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Show Brookhart's Campaign Costs $453.98 Hi C - V Col. Smith W. Brookhart, who won the Republican primary In Iowa for the nomination for senator to fill Kenyon's seat, expended $4f3.98, according ac-cording to his official statement. lie says: "I received meals and lodging from farmers and laboring people many times, and was driven on automobile auto-mobile trips several times without expense. ex-pense. Individuals, farm organizations, organiza-tions, lab'or organizations and newspapers news-papers supporting me did so at their own expense. Malls were furnished without cost." The result was a surprise. The onlooker from a distance puts It thus: Here's Brookbart, without an organization, running against a field of five rivals. He Is opposed by th stand-pats, the machine leaders, the Cummins leaders, by Secretary of Agriculture Ag-riculture Wallace, who was Instrumental Instru-mental In trotting out as an eleventh-hour eleventh-hour candidate Clifford Thome, a railroad rate authority popular with the farmers. In short, the organized elements In the party were lined up almost solidly against Brookhart, and the aim was to keep him frbra landing 85 per cent of the vote, which would throw the nomination Into a state convention, where the colonel might be massacred. v Despite all this Brookhart carried 76 of the 09 counties, and ran second In all the rest but two. He got more than 40 per cent of the vote, and had a plurality of more than 80,000 over his nearest competitor, Thome.' |