130 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



He has a range of ten, and out of the ten he could certainly find 

 two that would be satisfactory. 



Mr. Glover : — I can see great good coming out of capable 

 inspectors going into the field, but 1 cannot see any good out of 

 inspectors sent out in the field who are filling offices that have 

 been given them for political services they have given their 

 party. I do not believe the dairymen want or will permit any 

 more inspectors to be appointed in that capacity unless they are 

 capable of going out and instructing. I served in the dairy 

 department of Minnesota for two years and a half, and we had 

 enough influence to stir things to the bottom and disposed of 

 about half, because they had rendered political service. She has 

 good inspectors now and look at Minnesota today and the grade 

 of men she is producing. I was talking with Governor Johnson, 

 in Minnesota, and he told me he had appointed six of the best 

 buttermakers he could get in Minnesota. A Democratic gov- 

 ernor, and he said to me " I think I have all Republicans, but 

 they are all good buttermakers." Let the dairymen say, " We 

 want good men or the next time you run for governor we will 

 defeat you." Every buttermaker in Minnesota is a politician 

 when he goes out and works with his patrons. Why they gave 

 Roosevelt 140,000 and elected a Democratic governor by 8,000. 

 Don't you think buttermakers have some power when they get 

 to work? 



I would say to the dairymen of this state that they have 

 the power in their own hands to have as good a commissioner 

 and as efficient one as they want; but don't leave it to the 

 appointing power of the governor. Make him feel that we are 

 a power in the state. It is from the common people of the state 

 that the power of the state was made, and the common people 

 are larger and bigger than all of our state officials if they will 

 only exert that power ; will get sentiment spread ; demand in- 

 spectors that are capable and you will have them. 



Mr. Jones: — I want to say to the gentleman, that if he 

 thinks the dairymen of Illinois are n«t in the political swim he 

 is mistaken. When I read what has been enacted in national 



