Evening star., 1926-05-28

stead IL saying nothing about Brook.
hart. Nor is 1t supporting either Of
| the other candidates. 1t does not
| stand for the principles Of the Nc
aryHaugen bill, but points to the
growing prosperity Of the farmers.
in past campaigns most Of the
mud.slinging has been done by Brook
hart. But the Cummins followers are
taking shots at BroOkhart now. They
! seized on remark made by him
| suggestive that after hard roads have
beeh further developed the farmers
would be independent Of the railroads.
They are feeding this to the railroad
workers and believe they have shaken
some of the hold which Brookhart had
on them. They are makingsa play for
the votes Of the members Of the
| American Legion by connecting up
Rrookhart and the late Senator La
Toilette.
As Brookhart was himself in the
Army during the war and his cam
paign manager 10 Maj Frank J. I.und
another veteran OF the war. 1t Is
doubtful that this last effort Of the
Cummins' supporters will prove espe
ciaIly effective.
Khan May Aid Clark.
1t is charged in some quarters that
the ku kluX klan was instrumental
In part In bringing about the unseat.
ing VI Col. BrOOkhart and that the
klan has been against him In the
past. The klan support may 20 to
Mr.. Clark. 1t IL said. In the present
race.
back Of Senator Cummins In this
night are many Of the old guard
Republicans Of the State who OPP
posed him wears ago when he Went
To the SENATE as one Of the most
progressive Of Progressives. The
lineup is significant Of the change
IN the viewpoint Of many Of the
voters here regarding Senator Cum
minis. 1t is current criticism among
the BrOOkhart and Clark supporters
that Senator Cummins has left the
Progressive wing of the party. that
he 1s more representative Of the
East than Of the West. This is
vehemently denied by the Cummins
people.
Already estimates are being made
as to the strength Of the various
candidates In the different congress
stOnal districts. BrOokhart In rated
strong In two mort rthwestern districts,
the tenth and eleventh. lie should
carry them by more than 10000 and
5000. respectively. perhaps consider
ably more. These are the so called
distress districts. where the drop in
the corn price was felt particularly.
a Cummins stronghold In the NTH
district. which includes Cedar Rapids
md Is represented by Representative
Cyrenus Cole. The only one OF the
II members Of the House from Iowa
who has come out for Senator Cum
Minis directly. The others are mai
tanning hands-on policy in the
Senate race.
minis will have plurality Of $4,000
in the ffth district. The mayor Of
Cedar Rapids. however, has just an
onnced his support Of Clark for the
Senate. which has clouded the issue
somewhat. Cumminx supporters
console themselves by saying that
Mayor LOTUS In a political accident
and that ne has not much influence.
In The seventh district. where Des
Mones IL located. the vote will be
pretty evenly divided.
Vote. Difficult to Check.
One estimate for the entire IL dis
tricts gives t'un,rninx u plurality Of
$500 over Brookhart. This comes
from source which In not friendly
pendent of the Cummins organize
tiOn. These estimates are estimates
and nothing else. IOwa's population
II 81 per cent rural and 1t is almost
impossible TO check up the farm vote
accurately. 1t Is In the farm dis
tricts that BrOokhart Is especially
strong.
There are various estimates Of the
total vote which will be pOlled. Some
put the total as low as $4,000 in the
Republican sena torial primary. None
Of them run higher than ao9,00o.
When Senate Cummins heat Brook
hart for the nomination in 1920
with Brookhart making his ca mpalgn
on the Esch- -Cummins hill-his lead
over BrOokhart was between 10000
and 10000. In 1922, when Brook
hart won the Nomination against
Ave other candidates. he had $4,000
more votes ahan the necessary IS
per cent OF the total to prevent the
nomina tion from going into a State
convention. Two years later. Brook
hart in the primary defeated former
Representative Sweet by 10000 with
much of the regular organization
against BrOokhsrt.
In the general election Of 1924 the
vote by which Bro0khaN was Origi-
nally seated was given at 447.706 to
4<6,961 for Steck. In that ~ me cleo
tion President Coolidge received 5S7,-
635 votes, Or approximately 10000
more than were cast for BrOOkhart.
About 10000 ballots were cast for
Senator La Toilette. who ran as an
indepe endent for President In Iowa,
which did not designate a candidate
for Senator. The Brookhart support
ers say that these voters really in
tn, h vt hov
had SO indicated on their ballots. there
would have been no contest for the
sena tOrial seat. resulting in the seat
ing of Steck.
Orga nixati0n fer Cummins.
The Republican organiza tion Of the
State went out TO get" Brookhart.
after his announcement that he in
tended to support La Toilette for
President. 1t is estimated that they
swung some 800, 900 regular Republic.
ans into line for Steck, which was a
considerable achievement from the
Orga nization point Of view. Most of
this Republican state organization is
said to be backing Cummins today,
and II IL on its ability to get the vote
to the polls on election day that the
Cummins support IL basing Its greatest
hopes. The Republican State central
committee is not supporting Cummins
as an orga nizatiOn. but it's individual
members are working for him. al
though the Clark headquarters insist
Clark has some of them and also q
number Of the county leaders.
There are Cummins headquarters
established in all Of the II c0ngres.
sional districts. There are Cummins
chairmen and chairwomen in each Of
the counties and more than 5000 in
the $500 Of the voting precincts. The
Cummins committee predicts it will
have practically all Of the precincts
orxa nizatiOn by next week.