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Show ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Tails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual. National and International Problems Inseparable from Local Wel-. Wel-. fare. For the last hundred years or so voters have gone to the polls and found two lists of candidates on their ballots. One bore the name Republican, the other Democrat. Dem-ocrat. Today both major parties par-ties are torn and battered, mainly main-ly because of internal dissension. Authoritative observers are forecasting fore-casting that we are on the verge of a political realignment that will mean the death of the old parties, the birth of new ones. If that realignment comes, it will have the support of logic and reason. In the old days a political party stood for definite things and every candidate who ran on its ticket gave them his allegiance. At the present, neither neith-er party has a program that a majority of its members honestly support; neither can consistently obtain the allegiance that is essential es-sential to party discipline. In the Republican party, for example, exam-ple, are such diametrically opposed op-posed men as Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Morris: cf Nebrs,;l:a; it would be hard (o think of a single issue on which they agree, yet each carries car-ries the same party label. In the Democratic party, a conservative conser-vative such as Senator Glass of Virginia is faced with a radical radi-cal such as Senator Bone of Washington w'hile the head of the party, President Roosevelt, maintains a middle ground between, be-tween, these opposing attitudes. The titular leader of the Republicans Re-publicans is former President Hoover yet close to half, of the party's members in the Senate oppose his principles, and many of them, such as Johnson, Morris, Mor-ris, La Follette, and Borah refused re-fused to support him when he ran for reelection in 19 32. New parties, when and if they appear, will be definitely opposed in principle as well as name. One will consist of conservatives, the other of liberals and radicals. It is a noteworthy fact, as the always astute Frank Kent of the Baltimore (Sun recently pointed point-ed out, that President Roosevelt did not once mention the name "Democrat" during the speeches he made on his tour of the United States and territories. Many persons close to Washington Washing-ton affairs think that the President Presi-dent is seeking to effect the realignment now, that he wants to do away with the Democratic party and start a new one made up of people who believe as he does when it comes to national policies. A more concrete illustration of the current trend is afforded by the California primaries. In that state. Republican Senator Johnson John-son filed for both nominations, carried them both by heavy majorities. ma-jorities. And Upton Sinclair, a life-long Socialist, but a Democratic Demo-cratic candidate, rode easily into the gubernatorial nomination over all "regular" Democratic candidates. In many states party-lines party-lines have been destroyed in this manner. There will be no new major party in 19 3 6 but 19 40 may tell a different story. By that time, President Roosevelt, if 'he is reelected, will have come to the end of his presidential career, car-eer, and will have to seek perpetuation per-petuation of his policies through other men. There is no telling what issues of that year will be but it is forcast that within the next six years there will be a blow-up -v.-ithin the existing parties which will result in decisive de-cisive change. |