Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-26 | Page 7 | Harding and Capper Confer

HARDING AND CAPPER CONFER Kansas Senator Says Sugar' Situation Shows Failure of Democrats MARION", 0., July 2C. The needs of western farmers were talked over ith Senator Harding todv by Si n -'"r Capper, of Kinase ami Henrv v.il-lace v.il-lace of Dei Moines, fa., both editors of fnrio publications, and In a statement state-ment afterward Senator arner de- I'lared the farmers of the west vcr" "favt realizing why It Is necessary; thnt the Republican ticket be elected ", To put the Democrats back Into power, the Kansas senator siiel, would I he to "turn the government over fo the solid Fouth and the Democratic' machines o' the various Tarafhanylsed states of the north.'' Senator Tapper's statement blamed the Democratic administration for market Ine'iu.ilttles favorable to the cotton and sugar Industries. nml rie-elared rie-elared Governor Cox nomination for president by the I iem r.i p'necd I the partv under a joint obligation to pOuthem Interests and to the "bosses" of the north. Governor Cox. he said, "In the e'ght yours he has dominated Democratic politics In Ohio, Ins built a machine based on the Tammany model." "During the war and since." the statement "aid, "wo have reen what southern control means. The southern statesmen were for rigidly controlling land limiting the price on wheat that compelled the farmers to take far ' than they would have got in an ! uncontrolled market Cotton went to I dizzying prices. "Recently we have seen the same ; thing In the eajtj, of sugar I know no more compiess Demonstration of dp-mncrnc-v's administrative incompetency incompe-tency than In the story of sugnr this year. "People are paying up to 30 cents for sugar, and can't get It at that. Yet there g sugar enough for aJI It is held by speculators to boost prices. "The northern and western farmers have borne the burden of restrictions, while the cotton and sugar raisers and the speculators got away with profits beyond calculation "