Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — CLAPP PREDICTS DEATH OF REPUBLICAN PARTY. [ARTICLE]

CLAPP PREDICTS DEATH OF REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Senator Declares Two Great Bodies, One t oiisorvHtive and the Other Ratiical. Will Conic Out of Realignment. Bangor. Me., March 21 - Two great parties, one conservative and Ihe other liberal, will result from, the political alignment in progress in this country, declared Senator Moses E. Clapp in a speech at the progressive state convention here today. "There is no fundamental line .of demarcation between the republican and democratic parties at present.” lie said, "and pending the inevitable new alignments I urge you to stand firm for progressive principles, • T he name of the democratic party, as applied to a political party, has always been a misnomer. The party has never been democratic. It has always involved the ideas that a lew men shall dictate the purposes and policies to the many. I'he republican party, in its inception, was based upon the broad principle that government if for all must he by all. It was the abandonment of this principle under Mr. I 1:11 that led to the ruin of the Party. " lhe question now arises, what of the future? it is idle to talk of resuscitating the republican party. If under the splendid leadership of ( olonel Roosevelt the republican party could not be permanently restored to its old-time vigor or purpose, it is idle to talk of such restoration when the great body of

the progressive element has permanently le't the party. " e have only to stand firm. The democratic party can no more out-. aro\k tiie barnacles that have fastened upon it than could the republican party.”