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    "ocrText": "to\n'NATIONAL\n3\nARCHIVES AMD\nRECORDE\n.\nSERVICE\"\nin\nhog program, so that the farmers, acting in ecncert, might not\nsuffer loss in reducing their production as well.\n\"The Republican party has been giving the fermers the run\naround for years, as far as actual rolief is concernad. In the\nKansas City convention which nominated former President Hoover,\ndelegates from the various eash crop states who asiced for a hearing\nbefore the platform committee wero throm out of the convention and\narrested by the Republican polico as distupbers of the peace.\n\"Under the Coolidge administration, the farm leadors vho\nsought some parity with industry through the equalisation fee,\nwere turned dom. Collidge threatened the veto any moasure for\nform roliof containing it. In the Hoover admistrention, my\nRepublican opponent, Senator Roscoo C. Potterson made his first\nappearance on any stage in the role of the farnors' enemty He\nu\nvoted agninst the debenture feature in the Nellary-Hagen ferm\nrelief bill and efterwards voted against farm relier with that\nprovision left out of it.\n\"Patterson continuod his emitt tovard the farm in the\nRoosevolt administration. lio voted against the AAA and against\nall of the farm acts which I have recited as having beon passed\nafter the AAA bill had been approved. Tiow he has some *rugged\nIndividualism! to offer a S a substitute for action, the same\n!rugged individunlism that promptod him to vote against foed-\ning the starving millions of America; against providing work for\nmillions of iole and against the farm relief neesures asl'ast as they\ncome up.\n\"I do not believe the farmors of Missouri with to put an\nactive enony of theirs in the Senate. I am asking for the votes of"
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