The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-02
COP. INSURGENCY CITED BY BRYAN
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Democratic Platform Gov CTS Agricultural Needs,
 He Declares
(By Associated Press.

(by ASSOCl3toQ freSS.D
 RIVER SIOUX PARK, ELK POINT, S. Dak.-Sept, 1.--Governor Charles W. Bryan, the democratic nom- inee for vice president, opened his party's middle western campaign here today with a spirited attack against the republican administration for cor ruption in office, high tariff and for failure to provide relief to the farmer
 Speaking from the front porch of the farm home of Louis N. Grill, South presidential nominee addressed his La 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 agriculturalists, Governor Bryan urged his hearers and every farmer and wage earner in the United States to obtain a copy of the demo- cratic platform and carefully read it. It contained, he said, "every practical remedy for the relief and encourage ment of agriculture" The Democratic party is friend of labor, he said, add ing that the word labor" no longer applies only to shop and factory work CTS, but to those who work on the farm as we'll.
 Up To Democrats
 Governor Bryan declared the republi- can administration during the last four years had struck blow to agri- culture "that can only be remedied during the next four years by the cleo. tion of democratic president and a democratic Congress in November"
 "A few" republican members of Congress from the northwest who "have been compelled to bolt the Republican party" because it betrayed the trust placed in that party by the farm CTS of the entire country" the nomi- nee asserted, were aligned with the democrats during the last two years and assisted them in restoring equali- ty before the law as it applied to the tax bill"
 If the Democratic party as a whole is progressive enough and honest enough to secure the votes of the progressive republican senators and congressman of the agricultural states of the north west, are not the farmers of the north west 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 national po- litical party?" MT. Bryan asked.
 Agriculture is not asking for aims, D MT. Bryan said. The farmers "are not seeking information as to how to farm 5 nor are they suffering on account of their own extravagance or lack of thrift" What they want, he said. is ''the handicaps and the hobbies which have been placed on them by the re- publican administration removed.
 Governor Bryan said that almost every social, economic and financial reform that has been adopted by this nation had it's origin in the agricul- tural classes and they were its chief supporters"
 Our republican opponents" he con- tinued, "are now intimating that those residing in the great agricultural states are a dangerous element and that they are not standing on the Con- st1tutlon. The common people, among whom are to be found the farmers and wage earners will give their answer in November"
 Discussing agriculture at another point, the vice presidential candidate said, misuse of federal reserve sys- tenn" by the republicans had reduced the per capita circulation of currency from $51 to $39 and curtailed the value of farm products and land.
 Something Must Be Done
 Governor Bryan said that republic ar leaders in the east had begun to realize something must be done for az. r1culture. President Coolidge" he said, "in his speech of acceptance says, the republican platform recognizes that agriculture should be on a basis of economic quality with other indus tries The Republican party has said that in its platform but it has opposed every piece of legislation that was in troduced in Congress that would put agriculture on an economic equality with other industries
 Summing up, he asserted that while the "privilege-seeking class were reap ing their reward for substantially SUD- porting the Republican party in the campaign four years ago by securing indefensible high tariff rates, transfer ring large percentage of their taxes to others to bear, deflating the currency and compelling the farmers to pay their loans in larger bushels of wheat and corn than they borrowed, the po- liticians who demanded and secured some of the highest appointive offices in the gift of the government were not overlooking their opportunity to join the 'get-rich-quick' club"
 'The nation has been humiliated and the world has been shocked at the dishonesty, the incompentcy, the greed, the graft and the corruption that has been uncovered by Congress in connection with this administration without any assistance or encourage. ment on the part of the chief execu. tive"
 The vice presidential candidate pre-. faced his address, his first outside his home state and the first since his formal notification August IS, with an explanation of how Labor Day was created and with a reaffirmation that labor is not commodity-but that il is human and must be dealt with hu- manly"
 He described the two major parties and said he had been devoting almost his enntire time during the past 2S years in framing Legislative and ad- ministrative remedies for governmental and business abuses"
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