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...reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican, but now is one of the Nestors of the Senate, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and one of the new Progressives, Brookhart, is going to try to displace him. Ah, and do you see this large face and figure advancing? That is Heflin, who used to be chief demagog of the Democratic party, but his voice seems to have grown tired, and Caraway, with his low sarcastic drawl, twits him. This neat little...
...similar. Among the eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three of the latter were up for reelection. Mr. Cummins in particular, faced Senator Brookhart, "the farmers' friend." But the politics of the situation reaches even further than the election of 1926?it reaches to 1928. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was on hand in Washington, openly advocating farm relief of the Haugen type...
...Massachusetts the campaigns of Senator William M. Butler and former-Senator David I. Walsh for election to the U. S. Senate were simultaneously opened. Hanford MacNider, onetime National Commander of the American Legion, spoke for Mr. Butler, praising his "leadership?strong, virile, unafraid" in expelling Senator Brookhart*. Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition...
...Leadership . . . unafraid" it was, since Mr. Brookhart is now preparing to oppose his former colleague, regular Mr. Cummins, for reelection, and the latter may lose on that account...
...while Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...