Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-10-26
SMITH VICTORY
OR RUIN, SAY
FARM LEADERS
Anxious to Get Out Every Pos
sibIe Vote for Champion Of
Agriculture.
CITE RECORDS OF NOMINEES
Scores Of Farm Organizations Endorse
Democratic Candidate and De-
nounce Hoover; Officials
Active In Campaign.

Threatened with ruin by ICON.
tinuance of the Coolidge policies"
and realizing their only hope for
relief lies in piling up enough farm
votes to ensure the election Of Cover.
nor Smith, American farmers are max.
ing, through their various organiza.
lions, tremendous effort to get every
agricultural worker to the polls on
election day.
Unqualifledly endorsed by practical
ly all farm organizations of conse-
quence in the West and South, the
Democratic candidate is assured, de.
spite attempts to defeat him by APP
peals to bigotry, OF the votes Of all
farmers who place their own prospect.
ty above partisan preiudices.
Farm leaders, however are anxious
to make the Smith farm majority
large enough to offset any possible
advantage gained by the Hoover
forces in backward districts which
might be influenced by the misleading
propaganda OF the Ku Klux Khan and
AntiSaloon League.
Calling upon all farmers and mem.
bers Of their families to register and
vote for Governor Smith, they stress
the attitude of the two presidential
candidates as revealed In both their
past records and their utterances dur.
ing the present campaign.
Candidates contrasted
Governor Smith has consistently
proposed and secured the passage Of
Legislation which was invaluable to
the farmers of his State. Herbert
Hoover has Just as consistently OPP
posed measures which might have
benefited Agriculture. 1t was he who,
as Federal Food Administrators, held
down the prices Of wheat and hogs
during the war.
What is more important. Governor
Smith promises to give the farmers
Immediately the legislative aid for
which they have struggled unsuccess-
fully for the last five years. Herbert
Hoover is opposed to 1t. the agricul.
tural leaders point out, and his cleo
ton would mean the death of the
farm movement.
Perhaps the most important express
sion of organized agriculture's stand
In this election is the resolution en-.
doTsing Governor Smiths position and
condemnlng that of the Republican
party, adopted recently in Des Moines
by the Corn Belt Committee. This Is
the alliance of the 40 most important
farm organizations In the Middle
West, with q combined membership
of 100000 heads Of families. Mr..
Hoovers record has been bitterly con
demned, also, by a resolution passed
by the National Farmers Union.
Leaders Endorse Smith
Among the many prominent farm lead
ers who have endorsed Governor Smith
position on Agriculture and denounced
that OF Mr. Hoover, are the following:
3. ii. Thompson, President OF the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
w. ii. Settle, President OF the indiana
Farm Bureau Federation.
Earl G. Smith. President Of the Illinois
Agriculture Association
VIM Hirth, President OF the Missouri
Farmers Association, and Chairman OF
tho Corn Belt Committee Of Farm Or
ganizations
Frank W. Murphy, Of Minnesota, Chair
man Of the Legislative Committee o. Corn
Belt Federation OF Farm Organizations
w. H. Stockton, President Of the Mon
tana Farm Bureau Federation.
]. J. oShea. President OF the Mon
G. L. Hun, President Of the Kansas
Farmers Union.
Jno. simpson. President of the okla
homa Farmers Union.
Milo Reno. President Of the Iowa Farm
ers' Union
]. +. Reed, President Of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation.
Chas. c. Talbot, President OF the
North Dakota Farmers Union.
A. W. Kicker, Secretary OF tho Corn
Belt Federation Of Farm Organlzatlons'
braska Farmers Union.
Chas. Stewart. Secretary Of the Ne
braska Farm Bureau.
George Duis, President OF the North
Dakota Wheat Growers Association,
Il. e. Kennedy, Secretary Of the Him
" Henry 4. Wallace, Editor Of wallaco's
Miles Cannon, Former Commissioner
Of Agriculture OF Idaho.
John Napier Dyer, Director In the
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chester C. Davis, Former Commissioner
Of Agriculture Of Montana:
Thos Il. eastman. Member OF the Ex-
ecutlve Board Minnesota Farm Bureau.
n. S. Wlnder, Secretary Of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation.
Joe Plummer. Colorado Wheat GrowerS
Association.
Or B' W. Kllgore, Chairman Of the
Executive Committee Of this American
Cotton Growers Association.
Judge X. Caverno, President Of the
Missouri Cotton Growers Association.
Frank WheatcTaft Manager Of the
Union Live Stock Shipping Association
of Chicago.
George n. Peek, Chairman OF the Com
mlttee OF twenty-five OF the North Cen
trial States Agriculture Conference.
Mrs. Verna T. Hatch, Social and Edu-
cational Director Of the Indiana Farm
Bureau.
Clarence Ousley, OF Texas, former AS
sistant Secretary OF Agriculture.
Robert A. Cowles Treasurer OF the IL
lnOls Agriculture Association.
This " an incomplete list OF farm
leaders who have made public announce
ment that they are supporting Governor
Smith.
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