1908. 
MTHEC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
321 
GOV. HUGHES AND THE DAWLEY CASE.' 5 ! 
We have received at least 1,000 letters from readers 
urging us to stand firm in the position we have taken 
in this cattle case. On the other hand, five people 
have written expressing sentiments more or less like 
those in the following letter: 
I was piling wood this morning when I got thinking 
over the cattle case, etc. I have admired the firm stand 
you took in defense of the truth and right, but I must 
sav that I think you have recently made a little mistake. 
I refer to your criticisms of Gov. Hughes. Your attitude 
has implied a certain lack of confidence in him, which 
has strengthened the hands or at least emboldened his 
enemies. I honestly believe that Gov. Hughes tries with 
all his heart and head to do the fair square thing. It 
may not be entirely his fault if he does not “see eye to 
eye” with you. Iiis position, and therefore his point of 
view, is different, and I think you ought to allow for this. 
When you implied a lack of confidence in him I fancy 
that the friends of Kelsey said among themselves, “Ah! 
The R. N.-Y. is finding out the Governor. Note we 
may safely vote against him,” and so they did. You may 
urge that the people had the same lack of confidence and 
so lost heart to continue the battle, but let me tell you 
a great many of the people would never have thought 
of it that way if you had not put it into their heads. 
You have been directing the battle and you, more than 
they are responsible for the results. I am. sorry that 
it has happened so. The Governor is a good, well-meaning 
man, and so are you, and it seems too bad that two good 
men should thus stand against each other and let the 
forces of evil triumph. At such a time as this, with 
the anti-gambling bills, etc., before the Legislature, the 
Governor needs all the moral support we can give him. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. bubton coon. 
R. N.-Y.—Governor Hughes had more moral sup¬ 
port directly and openly from The R. N.-Y. than from 
all the other agricultural papers put together. We 
do not think anyone will deny that statement. We 
made no effort to direct any battle against those in¬ 
surance Senators. Even while we felt that Governor 
Hughes was wrong on this Dawley investigation we 
honestly and squarely advised our readers to stamp 
those Senators. We still print their names. Any 
man who thinks he can lead or direct farmers against 
their will soon finds his mistake. The late Senator 
Franchot, who died recently in Montreal, went before 
the Niagara Farmers’ Club to square bimself with the 
farmers. Here is the report of an eye witness: 
I was there and was glad of the way he was shown 
what the farmers thought of his course. He was very 
anxious to make a speech. In the course of it he took 
occasion to say he was in full sympathy with the Gov¬ 
ernor in the repeal of the race-track gambling bill. The 
house was crowded and they cheered him so that he had 
to stop for them to cease. By and by he tried to justify 
his course in the Kelsey matter, and he could not get a 
hand clap. He tried every tack he could think of, but it 
was no use. The house was as still as a Quaker meeting, 
and he left the platform as quiet as the house. 
There is the whole story. Those farmers did not 
need suggestion or direction to know how to draw 
the line between right and wrong. Senator Franchot 
was right on the gambling question, and the audience 
cheered him to the echo. He was wrong on the Kel¬ 
sey question, and the people let him know it at once. 
The plausible‘and eloquent lawyer, personally known 
and greatly respected, with all his arts of persuasion, 
could not make those farmers admit that because he 
was right on the anti-gambling law it was his privi¬ 
lege to be wrong on insurance! 
Now. thousands of New York farmers have fol¬ 
lowed this Dawley case for over a year. They know 
the injury it has done and the scandal it is creating. 
Many of them are familiar with the mean little tricks 
of “graft” and politics which have grown all through 
official “agriculture” like a fungus through an apple. 
They know that the Governor was right in the Kel¬ 
sey matter and in the anti-gambling crusade. They 
feel that he is wrong in failing to investigate Dawley. 
Governor Hughes cannot possibly get these farmers 
to say he is right when they feel that he is wrong. 
Further, we know that these farmers would have 
had little respect for us if we had accepted the Gov¬ 
ernor’s reply to our readers without a word. Our 
friend is wrong in saying the farmers would not have 
reasoned it out themselves. That is just what they 
have done, and had The R. N.-Y. flinched their anger 
would have been stronger even than now. The poli¬ 
ticians felt sure that the Governor’s circular letter had 
put us out of business. Mr. Dawley’s home organ 
printed it in great glee headed “The Governor Hands 
These People a Lemon!” The Country Gentleman 
gloated over it in a savage personal attack. Copies 
of The Country Gentleman containing it were mailed 
over the State, and extracts from it have been printed 
in many local papers. They expected us to bow in 
silence before that letter. It was our privilege and 
duty to reply to it, and we did so. The response from 
farmers was such that The Country Gentleman has 
shut up tighter than a clam. It quailed before the 
righteous indignation of the people, applied with ink 
and postage stamps. 
Governor Hughes is an honest and able man. All 
the power we possess is at his command in support of 
any true and uplifting principle. We believe he occu¬ 
pies a wrong position on this Dawley matter, because 
he accepted advice from prejudiced people who do 
not really represent the working farmers. We shall 
stand up for the principle involved until it Is settled 
right. _ 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—A fire which started in the boiler room of 
the Bowker Insecticide Company's plant at Huntington 
and Smith streets, Brooklyn, swept through the two-story 
frame building March 22. Chemicals used in the nian- 
facturing operations of the plant caused a series of ex¬ 
plosions which hastened the destruction of the building. 
The fire was put out with a loss of $50,000. . . . 
Fire March 22 destroyed a block in the business center 
of Gainesville, Tex. The losses exceed $150,000. The 
Dewey Hotel was destroyed and the guests escaped in 
their night garments, but lost all their personal effects. 
Twenty business firms are burned out. ... A band 
of masked “night riders” March 21 shot and killed Har¬ 
lan Hedges, an independent tobacco farmer, seven miles 
northwest of Carlisle. Ky. This is the first murder by 
“night riders” in the “blue grass” region of Kentucky. 
Night riders to the number of 25 or 80 invaded Golden 
Pond, Trigg County, March 24, dragged Thomas Weaver, 
a negro in the employ of the tobacco association, from his 
bed, and, carrying him to the road, commanded him to 
run. When he failed to obey the night riders began firing 
at him. Two balls penetrated the body, and he was found 
in a dying condition. No cause for the crime is known. 
Judge McNeal, county judge of Nicholas County, refused 
March 23 to offer a reward for the arrest and conviction 
of any of the “night riders” who shot and killed Harlan 
Hedges. He said that he will not do so unless sanctioned 
by a meeting of the fiscal court now in session. 
. . . The rush of Americans into Canada has begun. 
Five special trains came in March 21. Most of the set¬ 
tlers are from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, 
Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Almost all are 
experienced farmers and many o-f them have from $10,00(' 
to $30,000 with which to purchase land and erect first- 
class improvements. ... A heavy rainstorm accom¬ 
panied by several tornados swept through southern Louis* 
iana March 23. At Norwood several buildings were blown 
down and John Rollins, a clerk, was killed. At Silver 
Creek, Miss., the sawmill of Landridge & Bright and sev¬ 
eral stores were blown down. New Hebron, Miss., suf¬ 
fered the loss of several stores and warehouses. At Sum¬ 
mit, Miss., the Catholic church and half a dozen new 
buildings were damaged. . . . The restraining order 
and injunction issued against the American Federation of 
Labor and its executive counsel, their agents, attorneys, 
servants, etc., at the instance of Buck’s Stove and Range 
Company of St. Louis, by Justice Gould of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia in December last, were 
made permanent March 23 by Chief Justice Clabaugh. 
The signing of the decree was the result of agreement 
of counsel for both sides, although an appeal was taken 
by the Federation as a legal#safeguard in case of possible 
developments in the future. The decree is practically 
identical with that signed by Justice Gould in December. 
It restrains the Federation, its executive counsel, etc., 
from publishing the Buck’s Stove and Range Company 
under its “We Don’t Patronize,” or “unfair” list, and 
prohibits them from boycotting or in any manner inter¬ 
fering w ith the stove company’s business or with the sale 
of its product or of coercing or attempting to coerce any 
person, firm, corporation or the public from dealing in an 
unrestricted manner with the company. ... A 
sweeping decision affecting every State which has adopted 
drastic anti-railroad legislation was handed down by the 
United States Supreme Court March 23. The Minnesota 
railroad law was declared unconstitutional, and in a 
shorter opinion the court made a similar declaration with 
reference to the North Carolina railroad law. Eight of 
the nine Justices joined in these rulings of the court. 
The court’s opinion is regarded in some quarters as point¬ 
ing directly to the unconstitutionality of the railroad rate 
act. . . . State Senator S. I’. Franchot of New York 
died at Montreal March 24. He represented the 47th 
Senatorial District in the Senate, a district composed of 
Niagara and Orleans Counties. He was born in Morris, 
Otsego County, N. Y., on January 30, 1851. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The bill amendatory of the Sher¬ 
man anti-trust law, which was framed at the White House 
in the course of many conferences between President 
Roosevelt, officers of the Government and members of the 
Civic Federation, was introduced in the House March 23 
by Representative W. P. Hepburn, chairman of the Com¬ 
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The bill is 
based on the idea of publicity for industrial and other 
combinations and provides for what amounts to a Federal 
license for corporations and associations. Broader powers 
are given to the Commissioner of Corporations and the 
Interstate Commerce Commission. Corporations which 
file copies of contracts and agreements with the proper 
Federal authority are to have immunity from prosecution 
under the anti-trust law if these contracts and agreements 
are approved. After one year from the passage of the 
act a registered corporation or association will be immune 
from prosecution for any violation of the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law prior to registration. Only “unreasonable” com¬ 
binations in restraint of trade are to be amenable to pros¬ 
ecution, thus modifying the comprehensive scope of the 
Sherman law. The Supreme Court has decided that com¬ 
binations, whether reasonable or unreasonable, may be 
prosecuted. Only actual damages for injury done by com¬ 
binations may be recovered. The present law permits the 
recovery of triple damages. The bill does not contain 
an especial exemption of the Federation of Labor from the 
operations of the Sherman law. 
Wheat and grass are coming out of the Winter in fine 
shape. Wheat is not heaved a particle and is looking 
splendid. I am sorry to see the dealers losing so badly 
on apples. Many of them will drop more this year than 
they can recover in two or three years, j. s. woodwakd. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
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