Evening star., 1924-09-01
BRYAN ATTACKS
COP. CORRUPTION
Declares Nation Is Shocked
at Revelations Made "With-
out Executive Aid."
By the Associafed p~.


RIVER SIOUX PARK. ELK POINT,
g. d., September 1.-Goy. CharIes W
6ryan, the Democratic nominee for Vice
resident, opened his party's Middle
western campaign here today with 4
spirited attack against the Republican
administration for corruption in Office.
q nigh tariff and for failure to provide
relief to the farmer.
speaking from the front porch of the
farm home >of Louis N. Grill, South
Dakota Democratic chairman, the vice
PRESIDENTIAL nominee addressed his La
por oay message to an audience made
up chiefly Of farmers and laboring ele-
ments Of nearby points in this State,
Nebraska and Iowa.
while he did not mention specific
remedies for agriculturahsts, Gov.
6ryan urged his hearers and every
Iarmer and wage-earner In the United
states TO obtain copy Of the Demo-
crauc platform and carefully read it. 1t
contained: ne said. every practical
remedy for the relief and encourage
ment OF asriculture." The Democratic
party Is friend Of labor, he said, add
ing that the word labor no longer ap-
pies only to shop and factory workers,
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Gov. Bryan declared the Republican
nministration during the past four
years had struck a blow to aeri-
culture that can only be remedied
curing the next four years by the
election of a Democratic President
ana Democratic Congress in Novem-
ber."
few" Republican members of
congress from the Northwest who
nave been compelled to bolt the Re-
publican party" because it BETRAYED
the trust placsd in that party by the
farmers of the entire country" the
nominee asserted, were aligned with
the Democrats during the last two
years and assisted them in restoring
equality before the law as 1t applied
to the tax bill"
IL the Democratic party as a
whole is progressive enough
and honest enough to SECURE the votes
or tho Progressive Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives OF the agri-
cultural States Of the Northwest, are
not the farmers Of the Northwest
justified in supporting the Demo-
cratic national candidates who have
been progressive in Office and are
now standing upon, and are pledged
to, the most progressive Democratic
platform that was ever written by a
national political party?" Mr. Bryan
asked
The Democratic party, he continued,
- not a party represented by blocs.
factions, sections or creeds, but is
one standing on the board Jefferson
ian principle OF equal rights to all
and special privileges to none" Its
Representatives in Congress- he said,
have been furnishing the votes to
every so-called bloc that wanted a
square deal and opposing every in
terest that has been seeking special
privileges"
Want SchAckles Removed.
Agriculture is not asking for
aims" Mr. Bryan said. The farmers
ARE not seeking information as to
how to farm" nor are they Suffering
on account of their own extravaganza
or lack Of thrift" What they want
he said, is the handicaps and the
hobbies which have been placed on
them by the Republican administra-
ton removed"
The farmers were seeking demands
similar to those Of labor-"a suf-
hcent price for their products to en-.
able them to live at American Stand
ards with a margin for old age"
Gov. Bryan said that almost every
social. economic and financial reform
that has been adopted by this nation
had its originn in the agricultural
classes and they were its chief sup
porters."
"our Republican opponents" he
continued, ARE now intimating that