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Show paoaouccjaa e of party law now on the books. Vote in the Senate for passage was by voice vote after Democrats had beaten back the sliding scale program over opposition of Republicans. Re-publicans. Governor Adltl Stevenson's farm policy speech on the same day at Kasson was a complete acceptance of the farm plank in the Democratic Demo-cratic platform. "I am running on the Democratic Demo-cratic platform. I believe it Is a good platform. I believe its agricultural agri-cultural plank is clear, definite and sound. I can stand on it without squirming. I feel no need to modify modi-fy this provision or that, to explain or to re-interpret, to dodge or to hedge." Governor Stevenson said he believed be-lieved price supports were doing a good Job for basic crops on which loan and storage operations were now in effect. "But for perishables," he said, "Such as hogs, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, these loan and storage operations don't seem to work very well. Yet these products prod-ucts provide about three-fourths of all the Income received by our farmers." Declaring that the first line of defense behind perishables Is a strong economic policy to Insure In-sure high employment and purchasing pur-chasing power, Governor Stevenson By WALTER SHEAO THE BIG QUESTION In farm circles here in Washington today to-day is will the leadership of the two largest farm organizations become mere bystanders In this election, with their pet theories on farm price supports trampled underfoot by General Dwight Eisenhower, Despite the fact Ike repudiated both Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Federa-tion, and Herschell Newson, master of the National Grange, and their sliding scale of farm supports In favor of the present rigid 90 percent per-cent of party support law, there has been no rumble of disapproval from either of these two sources. Eisenhower In his farm policy speech at Kasson, Minn., not only repudiated Kline and Newsom, but he kicked out the farm plank in the GOP platform which both Kline and Newsom had a hand in writing, writ-ing, and sided with Congressman Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking GOP member of the House agricultural agricul-tural committee, and against Senator Sen-ator George Aiken of Vermont, ranking member of the Senate agricultural committee, who also espouses the sliding scale of farm price supports. Eisenhower, not only went for the 90 percent figure but declared that, in obtaining a full share of the national Income, the farmers deserve "not merely 90 percent of parity, but full parity." said: "But behind this there should be protection against unreasonably low prices for those producers of perishables who need it. They should know that they can expand production and that the public that benefits from It will share part of the risks." e The Federal Reserve Board has recently published a booklet showing show-ing the status of the farmer today ai compared to 12 years ago. and the most outstanding feature is the fact that the American farmer today to-day could pay off all his debts In cash for the first time In history. The census shows farmers have deposits de-posits and currency totalling $15, 200,000,000 while total debt, both real estate and non-real estate totals only $14,149,000,000. e e In declaring, however that the Republican party now stands behind be-hind the present 90 percent rigid parity law Elsenhower went contrary con-trary to the record. "I say to you that I stand behindand be-hindand the Republican party stands behind the price support laws now on the statute books," Elsenhower said. As a matter of fact extension of the 90 percent rigid party support sup-port was voted by this Congress in its closing days in the House by a vote of 207 to 121. The vote was 133 Democrats for, and 35 Democrats Demo-crats against, and 74 Republicans for and 85 Republicans against. So a majority of House GOP congressmen congress-men voted egainst the 90 percent |