The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-08
PROGRESSIVE TYPE
PLEASED IN IOWA
Claim Brookhart's Victory
Is Part of General Up
rising In Country
DEMOCRATS HOPE
TO CONTROL HOUSE Isl


liar to 19t0--Wise Republicans Reai- /
lied Oyerturn Was Coming In Lowe
Political Pot Boils. r.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer'l
Copyright 1922.
WASHINGTON. June s. - Polti-
cal revolution in Iowa was hailed with
delight by progressive Republicans who
point to the victory of Col. Smith Brook
hart as part of the general uprising in
the Republican ranks which gave Pin
,chot a victory in Pennsylvania and Bev-
eridge decisive triumph in Indiana.
Col. Brookhart's nomination for Unit
ed States senator was not unexpected.
Privately some of the leading Republi-
cans in official life here who know Iowa
have been saying for many months that
| the Iowa voters would express their dis
/ satisfaction with existing conditions
when they had their first opportunity.
report spread around the capital many
months ago that Senator Cummings and
/ Senator Kenyon after a visit to Iowa had
| told their friends that no one in Office
had n Chinaman,S chance for reelection.
| This was the time when the farm bloc
| was most vocal and when the complaint
/
| tiOns was at its bittereSt point. Some OF
| the men who are opposed to everything
| Brookhart stands for, as he is Il radical
| Of the I.aFollette type, frankly con-
fessed that if Col. BrOokhart had been
running six months ago he would nave
polled an even more substantial vote man
he did this week. In other words they be-
lieve the Improvement in Agricultural
conditions has in a measure satisfied the
disseminated ones and they are hopeful
81 enough to believe that by next autumn
4 the discomfort will have been. greatly re
duced.
PrOgressives' View.
II Not so with the progressive Republi-
cans who admit that farm conditions
were unquesti0nably a large factor IN the
expression of discomfort in state SO
II overwhelmingly Republican but they at
| tribute the victory to the rising tde OF
urogressivism in the ranks of the Re
publican voters who this time choose ia
do their reforming inside the party rather
than by a third political party and or
ganization. The farm bloc will receive
much stimulus from the result in the
Iowa primaries. When Senator Kenyon
/ chairman of the bloc, resigned to accept
n federal iudgeship many people Sai'
that President Harding had removed one
of the most powerful influences IN th'
4 bloc system of politics. 1t was not sup
nosed that in place of Kenyon there
might come to the senate a man ever
more radical than Kenyon, though TINS
4 / correspondent and others who had beel
B l.watching the political situation in low;
4 pointed to the undercurrents of discon
n tent in that state and drew attention L
the possibility that Mr.. Harding ma,
have leaped- from the frying pan int
the fire in urging Kenyon to leave tn
I senate.
5Tbere were observers. too. who sal
III T. Cd M
NJ on the bench because of a conviction tina
- 4 hes had developed that even man q
/: his sympathy for the farmers could no
Il: be sure of reelection this fall.
!: The Democrats are jubilant. They II
H: sist-and some Republicans here cor
|: firm the suspicion-that many Reput
I: Tcans will desert their party rather tina
I: vote for Brookhart and that a situate
/: parallel to that which occurred IN w Is
I: lconsin when LaFOllette runs Is likely
|: develop. In this connection the write
|: received on the day before the priInar
|: the following comment from Edward .
|: Meredith, former secretary OF war, J
|: the last administration. who natural
|: sees things from the Democratic viey
|: point. but who discounted the effect
|: the primaries thus:
|: Merediths Prediction.
|: 1.-THE Republicans are in quite me-
\ in Iowa this year and ii would seem I'M
|: or the convention August ,, if the pr
|: mary doesn't determine the matter the
II: will be many thousands of Republican
|: who are going to be dissatisfied. III
|: TAN strengthens the possibility of Dem
|: cratic success. and with other Situatio
7: i'm the country generally, ! am getti1
|: around to where / consider Democrat
!: success in Iowa a probability rather th'
4: lust a possibility" Several Republlca
I |: who are familiar with the Iowa stu
+ |; ton say this is too sanguine a predicts
I |: but they concedc the Democrats will p,
| |: a larger vote than before and admit t
/ /: general uncertainty which enyeloT
VII: Iowa's political situation this year.
El: The progressive movement in -
II |: showed itself in Iowa as one of the I'll
II |: symptoms of party discomfort. That yG
Hl: the Democrats captured the house. 4
II |: Democrats in Washington say histo
Il /: is repeating itself and while they do l
II /: predict control of the senate they &
II |: beginning to feel cOcksure of the hou
VIA 1t is too early to discuss the merit
III: such predictions At this time it is S
'.." nificant that the Republicans expect
= lose many seats" but retain contI
Every body is agreed that the politi
pot is boiling and that the autumn ell
tions of this year will tell an Interest,"
story of restlessness in the body poll