Evening star., 1926-10-20
c. O.P.|N KANSAS
DECLARED STRONG
Farmers, More Prosperous
Than Elsewhere, Back
Administration.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

TOPEKA, Kans., October 20.-NC
signs of revolt against the Republican
party are discernible in Kansas, anG
If there is little GOODNESS toward the
| administration because of it's opposi
ton to the McNary- Haugen farm re
lief bill, by many degrees it lacks the
proportions of a revolt.
Indeed, Kansas apparently pre-
sents another political paradox in a
year which is full of them. Notwith-
standing the fact that the farmers
of the Sun Flower State are anxious
for farm legislation and for want OF
other concrete plan look with favor
on the McNary Haugen equalization
fee bill, they like President Coolidge
and his Secretary of Agriculture, VIII
liam NJ. Jardine, himself a Kansan
who turned thumbs down when the
McNary-H -Haugen bill was up in Con
gress last Spring. .
There is an explanation for this
In the first place, Kansas, by and
large, and Kansas farmers are In
better shape than they have been for
years. No such conditions exist here
as are found in Iowa, for example.
There are no inflated land values
due to the war conditions, in Kansas
comparable to those in Iowa, which
the farmers must now live up to-
They do not have to raise crops OF
wheat or corn on land which was
priced at $500 and even $400 an acre
and make the land pay. Fortunately
for the Kansas farmer. he kept his
feet on the ground during boom times
and there was not the speculation in
AGRICULTURAL lands that was found ir
Iowa.
Tax Cut Approved.
When a farmer is doing fairly vel
and conditions are growing better
there is not the incentive for revol
or for denunciation Of the administra
ton. So President Coolidge con
tinues popular in the State. The peo
ple like him and they like his ta1
reduction and economy policies
There is no crusade on among the
farmers for former Gov. Lowden OF
Illinois or any other Western man fol
the Republican presidential nomina
thought is being given by the farmer:
may seem to the politicians.
If President Coolidge had to b.
elected again November 2 kansa.
would cast it's electoral votes for hin
as sure as shooting. Gov. Lowde1
is we'll liked in the State, but mer
we'll informed as to the likes and dis
likes of the farmers insist that he
is no more popular than Coolidge, il
spite of the fact that Lowden has an
nounced for the principle of the Nc
Nary-Haughen bill and Coolidge ha.
opposed it.
There is one thing, indeed. tha
might react against Mr.. Lowden i
he were seeking the nomination to
day. The Kansas newspapers, a.
those in other States, have been Civ
ing no little attention to the report:
of excessive campaign expenditure
and political corruption in Illinois
Indiana and Pennsylvania. The peo
pie out here don't sympathize Will
such expenditures. And it was re
called here today that in 1920 Gov
Lowden suffered defeat at the Re
publican national convention largel,
because of expenditures of money il
Missouri and the pre-convention cam
paign for delegates. Gov. Lowde1
was not personally connected will
these expenditures, which smacket
of corrupt practices. But the ex
penditures We're made by lieutenant:
who misused their positions in ordel
to obtain delegates favoring Lowden
Make no mistake. however, as t.
the desire of the Kansas farmers TO,
legislation which will help in som,
way to equalize the purchasing valu,
Of the farmers dollar with that O.