Evening star., 1926-10-14
BROOKHART HEADED
BACK TO.SENkTE
Anti-Coo|idge Vote in Corn
Belt to Give Wall Street
Foe impressive Victory.
RY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Smith ". Brookhart seems to be ir-
resistib,v headed back TO the Cnlteo
States senate. which cast him into
outer darkness.
His confidence that he will carry
every county in Iowa and be elected
bv anv ma ioritv from 100000 upWard
is. Of course, not shared by either ms
Democratic opponents or Republlcan
enemies. But that BrOokhart at TINS
writing has the edge is tacltlY ac-
knowledged on practically all SIDES
He is riding to apparent victory on
the crest Of the anti-COOlidge wave
that still mandates the corn beit'
Claude r Porter, able Democratic
candidate for the Senate, is making a
strong race. He will be supported by
thousands Of conservative Repuoii-
cans less willing than their state OF
caniZation to accept Brookhart' pu''
barring a political miracle, the ois-
gruntled farm vote will sweep tne
arch foe of Wall Street back into MS
Senate seat by an impressive margin.
Iowa Loves Coolidge Less.
Rrookhart overwhelmed Cummins
carving 81 of the states ~ couh.leo'
Ills victory on that occasion was eS-
sontiallv a protest against the aolnIn'
ist,.ation's agricultural policy. MS
prospective election will be Il
,rmuh of the same caliber. 1t VIII not
he achieved because Iowa loves
1}roollhart more, but because 1t loves
coolidge, Jardine, Hoover and Meiioh
less. The corn belters lnFariapl.
bracket the names OF the Presluelle .
and the names of the Secretaries Oh
tpricult,lre. Commerce and Treasury
when they illuminate against WASH
ington's inhospitality to McNary-
1Iaurbenism. Prookhart ran only
745 votes ahead of Steck in the Iowa
count in 1924. but that was before
Iowa acquired its Coolidge complex.
Brookhart will receive a heavE
svmpathy vote representing loWanS OF
nil classes who have always resehteu
the Senate's expulsion of hlm' pul
ProolIhart election next month HIaI
and foremost will be notice to Wash
;nyton and the business East that the
AGRICULTURAL Midwest demands atten
lion and resentS it's failure to get II:
Tor the Republican regulars VINO VIII
scratch FrOOkhart, he says, there are
four times as many labor Democrats
who will scratch Porter.
State Sees Red"
There is no doubt the state sees
tncessantly red on the refusal OF
Congress. under administration leader
shin. to legislate prosperity tor the
corn country. President Coolidge
nrobahlv could carry Iowa against
any Democrat. But if he were con-
testing with Frank Q. LoWden for the
1923 Republican delegation, Mr.. COOL
idce would be worsted. In that re-
snect. Iowa sees eye to eye with
Kansas.
1t is asserted at Des Moines that
identical conditions prevail IN the
other nine States that presented n
united front before Congress last
Winter. The corn belt fight is going
on one of its comma manders-in-chlef,
Gov. John Hammil of Iowa, declares
that when the fight is renewed there
may be 20. instead of II, Midwest
States leagued for common action.
The spirit of resentment and revolt
behind the corn belt drive of 1925-l926
is far from quenChed
PrOOkhart, by every indication now
visible, will be its beneficiary. lie per-
sonifies the iSsue-aSriculture's con-
yiction that it is not getting square
deal from big business" and that
the farming West is Systematically
disseminated against at Washington
In favor of the industrial East. Iowa
royerherateS with crouch even
though 1925 crop conditions are by no
means unfavorable. The corn mar
vest. estimated at 404 900, 900 buShelS,
IS so 900 900 bushels short of the l9Zo
Weld, but prices for hogs and cattle.
into which S5 per cent of Iowa corn is
converted, are high. 1t has been cal
culated that Iowa corn growers VIII
shortly obtain. from sales of hogs and
cattle. prices representing an average
of Sl.25 a bushel for their corn. This
means a cash income of S425 900, 900.
BroOlIhart Deffes interests.
Yet Hawkeye farmers are unhappy.
Because they are unhappy, they will
vote for BrOokhart. He is infiamlng
their alleged misery by aSSailing Wall
Street. the Federal Reserve system, the
Fsch-Cummins transportation law and
the protective tariff as the deadly enc
mics of agriculture. He is plllorylnS
"the deflation of the farmer as the
crime of the century. He is f1inging
facts and figures around with wild
abandon He insists that his pres
ence in Washington is necessary in
order that "Crucified agriculture' may
he taken down from the cross
That Brookhart does not appeal to
Iowa in vain when he talks such Ian
guase is indicated by his primary vic
tory over the late Senator CumminS.
He talked it then and he is talking it
now. Amid the enCirCling gloom of
foreclosure of mortgages, tax arrears,
delinquent interests and vanished land
values BrOOkhart'S familiar tale of
woe falls upon receptive ears.
Il &c ha 4 II
shart is pulling. In the 1924 campaign,
he delivered the famous Emmetsburg
UoWal speech. in which he called
Coolidge a tool of Wall Street" and
demanded that Dawes be stricken from
the Republican ticket The other night
at OSkaloosa. Brookhart thundered
that he considers the Emmetsburg
speech was the best l ever made
G. O. T.. Leaders i'm Quandary.
Republican organization leaders,
who are nominally. if not enthusiastic
callv, supporting Brookhart this year,
are boiling over his brutal frankness.
They are putting up with him mainly
because of the taCit understanding
that he Will go along" with the G.
q. L. if and when the party or
ganizeS the next Senate. Iowa regu-
lars say support of Brookhart is one
nf the ragIc-comedies of modern poll
tics They thoroughly dislike him.
They consider him unsound in eco
nomiCs. agricultural and otherwise.
They look upon him as wholly mis-
representative of the Republicanism
rf Allison. Dolliver. Cummins and
kenyon. But the specter of two
Democratic United States Senators
from Iowa is more distasteful TO
Hawkeye Republicans than Brook
hart's political shortcomings. He will
get thousands Of votes on that ac-
COUNT.