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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-10
JNo. X. ATHENS, sec'ty.
NnTIrE

All hunting and treSspassing on
Greenwood and Oak Forest planta
tion and RousSel tract, positively
prohibited.
T. H. CASEY, Agt.
h,nIA-Iu
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OREGON.

The Elgin Dairy Report suggests
ex-Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin, for the
next Secretary of Agriculture. The
suggestion is a good one. Mr. Hoard
isNin close sympathy with the farmers
and is also a man of executive ability
and experience. AS editor and pub
Usher of Hoard's Dairyman, he is well
known to a multitude of American
farmers, and there are very few dairy
men in the country who would not be
pleased TO see him at the head of the
Department OF Agriculture.-The Ru-
raj Northwest, Portland, Oregon.
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Mo Rll.ht of PetltIon.

EDITOR TRIBUNE;-Some weeks since we
re I'd in your columns an account Of the visit
to Canton, o., of the Hon. Phietus Sawyer
Hon. Isaac Stephenson and Governor SEQ
field, which visit Il was alleged was made for
the purpose of prevailing upon President Nc
Kinley to appoint in his cabinet a partizan
politician. The three men represented the
concentrated wealth Of Wisconsin. They
represented the lumber, railroad and bank
ing interests of this state. To this we have
never heard of an objection being raised. 1t
was considered legitimate partizan politics.
They undoubtedly urged, as Republican
politicians, the appointment of Mr.. Payne to
the cabinet because of his ability as par
tizan.
II has been charged, and never disputed,
that Mr.. Payne, while chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee, used
whatever influence that position gave him,
in the interest of certain great corporations
land for payl, aud gainst the interests Of
the every day business man, the laborer and
the farmer.
I,uring the month Of October LIST the con-
slant inquiry of concentrated wealth was:
'IIow will the farmers vote? VIII they
save us and the country from ruin?" Now
the farmers ask that not their enemy, but a
friend of their vocation be placed in the
cabinet of the president they voted for, and
because of this request made in conventions
where there is no partizan politics, they are
severely criticised by certain partizan poll
ticians There may be politics in the petit
ton of the farmers of Wisconsin for the APP
pointment of Ex-Governor Hoard to be sec
Rotary of agriculture, but il is not partizan
politics. 1t is persona politics and is not
81 q.
ocean endorsements are finding their way to
Mr.. Mckinley, favoring this appointment.
The farmers of the solid South, from
which Mckinley is the first Republican presi-
dent to receive an electoral vote, are asking
for Hoard. For thirty-hve years we have
been trying to win back the friendship Of
the South through the postmaster general.
Now that the farmers of the South are ask
ing for friendship, isn't it best for the coun-
Try to give them the chance they ask of us
TO meet them on the level in the Department
of Agriculture?
0Thc farmers of Wisconsin were not de
tered from their duty in 1901. Their sons
were patriots in 1896. And if in 1897 they
refrain from resolutions and petitions at the
behest of some self-styled partizan political
leaders, then will the teachings of Prof.
Henry, the lamented Rusk and Superintend-
ent McKerrow have been in vain.
The farmers of Wisconsin represent mare
diversified 7oealth Than The sum fafaI of con-
eeHtyafed 7geaLM of ME corporations 0f tie
state. They cannot go to Canton, but they
can resolve and petition, and partizan poll
ticians cannot prevent or take away from
them this PERSONAL Political right.-ONLY a
FARMER, The Tribune, Mineral Point, Wis,
Jan. FL, 1897.
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william Dempster Hoard.

Ex-Gov. Hoard is receiving merited
support from different states for Sec
rotary of Agriculture under the incom-
ing administration. This support,
whatever there may be of it, is without
doubt spontaneous.
The hold Mr.. Hoard has on the
people is one born OF respect and con-
fidence. In one sense Mr.. Hoard is
not politician, but in another sense
he is an ideal politician. Plain and
unassuming in manner, there is within
him an unflinching adherence to prin-
ciple that marks him as one of that
class of men whom neither interest
nor ambition will swerve from the path
Of duty.
Mr.. Hoard has been benefactor to
the farmers of Wisconsin in more
senses and ways than can ever be told.
An old and wealthy farmer of South
ern Wisconsin said that Gov. Hoard
had caused more advancement among
the farmers of the state, Intellectually
and financially, than would amount to
millions of dollars, and said that under
his own observation he had seen farm
ers become well -to-do, yes, become
rich, under the practical methods OF Mr..
Hoard. One needs only TO notice the
sections which practice the new way
of farming to see the difference between
thrift and lack of thrift. Fine homes,
the comforts of life, the better educa-
ton Of the young in those communities
arc in glowing contrast to the con-
ditions formerly existing in these self
same neighborhoods. Mr.. Hoard has
shown himself to be a money maker, a
maker of money by the millions; with
a genius on a par with Rockefeller,
Armour, aud that class, he has opened
up lines of enterprise that has made
wealth untold. but with this difference:
the creation of wealth by the so-called
magnates centered in the treasures of
the promoters, while that of Hoard S
creation was benehcently scattered
over not only the state, but the nation
as well.
That man with a genius for max
ing his fellowmen prosperous, happy
and progressive, by his Efforts as a
private citizen could be OF immense
service to the nation as head of the
Agricultural Department of the nation,
there can be no doubt.
With Hoard at the head of agricul-
tliral affairs there would be inaugurated
al administration that would go far to
successfully solve many of the difficult
ties which now beset the soil tillers.
The Agricultural Department shonld
not be mere party machine to dis
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Need Look No Farther.

Samuel w. Allerton has announced
that he is not candidate for the office
of secretary of agriculture. Mean
while the horticultural societies, the
agricultural meetings and the dairy.
mems associations of the country are
endorsing the candidacy of exGov.
w. ID. Hoard, of Wisconsin, for the
secretaryship, and were he to be
chosen by popular vote. it is certain
that he would be elected by an over
whelming vote of the agricultural in
terests. President-elect Mckinley
need look no farther for that important
member of his cabinet if he desires to
appoint man VINO has the universal
appreciation and respect of his fellow
farmers. AS for his ability, the mag
nihcent administration of Gov. Hoard
of the affairs of the great state of Wis
consin is ample evidence.
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His Agricultural Endorsen. 1. !

To the Editor of the Sentinel. Rep.
resenting an agricultural constituency,
am very much interested in the
appointment of the proper man in the
Office of Secretary of Agriculture in
McKinley's Cabinet. Together with
many others who have a keen interest
in the welfare of the agricultural inter-
ests of the country. | have under
taken to point out to the people of the
West, as well as other portions of the
country, the desirability of filling that
position with man who can command
the confidence of the agricultural
element of the country, and do the
most good in the position. For that
reason all the dairy press outside of
Hoard's Dairyman, have urged the
candidacy of Ex-Gov. w. ID. Hoard of
Wisconsin, for the office.
Never before did | ever see so many
people take such an active part as is
being taken by Mr.. Hoard's friends in
this contest. To date no less than
fifty agricultural organizations, and
exchanges composed of members hand
ling agricultural products, have given
Mr.. Hoard their unqualified endorse
ment, and to give you an idea OF the
enthusiasm of the dairy farmers in the
matter, it may be said that in every
convention where Mr.. Hoard's name
has been mentioned in connection with
this Office, it has brought forth ap-
plause. In New York state, thirteen
different resolutions of endorsement
we're offered for Hoard, and an attempt
in Minnesota of politicians to defeat
the Hoard resolution in favor of a
state candidate for a cabinet office,
was SO effectually sat down upon that
the opposition did not receive a single
vote, not even the speaker caring to go
against such unanimous sentiment
c. Y. KNIGHT, in Milwaukee Sentinel.
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TENNESSEE.
The south's Interests

IN McKINLEY's CABINET CENTERS UPON
ONE OFFICE. THAT'S THE OFFICE OF
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, AND
EX-GOVERNOR HOARD OF WIS
coNsIN SHOULD HAVE 1T.
To the Editor OF the Scimitar, Mem
phis, Tennessee.
In the opinion of the writer, the
most important member of the Presi-
dents Cabinet, so far as the real inter
ests of the south are concerned, is the
Secretary of Agriculture. This cabinet
office was created only few years ago,
and the possibilities of the position
have not been fully developed. The
south has been favored by nature far
beyond any other section of the coun-
try, and we should occupy a much bet
ter financial position than we do. We
have gone along waiting for something
to turn up, laundering over imaginary
distinctions, and doing little to inn
prove our opportunities and natural ad
vantages, while the cold west has been
developed into a great country, and is
the best advertised section of the
United States.
1t is certain that our people will not
give the time and attention necessary
for improving the south. | propose
that we do what we can in that direc-
ton by presenting for President Nc
Kinley's consideration man fol- Sec
rotary of Agriculture who will aid us in
developing our advantages.
Ex-Gov. w. ID. Hoard, of Wiscon-
sim, has devoted himself to the agri-
cultural development of that state with
great success. He is a man of remark
able ability and inexhaustible resourc-
es. He is well known in the south,
particularly in Mississippi and Louis
lana, as a most earnest and successful
man. He is very friendly with the
south and could and zO0Hid do more for
he south than any 0kkey man 70h0m the
6yeadeHI caH APPOINT. We have suf-
fered in the south by reason of dis
elimination in favor of the west. We
have been unable to do much ourselves
and we need friend at headquarters
to push our interests and develop our
possibilities.
Gov. Hoard will do this if any man
can, and feel safe in saying that the
farmers of the south, irrespective of
party, would be glad to see the port
folio in his hands
believe that Mr.. Mckinley will be
Influenced in the selection of his cabi-
net by wise counsels. He will select
men who possess the proper qualifca-
tions for the work that will devolve up
on them. There is no man in the
country better fitted for the Office of
Secretary of Agriculture than Gov.
Hoard. If the southern states would
express their preference it would have
potent influence, because the position
is not strictly one of party or OF poll
tics.-James Dinkins. Jackson, Tenn.
January 1, 1897.
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W. ID. Hoard for Secretary of Agriculture.
We are extremely pleased to notice
the universal endorsement of Ex-Gov-
ernor Hoard for Secretary OF Agricul-
ture.
Surely if there is a position where
the right man may be extremely useful,
it is this. The present secretary has
done wisely in economizing in many
ways, but in lis anxiety to save he has
lost ttl. chance of his life to be remem-
bered as a benefactoT by the dairymen.
/ see a sneering smile on the lips of
politicians and the dairymeni-they
don't amount to much! And yet this
industry produces an annual value to
the u. S. of between 500 and 600 mil
lions of dollars.
If Secretary Morton last winter,
when butter was low, had ordered care
Jul, practical expe riments made in the
manufacture and exporting of butter,
and then published a report on how to
go about it, We should have seen the
export business in a sound and regular
channel instead of its present uncertain
and unsatisfactory state.
That Ex-Governor Hoard, who has
done so much for the most important
of all agricultural misunderstanding
lis the right man, no one who knows
him will deny. If the President-elect
decides on him, he may be sure of APP
plause, not only from his own party
but from farmers of all parties.
Politicians may kick, but the choice
of Hoard will gain for Major Mckinley
more friends than he dreams of.
Every reader of the AMERICAN
CREAMERY AND New YORK BUTTER
TRADE who has the least influence,
ought to bring it to bear at once in
favor of Hoard.
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Farmers Institute for Hoard.

Chippewa Falls, Wis. Dec. r.
The Farmers Institute and Cooking
School held here the past two days
was attended by several hundred peo-
pie. A resolution was unanimously
adopted asking President elect Nc
Kinley to select ex-Gov. Hoard as his
Secretary of Agriculture, as follows:
Resolved, That the farmers attend
ing this institute, held in the city of
Chippewa Falls, this 18th day of De.
cember, are heartily in favor of w. ID.
Hoard for Secretary of Agriculture and
that the secretary forward a copy of
this resolution to President-elect Nc
Kinley.
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OHIO.
DaYtnn. Ohin.

Ex-Gov Hoard, of Wisconsin, it
is reported, will be strongly presented
for the head of the agricultural de-
partment in President MoKinley's
cabinet. 1t is needless to say that, if
selected, he would make a creditable
of the agricultural in
terest. and he would be equally cred
liable to the administration. Gov.
Hoard is a strong man, an honest
man in the highest sense of the word,
and, what is perhaps nearly as i'm
portant, he is a genial, pleasant gen.
tleman, a man of tact, and at the same
time self-reliant ami independent. -
Farmers Home.
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Hoard for secretary Of Agriculture.

Half the struggle of life is struggle
for food. Ten millions of the inhabit.
ants of these United States are direct
ly dependent upon agriculture for a
livelihood. Wisconsin farmers pay
one-seventh of the taxation of the
state. The third congressional dis
trict is, to all intents and purposes,
purely agricultural. Sixty per cent of
every manual workers income is spent
to maintain life in himself and family.
Food preparation, rent, clothing and
all other expenses must be provided
from the remaining forty per cent.
The sufficiency, availability and purity
of food, and as the source Of all this
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a second District Deal.
DANE AM, COLUMBIAN COUNTY TO HAVE
THE DELEGATES.

MADISON, Wis, Feb IS, IS96.-The two
delegates from the Second Congressional
District to the National Republican COnven-
ton at ST. Louis win be from Dane and Col
umbia counties. This much has been about
definitely settled. The Dane county honor
will fall to ex- Congressman r. NJ. La Toilette
and the Columbia to either District attorney
William Coles, A. ]. Turner, OF Cris. Moor
La Toilette who is sick in Florida, has
placed himself in the hands Of his friends,
who are asserting positively that he will be
elected and all outward signs indicate that
this is fact. A combination has been made
with jefferson and Columbia counties by La
Toilette r. = in this county. Hoard is to be
a delegate at-large. Dan is to have the
naming Of one Of the Dir let delegates and
Columbia the other.
The La Toilette faction smiled broadly
when it leaked ont that the bosses had prom
ised Morton to send an instructed delegation
TO St. Louis. They did more than smile.
however, for they set quietly to work to NJ
crease and crystalize the the political senti-
ment for Mckinley. The result Of their
work and its succ IS speak for themselves.
They are also credited with setting the ball
rolling for the non-office holding delegates.
They have been doing an immense amount
Of work on the quiet and it IS vioiating no
confidence to say that its fruition will not be
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Milwaukee Club and Fife are no
longer quoted in the markets of the
world; hereafter wheat will be garner
ed from the prairies of Minnesota and
Dakota.
Stock raising, with dairying accom-
paniment, is the right arm of agricul-
ture: when the cattle of Wisconsin
equal in number its people, then shall
we have approached the millennium of
farming.-W. d. Hoard at Farmers
Convention at Madison in 1872.
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Kilborn City Mirror Gazette;-
"While some of the politicians of Wis
consin are urging Henry c. Payne for
a cabinet position, the farmers of all
sections of the Union are requesting
the appointment of w. ID. Hoard as
Secretary of Agriculture. Before the
election those same politicians were
telling the farmers that they (the farm
ers) were the salt Of the earth; that
their vote made presidents, that their
loyalty to the party would save the
country. Now their request for the
only position in public Office that rep
resents their interests is indifferently
ignored.
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Wisconsin Endorsements.


tribute seeds at the behests Of con
gressmen to curry favor with the
people; nor should the sole benefit TO
the country be due to haphazard luck
of once in a long while getting some
good variety of crops, but it should be
conducted on the most practical lines,
and we believe no agriculturist in the
nation more capable or bette Z, 4i1ped
to do this than plain, honest WI lam
Dempster Hoard. South Sup rior
(Wis.) Sun.
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Report of Secretary of Convention at
MarShaltOWu.

There are no politics SO called in this
Association. Yet in view of the fact
that change of administration is about
to take place at Washington, and with
the appointment of a new Secretary OF
Agriculture, it is suggested that Gov.
w. ID. Hoard, of Wisconsin, be en-
dorsed by this Association as the most
promising candidate from the west for
The position. It is speaking within
bounds to say that Gov. Hoard has
done more than any other man to pro-
mote the dairy interest in the west,
and that in him this great interest
would have a friend whose influence
would bring honor and credit to it
American Creamery and New York
Butter Trade.
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the dairy industry in this country than
he.
The resolutions were unanimously
carried and the meeting adjourned.
From New York.

Ex-Gov. Hoard has been so long
identified with the dairy interest of
our country that he is known in almost
every section where butter and cheese
are produced, east and west. His APP
pointment would insure absolute con-
idence and give to those interested in
the dairy business the truest friend
that ever held So important position
III the government.
We hope that every State Dairy
mems Association, Board of Trade, or
organization of every kind that has for
its object the better and fuller develop
ment of the dairy industry, will use all
the power they have in pressing this
matter to the attention of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. The time to act is now.
New Yori produce Review.
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The great performance of the agri-
cultural interest in the west would
naturally favor the selection of west
ern man for this important post.
Among the candidates which Mr.. Nc
Kinley will have to choose from none
can be found who is more widely or
more favorably known to the agricul-
tural community than Ex-Governor
Hoard. He is a gentleman who has
devoted much of his life to agricultural
pursuits and to the contemplation of
agriculture from a broad and lofty
standpoint; and his experience in gov
ernmental affairs would seem to COM
plete his fitness for the agricultural
portfolio.
We second the nomination.-New
York Produce Review.
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Elkhorn (Wis.) Independent, Rep. +:
The Kansas State Dairymen's Associa-
ton passed resolutions favoring ex- Gov.
Hoard of this state for the position of
Secretary of Agriculture in President
McKinleys cabinet. Mr.. Hoard has
doneDmuch for dairying, much for ag-
riculture. He is a good man for any
portfolio, but especially adapted for
that of agriculture.
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The farmers of Wisconsin have
found to their serious cost that it is
not in their interest to have the Demo-
Gratis i'll power. This is particularly
true of farmers who keep cows for
cheese and butter making Under
Democratic rule in this state, filed
cheese factories flooded the state;
bogus butter had free sailing. Now
there are no filled cheese factories,
and bogus butter is driven into a snug
corner, all because of Republican leg
islation and Republican execution of
laws. No one man deserves more for
these laws than ex-Gov. w. d. Hoard.
The butter and cheese interests have
never had truer or more active friend
than that gentleman, and there is no
better citizen than Mr.. Hoard. She
boygander, (Sheboygan, Wis
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PENNSYLVANIA.
Hoard for Pennsylvania

One of the cabinet estates" assigns
Hon. w. ID. Hoard to the position of
Secretary of Agriculture in the forth
coming cabinet We do not know of
anyone who is better able to fill the po-
sition as it should be filled than Gov.
Hoard. Such an appointment might
not be acceptable to the politicians,
but we sincerely hope it will be made.
Farmer and Stockman, Pittsburg, Pa.
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Wisconsin and the Cabinet.

The GAINESVILLE Gazette is in favor
of giving ex-Gov. Hoard place in the
cabinet. II says: 1.-The Ex-Governor
has brains, something which some
cabinet officers have lacked. He is
one of the people and has more friends
now than he had when he was govern
or of Wisconsin,