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Stevenson
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tural crop insurance Is to / and
against expanding rural electric
power facilities 3 to / in 1943.
They voted to kill the farm
ownership program 8 to / in 1947
THAT same year they voted to
kill the agricultural conservation
program IL to l.
I'm 1949, . majority of House
Republicans voted against the
rural telephone service program.
In 1949, they voted against
price supports on perishables 4O
to l.
I'm 1851 they voted against ex-
panding rural electric power 8 to
l."
Attacks General ON REA.
Particularly, Gov. Stevenson
charged the general of "neglectine
his homework" on the matter OF
the rural electri1lcation program
In Kasson. the general had
claimed credit for the Republican
Both Congress for making the big
gest REA loans.
1T was the Democrats In the
80th Congress who voted for REA
money over the bitter opposition
as usual, Of the Republicans" Gov
Stevenson said.
For instance, on April ] :. 1943
the Democrats voted for the ap-
preparation bill 146 to 8, while the
Republicans voted against it ISL
to ST."
AS for Gen. Eisenhower's
charges that the administration
farm program tends to regiment
the farmers. Gov. Stevenson said
He has picked up these strange
ideas from the men around him
bitter obstructionists who oppose
the program in Congress and who
seek now to divert attention from
the record with baseless, hollow
warnings about ironfisted regi-
mentation and sinister govern
The farmers would be inter-
ested, he remarked, in a predic-
ton by Senator Taft Of Ohio that
Gen. Eisenhower will favor a flex-
ible program of farm price sup
ports after the present two-year
agreement for 80 per cent parity
Is over.
Senator Taft has. as you know
established himself as the great
est living authority on what Gen
really thinks. And II
he says that the generals honey
moon with the Democratic plat
form is going to be a short one,
the rest Of us can believe it,"
Two More Speeches.
It was the Governors third
broadcast speech in a day and a
half. Yesterday he spoke on for
eign policy at Cincinnati and Sc
curity program in Columbus.
Tonight Gov. Stevenson is sched-
uled for a general political
speech" in st. Paul.
The most striking feature of the
Governors Midwestern speaking
tour is that the crowds that he
has attracted so far have been
shockingly small.
On his arrival yesterday at the
Cincinnati airport (Which lies
across the State border in Demo-
cratic Kentucky a small crowd
was on hand to meet his plane
Crowds Of few hundred showed
up at Covington and Newport, KY,
where the Governor spoke briefly
on his ride into town. In Gin
cinnati, the sidewalk crowd was SC
sparse the Governor, riding on the
back seat of his convertible, had to
look for people to wave to. An ob-
server commented, "At least, the
candidate is able to give them in
dividual attention"
At the airport in Columbus
things looked more lively. but q
certain doubt arose when the
loudspeaker announced that the
Purdue football team was due te
arrive Is minutes later. On hi,
arrival at the hotel the Governor
walked right into the middle o1
Ia lobby full Of Ike-cheering Re.
publican women, on hand to heal
speeches by Senators Taft, Brickel
and Knowland.
On the other hand, the speeche.
themselves were well attended
and well received.
Defends Democratic Record.
In his address in the Franklin
County Memorial Auditorium a