Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-26
IOWA SHOWS SIGNS
Of WILLINGNESS To
BOLT FROM c. D. P.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright 1927

OCS MOI4NGOS 4OW1D OOI' AV"-
Iowa is the cradle Of insurgency.
Here arose tho revolt which helped
to upset the Taft administration and
contributed so greatly to the Third
party movement of 1913. And Iowa
today shows some symptoms Of the
same mood. She is in a devil-may-
care attitude about the administra-
ton in Washington.
Take for instance, President Har-
dirg's letter to Representative Mon
dell, in which the, president didn't ex-
plicitly appeal for the reelection Of
a Republican congress, but in wh1ct;
he praised the work Of congress and
virtually made bid for the nations
support.
To many in Iowa this seemed the
same thing that Woodrow Wilson
! did in his famous election appeal Of
1918. Apropos Of the fact that Mr..
Harding didn't mention the election
in so many words, the Sioux City
| Tribune, an independent newspaper
which was one Of the group which
, shoWered it's praise on Theodore
Roosevelt and helped him sweep
| OoWa, has this to say about Mr.. Har.
| ding's election appeal:
Sarcasm From Press
1.-THE president praised the Repub-
lican congress, and the Republican
administration on the eve of an cleo
ton, but he is not appealing for the
| reelection of that Republican con-
gress. No, certainly not. He praises
| the Republican congress at this time
because he wants Socialist con-
gress."
The difference between Mr.. VIII
sons election appeal and tat Of
Mr.. Harding's, if there is one, has
been lost on this constituency. 1t is
| interesting, however, as one can
vases opinion hereabouts, to find
that there are as many people who
think Mr.. Harding has as much right
to appeal for the election of Re-
publican congress as did Mr.. VIII
son for a Democratic congress or
Mr.. Taft for Republican congress-
Mr.. Mckinley did the same thing as
| Mr.. Harding-he wrote letter
which sought to accomplish what
President Wilson did in 1918, name
! ly, win q working majority in the
national legislative body so that the
ldSC TWO years Ol Ills lSL Ia WOulOIA
| be Distracted.
There is another and perhaps more
striking view, and 1t may explain
the disappointment of those Repub-
licans who feel Mr.. Harding commit
ted the same blunder as Mr.. Wilson.
They seem to feel that the chief
executive of the United States is
president Of all the people and not q
political party, and that when once
elected he must eschew partisan pol
itics.
DisapprOval Voiced
This same element voices disap-
prevail in the same connection of Mr..
Harding's appointment of five Re
publicans to the commission which
is to handle the funding of the entire
war debt owed this country by the
allies. That, it is contended, was
War matter and was not partisan
affair, that DLloCrats helped to sup
port liberty loans as Gid Republicans
and that to deny the minority party
a voice in so important a negotiation
which might mean reduction of the
war debt, is to do exactly what so
many criticized Mr.. Wilson for do
ing. Though to be sure there was
at least gesture Of appointing one
Republican peace mission to Paris.
There are no Democrats or indie
pendcnts on the funding commission
-it's< all Republican.
Phases of Mr.. Harding's admins.
tration like these are not necessarily
the basic reasons for dissatisfaction,
but they add to the sum total of i'm
pressions.
Colonel Brookhart, Republican
nominee for United States senator,
openly says he is against Mr.. Har-
ding, yet there are to be found such
men as Senator Medill Mccormick,
Of Illinois, and others campaigning
for him. Mr.. McCormick's relation
ship is one that takes one back i'm
madiately to 1912, for he was one
Of the Roosevelt leaders. So was
Brookhart. That makes the Illinois
senator friendly to the Brookhart
cause. The turn Of affairs in Illi-
nois this year has practically cinched
Mr.. Mccormick opportunity for re-
election two years hence, so he need
not worry about his own state, but
he is out in this section Of the west
helping a Roosevelt man in Nebras-
ka, r. B. Howell, and another in
Iowa.
These former Roosevelt men are
somehow sticking together even in
campaign which has no particular
national fundamentals involved. It's
all personality affair. The radicals
or insurgents in the Republican par
ty are coming together, however, and
it may or may not mean something
for 1924.
Congress Criticised
Tales Of lack Of leadership in
Washington are mingled here with
criticism Of a drifting congress. It
can hardly be said that the dissat-
isfaction has crystallized any alter
native policies. The viewpoint is de-
cidedly negative. None of the can
didates, not even the esteemed Brook
hart, outlines any positive program
for the administration to adopt.
The signs Of revolt are unmistak-
able though to be sure they are for
the moment confined to Iowa. The
rural communities are sullen. Freight
rates haven't gone down, the prices
or farm products are low and the
tariff hasn't helped boost those
prices though it has made higher the
commodities and implements which
the farmer must buy. Talk of Mr..
Harding's denomination usually
brings out predictions Of a contest
from this part of the country. Typi-
cal of this comment is a recent edf-
torial in the Des Moines Register.
an independent newspaper, which
says:
The record discloses that com.
paratively few men have been re-
elected, although generally first term
presidents have haan ranoroina.Aa