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cultural and business interests without regard to party affiliations, 

 and that in harmony with his previous record, he will administer 

 the duties of the executive office of this State with honesty, effi- 

 ciency, and to the best interests of all parties, therefore be it, 



Resolved, That it is with pleasure we note that calls are coming 

 from various sections of the State that Hon. A. L. Martin become a 

 candidate for Governi)r, therefore, we most heartily endorse him as 

 the candidate of the agricultural interests of the State. 



These resolutions unanimously recommended by the Committee. 



(Signed.) 

 SAMUEL McCREARY, Chairman, 

 FRANKLIN MENGES, Secretary, 

 T. E. ORR, 



MATTHEW RODGERS, 

 AMOS B. LEHMAN, 

 D. A. KNUPPENBURG, 

 M. N. CLARK. 



The CHAIRMAN: The resolutions are before you; what is your 

 pleasure? 



It was moved and seconded that the resolutions be adopted as 

 read. 



The CHAIRMAN: You have heard the motion; are there any re- 

 marks? 



MR. AGEE: Mr. Chairman, I want to say that I am very glad 

 that the resolutions refer to the needs of the State College. The 

 trustees of the State College I know propose to develop the agricul- 

 tural end as much as the engineering department and mechanic arts. 

 It is in the hands of the farmers of this State to do it. 



Now I know that some of us have felt in the past that we have 

 not had at our State College as full recognition of agriculture as 

 we should have. It is within my knowledge that the executive 

 committee are determined that the agricultural end of the college 

 shall be developed, and I want the support of the farmers of this 

 State for that wei^v. If Ave have a farmer's week at 'State College 

 I hope you will make an effort to attend and you will give an inter- 

 est to that meeting, and to the work of popularizing agricultural 

 education. We are not working just for this generation, and un- 

 less you people in your institute work teach the boys in our homes, 

 give them better instruction than we received, these institutes will 

 not have done one-half the work that they should do. 



Professor Van Norman told me that they are hunting the United 

 States ever for the most distinguished specialists. They want to 

 get men like Professor Holden, of Iowa there during that week, and 

 have a talk on corn breeding, and similar men all along the line in 

 other departments. Let us advertise that week, and get our Penn- 

 sylvania farmers interested. I say that because I feel that I am at 

 least part Pennsylvanian; get the people in the audience interested 

 and let them go up there, and if you do that, you will get a greater 

 influence to bear upon the trustees of the institution, and I want 

 to say to you that good men are going to be brought in, and in five 

 years from now, State College is going to be a leader among the agri- 



