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into receivership and be liquidated
at once, for its continuance as the
same political party is hopeless.
There are some Republicans who
console themselves with the thought
that the Democratic party suffered a
severe and overwhelming defeat IN
the electoral college in 1928, but came
back with an avalanche of votes four
years later.
Dying Since War.
To suggest this parallel, however, is
to ignore the fact that the Republican
party has been dying ever since the
European war. The insurgent Repub-
licans of the West voted in Congress
for more than 10 years in coalition
with the Democrats. This alliance was
specifically construed as obstructive
in motive. 1t was not. 1t was q
natural grouping of dominant ele-
ments in the Democratic party with
the Western Republicans. That
merger was finally consummated in
the 1882 elections.
The first issue on which the Re-
publican party divided in 1910 was the
tariff. The second was agricultural
relief in 1922. The Republican East
has not been seeing eye to eye with
the Western Republicans for a gen.
Grafton.
1t is just as well to face the truth.
The regular Republicans when in
power have been content to stand pat
and accept the campaign contribu-
tions Of large groups or interests which
have had financial interest in stand
patism.
The Roosevelt leadership. on the
other hand, has sought with COM
mendable zeal to place the public in
terest above all other considerations
This aspect of a new deal in Amer
ican politics should be taken to heart
by public men Of all schools Of
thought
What the people of the United
States have been yearning for they
ought to get in the next decade-two
political parties that are really rivals
In serving the public interest rather
than in serving themselves.
May Bring New Party.
IT, therefore, we accept as the basic
platform of American thought today
"a" new deal, this does not neces-
sarily mean that everybody embraces
the" new deal.
Indeed, there are signs that a new
political party can be developed out
of those who have a better idea of how
to make "a" new deal practical and
effective than do the incumbents Of
the heterogeneous alphabetical groups
now constituting the super Govern
ment at Washington.
For when the country wishes to reg
lister its protests against some Of the
injuStices that come out Of "the" new
deal, especially the hardships that
may befall the working classes and the
small business men as a consequence
Of our unrestrained spending and un-
sound currency policies, there must be
some day another Democratic leader
ship-not a Republican dynasty-to
take over the task of steering the Na-
ton out of chaotic imitation and
worthless paper money.
In Great Britain, the British Labor
party started out auspiciously like the
new dealers here, but made q failure
of it. and the British people did not
turn back at once to the conservatives,
but to a coalition Of liberals and con-
servatives in what was called the Ma
tionalist government. and Ramsay
Macdonald accepted the leadership Of
that alliance.
So in the interest Of developing an
intelligent and effective minority the
Republicans might as well surrender
the task to leaders who still have the
confidence of the country and who
have traditionally been members Of the
party Of Thomas Jefferson.
Centralized Control.
Oddly enough. the issues point nat
urally to the rebirth of a Jeffersonian
party. The Roosevelt group has put
on the statute books a series of laws
which. while acceptable as temporary
measures, are now to be made per-
manent. at the request Of the Presi-
dent himself, and in those measures
We see the vanishing rights Of the
States absorbed by the Federal bureau-
cracy.
If the" new deal Of the Roose-
veltian democracy is made permanent,