The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-30
Defeat Of Reactionaries Pleases La Folleette Control of Government Is Being Wrested from
 Politicians

Washington, June 30-'"The hour has struck when the react1onary poll. ticians who have been in control of the policies of this government must go back to the people"
 Senator Robert M LaFollette-- Battling Bob''-brought his good right fist down upon the table before him as he shot these words out with
 the stinging zip-zip-zip of rifle bull lets.
 enth birthday recently by delivering a fiery onslaught upon the United States Supreme court before the C1n- | cinnau convention of the American Federation of Labor. Although now within three years of the biblical all lotment of three score years and ten he has lost none of the 'punch that gives to his utterances a telling force that holds the attention of even those of his Senatorial colleagues who dis agree with him. He does not look and he does not act like a man or sixty-seven, and his friends say the enthusiasms flowing within him are keeping him young.
 The victory of Colonel Smith W. IBrookhart, in the Iowa Senatorlai prrniaries made La Toilette happy. He worked hard for Brookharts nomina- ton, and his friend, Dante M Pierce, owner of a string of influential mid Western farm publications, went the limit to help put the Iowan over in tle face or the regular ESpuplICaL organization of Iowa
 It was apropos of Brookharts vic tory that La Toilette gave voice to the above prediction that the "reac- tionary politicians' must now reckon with the people.
 Iowans Grasped Opportunity.
 "The voters of Iowa were given an opportunity to elect man represen- tative of the people of that state, and they did not permit the opportunity to slip through their fingers" said La Toilette. Already the truth is be- ginning to dawn upon Washington that the men and women of this country may not be fooled indefinite ly, that they entertain the same sound sentiments regarding public men and policies that other generations or Americans have held, and that so fast as they get the measure of unfa1th- full public servants they will retire them from office, regardless of party or faction.
 Ut was comparatively recently that Congr essnan Copley, of Illinois, a Republican member of the House Ways and Means committee,.an advo- cate of the Esch-Cummlns transpor- tation act and a sponsor for the
 moyennen to reduce surtaxes on big incomes, sought approval for his rec ord in the primaries of his state. He was defeated by a round majority ot $500 by a candidate running on progressive platform, advocating the
 
 denouncing Copleys regularity
 "A little later Senator Harry S. New, also a defender of the Esch- Cummins law. one of the inner circle of the old Guard and a recognized spokesman for the present admins tration, sought a renewal of his com mission tor six more years. He ap-
 pealed to the people of Indiana on the. basis of his record for loyalty to the Administration and it's poli- ~ies, which included the seating of Senator Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan. Senator New and the principles he espoused were repudia- ted by a majority of 2o,0o0-
 old Guard Temper Revealed
 "A chance remark which fell from the lips of a 'stand-pat Senator ac- which the old Guard received Col onel Brookharts victory and Senator News defeat and with which it is facing other primaries in which the re-electiN of old Guard Senators are at stake
 word had just reached the Capi- toI that Senator New was beaten Be moaning the fate that had befallen vented his feeling in a phrase:
 "'Damn the primaries'
 There you have the philosophy Of stand-patism and reaction, so well ex- enpIif1ed by the recent Cleveland ad- dress of Secretary of War Weeks The same forces which fought the estab- Ishment of the primary with every available weapon of obstruction and misrepresentation are still seeking to destroy an elective device which they have cause to fear by raising false issues.
 "The great underlying issue of 1922 is precisely the same as the issue up- on which the Progressives of Wis censin in the nineties gained the sup port of the people and later carried their pregramme-like flaming torch-to the other states of the Union