The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
L'F0LLETTE AGING
BUT STILL FIGHTS
Has the Fire of Youth,
Despite the Fact He
Is Past 67
AFTER REACTIONARIES
Time Has Come for Them to
Go Back to the People,"
Says the Senator

wASHINGTON-"The hour T.
struck when the reactionarv politi.
clans who have r I'm control n,
the policies OF this government mus,
30 back to the people"
Senator Robert VI. rafollctte--
Battling Bob"-brougL, his good
night fist down upon the table be.
fore him as he shot these words out
with the stinging zlp-zlp-zlp of rifle
bullets.
Lafollette observed his G7th birth.
day recently by delivering a fiery on
slaught uron the United States su
preme court e'lre the Cincinnati
convention of tho American Fedora
ton OF Labor. Although now wit
IN three years OF the biblical allo.-
ment of three s, ore years and ton
he has lost none OF the punch" that
gives to his utterances a telling force
mat holds the attention of even
those Of his. senatorial colleagues
who disagree witt him. 'Ie does
not look and he does not act like a
man OF 81, and his friends say the
eh'husiasms flowing within him are
keeping him young.
The victory OF { lionel Smith w
Brookhart in the Iowa senatorial
primaries made i.afolette happy. He
worked hard for BrooNhart's nomi-
nation. and his friend Dante r.
fierce. owner OF a string of In
fluentlal mid-western farm publica-
tions, went the limit 10 help put the
lowan over in the face Of the "rogu-
IdI republican organization of Iowa
IL was apropos OF Brookhart's -
tory that Lafoll 20 gave voice 10
the. above prediction that the IRE
dictionary politicians" must ryw
reckon with the people.
iowaW Graspc Opportunity.
THE voters Of iowa were given
an opportunity To elect man -
resentative Of the p-ople Of that
state. and they did OF permit the
opportunity to slip through their
ringers said Lafollotte. ALREADY
the truth is beginning to dawn up-
on Washington that the men and
women OF this countr,' =, not he
fooled indeh ". that they enter
tain the same sound sci timents re-
Garding public men and policies that
other generations of Americans have
held, and that so fast as they get
the measure of unfalthful public
Hci wants they will retire them from
office, regardless Of party or fac
ton.
1T was comparatively recently
that Congressman Copley, OF Illi-
nois "A republican member OF t'e
house ways and means committee.
an advocate OF the Esch- -Cummins
transportatin &C. and n sponsor
for the movt cnt to reduce sur
taxes on big in. nes, sought APP
proval for his ~ocord in the pri-
maries OF his state. He was defeat
p1 htya
a candidate running on a progress
slve platform, advocating the repeal
OF the ,schCuI min, law and de-
nouncing Copley's reg 'nrity.'
"A little later Senator Harry &.
New also a defendei of the " sch
Cummns law. c e OF the inner -
Gle of the old Guard and n recog-
nized spokesman for the present e. l.
mlnistratlon. sought n renewal OF
ms commission for six more years
lie appealed to the people of Indl-
ana on the basis OF his record for
loyalty TO the administration and
lis policies, which included the seat
ing of Senator Truman +. lew
berry, of MichiL.-u. Senator New
and the principles espoused were
repudiated by a majority OF 10000.
Old Guard Temper Revealed.
"a chance rem rk which fell from
the lips OF a 'stand-pat' senator ac-
curately reveals the temper with
which the old Guard received Col
onel Brookhart's victory and Sena-
tor News defeat and with which Il
Is facing ther primaries In whicn
the reelection of old Guard sena-
t'rs are at stake.
Word has Just reached the capt
tol that Senator w was beaten.
bemoaning the atte that had be-
Hilen his friend, the senator in
question vented his feeling in a.
phrase:
Damn the primaries.
There you have the philosophy
or stand-pat!sm and reaction, so
wei CHemplified by the recent
Cleveland address Of Secretary of
v r 'e' The same forces whi
Fought the establishment OF the pri-
mary with every available weapon
or obstruction and isreprcScnta-
Ton are still seeking to destroy an
elective device which they have
cause to fear by raising false issues
The great underlying igoue 10