Evening star., 1926-05-28
BROOKHART HOLDS
EDGE ON CUMM|NS.
IN IOWA PRIMARY
Faces Difficult Fight to
Keep It Until Election on
June 7, However.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

DES MONIES. Iowa, May 2S.--As
the Republican senatorial candidates
enter the homestretch in the primary
nominating race Col. Smith w. Brook.
hart. Iowa's insurgent leader, is in
the lead. Whether under whip and
spur he can maintain this lead and
cross the line a winner on June Is
another matter.
Senator Albert J. Cummins, with
the advantage Of an Organization that
reaches into each of the 80 counties,
Is running strongly toward the finish.
His organization workers are set for
the final effort to get out the vote,
and his representatives here insist he
will win.
Howard J. Clark, business man,
lawyer and banker and reputed a
millionaire. is out in the State wind.
ing up a campaign which he began
nearly two years ago for the sena.
torial nomination. In this three.
cornered race-there are two other
candidates, but they are not considered
seriously--the vote which Mr.. Clark
receives may tell the tale. II he
draws more from the Cummins
strength than from Brookhart's 8
for the latter.
@ Clark Fighting ICumminss -,
When Mr.. Clark began his cam.
paign 1t was with the intention of
beating Senator Cummins for the
nomination. Brookhart was then in
the Senate. Under ordinary circum-
stances. the fact there are two op-
ponents of Senator Cummins in the
race should give Senator Cummins
the edge. But as things are today
Mr.. Clark is to receive votes that
would not be cast for Brookhart, but
which might have gone to Cumnlins
were Clark not in the race. he Will
get, too. votes that might have gone
to Brookhart had the contest beer
merely race between Cummins ana
Brookhart.
Brookhart is running on a pro.farm
and nti.Cummins platform. He is
tambasting Senator Cummins because
of his votes on legislation in recent
wears in the Senate. and particularly
because Of his sponsorship OF the
Esch. .Cummins transportation act,
which has been danglef before the
eyes of the Iowa farmers as damaging
to their interests.
Among Senator Cunmins' votes in
the senate WuICn 0cHdtoi DA Oo1NAAe--
attacks il the vote to seat senator
Truman H. Newberry Of Michigan.
Others are his votes to pass the snip
subsidy bill during the Harding ADMIN.
istration, to confirm the nomination OF
Charles Beecher Warren Of Michigan.
as Attorney General and in opposition
to the Norris amendment to increase
the surtax rates. Brookhart also crit
icises Senator Cummins because he
voted against the report made by Sen
ator Walsh in the Aluminium trust in
vestigatfon. And. finally, he takes a
Ninp at Senator Cummins because he
did not vote when the roll was called
on the motion to unseat Brookhart and
nut in his place Senator Steck.
Poses as Martyr.
"One of the questions involved in
the contest was the uphold1ng or the
Iowa laws and the officials Of Iowa
who were in charge Of the senatorial
election in 1924" says Brookhart. He
noses before the voters a martyr with
a crown Of hostile Republican and
Democratic Senate votes pressed upon
his brow.
senator Cummins is standing for re-
election on his long record Of service
in the State and in the Senate. He Is
also pro.farmer. He 10 asking the peo-
ole OF Iowa not to forget his service
as governor, when he was instru-
mental in putting through the anti
nass law, the 2.cent fare law, the prt'
mary election law. the corrupt prac-
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