The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-21
NEBRASKA ELECTORS
| May BOLT G. 0.P. TO
SUPPORT ROOSEVELT
Democrats Say They Need Only
One Hand to Wipe Out Re-
publican Majorities.
WHOLE STATE IN REVOLT
Democratic Candidates Speech
At Topeka Pleased Husk-
er Farmers
BY GEORGE d. MANN


Lincoln. Neb.. Sept. l9.--f',braska
Democrats believe this year they can
lick the national Republican ticket
with one hand tied behind their
backs All they need is the voting
hand to wipe out the normal Repub-
lican majorities, they say.
This state first strayed from Repub-
lican allegiance in 1896 when the
voters followed William Jennings
Bryan in his l6-to-1 crusade. Ne
braska, in most national campaigns,
has been tariff-minded and with the
exception of 1896, 1908, 1912 and 1916,
it has elected to trust national issues
to Republican auspices.
But Nebraska. like Iowa. the Da-
kota!s and Kansas, is in revolt. Frank
lin D. Roosevelts Topeka speech has
pleased the farmers here. You hear
that on all sides. Deliberately. Mr..
Roosevelt kept away from specifics
but his congratulations on agricultural
problems have been more In line with
what the farm leaders want. They
are already hailing him as the new
Moses who may lead agriculture out
Of bondage.
Earnest farm leaders here declare
that Roosevelt was much more def
mite in his six-point farm plan than
the Republican apologists give him
credit for being. Republican cam
paign strategy dismisses Roosevelt's
farm commitments as SO much airy
persiflage. They say bluntly the New
York governor is talking through his
hat.
Not so the farmers. They liked his
Topeka address. His attitude toward
the railroads given at the Salt Lake
tabernacle Saturday evening refutes
another charge that Roosevelt is a
second Bryan and that the campaign
of 1882 is but an echo of 1885, OF
course that charge would not terrify
Nebraska farmers during these stormy
times.
Demand Currency Reforms
Her farmers, III mass meetings as
sembled, are demanding currency re-
forms. Milo Reno of Des Moines. ma
tional president of the Farmers Holt
day movement. has been in Nebraska.
He is advocating currency initiation.
Roosevelt is soon to discuss currency
needs. 1t is anticipated that his COM
mitmentS on that issue will naturally
follow in progressive tone the princi-
pies as laid down in his Kansas adj
dress of last week.
Republican leaders are learning to
their sorrow that the old tariff bally-
hoo no longer serves AS bait for the
farmers of this great breadbasket.
probably the most fertile basin in the
world. Tariff is no longer the rural
fetish it once was. Democrats as a
party have abandoned free trade.
Roosevelt, at Topeka. carefully and
judiciously handled the tariff issue.
His pronouncements did not scare the
farmers to whom tariff walls are no
longer the sine qua non of their ex-
istence.
The so-called quota plan as applied
to the marketing of corn and wheat
is meeting with favor in these corn
belt states. While not committing
himself to any specific plan of quotas
for wheat, farm leaders know that is
what Roosevelt has in mind and was
promising his support provided the
farmers. through their own coopera-
tives rather than a federal bureau,
could work out plan. Some legis-
lation would be necessary, farmers
say. but the machinery could be
handled by farm organizations much
fore effectively than by a government
farm bureau. They don't want the
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