EDITOR'S CORNER. 



A LEAGUE MAN FOR GOV- 

 ERNOR. 



The Democratic party has nomi- 

 nated for Governor of New York the 

 Hon. Bird S. Coler, a League mem- 

 ber, who joined in 1898, and whose 

 card number is 691. Here is an ex- 

 tract from the Democratic platform, 

 on which Mr. Coler will stand if 

 elected : 



"We realize the necessity of fur- 

 nishing full and adequate protection 

 for the game animals, the game birds, 

 the song and insectivorous birds, the 

 game fishes and the -forests of this 

 State; and we pledge ourselves to do 

 everything in our power to secure the 

 enactment of good and wholesome 

 laws to this end." 



Under date of August 20th, I wrote 

 the Chairmen of the Republican and 

 Democratic State Committees, on be- 

 half of the League, asking both to in- 

 sert planks in their platforms express- 

 ing a due regard for the game and 

 game fishes and the forests of this 

 State. The Republican Committee 

 made no reply to my letter, thus indi- 

 cating plainly that they take no inter- 

 est in this important subject. 



The Chairman of the Democratic 

 State Committee replied that the re- 

 quest of the League was reasonable 

 and right, and that such a plank 

 would be inserted in the Democratic 

 platform. This was done, our plank 

 was adopted, and a League man was 

 named for the high office of Gover- 

 nor. Sportsmen may reasonably draw 

 their own inferences. We need ex- 

 pect nothing at the hands of the Re- 

 publican party in the way of game 

 or forestry protection. On the con- 

 trary, the Democratic party pledges 

 us that if placed in power it will use 

 its utmost endeavors to secure the 

 enactment of just laws for the protec- 

 tion of the wild animals, the game 

 and song birds and the forests of this 



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State. Now let every sportsmen in the 

 State do his utmost to secure the 

 election of Mr. Coler. 



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ANOTHER OLD GUNMAKER GONE. 



The sportsmen of 

 this country have 

 sustained a serious 

 loss in the death of 

 Le Roy H. Smith, 

 president of the 

 Ithaca Gun Com- 

 pany, Ithaca, New- 

 York, which occurred 

 in August last. Mr. 

 Smith began life as a 

 poor boy and by his 

 industry and close 

 attention to duty 

 worked his way, step 

 by step, to the head 

 of one of the leading gun houses of 

 the country. As a business man, 

 enjoyed the friendship and respect 

 all who knew him, and especially 

 the men who worked for and with 

 him. He was always genial, sympa- 

 thetic and courteous to everyone with 

 whom he came in contact. By his industry 

 and economy he amassed a comfortable 

 fortune, and had just begun to enjoy, each 

 summer, the recreation and outdoor life 

 of which he was so fond and which all 

 through his youth he had denied himself. 

 He was a lover of outdoor sports and of 

 nature, and his friends congratulated him 

 on having finally acquired a position where 

 he could enjoy these things, but he was 

 seized with a fatal malady and taken away. 

 Thus it is with the majority of us who 

 have to work for our daily bread. We 

 only begin to enjoy life when we get about 

 through with it. Mr. Smith has furnished 

 the means of outdoor pleasure to thousands 

 of men, while denying himself a single in- 

 dulgence. The great business which Mr. 

 Smith built up will, of course, be continued 

 under the management of his former asso- 

 ciates, but they and the other good people 

 of Ithaca will feel his loss as long as any 

 of them live. 



WILL HE DO AS ODELL DID? 

 Game Wardens Hill and Springer, of 

 Seattle, Wash., both of whom are members 

 of the L. A. S., recently descended on the 

 Diamond Ice and Storage Co,, of that city. 

 where they unearthed several boxes of wild 

 fowl, grouse and prairie chickens, aggre- 

 gating some 300 birds. The manager of 

 the cold storage house of course claimed 



