Evening star., 1926-06-06
BITTER IOWA FIGHT
DRAWS TO A CLOSE
Brookhart, Cummins, Clarke
and Others Rest on Oars,
Awaiting Vote Monday.
BY tho Associated Press.

BY tNe Associated Press.
Dt,S MONIES. Iowa, June 5.-Can
didates in the Iowa primary rested
their campaigns tonight, and Monday
the voters will express their views
upon numerous national issues in
NulVed in the Republican senatorial
fight and at least one important State
issue.
In the senatorial contest Senator
Albert Is. Cummins, Col Smith w
Brookhart and Howard Clarke have
made extensive campaigns either per
sonally or through Statewide organi
7ations. raising the issues of farm re-
lief. farm credits, the tariff. trans.
portation costs and the World Court.
Good roads is the most important
State subject involved.
Several candidates attempted to in
torest the voters in the prohibition
question, but with little apparent sue
cess.
BrOOkhart Opens Farm Issue.
Col. Brookhart's fight for reinstate-
ment in the Senate, from which he
MAS ousted VITO months ago in favor
at Iowas new Democratic Senator,
I)aniel +. Steck. has enlivened the
campaign. He has told the voters that
unless he is nominated Congress, by
previous agreement in Washington,
would drop all farm-relief legislation
rUw pending. Disputing this, however,
senator CumminS, who is fighting to
Trtain a seat he has held for more
than Is years. contends that Congress
VIII he held in session until some salts
factory farm bill is enacted.
Supporting this contention. Cum
Minis headquarters today pointed to
Il conference in Washington during
the afternoon in which Senator Cum
,nnS and other Senate leaders inter
"sted in the agricultural situation
reached some tentative agreements on
provisions of u bill before the Senate.
Senator CumminS has refused to leave
his duties in Washington to campaign
in the State. contentinS himself with
one speech last night by long distance
telephone and radio from the Capital
Cummins Pledges Aid.
He pledged his continued effort on
behalf of the farmers, and the speech
was hailed by his supporters here as
sufficient assurance for the over
Whelming firm vote of the State.
George w. Clarke, his campaign
manager, tonight estimated that the
Senator would be renominated by
about $4,000 votes.
The Brookhart manager, Maj
drank j. Lund. claims the unseated
Senator will be nominated by "a good
Ma jority." From some sections of
the state, he said, his preliminary re-
ports indicate a Brookhart land
slide"
The colonel has made the farm
problem and his unseating his chief
talking points, declaring that the
Senate dlsreSarded the Iowa election
laws III ousting him. His supporters
say this has aroused widespread SYM
pathy among the farmers, who. dis
satisfied with the delay in Washing
ton on farm legislation, are in
temper again to support Brookhart.
Clarke Seeks Harmony.
Mr.. Clarke, a Des Moines lawyer,
has made a wide appeal as candl-
date who could erase much or the
internal diSSension of the republican
party, winch has continued since
Brookhart ran against CummlnS IN
1920, and which reached its most in
tense stage in 1924 when the State
central committee read Brookhart
out of the party" for his denunciation
Of President Coolidge.
Other Republican candidates are
Dan g. Reardon Of Council Bluffs
ant l.. E. Eickelberg of Waterloo.
Rearcron has declared himself a Cool
idge candidate" and also advocated
modification of the Volstead act.
On the Democratic ticket, Claude
Porter, former Assistant United
States Attorney General; J. c. Muir.
tagh of Waterloo, J. Ray Files of
Fort Dodge and George Finch of
Sioux City seek the senatorial nomi-
nation.
The governorship is not involved,
Gov. John Hammill being unopposed.
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