Show COURTING FARM VOTES the farm vote is the exciting prize in this campaign and it is interesting to know that the roosevelt campaign in the middle west farm belt is to be conducted educationally tio nally by a non partisan or possible partisan committee of farm leaders who have been hammering on new deal principles for years past headed by william settle of the indiana farm bureau federation era tion this committee is now being organized throughout several states and has some well kno known wn names connected with it at this writing there is frank murphy of minneapolis attorney for several large farm organizations and remembered for the fact that although he was a delegate to the G 0 P convention which nominated hoover he bolted that outfit and led farmers to houston demanding a farm plank that meant something another well known midwest mid west farm leader on this committee is is homer hush of iowa who makes the plain statement that the farmer fanner who deserts roosevelt is a sucker others are paul weis of wisconsin a progressive sam fishman kansas republican read out of that party by chairman john hamilton of the G 0 P national commit of the founders of the nonpartisan league this committee will have its headquarters in chicago you will see the result of its efforts in the way of educational matter in the form of booklets pamphlets cartoons and exhibits one of the republican efforts it is now engaged in combating is the G 0 P hatred of the reciprocal trade treaties As I 1 have bave told you in this column there is is a grave danger in farmers being beguiled into believing the reciprocal trade treaties are a menace to agriculture and vote for the landon administration without realizing they are voting to build a tariff wall which will bring back all the old evils that pestered and ruined them before A republican tariff has always worked wonders for the industrialists who put up the prices of everything they sold to farmers while the farmers got nothing at all out of it |