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Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
Then the New York World published an editorial. It said that, evidently, Nominee Smith regarded the principle of McNary-Haugenism as a good thing, but that the plan of it was bad. Nominee Smith approved the World's interpretation. Mr. Peek, now a Smith man, said nothing. Chairman Raskob announced the formation of a committee to supervise a strenuous fight for Corn Belt votes. It was also announced that the Democrats were in a better position to win one or more of the 13 Midwestern farm states. The Republicans announced that they were not worried...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
...Chairman Raskob gave heed to the heart of B. F. Yoakum's long letter: "The Democrats can present a marketing plan that is sound, practical and would be profitable to the farmers of the entire country, but they cannot do it by picking up the discarded remnants of the McNary-Haugen bill and following the false prophets of that discarded and exploded theory. They don't hold the farm vote in their pockets. They can't deliver it and any one who thinks they can will be deceived...
Helena Springer Green Raskob is the mother of eleven children, is the wife of a man who made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising...