The Washington times., 1924-01-04
WILL WAR
IN OLD
GUARD
Coolidge Is Being Deceived by
Alfalfa Politicians" Dewey
Dorman Says.
BY JOHN T. LAMBERT,
CoamOp0Iltan Nawa RerxIca.


Cosmopolitan News Service.
Dewey" Dorman, Of Montana,
organizer Of the liberal forces in
the fourteen farming States Of
the Great Northwest, is here to-
day for private conferences with
the liberal leaders of Congress.
Dorman says:
There will be no third party.
eve will work inside both old
parties.
president Coolidge will not
get our support under any cir
cumstances.
Demand q Progressive.
"If a progressive Republican can.
not be nominated we will work for
q progressive Democrat. We will
support a 2 per cent progressive
Democrat rather than a 100 per
cent reactionary like the President.
THE one remote chance of a
third party being formed Is that
both parties will give us hopeless
reactionaries. The farmers of the
West can't be delivered to any
one but a progressive.
Dorman said politicians and peo-
pie Of the East do not seem to COM
I prehend the serious plight Of the
farmers out there.
There is a great, heart-rending
49, -
"In the, last two weeks l have
seen good ranch horses sold for SO
apiece. Farmers can't afford to
keep them.
II have seen people go without
white bread where the best wheat
in the world is raised. Their wheat
is gone. Spectators have it now.
They can't afford to buy white
bread.
Fourteen Banks Fail.
Fourteen banks have closed in
Montana alone in fifteen days
Farmers can't meet their notes
We estimate that 40 per cent of all
the banks in the Northwest farm
ing district have CLOSED. If the
laws were strictly enforced, 80 per
cent of them would close
while suffering, the farmers
have been slapped in the face. They
have been told by Washington that
they must pull themselves up out
Of their troubles by the bootstraps,
Washington says to them: You
don't know how well off you are,
Get wise to yourselves; plant less
wheat, even though the children OF
the tenement districts will have less
bread to eat Washington gives
them absolutely no offer of relief
but promises to give it's money and
credit to serve the grain specula-
tors, who bought the wheat at low
prices from the farmers and now
are going to be guaranteed their
high prices to the people,"
Dorman said the liberal movement
now has active organizations in
Minnesota, North Dakota, Wash
ington, Idaho, Oregon, Kansas,
Nebraska, Texas, South Dakota,
Montana, Colorado, Iowa, Wyoming
ers contemplate joining forces with
the cotton farmers of the South.
Among the organizations which,
he said. are now functioning are
the Non-Partisan League, railroad
brotherhoods, American Federation
Of Labor, Conference for Progress.
sive Political Action, Farmers
Union, Patrons of Husbandry,
American Society of Equity, Farm.
er-Labor Party and the Labor
League.
He said the farmers want repeal
of the Esch- Cummings act, lower
freight rates, stablization Of prices
Of the basic farm products, repeal
Of the present tariff, reduction of
prices on materials they buy. He
said they are for the bonus, against
the Mellon tax plan, and very
earnestly opposed to ga decisions
by the Supreme Court.
'The people of the West are
not being delivered" he said. ''The
White House is being deceived by
alfalfa politicians who claim to
have the farmer vote of the West
in their vest pockets. The only
votes they can deliver are their
own"