Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-09
FARM RELIEF
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tor from General Dawes native state
of Ohio, Simeon d. Fess, declared the
Dawes McNary- Haugen plan" of
farm legislation would ruin the
country"
From none Of the titular leaders of
the majority party was there any
word of comment on the Brookhart
victory to match the triumphant
shout that went up from Democrats
and Insurgent Republicans at the
vanquishing Of the veteran Republi-
can stalwart. Cummins in yesterdays
primaries.
Senator Butler Of Massachusetts.
chairman Of the Republican national
committee, and Senator Curtis OF
Kansas, the party floor leader, de-
clined toAexpress an opinion, and
when a Question about the Iowa turn
over was handed in to the White
House spokesman he ignored IT.
Senator Cummins himself merely is
sued statement thanking those who
supported him.
Even derisive Senate speech by
Harrison Of Mississippi, the peren-
NAL Democratic prodder of Republic
can candidates and issues, brought
no reply from the Republican side
except series of Interruptions from
Senator Watson of Indiana, who In
turn was accused by Senator Harri-
son of having won his denomination
by DESERVING "Cal and Andy" and ac-
cepting Vice President Dawes as
party leader.
The jubilation among the Republi-
can Insurgents took the form OF re-
newed demands for the equalization
fee as measure of farm relief, and
renewed attacks on the Republican,
administration. Senator Norris of
Nebraska said the Iowa result was a
plain warning to party managers
from the White House down, that
the west would not follow those who
sought to pacify it by half measures,
and Senators LaFollette of Wiscon-
sin, McNary of Oregon and others
declared the Iowa vote was q ringing
demand for farm relief"
Senator Gerry of Rhode Island and
Representative Oldfield of Arkansas,
chairmen of the Democratic senator
ial and congressional campaign COM
mittees, both pronounced the defeat
Of Cummins a sign that the popular.
ity of President Coolidge is waning.
Four administration senators. said
Senator Gerry, had faced their con-
stituents in Republican primaries and
all had been defeated Representa-
tive Oldfield added this suggestion:
This administration has not enact
ed and will not enact real farm relief
legislation.
Tho first step toward this end Is
for the western farmers and their rep-
resentatives in Congress to join with
the Democrats in bringing about a
downward revision of the tariff on the
things the farmer has to buy"
The Senate's debate on farm relief,
after it had veered away from the
Brookhart victory, conferred about the
McNary bill, embodying principles
similar to those recently voted down
in the House and based on an econom-
ic theory which has the approval Of
Vice President Dawes.
Opening the discussion, Senator Har-
rison said it was no wonder the Sem
ate chamber looks like a funeral"
with the defeat of Cummins following
Oh the failure of Mckinley in Illinois,
Pepper in Pennsylvania and Stanfield
in Oregon. "All four of the men de-
feated were able. experienced and ft-
ted for their work here" he continued.
They were men who had made 'reputa-
tions and whose fame was far flung.
The only reason they went down to de-
feat was that they chung to Cal and
stood by Andy too long.
THE only Republican senator who
has been able to squeeze through was
the senior senator from Indiana, SEN
ator Watson. but 1t wasn't by clinging
to Cal and standing by Andy. He saw
that was a little dangerous. So now
he's clingiDg to the vice president"