The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-10-30
But There's Nothing Dry About }.
A. SChmahPs Writeup of
His Visit There.
Geo. Welsh Carried Good News
from Minnesota and Made
An Impression.

St. Paul, Oct. 25-lt was really so
dry down in Oklahoma that a native
unaccustomed to the great drouth
was caused to remark that there
was not enough water to be found
to make decent chaser for a glass
of whisky" and consequently he was
obliged to take his straight.
1t became the pleasant assignment
of the writer, together with George
Welsh, commissioner of immigra-
ton, and Senator L. O. Cooke of
Wabasha county, to represent the
state board of immigration, at the
National Farmers congress in Okla
homa City during the week prior to
last. Heretofore it has been our
opinion that the congress has great
aggregation of political farmers.
The impression was erroneous. 1t
was composed partly of an aggrega-
ton of political farmers, partly of
an aggregation of politicians who
have seldom gazed upon the pillow
and agricultural districts, partly by
an aggregation of men who were OPP
posed to farmers doing any amount
. of memorializing to the national
Legislative body, and the other and
larger part, of representative farm
ers who were present with the hopes
of accomplishing something, but
whom president Stahl and his gag"
law methods barred from talking or
working except on only such matters
as were on an overly crowded pro-
gram.
We left ST. Paul over the North
Star limited train of the St. Louis
system on the evening prior to the
first day scheduled for the gather
ing. Arriving at Moberly, Missouri.
we were held up for a couple of
hours for the train west to Kansas
City. During our stay in Moberly
we learned that the apple crop was
failure, the mule crop was excel
- lent, and that Bryan shouters were
as numerous and devoted as ever.
Over in the editorial rooms of the
Moberly Democrat, for instance, we
were asked why in thunder Mime
sofa was booming Johnson for pres
--ident. On being informed that the
governor was not mixed up in any of
the fractional strifes of the party in
the nation, that he had in no way in
jured democracy, and that he was
the peer of any man as mixer and
as democrat, he was the peer of
any one as a speaker, even to the ex-
tent of excelling Van SAINT as jol-
lier, the editorial force grew warm
in the collar Denial and argument
flashed forth in true Missouri style,
and before our trio quit the editor,
we were given to understand that
Missouri was willing to. get rid of
Folk; that Minnesota was evidently
trying to hook out Johnson, but by
fall that's holy in the political world,
Missouri was for Bryan, would be for
Bryan. even after that distinguished
- gentleman had passed into the other
world. On further inquiry we
learned that this was so; and we
were not obliged to insist that every
person in that state should carry out
the maxim of showing me"
= Five hours later found us in Kan
sas city-city of dirt and of cleanli.
ness: dirt in the lowland portion back
of the union depot; cleanliness to the
last degree on the hills. where the
proudest and richest portion of the
town stands like Rome in the days Of
the Caesars. My. what a jam, in
he old trap that they call the unior
lepot, and from which nearly two
hundred trains daily arrive and de
part for north, south, east and west
Here humanity is packed to the ut.