The New York herald., 1922-10-18

ments, recruited under the banner of
the Farmer Labor party, are arrayed
against the Republican party. The
orderly lines of party division TO a
great extent have been obliterated.
Thousands of Democrats who share
the apprehension OF their Republican
opponents are openly supporting Sena-
ton Frank B. Kellogg and Gov. Preus,
the Republican nominees, 10 succeed
themselves.
Republican leaders are urging their
party associates to vote for Col. Doty,
Democratic nominee for Congress in
the district embracing the twin cities
of st. Paul and Minneapolis. The
controlling reasons are the same-war
on radicalism, or pronounced socialism.
for that is what it really comes to.
Senator Kellogg and Gov. Preus are
trying to save the deluded farmer and
toiler from the blatant apostles of dis
content and hare Drained theories and
convince him that the relief he seeks
can best be obtained through allegience
TO the two regular parties. They are
advocating the american Plan" as
against the "Bolshevist Plan" meet
ing absurd and reckless charges with
facts and logical reasoning. From
present indications they will win be-
cause of their success In this UNDER
taking.
Backbone of Movement.
The backbone of the Farmer Labor
movement, which polled 100000 votes
two years ago for Governor, is agra
rian. It's program takes in some of
the so-called Hearst policies, few of
Mr.. Bryans. with a pronounced flavor
of Karl Marx, Lenine and I. W. w.
teachings. 1t includes, of course, the
single tax, discriminatory income tax,
Government control OF cooperative
banks, State and Government owned
utilities, repeal of the Esch- Cummins
faw and substitution of public owner
ship of ships and Government opera
ton of railways. with some local re
forms"
Henrik Shipstead, the Farmer Labor
candidate for Senator. and Magnus
Johnson it's nominee for Governor are
urging the farmers to revolt against
both the Democratic and Republican
parties. They denounce nearly every
feature of the Wilson and Harding
Administrations. Both are described
as the tools Of the dollar cursed At
lantic seaboard"-a phrase coined by
Townley, the organizer of the Nom
Partisan League, which party is fight
ing against combination Of rational
Democrats and Republicans in neigh
boring North Dakota.
The tariff, which supplies the weak
est link in the Republican program, is
denounced and forces an apology from
Senator Kellogg and his party asso-
ciates The soapbox performers Of
the Farmer-Labor party stigmatize it
as another attempt to ".enslave the
American farmer"
Mr.. Bryan, who is here trying to re-
suscitate the Democratic party, styles
the tariff as "the boldest piece Of
piracy attempted in recent years"
His condemnation has had less effect
than the denunciation of the project
by the Shipstead candidates, for the
truth is the thrice defeated candidate
for President seems to have lost his
power to charm even the corporal's
guard left of his party in Minnesota.
Compared to the Farmer-Labor
program, that once advocated by him
is mildly conservative. Mr.. Bryan
generally sticks fairly close to facts.
This is not true of radical forces cater
gni of the real and fancied grievances
of the farmer and industrial toiler.
The Esch-Cummins bill is a case in
point. 1t is the star card on the radi-
cal program. The Minnesota farmer
has been more thoroughly misin-
formed about 1t than any Govern