The Washington times., 1922-10-14

ponents Of being ~s.sssss...
q socialist. q boil
shevik. an an.WlLI.lAM HARD.
archiBt and
menace to the Constitution, told me
q few minutes ago that he will be
elected United States Senator from
Iowa by q majority Of 100000 votes.
Much has been made Of the news
Of q revolt against Brookhart and
Of a bolt away from him by Iowa
Republican bankers and merchants
and manufacturers. These boilers
are going to cast their ballots for
Clyde Herring, Brookhart's Demo
cratic opponent. This town Of Har.
Ian IL In the congressional district
represented at Washington by VIII
liam r. Green. Mr.. Green was, In
his district today and he tells me
that he has been going over II
and listening to II. He also tells
me that Brookhart is at present
easily beating Herring. Pretty
nearly everybody else tells me SO
too.
This afternoon In Council Bluffs,
happened to catch sight Of B. b.
Burnquist. chairman Of the Repub-
lican State committee, and no boishe-
vik. He tells me that all this talk
about the Republican organization
turning against Brookhart n twad.
die. He tells me that Brookhart Is
being supported by the Republican
organization both locally and ma
tionally. He says that the trouble 10
that whenever. Brookhart settles
down into making nice good Repub-
lican speeches somebody calls him q
bolshevik and gets him all stirred up.
He says the situation Is az follows:
A group Of Republican business
men will leave Brookhart and will
vote for Herring. A much larger
group OF Democratic farmers and
working men now having been thor
oughly told by the business men that
Brookhart is trying to put the farm
ers and the working men on top will
vote for Brookhart and leave Her.
ring. Brookhart will win, and he
Will win by a great margin because
he Is gaining more Democratic votes
than he Is losing Republican ones.
Motoring fifty miles from Council
Bluffs found Brookhart In the lob
by Of hotel here In Harlan and ask.
ed him how much his campaign was
costing him. He said that his prim.
ary campaign costs him $47S, but
that he feared that his final sworn
statement would have to show that
his regular election campaign had
cost him as much as 5000. Thus we
see what an economy II would be to
Truman H. Newberry to adopt q
farmer-labor platform.
Brookhart spoke here last evening
in the auditorium Of the school build.
ing. This town 10 not on the main
line Of any railroad. The auditorium
Of the school building Is magnificent.
1t has the very latest system Of win
dow lighting. All the windows are
on one side, and they take ND lust
about the whole Of that side. That
side Is just about all glass. Then
for top lighting and for further mag
nificence there are great panels OF
glass in q lofty ceiling. Moreover on
the platform there Is full set Of
scenery for plays. These rural re-
VOTERS In Iowa are very modern.
The neighborhood here is all
rural. Also 1t Is normally very we'll
to do. I wondered how Brookhart
would present his philosophy here.
He presented 1t in precisely the
same way In which / heard him
present It during his primary cam.
paign to ah audience Of urban
mechanics in the town Of ottumwa
at the other end Of the State.
He said that out OF every dollar
which the working man pays for
his food the farmer who produces
that food gets only 81 cents. He
said that out Of every dollar which
the farmer pays for Industrial COM
modities the working man who puts
his work into these commodities
gets only IS cents. He said that
the people who get the rest Of each
Of these dollars are alway trying
to keep the farmer and the work.
ing man apart. He said that the
farmer and the working man in
Iowa were beginning now to use
their heads as well as their hands,
and he said: L.
: That's why I was nominated for
Senator and that's why I will be
elected" Much applause.
He then outlined his ideas for
the reformation OF railroads. II
lshevism is anything like these
ideas, 1t 10 difficult to see how the
Russian aristocrats keep awake lone
enough to get executed for resist.
ing II.
Broolhart wants the Interstate
commerce commission to value the
railroads on o basis which win
not, be affected by the book
value" which the railroads write
down = for themselves. He also
wants the Interstate commerce com.
mission In valuing the railroads
to pay no attention TO the amount
OF "unearned increment" which has
accumulated on their real state