Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-24
A Farmers Candidate.

"A FARMERS C3nOlOalC
The organs of the democratic party are
taking special pains to recommend their
candidate for Governor because he is a
farmer the genuine article" they say.
We are pleased to have them take this
course, because we ourselves favor a
farmer candidate for Governor. one who
is much better known among the farmers
of the State than Col. Edwards, who is
as much in love with the business as he,
has as many acres we'll titled and taken
care of, as fine herds of cattle as can be
found upon any farm in the State. with
barns that are spacious and models of
convenience and neatness, all under his
personal supervision, and the results
brought about by his active hands and
brain.
We refer, of course, to Hon. j. r.
Bodwell, of Hallowell, the republican
candidate for Governor, man that all
farmers who know him delight to honor,
not simply because he is an enterprising,
intelligent, successful farmer, but because
he is large-hearted, generous. honorable
man. with ample ability to conduct the
largest business affairs successfully and
fill with honor the first Office in the State.
II the friends of Col. Edwards desire
to make comparisons between him and
Mr.. Bodwell as farmers, they are invited
to begin at once and continue as long as
they please. They may begin with acres
of land if they wish, following with build
ings, crops, cattle. sheep, manner OF cul-
ture, economy, knowledge OF the BUSH
ness. taking up all that relates TO practi-
cal farming, and make the comparison
Just as broad and thorough as they de-
sire They will find Mr.. Bodwel's friends
ready to meet them on these grounds, and
able to show, if superiority in these mat
ters have any weight in the eyes of farm
ers as to whom they shall support for
Governor. that Mr.. Bodwell is by large
odds to be preferred to Col. Edwards.
THE farmers should vote for him." says
the Argus, because he is one of them"
But he is no more lone of them" than Mr..
Bodwell, and Mr.. Bodwell is in other
respects far better qualified for Governor
than Mr. Edwards. also better, more
enterprising and more successful farmer
The laboring men should vote for him
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says the Argus of Col. Edwards. Mr..
Bodweil was obliged while a mere boy to
work hard tor the bread be ate. He
knows by his own experience what power
tv and hard work are. what it is for boy
to be cast upon the world to earn his own
livelihood by his own industry and endure
hardshps and privation. Farmer, shoe
maker, blacksmith, aud stone cutter. who
will say that after experience in working
Mr.. Bodwell does not know what it is to
labor?'
With nothing but his hands and active
brain to help him Mr.. Bodwell rose
from poverty to what he now is. His
prosperity is founded on the work which
he did in his early years. And now that
he employs large numbers of men, he re-
members that he once labored as they do,
and is generous, sympathetic, kind, in all
his dealings with them. Thousands of
men have been in his employment and
offices, shops, quarries, wherever men are
working for him, all speak in high terms
of Mr.. BodwelI. Ii laboring men desire
a candidate who knows what it is to labor
with his own hands. to toll on the farm,
to make shoes and quarry and hew gran
lite. the man for them to support is Mr..
Bodwell.