Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-07
SENATOR BRo0KHART,s EXPLOSION

SENATOR BROOKHAR7vS EXPLOSION
senator brookhart OF Iowa lsrunning amuck again
Runnng amuck is his regular business and when he
attacked General Dawes and demanded his retirement
from the vice presidential race he surprised nobody
who knows hlm. For the senator is above all things
else political pariah, frebrand an inconoclast He
is all these without mixing metaphors.
The real animus for the attack is ne evident hope
OF Brookhart to aid the La Toilette campaign He is
himself standing for election United States
on the Republican ticket in Iowa. Though nominay
Republican he has thus far failed to support the ma
stonal ticket. His attack on the ticket now is
practical admission of his desire to help La Toilette
1t can hardly be said that Republicans welcome this
situation IN the erstwhie solid Republican state of
Iowa, but will doubtless to clarity the
phere and may prove help to their 1t is true
Iowa Republicans gave Brookhart majority at the
primary III May but good many things have happened
since then to weaken the of Brookhart and his
colleague, Robert NJ La Toilette. The principal thing
is tnat farm prices have soaring that date
Prosperity always knocks the props from under the
calamity howler.
General Dawes has not been specifically attacking
Brookhart But he has been demanding honesty in
politics. He has been unsparing of the demagogues.
He has been flaying the political pee-wits' 1t is
proper that Brookhart should respond. The hit bird
futters.
The burden of the Brookhart grievance is that
General Dawes candidacy SIS insult to labor"
Brookhart IS lawyer who never employed labor or
had to deal with 1t. He never contributed to labor
Through payroll. It is usually this kind of patriots
whose hearts most easily wrung with anguish.
ADawes is an employer of labor large scale. He
thus cooperates with labor in practical way. 1t is
the genius of such that keeps capital and labor
working together in the development of America the
greatest scale OF any nation IN all history The Charge
is that Dawes is fighting labor through 1.-The Minute
Men of the Constitution which he organized. This
came into being following the deporable Herrin mas
sacre, disgrace to civilization. He says of it,
Their platform is simply law enforcement, the con-
stitution of the United States and the American flag
Naturally this kind of organization does not appeal
to the Brookharts and La Foettes The labor has de-
cided scrap that fundamental instrument of our ma
tons strength. General Dawes has been boring in on
him and his kind in his vigorous addresses that are
arousing the American people The bloody blows
Dawes is delivering having their effect. Union
labor is officially committed to La Toilette, but the pad
leaders have never been able to deliver it. gagged and
bound. In November last two Chicago judges branded
by these leaders wo of the most notorious anti,
Injunction Judges were up for ielectlon. General
Dawes called his Minute Men to their defense Both
were triumphantly elected one OF them by majority
of three to one Patriotic aboring refused to fol-
low their paid leaders. This has always been So Inc
Minute Men have not taken single step toward the
omen shop General Dawes argues the rights OF LABOR
to engage in collective bargaining II ne were or tne
open shop he would doubtless have gone on record Tor
it. He generally goes after what ne wants he says
when begin to trim gone. .
over against the opinion of Senator Brookhart
concerning General Dawes may be set the OPINION OF
Worlds Work, of the greatest magazines OF the
country with Democratic leaning. lC says, IN tne
October number, .In Mr. Dawes the republican parry
has distinct asset He has the quality of leadership
He can stir the imagination and arouse men, Hiha0
and what is more important, their feelings. he mas
the faculty of making them act slngy IN groups or Ell
masse. He made the budget popular He assured the
acceptance of the Dawes plan more tnah anyone else
His GREAT international service not so much the
working out of that plan the dramatzaton OF 1t to
the Allied governments and the people OF the world
This is quality of leadership IL 1ate shOuid maze
Mr. Dawes president there would be leadership IN the
White House ., r
II is not conceivable that the thinking people of
Iowa or of the United States will be influenced against
Dawes by what Brookhart may say or do The latter
wont 70 Russia as it was safe to go ana flrted
with the Soyets and Boshevists there LenIn Irotsky
Emma Goldman and Big Bill Hayward all gave him the
Glad hand which they extend across the seas Cen
enral Dawes went to Europe and performed glorious
mart in the war He went back and did more than any
one else to save Europe and the world from chaos,
qe Md Rrooxbart and La Toilette had their way the
United States would now be German province our
liberties would have been gone, our taxes wouio pg
several times higher than they and they woulo
ali be paid as indemnity to Germany General DaWe0
NAV be defeated for vice president but that trivial III
cident will not prevent his Immortality in the pages Oh
history His fame is already fixed. lie Is the hoSC
conspicuous figure in the world today