Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
WS|ONED
FOR THIRD PARTY.
Wealthy Senate Liberals and
Gov. PinChot Considered
in Financing.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

In the midst of the talk about a pos
sible new third party" the vulgar
question gets discussed, who would
foot the bills?" 1t happens that there
are quite few candidates for that job.
They have not, it is true, announced
themselves. They are candidates only
in the sense Of being the posSesSorS OF
capacious purses and OF progressive
consciences. Fabricators of a third
party hope that the consciences would
operate upon the purses.
Among the muniflcent personalities
thus eriviSaged by the eye Of seceSsion1St
insurgency are Senator Couzens of
Michigan, Senator Cutting of New
Mexico. Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania
and Mr.. William T. Rawleigh Of Illinois
Rawleigh Highly Munificent.
Mr.. Rawleigh is munifcent in high
degree. He manufactures indictments
and related preparations in an extremely
profitable factory in the town of Free
port He pines for political progressive
ism. He was Staunch financial pillar
of the political performances Of the
senior Senator La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin. He has recently established a
foundation" in Washington. for eco
nomic research and education. It has
already issued, from the pens of Mr..
Basil Manly and of Mr.. Charles Kelley,
of the farmers. It will find numerous
other woes requiring progressive rem
edies.
Mr.. Rawleigh deals in remedies,
physical, political, economic. He Ia
bored zealously, through the "Rawleigh
Tariff Bureau" in Washington, to pro-
mote remedies last Winter for the tariff
raising tendencies of Senator Smoot
and Of Representative Hawley. He col
Elaborated eagerly with young Gov.
phil" La Toilette of Wisconsin. He
has not been much weakened financially
by the depression. 1t is even asserted
that he has not been weakened at all
He is an efficient and practical bust
ness man, indeed.
He rules his factory with no nom
sense from anybody. He is asSailed by
some trade union elements for main
tanning, as they charge, an open shop"
in certain departments of his plant.
He nevertheless employees legal talent to
compose an "anti-injunction" bill for
the curbing of anti-trade union inn
pulses on the part of judges in labor
disputes. His only complaint against
some Of the progressive Senators Is that
they are not drastically progressive
enough. A new party, it is thought, or
hoped, would find Mr.. Rawleigh'S purse
beaming upon its cradle.
Look to COuZens and Cutting.
Christmas tree anticipations Of SIM
liar sort are entertained regarding the
surplus funds of Senator CouzenS and
Senator Cutting. People keep on dying
and leaving millions to Senator Cutting.
He rewards this liberality by pursuing
liberalism. He is all out for freedom,
political, intellectual and economic. He
even tries to deprive the policemen in
our customs houses Of their old duty
to censor our importations of itera-
ture. He Is in physical aspect very
brood1ng young man. He can preserve
long silences. He can preserve them in
the manner and with the appearance
of a perfectly Stagnant pond. Then
from great depth there are violent
SphoreScent lightnings in him that
make the beholder realize that here Is
a young man not only of meditation
but of explosive force.
Mr.. Cutting causes sorrow among
those who feel that scion of economic
afnuence and of social elegance should
have sense of the fitness of things
and be reactionary. Mr.. Cutting and
Mr.. Couzens together could perhaps buy
out all the reactionaries in the next
Senate and still have money enough
to start radical party on it's way.
They should perhaps found a club of
radical millionaires in which associate
memberships might be granted to Sen
ator Morrow of New Jersey for recon-
CLING the Government of the United
States to the radical government at
Mexico City and to Mr.. owen D. Young
OF the General Electric Co. for having
1nt1mated that corporations will ulti-
mately be managed by their own per-
sonnet and not by capital.
These are days when the rich are
asserting their right to be as radical
as the poor, If they want to. Senator
CouZenS was against arbitrary power
by the rich when he was poor, and
more against 1t when he became him
self rich. Mr.. Cutting and Mr.. Pinchot
have been rich always. Mr.. Rawleigh
and Mr.. Couzens made themselves rich.
They are all willing to use wealth to
tame wealth.
Lacks OratOricaI Ability.
Mr.. Couzens is perhaps Temperament
tally the most vehement of the lot.
His capacity for indignation is a fiery
furnace. If he had the vocabulary of
Senator Borah, he would be the Sen
ate'S most arousing progressive orator.
He Is no orator at all and, perhaps,
therefore more dangerous to the sena-
torial conservatives, because he puts his
indignation into the quiet, detailed de-
velopment of impending legislation for
the moral improvement of power COM
panies and communications companies.
Mr.. Couzens every year gets more and