The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-03
RADICALS SEEK
NJ CORM|CK' s
SCALP
Farm-Labor Party Will Fight
illinois Senator for
Reelection.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

| A0V1CeS received. mere LOOdy 4IO
final proof that the Farmer-Labor
forces, out Of their strength in Iowa
and in Wisconsin and in Minnesota
and North Dakota. and Montana
and Nebraska, are invading Illinois
and are seeking candidate against
Mccormick for United StSteS Serla-
| tor next year on a sort OF Magnus
Johnson platform.
Mccormick Is aware Of this sit
uation, and In fact prOphesied 1t In
| the hearing Of this writer several
months ago; but no definite devel-
opment in 1t was clearly apparent
till within the last few days.
Part Of this development is a
foray into Illinois by Magnus john
son himself, who presently in U
speech at. Decatur will raise the
standard Of the farmer-labor move
ment on Illinois soil.
Have Financial Support.
Senator Brookhart Of Iowa long
ago informed this writer that I'LL
nois, Indiana, and Ohio, in the or
der named, are the. next detectives
in the farmer-labor advance.
In Illinois that advance Is now
being vigorously promoted by q
wealthy manufacturer--W. T. Raw
i IL Z
| his wealth il a devoted admirer and
q diligent supporter Of the policies
and activities OF Robert Marion
La Toilette.
Rawleigh contributes to the ''Peo-
pies Legislative Service" which Is
| the Washington headquarters of
| the propaganda of the La Toilette
Progressive Group; and he Is a
member Of the finance committee
of the La Toilette Conference on
Railroad Valuation"
Rawleigh and his friends, It is
here reported, would like to find q
"dirt farmer" with a radical wallop
who would seem likely to be able
chance of knocking him down. Fall
ing to find such q dirt farmer"
| these searcl1ers will content them
selves with q city-made radical
whom they will endeavor to COM
mend to the farmers as their res
cuer from Mccormick, who has
never been willing to join the
farm bloc"
It is remembered that the ma
tional Farmer-Eabor Party made
its first formal start in Illinois and
that 1t then captured many Of the
| Illinois smaller communities in
local elections.
/. Farmers Discontinued. -.
It is known that large numbers
Of Illinois farmers are now ex-
tremely disconnected because Of
low prices Of certain farm products;
and it is believed by Mr.. Rawleigh
and his friends that the time is
now ripe for a joint farmer and
labor attack upon Mccormick,
especially on his railroad trans
| portatton record.
He voted for the Esch-Cummins
transportation law, thus offending
the railroad trade unions, which have
been the backbone and, in fact,
pretty nearly the whole skeleton Of
| the labor part Of the farmer-labor
successes at the polls.
So the forces which made Gov
ernor Preus, Of Minnesota, their last
victim have picked Mccormick for
their next one. Mccormick friends
claim that he will not be such an
easy victim as Preus or Kellogg or
McCumber or any Of the other recent
sacrifices to the farmer-labor on
| Slaught.
They point out that Mccormick
has been thoughtful enough to have
a large dairy farm which he owns
and operates within the State Of
Illinois. They point out that he will
say that he differs from most men,
bers Of the farm bloc" in that he is
farmer. They contend that Nc
Cormick can show that he has voted
in the Senate for all progressive
farm legislation and they contend
especially that he will be able to go
to county fairs and talk farm talk
with al C0T1oora
Plans Busy Campaign.
This writer has reason to believe
that Mccormick will not shrink
from that talk. In the city Of Vienna
at one time this writer, on going to
report an interview between Nc
Cormick and President Hainisch. of
the Austrian republic, found both
those statesmen, as fellow-farmers.
spending most of their time dis
GUESSING the following international
question:
What is the best material for
the floor of a cow-shed?"
Mccormick will hold his own in
discussing farm problems. It Is
also claimed by his friends that he
will prove himself to be a reason
ably enlightened progressive" by
introducing into his speeches few
apt illusions to his experiences rs
follower of Roosevelt's in 1912
and also to his present experiences
as the Senator picked by the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor to be the
sponsor and the manager OF the
Standardization con tt t u o n
amendment on the Senate floor.
Above all, however, 1t will be
claimed for Mccormick that at the
early age of forty-six he has be-
come one of the most prominent
and distinguished Of Senators, with
q place on the Republican Sena-
torial Steering Committee, and that
1t would be foolish for Illinois to
dismiss this "boy wonder" when he
Is on the point Of becoming an
"elder statesman" before the age
of fifty and when he Is on the
point accordingly of giving Illinois
a long secure prominence ana IN
fluence in the counsels OF the ma
ton.
Gen. Charles G.. Dawes Of Illinois,
the first head of the United States
Budget Bureau, has acclaimed Nc
Cornlick as-"The Founder OF the
Budget" The Mccormick report on
Haiti and Santo Domingo Is the
basis Of the present American policy
in those countries. The McCor-
mick compromise between the SEN