Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08
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parture of Democrats. The whole
political scene has changed to sort
of game of 'prisoners base" The
Republicans have nominated a
Democrat of such characteristic col
or that Thomas Jefferson would rec
ognize him as kindred spirit long
before he could ever distinguish Mr..
Roosevelt from Alexander Hamilton.
Mr.. Roosevelt has held up to the
yeomen, as Prince of Wales, Mr..
Wallace, a Republican by heredity
and long conviction, who says that
he turned his political coat only be-
cause the Republicans hadn't done
enough for agriculture.
There is more in both Democratic
and Republican principle than is
dreamt of in that philosophy.
In the Presidents cabinet there
are only two indubitable Democrats
Hull and Farley. There are now
four Republicans-Stimson, Knox,
Wallace and Ickes-tWo Socialists or
neutrality-suspicious. and Perkins
and couple of no pronounced po-
litical parentage, Jackson and Nor
genthau.
AS for Jeffersonian policy-decen-
tralization of government = states
rights - government by laws, not
memo personalized power-rota-
ton in office-federal economy-as
little government as is consistent
with keeping men from injuring
each other-Mr. Roosevelt opposes
every one.
Whether Mr.. Willkie will be re-
garded as a reborn Republican or
Democrat nominated on the Repub-
lican ticket, his whole philosophy is
as faithfully Jeffersonian as Mr..
Roosevelt's is the reverse of that.
In the traditional American politi-
cal sense it is far more difficult
to see how a Democrat could sup
port Mr.. Roosevelt, than to wonder
how he could fail to support Mr..
Willkie.
Alexander Hamilton didn't think
men could be trusted to govern
themselves except through a self
perpetuating beneficent despotism.
Mr.. Jefferson asked, if man couldn't
govern himself had he found angels
to govern him? Plainly Mr.. Roose-
welt concurs with Hamilton and has
practically uttered and surely acted
the belief that both the Amounted
governor and his successor have
been found.
Many sincerely believe and faith
fully follow the President on this old
Federalist theory, which is their
right. But that hardly justifies the
President in castigating as party
renegades" all those Democrats who
don't.
If it were not for the bondage of
the South to bitter memories of the
Civil war, no southern Democrat
could possibly follow Mr.. Roosevelt.
He has taken away from them
protection of the two-thirds conven-
ton rule, ruined the export market
for their principal crop, cotton, neg
lected to recognize the discrimina-
ton against them in freight rates
and their competitive necessity for
differentials in wage rates. No
great political power since Thaddeus
Stevens has been more unsympa-
thetic toward their problems.
Southern Democratic leaders who
have opposed this have been con-
demned as "feudalists." Great
southern congressman such as Gar
ner, Robinson, Barley, Byrnes,
Clark, both Bankheads, Rayburn,
Doughton and Marvin Jones have
simply had to swallow it in the
name of party loyalty, but it was so
brutally inconsiderate that it could
have left little room for love and
loyalty.
These great political shifts take
time to reveal themselves but it be-
comes clearer daily that Mr.. Roose-
welt heads a new party which Harry
Hopkins once described as the
"have-nots against the haves."