Evening star., 1922-11-11
VICTORY
SEEN|N ELECTIONS
Party Labels Believed to
Have Welded Little
Influence.
ISSUES WERE DIVERSIFIED
Discomfort, Radica1ism and Other
Elements Combined to Create
Glass Support of Candidates.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.


was or what group really held the bal
ance OF power. But nearly every situa-
tion had its peculiar CHARACTERISTIC and
these assist in forming Judgment as
to the whole election.
Wins Radical Support.
Starting with the state of Washing
ton. where Senator Miles Poindexter
was defeated for reelection, one
finds &. c. Dill, democrat. who voted
against American, entry into the war
when he was member of the House
or Representatives. made strong
campaign. attacking his colleague as
a "reactionary." He appealed to the
farmers and laboring ren and. al
though third candidate was in the
f1eldsin the interest of labor. Mr.. Dill
won the support of the radical ele-
ments. as we'll as enough discon-
tented, farmers. to achieve victory.
Mr.: Dill made much Of Senator Poin-
dexter's vote for Sewberry.
Oregon-The election of a demo-
cratic governor was due largely to
the support of the ku Klux Klan.
which had failed by 500 votes to beat
the republican governor for, renomi-
nation in the primaries. Oregon
rarely elects democrat governor
and the detection Of thousands of re-
publicans who were inclined toward
Ku Klux Khan doctrines helped to
swing the state.
Liberal Conservatives Vote.
Montana--The election of Burton X.
wheeier. democrat. to- tho United
StateS Senate Is a victory for liberal
conservatives as against extreme rad
icals. Mr.. Wheeler two years ago
considered too friendly to the Nom
Partisan League. but he has more or
less tempered his views since then
and agreed to the platform written
by the regular democratic organiZa-
tior. UnQuestionably conservative
republican votes helped him win. The
result is quite the opposite from that
In other northwestern states where
candidates on the democratic ticket
won by seeking radical votes.
Utah-Senator William Kings spec
tacular campaign. his personal fight
against what seemed to be heavy odds
at the outset. his defiant attitude on
the tariff. though Utah is deeply in
terested in projections: his independ-
ence of action and. finally. the sup
he is member, gave him victory over
EInest Bamberger. republican. non
Mormon. Senator Smoot went up and
down the state asking for a vote of
confidence through Bamberger and
pointed to the tariff as great
.many-sided appeals enabled him to
win by a close margin.
d, State COnstabulary Issue,
Observation-Disclosures of the state
constabulary championed by the re-
publican nominee for governor, con-
servative. was the principal issue, but
labor, combined with agrarian un-
rest. gave William E. Sweet. demo-
crat, the victory for the-governorship
He WIS lid 6rsed by the Son-psrtisan
League.
~-.p.o.,,, rh. M, Dort;,on T a, QUO
helped elect a republican in this state.
defeating Senator Hitchcock and
electinS r. B. Howell, a man who
appealed to the radical elements much
more than did Mr.. Hitchcock. The
latter attempted to gather the discon-
mood Of tho people was to express |
their protest against the individual in |
office. The wet and dry issue entered |
into the race. Charles W. Bryan. |
democrat. brother Of William Jen.
nings Bryan. won the state by good |
Mr. Hitchcock through, because the |
latter was so highly indorsed by the |
vets. Notwithstanding his own pro- |
testations about law enforcement.
Rural Dfseontent. |
Kansas-Rural discomfort similar to !
that evident in Nebraska, gave this |
state a democratic governor to sue |
ceed Gov. Allen, republican, who was |
not a candidate to succeed himself. !
Low farm prices. the pinched condi- |
ton Of the farmers finances and un- !
rest generally, was coupled here with
certain group voting on the part OF |!
those laboring men opposed to the |
industrial courts operations
It will be difficult to tell how much of ,
i factor labor was in the result but the !
farmers usually decide elections in Kan
,as, and they apparently helped the dem
,cratic. nominee. - No senator's were up
'ur reelection here.
Iowa---Thereeis no doubt about what
,aused the upheaval here. Smith Brook. I
1art, republican nominee for United
states senator. won his primary fight on
IN apt;-Harding program and mostly by |
soicing farmer discomfort. His big ma
ority was simply confirmation of the
spirit which prompted the voters in the
primaries. Radicalism. socialism. ex-
protest, combined with railroad work
.rs' opposition to the Esch-Cummins |
aw, may be given, Mr.. Brookhart got |
Ill the digcontented vote and many of |
he liberal and progressive votes from
10th parties.
sFarmer-Labof Candidate.
Minnesota-Mr. shpstsad. the farm
ar labor candidate, is sanother ex- !
ample Of agricultural voting. Ali
'hough Senator Kellogg had been one
If the leaders of-the' farm bloc. voting |
or every measure, put UP by the farm !
HIS OPPONENT went him I
,nt better and aLHealed on an even
more radfcaE program to THE dissatis-
led rural: comm dffties This is an
lgriculturaI .stata and the farmer
abor candidate. wons by. the combined
the farm and the factory. /
scoaisfn-SenatorsIa FolIette won
,ut easily because .he.3too; appealed to.
he same class Of voters as did Brook
lart in Iowa, Frazier In North Dakota,
md Howell In Nebraska La Toilette
roted against var, against the tariff
Armer.I MIsa basin VI him an over
tsSSsh sNa ahe tas 1alns 1ansl
,ere as in states like Michigan or
Missouri or Ohio. 1t was a personal
md class victory rather than a party
riumph. =:
North Dakota.-Lynn Frazier, one OF
he leaders of the Non-Partisan
came out on top against J. r.
r. O'Connor, democrat. who. unlike
he democrats of Colorado, Washing
on and Kansas. took the conservative
tide of the battle. very much as did
Nr. Wheeler in Montana. The 'repub-
lean opponents of the Non-Partisan
league combined with the democratic
but the farmers of the
adical type were numerically stronger
Ind pulled Frazier in. He, too, Is
abeled republican,, but belongs in the
IA. Toilette class. -
Another Personal Election.
Missouris-This.- is another personal
Ind not party election. Republicanst