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: . THE. OREGON- DAILY JOU RNALV PORTLAND OREGOM. . WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER C, 1C2D. FIGHT III WEST iS ON RADICALISM 't By David Lawresee :.' (CePTriCbt. J20 ITsIa ! tha Mcood of a serict of three ar (ielei tnalysinc politic! sad economic cooditlom wart at th MiaUuippi rir. bwd upon a pr :" Mu) iaTMti(Cion in 14 atatae. Including S uf tb lerseat cIUm. durina the lut SO. day-1 I Chicago, Oct. . Radicalism, which the average Easterner mar have thought was on the wane, has penetrated the politics of ttae'Weet to such an extent that it Is hardly an exaggeration to say most folk In the majority of the Western states hardly realize there is a presidential election this year. Far more Important to the people of' Montana, Colorado, Idaho, North Da kota and Washington are the local is sues' introduced by the Non-Partisan loavna or a roalLtlon of the farmer ana labor elements. Party lines have been broken. The business men of a com munity, the bankers, the merchants, the professional classes generally, are for getting that they were originally Re publicans or Democrats and are uniting to beat the effort of the agricultural proletariat to gain control of the reins of state government. , Similarly, the farmers and laboring classes' have forgdtten their mm party affiliations and. whenever;. tbNon;Par. Usan; league , candidates are listed ..: as Democrats, ths farmer . attdy laborer strength Is mustered f of the Democrat! state ticket, as In Montana and Colof rado; 'whereas. In North Dakota, where the machinery of the Republican state organisation la In the hands of .the Non partisan league, the vote of the farm ers is for the regular Republican state ticket, all of whose candidate as a rule have . succeeded in getting their names on the ballots as the regular nominees in the primaries. Heretofore, where reforms have been desired, people who thought In political terms Imagined that the third1 party wee the best means to their end. Well. It proved wrong. The third party move ment of 112 nationally has gone by the boards. Three-cornered fights, oven in the states, have proved futile. The Non-Partisan league hasn't tried third party taetcs. It haa gone into the primaries and captured the regular Oemocratle or Republican organisation. That's why there's so much agitation in the West to abolish the primary system and f o back to conventions, where the choice of candidate can be more easily controlled and party ma chinery preserved. But the Non-Parti- van league has enough strength t ot the present to keep the primary system, its most valuable asset. It' can easily be seen; however, what the effect on a presidential, contest can when the absorbing Interest In so many states Is whether the Nonpartisan league . candidates can be beaten by a coalition of another of non-partisan character between conservative Demo crats and Republicans. TOWJTtET LIKE PEITBOSE "Of course one hears the Non-Part Isan league leaders called "reds" and "Bol shevists" and "radlcals.M'Their methods are . radically' different trom What' has keen the asual course of political affairs la the past, and the whole thing may be sailed radicalism,, bat even the most ardent forces opposing the Noa-Pmrtisan league no longer call the average farmer or laborer r who votes far the Non partisan league ticket "Bolshevist" or -red." . The epithets are reserved for the or ganisers and leaders. It Is amusing in some states to see bow the Non-partisan league, which denounces the "kept press" and the "plutocratic interests" for con trolling the newspapers, turns around and establishes newspapers of Its own and colors the news along lines favorable to the Non-partisan league. ' C. A. Townley, head of the Non-P..r-Usan league, is as dominant a figure In the movement as Penrose Is in the Rs publlcan party. Opinions may vary as to the types of men or their benefit to the community, but fundamentally each has hie lieutenant and gives orders and eo.i trola his 'organisation just as efficiently a the other. COX IS PRIE3CDLT ' Governor Cox. the Democratic presi dential nominee, has encountered the N on-Partisan league movement on his travels aad has sought to capture Its vote. He has analysed the causes of the upheaval and has insisted that it result ed from autocratic and oppressive gov ernment and that the extremes to which the Non-Partisan league may have gone in its " demands for state ownership of public resources and utilities is the di rect result of gouging of the farmers. He used North Dakota as an example. and eays the farmers saw the specu- p rices and classifying the poorer grades as superior and so on. The state-owned elevators and cooperative marketing or ganisations. If established earlier, would have averted the Kon-Partisan league, in Governor, Cox's judgment. All this is controversial. Senator Harding, oa $Js front porch, says noth ing about it aad 'gains the conservative vote. The voice of Governor , Cox does not reach enough of the Non-Partisan leaguers as a rule to help him. The Non-Partisan league press eaters te rad icals and finds it advantageous to build up a distrust of Tboth the Republican and Democratic national organisations. So praise of Governor Cox is mild aad there , Is relatively ' little appreciation of hut friendly words for the causes be hind the Non-Partisan league ; indeed, he probably, loses with- the conservative Republicans and Democrats, who are offended at his flirtation with the Non partisan league, what he gains with the rank and file of the movement PetLMZft JLXD BC&LES09 But in the states where the fight for control of the state government is almost a matter of life aad death. In the opin ion of the merchants, the drive is against everything Democratic If ths Non-Par tisan league happens to have its candl- dates pa that thicket, as in Colorado u4 Montana- la Idaho. the Kon-Parti-an League has indorsed Senator Nugent, the Democratic candidate for reelec tion. Republican leaders aay this means a split ticket, as the farmers will vote for Harding for president. The truth is, in every case, including Washington, where the Farmer-Labor ticket is Inde pendent of the two old parties, the de fections to Debs and Christensen are considerable, at least enough to hurt Governor Cox, who needs every vote he can get In the West. Again, it may be said that among the later reselling their wheat at higher Ugboring element in the West the feeling prevails that Attorney General Palmer, by his raids, and Postmaster General' Burleson, by his suppression of radical publications during the war, reflect a reactionary regime in Washington dur ing the Democratic administration and that they ought to be punished, even though' "another set of reactionaries' 1 thereby elected. - - . -. ' y - , k DfcXOC&ATS LACK XOXBT If It were not for the handicaps. Gov ernor Cox's direct bid for the radical Vote of the West would have fallen on mere fertile soli. The electoral vol of the West might nave been eaptsred by such tactics and an affiliation with the Non-Partiaan league, but the losses in the conservative estimate might have made national success Impossible.: . 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