Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Methods by Which the Republican
state Administration Is Being Mis-
represented.
Philadelphia, June 19.-The action o
Governor Stone in selecting a practi
cal farmer and dairyman as the heat
Of the dairy and food commission hal
met with general expressions of ap
proyal. 1t has been looked up as s
master stroke and it undoubtedly
spikes the guns of the insurgent po
litical batteries that has been trained
upon his administration since his elcc
ton. Major Wells, whom the COVER
nor retained, upon the urgent recon.
mendation of some of the best known
farmers and many old soldiers, hav
ing resigned, it devolved upon the gov.
ernor to appoint a successor VINO
would carry out the policy OF the ad'
ministration.
Jesse X. Cope, a prominent member
of the Society of Friends and a prac.
tical farmer and dairyman of Chester
county, has been appointed as Major
Wells successor.
STONE ON RECORD.
In a letter forwarding him his ap.
pointment, Governor Stone wrote:
l have today appointed you dairy
and food commissioner, to fill va
cancy caused by the resignation OF
Levi Wells.
In making this appointment
have been Influenced by my belief
in your honesty and capacity, and
your experience as a farmer and
producer of dairy products. My
only desire is that you will fully
and fearlessly enforce the laws,
which it becomes your duty to ex-
ecute, without prejudice and with
out favor to any one.
MUST ENFORCELAW FEARLESSLY
The act of assembly approved
May 5, 1899, regulating the manu-
facture and sale of oleomargarine,
butterine and other similar pro-
ducts, charges you with the en-
forcement of it's provisions, and
while your task will be difficult
owing to the fact that the sale OF
Oleomargarine has been quite ex-
tensive in our state, and the color
clause practically prohibits its
sale, it is not the officers charged
with its enforcement to question
it's merits. but to honestly fear
lessly and faithfully enforce its
provisions.
Great difficulty has been expert
enced heretofore, owing to the fact
that the courts had not adjudicated
the law and violators, when prose-
cuted, would take appeals, but now
that the superior court has decid-
cd the law to be constitutional, we
have right to expect less diff
Guilty
| have no specific instructions 10
give, except to vigorously enforce
the law that it becomes your duty
to maintain and to assure you that
at any and all times you will have
in this attempt my hearty and
prompt cooperation and support.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM A. STONE.
Mr.. Cope is an influential representa-
tive of the dairy and butter interests
of the state, and since his name has
been mentioned in connection with the
place those who criticized the conduct
of the department at the hearing be-
fore the governor have expressed their
with his selection Mr..
Cope is a progressive, intelligent farm
er, whose honesty has never been
questioned. and who will discharge the
duties of the Office with zeal and
fidelity. He has never been active in
politics, but he attended the conven-
tion which nominated Governor Stone
and voted for his old schoolmate. He
is about middle age and is regarded as
a strong man in every way He lives
near West Chester.
A CONTEMPTIBLE ACT.
The West Chester Village Record, in
commenting upon recent misrepresen-
tations of Governor Stone. under the
caption AN Infamous Charge Com
pletely Refuted," had this to say in
it's last issue:
AT the annual meeting of the
Guernsey Breeders association, at the
home of Benjamin Sharpless in Bir-
mingham township. last Friday,
Thomas Sharpless. one of the dairy
men who recently called upon Cover
nor Stone to demand the decapitation
of Secretary of Agriculture Hamilton,
made serious charge against the gov
ernor, if his speech. as published in
the Daily Local News, was correctly
reported. Mr.. Sharpless was quoted
as saying that
Again last Monday, in Harrisburg,
Governor Stone renewed those broken
promises. but explained that some
had to be dropped, be-
cause some politician demanded that
they should be, to save some one Of his
friends. Imagine burglar, or horse
thief, or defaulter shielded from JUS
tice on such plea.
'At the interview between Governor
Stone and the dairymen the former
made no utterances that could pos
sibly be construed into the statement
made to the Guernsey Breeders by Mr.
Sharpless. Every word uttered by the
governor and his visitors was taken
down by stenographer, and to show
that Mr.. Sharpless outrageously mis-
represented Governor Stone we here
with reproduce from the stenographic
reports the exact language used by
the latter in addressing the representa-
tives Of the dairy and agricultural in
terests. Governor Stone said:
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