East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-09-18
COX SPEAKERS WILL
SHOW HARDING WAS
AGAINST FARM LOAN
Measure of Great Value to
Agricultural Region Was
Openly Opposed in Senate
by Senator Harding.
BY WARD A. IRVINE

PORTLAND. Sept, 1s.-A battery %
Cox speakers is soon TO be invading all
the counties of Oregon. In meetings
of leaders for the last several days in
Portland. speakers have been selected,
tentative speaking places and dates ar
ranged and the entire program gone
over in the minutest detail. A vigor-
Gus campaign in behalf of a vigorous
candidate is the way the Cox support
ers describe the speaking plans.
Milton A. Miller will open the cam
paign in an address at Astoria Friday.
He will speak to the newly organized
Cox Roosevelt club in the Columbia
river city. Following the visit of Mil
Ter to Astoria. other prominent Cox
men will be sent to all parts of the
state to set forth the Cox stand on the
issues of the day.
1t is known that the campaign of
the Cox hackers will be carried direct
to the farmers of Oregon. 1t is to the
man on the soil that they have a rath-
er substantial appeal due to the re-
spective stands of Senator Harding
and Governor Cox in the past. Where
as the ultra conservative Ohio senator
has opposed the agriculturists on more
than one occasion and now has the op-
state to overcome. his vigorous oppo-
nent has a record of unbroken fidelity
to the interests of the farmer.
Opposed Farm Loan Act.
The Cox Speakers will bore into the
lspeech by Harding in the senate in
which he declared for dollar wheat. on
this point Harding said:
I'm this latter day farming has be-
come an occupation for profit; and l
happen to know that under normal
conditions. dollar wheat makes it a
very profitable occupation"
They will also attack Harding on his
lspeech in the senate in which he op
posed the farm loan act. On this he
said:
Il will not assume to say that con-
ditions in Ohio are altogether like
those in other states in the union, but
1 believe I can state an absolute truth
when l say that there is no more need
for a measure OF this kind for the ag-
riculturalsts of Ohio than the govern
mentto step in and take charge of all
our Industrial and productive affairs
in that state
The speakers on the other hand will
point to Cox's record in Ohio. Dur
ing his administration a law coubin
ling all agricultural ACTIVITIES under Jur-
isdiction of an agricultural commits
sion was established, provision was
made for study and establishment of
farm credit plan. a producer to con-
sumner bureau was established. labor
shortage on farms was met by the
state placing 5000 tractors into the
fields and tractor school was con-
Quoted under the supervision of ex-
perts. Cox was also responsible for
provision against sale of untested fer
tilzer. for pure seed law. for the loss
| from cattle destroyed because of dis
ease from the farmer to the state. and
for a system of main-market high
ways.
! Would Recognize Farmer.
| These things the Cox speakers will
tell their Oregon audience as well as
the pledge Cox gave at Salem of his
fidelity to the fedora! reserve and
1 farm loan systems and their possible
extension. Furthermore, in that
speech. he declared in favor of repre-
sentation of agriculture on the federal
reserve and farm loan boards as well
as on the interstate commerce and
tariff commissions.