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...They ought to vote for the party which builds the protective tariff. . . . The campaign will be waged on the protective tariff and its benefits...
...Republicans had pledged themselves to reorganize the farm marketing system, to create a Federal farm board; had "favored" agricultural tariff protection, a Federal organization for co-operative farm marketing...
Farm relief was the only other plank in the least vexing or important. This was handled by permitting T. E. Cushman of the American Farm Bureau Federation to join the agricultural subcommittee. Notable were omission of any attack upon the protective tariff and an implied promise to enforce the 15th Amendment (votes for Negroes). The latter, coming from the pen of Carter Glass of Virginia, was accepted as conventional flub...
Agriculture. The Democrats said that the Republicans had "practised deception" upon the farmer for more than 50 years "through false and delusive promises" and an unbalanced tariff. The Democrats promised legislation to help market surplus crops, by means...
While electrical engineers, supply men, mechanical and transportation experts conferred at Atlantic City (see p. 31), railroad magnates gathered importantly at the Bankers' Club, Manhattan, for the monthly luncheon of the Eastern Railroad Presidents' Conference. Competition was their theme, the new tariff of the Illinois Central their particular problem...