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Show G. 0. P, SENATOR 7 mm out Chances of Cummins Hurt By Railroad Measure. Sullivan Sulli-van Says i m M KK SULLD N COUNCIL BDl'FFS Is-, Oct o. Everybody has been assuming thnt the campaign in lows was going along in the usual qulol aaj toward th usual Republican majority hut 'he fact Is' Iowa has a situation that comes ns1 -losc to bring, sensational as uny alt-' nation In uny slate this car, In the parsimonious distribution that is being made of Senator Hard-' ings personal presence you seek a reason for the speech he in to make. OH Wednesday. In this normallv s.ifc ' Republican state. That reason lies Jn j the f.ct that Senator rummlns is In I trouble Senator Cummlnj has so long I tieen the most honored figure In his1 nlMte ind h.-s so high a plSCC With the! elrif i -talesmen of his part-. In the nation na-tion that It comes to you ns a shock to learn that he needs all the assistance he con get to secure re-election. Pending a more thorough survey of' the state later on the superficial ex-1 Planatlon seems fn be chleflv the rail-! road hill vhlch lie.irs Senator Cum-I mlns name as Its author In the senate! and the norne 6t Congressman Been of' Wisconsin as Its author In the house.: SEN VTOB s i WED Bi I msf. of thut authorship Mr. Kst h ( hSJ lust recently been defeated for re-nomination re-nomination in his Wisconsin district, ami Senator 'unimins is now being subjected to a powerful assault here1 in lovvu Th Republicans clnlm that, Senator Cummins wilt win but admit thai his vot. will foil fully fifty thou-j sand behind Harding and fifty tbou- sand is a serious handicap even in n slate thai is normally so hcnvllv He ! (iUbl i SS Iowa The nucleus of the' opposition to Cummins Is the inllrnsd men who are numerous here because' iim.i is n stale of man) railroads bul the railroad men ore merely (he nil-1 Cleua The labor clement has Joined the olhe, railroad men but even both tui-,- elements would not he formidable formida-ble in state like Iowa and against SO Btrongl) intrenched a figure as Senator Cummins. What Is formidable is the fn i thai Iowa has a rap-Idly rap-Idly spreading radical movement among the farmers. The new railroad rates are Just beginning to be felt in Iowa at precisely the ame moment that prices of grain and other tanners' produce ure going flown. The homestead or radical farm paper of large circulation Is lighting the Republican Re-publican ticket with such forceful bitterness bit-terness that it Is more or less admitted admit-ted that however Harding 'and Cum-i mlns ma fare the Republican candl-j date for governor Is in serious danger dan-ger of defeat. si n ri w ir;i The situation is made worse fori Senator Cummins by the fact that he: Is III and unable to make a personal campaign. HiS opponent is a lean; person with an acquisitive facp sug-j gestlVe of qualities likely to stick to an enterprlce until it s successful His! name iy 'Maude Porter and he is n! Wilson appointee as counsel for the federal lra.de commission at Washing-' ton He is described in terms of the, not very usual combination of "a Pres-j bytsrian elder and a shrewd politician." politi-cian." Thc trust in this Iowa case Is mere-; ly another example of the furl that however the presidential election may go the Republicans are going to have the hardest kind of a fight to get al safe majority In the senate. When I you find so strong a figure as Cum-j mine compelled to fight for his life in a staU? where he Iihs been governor or senator continuously for the laid nineteen years, a state which as lhc: late Senator Dolllver expressed it will go Democratic when lull goes Meth-odlsl Meth-odlsl ' When ou find that situation ou are, prepared to consider thc possibility at least that the Republicans may falP entirely to win control of the senate' this year. (Copyright. 19:20, by tlie New Yot k Evening Post inc.) i an |