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Senator Kenyon's personal interests in the 

 Bench, or to discover what was known by many 

 of his friends, that he had not settled down in 

 the Senate for life. 



The conclusion seemed quite g-eneral in the 

 minds of editorial writers that the Bloc's objec- 

 tive was class interest and nothing else. Some 

 of the class representative journals expressed 

 this view with satisfaction, being pleased that 

 their opponents, the other special interests, had 

 a new and powerful opponent in the farmers' 

 organization. 



The most vigorous opposition from eastern 

 cities hinged around the discussion of represen- 

 tation for agriculture on the Federal Eeserve 

 Board. The New York Times said : 



"No other interest demands that the national banking 

 policy shall be molded by class preference/' 



No one had suggested that the addition of 

 one representative of agriculture to a reserve 

 board consisting of seven able men could be ex- 

 pected to mold the national banking policy en- 

 tirely for agriculture. The entire movement 

 was merely to give agriculture a fair represen- 

 tation along with other of our great industries. 

 Certainly the biggest business in the country, 



