Carbon County news., 1937-03-19

That the Republican party is fal
from dead and that the g. @. p
will go on to new heights is ths
stand taken by ]. D Scanlan, Miles
City, national committeeman fol
Montana.
Scanla1 is quoted at length By
the New York Sun in the issue od
Sunday, Jan. 80, and his views will
be of interest to Carbon County
Republicans. "
The story in full, taken from the
New York Sun: =
The tombstone vote" in the
Northwest was cast for the New
Deal, ]. D. Scanlan Of Montana
states in making sensational
charges of fraud in the last cleo
tion. He adds that because of ma
tion wide. coercion and corrup-
ton practiced in the name of re-
lief the fundamentals We're not
passed upon.
The Sun continues today the pub
lication of articles prepared by
leading men and women, who, as
members of the national commit
tee, are the directors of the gov
erning body of the party and will
guide it's course for the next four
years.
Without a single exception these
leaderssin the party's council, rep
resenting all shades of conserva-
tism and progressism and all parts
of the country, declare in one voice
for standing by their colors. They
see the New Deal as an emotion
allied phase of politics which is
unsound in principle and dishonest
in practice, winning popular ap-
proval through appeal to class pre-
judice and the brazen use of trea-
sury funds to control votes.
Defeat Before Compromise
The cry to go radical as raised
recently by half a dozen or so
Republicans who have stepped out
of their party and who are motor
ious as publicity seekers finds no
response among the serious-nind-
ed men and women making up the
army of seventeen millions who
voted the ticket at the last elec7
tion. >. %@<+'"t ~ 2<r4 sss<>Is y. >IS
The proposal to change the name
of the party; to seek grounds for
merging with the Jeffersonian de-
mocracy, and for "liberalizing the
party" along New Deal lines are
frowned upon by party chiefs. Bet
ter to go on ito defeat fighting for
honest principles on which the ma
tion has always rested than sac
rifice everything for expediency,
say the party chiefs. The idea that
the party is to disintegrate as did
the Wings and as some of the pro-
pagandists have been forecasting
is ridiculed.
The series will be continued on
Saturdays. The contribution chos-
en- for publication today is as fol-
lows:
]. D. SCANLAN, national COM
mitteeman for Montana; editor of
the Miles City Star and one of the
outstanding, progressive Republi-
can leaders of the Northwest says:s
The Republican party should
never break with any traditions
that are fundamentally sound and in |
accord with the ideals and pur-
poses of our form of Government,
even though such policy might be |
considered unpopular for the time
being. Anything that is right in
principle and basically and econ
omically sound will obtain ulti-
1nately regardless of the temporary |
New Deal experiments. >.~,I
"To trevamp' the party would
not necessarily mean that it lose
its identity, although there are
those who would change the name
of the organization. Some contend
that the Republican party is the
product of conditions arising from
the Civil War and therefore is
sectional. On the other hand we
in the East, West and North main
tain that the Democratic party
is far more sectional in nature.
"Time will demonstrate the ex-
pediency and perhaps the neces-
sity of changing the party's name.
It is a matter that has been dis
cussed time and again. I'm my judg- T
ment the trend is in the direction
of merger, but the time is not +
opportune at present. Most of the
seventeen million persons who Tot-
ed the Republican ticket in the re-
cent election would not forsake
fundamental principles and chase
fantasies, nor willingly subscribe i
to the policies of any party or any
sectional group which might be in
imical to the: best interests Of the
farmer, labor and industry. The
Negro question also has been I'M the
past and is today, although per
haps to lesser extent, a barrier
against the merger Of the respec-
tive parties. If the colored citizens
increase affiIiation with the Demo-
cratic party in any great number,
i can see where it might possibly Il