FOOTING GAINED IN MIDDLE WEST 367 



promoters of the Hereford propaganda. William 

 H. Sotham was as fond of an argument as he was of 

 the " white faces'', and in public and private de- 

 nounced fair managers, judges and editors, some- 

 times with justice and again with rather more zeal 

 than fairness. His particular bete noir was a 

 Bates-bred Shorthorn. All Shorthorns were bad in 

 comparison with Herefords, and he believed that 

 the Bates "crowd" were then " running " every- 

 thing, including all the fairs and the leading agri- 

 cultural newspapers, and that they would not and 

 did not "tote fair." Mr. Miller was equally bellig- 

 erent, finally starting a newspaper of his own called 

 "The Breeder's Journal", which he published for 

 several years at Beecher, as an avowed "organ" of 

 the breed. On the Shorthorn side Judge T. C. 

 Jones, of Delaware, 0., a sturdy old lawyer-farmer 

 of Welsh descent, replied with vigor and with dig- 

 nity. T. Corwin Anderson, of Kentucky, and others 

 wrote often in defense of the * ' red, white and roan ' '. 

 J. H. Sanders and George W. Bust, editorial writ- 

 ers, first on the "National Live-Stock Journal" and 

 later on "The Breeder's Gazette", were regular 

 targets, and of course "came back" with some of 

 the same sharpness which characterized the attacks. 

 This controversy is of little interest, however, to 

 the reader of today. All the parties to it now sleep 

 beneath the bluegrass sod they loved in common. 

 With this simple reference therefore to the histori- 

 cal fact that such a war of words was waged we 

 proceed with our narrative. 



