The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-02
LIBERALS PLAN
PERPETUAL WAR
ON SINCLAIRISM
California Forces Opposed
to Reaction to Organize
Permanently.
BY MAX STERN
S1arfaI Wrifer
BY MAX STERN
Times Special Writer

LOS ANGELES, Nov. Cali
fornia liberals of both major parties
are preparing to organize after cleo
ton to prevent conhscation of the
expected stop Sinclair" victory by
the old guard.
Plans are afoot, it is learned here,
to make permanent after Tuesday
the California League Against SIN
clairism," a partisan organiza-
ton who pioneered in arousing the
state to the EPIC plans peril to
labor and to Rooseveltian reform"
The league is manned chiefly by
Hiram johnson progressives, Roose-
veltian liberals and a band Of
young men of both parties. It's
leading spirit is Ex-Governor G. Q.
Young, who left the state a $751;
0oc 900 surplus in 1881 only to see
this turn to huge deficit under ex-
Governor James Rolph, and who is
conceded to have been the states
best Governor since Mr.. Johnson
himself. Mr.. Young polled $4,000
more counties than Frank Merriam.
He probably would be the Repub-
lican nominee today had business
not deserted him for Mr.. Merriam
when the acting Governor called
out troops in the San Francisco gen.
eral strike.
Love Sinclair Less
Neither Mr.. Young nor the league
has Endorsed Mr.. Merriam, except
by implication. They love not Mr..
Merriam's brand of politics more
but Mr.. Sinclair's economics less.
The league is convinced that Sim
clairism was born of popular dis
content and that if the conditions
that nurtured this first serious
American challenge to the profit
system persist it will break forth
again under a new name.
LAS long as reaction rides the
saddle in Sacramento" said youth
fIl Vincent Kennedy, league organ
izer, "SinclairiSm in one form or an
other will continue menace. We
propose to perpetuate the movement
with the hope of fighting Sinclairism
constructively. This fight will not
end Tuesday with Sinclair's defeat"
California still is progressive,
said Mr.. Young, and it will go for
ward after election day. We must
remember, however, that the pro-
gressivism of our day is the con-
ServatiSm of the future. The fight
will take place on new front. We
can not fear to do anything that
will benefit the masses of the peo-
pie"
Young Raps EPIC Plan
Mr.. Young agrees with liberal
Democrats like George Creel that
the Sinclair way leads to chaos.
eff I thought that Upton Sinclair
could end poverty in California I
would shout his name from the
housetops," said Mr. Young, but if
I thought that any man, through
undermining our whole social and
business structure, could end pow
erty in California, 1 should be as
unSound in my mental processes as
is Mr.. Sinclair. The four words Of
his slogan is correct, but he has
placed them in wrong order. EPIC
really means end California in pow
erty.' Here in southern California
is another league, headed by Judge
Robert NJ Clarke, Johnson progress
siVe, who also is seeking to conserve
liberalism after the election. Mr..
Clarke's organization, called United
for California, has Endorsed Mr..
Merriam.
Il have told our league that it
must perpetuate itself after the
election" said Mr.. Clarke.
Corporations Are Attacked
The defeat of Socialism next
Tuesday must not be taken as
vndication of reaction. The rights
of the underprivileged must be rec
ognized. The people must be fed,
everything that progressive legisla-