Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-08

Senator Brookhart's defeat for re-
nomination and john D. Rockefeller
jr.'s desertion of prohibition are about
as big a brace of political sensations
as have staggered Washington in a
dogs age. Both events are rated sig
nificant in the highest degree. The de-
lection Of the Saloon League S
archangel is beyond all shadow Of doubt
blow in the solar plexus for the dry
cause Capitol Hills first-blush i'm
preston is that 1t makes positively Ger
tain that the Republicans will now
write a pretty wet plank into their plat
form at Chicago next week-repeal pos
sibly, and referendum surely. With the
Democrats long decided to take the
anti prohibition side of the argument,
it may turn out that Mr.. Rockefeller
has at one fell Swoop eliminated the
liquor issue from the 1892 presidential
campaign. If both party platforms are
wet or wettiSh, voters will make their
choice as between Mr.. Hoover and his
opponent on other issues. Depression,
under those circumstances. would be-
come the paramount one. The G. Q. r.
would not take it lying down. Its argu-
ment will be that Hoover inStigated re.
lief measures are all that saved q bad
situation from becoming catastrophically
worse and that -four more years Of Her
bert" will be better than swapping
horses in midstream.
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Iowa has revolted against the things
Senator Brookhart stands for, but ne
has fallen victim, many observers are
persuaded, to the rising tide OF nos
tility to members of Congress in gen
cral. Before the years primaries are
over it Is predicted that plenty OF otn-
ers in both houses, besides Senators
Brookhart, Morrison Of North Carolina
and Representatives Hawley Of oregon
and Chindblom and Hull of Illinois
who have all failed Of denomination
will experience the wrath OF constltu-
ents. Either in primaries or at election
time in November. scores OF SHINING
lights, and many not so shining ne
publicans and Democrats alike, are In
terror Of the fate that's Just overtaken
Brookhart and Morrison. Recent events
in washington have stirred up an un.
precedented aversion to congressional
Tins" Something like q 'turn-tne-
rascals-out" movement is raging: vet
Gran legislator goes the length Of saying
there isn't an aspirant to reelection In
Congress today who is dead sure OF Sc
curing 1t in this year OF awful ven
geance. Representative Ruth Bryan
Owens apparent defeat in Florida Is
case in point.
It was bound to occur, sooner or
later and now It's happened. A Danish
newspaper clipping has been received
in Washington setting forth under
appropriate headlines that Vice Presl-
dent Curtis has at length confessed ms
participation in efforts to recover the
Lindbergh baby was a hoax!
"Mr. Justice Brandeis" is the title
Of q book edited by Prof. Felix Frank.
furter Of the Harvard Law School ana
just published by the Yale University
Press apropos the Supreme Court
jurist's recent 18th birthday ami,
versary. Chief Justice Hughes and
former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
contribute stirring tributes. "Desp'te
the most eXacting and continuous ae-
mands," says Mr.. Hughes. Justice
Brandeis enters upon his 18TH year AT
the peak of mental power. 1t ex-
pected that those selected for the
highest judicial offices in State and
Nation should have keen minds and
analytical skill tested by longer ex-
perience. There will be no dissent
from the opinion that Mr.. Justice
Brandeis possesses that acuteness IN
very high degree. He IL, II MAY. use
another figure, the master Of both
microscope and telescope"
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