The Washington times., 1922-04-09
IOWA c. 0. ?. IS
|SPL|T OVER SEAT
LEFT BY KENYON
Republicans Aim to Thwart
Aspirations of Brookhart,
Friend of Farm Bloc.
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
International News Services

International News Service.
The political pot In Iowa has been
boiling hard ever sincs William
Squire Kenyon stepped out Of the
United States Senate and onto tho
Federal bench.
Just now the old-iins Republican
politicians Of the State are sitting
up nights as they try to figure how.
to prevent another Kenyon from be-
ing elected to the Senate this year.
They are being legged" on by
Senator Albert Baird Cummins and
others at Washington who reflect
the Administrations pronounced dis
| inclination to have another Kenyon
stirring UP trouble for 1t at the Capi-
| toi.
For another Kenyon is looming
large on the Iowa political horizon In
| Smith Brookhart, who, aside from
enjoying the distinction of being a
farmer. a lawyer and an exservice
man all rolled into one, Is noted for
the independence of his views and
actions.
Broolxhart Looms Up.
Brookhart stands so well with the
| laborinE man and the farmer In Iowa
that Senator Cummins only beat him
for the Senate by $4,000 in 1920,
and Cummins had the Republican
national organization to help pre-
! vent Brookhart from winning out.
Even at that Brookhart carried
1 Cummin's own city of Des Moines
and own County of Polk and gavs
Cummins and his friends a bad scare
before all of the votes were counted.
/ Brookhart bobbed up again as
Senatorial possibility tsoon after
Kenyon accepted President Hard
ing's appointment to the Eighth
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
amid sighs of relief from the "Oid
Guard" Republicans, whom he had
| twitted and criticized and opposed.
| Kenyon admires Brookhart great
/ ly. The two men are not only close
| personal friends, but their ideas
| 10 national government run pretty
much along the same general and I'm
i dependent lines. Even II Renyon's
judicial position prevents him from
campaigning actively for Brookhsrt
| IL is considered not unlikely that he
will pass the word among his Iowa
friends to turn in for Brookhart.
| Kenyon has no intention OF sitting
mum on the bench and letting the
world race past him. Before he left
the Seate he made this plain. he is
likely to be heard from often in the
future, and a speech or two by him
In support of Brookhart would not
surprise his good friend, but political
, rival, Senator Cummins.
Kenyon May Take Stump.
Kenyon is one of four judges con-
stituting the Eighth Circuit who sit
l - a.. kxa.g
teen States extending through the
Middle West from the Canadian to
the Mexican border, and his voice
will probably be heard in most of
those States before the coming Con-
gressional campaign is over, accord
ing to the friends he left behind him
at Washington.
In seeking to dampen Brookhart's
Senatorial ambition and Kenyon's ex-
pected encouragement of II, Senator
Cummins will have the earnest CO.
operation OF Senator Charles A. Raw
son, Republican State Chairman of
Iowa, whom Gov. Nath.In E. Kendall,
of that State, appointed to fill Ken
yon's seat In the Senate pending
the election of a permanent incum-
bent. Rawson took the seat with
the understanding that his occupancy
of IL was only to be temporary and
| that he was not to run In the mp
preaching Iowa primary campaign
| as a Senatorial candidate.
| Rawson is q genial man who has
earned the liking of his colleagues,
/ many OF whom would like to see
him returned, but his extensive busi-
ness interests and his political activi-
| ties In his own State are said TO he
such as to cause him to prefer TO
remain at home.
May Not Defeat Broolxhart.
Word reaching Washington would
/ seem to indicate that even the politi-.
cal resourcefulness of Cummins and
Rawson combined In not likely TO
keep Brookhart out of the Senate.
Their main purpose Just now is TO
prevent him from getting more than
thirty-five per cent of the Iowa pri-
mary vote. IL they can do that the
naming of a Senatorial candidate
would, by the party rules which pro
vail in Iowa, be thrown into the
Republican State convention, which
must be held to adopt a Republican
platform after the Juno primary is
over. ....
Therefore II In Broolthart against
tho field and several candidates
have been encouraged TO enter the
field in the hope that the primary
vote may be so split between Brook
hart and them as to reserve the de-
cision for the State convention.
Among Brookhart's rivals are Rep
rcsentative Burton e, Sweet, who is
himself a good deal of an indepen-
dent, and former Representative
| Charles n. Pickett, OF Waterloo.