THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 145 



MAYOR EDMUNDSON. 



on 

 DAIRYMEN GOOD CITIZENS. 



Mr. Toastmaster. Let me get back a little and say that the 

 mayor is used to being roasted and it doesn't hurt. I have been 

 reminded of a little story I heard several years ago about a young 

 man attending college and some one sprung a joke on him. It 

 was supposed to happen during the campaign of Hayes and run- 

 ning mate for the presidency. The man asked this young college 

 fellow, who was very bright, "Suppose you had a young lady in 

 Washington and she couldn't walk, and the railroads were all 

 torn up, and there was no water navigation, nor horses and 

 buggies, or any other means of conveyance, how could you get 

 her away from there?" He said he didn't know. The fellow 

 says; "Very easy, just get Hayes and Wheeler out". So the 

 young man went home and thought he would spring it on his 

 father. He recited all the conditions that existed and asked the 

 old man how he would get her out. The old man thought a min- 

 ute and said, "I expect if you proposed to her she would back 

 out." I feel that, according to the remarks of the toastmaster, 

 some one evidently has backed out here also. But that doesn't 

 release me from this task. 



It is really a pleasure, but a duty after all. You know it is 

 not my business addressing dairy conventions. It is said every- 

 one should know something of everything and everything of 

 something. I would be very pleased to tell how much I know 

 about milking cows, etc., but I feel you might feel about me as 

 the politician did who campaigned for a very high office like U. 

 S. senator. Addressing a congregation in the country composed 



