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October 81, 
ond matter, why did our friend buy his 
potatoes before comparing pricesV It 
would have been good business to learn 
first what the farmer and the grocer 
charged, sample the goods and take the 
better bargain. That is what he would 
do in his own business. Most of us have 
at times paid storekeepers more than we 
could buy the goods elsewhere for be¬ 
cause “we ought to support home trade.” 
We never asked anyone to pay a farmer 
more than his produce was worth. As 
for the 35-cent dollar, there are many 
cases where farmers sell direct. On the 
other hand, potatoes are selling in New 
York at 40 cents a peck, while farmers in 
Western New York are offered 80 cents a 
bushel. We refer to the average returns 
—not to certain favored business. 
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. 
W E have received many letters 
notes like the following: 
or 
How are we 1o know who io vote for 
this year? 
There has not been in many years an 
election in which the issues were as com¬ 
plicated as, or less clearly defined than is 
(he case this year. In order to pre¬ 
sent the case fairly we have asked a 
supporter of each of the four candidates 
to state briefly why farmers should vote 
for either of the following: 
Charles S. Whitman—Republican. 
Frederick M. Davenport—Progressive. 
Martin H. Glynn—Democrat. 
William Sulzer—Prohibitionist. 
The men who have prepared these 
statements fully understand conditions, 
and what they say may be considered 
typical arguments for each side. 
Why I Vote For Wm. Sulzer. 
We farmers have expected great things 
of a primary election law, and here we 
are well past the first primary under the 
new law. “Watchman, what of the 
night?” As I see it the bosses of both 
the principal parties are in the saddle, 
riding confidently towards election day, 
hardly taking the trouble to look back 
and see if we tag behind, so accustomed 
have they become to a blind acceptance 
of the party whip. I for one propose 
to bolt, and take this occasion to vote 
a Prohibition ticket as a sort of protest. 
I am in favor of the principle of prohi¬ 
bition and have always supported it 
locally but have not been in the habit 
of voting a prohibition ticket for Gov¬ 
ernor. I shall do it the more gladly now, 
since I can at the same time help to vin¬ 
dicate the man of his convictions as 
Governor, who dared to throw down the 
gauntlet to the party boss. The dis¬ 
graceful way in which the whips of the 
two party bosses were applied in order 
to discourage future Governors from at¬ 
tempting to disregard their orders was a 
disgrace to the Empire State and an in¬ 
sult to the electorate, which I for one 
have not forgotten. 
I regard the prohibition question in 
State and nation as of vital importance 
to all classes in general and farmers in 
particular. The only other domestic 
problem that approaches it in import¬ 
ance is that of equal suffrage. Local 
option at best is only a makeshift. Rural 
communities cannot, under the present 
system, escape from the curse of rum. 
We may close the saloons in our own 
towns, but escape from the demon's 
talons is impossible so long as cities or 
towns in contiguous territory lure our 
boys and hired help with open saloon 
doors, and windows in which are con¬ 
spicuously displayed the license of the 
sovereign State to help in their destruc¬ 
tion in consideration of a few paltry 
dollars paid into our treasury. 
Fealty to party at any cost has been 
the bane of our experiment at self gov¬ 
ernment. Those who are looking for of¬ 
fice at the hands of a particular party 
practice it for business reasons and the 
rest of us have followed suit without giv¬ 
ing the matter much thought. 
It is a matter of history that bolters 
gave us the Republican party and Lin¬ 
coln with his level head at a time when 
he was sorely needed. It is equally a 
matter of history that bolters from the 
Democratic party gave us Wilson with 
his level head at a time when a level 
head is also sorely needed. The decent 
clement is surely in the majority in both 
State and nation, and if we now take 
this opportunity to bolt and vote the 
Prohibition ticket we can kill two birds 
with one stone. We can give the party 
leaders who are in the saddle and riding 
confidently towards election day a big 
jolt when they look back on election day 
and count up the size of their follow¬ 
ing. At the same time we can give the 
drink evil a blow that will be a big help 
towards the saloonless nation we all 
would like to welcome during our life¬ 
time. 
Why Davenport Should Should Be Elected. 
From the viewpoint of the farmers of 
the State the political situation is a very 
simple one. We have no National issues 
T't-I33J RURAL, NLW-YORRuR 
before us (his year. We have to decide 
only the kind of government we want to 
have within the Empire State. Do we 
want the Hughes type of clean, efficient 
government in the interests of all the 
people alike, with laws administered 
economically by honest officials; or do 
we want the Barngs-Murphy combine 
type in the interests of a few (mostly 
contractors), with laws administered 
for the enrichment and furtherance of 
political machines and their hirelings? 
That is the whole problem before the 
voters of New York State today. 
Frederick M. Davenport was in the 
State Senate during Governor Hughes’ 
term, and was one of Hughes’ staunchest 
supporters, fighting with him at every 
step against the bi-partisan system of’ 
Barnes and Murphy. He inherits that 
fight and is the only candidate for Gov¬ 
ernor who does inherit it. He has proved 
over and over again that he is for clean¬ 
liness and efficiency in every department 
of our State Government. No boss has 
any string on him in any way. If 
elected he will go into office with free 
hands, with a record for ability and 
rightmindedness, determined to fight to 
the last ditch for honesty and decency in 
every office, and for the prevention of 
every sort of graft. 
As taxpayers we farmers have much at 
stake this year and we have an opportu¬ 
nity to protect ourselves better now than 
ever before because we have simply a 
choice of whether we want every dollar 
to bring in a dollar’s worth; or whether 
we want the State to suffer from a 35- 
cent dollar. No reasonable man can ask 
Mr. Whitman to turn and bite the hand 
that is feeding him. Nor can we expect 
Mr. Glynn to do it. We know that 
neither of these gentlemen will be a free 
agent if elected. We have had recent 
forcible proof that they cannot be free 
agents. Therefore from them we can ex¬ 
pect only a 35-cent dollar. We must have 
a clean man, a man of proved ability and 
fearlessness and bound only by his duty 
to each and every one of us. Davenport 
is the only one who fills the bill. Un¬ 
less we elect him we can have no hope 
of the appointment of the proper men to 
administer such laws as our Land Bank 
law, our Food and Markets law and 
other agricultural laws. 
The Political Argument For Mr. Whitman. 
I am a Republican, and T frankly make 
my appeal to members of that party. 
Mr. Sulzer and Mr. Davenport cannot be 
elected anyway. For many years the 
farmers of New York gave great Repub¬ 
lican majorities. By doing so they con¬ 
trolled the policy of the State, and to a 
large extent that of the nation as well. 
We were well and intelligently governed. 
Now and then, so-called “leaders” got 
away from us, but the rank and file of 
(he Republican party have always pulled 
them down and cleaned up the records. 
New York State never occupied a strong¬ 
er or more prominent position than when 
its policies were controlled by its intelli¬ 
gent farmers through the Republican 
party. The so-called Progressives can 
accomplish nothing this year by them¬ 
selves, while, back in the Republican 
party, they could join with us and dom¬ 
inate it. The way to return to sound 
intelligent government in New York is to 
put back the Republican party—made 
wiser and cleaner by its trials and de¬ 
feats. Mr. Whitman is a clean and able 
man. He received a unanimous vote in 
New York City for district attorney 
and has sent some of the most notorious 
crooks to jail. This unanimous election 
was the highest possible testimonial to 
his ability and courage, and in the Gov¬ 
ernor’s chair he will be equally fearless 
and fair. 
In all the idle talk about “bosses” no 
one ventures to say a word against Mr. 
Whitman’s character or ability. As 
Governor he will give the State a clean, 
able, and sane administration without 
fireworks or folly. That is what our 
practical farmers want—and what they 
need. They know that with the primary 
and with the experience of the past two 
years they are better able than any other 
class to hold a Governor up to his duty. 
The Argument For Gov. Glynn. 
The farmer’s ideal of good citizenship 
will impel him to vote for Governor 
Glynn. The farmer demands honest, ef¬ 
ficient and capable service from public 
servants. Governor Glynn has qualified 
in these requirements. He has made a 
record that measures up to the farmers’ 
demand for economy. He has applied 
sound business principles to the business 
of the State, and as a result he has saved 
$11,000,000 to the taxpayers of the State 
in one year’s budget. 
During his brief term as Governor he 
has particularly devoted himself to the 
interests of the farmer. For years farm¬ 
ers demanded a real primary law and the 
Australian form of ballot. Governor 
Hughes responded to their demand; but 
the party bosses oppos'd him, and he 
lost. This was one of Governor Glynn’s 
first reforms. He won where Governor 
Hughes failed, and voters may now se¬ 
lect their own candidates independent of 
the party bosses. 
Governor Glynn secured the best worl - 
men’s compensation law in the world. It 
protects workmen in hazardous employ¬ 
ments, but exempts farmers from its re¬ 
quirements. If workmen understood this 
law as they will later, they would cast 
a unanimous vote for Mr. Glynn. 
The Land Bank is one of Gov. Glynn’s 
special measures. It is now nearly 
ready for business, and will soon be 
ready to loan money on farms mortgaged 
for long terms, and on easy payments. 
New York is the first State to adopt a 
farm credit system, and without the 
active insistence of Gov. Glynn it could 
not have been secured. 
Gov. Glynn soon learned the meaning 
of the 35-cent dollar. He learned that it 
cost G5 cents to deliver a dollar’s worth 
of food. For 15 years other Governors 
have been told the same thing, but Gov. 
Glynn was the first to attempt a re¬ 
form. He secured a law to create a 
Food and Market Commission by which 
farm food products can be delivered from 
the farm to the consumer at a price gov¬ 
erned by the law of supply and demand, 
and he provided for a sure and prompt 
return to the shipper. The saving in 
this system of distribution can be esti¬ 
mated only in millions. 
To put these cooperative measures in 
operation Gov. Glynn secured appropri¬ 
ations of $35,000. He made $50,000 
available to fight sudden ravages of in¬ 
sect pests; and $5,000 to investigate tu¬ 
berculosis in cattle. He also righted an 
injustice of two years standing by secur¬ 
ing prompt payment to farmers for $217,- 
000 worth of cattle that had been pre¬ 
viously destroyed and payment unjustly 
withheld. While vetoing needless ap¬ 
propriations and cutting useless expenses, 
he initiated these wise and needful ex¬ 
penses himself in the interests of the peo¬ 
ple and the farms. 
Farmers are opposed to a single tax 
on land, by which other forms of wealth 
would escape taxation entirely. His two 
leading opponents have pledged them¬ 
selves to favor this policy. Gov. Glynn 
has refused to do so. 
In times of political excitement, lead¬ 
ers appeal to the party spirit of voters; 
but party lines today are actually pretty 
dim. Gov. Hughes and Gov. Glynn rep¬ 
resent opposing parties; but in principles 
and policies they have more in common 
than either of them has with the sordid 
politicians of his own party. The man 
who voted for Hughes may with greater 
reason on the same grounds vote for 
Glynn. 
The farm measures initiated by Gov. 
Glynn need development. They have a 
friend in him. He will naturally want 
to make the most of them. A new man 
would hardly wish to develop Gov. I 
Glynn’s pet measures. He would have 
other policies nearer to the interest of 
a city-bred man, and these farm meas¬ 
ures would not be worked out to their 
possibilities. 
. As Secretary Giles of the State Grange 
has well said, for the first time in the 
history of the State farmers found the 
doors of the Executive Chamber wide 
open by Gov. Glynn. He lias taken 
the initiative for them in every just and 
useful measure. To turn their back on 
him now would be a refusal to reward 
the service of a friend. Farm influence 
would not recover from such a mistake 
in twenty-five years. 
In an effort to detract from the credit 
due Gov. Glynn, his opponents have fool¬ 
ishly put themselves in opposition to 
these measures which have been de¬ 
manded by farmers without regard to 
party. With insincerity they exhibit 
ignorance of farm needs. With this po¬ 
sition now, what could farmers expect 
from them after election? Consistency 
would require continued opposition. 
Hence the self-interest of the farmer 
prompts him to vote for Gov. Glynn. 
Farmers know what to expect from 
him, and they are not likely to take 
chances with another. Lincoln's admon¬ 
ition appeals to them with special em¬ 
phasis at this time: “Don’t swap horses 
while crossing a stream.” 
ADVERTISING GRAPES. 
“Advertising multiplied the number of 
consumers of grape juice by a dozen, and 
advertising should now be directed more 
strenuously in behalf of the apple,” says 
Louis Erb, president of the Apple Adver- I 
tisers of America, and adds: “Advertis¬ 
ing will increase consumption 50 per cent, i 
It takes money to advertise the apple and 
about the only means the organization 
has for securing it is by selling stamps to 
growers to be placed on packages and bar¬ 
rels. The stamps for barrels cost but two 
cents each, and for boxes one cent.” This 
in case of barrels is less than one for ad¬ 
vertising. The manufacturer spends sev¬ 
eral times the 1 per cent., and in some 
cases a fair proportion of his profits, and 
he considers advertising the cheapest way 
to secure sales. 
California as the future wine center of 
the world, seems assured as the result of 
the European war. The damage to vine¬ 
yards in' the warring zones is so great 
that recovery will require some years. 
California produces nine-tenths of the 
50,000,000 gallons used in the United 
States. The California Wine Association 
is said to be doing the largest business in 
its history, the Eastern demand having 
been doubled rhnee the outbreak of the 
war. The association is advertising for 
wine grapes, off 'ring $10 the ton. 
“For the Lar 4’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.’ ’•— Adv. 
When you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
COLLINS’ 
ran lliiirla tni* 
Free Guide for 
Orchard and Garden 
Features beat varieties of fruits, 
shrubs and decorative plants. 
Contains unique, helpful 
Special 
Collection Offers 
which savo you money and assure continuous, long- 
season yield. Writo today for your froo copy. 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box 31, Moorestown.N. J. 
Big Apple Trees 
.At Little Prices. 
or pi 
want big, healthy specimens for your new or 
chard, and to got them you should pay a fair 
price. My apple trees are extra good, with 
splendid roots, sturdy trunks, well formed 
heads, and my prices are low for such fine stock. 
My free book tells more about these trees; you 
may have a copy free if you send me a postal 
today. 
SAMUEL FRASER, NURSERYMAN. 
124 Main Street, :: Geneseo, N. Y. 
DWARF APPLE TREES 
DWARF PEAR TREES 
DWARF PLUM TREES 
DWARF CHERRY TREES 
DWARF PEACH TREES 
Also a Full Line of Standard Fruit Trees 
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THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
W. L. McKay, Prop. Box R, Geneva, N. Y. 
MALONE Y TREES 
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—0 to 10 feet high, 
grow rapidly, 
finest shade. 50c 
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I ICCo dllll riulllbi Peach trees 4x5 ft., $(i.0U per 
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