Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Iowa will speak is in the choice of her Republican nominee for Senator?because Iowa is normally Republican. There are three candidates...
...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...
...Iowa's chief grievance is the farm situation. Iowa feels that the "eastern viewpoint" is predominant at Washington, that there are favors for everybody except the farmer...
...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...
...Cummins has probably pursued the wisest course. He has conducted a quiet "personal" campaign, without rushing out to his constituents with wild alarms. His supporters have told Iowa that it must choose "Cummins or Communism." But on the whole they have not done much speechmaking. On the main issue, farm relief, the Senator made a speech last week in the Senate declaring...