The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-28
NYE, JARDINE,
WORK SCORED
ON FARM PLAN
Farm Relief, Inland Water.
ways and Whispering AS
saulted in st. Paul
REPEATS FEE APPROVAL
Galleries Boo Reference to Edi.
torial and Nominees Reply
Is Cheered
BY ID. HAROLD OLIVER
Press Staff Writer)

NsA0cONl0SVO ACS0 0t0kk VIIVC1/
st. Paul, Minn., Sept. 28.-Leav-
ing behind another attack on the
Republican party and administra-
ton, this time q triple-barreled as
sault for alleged inaction on the
questions of farm relief and inland
waterways and for whispering"
Governor Smith takes to the road
again today for the last speech of
his western drive for the presidency.
Tomorrow night at Milwaukee the
Democratic presidential candidate
will wind up his two weeks stumping
of the middle and far west with an
address probably on prohibition.
The Democratic state convention at
Rochester next Monday, which he
also plans to address. then will be
his only engagement before return
ing to Albany for rest.
Ripping into his Republican oppo-
sition. Governor Smith told crowd
that jammed into the st. Paul audi
torium last night that there was an
absolute lack of vigorous leader
ship" at Washington, and had been
for the last seven and a half years.
AS a result, he asserted, Republican
platform declarations on farm relief
and inland waterways have amounted
to nothing more than glowing
promises"
On the other hand, he declared,
the Democratic platform ''hits the
nail squarely on the head" on these
subjects. and it is from this party
that real relief must come.
Scores Senator Nye
The nominee charged into Chair
man Work of the Republican nation
al committee, Secretary Jardine, and
Senator Nye, Republican. North Da-
kota, on the farm relief score, and
quoted q statement by Senator Nor
ris, Republican, Nebraska. ,.issuad
after his Omaha farm speech, as
furnishing his best defense from
criticisms of that address.
Tackling this question first, after
declaring that lack of leadership at
Washington had led such western
senator's as Shipstead, Farmer
Labor, Minnesota, and the late Sem
ator La Toilette to bolt" the Re-
publican party, Governor Smith re-
peated that he stood for the principle
embodied in the McNary-Haugen
bill for handling surplus crops. Then
he tackled Work.
He referred to him as 'the doctor"
and said he did not know whether he
spoke for himself, for the national
committee, or for the Republican
presidential nominee, when, in COM
menting on the Omaha speech, he
said the governor had "enunciated
principle which he says he finds in
the McNary- -Haugen bill, but which
is not the one over which the battle
has been fought for the last four
years."
whats the matter with the doc
tor" Smith asked. "I'll tell you.
The doctor is unable to distinguish
between the principle and machinery
for making the principle operate.
He has tried to put two principles
into one thing"
Raps Secretary Jardine
Turning to a speech by Mr.. Jar
dine at Riverhead, N. Y, last week,
the governor seized on the secre-
tary's remark that "for several
years we have managed to get the
farmers a pretty good price for
wheat and potatoes.
"A good price for wheat!" Smith
expostulated. "The secretary is do
ing q little Moran and Mack stuff.
A good price for wheat-a price
less than the cost Of production"
The nominee took rap at Nye for
lining up with Hoover on farm re-
lief while at the same time favoring
the McNary-Haugen bill, and de-
clared his argument and that of
Chairman Work is completely an
initiated" by the Norris comment
on the Omaha speech, that Governor
Smith proposes to take care Of the
surplus and charge it to the pro-
ducer."
"All three gentlemen that l have
quoted" the governor said, "are
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