Evening star., 1926-06-08
BROOKHART WINS;
COMING HERE TO
PUSH FARM BILLS
Ex-senator May Leave To-
night to Enter Fight at
This Session.
HAS LEAD OF 47,891,
WITH 1900 PRECINCTS IN
Result Considered Blow to Both
President and Congress for
Failure of Legislation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Iowa. June s.
Col. Smith W. Brokkhart. nominated
over Senator Albert E. Cummins in
yesterdays senatorial primary on d
platform that included farm relief as
its principal plank, has accepted the
voters mandate on that issue, he an
bounced here today. and will leave for
Washington probably tonight in an
effort to obtain farm Legislation during
this session of Congress, if possible.
And ! mean real legislation that
will take care Of the farm problem,
not a makeshift," he added
Col Brook hart will work with the
corn belt committee which still is
represented at the National Capital, in
an effort to bring the differing factions
in the House and Senate together on
an agricultural bill. lie favors the
principle embodied in the Haugen
measure, recently defeated in the
House, although before he was un-
seated two months ago he introduced
measure proposing a large agri-
cultural loan fund.
Col. Brookhart declined to comment
directly upon the primary this morn
ing.
BrOOkhart Far Ahead.
DES MONIES, Iowa, June s LP).--
Returns from $500 precincts Of 2,447
in Iowa for United States Senator Re-
publcan gave: Brookhart, 100, ,931 +;
Clark, 50,015: Cummins, 113, ,040; Eickel-
berg. 8, 4l6: Reardon, 3,1Sl.
fnr
the Democratic senatorial nomination
gave: Porter. S,023; Files. ABB; Muir
tagh, 1890; Finch, 1865,
Rising for the third time as the
emiSsary Of the party which both in
Iowa and in the arena of his Senate
activities has disayo%ed him, Brook
hart's looming figure cast across the
Capitol d shadoWed symbol of dis
pleasure for the Coolidge adminiStra
ton and at congressional dalliance
with farm relief. He also stands as
a possible reinforcement for the Sen
ate insurgent group, o. which he be-
came in less than four years a
NOciferouS and valued member. ~s+~-.--
Read out of his party in 1924 by
the State central committee of Iowa
and in 1925 by the Republican Senate
caucus. assailed by his colleagues
after his denunciation Il the 1924
campaign of Charles G.. Dawes as the
party's vice presidential nominee, and
his support Of La Toilette for the
presidency, Brookhart won yesterday
by a vote approXimating the eX-
lremest claims of his adherents.
Renominated with him. on the face
of incomplete returns, is Gilbert n.
Haugen as Republican congressional
candidate for the fourth district.
Haugen shares authorship of the Nc
Nary Haugen bill of 1925, which has
served as the model of all subsequent
measures by which the West has
hoped to obtain agricultural succor.
Cummins' Career Distinguished.
Six Republican representatives
We're renomlnated without opposition
and the five who face contests appar-
emily have been renominated over
their opponents.
The Republican senatorial primary
left in the wake of Brookhart's
triumph the figure of Iowas most
honored Republican Of other years.
Cummins had served his State thrice
as governor. had been in the Senate
for three terms and thenu expired por
tion of a fourth, had been offered to
the Republican party as its preSi
years ago and had come in 1928 to
the presidency Of the Senate when
Coolidge succeeded Harding The re-
tirement Of Cummins, at IS. by q pro-
gresSive recalled his own ascension to
the Senate as an insurgcnt Republl-
can almost TWO decades ago
Brookhart won yesterday from the
man he first opposed for public of
flee. He sought the Republican sena-
torial nomination AGAINST Cummins
in 1920 ana lost. Two years later
w. S. Kenyon resigned from the Sen
ate and Brooiihart was nominated
from field OF eight TO succeed him.
Again in 1924 Brookhart was nomi-
mated for :. fall term, but after the
primary the state committee openly
indorsed Dan +. Stec!t, his Demo
cratic foe, and Steck Sucr"s:-l ally con
tested before the Senate a vote which
had greatly surprised HrOokhart'S S
supporters by its closeness.
Brookhart made an issue in the late
campaign of his unseatirg by the Sen
ate, and asked Iowa voters to give
him q vote of confidence which his op-
ponents could not challense. His vic
tory although the President had not
raised his voice in support of his prin-
cipal opponent, is regarded by his sup
porters as a setback for the admins
tration which is even more definite
than the overturning Of Mckinley in
Illinois or Peeper in Pennsylvania.
Democrats are Hopeful.
The Democratic contest was much
warmer than normally because of the
good fortune of Steck in 1924 and the
belief of party leaders that the NOM
ination of Brookhart would create
situation analogous to that of 1924,
when Steck went to the Senate as his
party'S first envoy to that body from
Iowa since Civil War days.
lntimation was seen by some III
statement issued today by Howard j.
Clark, third candidate in the Repub-
lican race, that he might oppose
Brookhart Independently in Novem-
ber. Recalling his fight for agricul-
tural relief, he said:
This campaign will continue until
we have succeeded"
The campaign for State officers re-
suited in denomination without opposi-
ton of Gov. John Hammill on the Re-
publican ticket. John Fletcher of Des
Moines led Republican seekers of the
nomination for attorney general, and
Miss Agnes Samuelson and Miss May
Francis, incumbent, were running
closely in the Republican quest for the
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