The Washington times., 1922-11-07

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give it's mind passionately in certain
regions to issues which in certain
other regions are negligible or even
unknown.
would look with bewilderment at
"deflation." In Iowa II would he
more likely to look at him with
bewilderment IL he failed to de-
nounce "deflation." In New York
"deflat ton" is no issue at all. In
Iowa IL is a supreme issue.
In Massa chusetts no candidate IL
going TO lose his political life be.
cause Of anything he did or did
not do regarding the Esch-Cummins
transportation law. In Minnesota
In considerable sections OF the erec.
torate candidate who voted
against the Esch -Cummins transpor-
tation law is hero of great no
bility. and candidate who voted
In favor OF II is just about m base
a villain as politics can produce.
In New Jersey and in Iowa large
numbers of voters are fervently in
;erested i'm the issue OF beer and
light wine. In Montana and in
Utah. where Mormonism thrives
and where the Mormon doctrine Of
total abstinanCe thrives also, the
issue OF beer and light wine is al
most dead.
Taxation is a lively issue every.
where. The tariff is lively issue
,I, xxyiH ha
the most influential OF all issues in
certain parts of the East. but not
In the West.
In the West today the most in.
fluential issues will he on the one
hand the wicked Esch- h-Cummins
Transportation Act and the wicked
"deflation' policy of the Federal
Reserve Board. and on the other
hand the beneficent loans OF the
War Finance Corporation to dis
tressed banks and to distressed
agricultural market associations
and the beneficent provisions OF
the law regulating the packers and
the law regulating the grain spec
ulators and all the other laws in
stigated by the farm bloc.
This IL 40 until one comes TO
California. There the political scene
Ia again considerably shifted and
the language Of the political actors
shifts with II. In California one
hears less about the farm bloc and
one hears more about the great ma
tional issue which consists OF put
| ting a dam in the Colorado river
and of spreading irrigation and
civilization in the Imperial Valley.
A trip from coast to coast ought
to convince almost anybody that
this country Is a sort OF league Of
tinCtive regions and with many
conflicting outlooks on life. cal
culate now that one reason why
the United States hesitates to
enter the League Of Nations is
that II finds itself sufficiently
busy trying to arrive at unified
policy within itself toward itself
without trying to arrive at any
policy toward Cechoslovakia In It's
relations to Poland.
The second thing that I think could
be safely said about today's election
I will illustrate from an experience.
I have this year been in ten States
in which from the standpoint of do.
mestic issues-such as labor or
such as "the trusts" or such az tax
ing the rich"-there seemed to be a
particularly clear difference between
the Senatorial candidate of one party
and the Senatorial candidnte OF the
other. In five OF these States the
Democratic candidate was the more
progressive" In five of them the
Republican candidate was the more
progressive"
And the five Republicans were
more ferocious than the five Demo
Gratis. The Democrats were Spellacy
of Connecticut. Copeland of New
York. Reed of Missouri. Wheeler Of
Montana and King OF Utah. The
Republicans were johnson Of Cali.
fornia, Frazier OF North Dakota.
Brookhart of Iowa. La Toilette Of
wisconsin. and France Of Maryland.
Anybody will admit that the total
Of menace and terror In the five
Republicans Ia worse than the total
NJ Il IN the five Democrats--fror,
the standpoint OF any hysterical
conservative.
one wing Of itself out around the
Democratic party and IL prepared
to play certain part Of the
radical end az well az certain part
OF the reactiona~y end against the
Democratic moderate middle. That
Republican situation OF both ends
against the middle Ia the principal
Republican strategic advantage In
today's election but aleo the prin.
cipai prophecy OF possible Repub.
lican internal pains In the election
OF 1924.