Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-09
EAST-WEST BREAK
IN c. 0. P. SPURRED
BY MOSES REMARK
Reference to "SonS of Wild
Jackasses" Brings Hint of
Removal From Leadership.
SITUATION RECALLS RIFT
ON PAYNE-ALDRICH BILL
PrOgressives Watch "0ld Guard"
for Possible Opposition in
Next Primaries.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


Senator George H. Moses character
szation of Republican Progressives in
the Senate who have joined in coali-
ton with the Democrats on the tariff
bill as 1.-THE sons of wild jackasses" has
served to emphasize still further the
bitterness which has been developing
for weeks between Republicans of the
East and Republicans of the West.
This bitterness does not augur well
for the congressional and senatorial
campaign which must be waged by the
Republicans next year to retain control
of Congress.
Veteran politicians were recalling to-
day the rift which grew IN between the
Republicans of the East and West back
in 1909, when the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill was put through, with industrial
tariff duties raised, in complete dehance
of leaders and the rank and hle In the
Middle West and the West. Ihat rnt
led not only to a turnover in the pol1ti-
cal control of Congress, but also IN tne
end to the Bull Moose revolt ana 10
Democratic victory on natlonaI scale.
Senator Moses was criticized Vlgor-
ously in the Senate yesterday because
of his uncomplimentary deScrlptlon OF
the members of the Senate coalitlon;
which has taken charge OF tarH Dill
writing in the Senate.
The matter was first called 10 the aI-
tention of the Senate by a Western
Democrat, Senator Wheeler OF Montana
the running mate of the la& Senator
Ia Toilette of Wisconsin on the lnoe-
pendent progressive ticket in the 1924
presidential campaign. But the attack
was carried forward by Republican
Senators from the West, including Boran
of Idaho, Norris of Nebraska, Nye OF
North Dakota, Brookhart OF Iowa ana
others.
Anti-Moses Feeling Strong.
The feeling was particularly strong
against Senator Moses because ne nap
pens to be the chairman OF the sena-
torial campaign COMMITTEES and presi-
dent pro tempore OF the Senate. HIS
COMMITTEES Is expected to lead In the
campaign for the election OF Republican
Senators next year.
western Republican Senators and
even Republican Senators from some
of the Eastern States are asking how
he can conscientiously go into Western
States and urge the reelection OF
Republicans whom he has characterized
now as the "sons of wild jackasseS. =
Some Of the progressives are seeking
place other candidates in the field
against them in the Republican
primaries next year, men more OF the
old Eastern stand-pat type.
Privately several of the Republican
Senators who have been regarded as
regular as clocks, from the East as
well as from the West, are deploring
Senator Moses ''wisecrack" at the
Western progressives, which was made
at dinner Thursday night given for
New England business men. The sug-
gestion has been advanced by some OF
these Senators that Senator Moses
should resign from the chairmanship OF
the senatorial campaign committee.
They believe that his usefulness as
campaign leader in the West has been
materially lessened.
The Democrats in the Senate, on the
other hand, are laughing up their
sleeves. They have been waiting pa
tiently for the break" which would
give them chance to pick up votes in
the Middle West and the West. They
have seen the press of the Western
states, Republican as well as Demo-
cratic, on fire against the tariff bill as
It passed the House and as it was re-
ported to the Senate. In coalition with
Republican Progressives they have
found it possible to play havoc with the
Senate finance committee bill. They
have heard Senator Reed of PennSyl-
Vania attack the Western Progressives
as "worse than Communists" and Jo-
seph r. Grundy, president OF the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers Associa-
ton, cast slurS on the backward
States of the West and their repre-
sentatives in Congress. They believe
that real opportunity is looming. to
build up their party in the West be-
cause of resentment against the Repub-
lican old guard of the East.
Harrison's Invitation.
The Democratic party has followed
the Democratic donkey for years, and
as Senator Harrison of Mississippi
pointed out, perhaps the "sons of wild
jackasses" in the Republican West may
find it easier now to go along with the
Democrats.
western Republican Senators are
commenting upon the fact that the
Progressive and regular factions OF the
G. o. P. functioned perfectly together
during the Hoover presidential cam
paign and much of the old bitterness;
appeared to have disappeared. Theil
mail from their home States, they say
now indicates that a very different feel
ing is alive, and that there is marked
resentment because of the attitude o.
Eastern Republicans toward the de-
mands of the West.
The present makeup of the Senate
is SIS Republicans, 80 Democrats,
Farmer-Labo and vacancy, TO which
William S. Ware of Pennsylvania, Re.
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