The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-30
FolIeette

, ''Tho issue is simply the old di- vision between those public men and equal opportunity and individual free dom under the Constitution for the masses of the people and those who would pervert the government, and tenn, Federal regulation of railroad rates and the natural resources of the country to enrich certain favored in terestS.
 Reactionary Game Plain.
 'tNo man of ordinary intelligence can study the campaigns being waged in different sections of the country without recognizing the game of the reactionary forces.
 With diabolical cunning the re- actlonarieS endeavor to hide their real purposes from the public veiw It would not do, it seems, to put their case squarely to the people. Wherever possible when a particularly reaction ary tool of the special interests must defend a particularly obnoxious rec ord before his constituents, the pow erful forces behind him obtain a let ter of endorsement from some who is willing to prostitute himself flor that purpose. This subterfuge was unsuccsesfully tried in Illinois and Iowa, and it is being tried now in Michigan. It will also fail there.
 But the chief reliance of the re- actionaries is the cry of 'radicalism' raised against every progressive can didate who by his record in public life has demonstrated that he cannot be bought, fntiInidated or cajoled.
 "In Iowa the reactionaries fought Colonel Brookhart as a radical He urged the repeal of the Esch-Cum- m1ns law just as he opposed it's enact ment in 1920. He declared for an dier bonus and championed free speech, free press and free assem- blaze and other fundamentally demo- cratic principles which, up until the present decade, had never been seri- ously questioned in America, Yes, they called Colonel Brookhart a 'radi- call but he won over the forces of reaction which are now out in North political life of Senator Porter J. McCumber, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who is under taking to defend the present iniqui-
 Denounced as Radicals.
 "McCumber's opponents are being denounced as radicals His friends are pointing to him as the exemplar of conservative statesmanship. His opponents are attacking his vote for the Esch-Cummins law and for New berryism'; they are finding fault with his efforts to shift the tax burden from large to small incomes. That is the rnea sure of their 'radica1ism.'
 'In Massa chusetts, in Michigan, in Mime esota-wher a Senator who has faithfully served the special in terests must face an outraged people this year-his record for connivance in the milking of the public through railroad rate guaranties, monopoly tariff rates and repeal of taxes on swollen profits and incomes is defend ed, and his opponents are pilliried as radicals seeking the disruption of the governn ent.
 But the real issues of 1922 casl- not be downed at the whim of re- actionary candidates to whom they have become embarrassing. Upon these issues, wherever they are hon estly and fairly presented to the American people, progressive candi- dates, pledged to defend the interests of the farmer, the worker, the legi- timate business man and the great mass of consumers, will be triumph antly elected to office"