The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-02
BROOKKART To
FACE BITTER
VOTE BATTLE
Foe of Big Business and
Wall Street Is Worried
Over Iowa Primary.
BoRAH ISSUES APPEAL
Chicken Stew and Same
Old BoIoney,' Are Issues
in Hawkeye Campaign.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, June 2.-"Chick-
en- stew" versus the same old
boloney."
That. in the plain language Of the
two most important and picturesque
candidates, is the form which the
-for-all primary for the Repub-
ncan senatorial nomination has as
sumed in the corn-belt state Of Iowa.
Senator Smith Wildman Brook
hart is seeking denomination against
old guard and administration ele-
ments.
The primary comes next Monday,
and it has aroused keen interest here
because Of the light it will throw on
sentiment in mid-western, Repub-
lican stronghold in a presidential
year.
Brookhart has been the most
radical member Of the progressive
bloc, bitterly has assailed big bust
ness and Wall Street as responsible
for the depression, and has fought
the administration at every turn.
Hint Senator Is Worried
Two progressives have campaigned
in Iowa for Representa-
tive Fiorello H. La Guardia (Rep.,
N. " and Senator Peter Norbeck
(Rep., S. d., chairman of the SEN
ate banking and currency commit
tee.
Senator William E. Borah (Rep.,
Ida), just has issued a public appeal
to Iowa to support Brookhart.
Reports reaching here are that
Brookhart is worried.
An extra large field Of six oppos-
ing candidates likely is to throw the
nomination into convention. where
the old guard would defeat the SEN
ator.
Under Iowa law the convention
dominates if any one candidate does
not get IS per cent of the primary
vote.
Brookhart has outmaneuvered his
foes in the same sort of campaign
twice before. and left here confident
he could do so again.
Henry Field Is Strong
Henry Field, seed man and rural
humorist, is Brookhart's strongest
opponent.
Fields speeches are favored with
witty and caustic remarks. and he
talks the language of the plain peo-
pie, which has been the senator's
forte.
In fact, Field won a vocal Skin
mish precipitated by Brookhart's
characterization of the former as
the chicken stew candidate
reference to the choice dish served
at picnics provided by Field each
year.
Yeah" replied Field. well, I'm
willing to make the principal issue
Of this campaign chicken stew
against the same old boloney.'"
Brookhart fortified himself with
campaign arguments by constant
attendance at the senate Wall Street
investigation. He has pitched into
big business. concentrated wealth,
the stock market gamblers" and
what he calls their political allies.
NepOtism Is Charged
He has blamed the stupidity and
avarice" of these interests as chiefly
responsible for the "orgy OF specula-
ton and the depression"
His program includes limitation Of
industrial salaries, redistribution of
wealth through taxation, imitation,
price-fixing for agricultural prod
ucts, and a $4,000, 100000 public
works program.
Besides limiting salaries in the
steel and railroad industries-hi
two special obsessions-he would
limit the salaries of newspaper
editors and cartoonists.
Fields has attacked Brookhart for
nepotism following disclosures that
members of the senator's family
draw about s25,oOo from the govern
ment.
He also refers unkindly to Brook
hart's senatorial absences while
making Chautauqua speeches.
Fields says of these things:
We have caught the senator
sucking eggs