1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
883 
DEFEAT OF MR. WADSWORTH. 
Letters from a dozen different States—from Maine to 
Washington—have come to us, all rejoicing in the great 
victory. It seems that people all over the country took 
a lively interest in the battle. Out of many letters we 
select the following from Pennsylvania, as it sounds a 
note of warning: 
Let me congratulate you upon the success of the Porter- 
Wadsworth struggle. Hope your elation will not bring on 
that malady known as “swelled head." May The It. N.-Y 
continue to make rogues tremble. Now for parcels post, 
Success! a. g. w. 
We expect to avoid that dangerous disease, for we 
realize that The R. N.-Y. did nothing but its plain duty. 
No great courage or self-denial was required to help 
make the issue clear. The credit belongs to those 
farmers in the Thirty-fourth District who put principle 
above party. It meant something for these men to do 
their duty, but they stood up to the fight. Slow to start, 
there'was something terrible in their anger when the 
issue was made clear to them. 
Even if it could be said that any man or any set 
of men were responsible for this great victory, the real 
meaning of it might well make them humble. It is no 
ordinary thing to organize and let loose a new and tre¬ 
mendous force in public life. That is just what hap¬ 
pened. Both statesmen and politicians have relied upon 
the “conservatism” of the farmer. In truth, this has 
been but another name for voting habit. Let the party 
stand for some high principle, and good men believe it 
will win because the farmers will vote the ticket. Let a 
bad man be nominated and politicians hope to pull him 
through because of this very “voting habit.” For this 
reason the farmers of the North are responsible for 
much that is noble in our history, and also for much 
that has proved injurious to them. In the case of 
Mr. Wadsworth the politicians up to the last expected 
that he would be elected by a small majority. They 
could not realize that a new force had come into public 
life, strong enough to break up this “voting habit.” 
That was why we said that the defeat of Mr. Wads¬ 
worth was but a small part of the real issue. We see 
in this victory both hope and danger. Hope—because 
these farmers now know something of their power. 
They are in a better position than ever before to assert 
their rights, since they have demonstrated not only that 
they mean business, but that they will actually do busi¬ 
ness if need be. Heretofore they have sometimes been 
weak in the doing. We expect to see both Legislature 
and Congress “sit up and take notice.” As one en¬ 
thusiastic man writes: “The law makers will just 
tumble over themselves to give us what we want!” 
There lies the danger! 
“Beware of the Greeks when they come bearing gifts,” 
and keep an eye on the politician? when they are so 
anxious to serve. Farmers will do well to be conserva¬ 
tive in the demands they will make upon the “law¬ 
makers.” Be just, be sure, know just what you are ask¬ 
ing for, do not be put on the defensive and then be firm 
as a rock and it will come! 
Unhappily we have a class of men among those who 
claim to be leaders who have all the instincts of the 
demagogue. They mount the platform, they print 
papers, they pull political wires—always for their own 
selfish ends. Posing as unselfish patriots, claiming chief 
credit for every advance, they are sure to come for¬ 
ward with plausible schemes which they will try to 
hitch to the mighty force that has been let loose in the 
Thirty-fourth District. At the core of every such 
scheme will be some personal advantage or some per¬ 
sonal revenge to be gratified. There will be danger 
should men succeed in fooling the farmers into sup¬ 
port of some unjust or selfish scheme. The battle that 
ended Wadsworth was fought for a principle. The 
hope in it is that the fight will rise on to higher ground. 
The danger is that demagogues may lead it into personal 
politics. We point this danger out, but have little 
fear provided the issue can be made clear and open. 
The men who downed Wadsworth will know what to 
do with the “swelled head” and the demagogue when 
they recognize either! 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Daniel Stewart, the aged bridge tender for 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, is held responsible for the 
wreck near Atlantic City, N. ,T.. October 28. in which 57 
persons were killed and many others injured. In rendering 
its verdict the jury held that the accident was caused by 
the rail on the draw sticking up, and held the bridge tender 
responsible for not seeing it was down before he gave the 
signal for a clear track. As Stewart,the bridgeman, is a 
servant of the Pennsylvania Railroad, that company is 
held indirectly responsible for the accident. . . . Suit 
was filed at New Orleans, La., November 7, to compel the 
Standard Oil Company to take out and pay for a license 
as hawker and peddler for the years 1908 to 1906. inclu¬ 
sive. The suit was filed by the State of Louisiana through 
the State tax collector, who alleges that the company owes 
license fees amounting to $3,500. . . . Indictments in 
14 cases were handed to Judge Lochren in the United States 
District Court at Minneapolis. November 8, covering the 
giving of rebates by certain railroads and the receiving of 
the same by grain firms and individuals. The list of rail¬ 
ways indicted follows: The Great Northern Railroad Com¬ 
pany, four indictments, about 75 counts; the Chicago, St. 
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, one indictment. 
50 counts: Wisconsin Central Railroad, one indictment, 17 
counts; Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, one indict¬ 
ment, five counts. The indictments against the railroads 
charge the giving of rebates. Under the head of receiv¬ 
ing rebates the following true bills were returned : W. P. 
Devereaux Company, McCaull-Dinsmore Company, of Min¬ 
neapolis. Amos Brooks Company of Duluth, the Duluth 
Milling Company. In most of the instances the railroads 
are charged with absorbing elevator charges, though in a 
few cases the return of freight paid is alleged. . . . 
A mother and four of her children lost their lives in a 
fire which swept through the crowded tenement house at 
366 Madison Street, New York, November 8. Had it not 
been for the quick work of the firemen in getting ladders 
to the windows many more might have perished. . . 
The Revolutionary War pension list was closed November 
11 with the death of Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, 93 years 
old, the last widow of a soldier of the Revolution. She 
had been ill at her home in Union for a long time. Mrs. 
Damon was a native of Vermont. On September 6, 1835, 
at Bridgwater, Vt., she was married to Nbah Damon, 75 
years old, the bride being only 21. Damon enlisted in 
the War of the Revolution at Milton, Mass., April 19, 1775, 
and served five years. He was granted a pension when 
89 years old, while living at Plainfield. N. II. He died 
July 2. 1853. . . . The Federal Grand Jury at Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., November 9, finished taking testimony in the 
cases of the Shelby Tube Company, of Greenville. Pa., and 
indicted three persons for conspiracy to defraud the United 
States Government by selling defective seamless tubes to 
the Government for battleships. 
FARM AND GARDEN.-—-The public Winter meeting of 
the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture will be held 
at G. A. R. Memorial Hall. West Court Street. Springfield, 
December 4, 5 and 6. It Is suggested that farmers' clubs 
and Granges avail themselves of the privileges of the meet¬ 
ing by appointing delegates to attend and make report to 
the organizations they represent. 
A fine collection of apples will be shown at the forty- 
ninth annual meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural 
Society at Boonville, December 4-6. The apples will be 
repacked and held for the Jamestown Exposition. Arrange¬ 
ments are made for the saving of specimens for that dis¬ 
play in 1907. The Merchants' Cold Storage Company, 
Kansas City, Mo., will take care of the collections and the 
Society will pay the express on them. It is very much 
desired that the members save a fine collection of apples 
for this exposition, and for the meeting of the American 
Pomological Society at the same time. Select the best you 
have, wrap them in paper, pack them well, put your name 
on them and send by express to L. A. Goodman.' The Mer¬ 
chants’ Cold Storage Co., 550 Walnut Street, Kansas City, 
Mo., and they will be cared for there. 
The fourteenth annual meeting of the West Virginia 
State Horticultural Society will be held at Charleston, 
January 17, 18 and 19. An interesting programme is being 
prepared and a large exhibit of fruits, nuts, nursery stock, 
flowers, orchard insects, etc., will be made; Fred E. 
Brooks, secretary, Morgantown, W. Va. 
The fifty-first annual meeting of the Illinois State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, to be held at Champaign. December 12 to 
14, 1906, is the round-up. the culminating point of the 
three district meetings, held during the three previous 
weeks. No series of horticultural meetings surpass these 
four Illinois meetings in interest and in onnortunities to 
acuire practical information, and all persons interested in 
horticultural matters should make it their business and 
privilege to attend one or more of these meetings. 
Horticultural Society of Central Illinois. Meeting at 
Knoxville, Ill., November 20 and 21, 1906; J. B. Burrows, 
secretary, Decatur. III. 
Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois. Meeting at 
Marion, Ill.. November 27 and 28, 1906; E. G. Mendenhall, 
secretary, KInmundy, Ill. 
Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois. Meeting at 
Joliet, Ill.. December 4 and 5. 1906; Jacob Friend, secre¬ 
tary, Nekoma. Ill. 
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