Show Marquis Childs Democratic Party Break May Mean Liquidation WASHINGTON We may Well J bt watching without thus far having its true meaning the liquidation of ot caught o on One 2 1 the two major political parties s. s w Wh at happening in Democratic ranks is ia hI than a temporary break between the t two poles of the party In the north and j to in th south It is more than the accident of ot a preM pr fei candidate with whom various group are dissatisfied Mr Truman are is b j not t tilt cause of ot the crackup crack He merely to find himself at the climactic mOment when bitterly contending forces are wen seen ta to w be Irreconcilable What is happening in the south I Is ous hat What is Happening i j uc III L Ul i 1 not quite so clear but It is Just as significant of the revolution that is taking place Last week I spent two days day Inand in Detroit and I talked with a good many Who w ware are directly or indirectly In politics Evaa Eva EVet I a glimpse of the pattern of change i 1 in that great key Industrial center seemed to XII I to reveal the thc kind of I oU splitting that c cai j I mean the end of ot the Democratic party party u we have known It in recent decades I Labor Vote Direction It l Is not that Michigan will almost cy I go Republican this fall After Alter alli aji Wendell Willkie carried that state by bj narrow w margin In 1940 and Franklin R ROOM Ro s velt took it in 1911 1944 II by a margin amt u sj small It is traditionally a Republican tate 11 The new and striking factor is the 2 di 11 in which the labor vote vot In the few tn centers is moving These ir are Ii going down a road that leads away j re the Democratic party For a variety of ot reasons Henry Heny W j I laces lace's third party seems likely to p poll poi U iM i substantial vote in November in Dj Detroit I and In the other automobile clUe cities o On One t. t reason Is the large number of ot particularly In Detroit with an acute ZI Ii consciousness of injustice and l M tion and a militant new political Walter Reuther who Is now 11 Ing his remarkable victory over th the tho Cora Cora- C faction in the United Unite Auto Work 1 ers Is dead set against Wallace The executive board last week denounced Wal 1 laces lace's candidacy as a Communist part maneuver to advance the foreign poey interest of Soviet Russia V I Calls for New Party fr II But the same resolution called for thi tb formation of a new progressive party after the 1948 1918 elections An invitation wu wul extended to C CIO I 0 A F L the tho r railroad brotherhoods farm and white-collar white group to join in creating a new party Reuth has several times Umes recently pronounced i plague on both the old parties plainly plainly- hinting his desire to see a third party party started that would be free of the j Coa taint t tIt It takes no great political genius to It i c where this leads if it continues J From 1932 through 1944 1911 the scram elements of the Democratic party wot w eJ held together by the political i President Roosevelt and the idea of ot to U. New Deal Even when he attempted I s spurge purge of southern reactionaries as u l ti lj did in 1938 he carried the south along witt ith him In the same way he carried the grut urban centers where left labor-left voters voter n rt turned the tho scorn and distrust of the Mutt Mutt- Ou em ern em Bourbons a hundredfold Those who argue that the Democratic party should be refashioned In a new fora point to the Roosevelt heritage On thI foundation they insist a new can be made They believe that even in tin the south as industrialization Increases there then a new Democratic party will evolve with genuine tics ties with the north This ia is thi till kind of debate which will be bo heard j as the tide of change cuts deep int into i the Democratic party of ot tradition 4 Copyright t 1948 1918 United Feature jr j l |