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Show THE NEW PARTIES. H WE ARP to have not only one M now party but two; and it is M high time! M In 1008 there weio seven million and M a half Republican voters jn tho conn M try. Last month Mr. Tntt was uomi- M nated by five hundred and qixty-ono M delegates, of whom two hundred and H eight came from ten rockrlbbed Demo- M cratic states in tho south that contain, M all told, less than four hundred thou- H sand Republican voters. He received H ono hundred and thirty-two ballots M from Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Now M York, where voters had been caiefully M denied a fair chance to express theii H choice, but whore tho complexion ol M Republican thought must be, on the M whole, about like that In neighboring fl states that held primaries. M In ten Republican states voters were fl given a chance to express their choice; M and in these states Mr. Taft was re- M joctod by two to one carrying only M ono of them, Massachusetts, and that M by a small margin. Those ten states B contain tlneo and a quarter million m Republican voters; but tho issue was M sottled for them by tho southern mei- H conaries and the northern bosses. A fl very small coterie in command of tho H machinery outweighed millions of mero M voters M Thoro is no need to go behind those jH returns Obviously wo have here a M tiuo-bluQ Tory party, dedicated to tho principle that tho wise and right-mind- H od minoilty should rule Wo welcome Hj this now party Unquestionably a jH fSBBSSBSSBSSSSSSSSSSMtm H groat many people want just such an iH oiganizatlon and thoy can bring to it H an influence greator than their more H numbers would give, including the H eager support of many newspapers. B There is a fair field for just such a H party; and if this party will occupy B that field fairly we shall be happy to H treat it with the utmost respect. H On the other hand, thero has long H been neod of a clear-cut, out-and-out H genuinely Democratic and Insurgent B party. That such a party will oven- H tually grow out of the occurrences at H Chicago seems unquestionable. It is B high timo! The names of the old par- H ties have lost all meaning. Eithi B name might stand indifferently f . H progress or reaction tor La Follotte B or Bryan, or for Murphy or Barnes. A H liberal or a conservative might vote H oither ticket, according to circum- T stances. Wo have long needed a party H division that corresponded to actual R, division in political thinking. Satur- t day Evening Post. |