The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-04

manufacturers became so scared that they
SO reduced the color in their product for
the Columbus market that 1t was with
great difficulty that your inspector could
detect colored samples, and had this course
continued oleo would have been driven out
of the Columbus market
You know at this junction your president,
Il. f. Webster, and his business partner,
o. z. Chapman, for reasons beyond the
power of human mind to comprehend took
the matter into their own hands, told your
inspector to stop, and he stopped. You
know that your committee then asked Mr..
Blackburn to appoint another inspector,
and he obeyed. You know that the new
appointee worked for more than two
months under the directions of Mr.. Web
ster and Mr.. Chapman, and in that time
he did not get a case, and the Columbus
market again flooded with oleo as yell
low as gold. You know that Mr.. Web
ster's article in the Ohio Farmer of Oct
20, and your manifesto issued about the
same date, wherein it is stated that Mr..
Blackburn blocked the oleo prosecutions
and so handicapped your inspectors that
their work was of no avail are misrep-
reservations of facts. You know that Mr..
Webster, who is head, body and legs of
the Ohio Dairy union, is a large manufac-
turer of part skim cheese, and that he and
others by this practice have reduced the
price of all Ohio cheese In the markets one
half to cents per pound, and cheesemakers
by this practice in this and other states
have reduced the nations export trade, in
10 years preceding 1896, over 300 per cent,
while Canada, with strict laws prohibiting
the skinner, has increased her export
trade nearly 400 per cent. The above facts
are a few nuts for you to crack If you can,
and for the Ohio farmers to consider.
Mr. Rl1cE hos pt tad ho
Dairy union everything asked. He did not
stop the oleo prosecutions; the president
of the Dairy union did, about May 10,
nearly three months before the force was
reduced by Mr. Blackburn.
The oleo laws in Ohio can be enforced,
and Mr.. Blackburn is our only salvation
at this time. Mr.. Baker, the Democratic
nominee for dairy and food commissioner
is lawyer and a thorough politician, as
shown by his methods In getting the NOM
ination at Dayton, while Mr.. Cowden, a
farmer, who is capable and whose charac-
ter is beyond reproach, went to the Demo
cratic convention indorsed by the best
farmers of the state, yet he did not get
ghost Of a show among the politicians.
Mr. S. H. Ellis, wonderfully good man
and a farmer, is on the Union ticket but
it is utterly impossible to elect any one
on that ticket.
The writer for the past 20 years has de-
voted his best energies to the improvement
of dairy stock and their product He has
nothing but scorn and contempt for those
who in any way market their products in
any other form than in its purity and best
quality.
This is a critical period in the enforce
ment of the law against adulterated dairy
products and l ask farmers and dairymen
to give the best thoughts herein offered a
passing notice, at least.
L. P. BAILEY.
Attorney Dillon's Statement.
Statement of E. P. Dillon, the lawyer
selected by the Dairy union:
To aid and assist the Dairy union Mr.
Blackburn informed them that he would
give them an attorney of their own selec-
tion, an inspector of their own selection
and likewise a chemist. Thereupon about
the middle of February the Ohio Dairy
union designated and selected me to act
as the attorney in such prosecutions, Sc
| lected Mr.. L. p. Bailey as inspector and
Professor H. A. Weber of the Ohio State
university as chemist. For myself, / was
a perfect stranger to Mr.. Blackburn; he
had never heard of me in his life. Never
theless we were all appointed and paid by
Mr.. Blackburn and entered upon the work.
Mr.. Blackburn gave us full sway to do as
we deemed best and as was considered best
by the Dairy union. I do not recall that
request ITOu lie OI any KIM Wn4CSO-
ever was ever refused by Mr.. Blackburn
l do know that upon entering my work
was very much prejudiced against Mr..
Blackburn, honestly supposing he had de-
served some of the attacks made upon
| him, and I believe so expressed myself.
may say right here that my experience has
| thoroughly and absolutely convinced me
| that the present dairy and food commits
sioner, Mr.. Blackburn, has done more work
| in the labor of suppressing the growth Of
| oleomargarine in the state Of Ohio thar
| any person in this state.
| Mr.. Blackburn permitted the union tt
| select new inspector later on in the year
Mr.. A. P. Reynolds of Cleveland, likewise
| a perfect stranger to him, and he Is still
serving as inspector under the department
| 1 can state, 1 believe, with absolute Ger
| tainty, that every dairyman and every
person interested in dairy products who
| votes against Mr.. Blackburn at the coming
| election, will have by his side CASTING
| THE SAME BALLOT, those very offenders
| against the law whom we are SO vigorously
prosecuting, end who, as the result, an
| now working against Mr.. Blackburn.
| / make this statement, not out Of any
| feeling toward the members of the Ohit
| Dairy union, for whom I have the creates
respect and to whom / owe my appoint
ment, but feel that it is due the dairy ant
| food commissioner. whom I may hav,
| wronged in my earlier career by not givin,
| him the fullest confidence and trust as t,
| the sincerity of his work. Respectfully,
| E. B. DILLON.
1 will be glad to furnish any furthel
information to any one interested il
this subject. Respectfully submitted,
| J. E. BLACKBURN.