New-York tribune., 1922-10-28

: Z stss's'si siisse ~ "a not surprising wave
Z, resentment Nature has been boun-
s1a,, and the farmers have worked
nard. NOW they find that man-ar-
ianged things are pilinG one on top Of
another to rob them Of the fruits az
their years toll.
Afong comes Brookhart. He tells
asein the chief reason for low prices is
INC tact that the freight rates are so
hign So he promises to reduce the
iteignt rates. There are many railroad
workers IN the state, however, SO he
promises that this reduction will be
Drought about without cutting tho pay
q railroad labor. He meets the uues-
lion as to how this will be done by say
ing he would permit cancellations of
competing roads and would force
greater efficiency. Further, he says
that the lowered rates would result In
more business. and therefore the rail-
roads would be able to make more
money. He points to 1912 and 1918 as
the best years the roads ever had, saw
ing that rates were low them, and rnil-
road labor better paid--in terms Of
wEat wages would buy--than II has
peer since. He ignores the figures Of
1ailing railroad earnings during those
years. and talks about the dividends
paid. He ignores also the generally
accepted belief in the East that n was
the starvation of the railroads during
tina very period which brought about
the scarcity of all sorts of equipment
ana improvements, which, in turn, led
70 their collapse in the early stages Of
the war. -
Promises Further Farm Credits
Brookhart makes liberal promises of
further farm credits also, and criti-
cizes the Federal Reserve Board se-
vereiy Tor debating the war imitation
700 quickly He has considerable sup
port even among some Of the business
men for this criticism. ''>'S
taking TO railroad workers. he tells
them that capital Is willing to reduce
freight rates only by cutting wages.
Then he outlines his own idea of con-
solidations, elimination Of competing
lines and other economies. II any one
raises the point that perhaps freight
business could not be increased much
more, since there are not nearly
enough freight cars now to take out
IN The. country the business which is
onered, Brookhart Immediately starts
on new tack. expounding a theory
that the freight car shortage is not
real, but an artificial conditio,
wrought by capital with the underly-
ing purposes of forcing the farmers to
sell their products at lower prices.
MS campaign speeches are going like
wlldfire, and though they are distress
ing to many men who have had even 8
high school course in economics there
is no doubt he is gaining ten votes
among the lesser educated for every
two or three losses among the more
studious.
Indeed, it is generally conceded that
| although Brookhart was not the per.
sonai choice of most of the Iowa dele
gation IN Congress his vote. pulling
ablhty will carry one or two through
70 victory who otherwise would have
| hard fights or might even have been
defeated.
Office Holders Are Quiet
Another group of Republicans who
are strongly against Brookhart down
under their skins, but are either keep
ing quiet or mildly supporting the
ticket, are the Federal Office holders,
most OF whom owe their places to
either Senator Cummins or John IT.
Adams, chairman of the Republican
National Committee. Brookhart's eco
nomic ideas, naturally, are anathema
to Adams, and though, comparing of
speeches actually shows that Brook
hart has not talked much more radi-
cally than has Senator Cummins he
has outraged Cummins in his attacks
on the Senator's handiwork on the
Esch- Cummins law.
However, none Of these Federal Of
flee holders has joined the boilers. The
| answer is self-preservation. Every
one knows that Brookhart is going to
be elected Senator, and Senator Cum
minis is getting along in years and his
| health is not the best.
| To those familiar with Iowa political
| history the names Of some Of the
| leaders of the boilers are interesting.
| They include former Governors d. F.
| Carroll, Warren Garst and Frank D.
Jackson; former State Senators A. B..
Funk, William Haskell, of Cedar
Rapids. and NJ r. Pitt, of Pottawat-
| tamie County; Colonel William Doves,
Freeman Conway. and George w.
Wright.
| Ex- Governor Garst first indorsed
Brookhart and then announced that
very reluctantly he was obliged to
withdraw that support.
Charles F. Chase, Democrat and
editor of "The Atlantic Telegraph"
has been brought to Des Moines by
the boilers and put in charge of what
lis called the Republican Good Gov
ernment League.
This move started talk about third
party ticket, which has not material
ized, and has really rather had the eff
feet of soaring some of the regular
Republicans back into the Brookhart
fold
Not So Red as Painted
Meanwhile the Brookhart support
ers are making tremendous drive in
quiet ways-not in the newspapers or
on the stump-to convince the con-
servative element that Brookhart is
not so red as he is painted, or, more
accurately, that he is not so red as
he paints himself on the stump. The
Republican business and professional
men who are going to vote for Brook
hart are all convinced privately that
when he gets to Washington he will
be much quieter than he has been
here.
Their first fears that he would be
another La Toilette have been at least
partly dissipated. At any rate they
know that il he does disappoint them
in this respect there will be chance
to fight him two years hence.
For example, Henry W. Byers, At
torney General while Cummins was
Governor and lifelong Cummins man,
told the writer: "Smith Brookhart
when properly understood is no more
socialistic In his views nor in what