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Show Republican Editor Assails G. O. P. In Reply to Letter Asking Support WASHINGTON. The attitude of the Intelligent Western termor 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 letter received by Herbert N. Strause, of the Republican Repub-lican Business Men, Inc., from Willis A. Wells, Republican editor of the Webster (S. Dak.) Journal. The South Dakota editor had been Hied by Mr. Strause to support Herbert Her-bert Hoover and to send a reply which could b published. Here la lie reply: "You request that I Join the Repub- ilean Business Men. lie, of your city. la promoting the election of Mr. Hoc-rer Hoc-rer upon the sole ground that 'he will carry out the Coolldga policies.' Your plea leaves me as cold as the lea Belds of polar sea. "As a Eopubllcan I enthusiastically decline to do any each fool thing. ' am tor Hoover Just about as tar an you can throw our party elephant by tha pin feathers with your arm broken la four places "Out 1n ih West, where men ara netgagetl np to lUa eyebrows amd 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 la pledged to continue, we have had more farm bankruptcy and mora rural distress than has existed since our pioneers came West lu covered cov-ered wagons and conquered the prairies. "You really have no realization or what these Coolidge policies have done to a great and flourishing 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 hae failed. "While Coolidge was President. Congress, representing the people, passed farm relief bills twice and twice the mat higher up vetoed them. ' That Is the paramount Coolidge pol- Icy. We , have been fooled twice '. Don't think, my Wall St. friend, you ! can do It again. ) -With kindest personal regards, you ; are at liberty to publish this nd o i to th devil." as- |