1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
297 
STANDING BY THE CATTLE CASE. 
It is now 103 days since the charges were submitted 
against Frank E. Dawley to Governor Hughes. We 
can stand the delay a great deal better than Governor 
Hughes or Dawley can, for with every succeeding day 
the feeling among farmers is growing. We appre¬ 
ciate this frank letter from Orange Co., N. Y.: 
I have watched with considerable interest during the 
past year for the outcome of the Rogers-Dawley cattle 
case. When you first agitated this matter I doubted your 
sincerity, as it was inconceivable that a farmer appointed 
to serve his brother farmers should so far betray the trust 
reposed in him as to substitute grade .Terseys for purebred 
animals, My doubts have been rapidly dispelled by Daw- 
leys failure to come out openly and answer the charges. 
While I am a breeder of Ilolsteins the question involved 
in this case affects all breeders alike. I believe that 
every owner of purebred registered animals is morally, if 
not legally, bound to do his utmost to maintain the purity 
of the breed. Remove the people's confidence in the hon¬ 
esty of the breeders, and all the efforts of a breeders’ 
association to regain it would be futile, as a breeder’s 
integrity must always remain the foundation of an ani¬ 
mal’s pedigree; no matter how stringent the rules of an 
association may lie there will always remain loop holes for 
the entrance of fraud. 
Without doubt there arc hundreds of farmers who 
feel as this man does. We knew when we started 
that many would find it impossible to believe that any 
Governor, least of all a man like Mr. Hughes, could 
ever permit such charges to go unchallenged. Some 
of them no doubt expected to see us overwhelmed 
with convincing proof that Dawley could not possibly 
be guilty. Month after month we stood at our guns 
alone, with fresh ammunition at each charge. Then 
those men began to ask themselves what they or other 
innocent men would have done in the face of such 
charges. As Dawley failed to meet the charges, and 
instead of crushing them with proof, kept up a policy 
of dodging and delaying, these men made up their 
minds. And the truth is that they are also making up 
their minds about Governor Hughes. When he listened 
to the politicians and The Country Gentleman and 
refused to investigate the case, he did not seem to 
realize that the farmers have any independence or force 
of their own. He knows it now. Out of the many 
letters which went back t<^ him in reply to his circular 
we select the following: 
Gov. Charles E. Hughes, Albany, N. Y. 
Sir; Thanking you for answer per secretary to previous 
letter and apologizing for troubling again. However, I 
would presume to tell again that farmers are not satisfied 
in reference to the Dawley matter They are not able to 
see any distinctive difference between the Insurance and 
Agricultural Departments. The evidence in regard to 
Dawley, as to his unfitness, seems to be at vour disposal. 
A few years ago the writer purchased fertilizers of Daw¬ 
ley, who was secretary of an important organization. Of 
course, I got buncoed. This happened twice. As a result 
of these disclosures and scandals our Dr. Jordan of the 
Geneva Experiment Station (than whom no more honest 
man exists, I think), came near losing his job. This was 
due to the influence of Syracuse politicians chiefly, who 
were and are, we believe, pecuniarily and for purposes of 
patronage and graft, interested in our Agricultural De¬ 
partment. The farmers of the State feel that our Agri¬ 
cultural Department needs a severe shaking up as well as 
Insurance. We are, perhaps, more directly interested in 
the former than in the latter. The farmers are with you 
in this insurance matter : let; us still be with you in all 
matters of right and justice. F. a. s. 
There is no doubt that the farmers want to be with 
the Governor “in all matters of right and justice.” They 
will reserve the right to decide what right and justice 
are, and their recognition of this right is one of the 
most hopeful signs in American politics. 
The following is from a New York farmer now in 
Florida: 
Now don’t bear down too hard on Gov. Hughes in that 
cattle case; we are ail liable to make mistakes, and some¬ 
times mighty bad ones. Then you know when we get 
told of it, even in a mild way, it runs “agin the current” 
on the nerves. I am not opposed to your hitting I’latt 
and Depew right from the shoulder, both right and left. 
I meet a great many farmers here in Florida from all 
over the country, and I find about the same feeling pre¬ 
vailing among them all. I was talking with a cattle man 
from Minnesota yesterday, and he emphasized the thought 
that party politics were not cutting much of a figure 
there. The farmers are somewhat like the '’onldron 
kettle; it takes a good deal of fire to make it boil, but 
when it does, “the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they 
grind exceedingly small.” n 
We have no desire to “bear down too bard” on Gov¬ 
ernor Hughes. We believe he wants to do just what 
is right, but that in this cattle case he has been poorly 
advised. \V e think no one will contradict the state¬ 
ment that The R. N.-Y. has done more, openly, to 
support Governor Hughes in his battles for righteous¬ 
ness and honesty in public life than all the other 
agricultural papers put together. We shall continue 
to do_ so, and throw all the power we can muster on 
his side whenever he is right. Regarding an inves¬ 
tigation of Dawley we feel that the Governor is wrong. 
It is not possible for any decision in these libel suits 
to settle the principle for which the farmers contend. 
Nearly 100 days ago we sent definite charges against 
Mr. Dawley to the Governor. They had nothing 
whatever to do with the libel suits or the sale of cattle 
to Rogers or Squiers. They dealt with Mr. Dawley’s 
conduct as a State official with State money, and 
State privileges. The amounts involved may have 
been small, but they covered a principle, and could 
not prejudice Mr. Dawley’s civil rights in the famous 
cattle case. So far as we are informed no action has 
been taken regarding these matters. Charges were 
made not long since against District Attorney Jerome 
for failing to do his duty. We believe Mr. Jerome 
has brought libel suits against New York papers which 
cover thou or similar charges. Yet Governor Hughes 
appoints a commission to investigate them. The Daw¬ 
ley case may seem trivial and small to the Governor 
and his advisers, lp.it what it represents may grow 
into a much larger and more dangerous evil than that 
charged against Mr. Jerome. We repeat that we can 
stand this delay far better than Dawley or Governor 
Hughes can, for every day adds to the feeling of 
impatience and injustice that is growing among the 
farmers. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—David Fratt of Billings, Mont., former 
president, of the State Board of Stock Commissioners, and 
a wealthy cattleman, pleaded guilty to the illegal fencing 
of 7,9(10 acres of public land, in the Federal Court March 
12, and was sentenced to serve forty-eight hours in jail and 
to pay a fine of $250. . . One of the greatest out-of¬ 
season seizures ever made in New Jersey was effected March 
12 in Jersey City by four fish and game wardens from 
Newark. The seizure was made at the storage warehouse 
of the Merchants’ Refrigerating Company. More than 
17,000 birds were reported to have been found and 219 
boxes were confiscated and sealed. If the fines provided 
by law were imposed, at the rate of $20 for each bird, 
the State would collect $340,000. In the boxes seized 
were 15,020 lapwing plover, 2,472 golden plover, and eight 
ruffed grouse. These, it was said, had been stored by 
three New York concerns. When the boxes were opened 
and it was found that the contents were birds held in vio¬ 
lation of the game laws of 1897 and 1902, photographs 
were taken of the different species for evidence. 
There was a large number of boxes that were 
not seized, because they contained birds not native 
to the State.A joint indictment against 
Charles W. Morse, the eliminated banker, and Alfred Ii. 
Curtis, ex-president, of the National Bank of North Amer¬ 
ica. was handed up to Judge Hough March 11 in the United 
States Circuit Court at New York. The indictment con¬ 
tains 29 counts, 11 for conspiracy and 18 for false entry. 
When arraigned to plead to the indictment both asked for 
30 days in which to change the pleas. Judge Hough 
granted them two weeks, and argument on the motion was 
set for the week beginning March 30. Judge Hough fixed 
bail at $30,000 for Mr. Morse and $10,000 for Mr. Curtis. 
According to ex-Judge W. M. K. Olcott, who represents Mr, 
Curtis, the 18 false entry counts are found under the 
embezzlement statute and comprise false entity with intent 
to deceive the goveimment bank examiner. It is charged, 
Mr. Olcott said, that the alleged false entries were made 
to speculate in Ice Trust stock for the benefit of the 
bank. . . . Big Timber, the county seat near Butte, 
Mont., having 2,500 inhabitants, was practically destroyed 
by fire March 12. Both the business and residential sec¬ 
tions of the town have been buimed out. The losses will 
probably exceed $100,000. . . . The jury in the first 
of the Capitol conspiracy cases to be tried at Harrisburg. 
Fa., gave a verdict of guilty March 13, after a six hours’ 
deliberation as to every one of the four men who have been 
on trial for the last seven weeks. There were two bal¬ 
lots taken. The men found guilty are: John Sander- 
son, contractor: William P. Snyder, ex-Attorney Gen¬ 
eral ; W. I.. Mathuos, ex-State Treasurer, and James M. 
Shumaker, ex-Superintendent of Public Buildings and 
Grounds. Motions for new trials were made. The pros- 
ecution of the alleged Capitol frauds is the indirect out¬ 
come of the great political upheaval in Philadelphia in 
1905, which resulted, in the Fall of that year, in the 
election of W. H. Berry, a Democrat, to the office of State 
Treasurer. After Berry took office he startled the people 
of the State by charging that the books of the State Treas¬ 
ury showed that the Capitol, instead of costing $4,000,000, 
had actually cost $13,000,000. A legislative investigation 
followed and the findings of the investigators were to 
the effect that there were great frauds committed in the 
furnishing and decorating of the building. The case was 
laid before the Attorney General, who began proceedings 
which resulted in the indictment of 14 persons. The 
prosecution of the other defendants will he taken up as 
quickly as the cases can be prepared. The State asserts 
that the frauds in the furnishings and decorating of the 
Capitol aggregated nearly $5,000,000. . . . John R. 
Walsh, ex-President of the Chicago National Bank of 
Chicago, and convicted of illegal use of funds of that insti¬ 
tution, was March 13 denied a new trial by Judge Anderson 
of the United States District Court and sentenced to serve 
five years in the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven¬ 
worth. 
OBITUARY.—Prof. William A. Kellerman, head of the 
botanical department at the Ohio State University, died 
March 8 in Guatemala from malarial fever. Professor 
Kellerman went to Guatemala about a month ago to 
study the flora. He was born at Asheville, O., on May 
1, 1850. lie was graduated at Cornell University in 
1874, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the Univer¬ 
sity of Zurich in 1881. He taught natural science at the 
Wisconsin State Normal School for five years and was 
professor of botany and zoology at the Kansas State Agri¬ 
cultural College for eight years. For one-half of this time 
he was State botanist of Kansas and botanist at the 
Kansas Experiment Station. In 1891 he became professor 
of botany at the Ohio State University. He was founder 
and editor of the Journal of Mycology, and the author of 
“Flora of Kansas,” “Elementary Botany,” “Phyto-Theca,” 
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