Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-16
EAGER TO WIN SUPPORT OF Ao:
Rlcul1vRlsrs IN CAMPAIGN
or 1912.
PIVOTAL STATES OF EAST
TO BE SCENE OF ACTIVITY
Party Which Secures Fair inersass in
These Commemorative Certain to
Land PrssjdsNoy-Dsmeerats Hope to
Hold Strength in Cities and Gain in
Rural Communities

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capture the presidency next year the
democratic party is to make q strong
play for tho farmer vote OF the country.
more especially for that vote In GER
tain Of the great pivotal states such as
New YORK. Ohio. Indiana. New jersey
and the larger states Of New England,
notably Massachusetts and Connecti-
cut. They figure. and rightly. that il
they can secure a fair increase Of votes
among the farmers they will carry
those states, for already in the cities
OF those states democratic majorities
are the customary thing, both in local
and national elections. The democratic
party in the north has been weak in
the rural communities; it. has been
strong in the cities. The plan of cam
paign now Is TO hold the strength al
ready won in the cities and to increase
the strength in the country districts.
This done, the next president OF the
United States will be a democrat, and
he will have q democratic house and
senate to support him.
That Is the meaning OF the farmers
free list bill, which has been before
congress and the country for several
weeks, and which recently went thru
the senate, and Is now in conference.
That is the meaning Of the wool and
the cotton bills which congress has
been considering. The farmer is to be
made to believe that the democratic
party is his friend and Is willing TO
do all it can to help him to lower
prices for those comm ODDITIES which are
in daily use on the farm. The free list
bill removes the tax from agricultural
machinery. cotton bagging. burlaps,
boots, shoes and other varieties Of
leather goods: from harness. wire fenc.
ing, flour and mtddlings. cereal foods.
biscuits, crackers, lumber, lath.
shingles, sewing machines and salt. not
to name other things. The senate was
compelled to limit the free import OF
flour and cereals to Canada. but this
was due to the republican insurgents.
who declined to vote for the bill other
wise. The record OF the democratic
party is thus to be clear SO far as the
farmer is concerned. 1t wants his vote
next year, and will get it. If tariff lag
islation aimed to benefit the farmer VIII
secure 1t.
$4,000, 900 Lose in Revenues.
Representative Underwood, the house
leader, has estimated that the free list
bill will cause loss of but s10,000,0O0
in the revenues OF the government, but
will reduce by many millions the
amounts paid annually by the farming
classes for the articles included in the
blu. In other words, the bill will be
aimed 1T the high cost of living. 1t
will affect, in measure, the dwellers
in the cities Of the country, and thus.
lat Is expected, make them more firm in
their allegiance to the democratic par
lty, but more important still. it will be
official notice TO the jewellers in the
rural communities that the party is
.also their friend.
The democrats will therefore pay
strenuous court to the farmer as q
rival sutton. The republicans will also
ibs on hand. telling the farmer that that
party 10 his only sure reliance In poll
tics, and that In the future. as in the
|past. tho republican organization will
nave the farmers first in mind in all
legislative policies.
Farmer Always Popular.
This will not be the farmers first ex-
,perience as q political favorite. He
has always been popular. When the
government was begun, and for a long
lIlI00 Cl1SSSdlISIs u0 was eAANoyo SAS
whole thing. for cities and manufac-
twas made up almost wholly Of farmers
lor OF those directly dependent upon
them, Il thus happened that for a
iloue time the farmer held the center
Iof the political stage, and there came
about for his benefit not only much leg
itelaxaou. but a line of campaign talk
!destgned expressly for his ears. and I'M
Entelligible elsewhere. This talk, by the
way. has become q fixture In Ameri-
icsn politics, on all sides and In all par
(ties. There are spsllbinders who know
no Other language Students of farm.
ierS needs and desires, familiar with
their personal tastes, they would be
Most II called upon to do campaign duty
elsewhere than In the farming sections
Nearly all Of the newer political
movements Of recent years have had
,th> farmer especially In mind. Free
|silver made q strong appeal to him,
ta1tto It also caught certain classes OF
people living In the cities. The tariff
tGas always appealed to him, but on the
,rrotection side. The republican party
mas been able to convince him for many
gears that his interests lay in the rue
s!ss:s q that party and in the conse-
lauent maintenance of a high rate Of
duty On imports. The aim OF the dem
tocsas next year will be to convince
MIN that this doctrine - fallacious and
kha& ths interests OF the farmer really
are 70 BE found in low duties.
The farmers alliance, organized in
aa73.lwas the Oldest Of the more recent
karmevS. political organizations. 1t de-
wsloped very rapidly in the south and
WEST and finally. in 1891, 1t was merged
with tho peoples party.
Peoples Party in 1884.
The original peoples party came into
anto existence in 1884, when General
benjamin. F.. Butler, OF Massachusetts.
was nauned as the presidential candi-
ia4> OF the anti-monopoly party and
OF the greenback- labor party. This
But 4lie peoples party which is best
lsnoSu. to the present day was the
popuhjk or the peoples party which
M ;itsS first national convention in
aSo1. and announced fits principles in
1hae came TO he known - the Omaha
Saaxfesn, from the city In which the
XoaVsnS1oQ N1s. held. That party was
Il - !. az 1nli1sS1s. Altiso it'
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