The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . idate to the adjusted compensation measure and the indorse-ment of his opponent by many of theservice men of the State. They fail tomention that at the same primary inwhich veteran influence was thus soingloriously routed, an ex-service manand strong advocate of adjusted com-pensation, Major David M. Reed, wasunanimously selected for the seat inthe Senate held by the late Philander Such cases as these, held up asstraws to show the wind blowingagainst veteran interference in poli-tics, can be matched and more thanmatched by
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . idate to the adjusted compensation measure and the indorse-ment of his opponent by many of theservice men of the State. They fail tomention that at the same primary inwhich veteran influence was thus soingloriously routed, an ex-service manand strong advocate of adjusted com-pensation, Major David M. Reed, wasunanimously selected for the seat inthe Senate held by the late Philander Such cases as these, held up asstraws to show the wind blowingagainst veteran interference in poli-tics, can be matched and more thanmatched by another array of results. The nomination of Smith W. Brook-hart for the Senate in Iowa is an out-standing example. Brookhart, a vet-eran of the Spanish War, the Mexicanborder and the World War, ran on aplatform one of the principal planks ofwhich was adjusted compensation forveterans of the World War. He polleda clean-cut majority over five opposingcandidates. The decision of the Demo-crats of Pennsylvania to run ColonelKerr, an ex-service man, against Sena-. Photo from Paul Thompson © Harris & Ewing Senator David Elkins of West Virginia, onlyWorld War veteran in the present was elected in 1918 while serving inFrance with the Seventh Division tor Pepper, as well as that of the Re-publicans of the same State to nominateMajor Reed for the seat of the lateSenator Knox, is not without signifi-cance of the same sort. The renomina-tion of 104 members of the present Con-gress, eighty percent of whom votedfor the Adjusted Compensation Bill inthe House of Representatives, does notseem to manifest a nation-wide anti-veteran or anti-adjusted compensationwave. Of seven Congressmen who havefailed of renomination, six voted forand one against the Fordney bill. To be absolutely frank about thematter, the primary results so farshow, if they show anything at all con-clusively, that adjusted compensationhas not been figuring in the voting asanything like a determining vete
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