The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-20
IOWA TO SEND
BROOKHART TO
SENATE SEAT
Sullivan Says G. 0. ?.
is Sure to Win
BY MARK SULLIVAN

BY MARK SULLIVAN
DES MONIES, Ia, Oct. 20.-Iowa is
going to send Brokhart to the senate
The Democrats will take at least two
and possibly five, congressional seats
away from the Republicans; but the
Republicans will win the senatorship.
They will win it because the Repub-
lican candidate is an accurate express
sion of the prevailing mood of the
state.
Brookhart is an authentic candidate,
in the sense that he is true coinage of
his states political complaints and de-
sires. His Democratic opponent, Clyde
Herring is a fine man. AS business
man he has had the sort of career that
gets written up in the American mag
azines.
Raised in rural Michigan, he saw a
boy wanted advertisement in De-
troit paper, got the job by being there
before anybody else, after riding eight
miles on bicycle; broke his health
with overwork, retired to an Iowa
farm; saw an opening to sell Ford
cars to his neighbors, wrote to Henry
Ford personally, ultimately got the
agency for the whole state, and made
million or SO.
known IN Business
AS distributor of Ford cars, tractors
and parts, Herring has had business
transactions with half the people of
the state, and every transaction is said
to have given satisfaction. Every
body in the state speaks well of Her
ring. He has ideals and a real bent
toward fine things. But as a candi-
date for the senate, he is merely a
business man who would be glad to
have the place; would work conscien-
tiously at it, and would give credit
able performance He has no such re-
lation to the present heart of Iowa as
Brookhart has
Herring is merely one of 100 men
in the state who would make good
senators. He could as well be a can
didate from California or Indiana or
Maryland, as from Iowa. His can
didacy does not grip the state as
Brookhart's does, because Brookhart
expresses the prevailing personality
of Iowa as it is feeling and thinking
in this present month of October.
Represents State
Brookhart, is a big, rough chunk OF
Iowa. He got his nomination, he has
his present following, and he will win
the election, because he feels the way
most of the farmers and laborers o.
Iowa feel, and what he is saying rings
true as an accurate expression OF the
common state of mind. When Her
ring comes campaigning they look at
his good clothes, they never hear him
tell his story of being one OF the larg
est employers in the state, with 400
men on his payroll. and they come to
the conclusion that while an excellent
man, he is, after all, not one of them
selves.
Then Brookhart comes along with
his flapping soft hat and his clothes
hung loose on his big frame, half
farmer and half country lawyer. They
hear him say the very things they are
thinking. and say them with fire that
proves he shares their own sense OF
indignation against wrongs endured,
and they conclude that Brookhart Is
one of them. The wrongs that Brook
hart tells are the hardships of the
farmer and especially the farm rent
er, together with the laboring men, as
compared with the banker and busl-
ness man.
Has Violent Tongue
Brookhart, telling of these wrongs,
who is a kind of old Roman of the
state, calls Brookhart dangerous, and
wrote that "if Brookhart's powers were
commensurate with his desires, he
would wreck the country.
Undoubtedly RIookhart, as to most
issues. is one with La Toilette. But
radicalism is often confused with mere
violence of language And Brookhart
~. f0T1
also en- occasion cheaply- flippant in
wav that Injuries his own cause
Rrookhart is also spoken of with some
Justice, as economically illiterate," as
having. economically the mind of a
child But however crudely and vio
leptlv he expresses it, the principal
things that he demands for Iowa are
lower rates OF interest for the farmers
| who r'ay pay eight per cent. and co
J. cperative marketing to get rid ol
so1oe of the expense and profit of the
,niddlemen.
Farmer Wants Relief.
TIE Iowa farmer wants relief from
hoi-r cor~ pelIed to sell his crop a
t'a erd of tho season for whatever
p-i~o the niS 7'eman chooses to name
ct tha time. To achieve this, he want.
warehouses IN which he can store hi,
'croo to await a better price, and {
honking system of warehouse receipts
which will Give him ready money i
,ea unable rates. That these desires
o-n legitimate and ought to be brough
'.Nort and can be BROUGHT about, i
80 belief of many thoughtful busines:
,~n ard others in New York anG
wgsfireton BrookhaTt, when h
o.s to Washington, will have heii
fror, some quarters that will sur
Prise hfrn
Let It he said to Brookhart'sN credi
that having seized the Republicai
nomination away from the old guart
by being radical. he has gone righ
on being radical The polite THUS
IN so strongly a Republican state q
Iowa. would have been to ''pussy-foot
after he got the nomination and keei
all the Republicans in line Blu
right on talkln!