The New York herald., 1922-06-08
VIEW iowa VOTEAS
REDUKNG CONGRESS,
NOT THE PRESIDENT
Political Leaders Believe
Result Will Have Salu-
tary Effect.
HARDING READY TO AID
He Is Willing to Call Con-
terence Provided 1t is
Desired.
TO HALT RAINBOW CHASE
Bloc System Is Denounced by
Party Chiefs for Prevent
ing Teamwork.
TO HALT RAINBOW CHASE
BY LOUIS sE1BoLp.

special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
washington, ID. c.. June !.
President Harding, who has been
earnestly trying to keep the Republi-
can national machine on an even keel.
is neither surprised nor annoyed over
the results of the Iowa primaries.
The nomination of Col. Smith w.
Brookhart, an extreme radical, in the
hitherto moderately conservative ban
ner agricultural State has proved
much more disconcerting to leaders of
the blocs in Congress than at the
White House.
Senators and Representatives who
discussed the situation with the Presi-
dent to-day received the impression
that he is convinced that the failure
to carry out the pledges of his party
does not lie at his door.
The haste Of those leaders in the
House and Senate who have persist
emily fiouted his advice and withheld
their support from his policies to alibi
themselves rather confirms the Presi-
dents view of recent political events,
in the judgment of impartial observers.
In discussing the. overturn Of the
regular organizations in Indiana. Penn
sylvania and Iowa the President, how
ever, voiced no criticism Of either
management or methods adopted by
them. According to an official who
went over the matter with the Pres-
dent the latter did, however. express
the hope that the moral would be
properly interpreted by party leaders
both in and out Of Congress.
Placing of the Blame.
The comparatively small but vigor-
Gus element in the two houses-vari-
ously designated as liberal" "insur-
gent" or "progressive"-comp with
the jubilant Democratic spokesmen to-
day in placing on botn the President
end Congress any blame that might
exist for the unexpected primary re-
suits. The President, naturally, came
in for a larger share of censure from
clination to venture beyond the role of
friendly adviser and assert arbitrarily
the leadership of his party, which is
acknowledged everywhere else except
among the blocs in the two houses.
Outside leaders who refused to in
terpret the nomination of Mr.. Beve-
ridge in Indiana, Mr.. Pinchot in Penn
sylvania and Col. Brookhart in Iowa
as a reputation of the Administra
tion are rather inclined to the belief
that those events will exercise a salu-
tary and SOLDERING influence on Con-
qressional leaders of the party who
have been doing business on the go it
alone basis.
These outside leaders, who are little
concerned over the ambitions of in
dividual Senators and Representatives
TO win denominations at the expense
of,the Harding Administration. or by
sacrificing the party, contend that an
impartial analysis of the Indiana.
Pennsylvania and Iowa results will
show that they were dictated by nat,
ural political reasons to be looked for
inNthe situation.
Judgment of Outside Leaders.
II is the judgment of these men
that the record of the President and
the executive branch of his Admins
tration call for neither apology nor
excuse. The reports that they bring
10 washington and are energetically
circulating among members OF Con-
gress are: % That the people of the
country generally believe the Presi-
dent has handled an admittedly diff
cult situation with both intelligence
and courage that are lacking in Con-
gressional quarters; CD that the vot-
ers who are doing their own think
ing feel little or no resentment against
him for the failure of his party to
make good it's campaign pledges: and
(3) that any revulsion Of popular feel
ing manifest in the primary contests
is directed against the incspacity or
unwillingness of Congress to read and
properly understand the desires and
demands Of the people.
The consensus reflected by the lead
ers who justify with very few excep-
t,ons the acts Of the President and
his Cabinet is that II recent and i'm
pending political gestures ultimately
crystalize into a third party move
ment the fault will not lie at the
White House
The outside leaders bear testimony
that in the Indiana. Pennsylvania and
Iowa contests the policies of the Ad-
ministration were not at issue. Sur
prising as was the victory OF the radi-
cal Col. Brool<hart in Iowa, his sue
Continued on r-nge Two.