The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-25

many normally Democratic districts !
were caught in the landslide of Repub- |
licanism III 1920 and that the change
to Democracy again is inevitable. The !
Republican chess players have already
counted those pieces as lost.
What the Republican administration
really expects Is not a duplication of
1920 by any means, but a healthy pre-
war Republican victory. This is not
admitted. of course, by the Democrats
who enthusiastically 90 forth to battle
believing that the Republicans will suf-
fer heavy losses including control of
the house of representatives at least.
Revolt Against Existing Order.
Quite apart from the political and
there is something in the situation
which the regulars" in both parties do
not relish. There are symptoms of re-
volt against the existing order. Even
the label Republican" when worn by
radicals develops no feeling of cOmrade.
| terdays There's new type of Repub
| lean whose kinship is closer to the rad
! zeal or progressive Democrat of 1912, the
| group that helped Wilson into power
! against a divided Republican party or
| closer, if YOU like, TO the Bull Moose
| crusaders who swelled Roosevelt's vote.
| No common denomination can be found
| for all the political uprisings which the
| primary elections of the last few months
| have deveIoped The views of Brook
| hart of Iowa, Frazier of North Dakota,
| Beveridge of Indiana. Johnson of Cali
| fornia and LaFollette of Wisconsin. and
| incidentally PinchDt of Tock-ribbed
! PENNSYLVANIA, are much more like those
! of a William Jennings Bryan than a
| Warren G. Harding, titular leader OF
the Republican party.
That's the reason the chief worry in
! Washington in the conservative admins
! tration circles is not whether the Re
/ publicans will beat the Democrats. but
! what kind Of Republicans will come here
| 10 sit in congress. The administration
experience with the farm bloc. especially
/ in tariff-making and in the embarras-
| ments of the boHus--which commanded
| almost the unanimous support OF west
| ern states-has been a Disappointing
| one. The pressure of conflicting inter
| ests the almost irreconeilable attitude
| Of the agricultural West and the bank
ing and manufacturing East make. it
| necessary that either Que or the other
/ OF these Republican types shall domin-
ate i'm government if any legislation is to
be passed or checked according to its
! merits.
Conflict of Sectional Interests.
The congress Just adjourning en-
| braced a series of deadlOcks in which the
lack of outstanding leadership was not
so much the absence of dominating or
! of the two sections of the United States
the East and the West-aided and
| abetted by Democrats from the South,
some of whom leaned with one group
! and some with the other.
The optimist has much to comfort
| him about the experiences of the govern
| ment with after OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| for he opines that matters might have
been worse and that the spirit of change
fulness has been arrested for the time
| being at least One hears it said fire.
| quentlv that if the elections had been
| held eight to 10 months ago. there might
| have been a change in party. These
| differences have been drawn because OF the
many complaints that have been pour
| ing i'm here as the troubles OF reconstruc-
| ton multiplied and neOnle began to real
| iZe that DAYS like those before the war
were still far away.
| Congress is going home to check up.
TO get line on public opinion and to
sweep aside preiudices formed at lone
| range Whatever else may be said of
| the result. il is clear thai the verdict viii
be more positive than 1920 irrespective
| of the size of the majorities. This Is
| because the woman vote has been tHbu-
| lated and because there are no third
marty movements of any consequence.
| II win be easy to tell whether the ma
ton has turned from the conservative
to the social progressive or even radical
| fringe" The nersonal views of the can
didates are not lost IN maze OF presl-
| Dental equations. There are no foreign
| issues to speak of-the issues are al
| most entirely domestic. 1t ought to
bring a result of unmistakable meaning,
no matter which label wins the election.
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