Henderson Daily Dispatch

NATION PESTERED WITH NEW PARTIES
System Entirely New To United States; Europe Accustomed to It

By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist

Washington, May 4-Independent political party movements are multiplying at a rate which is becoming downright difficult to keep track of.

To begin with, each of the two old-line parties is split at least two ways. A Democrat like Senator Harry F. Byrd has little in common with a Democrat like President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Republican such as Senator Gerald P. Nye is the antithesis of such a Republican as Senator Frederick Hale.

However, Senator Byrd and Nye are not a bit similar, nor is Senator

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Hale in the slightest sympathy with President Roosevelt.

So there are at least four groups.

But that does not tell the whole story by any means.

PROGRESSIVES

Gov. Philip F. LaFollette of Wisconsin, as we know, seems to be launching a new national organization, an expansion of his own State's Progressive line-up-a repetition of what his father attempted 14 years ago, and failed at. But it may have better luck this time.

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City appears to be trying to create a countrywide setup of HIS own.

Possibly LaFollette and LaGuardia activities will merge presently, but as yet they look like separate efforts.

It is imaginable that there is a clash between LaFollette and LaGuardia personal ambitions.

FARMER-LABOR

Now Labor's Non-Partisan league has formed a "Joint Farmer-Labor Committee on Co-operative Enterprise"-still another party looming in the offing.

To be sure, there already exists a Farmer-Labor party, dominant thus far only in Minnesota.

One might surmise that a "Joint Farmer-Labor Committee on Co-operative Enterprise" and a Farmer-Labor party could affiliate with one another.

Nevertheless, urban labor prevails in Labor's Non-Partisan League which sponsors the "joint committee," whereas farmers out-weigh urban labor in the Farmer-Labor party.

SEVEN PARTIES?

Well, then, we have seven or eight impending parties.

They will not materialize at this year's congressional elections, but they will begin to be indicated.

Maybe they will have sorted themselves out somewhat by 1940.

If not, we shall have about seven or eight different parties in the 77th Congress-and a President doubtfully selected by the House of Representatives.

Like European countries!

Except we shall not be as well adapted to that kind of government as is Europe (which is used to it).