Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
Iowa @. o. p. Jeered and Praised
For Welcoming Back Brookhart

Did the regulars bag Brookhart or
was Brookhart bagged by the regu-
lars when the Iowa Republicans in
convention restored the erstwhile in
surgent Senator to good party stand
ing and at the same time Endorsed the
Coolidge administration? Many OBJ
servers agreed with the view of the
Springfield Republican independently
that IL is difficult to determine who
did the bagging. Anyhow, says the st.
Paul Pioneer Press independent Re
publican):
LAS harmony conventions go 1t was
a great success. Candidate Smith w.
Brookhart. who was thrown to the
wolves not longer than two years ago,
only to come back with the wolf in
side, was welcomed to the fold Count
one for harmony. But at the same
time there was a bouquet of flowers
for President Coolidge. Count two
for harmony. On the other hand it
was felt that fire and sulphur would
he q proper diet for Messrs. Hoover,
Jardine and Mellon. Count three for
harmony Nevertheless. the admins
tration was considered a pretty good
fellow Count four for harmony. Not
withstanding all this. however, the
failure of farm relief was a very great
.
Brookhart himself was anxious for
harmony. but 1t would be a great mis-
take to forget that it has been the
party and not Mr.. Brookhart that has
changed"
An Endorsement of the primary sys-
tenn is seen by the Des Moines Trib-
une in the result. Iowa." says the
Tribune, was one of the first States
TO accept the primary: just how ef-
fective it is in bringing general agree
ment and accord on what is the popu-
lar will was shown in the Republican
State convention
Another Iowa paper, the Sioux City
Tribune independently. thus vigorously
denounces the whole proceeding:
Delegates assembled at the Iowa Re-
publican convention. TO state the case
mildly, earned classification as a cow
ardly pack. They manifested mex
cusable cowardice. They permitted a
few pork politicians to jockey the
rules of supposedly deliberative body
and throttle free expression. Largely
| because of this steam roller system,
under which the delegates had for
reited the representative rights which
had been bestowed upon them, the
convention uttered no word of criti-
cism for President Coolidge's fight
against agricultural equity. Fully
90 per cent of the delegates were
privately hostile toward the course
which the national administration had
taken"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Gndepend-
ent), describing the convention as a
love feast with applesauce as the piece
de resistance wants to know: Does
the Republican party in Iowa think
that it can be both pro-administration
and anti Coolidge? Were the Repub-
lican leaders forced to recognize Mr..
Brookhart as the best way of checking
the Lowden boom and protecting the
interests Of President Coolidge? Are
the people to conclude that the Re
publican party in Iowa repudiated Mr..
CumminS and all his works when 1t
gathered Mr. Brookhart so tenderly
into it's arms?"
Nevertheless, the Providence jour
nal independent Republican, finds that
Iowa has rebuked factiOnalism and
stressed party regularity. Which idea
is destined to larger acceptance in the
West in the next few months" asks
the Rhode Island daily; this Iowa
policy of Cancellation or the uncon-
ciliatory Borah program" The Man
CIlcSISI CLlOn UUuopeI1ueHJ hepuD-
lican) also declares that the outstand.
ing fact is that points of difference
with administration policies may arise
in various sections, but they are not
sufficient to overcome the general APP
prevail which the administration has
won. His party" continues the Union,
lis not disposed to break with Calvin
Coolidge. and that is as true in sup
posedly rebellious Iowa as in any East
ern State" And the Portland (Oreg.)
Journal independently believes that,
despite all the discussion, 'the Iowa
Republican convention is a most hope
full sign" because. after more than
100 years, Iowa Republicans are be-
ginning to understand" and have is
sued "a call for legislation which will
permit the establishment of an Amer
lean price level for agricultural prod
ucts above the worlds price level"
<''Once Congress adjourned remarks
the Worcester Gazette independently,
these barbarians of the Middle West
were expected to break loose with fire
and sword to ravage and despoil the
holdings of the Republican party.
Yet, behold Here are the Iowa
radicals, the unframed Cossacks of the
Western plains. And-the wild Nance
y IS