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Senator Moses Analyses Re-
suit in Minnesota as Real
Subject for Grief.
By WILLIAM HARD.

ternationalisnn ID not running in
The veins of Western farmer-labor
radicalism. Toward foreign af.
fairs the farmer-labor elements
are 104 per cent American"
Thus, from his own particular
special ''irreconcilable" stand
point, Senator Moses of New
Hampshire today cast his mind
back over his recent electioneer-
ing experiences in Minnesota and
defined his estimate of the influ-
ence of the victory Of Magnus
johnson on American foreign
policy.
Grieves Over Defeat.
AS chairman of the Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee,
Mr.. Moses is grieved by Magnus
Johnson's success. AS an opponent
OF the League of Nations and of
the League of Nations World Court,
1r. Moses is elated to discover that
the Farmer-Laborites are much
more opposed to what Mr.. Moses
calls "internationalism" than either
the Democrats or the regular Re-
publicans or the mildly progressive
farm bloc" Republicans.
It seems that extremes meet and
that while Senator Capper of Kan
eAs and Senator McNary of Oregon.
farm bloc" leaders, are favoring
the League World Court, the fight
against it will enlist the enthusi.
esm and the energies of Senator
Moses of New Hampshire and of
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut,
the Senate's outstanding convinced
Tories, and Of Senator Henrik Ship
Of Minnesota, the Senate's newest
ana farthest flung radicals.
Asked to explain this interesting
phenomenon, Senator Moses de-
clined to attempt an answer ex-
cept by repeating his statement that
the people who are forming and
promoting the farmer-labor move
nent are in their international
principles American"
1t would appear from Senator
Moses reports that in so far as the
farmer-labor movement succeeds in
spreading through the West it will
carry with it a new difficulty and
new obstacle for the statesmen
who are advocating American ac-
ceptance of American destiny in
ica1ly.
Affects Democrats.
1t is stated by Senator Moses
that the farmer-labor movement and
the other manifestations of rural
radicalism viii undoubtedly spread
beyond their present areas. Discus
sion Is thereup0n here aroused as to
the effect which thus will be pro-
dueed upon the Democratic party
with his present policy of interna.
tional political cooperation between
the United States and the Eu-
ropean powers
The dominant conclusion is that
one of two things will happen.
1. The Democratic party will
abandon or mitigate its policy of in
ternational political cooperation in
order to attract the western States
in which the farmer labor move
ment is detaching the voters from
their Republican allegiance; or
z. The Democrats will stick to
their internationalism and surrender
these western States next year to a
combat simply between Harding.
representing the Republicans, and
La roulette, representing a third
party.
In the first case the Presidential
election will be fought next year on
q basis which in these dispatches
has been several times predicted. II
viii be fought with only a slender
margin of difference between Re-
publican policy and Democratic
poncy IN the matter of foreign
affairs.
The Republican party will be in
favor of isolation tempered by CO.
operation. The Democratic party
VIII be in favor of co-operation
tempered by isolation. And the
temperlng in each case will be al
most as important as the fayoring.
La Toilette Is Factor.
Such is the most likely nrosnect
at this present moment. II. how
ever, the Democratic Party should
persist in an outright affection for
the League, and If il should norni-
nate somebody like Senator Rals,on
Of Indiana, who is one of the most
arden pro-leaguers in this country.
then the Democrats would be pro.
noting the chances of Senator La
Toilette, who Is an ''irreconcilable"
az well as progressive" and who
therefore will be able in farmer-labor
areas TO defeat any Democrat who ia
a progressive" but not an ''irrecon.
cilable'
The fact is that it becomes clearer
0IA lIldI Lid OllclJo at laSt
Is accommodating a following which
agrees with him on international as
well as on domestic issues. His col
leagues in the farm bloc" in the
Senate have been most of them pro.
leaguers. Now in the rear of the
farm bloc" thsre has risen a move.
ment more radical than the farm
bloc" and agreeing with La Toilette
in his most drastic ideas, including
his absolutely Uncompromising re.
sistance TO all ferns of Wilsonion
leagues or league courts.
Fear La Toilette.
Both parties fear the growth OF
the La Toilette influence. Botf
parties will be under the strongest
temptations to make concessions &c
IL. La Foflette's influence is usual
~ considered only as an influence
on domestic questions. The fact Il
that he and his following and tn,
fervent desire of both parties Il
wrench that following from hin
from Detroit to Seattle may in 1872.
;. determine the policy of the United
States toward all Europe from Lon
DON to Moscow.
Copyright, 1929. Washington Press
Service.)