Evening star., 1930-06-13

National significance in the success
OF Representative L. j. Dickinson in
the Republican United States senatorial
primaries In Iowa appears inmany press
comments. Farm support for President
Hoover and for the pending tariff bill is
believed by some to be indicated,
though others would await the Novem-
Der elections for more accurate deter
nination Of the facts.
THE result appears to show" ac-
cordtng to the Buffalo Evening News,
that farmers of the Corn Belt want
this tariff and that they have not been
favorably impressed with the opposition
which has been holding it up for so
long in their name" The Sioux Falls
Daily Argus-Leader feels that ut will
not surprise the East to hear that Iowa
does not consider the tariff a bit of
atrocious blundering"; that "the East
is vigorously opposed to the present tar
IN bill and its opposition is based upon
the high schedules on foodstuffs." That
paper continues: Before permitting our
selves to forget 1t entirely, we should be
reminded that the present tariff con-
tainS the highest levies ever placed upon
the importation Of farm products. It
also contains, however, some high in
dustrial levies that are not desirable
from an agricultural viewpoint The BILL
work and may produce international re-
taliation. Agriculture will be happy, of
course, If 1t can be revised with the re-
tention OF the present schedules on
foodstuffs. But If the question is
thrown wide open, some of them may be
lost in the shuttle"
Emphasizing the points that Repre-
sentative Dickinson defended the tar
III bill" and that he was "a victor with
a clear majority over the field of three
Press Telegram points out that. Gov.
Hammill, his chief competitor, vigor-
ously attacked the national admins
trattons efforts for agricultural relief
and was especially critical of its tariff
policies" and concludes that the vote
In Iowa may be accepted as forecasting
executive approval of the measure, un-
less unexpected changes are made"
The real issue was Hoover, not the
tariff" in the opinion of the GAINESVILLE
Gazette. "The voters of Iowa, in select
Ing Dickinson, have said to the Nation
that they are not pleased with Brook
hart and his sniping policy. They did
not care to give the insurgent bloc an
other vote with Hammill, and they have
therefore repudiated him by q great
majority" Contrary to this view is
that OF the Dayton Daily News, which
declares that the nomination Of Dick
inson means that a second Iowa Re-
publican will vote with the insurgent
Republican bloc in place of a nominal
Democrat, Steck, who, owing his seat to
the Republican regulars, usually voted
with them when there was any special
need for his vote, The Iowa
primary the South Dakota primary, and
the general prospect In the West confirm
the view that the States of the Corn
Belt are firmly set in their insurgency"
states the Daily News.
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Apparently the victory of Mr.. Dick
inSon on clear tariff issue against
Gov. Hammfll, who denounced the BILL"
contends the Springfield (Mass.) Union,
has served to put q complete Quietus
on the Grundy bogy. The whole politi-
cal theory OF the coalition was to form
an anti-administration union between
the South and the agricultural States
west of the Mississippi. There Is no
question that had Gov. Hamrnill won
the nomination on his issue of oppoSi-
ton to the tariff bill it would have been
hailed by Senator Harrison and other
Democratic political spokesmen as O
public revolt against the measure In the
agricultural as well as industrial States"
Suggestion that perhaps the biggest
blunder that can be credited to Ham
mill was his attack on the tariff bill,
his criticism of Dickinson for having
voted for it." is made by the Waterloo
Tribune. while the Spokane Spokes-
sees Gov. Hammill as
"lured on to political destruction" In
campaigning against the pending |
tartH bill"