The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-12
WEST SOLID
REPUBLICAN
SAYS ALLEN
Governor of Kansas Urges
Election of G. O. P. Ticket
In Address at Chautauqua
Grounds Monday Evening.
ATTACKS WAR WASTE

Governor Henry j. Allen of Kansas,
speaking to crowd which filled a
large tent at chautauqua grounds Mon
day evening urged the election of the
Republican ticket His denunciation
of the Democratic administration
brought forth round after round of
applause.
Discussing the campaign situation
with number of men in a hotel lobby
prior to the meeting Governor Allen
declared that Harding and Coolidge
would be elected by a Landslide"
majority.
West Is Solid.
The entire west is solidly Republi-
can. Kansas will go Republican by
100000" the governor said In 1916
Wilson carried Kansas.
Governor Allen was introduced to
his big audience at the chautauqua
grounds by Fillmore Riggs.
The proposed league of nations was
sharply criticized by Governor Allen.
He said there had been eleven such
leagues organized in the last 1000
years and each had been a failure
Governor Allen gave his approval
to the Esch-Cummins railroad bill, de-
clar1ng it was one of the most con-
structlve measures passed by con-
sress in many years. He asserted that
the railroad employees were the princi-
pal beneficiaries under the act
AssaiIs Extravaganza.
He declared that government ex.
penditures, generally speaking, during
the world war were the last word in
reckless wastefulness. He advocated
a thorough investigation of these ex.
pendltures and the arrest and prosecu-
tlon OF every prof1teer. The governor
cited many instances of how the Amer
lean taxpayers money was literally
thrown away by the war department
during the war. He asserted that au-
tomobiles, shoes, blankets and other
supplies were destroyed by the gov
eminent after the armistice so chat
they would not have to be re-soId.
The government did not want to
break the price" on the products it
destroyed, he said. Hundreds of army
automobiles in France were crushed
by tanks, the governor said
Discussing the agricultural situa-
ton, Governor Allen said:
We all know there is a great de-
mand for export wheat and in the
face of that demand we have seen n
drop in price before any considerable
amount has been filled This drop is
unnatural. Export wheat was selling
at $500 up to a few weeks ago, when
the Chicago Board of Trade, which
was in operation, opened.
Wheat went down, not in obedi-
ence to the law of supply and demand.
out because of manipulation, aided by
the arrival on the market of Canad-
ian wheat, which the traders had
peen buying under the provisions of
the last Democratic tariff law. The
ola Republican tariff law provided a
olfferentlal of 25 cents a bushel.
Protection Due Farmer
Ihls protection is due to the
American farmer because he can not
ralse wheat as cheaply as in Canada.
Today Canada has this and the added
advantage of differential in the ex-
change IN money, a differential which
would give them an advantage of IL
cents a bushel. So two reasons exist
for the sensa tioral drop-the man.
lpulation of the Chicago Board of
Trade. the result of which was mani
tested from the very day the board
opened it's operations. and the use of
the board has been a BILE to make of
Canadian wheat.
The board has used this limited
supply to drive down the market,
mere is no relief unless the presi-
dent should lay his hands on the Chi
cago Board of Trade. | have re-
quested a thorough investigation of
the manipulations. He can not use
the war acts, SO the only relief is TO
stop manipulation on the board and
to restore protection to the United
states wheat farmers against the free
1nroads of Canadian wheat"