Evening star., 1926-10-09
KANSAS FARM VOTE.
TO REFLECT CURTIS
Opposition to. Presidents
Plan of Relief Seen as Sen.
ator's Best Hope.

ator's Best Hope.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Special Dispatch to Tho Star
TOPEKA. kans.. October 9.-Sen
ator Curtis of Kansas. administration
leader in the Senate. is assured Of re
election TO a third term, but hts vic
tory will not represent a VindiCatior
of Coolidge farm policies. To the
Presidents agricultural program-the
Jardine program. as IL is more
Familiarity known hereaboutS-kansaS
Is unalterably opposed.
II Senator Curtis were aspiring 70
succeed himself on such platform.
he would be defeated. If Calvin Cool
idge were running for another term
on the paramount issue Of anti
McNary Ha uee nism, he could not re
carry the State which gave him la3,-
900 ma jority over Davis and La Fol
lette in 1924. If Mr.. Coolidge were
presidential candidate in Kansas to-
day on any platform. and his opponent
were former Gov. Frank O. Lowden
Of Illinois. the consensus Of opinion
is that Lowden would win. These
statements epitOmize the Kansas rolt-
ical situation.
Wheat Crop Enormous.
Administra ton farm relief meas
ures command no favor even in
Kansas which has Just harvested the
second biggest wheat crop in its his
tory. From the golden fields Of its
southwestern counties IN 1926 there
were taken 152 5000 bushels of
wheat. a yield exceeded only in the
past by the 1914 crop of 1Si, 900
bushels. With wheat selling around
s125 a bushel this Years harvest
will put nearly 5000 600 .nG0 In Kansas
farmers pockets. yer they are clamor-
ing as persistently for McNary-
Haugen legislation as ever.
Senator Arthur Capper, Coolidge
supporter. asserts there is no pros
pect whatever of tho disappearance
of the farm relief issue until il is ef-
fectiVcly met.
The Kansas corn crop this year is
a failure. owing 10 prolonged drought.
and in the North the wheat crop went
wrong, too. ParaphI'aSing Brya II.
Capper declares that the industrial
East. through it's representatives In
Congress. has nailed the hands Of the
American farmer to thn cross of. in
adequate returns" In that epigram
undoubt edly speaks the emhittcred
voice of Agricultural Kansas and OF
points North. South and West.
Curtis for Ha"cen Bill.
Serator Curtis and Republican
members Of the House up for re-
election will he returned because
they are UnCompromsing advocates
Of McNarv HauGenism. The only
Kansas Congressman who fought
2orn-belt demands last Winter. Rep
resentative ]. y. TinCher, Republican.
Of the seventh district. is not Candi-
date for reelection. Tincher. with
Senator Fess of ohio. was official
sponsor of the administration farm
LEGISLATION The heavyweight Con
gresham has variety of reasons for
deciding 10 resume private life.
Among them apparently is that dis
cretion which is often the better part
If political valor. The Sunflower
delegation in Congress is solidly Re
publican with the exception of two
House districts. The g q. +. hopes
in November 10 reduce Representa-
tive Pill" Ayres to the dignity of
the sole Democrat from Kansas. as
expect TO win the other
Democratic seat. in the second dis
trict, now held by Chauncey r. Little.
No one. Republican or Democrat.
would have n chance TO go to Con
gress from this State in 1926 who IS
not an opponent Of Coolidge -Jardine
farm relief programs. That ia the
milk in the political cocoa of Kan
sas
President Coolidge, apart from his
a agricultural views. is highly respected
by Kansas. farmers and city folk
alike. Respected" is advisedly used.
Citizens who thus express opinion Of
Mr.. Coolidge always amplify ii by
saying he does rot begin to inspire
he enthusiasm Theodore Roosevelt s
name still arouses The Presidents 8
picture is frequently thrown onto
kansas movie screens. hut IS said
seldom TO evoke applause. Yet COOL
dge tax reduction and Federal econ
omy mea SureS are thoroughly ap-
proved. and everybody aCclaims the
Presidents safety and sanity"
Coolidge Must Mend Ways.
The Bruce Barton interview made
2 tremendous impression in Kansas.
L is regarded by n good many folks
as the opening gun in thu Presidents
for denomination. But it is
plain as a pikestaff that if Calvin
'oolidge wants to assure himself of
he electoral vote Of Kansas two years
hence he must mend his agricultural
ways They are decidedly not Kansas
ways and seemingly nothing the
President does in other fields will
make them Kansas ways. 1t may
ne remarked in passing that many
Kansans insist Gov Lowden will he
p candidate in 1925. whether Coolidge
is or not The Presidents Chicago
Farm Federation speech Of Decent
her. 1925. still rankles in Kansas.
nr William NJ Jardine hulks large
N the Kansas farm political picture.
Bill" .Iardine is immensely popular
III his home state. which takes pride
il the first kansan Secretary Of
But he continues TO be
dubbed the appointee of Herbert
Hoover and the United states
Chamber Of Commerce Ralph
SNYDER. president of the Kansas
Farm Bureau Federation. recently
nillOried Jardine as "deserter of
the farm cause The Republican
State convention at Topeka. on
August 81. ConspiCuouSly refused TO
irdorse Secretary Jardine hy even so
much as mention of his name. al
though President Coolidge. Senators
Caprer and Curtis and Gov Pauien
all We're commended.
The >p!atform approved Coolidge
foreign and domestic policies in gem
eral hut was eloquently silent on its
Farm policy The platform is under
stood 20 have been written by Sena
tor Curtis There WAS an attempt
In the resolutions committee 'to in
clude a plea SAINT reference Ia Secre-
,ary Jardne hut the Kansas delega-
ton in Congress smothered II. con-
il would he a reputation
OF their McNary Haugen activities.
Farm Plan Unstable.
On September 8 Secretary Jardine