The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

posing the equalization fee provisions
are in fact opposed to any form of
farm relief and their pretended oppo-
sitiOn to the equalization fee is a pre-
text to strike at the very heart of the
measure itself.
In the case of BroOkhart it is OBJ
viOus that no one can challenge his
sincerity or loyalty to the farmers
cause. There is no man in the United
States senate at the present time who
is more directly interested iii legisla-
ton for the farmer than is the Sena-
tor from the Hawkeye state.
BrOOkhart Slams Dawes, ct al
In this connection it is interesting
to note what Mr.. Brookhart has to
say with reference to some of the
pretended friends of the McNary-
Haugen measure. Vice President
Charles G. Dawes has for some time
been an advocate of the McNary-
Haugen bill. In view of Mr.. Dawes
record in the past it should cause no
surprise to learn that BroOkhart queS-
lions the formers sincerity in regard
to the farm relief bill. Mr.. Brook
hart maintains that the friends of Mr.
Dawes hope that President Coolidge
will veto the bill in order that it may
be kept alive as a political football
for boosting Dawes into the presiden-
cy.'
Those who are at all informed on
the records of Dawes, Lowden, Cur
tbs, Watson and others of the candi-
dates who are now boosting the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill, know that not one
of them is a true friend of the farm
er. In fact the entire list named above
doe not contain the name of one sin
cere friend of the farmers cause.
Curtis and Watson a Fine Pair
Curtis and Watson are among the
most reactionary members of the SEN
ate. Years back it will be remembered
Senator LaFollette went to Kansas
and showed up Curtis with the result
that the latter was defeaed for re-
nomination to the senate by Jos. L.
Bristow. Later the Republican ma
chine backed by powerful financial in
terests succeeded in getting Curtis
back in the senate. As for Watson,
it will also be remembered that in the
Mulhall exposures of a dozen years
ago, he was shown to have been en-
gagged by the National Manufacturers
Association to drive, from 0ublic life,
the progressives in both houses of
congress. On the list of those to be
defeated was no less a man than
Charles A. Lindbergh, then Congress
man from the sixth district of Mime
sofa.
The McNary-Haugen bill will un-
doubtedly pass the House and it will
also very probably be vetoed by the
President. 1t may seem unkind to
suggest it but facts indicate that
many of those who voted for the bill
In the senate and who will vote for it
In the house, are doing so purely for
political reasons knowing full well
that the measure has no chance of
becoming law.
Shipstead Again Worries Republicans
The appointment of Shipstead as
chairman of the senate committee on
printing has again aroused specula-
ton agong Republican politicians and
newspaper editors as to the Farmer
Labor senator's possible party affili-
alton in the present campaign. To be
sure there was nothing so strange
about Shipstead's appointment to the
craftsmanship when all the facts are
taken into consideration. But these
facts are not made use of to any ex-
tent IN explaining the appointment.
The Minneapolis Journal comments
upon what it terms Shipstead's "Dual
Republicanism." Gin Washington he
is Republican,; in Minnesota, he is
not" says the Journal. "In the SEN
ate he is accepted into sort of men,
bership in the party and as evidence
thereof is provided with a committee
Craftsmanship. In this state where his
record as a candidate and a campaign
er for the Farmer-Labor party is well
known, his newly imputed Republican
ism is denied and disavowed."
The Journal then calls attention to
the fact that the recent state Repub-
lican convention took note of the pos
Sibility of Shipstead's filing as a Re
publican and adjourned subject to the
cali of Chairman Nolan so that meas
ures might be taken to prevent the
possible seizure of the nomination by
an outsider"
Republican Propaganda to Iniure
Shipstead
While it is unthinkable to Farmer
Laborites that Senator Shipstead has
In mind deserving the progressives of
Minnesota and aligning himself with
the Republicans, the politicians of the
state who desire the Senator's defeat
are not unwise in seeking to do him
harm by the propaganda that they are
spreading.
In this connection it is of interest
to note that Senator Roclne, who is a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for U. S. Senator, issued a state
ment a few days ago, through his
campaign manager, Reuben G.. Thor
cen, expressing no concern over Ship
stead's plans. Mr.. Thoreen states that
Senator Rockne is ready to meet the
senior senator from Minnesota either
at the primary or at the general cleo
ton
That Rockne might have little to
fear from ShipStead in the primary is
obvious. Rockne has the powerful
backing of the Republican state ma
chine dominated by Ed. Backus. The
record of Mr.. Roclne is so thorough
ly reactionary that he has earned the
support of the very interests who are
now backing him.
Republican Race Between ROckne and
Burnquist
The outlook would indicate the NOM
lnation of Rockne, though there is a
possibility of former Governor Burn
quist nosing him out for the nomin-
alton. If an elimination convention
should be held by the Republicans it
seems more than likely that Roclne
would receive the endorsement of that