Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-10-12
HEART OF WEST
GOES OUT TO
SMITH
Farmers ThrOng Cities to Take
Part in Enthusiastic
0vationS.
HE PROMISES IMMEDIATE
AND REAL FARM RELIEF
Attacks 6lsotry and Intolerance
Challenges the ku Klux Klan-Ex
poses Hoover Stand on Water
Power-Assalls Repub-
llcan Corruption.


Starting at Omaha, where in brill
liant speech he made mastery
analysis of the farm question, Gov.
ernor Smith, swing through the West
on his first speaking trip Of the cam.
paign was one continued trlumphal
progress.
At Omaha he lined himself square.
ly side by side with the farmer. pledg
ing himself to get the farmer a square
deal. At Oklahoma City, two days
later. with the applause and thanks
of the farmers still rising on all sides,
he turned with characteristic vlgor
and courage to the issue of religious
tolerance.
At Denver he attacked the connec,
tons with the water power trust OF
the Republican party and the Repub.
lican candidate, and explained con.
vincingly his own constructive pro
gram with regard to water power.
Republican corruption, so sensation.
ally revealed In the oil scandal inves'
legations, he assailed in his address
at the Montana State Fair at Helena
Although comment ON Governor
Smiths farm speech at Omaha has
particularly emphasized the warmth
and friendship shown by the Demo
cratic candidate for the farmers ana
his determination to give them the
kind of help they want. sight has not
been lost Of the mastery grasp
which he displayed of the farm prob.
lem.
Going directly to the heart OF the
farm question, he said the trouble is
that the farmer is buying In highly
protective market and he Is selling In
an unprotected one. Everything that
is used In the operation of his farm
except what he himself produces, is
hid behind the tariff wall 1t is sup
posed to function for him but does
not"
The Surplus
"a great many of the crops OF this
of the needs of the domestic market
That is the niger In the woodpile
That Is what you have got to pay your
attention to, because as 1t stands to
day, the farmer Is compelled to offer
II in the domestic market first, and
the surplus tends to pull down the
price that he receives for the whole
crop"
Referring to broken Republican
campaign promises Of 1924, Governor
Smith continued, What did they
mean by equality between agriculture
and industries? They meant to give
the farmer the benefit of the tariff
they know they have not done II
The President knows 1t. Candidate
Hoover knows It,"
Governor Smith then proceeded t.
show that Herbert Hoover, the Repuh
llcan candidate. has absolutely IL
nored this vital and fundamental part
of the farm problem. Mr.. Hoover f.
| against the McNarey- Haugen bill. was
largely responsible for President
Coolldge's two vetoes of that measure
and the only suggestion he has ever
iOi oOlfihS iht plha plObltIi
is to starve enough farmers into
bankruptcy so that there will Nc
longer be any surplus.
Pointing out the harsh cruelty OF
such policy. which would mean thai
millions OF farmers would lose theiI
homes and be driven into the cities to
find work. Governor Smith pledged
himself to a constructive and humane
method of saving the farmer from the
unfair and ruinOus operation of the
tariff.
He said: AS ! read the McNary
Haugen bill. Its fundamental purpose
is to establish an effective control OF
the sale OF expoFable surplus. with
the cost imposed upon the commodity
benefited. For that principle tn
Democratic platform squarply stand.
and for that principle squarely stand
Mr.. Hoover stands squarely opposed
to this principle by which the farmer
could get the benefit of the tariff
Here is clean cut Is nc. which
the farmers and voters OF this country
must decide pledge to the farmers
and people Of the country that no
stone will be left uniurDed to give i'm
mediate and adequate farm relief by
legislation, carrying into practice this.
principle for which my party and !
stand"
Whispering Campaign
At Oklahoma City, pointing to his lonc
record In New York public affairs and hi,
four terms as Coz rnor Of the state he
denounced the secret and underhand
campaign being waged by the Republi.
cans to arouse opposition to him on the
grounds OF his religion.
There is no greater mockery in the
world today" said Governor Smith, than
the burning of the cross, the emblem Of
Christ, and at the Same time breathing
hatred"
IL have the right to say that n there
In any citizen In this country who believes
that | can promote Its welfare, that | am
capable OF steering the ship OF state safe.
ly through the next four years. and then
votes against me because OF my religion
he Is not real, pure, genuine American
He showed thrt religious crceds had
made no difference to him in his appoint.
ments to office while Governor. Protest
ants having been named In the vast ma.
jority Of cases and MI creeds being rep
resented.