Again, Brookhart

In 1922, heralded by reports that he possessed only one speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter on the Federal payroll, lowans turned Republican Brookhart down. Promptly he wangled an AAA position in Washington as "special adviser" on Russian trade. Last year he quit.

Last week Smith Wildman Brookhart informed Iowa voters that he was prepared to move back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops, etc., etc.

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