The Washington times., 1922-10-16

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WILLIAM HARD. In Michigan
and in Ohio and
in Indiana, States which belong not
to the Northwest but TO the North
east. 1 observed that the Republican
Senatorial candidates were denounc-
ing the League of Nations. They
were making the League of Nations
an issue. In Michigan i observed
further the great services OF the Re
publican Senator Townsend to the
cause Of good roads and to the cause
of st. Lawrence waterway were an
issue. In Ohio the subject Of wer
and dry was an issue. In Indiana
the alleged economic wickedness of
the policies of the railroad trade
unions and alleged economic wicked
ness also Of extreme taxes on great
wealth had been elevated into issues
by the genius and the nerve of Al.
bert Jeremiah Beveridge. But every
one of these issues faded utterly
away from the landscape the mo-
ment I crossed the Mississippi river.
West Of the Mississippi in Iowa
and westward from Iowa in
Nebraska, the League of Nations
produces no oratory; the vets are
quiescent and silent under the tri-
umph> OF the drys: and II anybody
here thinks that the railroad ques-
tion Is a matter OF reforming the .
railroad trade unions, or that the
taxation question is a matter of
lifting an excessive burden Of taxes
from the shoulders Of the rich. he
keeps his views discreetly to him.
self In case he is running for office.
Here to the immediate west of the
Mississippi and thence northward .
TO the Canadian frontier the ma
tional issues dominating the scene
are the railroad rate.making policy
of the Esch- -Cummins transportation
act and the deflation policy of the
Federal Reserve Board.
The United States is a regional
country. 1t ought perhaps some
day to have regional governments
as well as a national government
and State governments. The upper
middle northwestern states of the
United States are a region. They
produce grains. They produce am
mails with grains. They produce
them at a distance from the great
consuming markets. They are Grip.
pied by the increase in the cost of
transportation to these MAJ kets.
They were crushed by the action OF
the Federal Reserve Board in re.
stricting the credits for financing
the carrying Of crops on the way
to these markets. They endured
and they are now enduring much
hardship. much disappointment.
much misery. Over the whole geo
graphical area which they occupy
they have turned the Republican
party into a radical" party or
else they are menacing 1t with great
and growing third party sentiments
and movements.
In Nebraska there was an extreme.
ly considerable third party move.
ment. The leading figure in II was
Judge Wray, Of the town Of York.
Running for governor two years ago. Z
Judge Wray ran well up with tho
Republican and Democratic candf-
dates. This year Judge Wrav start.
ed running for United States Sena.
tor. He was nominated by a deliber-
ate political grouping OF a farm bloc
and n labor bloc. Now he has re.
tired from the race. He has retired
In favor OF the Republican Senatorial
candidate, Mr.. r. N. Howell, who un-
stintedly condemns the deflation
policy OF the Federal reserve board,
who unsparingly denounces the with
drawal OF bank credits from Nebras-
ka farmers by the Federal reserve
boards order. who demands the re-
peal Of the ch-Cummins transpor-
tation act, and who wants to see tho .
United States Government pick out
some big railroad system and oper-
ate It in public competition with
the private railroad systems, thus
by experiment discovering the con
sequences and the possibilities Of
Governmental railroading.
So stands the matter Of the third
party and the Republican party in
Nebraska. Mr.. Howell has made a
third party seem unnecessary in
Nebraska. Mr.. Brookhart has made
1t seem unnecessary in Iowa. Mr..
La Toilette has made 1T seem un-
necessary in Wisconsin. Mr.. Frazier
has made II seem unnecessary In
North Dakota. rywise, there
are third parties ardtntly at work in
South Dakota and in Minnesota. In
each of the upper middle North
western States the Republican party
either gives birth to third party or
else avoids the birth by initiating
and assimilating the character of
the infant. i
In Nebraska II asslmilates Il less
than in Iowa or Wisconsin or North
Dakota. Howell Is on the whole n
very much less outbreaking char
acter than Brookhart or La Toilette.
or Frazier. And Howell's Demo.
cratic opponent, Senator Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, seems to have made up
his mind that he is a sort OF =,
moderate outbreaker himself.
Does Mr.. Howell wish to repeal
the Esch- -Cummins transportation
act? Mr.. Hitchcock. who voted for
II. In eager to repeal the Injurious