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Show , He Pledges Well "Curtis pledges prompt farm relief" is the big heading over the report of the Topeka meeting. Somebody has aptly defined party platforms as "permanent "perman-ent promises."'" Mr. Curtis has been in Congress for over thirty years, the last three as his party's leader in the Senate, Sen-ate, and pledging farm relief all of the time. And he sustained sus-tained Coolidge's most bitter veto of the only important farm relief measure that the farmers have been- able to yet through Congress during Mr. Curtis' incumbency as a member of Congress. The value of a nominee's personal pledge is always very doubtful. ' The pledge has to get by Congress, the president's approval and the U. S. Supreme Court. A statesman with over thirty years of opportunity ought to have something in the way of performance," rather than promise, to offer. However, maybe a pledge is good political bait, for farmers. |