Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — G. O. P. WATCHES OVER FARMER [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. WATCHES OVER FARMER

INTERESTS OF FARMER EMBODIED IN THE REBUBLI-• CAN PLATFORM. Moses Leopold, Rensselaer, Ind. Republican County Chairman. My Dear Sir:— The Agricultural Department of the Republican National Committee was instituted last January. Not as a pre-election expedient alone, bat in response to the vision of Chairman Hays, who believes that the future history of this country will be determined by the -problem of food; its production, its distribution, its cost and by the depletion of the soil’s fertility, and the loss of its young people. He realized also that, one Summer’s drought such*as many of us have seen and which may come again,- would put this prosperous country in want. Thereupon he resolved to take the organization under him and. use it towards the protection of the nation’s .food resources. ’ This Department of the National Committee is a continuing orje. The

Republican party Jias been committed unreservedly to a constructive national policy toward agriculture and it wifi need leaders, like yourself, to aid in developing it on sound lines that may be safely applied. Speaking for Chairman Hays: It is his purpose to enlist, regardless of their political party preferences, the officers of farm organizations, together with strong editors of farm journals, -Presidents of agricultural colleges, and political economists, to formulate and suggest legislation in harmony with Senator Harding’s expressed views, and those of men who have given thought to the subject, based on actual experience. If Governor Cox should be elected, which we do not expect, a concerted action between the Republican Chairman and Republican members of Congress will be the more imperative, though less potent, in developing the policy he 'has in My connection with the National Committee will soon terminate and I yrish to thank you most cordially for your co-operation in a patriotic effort to secure a safe administration of our government. Faithfully yours, HUBERT WORK.