THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Here's part of the crowd that assembled on the De Kalb High Sc hool grounds Saturday, June 2. It was a determined audience, demand- 

 ing equality for agriculture. 



had pinned our hopes," said Mr. 

 Wright. "The language in that mes- 

 sage was unnecessary." 



Wright Is Applauded 



Mr. Wright was loudly applauded 

 when he said: "I know more in 30 

 minutes about the agricultural prob- 

 lem of this section than all the citi- 

 zens combined in Pennsylvania, Mass- 

 achusetts, Vermont, and the other New 

 England states. We don't want any 

 plank, resolutions, or platitudes," he 

 said. ""What we need is a man. Frank 

 Lowden our neighbor has the ability, 

 knowledge, and courage to solve this 

 question." 



Henry White of DeKalb County pre- 

 sided. At least a half dozen delegates 

 to the Republican and Democratic 

 National Conventions gave short talks. 

 C. E. Bamborough of Ogle county and 

 George R. Tullock of Winnebago rep- 

 resented their respective counties on 

 the program. Mr. Tullock read tele- 

 grams from Congressmen Buckbee 

 and Rathbone expressing their regrets 

 at being unable to attend. 



Vrooman Suggests Coalition 



Carl Vrooman of Bloomington told 

 his large audience that what they must 

 do is to raise less hogs and more hell. 

 "If you don't nominate Lowden at 

 Kansas City," he said, "I shall try to 

 get him to go to Houston so we can 

 nominate him there." ^ Mr. Vrooman 

 is a prominent dry Democrat who held 

 the office of Assistant Secretary of 

 Agriculture in Wilson's administration. 

 Mr. Vrooman presented a plea for a 

 coalition ticket of Republicans and 

 Democrats which the South and West 

 could support in the event that both 

 parties fail to nominate a Middle West 

 man who has the courage to be for 

 equality for agriculture. The crowd 

 listened intently to Vrooman's by-par- 

 tisan plan and applauded loudly at the 

 close of his speech. 



Kessinger Speaks 



*'It doesn't take statesmanship to 

 oppose everything and be for nothing," 

 declared State Senator Harold Kessing- 

 er from Aurora. Senator Kessinger 

 expressed his opposition to a third 

 party but voiced his interest in nomin- 



ating Middle West candidates for Pres- 

 ident in both parties. He lauded Ex- 

 Governor Lowden and called attention 

 to the war governor's deep interest 

 in farm problems long before the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen plan was formulated. 

 "Business will get worse unless farm- 

 ing gets better," he said. "If the 

 farmer doesn't get protection others 

 will lose it." Senator Kessinger closed 

 his remarks by an urgent plea for 

 farmers to drive en masse to Kansas 

 City and demand the nomination of 

 a Middle West man. 



A dozen Northern Illinois counties 

 were represented. One hundred and 

 fifty auto loads came from Lee county 

 alone. 



One of the most significant acts of 

 the meeting was the adoption of a 

 resolution presented by Henry Watts 

 of LaSalle which read as follows: 



"Mr. Chairman, I move that ^ire per- 

 petuate the spirit of this meeting by 

 the formation of a permanent organ- 

 ization, that the chairman appoint a 

 county chairman for each county here 

 represented and that each county chair- 

 man shall appoint a township chair- 

 man and that each township chairman 

 shall appoint a school district chair- 

 man, all whose names shall be re- 

 ported to the county chairman. That 

 the purposes of this organization shall 

 be to fight at the polls next November, 

 any candidate, whether of the Repub- 

 lican or Democratic party, who favors 

 the Hoover-Coolidge policies of sub- 

 ordinating agriculture to industry." 



Other Speakers Talk | 

 Other speakers who made short ad- 

 dresses were W. I. Hibbs, former pres- 

 ident of the Ottawa Chamber of Com- 

 merce; Phil Sanford, Boone county; 

 Wm. Heath, Kane county; the Mayor 

 of DeKalb, and Earl Buck, Lee county. 

 Many of the speakers emphasized the 

 fact that "We are here in the interest 

 of equality for agriculture. We must 

 make the tariff effective on farm pro- 

 ducts. We must have an American 

 price for American farm products." 

 It was a conservative, orderly meet- 

 ing marked by the determination writ- 

 ten on the faces of the audience. 

 Many women were present. The reso- 

 lutions adopted early in the meeting 



condemned the Coolidge veto, and de- 

 manded that delegates use all their 

 influence to nominate a Middle West 

 candidate for President who knows 

 the farm problem. 



A similar mass meeting was sched- 

 uled at Taylorville in Christian county 

 for Saturday, June 9. 



MEET AT CLINTON, IOWA 



WESTERN Illinois farmers from 

 Whiteside, Carroll, and Rock 

 Island counties joined with their 

 neighbors across the Mississippi in a 

 meeting at Clinton, Iowa, Saturday 

 afternoon, June 2. 



State Senator J. O. Shaff presided. 

 Impromptu talks and addresses ex- 

 pressing the resentment of farmers 

 and merchants from this section over 

 the McNary-Haugen veto message 

 were made by many who attended. A. 

 C. Everingham of Illinois expressed 

 the sentiment of the mass meeting 

 when he stated that the Middle West 

 would not stand for another President 

 who had no policy for agriculture 

 other than to keep farmers subjected 

 for the benefits of a prosperous indus- 

 try. 



Resolutions were adopted condemn- 

 ing the veto message and the Hoove^r- 

 Coolidge policy of favoritism to in- 

 dustry. '^ 



Farmer-Banker Meeting 



1\/I0RE than 100 farmers and bank- 

 . . ^^^ ^™'" Knox county attended 

 a. joint banquet in Galesburg recently. 

 Thirteen banks of the county were 

 represented. In addressing the gath-" 

 ering. President Earl C. Smith stated 

 that according to the most recent cen- 

 sus report farm lands in the county 

 had declined $32,000,000 since the 

 war while the total assets of agricul- 

 ture had depreciated 34 per cent dur- 

 ing the same period. 



A. N. Skinner, member of the I. 

 A. A. Executive Committee, presided. 

 The dinner was sponsored by the 

 Knox County Farm Bureau. 



Swine growers produced 752 ton lit- 

 ters in 1927. . 



