A Decatur County Farmer Replies: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Newspaper clipping entitled, [A Decatur County Farmer Replies]. The introduction of the clipping refers to a satirical poem that was put into circulation by the Republican Party in reference to an upcoming Presidential election. The brief introduction states that a response poem written by a Decatur County farmer. Both the Republican Party poem, [The Poem] and the response poem, [The Answer], are published below the introduction. The Republican Party poem is political negative campaigning against Democratic Presidential Candidate Alfred Smith.The response poem was written by an individual with an affiliation to the Ku Klux Klan and is political negative campaigning against Republican President Calvin Coolidge and Republican Presdiential Candidate Herbert Hoover. On the verso are two brief articles: [Decatur County Boys and Girls to Show Livestock at St. Joe in October] and [Long Creek Farmer Has Prize Pig Crop]. Newspaper title and author are unidentified.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1928
• Written by: Unidentified
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Ku Klux Klan, 2nd, American, 1915 - 1944
• Subject of: Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, American, 1873 - 1944
• Subject of: President John Calvin Coolidge Jr., American, 1872 - 1933
• Subject of: Pope Pius XI, Italian, 1857 - 1939
• Subject of: President Herbert Clark Hoover, American, 1874 - 1964
• Type: newspapers
• Medium: ink on newsprint
• Dimensions: L x W: 9 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (25 × 6 cm)
• Place depicted: Decatur County, Iowa, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Fraternal organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race discrimination
• Topic: Rural life
• Topic: U.S. History, 1919-1933
• Object number: 2014.258.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, A Gift of the Bunch Family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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