The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-25
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Especial Despatch to The Reformer. }
Copyright 1922.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Oct. 2J.-Iowa
is the cradle of insurgency. Here arose
the revolt which helped to upset the Taft
administration and contributed so greatly
to the third party movement of 1912.
And Iowa today shows some symptoms
of the same mood She is in deyil-may-
care attitude about the administration
in Washington
Take. for instance, President Hard
ing's letter TO Representative M0nde1 in
which the President didn't explicitly ap-
peal for the reelection of a Republican
congress but in which he praised the
work of congress and virtually made a
bid for the nations support. To many
in Iowa this seemed the same thing
that Woodrow Wilson did in his famous
election appeal of 1918. Apropos of the
fact that Mr.. Harding didn't mention
the election in so many words, the
Sioux City Tribune. an independent
newspaper which was one of the group
which showeTed its praise on Theodore
Roosevelt and helped him sweep Iowa,
has this to say about Mr.. Harding 5
election appeal:
THE President praised the Republi-
can congress and the Republican admin
istration on the eve of an election but
he is not appealing for the reelection of
that Republican congress. No, certainly
not He praises the Republican con
gress at this time because he wants So
cialist congress"
The difference between Mr.. Wilson's
election appeal and that of Mr.. Hard
ings, if there is one has been lost on
this constituency. 1t is interesting,
however, as one canvasSes opinion here
abouts to find that there are as many
people who think Mr.. Harding has as
much right to appeal for the election OF
a Republican congress as did Mr.. Viii
son for n Democratic congress or Mr..
Taft for II Republican congress. Mr..
Mckinley did the same thing as Mr..
Harding-he wrote letter which sought
to accomplish what President Wilson did
in 1918. namely. win a working major
ity in the national legislative body so
the last two years of his term wouldn't
be INSTRUCTED.
Harding Too PartizaH.
There is anorner. aud perhaps more
striking view and-0ft may explain the
disappointment of those Republicans
who feel Mr.. Harding committed the
same blunder as Mr.. Wilson. They seem
to feel that the chief executive of the
United States is president of all the nPO-
pie and not a political party and that
when once elected he must eSchew par
tisan politics. This same element voices
disapprOyal in the same connection of
3 Mr.. HardlngS appointment of five
Republicans to the commission which is
to handle the funding Of the entire war
debt owed this country by the allies.
That. it is commended. was a war matter
and was not partisan affair. that Dem
Ocrats helped To support Liberty loans
as did Republicans and that to deny the
minority party a voice in so important
a negotiation which might even mean
reduction of the war debt is to do ex-
aCtiy what so many criticized Mr. Viii
SON for doing. Though, to be sure, there
was at least a gesture of appointing one
Republican on the peace mission to
Paris. There are no Democrats nor In
dependents on the funding commission.
It's all Republican.
Roosevelt Glen Combine.
Phases of Mr. Harding's administra-
ton like these are not necessarily the
basic reasons for dissatisfaction but
they add to the sum total of impression.
Colonel Brookhart Republican nominee
for United States senator, says openly
he is against Mr.. Harding. yet there are
TO be found such men as Senator Medill
Mccormick of Illinois and others cam
paigning for him. McCormicks rela-
tionship is one that takes one back i'm
mediately to 1912 for he was one of the
Roosevelt leaders. SO was Brookhart
That makes the Illinois senator friendly
to5lthe Brookhart5 cause. The turn OF