The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-07

many years are required Tor the &C
complishment of a
ReoliQnment transition In politics
49,. New alignments In
party groups are sci
dom. II ever, brought about In the span
of a lifetime. Yet, those allgnments |
appear now to be very near. SO NEAR
in fact, that astute political observers
of national politics are looking Tor
shakeup that will have been virtually
completed when the time arrives Tor
another national election.
Because things move so slowly IN
political transitions, believe we are
generally prone to dismiss each little
incident rs without particular signih
canoe, Nevertheless, each one counts
and In the aggregate, II we pause To-
collect them, the minor changes con
stitute the web or pattern OF great
movement. Hence, circumstances OF
the last few weeks necessarily must
he weighed, for In those circumstances
is seen that which may verify prove TO
be the beginning of the final stage In
national realignment of voters And
as has been the case In some other
political changes among voters In the
United States, money is the focal
point, the center about which the
whole thing revofves.
There is developing. according to the
best political Judgment available I'D
Washington, a definite trend among
party men and women toward ami
alton with one party or the other sole.
lv on the basis of economic views OF
the party chosen. In other words,
there are those who believe In attempt
ing new things In government and In
Its relationship with commerce and in-
dtaatrF. and -there-ar those Whole
lIeve In allowing private initiative to
lead the way and develop the changes
as human nature demands. Roughly.
the two types like TO describe them
selves as liberals and conserv-
atives" In accordance with the respec-
tive views set out above. So the po-
lltical observers who study those
things day after day and interpret
their meaning are OF the opinion that
important changes are coming.
The conclusions reached by many
OF these observers is that perhaps as
early as the national campaign OF
1886. there will be shifts from Kepuh,
IIcan rolls to Democratic rolls, and
shifts of others from Democratic rolls
to Republican rolls In sufficient num-
bers to have established one OF the
parties as distinctly liberal and the
other as distinctly conservative The
Roosevelt campaign last year devel-
oped enormous shifts that Is, 1t devel-
oped transfer of voters from Repub-
lican ranks to those of the Democrats
for permanent residence. In pointing
to the fact, | do not include the pro
test vote that went to the Roosevelt
candidacy. Much OF that will be back
home In the Republican ranks II and
when Mr.. Roosevelt makes the race for
President again. Excluding that pro-
test vote, there were thousands who
had checked the Republican ballots
heretofore who will never do SO again.
That brings me to the present STU
alton. the circumstance that has come
over the question Of what sort OF mon.
ey we shall have. Mr.. Roosevelt's
monetary policies have found favor In
vast areas Of the country and they
have met with an objection as vehe-
ment and as bitter as peace-time views
can be. The result of all of this Is
an Issue has been so sharply drawn
that q decision by the country cannot
be avoided, barring one thing. Thai
one thing Is return to prosperity
at rate much faster than Is possible
to expect.
When | said there would be par
tisans leaving their old political hannt
to ally themselve
Nav Shift with what had beef
dU.1;nrre their opposition
party, cannot In
clude such men as Alfred e. Smith
former governor of New York an
1923 Presidential candidate of tn
Democratic party. Nor can 1t be es
pected that Senator Carter Glass 0
Virginia will desert the utilization @
his lifetime to turn Republican, eve
though both the former governor an
the senator strongly espouse SCUM
money. But they serve as Illustration
of the point ! am trying to make.
those two men were not so high up !
party councils they might leave tt
party. Thousands Of less consequent
will do It,
Observers here contend that 1t
quite possible that the La Toilet
group Of Wisconsin and its step-ch
dren in other states and the Norr
faction In Nebraska with Its kindre
the Brook art group In Iowa and Il
johnson Republicans OF Callfornl
among others, might logically be G
pected to transfer their allegiance
the liberal party. They have been Il
publicans only In part for some yeal