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Show TaiwiM ' 1 HEAUT OF WEST i GOES OUT TO i SMITH Farmers Throng Cities to Take Part in Enthusiastic Ovations. HE PROMISES IMMEDIATE I AND REAL FARM RELIEF Attacks Bigotry and Intolerance-Challenges Intolerance-Challenges the Ku Klux Klan Ex-poses Ex-poses rloover Stand on Water Power Assails Republican Repub-lican Corruption. Starting at Omaha, where in a brilliant bril-liant speech he made a masterly analysis of the farm question, Governor Gov-ernor SmlthV swing through the West on his first speaking trip of the campaign cam-paign was one continued triumphal progress. At Omaha he lined himself square- 1 ly side by side with the farmer, pledging pledg-ing himself to get the farmer a square deal. At Oklahoma City, two days later, with the applause and thanks of the farmers still rising on all sides, he turned with characteristic vigor and courage to the Issue of religious tolerance. At Denver he attacked the connections connec-tions with the water power trust of the Republican party and the Republican Repub-lican candidate, and explained convincingly con-vincingly his own constructive program pro-gram with regard to water power. Republican corruption, so sensationally sensation-ally revealed in the oil scandal Investigations, Inves-tigations, he assailed In his address at the Montana State Fair at Helena. Although comment on Governor Smith's farm speech at Omaha has particularly emphasized the warmth and friendship shown by the Democratic Demo-cratic cnndiilcui for the farmers and his determination to give them the kind of help they want, sisht lias not been lost of the masterly grasp which he displayed of the farm problem. prob-lem. , Going directly to the heart of the farm question, he said "the trouble Is that the farmer is buying in a highly protective market and he Is selling in an unprotected one. Everything that is used in the operation of his farm except what he himself produces, is hid behind the tariff wall. It is supposed sup-posed to function for him but does not." The Surplus "A great many of the crops of this country the farmer grows in excess of the needs of the domestic market. That Is the 'nigger in the woodpile.' That is what you have got to pay your attention to, because as It stands today, to-day, the farmer is compelled to offer it In the domestic market first, and the surplus tends to pull down the price that he receives for the whole crop." Referring to broken Republican campaign promises of 1924, Governor Smith continued, "What did they mean by 'equality between agriculture and industries' T They meant to give the farmer the benefit of the tariff; they know they have not done It. The President knows it Candidate Hoover knows it." Governor Smith thea proceeded to show that Herbert Hoover, the Repub llcan candidate, has absolutely ig-: ig-: nored this vital and fundamental part of the farm problem. Mr. Hoover Is against the McNarey-Haugen bill, was largely responsible for President Coolidge's two vetoes of that measure, and tho only suggestion he has ever made for solving the surplus problem is to starve enough farmers into bankruptcy so that there will nc longer be any surplus. Pointing out the harsh cruelty ol such a policy, which would mean thai millions of farmers would lose their homes and be driven Into the cities to And wprlc, Goyeroor Smith pledged himself to a constructive and humane method of saving the farmer from the unfair and ruinous oporation of the tariff. He said: "As 1 read the McNary Haugen bill, Its fundamental purpose Is to establish an effective control ol the sale of exportable surplus, with the cost Imposed upon the commodity benefited. For that principle the Democratic platfoi. squarely 6tand? and for that rlnciple I squtirely stand Mr. Hoover stands squarely opposed to this principle by which the fartnet could get the benefit of the tariff. "Here Is a clean cut issue, whicl . the farmers and voters of this country must decide. 1 pledge to the farmers and people of the country that no stone will be left unturned to give im mediate and adequate farm relief by legislation, carrying into practice this-' principle for which my party and 1 etand." . Whispering Campaign At Oklahoma City, pnlntlns to bis loiif. record In New York public atTaln and lii.-four lii.-four tirmJ ns Oo' trnor of the state, ht-denouneed ht-denouneed tlie secret and underhand oanipaisn beins wnEi'd by the Republicans Republi-cans to nrntiHB opposition to him on the grounds of bin rultelon. "There is no Krcattr mockery In the world today," stiid Governor Smith, "than the burning of the cross, the emblem of Christ, and nt the same time breathing hatred " i I have the ri",ht to say that If there I Is any citiz- n in this country who believes that I can prutiifitj Its welfare, that 1 am capable of steer in:; the ship of state safely safe-ly throuiih tiie nent four years, and then votes Rgainst me because of my religion he is n-a a real, pine, genuine American.' ti.- yhitt 1 j mat reiiqiuus creeds had made lis diJercnce to him in his appointments appoint-ments tn cflico while Governor, Frotest-ants Frotest-ants havlmj been named In the vast majority ma-jority of esses and nil creeds being rep-n rep-n sented. |