Die RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1219 
Who is your Candidate for Governor? 
Who is your man for Governor of New York 
State? The ballots are now coming in. So far the 
votes are well distributed over the list. The senti¬ 
ment is almost universal for a State meeting of 
farmers to formulate farm needs and policies and 
to suggest a candidate acceptable to farmers. Here is 
THE BALLOT 
j—I Liberty Hyde Bailey, Tompkins 
I Frank M. Bradley, Niagara 
0 Seth J. T. Bush, Monroe 
0 Israel T. Deyo, Broome 
0 Samuel Fraser. Livingston 
0 Elon II. Hooker, Monroe 
i p Wesley O. Howard, Rensselaer 
pp Francis M. Hugo, Jefferson 
pp Nathan L. Miller. Onondaga 
pp Ogden L. Mills, New York 
rp John Lord O'Brian, Erie 
0 William Church Osborne, l’utnam 
0 Eugene II. Porter, Broome 
0 Henry M. Sage, Albany 
0 Alfred E. Smith. New York 
0 Silas L. Strivings, Wyoming 
0 Thaddeus C. Sweet, Oswego 
0 William Boyce Thompson. Westchester 
0 George F. Thompson, Orleans 
0 Eugene M. Travis, Kings 
0 George F. Warren, Tompkins 
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If your choice is net in the list write it on this line 
REFERENDUM 
cans had a large majority. The League did not 
attempt to start any new party, but it went into the 
Republican primary to nominate its candidates. Six 
years ago it succeeded, on this plan, in nominating 
and electing a large majority in the Legislature. 
Two years later, following the same plan, it nomi¬ 
nated and elected its candidate for Governor by a 
good majority. In North Dakota amendments to the 
Constitution are suggested by the Legislature, and 
then submitted to popular vote. The Legislature, 
controlled by the League, prepared 10 amendments 
which would carry out its programme. These were 
voted on by the people, and passed by majorities 
varying from 12,040 to 23.S32 in a total vote of about 
SO.OOO. The right to enforce the amendments was 
carried to the United States Supreme Court, and 
that tribunal declined to interfere. There has just 
been another primary for nominating candidates, and 
the League entered the Republican primary as usual. 
It supported the present Governor (Frazier) for 
another term. lie won the primary, and will no 
doubt be elected. The League also seems to have 
nominated as a candidate for United States Senator 
our old friend Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of the North 
Dakota Agricultural College. Dr. Ladd is one of 
the most useful men who ever represented agricul¬ 
ture in any capacity. He has shown what a trained 
scientist can do in proving beyond any question of 
doubt that the farmer is the victim of economic 
wrongs, and that farmers themselves must make 
these wrongs right. No one can deny after this 
showing that a majority of the people in North 
Dakota endorse the principles of the League. They 
have now come squarely before the people four dif¬ 
ferent times—out in the open—facing a popular 
vote, and have won every time, not by fraud or wire¬ 
pulling, but in open and popular elections and by 
means of orderly and constitutional methods. The 
politicians may not agree with the League, and may 
perhaps honestly consider its program radical, but 
they must now admit that it represents the senti¬ 
ments of the people of North Dakota. 
Would you be in favor of calling a State meeting 
of farmers to formulate farm needs and policies and 
to suggest candidates who would be acceptable to 
fanners? 
□ YES □ NO 
This list contains all the names suggested, with 
one exception, which is omitted on account of per¬ 
sonal preference. 
There are no restrictions or limitations on this 
vote. If yo"r choice does not appear on the list, 
write the name of your choice on the blank line. 
Some of the names in the above list have discussed 
“Farm Problems” in recent issues of The Rural 
New-Yorker. Others have written that they do not 
wish to be considered a candidate, and some have 
made no reply. 
Put an X in the square before the name of your 
choice and mail it to The Rural New-Yorker. 
WHO IS YOUR CHOICE? 
Without regard to party, who is the man to 
encourage the production of a full supply of food? 
Who will provide for the sale of farm products on 
an open market under the free play of the law of 
supply and demand? This is the problem that con¬ 
cerns the people of New York State, including both 
producers on the farms, and consumers in the city, 
if the city is to have plenty of food, the farms 
must be worked at a profit. If the farmers are to 
have a steady market, prices to consumers must be 
within their ability to pay. The profits of specu¬ 
lation and extravagance and waste of distribution 
must be eliminated. Who is the man with vision 
and ability and courage to do it? If farmers agree 
on the man, they can probably force his nomination. 
If any party refused to recognize this need, what 
right would it have to farm votes? 
For convenience in clipping the ballot is repeated 
in the last column of page 1231. Mark it and send 
in your vote. Do not forget to vote the referendum. 
Another Victory for the Non-Partisan 
League 
l he newspapers say very little about it, but it is 
< lc.tr that the Non-Partisan League has won another 
victory hi North Dakota. In that State the Republi¬ 
Going After a Sugar Supply 
Farmers and consumers in the Hudson Valley have 
organized to make a campaign for better distribu¬ 
tion of sugar. As part of that campaign the follow¬ 
ing letter was sent last week to President Woodrow 
Wilson: 
The housewives of the State of New York are appeal¬ 
ing for sugar to enable them to preserve their usual 
complement of fruits for the season. 
The Allied Fruit Industry of the State has also 
appealed to you for such rationing or divisioning of 
the present supply as the importance of their work 
merits and demands. 
The demands of the ennners have been met in a 
liberal supply and at a reduced price through the 
Federal Government. This is well. This supply of 
sugar to eauners will take care of a large volume of 
commercial fruit. There is a still larger volume, how¬ 
ever, that will go to waste unless the housewives are 
able to secure a prompt and fairly liberal supply of 
sugar for preserving, and at a price to make the 
housewives’ work economically possible. This home 
supply is of greater economy to the people of the 
country than the commercial products. It saves waste, 
conserves labor, and keeps the profit in the hands of the 
producer and consumer. 
We feel that you have an interest in the needs of 
the housewives of the country. May we ask you to 
utilize the functions of your great office to see that the 
housewives have a full supply of sugar for their can¬ 
ning needs for. the season now upon us, and to formulate 
some effective policy to prevent a repetition of the 
present deplorable condition in the sugar supply for 
the future? 
John J. Dillon, 
Mark W. DuBois, 
Mrs. L. R. Welz miller. 
Agriculture in Political Platforms 
On page 1139 we printed the agricultural “plank” 
in the Republican platform. Here follows what the 
Democrats have to say in their efforts to outbid the 
Republicans. We expect to discuss these “planks” 
during the campaign: 
To the great agricultural interests of the country the 
Democratic party does not find it necessary to make 
promises. It already is rich in its record of things 
actually accomplished. For nearly half a century of 
Republican rule not a sentence was written into the 
Federal statutes affording one dollar of bank credits to 
the farming interests of America. In the first term 
of this Democratic Administration the National Bank 
act was so altered as to authorize loans of five years’ 
maturity on improved farm lauds. latter was estab¬ 
lished a system of farm loan banks from which the bor¬ 
rowing already exceeds $300.(XM>.000, and under which 
the interest rate to farmers has beeu so materially 
reduced as to drive out of business the farm-loan sharks 
who formerly subsisted by extortion upon the great 
agricultural interests of the country. 
Thus it was a Democratic Congress in the adminis¬ 
tration of a Democratic President which enabled the 
farmers of America for the first time to obtain credit 
upon reasonable terms and insured their opportunity 
for the future development of the nation’s agricul¬ 
tural resources. Tied np in Supreme Court proceedings, 
in a suit by hostile interests, the Federal Farm Loan 
system, originally opposed by the Republican candi¬ 
date for the Presidency appealed in vain to a Repub¬ 
lican Congress for adequate financial assistance to tide 
over the interim between the beginning and the ending 
of the current year, awaiting a final decision of the 
highest court on the validity of the contested act. We 
pledge prompt and consistent support of sound and 
effective measures to sustain, amplify and perfect the 
rural credits statutes, and thus to check and reduce the 
growth and course of farm tenancy. 
Not only did the Democratic party put into effect 
a great farm loan system of land mortgage banks, but 
it passed the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act, 
carrying to every farmer in every section of the coun¬ 
try, through the medium of trained experts and by 
demonstration farms, the practical knowledge acquired 
by the Federal Agricultural Department in all things 
relating to agriculture, horticulture and animal life; 
it established the Bureau of Markets, the Bureau of 
Farm Management, and passed the Cotton Futures Act, 
the Grain Grades Bill, the Co-operative Farm Adminis¬ 
tration Act and the Federal Warehouse Act. 
The Democratic party has vastly improved the rural 
mail system and has built up the parcel post system 
to such an extent as to render its activities and its 
practical service indispensable to the farming commu¬ 
nity. It was this wise encouragement and this effective 
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I nited States that enabled this great interest to render 
such essential service in feeding the armies of America 
and the allied nations of the war and succoring starving 
populations since armistice day. 
Meanwhile the Republican leaders at Washington 
have failed utterly to propose one single measure to 
make rural life more tolerable. They have signalized 
tiunr lo months of congressional power bv nr<dn°- 
schemes which would strip the farms of labor; by 
assailing the principles of the farm loan system anil 
seeking to impair its efficiency ; by covertly attempting 
to destroy the groat nitrogen plant at Muscle Shoals” 
upon which the Government has expended $70.000 000 
to supply American farmers with fertilizers at reason¬ 
able cost ; by ruthlessly crippling nearly every branch 
ot agricultural endeavor, literally crippling the produc- 
tive mediums through which the people must be fed 
We favor such legislation as will confirm to the pri¬ 
mary producers of the nation the right of collective bar¬ 
gaining and the right of co-operative handling and mar¬ 
keting of the products of the workshops and the farm 
and such legislation as will facilitate the exportation of 
our farm products. 
We favor comprehensive studies of farm production 
costs and the uncensored publication of facts found in 
such studies. 
Inspection of Dairy Cows 
Besides the short weight and test for milk referred 
to in a recent article in The R„ N.-Y.. there is another 
way farmers are pinched. We are obliged to have an 
inspection before we can sell milk. They send a 
veterinarian for the inspection. He goes into the barn 
or field, looks at the cows, gives you a certificate—and 
charges you two dollars. It is a perfunctory compliance 
ivith the regulations, but it amounts to nothing, and 
does no good except to. find jobs for men who produce 
nothing, and consequently are fed and supported at the 
expense of the public generally, and in this case at the 
expense of the dairyman particularly. Give us some 
publicity on this abuse. E . y. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The city board of health requires an annual in¬ 
spection. Formerly it sent its own agents to make 
the inspection, but these city young men know noth¬ 
ing about producing milk, and made themselves 
ridiculous as well as unpopular by their senseless 
and empiric methods. The dealers then assumed 
the work of inspection with the consent of the city 
authorities. The dealers have pointed to this work 
as one of the big items of their expense. Heretofore 
there has not been a fee charged generally for it. 
Neither the city nor the dealers should make the 
inspection. It is the business of farmers to make 
and sell milk, and this implies that the milk should 
be of good quality. It is the farmers’ own business 
and their own privilege to do this. They do it any¬ 
way, but the dealers, because of this formal inspec¬ 
tion, claim all the credit for clean milk. This is 
their main argument for the high prices charged for 
distribution. They tell the consumer that her babies 
would have dirty milk if it were not for their watch¬ 
ful care. We had an understanding once with the 
board of health to leave the inspection to the local 
branches of the League, where it belongs, but the 
plan was later abandoned. The farmer is more 
interested in making a salable product than anyone 
else. He has to do it in any event, and the credit of 
it and the profit for it should he his. 
