Evening star., 1922-08-04
SEE ESTEADY|NG UP
OF c. 0. P. POLICIES
Platform of Party Convention
in Iowa Satisfying to Ad-
ministration Republicans.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

Advices received today in high ad-
ministration quarters from Iowa of
the action OF the republican state
convention yesterday upon th2 franz
ing of a platform for the coming
campaign in that state are declared
to be emincntly satisfactory to the
administration and the regular re-
publicans.
The work of the convention is re-
garded by republican national lead
ers as of more than passing i'm
portance. and designed to- have far
reaching influence upon republican
platform making efforts to follow in
other states. 1t is expected to have
a establishing effect upon republican n
policies and marks the frst steady
middle west.
AS reported to Washington by pri-
vate advices the convention voiced a
wonderfully enthusiastic" indorse-
ment Of President Harding and Sena-
tor Cummins. The significance of
Brookhart. recently nominated for
the Senate on platform of highly
radical declarations, did not dominate
the convention and did not stampede
the regular republicans OF Iowa into
an advanced progressive position.
Brookhart Supports Platform.
Satisfaction was expressed that Col.
Brookhart subsequently announced his
support of the platform as adopted,
and, although he was not mentioned in
1t. while Senator Cummins. his politi-
cal antithesis, was. he will go along
with the majority faction and will not
endeavor to make split. At the same
time he declares he will proceed with
the advocacy Of the radical PROPOSE
tions he has put forward and will not
retract any of the promises he made
in tie primary campaign to effect
wonderful things for the plain people.
by the senatorial nominees course yes
terday to hope that If elected to the
Senate, as there is every reason to
think he will be. he will not bolt from
the regular organization of the party,
but will follow a reasonable policy in
the Senate.
Republican leaders here today, in
conversation upon yesterdays action,
said that too much stress cannot be
laid upon the probable influence and
effect of the Iowa republican state
convention. There was an instance
-
spirit prevailing in an important re-
publican state Of the middle west. The
more radical progressiveS were predict
ing that Iowa was to lead a revolt
against the regular party and reflect,
by indirection. upon even the Harding
gress. With Iowa taking the lead, the
revolt was to spread throughout the
west, and the G. o. P. was to be head
ing straight for the rocks.
That forecast was apparently
strengthened by the senatorial pri-
maries, in which Col. Brookhart SO
signally defeated all the regular and
old guard republican candidates, and
upon the apparent Endorsement of his
radical theories and glowing prom
ises, as shown by the vote he rolled
up for himself.
Refuted by Conventien's Action.
But in the adoption of the platform
yesterday Iowa has, it is said. refuted
the doleful prophecies of G. o. P. dis
gruntlement and discord and really
set a standard for adherence to con-
servative republican policies. 1t is
recognised that had an opposite
course been followed by the conven-
tion and the platform makers, the de-
moralizing effect in other states might
have been serious.
Iowa and New York. two important
states to. the republicans, will be In
the lead of states upholding the ad
mlnistration and supporting the char
ter of the republican. party, to wit
the platform of the last republican
national convention upon which the
republicans went. to victory in 1920
1t will be recalled that the repub-
lican state committee of New York a
fortnight ago. in Issuing the call for
ste
Sentember 81, gave a ringing indorse-
ment of the Standardization and the
republican Congress. This will be
re-echoed in the state convention
later and offered as a standard for the
guidance of republicans throughout