The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-02-27
NATIONS FARMERS
GET into POLITICS
SERVE NOTICE THAT THEY ARE
GOING TO QUERY ALL cANDi-
DATES FOR OFFICE
INVESTIGATE EACH ASPIRANT
No CamoufIage to Be Tolerated,
Chairman of Combined Orqaniza-
tions DecIares.-Strong, Faith
full Men Wanted

Washington. Feb. 21.-With the ap-
pointment of a committee of seven
prominent farm organization leaders
to draw up platform" the Ameri-
can farmer, through the National
Board of Farm Organizations, served
notice yesterday on present and pros
pective candidates that he is deter
mined to participate actively in the
coming campaign. The platform will
comprise questions designed to bring
out Enthusiastically the attitude of each
| candidate on matters which agrlcul-
turists consider of paramount impor-
| lance.
C. S. Barrett of Georgia. president
of the National Farmers Union, was
named chairman of the committee,
the other members being L. c. Alike
| son of West Virginia, representing
| the National Grange, Clifford Pinchot
of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Ru-
raj Progress association, j. B. Houston
of Wisconsin, secretary of the Wiscon-
sin Society of Equity; w. l. Drum
mond of Oklahoma, International Farm
Congress; d. r. Cooper of New York,
Dairymen's league; and ]. X. Howard
of Washington, American Farm Blu
reau federation.
1.-The committee, if / understand the
temper of organized agriculture,
Chairman Barrett said, twill demand
most comprehensive and unmistak-
able statement of the position of each
candidate on questions especially re-
lating TO agriculture. The farmers
will not submit to camouflage. More |
over, the committee will try to deter
mine, before submitting its findings |
TO the farmers, just what ability |
candidate may have to carry out his |
prediction promises. We must get |
behind a strong, faithful, long-vision-
ed man. None other will suit"
The conference adopted resolutions
asking early appointment of an Amer
lean delegate to the international in
stitute of agriculture at Rome to sue
coed the late Daniel Lubin, approved
the Capper-Gersman bill restoring TO
farmers the right to collective buying
and selling, expressed confidence in
the federal trade commission in con-
nection with the imminent investiga-
ton of that body and petitioned con-
gress to amend the farm loan act to in
crease the minimum loan from $1,000
TO $4,000. The investigation from Sir
Horace Plunkett, as representative OF
irish farm organizations, that delega-
l. To N |
.ional congress on agriculture at Dub
in during the present year was ac- ,
:epted.
Maurice McAuliffe. president of the
Farmers Union of Kansas. said the ,
ventures of farmers in +,
he United States already handled bus ,
ness of one billion dollars annually
md should easily increase to six times
hat figure within a decade. He and
ther speakers warned of the obstruc-
i've tactics which would be made when
his activity began to make dent
nto the business Of wholesalers"
Discrimination against cooperative y
arm organizations by railway man. Ii
gers already has become pretty gen. s
raj, especially in the west. c. o.
)rayton of Illinois, president of the h
National Farmers Equity union, told a
he conference. He announced that s.
e would file a formal complaint q
nth Director General Hines and n
Iould support his charge with affi- S.
avits from scores of exchanges CON 81
ected with organizations. Discrim- Ia
nation by railroad officials, he said, Al
as been felt chiefly in allotment OF g
ars.