Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13
Feek Heads Group Which viii
Give Advice on AgriCuI-
turaI Problems.
WAL LSH AND DANIELS
DUE LATER IN WEEK
Nominees Acceptance Address Is
Nearly Completed-Calls Lead
ers for Conferences.
BY PAUL 4. HATPERT.
Associated Press StaG writer,

ALBANY, N, Y. August l3.-In a
series of conferences that may have
far-reaching political effects Gov.
Smith intends before the end of the
week to discuss the agricultural situa-
ton here with group of farm leaders
and to talk over his presidential cam
paign with three men high in Dem
ocratic party councils-Senators Walsh
of Montana and George Of Georgia.
and Josephus Daniels Secretary of the
Navy under Woodrow Wilson.
The farm delegation. headed by
George N. Peek of Illinois, who cast
his lot with Smith several days ago,
was in Albany today for its meeting
with the nominee. Daniels is due We'd
nesday, George Thursday. and Walsh
Friday-all coming at the governors
invitation.
Prior to their call on the presidential
nominee, the identity of all the agri-
culturists who planned to sit in at the
round table discussion today had not
been disclosed, as arrangements had
been left to Peek and he had not ad-
vlsed the governor definitely who would
be with him.
May See Murphy.
Indirectly, however. the governor had
been advised that among those who
would go over the farm problem with
him were two of the leaders In the
losing fight at the Republican national
nj fSTs y,sy Al
lines of the vetoed McNary- -Haugen
bill-Earl c. Smith of Illinois and
Frank w Murphy of Minnesota.
In addition, others expected to be on
hand were William Hirth. publisher of
the Missouri Farmer; w II. Settle.
head of the Indiana Farm Bureau
Federation, Chester c. Davis. former
commissioner of agriculture in Mon
tana: X. CaveTnu, president of the Mis-
souri, Cotton Growers Association; B.
W Kilgore. head of the American Cot
ion Growers Exchange, and J. N.
Kehoe of Maysville. KY, who is active
In the Burley Tobacco Growers As
sociation.
AS for the three party leaders the
nominee will see later in the week, all
at one time or another during the pre-
convention campaign were lined up
t@dlilSt SIIlItLi. 1toiEc, WIZ Ii tAtG
Junior Senator from Georgia, had the
solid support of his home State dele
cation at Houston. and also received
votes for the presidential nomination
from other States.
Walsh Quit Contest.
Walsh. with the support Of William
G. McAdoo and many of his followers,
became a candidate for the Democratic
nomination, but the prosecutor Of the
Senate oil inquiries. declaring that
Smiths nomination appeared inevitable
withdrew from the race after he had
run third in the California primaries
Like George and Walsh, Daniels is a
dry and worked for the nomination OF
a dry at Houston, where as a member
of the platform committee he aided i'll
the drawing up of the prohibition
plank He has declared that he would
work for Gov. Smiths election.
It was indicated that Smiths con-
ference with the farm leaders had as
its purpose the lining up Of support in
the agricultural West and South and
the mapping out of an intensive cam
paign in those sections rather than the
solicitation of suggestions for the nom
inee's acceptance speech, which will be
delivered a week from Wednesday
evening.
Is Nearly Completed.
While that address was still inCom-
plete today, it was nearly in final form
and the governor was not expected to
make any material changes in its
language He aims to have it in the
hands of the printer by midWeek, which
would mean that 1t would be on its way
to newspapers before he talks things
over with Daniels, George and Walsh.
Although no engagements have been
announced 1t is reported that Gov
Smith, before he begins his speaking
tour. will invite into conference others
who we're in the field against him for
the Democratic nomination--such men
as Woolen of Indiana, Hitchcock of
Nebraska, Hull of Tennessee and others
He already has met Reed of Missouri
and Gov Ritchie Of Maryland both OF
whom have promised to do what they
can to advance his cause in the cam
paign.