The Washington times., 1922-12-08


H2& type Of person.
4oG2akA In Detroit as
police commits
WILLIAM HARD sioner and az
mayor he never had anything thct
could be called q machine or an or
ganization In the getting Of votes.
He operated purely as an individual.
He did what he wanted to do, or
what he thought he ought to do,
and then just waited for the voters
to attend to the matter Of voting
for him. In the Senate he In likely
to take q crack one day at the
Administration and q crack the
next day At the La Toilette pro.
gressive group. Couzens comes close
to being the perfect Independent.
Brookhart, on the other hand. 10
man for organization. The two
men are equally strong In their
characters and equally firm In their
convictions. In fact, II the United
States Senate ever In its whole his
tory has had any men In II stronger
and ffrmer and manlier and bigger
in personal courage than Brookhart
and Couzens, they must indeed have
been giants. These two men are
sound proof to me that manhood
In public life In America In not 60
ing down. Each of them In a re-
lentless follower Of whatever light
his conscience may give him In
public affairs. Brookhart, however,
has given much more time to the
problem of political organization.
Brookhart has been a working
member Of organizations Of farmers
for public purposes and has been
obliged to get his way by argu-
ment and persuasion, while Couzens
for years and years has been an
executive In >vate business and
then an e><cutive In public office
and has been accustomed to having
his way simply by arriving at de-
cisions and issuing orders. Cou-
zens as q public man In Michigan
IL Couxens. Brookhart as q public
man In Iowa 10 Brookhart plus q
network Of influences In organiEa.
tons of farmers and also now plus
q determined effort to act a. the
leader Of the Republican party Of
Iowa
Brookhart In his primary cam
paiRn In Iowa attacked the policies
Of the Republican State party ma
chine. In his election campaign.
having carried the primary, he
boldly announced that now as the
Senatorial candidate Of the Re-
publican party he was its chief
authorized official spokesman. He
therefore further announced that
every clause In the Republican State
platform must be understood to mean
precisely what he. a. the party's
spokesman, would say II meant. He
then proceeded to give that platform
his own Interpretation Of its mean.
ing. and he emphatically demanded
that the whole Republican organiEa-
ton follow that Interpretation and
him. The election returns were no
rebuke to his boldness. Brookhart
believes In political groupings and
believes In acting through them.
In the Senate Brookhart win act
through the new La Toilette Norris
Progressive group. and will be found
to BE willing to practice the arts OF
cooperation. His natural tendency
would be toward becoming q ma.
chino man in Q Progressive machine
IL.
He II a. distinctly political II. his
political. The two men prove that
equal honesty Of purpose and Of
courage can have two very dif-
ferent forms Of expression. Z
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The likeness of the two mon is In
their utter fearlessness of the great
ones Of the earth. Brookhart has
been Uncle Sans chief instructor In
military marksmanship In our ma
tional training camps, and he ID as
much the soldier and officer as he
10 the aGitator and radical, and no
millionaire locke any better to him
than any other citizen whom Uncle
Sam has the right to put into uni.
form. Brookhart has q massiveness
of jowl and setness OF Jaw that
would make him look a. II he was
sitting In q perpetual courtsmartial
IL every now and then one did not
get from him q little humorous
flash from kindly democratic eye.
He 10 a sort of mixture OF the no
tons Of Cromwell and the notions
Of Lincoln.
Az for Couxens. he equally would
be willing to tear down the sreat
ones OF the earth II they failed to be
Just TO the lowly and the weak.
These two men are strong men. who
hate to see strength despoiling
weakness. Couzens, having gained
for himself some t3o. 200. 900 or $40.
00o. 1000 without impoverishing any.
body and without plundering any.
body. and without negiecting to
share his prosperity generously with
tred-hs has . contempt---for ths
rich man who has gained his riches
by the mere process Of squeezing
his employees and overchargins the
public.
Cousins regards such q man a q
worm spd he Loves - trsad 90 him.