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    "ocrText": "3\nhog program, so that the farmers, acting in concert, might not\nsuffer loss in reducing their production as well.\n\"The Republican party has been giving the farmers the run\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS ANO\n:\nSERVICE\"\naround for years, as far as actual rolief is concernad. In\nKansas City convention which nominated former President Hoover,\ndelegates from the various eash crop states who asked for a hearing\nbefore the platform committee were thrown out of the convention and\narrested by the Republican police as disturbers of the peace.\n\"Under the Coolidge administration, the farm leaders who\nsought some parity with industry through the equalization fee,\nto\nwere turned down. Coblidge threatened the veto any measure for\nfarm relief containing it. In the Hoover administration, my\nRepublican opponent, Senator Roscoe C. Patterson, made his first\nappearance on any stage in the role of the farmers! enemy. He\nW\nvoted against the debenture feature in the MeNary-Hagen farm\nrelief bill and afterwards voted against farm relief with that\nprovision left out of it.\n\"Patterson continued his enmity toward the farm in the\nRoosevelt administration. He voted against the AAA and against\nall of the farm acts which I have recited as having been passed\nafter the AAA bill had been approved. Now he has some 'rugged\nIndividualism! to offer a_s a substitute for action, the same\n'rugged individualism! that prompted him to vote against feed-\ning the starving millions of America; against providirig work for\nmillions of idle and against the farm relief measures asfast as they\ncome up.\n\"I do not believe the farmers of Missouri with to put an\nactive enemy of theirs in the Senate. I am asking for the votes of"
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