The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-19
Now Al Smith Will ';SaUe
the Farmers

The democratic newspapers generally agreed that her
bert Hoover decent the most upright and the apeV
republican candidate for president The republican newspapers
are equally that AL Smith is the abest and most decent ana
upright democratic candidate for president.
remarkable tone of the OF these two parVeS Is
worth thinking about the inevitable reflection OF the
following facts
Both the republican party the democratic party are
parties of financeapta completely controlled by Wall Street
which composed in each case OF almost me
same Both parties have the program the same
financial hackers and might almost be said the same can
didate
colossal structure have their candidate Tor
the republican nomination Herbert Hoover and nave as tne
candidate for the democratic nomination Al. Smith
This is not complicated as 1t may sound hoover Is he
perfect continuation of the Coolidge regime he is the heir
parent present chief executive and his election would
be the continuation Of the unbroken line OF the same
ton.
But the highest chiefs of Wall Street have had not
only national Washington to maintain and
troll series of state governments the most important
Of which New York State government Wall Street has
had only its president at Washington put also us
Albany The heir of the Wall Street president and the wan
Street governor the rival candidates OF the re-
spective parties for the presidency
Both nominees Wall Streets choice Never before has
there been in which each of the big capitalist poti
cal parties represents so perfectly class interests
Hoover may candidate which Wall Street would prefer
electother things being equal But other things mgnt not
equal conceded that the ruin of the farming population
may react way to lose several Western states for
the republican party Through the clever of horde OF
shyser farmers friends such Curtis the vice presidential
nominee Norris Others further ftward the Wall Street
chiefs Of the republican party have prevented the splitting away
any farming elements Therefore if the electoral vote
this year-t will be for AL Smith, Wall Streets nominee IN
the democratic party.
of AL Smith worried as to what position
they ought take lin Words the farm question The New
York World hacker of AL Smith,
republicans rejected
either political economic On
the political championship of NayHaugenism would
ALLEVIATE evotes in the would the Vest
In practice course, AL Smiths program for the farmers
is the same as that Hooverruhess eXpotaon foreclosure
and ruin words-ha is another thing The democratic
politicians fearful of making their party take on something
of the color Organism The problem to such clever
words as the think that capitalism under the
democratic party will ruin the farmers and yet it in
way not to overran the sense OF humor OF the big
Eastern lords of finance-capital
But the program AL Smith less than of Herbert Hoover
is to push forward with the mperas policies of their masters
which other result than the progressive ruin of the
small farmers.
industrial working classthe financial giants
laugh The program the open shop the destruction of the
trade unions the hooveration of industry at the expense of
the working class
This national election does not leave the workers the
exploited farmers without something to do The thing for work
rs and do to vote Communist and to build the
Communist Partyhe only party that will and fight CAPT
asm on behalf of the workers and the exploited farmers