The New York herald., 1922-06-26
FRAZIER HAS BONUS
EDGE ON M'CUMBER
Former Governor of North
Dakota Gets Cheers of
Raid Advocates.
GAVE BIG STATE DOLE
on-Partisan Leaguers
Record on Soldiers Gratu-
ity Is Fixed.
STRONG WITH FARMERS
Tariff Bill Is Not Making Hit
q, With the Agricultural
4 Element.
STRONG WITH FARMERS

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
FARGO, N. D., June 25.-The con-
spicuousness Of Porter J. McCumber
as leader Of the bonus raid and as
fellow artisan with Representative
Fordney of the long delayed and ap-
parently unpopular tariff bill attracts
the attention of the whole country to
his fight for fifth term in the
United States Senate. bitter strug-
gle which will be decided at the pri-
maries of next Wednesday.
It is curious fact that the two
best advertised activities of McCum-
ber's leadership as chairman of the
powerful Finance Committee Of the
Senate are Of little aid to him-per-
haps detriment-in his absentee
campaign for denomination.
In spite Of his dogged, desperate
championship of the bonus demand, it
IS impossible for him to "cash in"
on it in this State. In spite Of his
having written into the tariff bill the
highest duties on agricultural COM
modities ever offered to the farmer, it
is doubtful IL the service will benefit
him. in his home State in his hour of
need. For the pet statesman Of the
Non-Partisan League. Lynn J.. Fra
zier, out-McCumbers McCumber in
these matters and can point to pretty
solid achievements in behalf Of both
bonus hunter and farmer. 1t is the
ousted Ex-Governor. not the Senator,
who Is getting the cheers of the
bonus advocates and who seems to
have the best hold upon the large
radical element among the farming
population.
Frazier Is Cashing In.
From END to end Of the State Frazier
and his friends have pointed out thar
Frazier. as Governor. authorized the
largest cash payment to the soldiers
granted by any State in the Union, ana
that he was the first Governor to de
mand such relief" Important as
Senator McCumber's efforts may be al
Washington In the way of opening the
Federal Treasury to the bonus hunters,
it is an unanswerable fact that Frazier
did what McCumber is only talking
about. 1t Is Frazier, not McCumber.
who Is ''cashing in" on the bonus issue.
such as 1t is. And when to this situa-
ton is added a feeling among the bonus
advocates in this State that McCumber
has handled the bonus demand inaptly
and clumsily and has not shown the
backbone expected of him. it is easy t
see that the issue is doing him no good
in his fight for denomination.
When McCumber and his friends point
10 his record in agrarian legislation the
Non-Partisan League and Frazier point
TO their record. and as between the two
a very large element of the voters have
no hesitancy in choosing. McCumber
has worked faithfully enough for the in
terests Of his farming constituency. but
Frazier, principal agent of the league In
imposing Socialistic experiments upon
the State, has accomplished more. Al
any rate his accomplishments have a
visible, concrete character that Is easier
for many voters to comprehend than tire
moro abstract performances of Senator
McCumber.
To Frazier, along with the present
Junior Senator, DIR. Ladd. goes the credit
for the State mills anG elevators that
the farmers like and for leading tho
successful fight begun years ago to put
in the pockets of the farmers the profits
lhe middlemen used to garner from the
North Dakota wheat fields. Whatever
may be said about the Townley-N Nor.-
Partisan League experiments in BANK
ing, and however Townley and the
league have been denounced for tire
States financial difficulties, it is absc-
lutely true that the farmers demanded.
got and intend 10 keep the State
elevators, mills and marketing system.
Frazier benefits here. not McCumber.
UnfavornbIe to McCumber.
There is reverse side to both the
bonus and the high agricultural tariff
Issues, and the reverse is even more un-
favorable to McCumber. Within the
ranks OF conservative Republicans, from
whom McCumber must draw his main
strength to win. there is opposition, dis
gusted opposition. to the proposed bonus
raid Well informed men here in Fargo.
busn SIS men, n judge and professional
men, insist that the bonus proposition
is a'sts'a.!y unpopular in the State and
would be voted down IL it came to
registering the popular verdict.
One need not go so far as to accept the
statement literally though It may be ac-
curate enough; but 1t does Indicate that
North Dakota is not carried away in any
swirl Of bonus enthusiasm. The reasons
are plain. Even many of the radicals
see that taxes are ruinously high, State
and Federal and that piling a bonus
obligation of four to Ave billions upon
the Federal Government means that
taxes must go even higher and stay
high for lifetime or So That thought
chills bonus enthusiasm everywhere and
II has been cooling off agent in this
state.
Moreover, most people. seem to think
that by appropriating millions for the
soldiers OF their own State they did all
that could be expe> led of them. A Fed
eral appropriation would mean that they
would have to pay heavily to help the
taxpayers Of other States satisfy the
bonus hunters after having done all that
had been asked of them In their own
state. and thex don't like the idea.
McCumber's high tariff Is not as we'll
supported out here as one might expect
to find in distinctly q farming State,
and again the question of higher taxes
enters into the reasoning of the voters.
In spite of their socialistic experiments
(scveral of which have turned out 70
suit thems 1t must be remarked) North