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Show FRUIT MEN ANGERED I ' Citrus Exchange Will Repudiate Party If Free List Passes Tampa Fbu Feb M-nilvrs of the Florida ( itrns exchange will repudiate re-pudiate the democratic party If the l.ieinocratic congress reduces the tariff tar-iff on citrus fruits to a point that is not "competltivp." according to a res- j olullon adopted by the directors oi the exchange today. The Florida grow ers are angered over treatment accorded ac-corded their representatives by the house ways and means committee all the recent tariff investigations. The resolution adoDteu declared Florida citrus fruit growers would w ork to prevent the re-c!ec!ion of auj Fonntor or congressman from Florida w ho votes for a hill reducing the I present tariff on citrus fruits, unci Iff such reduction Is made, "will repudiate repudi-ate the action of the Democratic par-I ty and pledge ourf elves to support party that will protect our honu-s, industries in-dustries and lives from tiie disastrous influence of imported products, whltb products ar largely Independent in their production o:i pauper labor jf foreign lands." |