Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-06
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IN IOWA PRIMARY
erookhart's Apparent Victory Is
Further indication Of Pop.
ular Uprising
3 ISSUES DIVIDE VOTERS
By CLINTON w. GILBERT
stah Correspondent Ev.n,ne pub,,c Is,,er

copyright 1879. b. Public Ledoer Com pony
washington. June G.-The nomina.
non OF Smith Brookhart for senator
IN iowa. which seems likely on the
returns thus far received. is another
oiHw to the Republican machine,
roliowlng upon the victory of Rev.
eridge In Indiana md Pinchot in Penn.
tsiVania, ii will add to the confusion
e. IN" old guarl in the United States
T.. At the end Of this month Senator
Mr' lumber should be defeated in the
be complete.
There Is nothing in common in the
success Of Bcveridge. Pincho, and
Brookhart. except the rising of the Re.
nuoiican voters against the machine.
inc Beveridge victory seems to have
oeen partly personal. The Pnchot VIC
.ory Is apparently straight. .out re-
VoIt against the machine. The Brook.
mart victory represents radicalism
among the farmers as well as disgust
with the machine.
Voters Seek Control
In none Of these States is any turn
ing OF the voters away from the Re.
publican Party noticed. The Repubi-
can voters, especially the women. are
reaching out for the control of the
party, determined to bring better and
stronger men to the front than the or
gnnization wishes nominated
Congress has come to have new
Importance in the national life. Taxes
as result Of war expenses are heavy.
And II Is Congress which determines
where taxes will fall Railroad rates
are high as result of increasing costs
Of operation. And one great issue be.
fore the country is the shifting of the
costs of transportation from raw ma.
terials and food products shipped in
bulk to luxuries and articles shipped
in packages. The control and use of
credit as result of the experiments
conducted during the war has assumed
a new Importance.
All Of these things are in the hands
lof Congress. which may say OH whose
! shoulders the heaviest burden of taxa
ton shall rest. who shall be favored
in railroad rates. who. II any. shall
benefit by use of credit available to
the Government. For many years these
three issues will be issues upon which
the people will divide. The decision of
| them rests with Congress. And while
this remains true, public attention will
center upon Congress as it has not
since the days when the slavery issue
was fought out In It's halls.
Congress Machine Slips
! At n moment when Congress has
more vital problems before it than for
hnlf century. the congressional ma
chine has broken down. Inadequate
men occupy posts of Importance. 1t is
this. whether the public stops to ana
! lcSa = ,rhi,h Lo
activity Of voters in choosing their own
men in the primaries to represent them
In the Senate.
In Iowa the issues were precisely
these which l have just described a.
certain TO divide the country for many
years to come, the incidence Of taxa
tion and of the costs Of transportation
and the use of Government credit.
1ir. Brookhart attacked the Esch =
Cummins law. And in truth he has
support to an extent right in President
Harding's Cabinet. where It Is freely
said that the recent cut in railroad
rates will do little good because it was
horizontal instead of being applied
merely to commodities thc lessening OF
rates upon which would contribute to
the general prosperity.
lie attacked also the tax laws passed
By the Republican party last year. whicl
are frankly admitted even by those who
enacted them to be only makeshift
And he will stand with the more radica
farmers in any use they wish to make
of Government credit TO further thu
ends of their industry.
Advanced Farm Bloc Man
Mr.. Brookhart will be an advanced
/ farm bloc man, perhaps the leader o
, the left wing OF that bloc. ] cannot de
: scribe better what his nomination ant
, election will mean than by saying tina
y Senator Cappcr. ex-senator Kenyon
and the others prominent in the bio
are primarily Republicans and only sec
ondarly representatives, of the farm in
terests Mr.. Brookhart will be pri
mariy an agrarian and only sccondar
ily a Republican.
The machine made an immense effor
d 10 head him off. nominating five candi
dates against him TO so split up tn
vote that ne would not receive the 3
q per cent necessary to nominate unde
4 the Iowa law.
The appearance in Washington of
q few more men like Brookhart will fur
d ther ndd TO the confusion here unit
, some new working basis is found, tn
" country has to discover some metho
d under which it may divide. as the in
, terests of sections and classes dictat,
upon these three great issues which
d have described. the shifting Of taxa
"a tion. the shifting of costs of transpor
tation and the control Of credit. an
- still unite for the purposes OF accom-
a plish!ng legislation. The union will tai
place under present party standard
N But the control Of the parties wi
I'd change hands.