The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-15
Two Parties Now-Which Is Yours?
Philadelphia Record)


 You don't hear any more There's no real differ ence between the Republican and Democratic parties
 Every year. the line of cleavage once in danger of disappearing, becomes clear, the Democra tic party becomes increasingly the party of liberalism and progress the Republican party representative of reaction
 An analysis of every Senator's stand in the last session of Congress shows this cleavage graphically The survey takes 13 crucial rol-call votes in the Senate questions where President Roosevelts position was definite and shows just which Senators voted with, which against the liberal leader. There were 43 in the group that voted with the President at least twice often as they voted against him. 2l in the middle -of-the-road group which voted with the President about often as against him. and 3l in the reactionary group.
 The most startling aspect of the survey is that not single Republican is to be found among the lberals-or among the middle-of -the-roaders. On the basis of the tabulaon the least feactionary Republican in the Senate is Frazier of North Dakota, who voted with the President four times, against him eight
 The issues on which the Republican Senators made this unenviable record were not mere personal whims of President Roosevelt Some of them were decisions deep and fundamental needs of the Am erican people such the wage and hour bill, the housing bill and relief appropriations
 In 1886 the majority of the American people said with their ballots how they stood on these issues and what they wanted their Government to do The Republicans in the Senate held out against the de- manQS O1 the pSOple welt fought to put them through
 On the face of the record of this last session, all talk of the Republican party becoming Liberal ized is nonsense It is proceeding from conservatism to blind reaction.
 Meanwhile what of the Democratic party? Is it following President Roosevets lead? Is it really be- coming a liberal party?
 The score shows that 40 Democratic Senators voted in the definitely pro-New Deal group Significantly, at the top this list Gufey of Pennsylvania with
 of Rhode Island; Hughes, of Delaware-none of them in the Senate before the liberal rebrth of the party Outstanding liberal among the older Senators was Robert F. Wagner, fighting New Yorker.
 In the middle e-of- -the-road group there are 20 more Democrats and the proportion of veterans of the old and ineffective Democratic party increases
 In the reactionary group 15 Democrats, ln- cluding such party wheel-horses from the South as Connay, of Texas; Tydings of Maryland, and Smith, of South Carolina to mention Glass of Virginia, whose record is more reactlonary than nearly nall of the Republicans.
 They represent the old Democratic party, the party to which voters belonged for no better reason than that their fathers been Democrats the party that had neither direction force. The Democratic party has left them. It has gone ahead with the necessities of the times In every election few of the Old Guard will be weeded out, to be replaced by new blood.
 Among those Democrats there have been some assertions from the Administration. But the voters can be depended to punish those who have gone back their party pledges. The New Deal is not and cannot be one-man effort
 Such broad program of economic and social advance requires the cooperation of whole party It requires that those who believe in it's principles support it Congressional elections local elections. The issues and who stands where those issues, become more clear with every month The great com penSaon of the depression the emergence of our twoparty system from the decrepitude in which 1t had fallen.
 The record of the two parties in the last Congress is the sgnboard of Americas political future