Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the Civil War has Iowa had a Democratic Senator...
Thousands and thousands of ballots cast by lowans in November, 1924, were on trial. Nearly half were for extremely radical Republican Brookhart for Senator, nearly half for Democrat Steck. Iowa had counted Brookhart elected, but Steck protested, and the Senate Judiciary Committee began months ago investigation of the pieces of "opaque paper" which collectively were designed to express the sovereign will of the people of Iowa...
...Then broke forth a four-day storm of debate. The chief argument against the committee's decision against the unseating of Brookhart was advanced by Senator Bingham and others, who said that Brookhart had been elected by the rules of Iowa governing ballots, that the Senate Committee had no right to go behind the Iowa law questing for the "intent" of the voter...
...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...
...Villisca, Iowa, one Emil Hecke took friends to his barn there to display his mules. He slapped a mule heartily upon the rump, crying: "Here's a real mule!" The mule kicked. Mr. Hecke fell dead...