Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Administration advocates were con-
siderably puzzled at this week end to
know what to do with the double pros
pect now on hand of economic insur-
gency in the West and alcoholic insur-
gency in the East. How to re-elect a
dry" conservative" President with the
help of a Northwest gone radical and
Of q Northeast rapidly going wet" was
regarded as Q problem worthy or the
best minds
Some vigorously optimistic admins
trationists declared either ironically or
seriously that the emergence of Mr..
Dwight w. Morrow Of New Jersey into
prominence and power as q popular
Eastern champion of "wetness' within
the Republican party would prove to be
q blessing of the greatest saving value
TO the party and to the President. They
based their paradoxical argument upon
the analogy furnished by the behavior
Of the mass Of the Northwestern insur-
gents in all years the last two numbers
OF which are Invisible by the number 4.
~
In years divisible only by the numer-
al 2, such as 1922 and 1926 and 1890,
the Northwestern insurgents 1t Is
pointed out, adopt q spectacularly anti
party attitude and acquire much fame
as party wreckers. This fame helps
them In their States and does not him
der or hurt them at Washington. At
Washington they continue to vote with
the Republican regulars In the partisan
organizing of the Senate and OF Its
committees and they continue TO enjoy
the reward of excellent personal ac-
commodationS in the Senate ONCE
Building and of excellent official as
signments to committee chairmanships.
The ultimate political effect-from a
strictly and narrowly Republican White
House point Of views miraculously
beneficial.
The States which produce the Repub-
lican insurgents are grained by the
audacities exhibited and by the posi-
lions achieved by their faVoTite sons In
the Federal Senate under the Repub-
lican banner. They behold Mr.. Nor
beck of South Dakota at the head OF
the Senate committee on banking. They
behold Mr.. Howell of Nebraska at the
head of the Senate committee ON
claims. They behold Mr.. Borah OF
Idaho at the head of the Senate COM
nittee on foreign affairs. They be-
hold Mr.. Frazier Of North Dakota at
the head of the Senate committee on
Indian affairs. They behold Mr.. Schall
of Minnesota at the head Of the SEN
ate committee on interoceanic canals.
They behold Mr.. Norris of Nebraska at
the head of the Senate committee on
the judiciary. They behold Mr.. La Fol-
lette of Wisconsin at the head OF the
Senate committee on manufactures.
They behold Mr.. Nye of North Dakota
at the head of the Senate committee
on public lands. They also behold
among the semi inSurgents-Mr. Nc
NInr rAf of Sen@
ate committee on agriculture, and Mr..
johnson of California at the head OF
TIE Sonata committee on commerce, and
Mr.. Couzens of Michigan at the head
OF the Senate committee on interstate
commerce.
They see. in short that the Repub-
lican Insurgents and semi-insurRents. in
proportion to their numbers, have bet
ter committee assignments than the Re-
publican regulars. They also see them
saying more things and doing more
things than the regulars. They see
them intimidating and coercing the
regulars They appreciate and applaud
the show, and they get accustomed to
seeing 1t conducted under Republican
auspices and with Republican stage
directors.
They thereupon gain so great q Re-
publican momentum that in years divis-
ible by four-Such as 1920 and 1924
and l928-they vote for Republican
President In the course of a continued
trance of automatic mesmerism.
In other words, according to this line
of reasoning. the Republican party
achieves its quadrennial presidential tri-
umphs by displaying . superior hospi-
koI Sva - kfwann IN 10
radioalism. 1t gathers the Western out
breakers under its wings, and then
every four years they break out q Re-
publican chief magistrate.
This far-sighted system, it is declared
by some of the adninistrational COM
mentators upon Mr.. Morrow's New Jer-
sey victory, was in effective operation in
the West, but till now had not been
adapted to the peculiar exigencies of
the East. In the West 1t had been
thoroughly established that you could
go off the deep end for Government
ownership OF the power trust and keep
right at 1t within the Republican party;
but In the East the opinion strongly
persisted and was rapidly growing that
In order effectively TO be for govern
ment ownership Of liquor dispensaries
you might have to swim on with Al
Smith into being Democrat.
This dismaying possibility-dismaying
10 Republican White House occupants
lis now, 1t is held. beginning to be
circumvented. Mr.. Morrow this next
week will be received at the White House
with every mark of personal esteem
and affection. He will not be rebuked
and minimized. He will be stroked
and aggrandized. 1t is hoped that he
will be to the vets of the East what
Mr.. Borah Is to the Progressives of the
West-a bell-wether with q rowing taste
and homing habit.
Time will disclose the further gripping
fact that large number of the Presi-
dents highest administrative appointees
are In personal essential agreement with
Mr.. Morrow. Time already dicloses the
spectacle Of the Presidents Republican