The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-08
BROOKHART MAY
 ELEVATE BRYAN ITO SECOND PLACE
Democrats and Farm Bloc Will Control Situation
 5n Next Senate
By CHARLES MICHELSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-senator Brookhart's demand on Chairman vice presidential candidacy in favor ot a progressive farmer isn't nearly so good a joke as it looks. At least it sounds like anything but a io!:c to the managers of the republican campaign.
 In the first place. it makes it more unlikely that their efforts to keep Iowa away from La Toilette can succeed, and in the second, and perhaps more i'm portant place, it makes it almost cer- tain that if the election is tied up that Charles W. Bryan would be chosen vice president.
 5 Until Brookhart's announcement there was the hope that when 1t came down to bedrock he and Norris of Nebraska, and Couzens of Michigan would regard their running as republic ans as binding them to vote for Dawes, the party's nominee, by an extension of the same logic that has kept them from attacking the republican ticket, even though they pointedly avoided say ing anything in it's favor. If these complexion of the senate remained un- changed the combined votes of the democrats and the remaining insurgents
  over.
 Rhode Island Senator
 In this connection the importance to the democrats of electing one of them selves to fill the vacancy in the Rhode Island senatorship caused by Senator Colts death ceases to be of immeriate importance. As long as it was possible that Brookhart, Norris and Couzens ~ IL Ala Ia VoI n rafI senatorship during the fragment of term that remains was vital. The presi- dency of the United States might very we'll have hung on this vote. As it is, the worries of the democrats will be over if they can succeed in holding Coolidge's electoral vote below 266. That task, by the way, is going to be rastly easier in the event that Book hart's defection turns Iowa's 13 votes tD La Toilette, as probably it will.
 The republicans have no way of get ting lack at Brookhart. The national committee tried to read him out of the party before the primaries-and the man they put up to take the nomina- ton away from him was showed under without Brookharts even troubling to leave Washington to see about it. They might gratify thirst for vengeance by voting for the democratic senatorial candidate, but they aren't fool with the senate lest they give the democrats a ma jority-a real majority, without ref erence to the insurgents-in the next congress.
 New Jersey Hopeful
 The situation in New Jersey looks helpful toward the attainment of this IiAajority in the new senate. Senator Edge, according to the lay of the pol itical land, is slated for defeat. With an Anti-Saloon league candidate run ming independent as a rebuke to Edges wetness, and Record, the radical, whose candidacy last time let in a democrat Instead of Frelinghuysen, again in the fight, it is difficult to see how Edge can fare any better than did Freling- hnysen, who did not have the Anti Saloon complication to contend with. Record got nearly 100000 votes in 1922, when there was no La Toilette movement to help him, and will do at least as well this time.
 The New Jersey political landscape suggests Illinois, where the independ- ent candidacy of a man named Jenkins, who claimed La Follette's interests and advanced no other title to cOnsidera- ItOn, got llO,UUU NOlcS HI EepuUAiCdn primary and eliminated Medill Me Cormick, who, except for the radical invasion, had a certainty of the nom- iIiation. The question now is whether ex-Governor Deneen, the beneficiary of this episode, will not go down by the same route with Edge.
 New York has no senatorial election this year, but it has a particularly acute senatorial situation nevertheless. As usual with political matters in New York, this situation revolves around Al Smith and concerns the intense per sonal interest of Senators the intense personal interest of Senator Wads- worth in composing the governors defeat. According to republican req soning John W. Davis is going to lose the election, which, still following the logic of the G. o. P, means that some body else will be the democratic can didate in 1928. They assume that the struggle in the convention again will be between Smith and McAdoo and they expect Smith. as preliminary to that candidacy, will want a national audience and will therefore strive to