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Here's part of the crowd; that^assembled on the De Kalb Hiffh School grounds Saturday. June 2. It was a determined audience, demand- 

 in; equality for agriculture. ' ' 



that 



had pinned our hopes," said Mr. 

 Wright. "The hinguage in thiit mes- 

 sage was unnecessary." 



Wright Is Applauded 



Jlr. Wright was loudly applauded 

 when he said: "I, know mate in 80 

 minutes about the agricultiitial prob- 

 lem of this section than all^'ithe citi- 

 zens combined in PennsylvaWra. Mass- 

 achusetts, Vermont, and the other New 

 England states. We don't want any 

 jdank, resolutions, or platitudes," he 

 said, "^W'hat 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 

 N'ational 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 W'est 

 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- 

 i-r from Aurora. Senator Kessinger 

 expressed his opposition to a third 

 I)arty 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 we 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 emjihasized 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 afjop^ed 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 know- 

 the faim problem. 



A similar mass meeting was sched- 

 uled at Taylorville in Christian county 

 for Saturday^ June S*. 



MEET AT CLINTON, IOWA 



W^ESTERN jllinois farmers from 

 »> Whiteside^ Carroll, aii.l Roek 

 Island countieit" joine<l with their 

 neighbors acroHs the Mississippi in a 

 meeting at Clipton, Iowa. Saturday 

 afternoon, June^i. 



State Senatori^J. O. Shaff jiresided. 

 Impromptu tal#> and addresses ex- 

 pressing the restsctment of farmer- 

 and merchants from this section over 

 the McNary-Haugen veto niessajr< 

 were made by many who attended. A. 

 C. Everinghani 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 benefit.<! of a prosperous indus- 

 try. 



Resolutiofts were! adopted condemn- 

 ing the veto message and the Hoover- 

 Coolidge policy of favoritism to in- 

 dustrv. 



Farmer-Banker Meeting 



\ lORE than 100 farmers and bank- 

 -♦•* ers from Knox county attended 

 a joint banquet in Galesburg recentl.i;. 

 Thirteen banks of the county wen- 

 represented. In addressing the gath- 

 ering. President Earl C. Smith .stated 

 that according to the most recent cen- 

 sus report farm lands in the countv 

 had declined $:i2. 000.000 since the 

 war while the total a.s.sets of agricul- 

 ture had depreciated ;}4 per cent dur- 

 ing the same period. 



.\. 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 

 ter» in 1927. 



