Nogales international., 1928-10-12
FARM LEADERS
BOLT HOOVER
Dyer of Indiana, and Reed OF
Minnesota, Declare for
Smith.
RASKoB EXPLAINS POLICY
Democratic Chairman Stresses
Need for Program Which Win
Bring Farm Prosperity-Urges
Tariff Equa7ity.

Further evidence that sentiment
for Governor Smith is sweeping the
Middle West is contained in the
announcement that ]. F. Reed, for
seven years president of the Min
nesota Farm Bureau federation,
and John Napier Dyer of Vincennes,
Indiana, director in the American
Farm Bureau federation, will sup
port the Democratic candidate for
President.
Both Reed and Dyer have been
lifelong Republicans. Each has is
sued a statement setting forth that
the Republican party has turned
deaf ear to American agriculture
and that, the championship Of the
cause of the farmer by Governor
Smith now compels true friends OF,
agriculture to enlist in the Demo
cratic forces.
Meanwhile, John j. Ra skob,
Chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, was asserting the
urgent need for national policy
giving the farmer prosperity and
tariff equality.
1.-THE greatest assurance for our
future prosperity" said Mr.. Ras-
kob, "will depend on our ability to
Increase the purchasing power OF
the farmer. That can only be done
through giving the farmer tariff
protection, thus putting him on an
equality with industry and enabling
him to pay the high wages for labor
which he Is compelled to pay in
competition with industry"
Cycle of Prosperity
Putting our farms on a profitable
earning basis, Mr.. Raskob pointed
out, would give the farm popula-
ton, which constitutes 80 per cent
of our population, tremendously in
creased purchasing power. Now
purchasing power means consump-
ton and consumption requires pro-
neutrality-suspicious. requires labor
and labor employed again means
purchasing power and thus the
cycle of prosperity is completed"
Feeling that the Farm Bureau
federation should be non-partisan,
Mr.. Reed has resigned from his po,
sition as president of the Minnesota
bureau to- adopt the course OF sup
porting Governor Smith to which he
says he is compelled by the present
issue between the Republicans and
Democrats.
"Both the platform and the can
didate OF the Republican party"
says Mr.. Reed, withhold from agri-
culture any promise OF an adequate
remedy for existing conditions, con-
fning their agricultural pledge to
vague geperalities which in no way
define nor suggest nor promise the
remedy long. sought by American
Northumberland and orderly
marketing of crop surpluses with
adequate provision for the distribu-
ton of the costs upon the marketed
units of the crops benefited
Honesty Compels Endorsement
"The platform of the Democratic
party and the pronouncement of its
candidate upon the question of agri-
cultural equality embraces so def.
nitely and clearly the principles
held vital to any adequate farm re-
lief plan by myself and the farmers
OF the state generally, that candor
and honesty compels me to endorse
the platform and the candidate OF
the Democratic party"
After reciting the failure of the
Republican party to keep its
pledges to agriculture, and the re-
pudiation of the fs 4ner's cause by
Herbert Hoover, Mr.. Dyer an
nounces that he is quitting the Re-
publican party, disguised with its
lack of honor in the reputation of
Its solemn pledges to the American
farmer, and / am aligning myself
with the Democratic party, with
faith in its leader" -
Mr.. Dyer, operator of thousand
acre farm in Knox county, Indiana,
also states that he is a dry and
a Protestant. He is president of
the Knox County Horticultural as
sociation, and is one of the leading
oyrnw0~o ~ khn country