Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-06
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Murray D. Lincoln is a very influential farm leader. He has
a large following among farmers In the State of Ohio a wen
as considerable following all over the United States. He is ako
a registered Republican. Nevertheless MI. Lincoln has come out
publicly and is endorsing Joseph T. Ferguson for United States
Senator. This is about the most significant development in the
Ohio senatorial race In the last thirty days. The endorsements
could go a long way in eecthng Ferguson.
Mr.. Lincoln Is a successful man. He has headed Inn the
rarm bureau insurance companies for many years, his leader
ship has been outstanding and no doubt his stand in endorsing
ferguson Will be a signal for many farmers to follow a fol-
lowing that will go to the voting booth and vote for Ferguson.
Every once in a while we hear the press complain editorial
ly that our election Is being influenced by outsiders. Tbe. ON
plant Is most vociferous in the race between Ferguson and Taft.
The EDITORS seem to think that absolutely no one from outside
the state should come in and speak for Ferguson. This is q verv
counterfeit argument. And it can be proved very easily. Sem
ator Taft went to Galesburg, Illinois, on October End and spoke
to a meeting in behalf of former Rep. Everett M. Dirksen.
At a news conference prior to the Galesburg, Illinois, meet
ing Senator Taft said voters could avoid price controls by elect
ing a republican Congress. 1t seems to me that Taft is absolute
right in this assertion there wouldn't be anything to control.
The last time the Republicans had full sway in Congress,
wanted to do. the country wound up with eggs at Sc per dozen.
steak loo per pound, penny farm sales, the burning of corn and
money to purchase anything at any price while the warehouse
bulged with unsold goods. Supply and demand? Sure, there was
a great demand for goods but how could the goods be purchased
when the people had no money?
That's what reaction does to a country that's what hap
pens when big BUSINESS is in the saddle and riding herd on our
citizens. The very things that Taft and his supporters are now
pratteling about as free enterprise are the very things those of
by being prodded by the liberal forces with the help of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. If we had to wait for the better things of life
dIu CPShu uPOH idIG SlplH 10 Nv T leadership we would
still be living in the William Howard Taft era.
Taft has never been a real leader he has been a leader
of reaction and as Walter Reuther so aptly said, when he spokaA
on Taft several days, ago, the Senator has been the prime in~
terest in the senate in throwing up road blocks against Iegisla-
ton by any progressive or liberal nature.
But Taft Is not so conservative when 1t comes to his own
interests and when it comes to spending money on himself
to get elected. He is spending tremendous sums this year in his
attempt to go back to the Senate. His spending duplicates on a
remendously-enlarge scale the story of the 1888 campaign
n which he was first elected. In that campaign, the Senate Gam
pagn Expenditures Committee reported, more money was spent
ir Ohio to elect Senator Taft than was spent in all the other
states.
In the 1888 campaign Taft personally reported spending
$~138,000.00 just to get the nomination and he thought this
amount was a reasonable sum" to spend in a primary cam
pagn.
Well that was in 1888 and today's spending completely
overshadows the 1888 record Anyone can spot the difference
between the Taft campaign and the Ferguson campaign the
voters know where the big dough lies right in the lap of
reaction