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...second is Smith Wildman Brookhart, whom Iowa sent to the Senate in 1922, as a loud-speaking, bad-dressing, pseudo-hog-raising Progressive. The difference between the two is that Brookhart is still snorting?at Wall Street, at the Administration. He wants Iowans to know that he is the only pure-bred farmer bull snorting in political pastures. He snorted so loud in 1924 for LaFollette against Coolidge that he was beaten by a narrow margin for reelection. Only recently (TIME, April 19, CONGRESS) he was ousted from the Senate in favor of his opponent, Democrat Dan Steck, after...
...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...
...developments of the campaign have been peculiar. The bitterness between the partisans of Cummins and of Brookhart has grown steadily, yet there have been few visible signs that either of them is arousing Iowa...
...third candidate, Howard J. Clark, is of course fully in favor of farm relief. His supporters argue for him that he is the one possible compromise nominee?that if Cummins or Brookhart were nominated, the embittered supporters of the other would turn to the Democratic nominee, with the possibility that the Republican state of Iowa would elect a second Democratic Senator. But in proportion as the partisanship between Brookhart and Cummins increases, the likelihood of Iowa's turning to an innocent bystander, however well thought of, decreases...
...onetime Senator Brookhart, campaigning in Iowa against Senator Cummins, denounce the Transportation...