Evening star., 1932-09-21

There are straw votes and straw
votes, but none is of more arresting
significance than the poll among the
farmers of the country by the Farm
Journal of Philadelphia 1t will an
nounce in the October number that
its 1882 presidential straw vote in 48
States to date gives Roosevelt an al
most exactly 2-to-1 lead over Hoover
6,639 to 1859. For the present" re-
marks the Farm Journal, whose predi-
lections are Republican, lit looks
gloomy for the G. o. P, which must
have the rural vote to win in most
States The Democrats evidently have
their best chance since 1916" Roose-
Indiana Iowa. Kansas, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New
Hampshire, North Dakota. Ohio. Okla
homa, Virginia West Virginia and Wis
conSin. Hoover is ahead in New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ver-
mont The farm vote is tie in Texas.
The Farm Journal believes many farm
ers are undecided and have not yet
made up their minds. 1t deduces this
from the fact that in 1923 by this date
the magazine had tabulated nearly four
times as many farm votes as have been
turned in this year. The Hoover total
in IL Southern States outstrips the
Roosevelt total because of Republican
strength in Florida and North Caro-
lima.
Although the foregoing indicates a
strong Roosevelt trend in the agrarian
regions, confidential advices simmering
in from the West do not disclose that
| the Governor is burning up the farming
sections beyond the Mississippi. A let
| ter from a well-informed post OF obser-
vation in Nebraska says: Gov, Roose-
velts speech at Topeka, in which he out
lined his farm relief program, is being
severely criticized out here. I am Of the
opinion that he lost votes in his attacks
on the agricultural marketing Farm
Board act He spoke in generalities
and did not come out with any definite
plan. Opponents of the Farm Board, OF
course, like his criticism OF that body,
| but he failed to go on record In favor
of abolishing it, contenting himself with
pointing out that it had cost American
agriculture hundreds Of millions OF dol
| lars by reason of its plunderlng, waste
| full policies. It was very apparent that
| Gov. Roosevelt was not thoroughly IA
| miliar with the grave problems which
the farmer faces in the States West OF
the Mississippi
| X \
| Secretary Stimson's contribution to
| the entertainment of the American Bar
Association convention in washington
next month will be unique exhibition
of original copies of laws and treaties.
1t will be held in the archives sections
of the State Department on October
L., and contain the following historical
documents: The fourteenth and eight
eenth amendments to the Constitution;
| the lame duck" amendment now await
ing ratification by the States; the Sc
lective draft act of 1917: the Sherman
antitrust act; the Volstead act; the
emancipation proclamation; the proc
lamation declaring the World War; the
l778 treaty of alliance with France; the
1888 treaty of peace with Great Brit
ain; the 1914 treaty Of Client, ending
the second war with Britain: the 1899
treaty of amity and commerce with
| Prussia and treaties with Morocco and
Algiers, dated, respectively, 1876 and
1795.
Sonora Teresa o. de Provost. South
American lady well known in Washing
ton official life, has made an interesting
contribution to the George Washington
Bicentenary by arranging for the pub
lication of a monograph of John With
erspoon, signer of the Declaration OF
Independence and Washington's close
friend and sponsor. Witherspoon Is one