Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-14 | Page 1 | Du Pont Backs Farmer Lobby

oti DU PONT BACKS F FARMER ARMER LOBBY Independence Council Funds Are Probed v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 14 UP p- p Testimony ny that Lammot du Pont prominent supporter of the American Ameri Amen can Liberty league also had contributed contributed contributed con con- to the Farmers' Farmers Independence Independence Inde Inde- council was given the senate senate senate sen sen- ate lobby committee today by Stanley Stan- Stan Icy ley F. F Morse vice president of the A anti A A group The witness said he himself once was employed by the league named prominent industrialists who had supplied the council with funds and said he had talked with two Republican presidential possibilities Governor Alf M. M Landon of Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas and Colonel Frank Knox ChIcago Chicago Chi ChI- cago cage publisher Henry Breckinridge who is battling battling battling bat bat- President Roosevelt Roosevelt- for Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic convention delegates in Maryland Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land Ohio and New Jersey was named by Morse as a n contributor to the council of 10 or 15 Morse laId he and Dan Casement of Manhattan Kan council president president dent had interviewed Landon but that the organization opposed Landon's Landon's Landon's Lan- Lan dons don's farm views His conference with Knox Morse testified d had to do with publicity Morse insisted tho the organization which opposed A A A policies was wa's was not at nt all nil a political group If were we're going for money we are arc going to people who have it Morse went wont on as Senator Black ck brought out many contributors were listed as affiliated with banks factories and various corporations The far farmers wouldn't support your organization so you went to the Du Penis Pants and the packers interjected Senator D D. Wash If we had to depend on farmers farmers farm farmers farmers' ers' ers contributions it'd ild take us 15 years to get started the witness said Sources of income are are wholly immaterial al