Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-27
MUST BE UP TO DATE.
Presidential Candidate Should Be 6
 Hero and a Worker.

Washington, D. C., July 27.-In these sultry days of summer, prior to the real campaign for president upon an aspirant to the nomination to prove that he losses hay for liv- ing, that he Is heroic life-saver. that he was born in log cabin, thet he drove mules attached to a canal boat, or that he otherwise was connected, at some period of his life, with the horny-handed sons of toll. Of course, these yarns are buncombe-the mer- est political tommy-rot-but some Of them are interesting and all of them Ego"
 President Roosevelt's recent ex- ploits In the hay field at Sagamore Hill, in the course of which he pitched hay in a torrid atmosphere, have aroused the friends of some of the men who would succeed him q the White House. The president did pitch hay. He does that every sum mer. not as 'grandstand play" but to reduce his weight. precisely as he takes any other sort of exercise. And AG ACtUS NHN AlGh AO hHbll ne Eo pitching the hay mighty busy.
 Commenting on the presidents ability as a hay tosser. an adnirer of Uncle Joe" Cannon ayers that the speaker is the only simon-pura, dyed- in-the-wool, blown-in-the-bottle hay pitcher in national politics to-day. In this connection he recalled m incl dent that occurred two or three sum mers ago. Uncle Joe" had leased his farm to a man named Rankin. His tenant had about two hundred acres of the finest timothy hay any body ever saw. It required a good deal of effort to .get in" such a crop and Uncle Joe" went out to the farm to help. He was given the job of driving a mower, but after two or three days he complained that the work he was doing was too easy and persuaded one of the men in the field to swap places with him. He went to work assistingthe loaders of the wagons and worked alongside of them for several days.
 Uncle Joe" made good. too. and was as spry and chipper at nightfallI as were the younger men. People in Vermilllon county would stop at old man Rankin's place to see a real. live congressman pitching hay as If he en- joyed it and now they join in the ac- claim that, If hay tossing or any oth- CT sort of farm labor Is a prerequisite to a presidential nomination, Uncle Joe" has the rest of the bunch ofI candidates-not excepting the presi- dent. hlmseIf-beaten by a turn around the fair ground track.
 In view of the stories about the president and Speaker Cannon in the hay fields. 1t is understood that Sec retary Taft. during his soiourn at Murray Ray. is arranging to split next winters crop of kindling wood for his landlord: that viee-President Fairbanks will rush Into the break ers and save a few more livesNthis time In the presence Of a camera. 60 there may be no dispute about the feat; that Senator Knox will prove his title as a really and truly" farmer bY peddIing milk In the Val Icy Forge section of Pennsylvania. and that Senator La Toilette will contribute his earnings on the lecture platform this summer to the support cf the National Grange
 1t is expected that these enterprises wilI offset the kay-lofting issue raEs- ed by the exploits Of President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon aud rfvs aIl the candidates sa even start kks Excs fer ths presidency,