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Show t - Republican Editor Assails G. O. P. In Reply to Letter Asking Support .'; lii WASHINGTON. The attitude of the intelligent Western farmer who has studied the causes of his present pres-ent predicament, and who realizes what a continuance of the Coolidge policies would mean to him, Is strikingly strik-ingly set forth in a le.tter received by Herbert N. Strause, of the Republican Repub-lican Business Men, Inc., from Willis K. Wells, Republican editor of the Webster (S. Dak.) Journal. The South' Dakota editor had been asked by Mr. Strause to support Herbert Her-bert Hoover and to send a reply which could be published. Here is the reply: "You request that 1 loin the Republican Repub-lican Business Men, Inc., of your city, In promoting the election of Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver upon the sole ground that 'he will carry out the Coolidge policies.' Your plea leaves me as cold as the ice fields of a rolar sea. "As a Republican I enthusiastically decline to do any such fool thing. I am for Hoover Just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken In tour places. "Out In the West, where men are mortgaged up to the eyebrows and the farm work begins at sunrise, we are so opposed to a continuance of the Coolidge policies that if I wrote you what I think it wouldn't look good in print, and so I shall modify my expressions. ex-pressions. "Under the Coolidge policies, which Mr. Hoover Is pledged to continue, we have had more farm bankruptcy and more rural distress than has existed since our pioneers came West in covered cov-ered wagons and conquered the prairies. "You really have no realization oJ what these Coolidge policies have done to a great and nourishing agricultural agri-cultural section of the country. "Farm lands have depreciated $30,-000,000,000 $30,-000,000,000 in value. Fifty thousand business men have gone broke. Four thousand rural banks have failed. "While Coolidge was President, Congress, representing the people, passed farm relief bills twice and twice the man higher up vetoed them. That is the paramount Coolidge pol- icy. We have been fooled twice. Don't think, my Wall St friend, you Ii can do it again. "With kindest personal regards, you are at liberty to publish this and go to the devil." . |