washington. 1t this
Borah that visited the Roosevelt insurgents
gathered in the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago in 1912
after they had effected the split of the republican party
Immediately returning to the Coliseum however, where
the regular" convention in session, and there Civ
ing his assent and support to the candidacy of William
Howard Taft, who defeated by Woodrow Wilson,
democrat to be but who promoted to become
chief justice of the United States supreme court
Any Opposition" therefore, that is spawned with
Borah as of the conspirators against the old re-
gime, thus betrays its weakness. Borah played host
to Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa. and Senator
Gerald p Nye, of North Dakota. 1t is planned to hold
another meeting this week to be attended by Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska, Senator Robert M. La
Toilette of Wisconsin, Lynn j, Frazier of North Da-
kota and Robert B. Howell of Nebraska.
These names set down here because they have
all been used to misead workers and farmers in the
middle west if not the whole country, in the past and
will be so used again.
The fraudulent nature of this Opposition" is seen
in the that several senators composing
it will be content with the nomination either of the
mutmilonaire, former governor of Illinois, Frank O.
Lowden Vice President Hell n Maria" Dawes, the
Chicago banker. Both Lowden and Dawes supported
the fake McNary- Haugen farm relief BILL the spur
ious nature of which has not yet been successfully
Vealed o.
population In fact, the farmers have been led be-
lieve that the McNaryH augen bill furnishes cure-all
for their every woe, and that any supporter of this
legislation is therefore "a FRIEND!"
1t peculiar however that neither Senator Charles
McNary, of Oregon, head of the committee on
agriculture Representative Haugen, of Iowa. head
of the house committee agriculture, is mentioned
present prospective member of Borah's little
surrecton. If McNary and Haugen are welded too
closely the republican machine then the legislation
they sponsor should be just unsatisfactory.
The McNary- Haugen measure can in no way benefit
the four millions of farm workers and the four millions
of tenant farmers Yet it is these, as we'll as the
small farmers and the wel-to-do farmers who are
drawn into support of this relief measure 1t is only
with the support of these elements the agraran popu
laon that the Borahs and Nyes, the Norrises and La
Folettes, the Howells and the Fraziers keep them
selves in power.
will be Of the first bits of legislation to be intro
duced in the session of congress that in De-
cember 1t may be tempered to receive the sig
nature of the White House
If this prophecy comes to pass then the whole Gin
surgent outfit Brookhart, Norris Howell, Nye Frazier
and Borah, will stump the country to win for
their party the republican party They will go through
the middle western country forget all about the tyranny
of Wall Street and the exploitation of the ruling class
generally and argue with the farmers that there is
need for Independent political action for the Labor
Party Thus they become the best agents of capitalists
There is the side show by-pay by WHICH Norris men
tions Borah possible candidate for president with
Borah doing the honors for Norris.
There is doubt that puffy orators, sweating with
the effort, will nominate both Norris and Borah and
perhaps other insurgents for the presidential nomna-
ton at the republican convention. The Buffers and
Smoots have heard such nominating speeches before
At the time they have settled the nominations
in their hotel rooms. And the insurgents have
agreed.
What the workers and farmers must decide first is
whether they through with the political parties of
2Ae bosses.
If they have decided to act as a class and nearly
100000 voted the FarmerLabor ticket the last state
election in Minnesota, then there is fraud that
win them back again, McNary- Haugen bill, es-
pecaly that gets the joint support of both Dawes
and Brookhart
The with which these insurgents" bridge party
lines is shown by the fact that Senator Norris, of
Nebraska, has eye to the possible democratic
nee, AL Smith, of New York, progressive" presi-
dental candidate This is another suggestion to work
and farmers that if they not satisfied with the
republican party, then they should turn to the demo-
Gratis Anything is better in the eyes of these CAPT
tast politicians than permitting the workers
their relations completely with the old parties and
tablish their Independent political power