Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1935-10-02

campaign. The chances of a split
in his ranks are very small, indeed
and barring changes of which there
are at present no hints at all, the
new Deal will encompass the Demo,
cratic party which nominated and
elected Mr.. Roosevelt as President.
By those statements, it is not
meant that no defections will take
place. There always are some dis.
gruntled and dissatisfied party men
who break away. They have done it
with Republicans and Democrats
with equal abandon. There will be
some in the 1896 campaign, but not
very many. These statements are
made by way of discOunting off
shoots of consequence under rad
ical leadership and offshoots of
equal consequence behind old-line
conservative Democratic leadership,
1t is, of course, just possible that
William Randolph Hearst. the pub.
Usher, and Bainbridge Colby, secre-
tary of state under Woodrow Will
son, may succeed in development of
conservative alignment with ma
Jor support but the situation is not
one likely to cause the New Deal
leaders any particular embarrass-
ment. Likewise the death of Sena.
tor Huey P. Long removes what
might possibly have been a radical
party wedge. The late Louisiana
senator was making some progress
In development OF a radical party
but with him removed from the
scene there is no longer any pos
sibility of that group attaining a
place Of Importance in the political
structure. They are fighting among
themselves and it is apparent now
that the group will be split into a
score of factious, none of which will
have any capacity to accomplish the
purposes which Senator Long had
outlined.
Judged impartially, the death of |
Senator Long ought to enhance the
=, Democratic pros
Longs Death poets in 1896.
Helps This certainly is
true unless the
administration between now and the
next election decides to court the
conservative vote in the country and
In doing so offends the progressive
segment of voters to which Mr..
Roosevelt largely owes his 1892
election. To reiterate, it is possible,
Of course, that Mr.. Roosevelt or his
party advisers may make mistakes
which will throw the whole party
out of gear, but they are
not now in evidence.
The reason the passing of Huey
Long is important from the political
is pictured most reliably
n the history of third party move
nents. While it Is obvious that Sen
ltor Long could never have been
elected President-and l believe he
vas too smart a politician to think
hat he could have been success
ul-there was the danger from the
roosevelt standpoint that he could
lienate some part of the vote which
lected Mr.. Roosevelt in 1882. If he
ad been able to do this, it is cer-
ain that Republican chances would
ave been enhanced because the Re-
ublican vote would have remained
olidly behind the Republican can |
idate.
Some years ago, Robert NJ. La
Gillette, then a senator from Wis
Onsin, ran for the Presidency on a
lird party ticket. He polled about {
We million votes. This happened at y
time when the country was rea- !.
onably prosperous. Surely, the |,
conditions were of a char.
cter that bred less discomfort than y
lose of this depression era. So, o
stute political observers tell me t
lat 1t takes little stretch of the U
to conceive of a radical u
lrty, led~by a man of the dynamic II
laracteristics of Huey Long, be- g
g able to poll as many as ten mil u
On votes throughout the country y
.spite the difficulties that always 1t
zee the organization of a new DO II
:ical party. II
So, while the national capital was ii
artled by Senator Longs death ii
I'd appalled, at the manner of his II
ling, it is not a violation of any ri
nfidence to say that New Deal G.
'liticians are resting easier. They oil
Ijoyed Huey, the man, but they II
cognized in him an adversary de- le
1edly dangerous to their cause. m
Now, as to other factors involved. a.
ctors that might withdraw sup in
~, port from Mr.. NJ
Other Roosevelt. I said
Factors above that the th
H ar s t =. Colby 4nt
ovement is doomed to defeat. The ar
al effect and probably the only ef- tu
ct that movement will have will bs
to force the Roosevelt leaders
realign their strength in some X,
ties. Mr.. Hearst, with the great be
wer of his string of newspapers wi
hind him, has yet to succeed in wi
eating a potent political grouD, th