Evening star., 1939-09-29
Believes Republicans
Are Truly Liberal
Adherence of G. O. P. Leaders
To Party Platforms
Is Commended
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
An interesting letter signed Real
Republican" appeared IN your columns
recently, in which the writer gave his
opinion that the Republican party, to be
successful in 1910, will have to nominate
liberal" and suggested as his choice
for the G. o. P. standard bearer. Mayor
La Guardia of New York.
He also stated that, of those suggested
by the undersigned dn your columns,
September g., the only ones who could
qualify as liberals were Col. Charles H.
March of the Federal Trade Commission
of Minnesota. Senator Nye of North
Dakota, Senator McNary of Oregon.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and
District Attorney Dewey of New York
City.
The undersigned made no attempt
to name all the eligibles in the ranks
of the Republican party for the high
position of President of the United
States. Lack of space prevented the
naming of more than a very few, but
those mentioned are all regular Repub-'
licans. Consequently, Mayor La Guardia,
admittedly very able executive of the
largest city Of the country. could hardly
be included III the list. Mr.. La Guardia
came tc Washington once as a Socialist
Representative, later becoming Repub-
lican member of Congress. In 1896, he
openly supported Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subsequently he has been an important
factor in the American Labor party,
where, 1t is understood, he is at present
affiliated
The undersigned agrees with Real
Republican" that probably the ma jority
of the voters prefer liberal for Presi-
dent. However. there are several kinds
of liberals A standard dictionary defines
liberal as follows: An opponent of con-
servatism; one who advocates extension
of freedom in political institutions"
This means that liberal is the kind
of person who is looking forward to, and
working for, the best interests of all the
people; a leader who is broadminded
enough to accept those things that,
though vigorously opposed in the past,
have been found best for the greatest
number OF citizens. The undersigned
admits that some of the things the
present administration has put into
practice are valuable and should be
made permanent fixtures in the Govern
ment, although in the past, before being
tried, their real value was questioned.
with businessman as our Chief Ex-
ecutlve, these measures might have been
even more efficaciousD The right kind
of liberal would perpetuate and con-
tinue these things. The undersigned is
in full accord with Real Republican"
providing he accepts this Interpretation
of liberal"
Conditions and times invariably re-
quire notifications in all things in order
10 reach state nearer perfection. The
Republican party was first organized as
liberal party and it has continued to
be liberal party all through the years.
AS conditions have changed it has modi-
fed and changed in its policies How
ever, 1t has never been party to swing
of on questionable theories and ideas.
Only by carefully thought-out programs
of merit has it made Its changes. The
leaders Of the party have always realized
that quick and drastic changes are up
setting to almost all lines of business,
with accompanying disastrous effect on
employees. The party has extended
freedom IN its political institutions ,
without going off half-cocked, as has
been the case with some other parties in
the past.
AUQjn tho VI,
always laid great stress on its platforms,
and its candidates, when elected, have
closely followed the tenets of its plat
forms. Possibly that is one reason it
has been SO generally successful since
1860. The voters in the past studied the
platforms of each major party carefully
and realized that they could depend
upon the Republican candidates to carry
out the Republican platforms just as far
as it was humanity possible to do so.
For these reasons. the undersigned will
60 Real Republican" step further and
state that he is for a liberal platform
(as he interprets '']iberal'D to be adopted
in the next Republican National Con-
vention: and he has all confidence and
faith that, whoever the choice of stand
ard bearer may be, that candidate, if
elected, will carry out each plank of that
platform, fearlessly and impartially, as
his Republican predecessors have so ably
done IN the past.
AMERICAN PATRIOT.
September Is.
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