The Alaska daily empire., 1922-06-06
MANY CONTESTS
 BEFORE VOTERS
 IOWA PRIMARY
Early Reports Indicate Col onel Brockhart Is Main
 taining Lead.
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hcnsive that no candidate will be able to obtain votes enough to win the nomination
 The bars for this remarkable state of affairs were let down last Feb ruary when Senator w. S. Kenyon of Fort Dodge resigned as Senator to accept the appointment from Pres- dent Harding as judge of the United States Court Of Appeals, succeeding the late Judge Walter I. Smith. Ap- FCintment of a successor fell to the lot of Governor Kendall. He ap- pointed Charles A. Rawson of Des Moines. who was at that time chair man of the Republican state com mittee and a lifelong party worker
 Free Range
 Governor Kendall explained at the time of the appointment of Senator Rawson that it. was made to give all, concerned free range in the com ing primary, since AIr. Rawson had pledged himselfl to serve only until his successor was elected in Novem- Der. When the decision was made by Iowa's Governor party leaders ap- peared to be reconciled to the safe maneuver. The apparent deadlock caused by the entrance of six candi- dates into the race was not then looming up nor was it believed that the party vote would be divided in such a way as to render an election, choice improbable.
 The six candidates were Charles E. Pickett of Waterloo. a former Con gresstn1n; Col. Smith W. Brookhart of Washington. Ia., opponent of Sena- tor A. B. Cumhnins in the primary two years ago, an asSailant of the Cuinmins railroad bill and sup porter of the agricultural bloc; Col. Claude NJ. Stanley, seeking the sup port of World War veterans; former State SenntOr Leslie E. Francis of Storm Lake and Dcs ,Moines, man of apparently no political alliances, who appealed to the independent and women's vote; Congressman Burton k. Sweet of Waverly, and Clifford W. sThorne of Washington, Ia, until recently general acounsel for the American Farm Bureau Federation of Chicago Mr. Thorne sought to invade the provinces of Colonel Brookhart, his fellow townsman, by carrying the vote of the members of the Iowa Farm Burea. said to be one of the strongest organizations of its kind in the country.
 Of the field, Sweet, Pickett and Francis claimed Northern Iowa as their residence The others hail from the other side of the barrage line. The sole Democratic aspirant for his office in the June primary is Clyde l.. Herring of Des Moines. who two years ago was the opponent of N E. Kendall for the office of Cover nor
 Claims Made
 Nearly all of the candidates ex- pressed the opinion that they would have the inside track at the cenyen- tsOn riff no nomination should be made at the primary. Political ob servers express the opinion, however. that there was nothing to prevent friends of Senator Rawsonf from talk ing the reins and booming him as the party's choice to oppose MT. Herring in the general election.
 Ten Congressman were candidates for sre-election. They were w. r. Koop. of Mount Pleasant .first dis triet: Harry F. Hull of Williamsburg, second district; Gilbert N. Haugen of Northwood, fourth district; Cyre- nus Cole. of Cedar Rapids, fifth dis tEict; c. w Ramseyer of Bloomfield, sixth district; CassSus C. DoweH Of Des Moines. seventh district; H. w. Towner of Corning. eighth district; R. Green of Council Bluffs, ninth district; L. J. Dickinson Of Al yona. tenth district, and William ID. | 3oies Of Sheldon, eleventh district.
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