The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-15
REPUBLICANS HOLD
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ment's policies can bring about great
Improvement in conditions.
Brookhart has spread the gospel that
prosperity is a matter of legislation.
1t was straw in stormy sea, and the
people grasped for it. Would that It
were real. Brookhart, if elected, will
have to be political gymnast OF the
first water in order to keep faith with
the conflicting groups that have sup
ported him, but all power to him"
That sentiment of the Fort Dodge
Messenger is about the sentiment OF
the national Republican leaders. When
Brookhart comes to Washington, the
Republicans will tolerate him, but they
won't accept him as they will Beyer-
idge. The Republican leaders have
sized up Brookhart's success in the
same way as the Iowa paper already
quoted They are confident that his
success rests on purely fortuitous
combination of elements normally IL
reconcilable When Brookhart tries
TO satisfy the farmers he will disap-
point the laborers, and vice versa.
Term Will Be Short
Brookhart's term in the senate, as
Stunning he is successful in the Novem
Der elections, will be for two years
only. (He was chosen to fill out the
unexpired term of ex-senator Kenyon)
The Republican leaders reckon that
two years will be long enough for
Brookhart to disappoint one or the
other of his two groups of followers.
They regard him as a ikeable per
son, with many good native qualities.
But they describe him as having, eco
nomically speaking, the mind of
child
If it were full six-year terms that
is involved in this senatorial election
the conservative interests of Iowa
| might readily make up their minds to
turn Brookhart down and elect his
Democratic opponent, Clyde l.. Her
ring, who is a more sure-footed and
sounder man. The vote which gave
Brookhart his senatorship was only
about one-siXth of the total vote of the
state.
On showdown, there are more
! Iowa voters who disapprove Brook
! harris doctrine than follow them. +
| the less radical voters of the state
were we'll organized. and if the Re
publicans among them could bring
| themselves to vote the Democratic
| ticket, Herring, rather than Brookhart
| might be the next senator from Iowa
| But since it is only two-year terms.
and in the interest of preserving the
sanctity of the Republican party ira
| dition, it seems to be the disposition
of the Republicans to let Brookhart
! have his show.
McCumber's Case
| The downfall of McCumber in North
| Dakota is commonly described as :,
! loss and a rebuke to the conservative
| Republicans and as a victory for those
| extremely radical elements which com
pose the non-Partisan League in North
| Dakota. But the truth is, a correct
diagnosis of McCumber's case would
| be close to the opposite of this. Nc
| Cumber was defeated in North Dakota
not because he was too conservative
but rather because his conservatism
was not sufficiently thorough-going t.
| appeal to the conservative Republi
/ cans in his state.
/ In the first place, McCumber's defeat
! did not turn on national issues at all
/ Neither the tariff BILL of which he is
| the prepayment nor his soldiers bonus
bill, had much to do with it. McCum
ber's defeat was based almost wholly
on local North Dakota conditions The
big fight in North Dakota was a pure
ly domestic one between the radicals
and the non-Partisan League, and the
| conservatives. That conflict has dom
mated North Dakota politics for more
than 10 years past. And the thing that