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...Iowa made him an insurgent Republican and thrice elected him governor. In 1908 when the "Iowa idea" for flexible tariff legislation was rampant, Albert B. Cummins strode into the U. S. Senate along with many another radical. This Senator from Iowa was no radical at heart, no Smith Wildman Brookhart, no Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. He soon was known for what he was-efficient, profoundly informed, hard-working legislator, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, co-author of Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, later Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. This year he has been conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge...
...Senator McKinley. Said Senator Reed: "This utility giver is apparently out to land on both feet." During the week corroborating evidence was forthcoming from many a bigwig who came beneath Senator Reed's sharp eye, sharper tongue-among them: James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co.; Smith W. Brookhart, Iowa Republican Senatorial candidate; Chester Willoughby, secretary to Senator McKinley whom Brookhart defeated; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe (Leopold and Loeb prosecutor) ; A. F. Moore, Col. Smith's campaign manager, who himself contributed $75,000 to his candidate's campaign. The inquisition had disclosed the following expenditures: Frank...
...Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, the Democratic chances are good, in fact better than in any election since Wilsonian times. Assuming victories in these seven states, the Democrats would still need to win in three most important campaigns: In Iowa where Claude R. Porter, able Jeffersonian, faces Radical Smith Wildman Brookhart, the effervescent cure which regular Iowa Republicans have at last swallowed. In Masisachusetts where David Ignatius Walsh, onetime Governor and Senator,* beloved of the Irish of Boston, the most potent Democratic vote-getter in New England, clashes with Senator Butler, prosperous-looking business man, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Last week Senator Albert S. Cummins, he who was defeated in the Iowa primaries by Smith W. ("Wildman") Brookhart, informed the press that Mr. Coolidge would not be a candidate in 1928, that he would have had enough of the Presidency by that time. But the Senator is naturally pessimistic...
...Iowa a little more than a year past Mr. Brookhart was nominated by the Republicans for Senator. "There was no question about the regularity or honesty of his nomination," said Norris. "But he showed an independence of action that displeased the Republican party leaders, and they called on the people of Iowa to vote for the Democratic nominee." And a Republican majority in Congress gave the seat to the Democrat, when Republican Brookhart's election was contested. If Republicans scratched Brookhart for radicalism, should they scratch Vare for vote-buying? Especially, when the Democrat is a most honorable...