Show THIRD iI D r PARTIES ARTIES ti Th The Thc e launching of a a. third I j p party in ill this years year's Presidential campaign was not unexpected ed by shrewd political observers but nobody foresaw v a month of elements ele ago the combination ago ments which have united to form form i the new hew Union Party Back of its Presidential candidate Representative Re Re- Rel I I I William Villiam Lemke of North Dakota there are lined up so far Father Coughlin and his Union for Justice and andi Dr F F- FE E E- Townsend with his I I following of devotees of the OldA Old A Age g e Revolving Pension plan Mr Mi Lemke himself is spokesman spokesman spokesman spokes spokes- I I of element ement man man for a large e farmers and others in the Northwest North Northwest west vest who hold that the Way I o out ut of economic difficulties d is by the issuance of more money regardless of its gold backing 1 Not every third party movement movement movement move move- ment has been entitled to betaken be betaken betaken taken as seriously as ns th the on one Whether or not the Union Party will hill deflect more votes from the Democratic ticket or from the Republican candidates no one now can predict but that it will get n-et a large vote in many states is is hardly to be doubted It is anew a anew anew new factor in the campaign camp andone andone and andone one seriously to be reckoned with by both sides sides- Literally of course the Union Party is not liot the third party party- par Officially recognized in every state is the Socialist Party In nearly all states the Communist I II I Party alty has long had a place on on the official ballot banot In several states the Labor Farmer-Labor party is is th the dominant one Indeed the Labor Farmer-Labor party with one Senator and three Representatives Representatives Representatives in Congress and the Progressive Party with a Senator Senator Sena Sena- to tor and seven Representatives might properly be called the third and fourth parties The test t t of a political party's rea read strength however lies in l its ability to carry states for its Presidential electors 0 Only n I 1 y twice since the Civil Civi War Var has a third party done that The Peoples People's Peoples People's Peo Peo- ples pies Party in 1892 won 22 el electoral votes and the Progressive Progressive Progressive sive Party of 1912 polled 88 votes v-otes for Theodore Roosevelt in the Electoral Colleges Its name remains but its influence does not extend far beyond the borders of Wisconsin The Republicans who flocked to the Bull Moose standard under C eddys leadership are now the nucleus around which the Republican R Party itself has been 1 l' l reorganized org I i I I I I I I I I may seem at first glance somewhat difficult td account account account ac ac- count for in in view view of the widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread talk about distress and starvation among the farmers of America But everybody who knows anything about rural lural America knows that there are two kinds of farmers One is isI the speculative c com o m m mer e r c ial farmer usually opera operating ing on a n aone one one crop basis whose situation situations I is comparable more to that of ofa a business man to the typical farmer of tradition The economic economic mic distress among this class of farmers is far from being typical of farmers generally It t probably less than a quarter of all American farmers farm The typical American farmer operates the family type farm He has for the most part been neither a claimant for nor a n beneficiary of political efforts to todo todo do dp something for the farmer j him farming is a mode of living rather raither than an effort to enrich himself And most p of the new population on the farms falls into this class According to the Director of the Census most of iii trie current increase in farm population consists of families who have moved back from industrial centers to the security and peace of the land They are subsistence subsistence subsistence tence farmers in the phrase now V current They are the type of Americans who prefer to dig their own living out of the soil even at t the cost of remoteness from the movies ra rather her than to togo togo togo I go on relief |