Having harvested an encouraging number of new Congressional seats (four), Senate places (two), and governors' chairs (two) in the heart of Republicanism during and since the 1956 elections, Midwestern Democrats were clearly feeling their oats. At a regional conference in Kansas City, Kans. last week, they got right down to dirt-farmer politics with a simple proposition: every good red-blooded Midwesterner hates Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.
The conference thereupon whooped through a farm resolution as politically potent as it was economically shameless. Its principal point: larger federal stockpiles of farm commodities (present Government-held surpluses:...
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