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...Debated the Brookhart-Steck election contest (see below) upholding Steck...
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...
When they came to disputed ballots ? there were some 16 different kinds of them ? the committee tried to interpret from the scrawls and scratchings the "intent" of the voter. Ultimately the committee decided, 10-1, that a slim majority of the voters had intended to vote for Steck, and it recommended to the Senate that Brookhart be unseated...
...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
Some significance may lie in the circumstance that a majority of the Republicans who voted for the conservative Steck hailed from the east, while a majority of those Democrats who favored Brookhart were westerners. Thus the division as occurred earlier this season on the amendments to the appropriation bill. It is a reminder that while the two party system in America is a persistent tradition, it often assumes the properties of a phantom. In yet another light, the recurrence of this sectional line-up, which is essentially an arraignment of farm against town indicates a cleavage not unknown to American...