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Show VISIONS OF NEW PARTY LOOMING AS BLOC SYSTEM GINS POWER j Republican Control of Senate Declared Threatened, Threat-ened, Overthrow of McCumber Makes Washington Wake Up to Situation m- That Is Startling Iliy R "'.I R.T T SHAIIa fcje ial Coweanondenf of Tin- Slnnd-ara-Kxnmliy r. (Copyright, Ittl, i.y Th- Standard-Kxnniiner. Standard-Kxnniiner. ) W'ASHTVGTo.V July l.There no longer is any doubt about the matter. Republican control of the United States senate Is threatened. The result re-sult In tho North Dakota primary, overthrowing Senator McCumber, chairman 01 the all-powerful senate finance coftitntttcf. has made Wtaah-inirion Wtaah-inirion ill last -ce ,hv new lljtht. Th: McCumber incident is revolu-i tlonary. Washington docs not road- fly recall another defeat within hlsi own party of a senator who had attained at-tained 'he position of power tbat the) Chairmanship of the finance commit- tee gives .;( si BR IKING V V. America. frc.st of all the great de- h mocracies ci ine worm, nus ncen a long time breaking away from the conservatism of two essential parties, H The ' bloc" eys'.em of legislative con-tro con-tro has been onimon in Europe for H I a time H In the next senate that system will H I come to full flower in the L'nited Hr States of America. Already the con- H ' stituted Republican leaders i .no bad H a taste of It. already they have felt H its growing power, and they are not H at all pleased with the outlook. In- H diana, lowu an 1 now North Dakota H have adijc.i i , their discomfiture. m Call the movement "insurgent." H farm bloc radical or what you will, H there is no denying the fact that H President Hardlne will find himself H '.e the next congress facing a new H f.Oiip of opponents. NEW POLITICAL PART LOOMS, bbbl Some rf the conservatives in V sh - H ington still are attempting to bury H their heads ostrich-like in the sands, W( but there aro other political observ-fl observ-fl ers of keen vision and wise heads B who see in the ri which evl- dently is gnawing ut the vitals of the Republican partv the long-delayed IB but Inevitable nucleus for the forma-I forma-I tr,n of a new political party. The hanos of the radicals are being strengthened day by day It has been perfectly apparent for m?.ny years thai the words Republl- enn and Democrat are misnomers when applied to some of the men vh" I designate themsob.es nt such It h.-is been recognized that there Is a greater affinity between some Democrat and some Republicans '.Inn between mem- hers and senators claiming member- trh p in the same party It has been difficult for most per-H per-H sors. however, to conceive of a mm-viete mm-viete breakaway from the two old B parties. Democrats have been tradi-J tradi-J clonal for four rrencratlons. I'lUXiRK.VSIVi: PA RTV IHFS J For a brief time it was though! the progressive movement which .rore ou! In 1 f 1 2 would sotjnd the death l.nell f h.- cran.j ..i.i r.irl H "ut tne progressive mo em nt of thai "mc Hameel and died about a Mniscle personality It flamed about Colom-I V Roosevelt when it seemed thai be had J heen won nray from all of rbe , servatlvo tenets of Republics nism P ',r'1 when Colo'iM Roosevelt spp,.,l H back into the old fold Hut the political unrest of 101 was as nothing comp.r.-d to the unrest of 'oday Ten eventful vers have ?n, - 'he progressive movement of 1912 J." Qck burning revolution. It failed. MOVEMENT is EVOLUTION VS v ? . VrofeT,t mdlcal movement K wnich is gaining headway slowly but J furr-h- is an evol itlon. Whether or rot a radical or liberal party is to be born In the coming con- , gross the conrer-s which will write storv of ;)., rwn vears of the '.r'sen administration depends upon Lffflffl healvenes8 of the elements 'vh oh are belnc drawn together and which, to a very large extent are al- ready funrtloninc The radical ement will not have the Republican fcrces alone to draw on Already they r-an lay claim to n Democratic recruits Alread s.x Democratic .sen.it ors have voted for ( some of the highest amendments to I the schedules of 't- Fordney-McCum-I ber tariff bill: already a number of prominent Democrats have voted sol-1 sol-1 .dh with ih- "fiirm bloc" composed largely of Indtpondsni Ropublicans. So much for the breaking down of Iortv tics. - 3gtJ RADH m s s CONSSBtl XTIVFS Bms Ol the Mtaunchest old line Ite-publicans Ite-publicans In U'ashlngton todav will telj you that the natural political alignment In this country should bo between radlcn.s and conservatives. That is the real isue which must be faced. They admit that virtually todav to-dav (here no actual Republican control con-trol of th" senate because of the fact that certain senators listed as Republicans Repub-licans designate themselves as Republicans Repub-licans onlv as a means to an end The farm bloc already must bo considered consid-ered in nny mention of senate control and It Is this bloc which Is emlnlna notable victories in tho Republican! primaries, to say nothing of recruits i from the Democratic ranks. Even fioru conservative old Virginia conies' word that former Governor W i -morcland Davis, who 1 fighting Senator Sen-ator Swanson for tho toga has qn-nounced qn-nounced lhat he will align himself solidly with the farm bloc whether the majority of that hloc be Republicans Repub-licans or not. DEMOCRATS NOT TOO HAPiY This condition of affairs is tempering tem-pering any elation the Democrats may' feel over the defeat of 'old guard: ; Repuolican6 in their own party primaries. pri-maries. Conservative Democrats say I thev see nothing In tho political portents por-tents to uioat over. Rather there is I much to think e, . r. ( Te" Vjars ago it Is -Hmltted now. ..... umiii ui a riiiicai parlv or the making of B Republican partv over Into In-to a radical part- was impossible. But the new- prima rv laws have wrought a change Thev have given giv-en the radical and the Independent a chance It Is true these radicals have to announce the-r.selves as Republicans Republi-cans or Democrats to reailv have a ctlance but as Republicans and Democrat, Dem-ocrat, they reserve to themselves the right of absolute Independence of of-rlce of-rlce 1. FOLTFTTF. NEXT The nearness to radical control of the senate Is brought home by the fact that the defeat of McCumber and the elevation of rteed Smoot to the enmrmansh'p of the' finance committee commit-tee win leave Bob rn,!, ,,. of Wifl. consin ns Xo 2 man oh that committee com-mittee and next in line to thr- chairmanship chair-manship under the sacred seniority ru e It Is true the old cunrd would quickly reverse Itself and tight such a proposition to tae death, but nt the t ' " vinm oerumes legible for promotion, will the old guard ha- l he power to prevent it Another radical. Senator Borah Is NO. : man on the committee on foreign for-eign relations, if anything untoward should happen to Henry Cabot Lodge be would become chairman Yes, the old guard bos much to ponder pon-der over these days. |