Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — The Two New Parties. [ARTICLE]

The Two New Parties.

old parties have outlived their usefulness, become corrupt, cowardly, and indifferent to the needs of humanity; that they are controlled by vicious or dangerous influences, and each asserts that the perpetuity of the Republic depends upon the speedy enactment of its peculiar theories. It would naturally discourage a citizens who was dispcspd to take all of-ihis seriousiy to hear two such appeals from different direeti ons- at the same time.' What is ther' in the idea that old- parties become corrupt, and that new ones must be born to work out the progress of the race? From whence come the organizers of the new parties, and where are the pure and superk>r voters who are to give either of these new organizations a majority to-be found ? Alas! there is nosourcerof supply, other than the old parties corrupt though they may be... The conspicuous men in both conventions are figures from the old parties, and.have gained more prominence by departure from their old assocaitions than they were ever able to gain, by superiority withia them. The recruits must be the same ever-day humanity wbich while withia the old is accused of being indefferent, cowardly and corrupt. There is no new race of rulers come. There is-no injection, of new blood into the body politic. There is not even a new idea in either movement The propositions of - each have more or less friends in the old parties, but they have- not been able-to - incorporate -the- ideas, into the policies of the old, parties for the simple reason* that a majority of the people are opposed to them. Whenever a majority of the voters of either the Republican or Democratic party are convinced tliat any of these policies-are desirable, they can vote them: into its platform. It is a simpler and more promising method than the forming of a new party upon one idefu A great political party, such as is fit to be intrusted with the complicated affairs of the Nation, is a practical organization for the conduct of government. It can not do business uppn one idea. It can not follow all We- specialists, like Bellamy, George,, and St John. The specialists can not even abide with each other, for these three most famous advocates of alleged reform are supporting three rival political parties in this camp ign. By their own examples these people illustrate the absurdly of forminga new party for each “ism” proposed. The great mass of the voters of the Republican, and Democratic parties are neither corrupt nor indifferent to the progress of their kind. They have it in their power to take up any theory of government which commends ' itself to their judgement. The ideas that have not been adopted by them have failed as yet to secure their approval, and the time is not ripe for incorporating them into laws. And while the formation of new political parties may be one method of advertising ideas which a majority of the voters decline to take up, they arc not organizations for the actual conduct of government, never will attain that dignity, and are not entitled to the votes of those who wish to deal with practical affairs.--Inter Ocehn.