Evening star., 1947-09-06

The real poison in our Statecraft today Is
partisanism. The voters, on last November
S, rebuked one thing neutrality-suspicious.
The New Deal was hit only incidentally as
one of the guilty ingredients OF that biggest
destroyer of democratic government. With
out partisanship at the expense Of patriotism
We could not have had the New Deal or any
of its evils. The New Deal was not democracy.
1t was merely the Jimmy the mastercrook
partisanship used to open and rifle the public
treasury. And in making of the November S
victory bulwark of another group of par
tisans, the Republicans have merely shifted
the label on dat ole debbil" partisanship-
Americas black beast.
First, the Republicans Il should. say we
Republicans, for I am one of the darned
things totally misinterpreted the message
that the overwhelming majority was meant
to convey The people, in such voting, did
not mean Good old Republicans! Our saviors
and friends!" They meant ITO hell with the
partisanship which has distorted the purpose
of the founding fathers! Maybe you guys
can make this Government of the people
rather than of a clique of rapacious ms! We
don't give a hurrah in Hades for any party
label! We will use you for trusted spearhead
against the horde of raiders who have been
exploiting us to fare you WELL"
But Spearhead Isn't the Army.
The Republicans (excuse me-"we) thought
we won that election. We didn't. The New
Deal lost it, through the force of public opin-
ion, led by u.s. There were a great many
more voters against the New Deal than are
in the Republican Party This crowd that
did the voting merely included the Repub-
licans. The party is the tail, the crowd that
voted out the New Deal is the dog. And now
we have the old, old picture of the tail earn
estly endeavoring to wag the dog-a heck OF
big Great Dane. The dog will do the wagging
thank you and If the tail doesn't respond
to the dogs instructions when and how to
wag, there will be magnificent and popular
amputation in the autumn of 1948.
Senator Baldwin scolds (and JUSTIFY the
Republican leaders for ignoring the Republican
freshmen in the present Congress, but he
doesn't rebuke them for keeping the whole
thing partisan, and that is the cardinal sin
of the whole setup The November verdict
did not mean the people demanded Republican
behavior. It meant that the public demanded
better governmental behavior. There were
Democrats in Congress that always by their
votes and their voices opposed the disastrous
practices of the New Deal. 1t would have
been and would still be the proper practice
for the Republicans to listen to the clear voice
of nonpartisan voters to combine with all like
minded members of both houses, to legislate
according to these crystal clear wishes Of
the public in general Americans, who don't
give holy whoop for party unless it de-
livers the goods as ordered. The party is the
tool only. The publics wishes have no party
label on them The election result was, again,
nonpartisan-let the Republicans remember
that, and act accordingly, If it isn't too late
after pretty clumsy partisan start. Re-
publican is just as good as anybody else, II he
behaves himself and makes patriotic rather
than partisan use of the power handed him.
What this country wants, now that 1t Is
in bitterly nonpartisan" mood, is good
Government devoid of party label We've
got our bellies full of that nostrum. If only
I have offended the right Republicans, who
have tried to WOW instead Of WOO the Amer
ican taxpayer, I'm abundantly satisfied with
the effect of this fortnight screed.
STRICKLAND GILLIAN.