The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
Conservative Candidates Are In
Background Vote Shows.
sEWins'' Over a Field
of Six Conservatives.
he is TERMED 4 liberal !"
Thirty-Five Per Cent of Vote Is
Necessary to Nominate.
But Early Returns Would Show
Progressive in Walkaway.
(By the Associated Press,

Des Moines, June 6.-Smith ".
Brookhart of Washington. Ia. con-
tinued to maintain a percentage OF
more than SIS of the total vote cas-
for United States senator candidates
in the Republican primary yesterday
when / 042 precincts of the 2,43O ia
the state had been reported early to-
day.
CBy the Associated Pressl
Des Moines, June 6.-Returns from
1925 precincts out of 2,34s in Iowa
for United States senator, Republican.
give: Brookhart, 60,s43; Francis,
2O,337: Pickett, 2S.6S9; Stanley. 6.021.
Sweet, 1929; Thorne. 24,oso. Total
vote 155,645.
Des Moines. Ia. June s.-Smith W
Brookhart, of Washington, Ia. won
the Republican nomination for United
States senator in . yesterdays pri-
early today. These returns indicate
Brookhart has received the IS per
cent vote of the votes cast required for
nomination.
Brookhart is leading Charles f.
Pickett of Waterloo candidate of the
Republican organization. Des Moines.
the largest city in the state. gave
Brookhart a substantial plurality
Complete return show Brookhart's
vote in Des Moines was 5,422, while
Francis, of Des Moines, 3.54s. The
vote received by the other three can
didates was small.
Brookhart who is an avowed pro-
gressive ran on platform which in
cluded advocacy of the soldiers bonus.
reopening of the Newberry case and
repeal of the Cummins- Esch act for
the regulation of railroads. He was
vigorously opposed by the so-called
Republican machine" His heavy
Sa At ffr-fh n
him by ex-service men and the far
mer-labor elements.
Washington, June 6.-Altho politi-
cal Washington has been somewhat
steeled against shocks by the expert
ences OF the last month in Indiana
and Pennsylvania, the apparent VIC
tory of Colonel Smith w. Brookhart.
maries, nevertheless caused a mild
sensation in the capital today
He's Cummins Foe.
Brookhart, the political foe of SEN
ator A. b. Cummins and Senator
Charles A. Rawson, the two Republi-
can senators from Iowa captured the
senatorial nomination from a field OF
six candidates, all of whom. were
more favored by the Iowa state or
ganization than was the victor.
Senator Cummins and Rawson spent
the forenoon today in touch with the
after telephoning and telegraphing TO
Iowa they admitted that Brookhart
appeared a certain winner.
Borah and Capper Pleased.
Neither. Senator Cummins nor Raw
son would make any comment
on the result, but it was plain they
were hugely disappointed. Rawson
said he might have something TO
say later"
Cummins himself narrowly escaped
defeat at the hands of Col. Brookharr
in his last election and the political
enmity between the two men has not
been allayed by Brookhart's cam
paigning this year on a platform call
ing for repeal of the Escn-Cummins
railroad law.
To the so-called progressive group
in the senate, senators like Borah.
Johnson, Capper, Norris, LaFoIIette,
Ladd and others from west of the
Alleghenies the victory Of Col.
Brookhart was hailed with undis-
guised enthusiasm today.