Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-19 | Page 16 | Senator Curits Wages Old Time Political Tour

SENATOR CURTIS AGES OlD TIME POLITICAL TOUR lOUR By FRANCIS M. M STEPHENSON Associated Press Staff Writer CURTIS URTIS' FItlY PRIVATE ATE CAR CAn IN IOWA Sept 19 AP-An AP time old campaigner c Senator Curtis or of Kansas Kan- Kan SM sas wagIng an old fashioned campaign cam cam- with its back platform speeches ches handshaking and street parades is carrying the Republican fight for farmers farmers' votes on the heels of t Governor Smith in the agrarian lands Speeding across the farm fields Illinois and Iowa by railroad and motor the Republican vice presidential presidential nomInee made fourteen speeches p before retiring last nIght nighton on his newly acquired prIvate car Today oday he be halted for a a. breathing spell p ll near Spencer Ia where he Was to deliver a prepared address the day Every stop of the train until last night found Senator Curtis on the back platform for a few words times he detrained and once across c to get to toI I Porla oria with motor police clearing way It was as strenuous ous a day dayas as any campaigner has attempted perhaps but no request from the Republican leaders of Illinois who surrounded the 68 year old old ear veter veter- an an on his private car was turned down STRESSES STRESSES TARIFF A higher protective tariff against agricultural importations was the principal theme of his talks to the farmers He also held out hope of legislation to Improve marketing conditions pleading for nonpartisan consideration of the problem and refer efer re rc ly to the promise of Herbert Hoover to call ll a conference confer confer- ence nc of farm leaders He declared th the administration of Calvin Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- idge to b be the best in history r. r He pronounced Mr Hoover one of the best qualified men to run for president in the nations nation's lifetime and always put in a Word for the state and local Republican tickets His voice was was' husky b by nightfall and ho he told his audiences he was awful tired tired but he alwa always 3 had a smile and spoke every time until the train pulled out Passing freights fr competed with him at att t times mes At Morris 1 Ill a nois noisy cow tried to drown out his remarks to farmers The clink of horseshoes f falling in a to contest at the Henr Henry fair and the moan of round merry music music- across the track Jick tailed failed to stand up to the thunder of his declarations FIRST PRIVATE CAR CARSome Some ot of the luxuries of modern campaigning were made available to 10 Curtis yester yesterday lay At Chicago he boarded a private car equipped with dIning service radio and It is the first time in his his' years of campaigning that the senator has used a private car Nor Kor did he ask for it Today his private car was at heldon Ia from w where ere he could motor to Spencer Tonight he goes westward again to visit tomorrow at the Rosebud Indian reservation iJ South Dakota SPENCER Ja Ia Sept 19 1 AP AP- AP Greater attention to the principles of cooperative market state and federal agencies and by the farmers w was S urged by Senator Charles Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- Republican vice presidential candidate in an address here to to- day The Tho agricultural cooperatives in inthe inthe the United States he said are engaged in a far reaching program which is vital to the wel welfare are of agriculture ag ag- and the Republican administration ad ad- ministration is doing everythIng possible to encourage encourage and aid this work orl Cooperatives are a practical way of applying better busIness methods to farming and marketing and are an aid to rural d development develop develop- ment