The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-10

rage Of criticism lnViteu olu-llne @democrats to desert to the republi- ..can banner next year.
 Lowden Sounded Keynote . Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden -of Illinois sounded the grsas roots Keynote with a summons to men .and women of all political faiths to @defend the constitution against schallenge from ''high places. .
 Harrison E. Spangler. co-sponsor --of the rally and national commit ssteeman from Iowa, charged that @the New Deal seeks to take over" @every farm in the land.
 \ He attacked Roosevelt agricul- -tural policies including the AAA @processing taxes and crop curtail- ment, which he said were a penalty s.pn the farmer because artificial .scrop restriction sacrificed foreign -1narkets and even compelled im- portation of foodstuffs which sshould be grown here.
 = '"The so-called processing tax" -he said, paid partly by the farm Ter and partly by the consumer. ul- .fimately finds it's way to foreign Hands. To further penalize the g1AIA1iCI WO llLIo tllCIt PIlCC OL 6OO0S the farmer must buy has gone high ser and higher under the codes, ~monopolies and restrictions of sNRA".
 One Hard Problem
 Republican packers of the mid west rally recognize that the farm and labor questions to be raised here will be difficult to deal with. After their opening blast against New Deal methods and suggested revision of the constitution, the Republicans plan to produce tomor- sFow their own political creed of
 'constructive suggestions for deal- ing with problems of depression. k Lowden skirted the farm ques- tion. devoting practically all of his speech to a blfstering challenge to any change in the constitution swhich would give the New Deal Federal control over national social sand economic questions Lowden Said the balancing of industrial and agricultural return was pressing Issue.
 That balance can be main- tained." he said, "oniy if. so long as i've have protective tariff for the benefit of industry, we give to ag- Ficulture corresponding benefits for Sthat portion of the products of the soil which go into domestic con- Sumption"
 Lowden In Doubt
 v Lowden was asked if that object i've would be gained by the all but forgitten equalization" fee farm relief system or by the Roosevelt sAAA. He said he did not care to be quoted further but thought the Zee system was one way of balanc- ing agricultural income and that it Also, was one of several AAA ob- Electives.
 Presidential candidates have been barred from this meeting but booms of half a dozen are going aTith more in prospect. There is 1alk of Supreme Court Justices Owen J. Roberts and Harlan Fish <Stone, who joined all other mem- ~bers of the court in outlawing MIRA 2nd creating what has become the Principal issue of this gathering. Borah for President
 .~ Ezra R. Whitla. Idaho national Committeeman, is flaming the Bor- Xh-for-president flame in the name of the mountain states and there is evident considerable sentiment for Rep. Hamilton Fish, r., N. Y., who
 ained national prominence some Hears ago by Investigating com Anunist activities in the United States and who recently swung Through the farm belt in a speak Ing campaign against the New Deal ~ Kansans are hopeful for their All &f. Landon, their republican gover- &or and among the delegates from Xowa the talk is of Senator L. J. Dickinson for 1936. The presiden- <ial enthusiasm here appears to be 1argely sectional.
 A single inharmonious note &arred the pre-convention caucus Deliberations. A. M. Geissler, for 1ner republican minister to Guate- 4nala and a delegates from Guthrie, 2kla.. rammed through his state &aucus a rule reserving the delega- <zon's right to instruct it's repre- Tentative on the convention resolu- Hons committed. GeissIer wants a Resolution to pay the bonus from che New Deal s4,00O. 000,000 works relief fund.