Show w Ill n n f nr y I observers observer are I WASHINGTON still sUll talking about the surprising in ing victory of the Democratic candidate candidate can can- In Wisconsin's ninth dis dU- It was the first Arst time In history history his his- tory that a Democrat has been elected to congress from that dis dJs Much of the comment is centered centered centered cen cen- on the fact that the winner Lester II n. Johnson denounced the administrations administration's farm policy during during during dur dur- ing his campaign The district is predominantly ruraL It would seem these Washington sages are saying that the farmers are disappointed in the administrations administration's administrations administration's adminis farm program and have expressed themselves at the ballot box They add that the administration tion must change its policy and possibly fire Are Secretary of Agriculture ture tune Benson Denson or find more displease displeasure ure registered at the polls next year ear Even Republican National Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Leonard W Hall admitted that the Wisconsin defeat was not good However he discounted I any any national trend toward the Democrats lie He said the adminis- adminis support of ot tra tion still has the the country On the other hand Democratic leaders were happy over the out come and saw It as a national trend Some went so 10 o far as al to say It U It indicated a Democratic victory Ln tn the th 1934 congressional ele elections Senator Kefauver of 01 Tennessee who campaigned for tor the winner said the election showed a general gen ien eral oral dissatisfaction t with the farm power and mone money i of ol the administration 1 Another prominent Democrat said that unless the President changed his farm tarm policy It Jt was evident that he and his administration administration adminis- adminis would sink with the present one The farm question was further highlighted by Secretary Bensons Benson's announcement that he Is reorganizing reorganizing reorganizing izing the Agriculture IT The plan would Consolidate some branches of the agency and shift duties of others This reorganization e streamlines the department for better services to farm families families' and for simplified Internal organization Benson Denson said The Department of It e as reorganized Is designed to me met melt it present day conditions ly Iy In its emphasis on market ig 11 With this reorganization we are ready to administer the farm program programs programs pro pro- grams gram which our current day agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture requires Bensons Benson's plan immediately drew the Jre ire of ot a number of Democratic senators In particular Senator Johnson of South Carolina a member member mem memo ber of ot the Senate Agricultural Committee charged that under the plan the Farm Credit Administration tion and the Farmers nome Home Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration the departments department's principal lending agencies would be smothered mothered Other senators asked Benson to withhold the plan until congress I can review It U. r I I It n would appear that the farm I situation and the administrations administration's farm tarm policy Is headed beaded tor for a climax I that ma may cause caule the greatest explosion ex ex- that Washington has bu ua see III for tor a number Dumber of et years ear I I |