The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-19

addressed large audience in the
Minneapolis auditorium. Mr.. Borah
boosted Hoover as a friend of the
farmer and attempted to show that
the latter had rendered great service
to agriculture during the days of the
war and the period Immediately fol-
lowing. Borah also assailed Smith
as tool of Tammany and a man not
to be trusted by the farmers of the
country.
Borah's ardent support of Mr..
Hoover is something of a surprise to
those who are familiar with the Ida
no Senator's record. Among those
to call attention to Borah's right
about face is Mr.. J. F. Reed, head
of the state Smith-Robinson clubs
and former president of the Mime
sofa Farm Bureau Federation. Mr..
Reed cited a speech Senator Borah
delivered in the United States Sen
ate on January Is, 1919, in which
the Senator charged Herbert Hoover,
federal food administrator, with hav-
ing worked in collision with the
packers and professors, thereby per-
hitting them to extort millions of
dollars out of the farmers of the
country.
81 want it understood" said Bor-
ah, chat these corporations (Arm-
our, Swift, Cudahy, ct all which deal
in nothing but food supplies have
realized under the administration of
Mr.. Hoover vaster profits than they
] have ever realized before in the is
! tory of their concerns.
Hoover the Packers Man, Says BOrah
/ at is a fact demonstrated over the
signature of the packers themselves
that their profits under Mr.. Hoover
amounted to all the way from 20
per cent to 40 per cent for the past
two years."
i In the speech referred to Senator
Borah stated most emphatically that
'nO man who has such perverted
views of. decency ought to be entTust-
ed with unlimited power to deal with
$100,000.000."
1t would seem that to be reminded
of the above statements regarding
Mr. Hoover would prove bit en-
barrassing to Mr.. Borah. 1t is like
( ly that before the campaign is over
the Borah speech of 1919 will be
broadcast by some farm relief sup
porter of Mr.. Smith.
Senator Henrik Shipstead and
former Congressman Ernest Lundeen
Farmer-Labor candidate for Govern
or, are continuing to hold meetings
to good sized audiences in different
parts of the state. The effort on the
part of Republicans to boost the can.
dldacy of Andrew Nelson, Democrat.
ic nominee for the gOvernorship, is
likely to prove a boomerang. Re.
publicans fear the outcome of the
governorship and they are now with
the aid OF the newspapers attempting
to get Farmer-Laborites to vote fol
Nelson instead of for Lundeen.
Real Fight Between ,Lundeen ant
ChristiansOn
] The same stunt was tried in 1872;
when Shipstead was elected to tn,
senate. In the senatorial race tina
year there were three contenders
Frank B. Kellogg, DR.. Henrik Ship
stead and Anna Dickie Oleson. Th
Republican newspapers up until near
ly the close of the campaign talket
about the contest between Kellogy
and Mrs. Oleson. Shipstead was no
even considered good contende
until one day w. l. Nolan addresse
a Woman's Republican gathering i
Minneapolis and reminded his audi
ence of the fact that the contest di
not lie between Kellogg and Mrs. Ole
son, but between Kellogg and ShiE
stead. Shipstead was elected b
$4,000 plurality over the Republica
nominee.
The situation is now much tn
same in the gubenatorial contes
The race is between Christianson an
Lundeen and it remains to be see
how much of a vote Andrew Nelso
can poll, provided of course he doe
not withdraw from the contest.