The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-06-18
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Iowa Shows Her Resent
ment Over Farm Neglect
by Retiring Cummins.
BY EDWARD w. PICKARD

BY EDWARD w. PICkARD
MOT because Of any especial liking
Y for Smith Wildman Brookhart nor
because Of any especial animosity
toward Senator Albert b. Cummins,
but in order to express their resent
ment against the administration at
titude toward farm relief legislation.
That is the generally accepted ex-
PLANTATION of the action of the Iowa
Republicans, who in the primary last
week voted the veteran Cummins back
to private life and named the radical
Brookhart to succeed him. The fact
that Mr.. CumEins lad broken with
the administration so far as to sup
port the measure demanded by the
corn belt did not suffice to save him.
The unofficial canvass of the vote
gives Brookhart plurality of about
10000. Running third was Howard j.
Clark, who may stand as an indie
pendent Republican candidate in No
vember.
At the White House and among the
closest friends of the President the
defeat of Cummins was considered the
result of fractional fight stirred up
by the unseating of Brookhart and
not reputation of the President on
the question of farm legislation. Per-
haps incidentally, Cummins is another
pro-World-court senator to be refused
denomination.
An analysis of the Iowa vote, COM
pared with usual votes in that state,
indicates that lot of Democrats
voted as Republicans for Brookhart,
the supposition being that they be-
lieved he would be more easily de-
feated in November than would be
Cummins. Most of the rest of the
Democrats cast their ballots for
Claude Porter, and the party leaders
there and in Washington declare he
will have an easy victory because, as
they assert, many Republicans will
vote for him, just as they did for Dan
Steck, against Brookhart. That there
will be enough OBJECTIONS from Brook
hart to affect the result is denied by
the Republican managers. However,
even if Brookhart is elected, the G..
o. P. may be considered virtually to
have lost a seat in the senate, for he
cannot be counted on in the matter of
party regularity.
T1NMOvED by the Iowa primary re-
~ suit, the administration is still
fatty opposed to the corn belt price
sterilization measure, and the pros
poets for farm relief legislation at
this session. of congress were decided
ly faint last week. The farm bloc
leaders submitted their surplus con-
troll plan to Secretary Of the Treas
ury Mellon for an opinion of its sound
ness and hoped that if he looked on
it with favor the President might be
won over. But the corn belt senators
and the cotton states senators could
not get together. the Southerners say
ing they would not support the meas
ure if the equalization fee were to be
made applicable to cotton at once.
They might fall into line if this appli-
cation to cotton were deferred two
years and made optional then, and
If one-half of the proposed $15O,OO0,-
600 revolving fund were allocated to
the cotton market operations. This,
the corn belt men said, was impos-
sible.
Senator Fess of Ohio opposes the
McNary- Haugen bill partly because it
would, in his opinion, be favorable to
British rather than to American in
terests. He said it would "sovietize
the great agricultural industry" in
America and assure Great Britain a
cheap food supply, transferring that
nations unemployment problem to the
United States.
ELORIDA'S primaries, according to
L unofficial figures, gave re-nomina-
ton to Senator Duncan U. Fletcher.
More interesting was the apparent de-
feat Of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daugh-
ter Of the Commoner, for the congress
sional nomination in the Fourth dis
trict, which includes Miami. Incom-
plete returns showed that Congress