Evening star., 1932-06-18
Brookhart's Defeat Is Laid
To Criticism of Policies

Signs of the times" are seen by the
country in the primary defeat of Smith
Wildman Brookhart. Senator from Iowa.
constructive legislation, and with his
extreme independence are pointed to
as factors in failure to obtain renom-
nation. His influence with agricul
tural interests is held to have been
weakened through increased public at
tention to costly legislation. The charge
of nepotism also receives some public
attention. The successful candidate Is
Henry Field.
Dressed up as a champion of the
plain people against the dragons of
this, that and the other, he no longer
represented Iowa. but tendency and
policies which Iowa only wanted one
good straight look at to repudlate," de-
clares the Chicago Tribune dndepend-
ent Republican,. As viewed by the
Schenectp d1 Gazette independent
DemocraticS, campaigning in his own
State as an progressive. he had
voiced some governmental schemes OF
marked instability at Washington. while
actually falling far short of inSurging
against reactionary administrations. "
The Gazette thinks ''it is doubtful if
he could have won any following to
his proposals
"Denunciation of the interests that
once came in so handy to rally the
voters, fails to register" in the opin-
ion of the Baton Rouge Advocate (Dem-
ocratic), while the San Jose Mercury
Herald Republican,, calling him the
standard bearer Of Populism,' con-
cludes that the agrarian radicalism
that he stood for offers no remedy for
existing economic ills" The Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader independent Re
publican), attests that "at no time has
he turned his hands toward construc-
tive accomplishments for the people he
was supposed to represent" while the
New Orleans Times-Picayune Demo
cratic). believes that he never has
been cured of his persuasion that gov
ernment could work. by process OF Law
ish appropriation or regulatiVe device
miracles curative of almost every farm
and economic ailment, no matter what
its cause"
1.-THE people are learning rapidly to
diferentiate between ballyhoo and good
business says the Toledo Blade Cn-
dependent Republican,, and the Apple
ton Crescent independently sees
agriculture turns conservative" The
GAINESVILLE Gazette independent Re
publican) declares that 1.-The public
has all it can stand of radical rene
dies, that are only impositions," and that
"all the remedies for ills that Brookhart
has had came to naught when the crisis
arrived" The Roanoke Times Demo-
cratic) recognizes sentiment that Iowa
was tired at last of Brookhart's mar
row and fanatical opposition to Wall
Street and big business, and decided
in favor of more conservative repre-
sentation at Washington" The Youngs-
town Vindicator independent Demo-
cratic) believes that "the Progressives
who followed Roosevelt have too often
been mere Populists masking as Re-
publicans, and for many years they
have formed such a solid block Of
work with either Republicans or Demo-
Gratis, that they have been serious
obstacle to good government" The Co
lumbus Ohio State Journal (indepen-
dent Republican, cannot recall a
single major, much less constructive,
movement Brookhart has ever spon-
sored."
1T was a sensational upset." ac-
cording to the Omaha WorldH Herald
Independent Democratic), "for 1t was
the defeat of one OF the most promi-
nent of the little coterie Of insurgents
who have held the balance Of power in
the Senate for the past decade.
The Brookhart defeat Is notice from
the voters that they are no longer
to be satisfied with Senator whose
only claim to distinction is that he is
opposed to nearly everything. The In
surgents, the exponents of revolt, have
been as incapable of formulating poll
cies as have been the ultra conserva-
tives. Washington needs a new and