The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-05
June Political Contests Ushered
in With 6 Candidates There.
Half Dozen Are Fighting for a
Seat in the u. >. Senate.
TO Be A REPUBLICAN, "WHO?"
Washington Believe G. o. p.
Man To Be Elected All Right.
But, Much Interest Is Felt in
Outcome of the Primaries.

Washington. Jane 5.-Today's pri-
maries in Iowa, with six candidates
in the field for a single senatorial seat
affording an insight into the warmth
of the fight ushers in a series Of inn
poltant JuneA political contests.
The seats of four Republican sena-
tors Rawson, of Iowa; Hale. of
Maine; Kellogg. of Minnesota, and Nc
Cumber of North Dakota, and twenty
eight Republican members of the
house. are involved in the results
In addition. there is the primary in
Florida tomorrow, but the withdrawal
of william Jennings Bryan as a sena-
toriaI candidate there. leaves the field
open for the denomination of Sena-
tor Park Trammell, Democrat.
Official Washington felt an inter-
est in today's primaries in Iowa Sec
Ond only to the intensive interest felt
in the historic contest in Indiana and
Pennsylvania. In Iowa, as in 1nd1-
ana, and Pennsylvania, the Republi-
cans feel that the nomination is
equivalent to election this year, and
the identity of the Republican nomi-
nee was an absorbing topic today
Senator Charles a. Rawson, the sit
ting senator, is not a candidate He
was appointed by Governor Kendall to
succeed Senator Kenyon with the
understanding he was not to run this
fall and this left the Iowa race a
free-for-alI.
Progressive Fight, Too.
In Iowa. however. as in Indiana and
Pennsylvania. there is the spectacle of
a progressive fight. The so-called
progressive wing of the party is repre-
scented by two candidate s-Col. Smith
.Brookheart. a picturesque liberal of
pronounced views. and Clifford
Thorne, noted for his legal victories
against railroad interests.
The other four candidates are
Charles f. Pickett. a former con-
gresham, OF Waterloo; Burton +.
Sweet of Waverly; Leslie +. Francis
Of Des Moines, and Claud NJ. Stanley
of Corning.
Looks to Brookheart.
Of the. lot, Washington felt most in
terest today in Brookheart's candi-
da cy. because of the spectacular cam
paign he has wa ged. Brcokheart has
campaigned diligently upon a plat
form of reduced freight rates. repeal
of the Esch-Cummins railroad law, a
bonus for soldiers. reorganization of
the federal reserve system and re-
opening OF the Newberry case
In conservative quarters Brook
heart Is termed a radical" Thorne
is less pronounced in views, but he is
reported to have little chance of gain
ing the nomination. while Brookheart
admittedly is one OF the leading con-
tenders. If not the first.
He Must Have 80 Per Cent.
peculiar feature of the primary
law III iowa lendS ADDED interest to
the race. - Unless the winner of to-
days contest polls SIS per cent of the
total vote cast. he is declared not to
have been nominated and the nomina-
ton is thrown into the hands of a
state convention 70 De called later.
Brookheart's friends have charged
that the state organization has put a
big field of candidates in the running
in order to head off his nomination
and throw the matter to the conven-
ton, where the organization would be
in control and where BrOokheart
would not be nominated According
to Brookhearts friends, Pickett is ia
vored by the state organization and
will be nominated If a convention gets
to do the nominating
Not so much interest is felt in
Washington in the Maine and Mime
sofa. contests. for it is expected Hale
and Kellogg will have little difficulty
in being renominated on June -