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inciting of telegrams and letters, so strongly denounced by Senator 

 Allen (p. 24), to more open threats of punishment at the polls. 



Governor Hoard's main effort was in parading his alleged millions of 

 dairymen, and, at page 414, he boldly says: 



The Government has the power in this way to discourage wrongdoing and encour- 

 age honest industry, and the people will hold it responsible for the exercise of that 

 power when the opportunity comes, as in the present case. 



And the gentlemen of the committee who were present will recall 

 how Mr. Knight and Mr. Flanders showed their harmless fangs in an 

 imitation gloat over an alleged falling off of the majority of Congress- 

 man Wadsworth when Judge Springer read an attack made by Mr. 

 Knight on him because he had the moral courage to "face floods of 

 petitions " and do as his conscience dictated. Judge Springer read a 

 letter from Mr. Knight to a Mr. Hubbard, of Mr. Wadsworth's dis- 

 trict. I quote from the letter as appears at page 83 of the Senate 

 hearings: 



Well, if you have ever been hi court and observed a lawyer defending a criminal, 

 you can understand how he fought for the oleomargarine makers. He was the most 

 active opponent we had in Congress. He spent more time lobbying against our 

 bill than even the acknowledged agent of the oleomargarine makers Lorimer, of 

 Chicago to whose tender mercies Wadsworth consigned the Grout bill when it was 

 referred to his committee, that it might be smothered. 



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While no oleomargarine is made in his State, he has conceived a great affection for 

 the kind of oleomargarine that is an exact counterfeit of butter, forbidden by New 

 York, and which defrauds the public everywhere, and the only kind we are seeking 

 to suppress. 



Wadsworth's friends in Congress were amazed at his attitude in this matter. His 

 conduct was unprecedented. No Congressman representing a Northern agricultural 

 district has ever been known to take such an aggressive stand against the farmers of 

 his district in face ot such floods of petitions, and no support whatever from his own 

 people in his position. 



Wadsworth, with his bill, is the most dangerous enemy the dairymen have in the 

 world. As chairman of the agricultural committee he has certain prestige. If he 

 is returned to Congress by the votes of the farmers of his district, thereby winning 

 their approval of his course, it will be bad for us. His reelection, unless with a greatly 

 reduced majority, will be a victory for the stock yards and oleomargarine fraud of 

 Chicago and a death knell to the farmers'* influence in Congress. 



You who were present will recall the menacing manner of Mr. 

 Knight and Mr. Flanders during the conversation which followed and 

 in which Mr. Knight interrupted with the question, "Judge Springer, 

 do you know how far he ran behind his ticket?" Judge Springer 

 "I do not." Mr. Knight "I do." Mr. Springer ' 'He got votes 

 enough, however, to give him a majority of about 9,000 in his district." 

 Mr. Flanders "The official returns of the State of New York have 

 not been printed, but the returns in the agricultural papers in the State 

 of New York show that he ran 2,000 behind." 



Gentlemen, when Mr. Wadsworth came before you (p. 159) to state 

 that he did not run behind his ticket, but had an increased majority, 

 and that the farmers of his district at least approved of the Wadsworth 

 substitute bill the representatives^ those same prevaricating agricul- 

 tural papers had nothing to say. 



Gentlemen, it is not the oleomargarine industry alone that is here on 

 trial. You are arraigned before the bar of the people. A few men, 

 well organized and backed only by a manufactured public sentiment, 

 are saying to you, "Violate your oaths, trample your consciences and 

 the Constitution under foot, give us what we ask and in the language 



