Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-02
BROOKHART FLAYS DAWES,
DEMANDING RESIGNATION
AS CANDIDATE OF PARTY
Iowa Senator in Letter to
Butler Says Chicagoan
Has Wrecked Republican
Campaign in the Northwest

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-Senator Smith
w. Brookhart, of Iowa, has made
public the text of a letter he mailed
to Chairman William M. Butler OF
the Republican national committee
condemning the record Of Charles
G. Dawes, Republican vice presi-
Dental nominee.
"Charles G. Dawes has wrecked
the Republican campaign, especially
in the northwest" Senator Brook
hart wrote.
He details his charges and con-
cludes the letter with this paragraph:
For these reasons / desire to re-
quest that the Republican national
committee take steps to secure the
resignation of Mr.. Dawes as the
Republican candidate for vice presi-
dent. In his place there should be
selected a farm bloc candidate, not
an imitation farm blocer, but one of
the fighting type like Senator Nor
ris, of Nebraska, in whom the farm
ers have the utmost confidence
Senator Brookhart is seeking re-
election on the Republican ticket in
Iowa.
Text Of Senator's Letter
The text of Senator Brookhart's
letter follows:
Charles G. Dawes has wrecked
the Republican campaign, especially
in the northwest. He started out
like bold-faced 'plutogog' but his
discourtesy and ungentlemanly Ian
guage quickly reduced him in his
own vocabulary to a mere 'peewit
plutogog.'
His 'sulphuretted hydrogen bank
record, as established by the SUI
preme court of Illinois the day he
was nominated, renders him unfit
Tor the public service, and he should
be removed as the candidate for
his party as DENLY and Daughetrty
were removed from office. His Off
clal defense in this transaction by
a noted Democratic lawyer only
makes this conclusion more en-
phatlc. The claim that he was ig.
norant of the import of his act and
only regarded it as a friendly favor
ADDS color to the general claim that
his own advertised financial ability
Is only bluff and that he acts as
the agent of international banking
powers. The further defense that
all bankers are doing the same
thlng is resented even by the bank
ers themselves
Under the false pretense Of 10y.
atty he has organized disloval
group to conduct an illegal defense
or the constitution of the United
States with the secret purpose of de-
stroy1ng the constitutional rights Of
union labor, while the Pure Oil com.
pany in which he is interested is
oelng sued by the government for
VOCATION of the criminal law. He
Is an insult to the whole laboring
world, and his sinister designs are
SO well known that he will certainly
lose the whole labor vote.
In addition to all this, his most
dangerous and offensive act in this
| compalgn in his insult to the coon.
eratlVe movement in agriculture. He
! mas Drazenly denounced as dema-
Sogues and hypocrites all those who
favor and speak for the increase of
the pric eof beef on the hoof and
me decrease of it's price on the table.
This amazing statement shows
profound ignorance of the whole CO.
operative idea. A joint commission
of congress investigating this sub
ject found that out of the dollar
which the laborer pays for the prod
ucts of the farm, the farmer only
gets 81 cents.
Enemy of CO-iperatives
Even this reprt is probably white
washed, and if the exact facts could
be known the farmer probably gets
less than rs cents, but whatever the.
exact figures may be every farm or
ganizer in the United States and
every cooperative orga nizer, in the
United States is teaching the doe
trine that this enormous expense of
distribution is unjust and is taken
fl ON both the producer and the con-
sumner in excess profits. These same
organizations teach that co-opera-
ton in credit, in processing as in
distribution of farm products will
increase the share Of the farmer In
this dollar to something like so
cents, and at the same time decrease
the cost TO the laboring man some
thing like 10 cents or Is cents in
each dollar.
They back up these conclusions
by citing instances all over the
world where cooperation has actual
" accomplished ines ereSulls. III
the face of all this Dawes insults
that stamps himself as the emphatic
representativ eof the profiteering
class that preys upon both farmer
and labor.
For these reasons I desire to re-
quest that the national Republican
committee take steps to secure the
resignation of Mr.. Dawes as Repub-
lican candidate for vice president. In
his stead there should be selected
farm bloc candidate, not an imita'
ton farm blocer, but one OF the
fighting type like Senator Norris, Of
Nebraska, in whom the farmers
hav ethe utmost confidence"
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To Pyovont Husband