The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-28
AsPlRANTS FOR RESIDENTIAL
HoNoRs AS SONS OF TOLL.
A HAY TOSSER
Uncle Joe Cannon However Has the
Whole Bunch Beat-Taft &c Split
kindiing-Fairbanks Life
Saver.


~ Dp'Nllls
Washington. u. G., July 27.--lr
these sultry days Of summer prior 20
the real campaign for a presidential
nomination 1t seems incumbent upon
an asprant to the nomination tuI
prove that he-tosscs hay for living
that he is heroic life-saycr that he
was born in log cabin, that 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 bmcombe-the mere
est political tommy.rot-but some OF
them are interesting and all of them
go"
President Roosevelts recent OK
ploits i'm the hay field at Sycamore
Hil. I'm the course OF which he pitch
ed hay in torried atmosphere, have
around the friends of some o fthe
men who would succeed him in the
White House. The president did
pitch hay He does that every sum
mcr. not as a "grandstand play but
to reduce his weight, precisely as he
takes any other sort of exercise Ana
he keeps the men to whom he Is
pitching the hay mighty busy.
Commenting on the presidents
ability as hay tosser, an admirer
I of Uncle Joe" Cannon AYERS that the
speaker is the only simon-pure, dyed
in.the.wool. Observation-Disclosures hay
pitcher in national politics today. N
this connection. he recalled an IN
cideut that occurred two or three
summers ago. Uncle joe had leas'
ed his farm to man named Rankin
His tenant had about two hundred
acres of the finest timothy hay any
body ever saw 1t required good
deal of an effort to get in such Il
crop and Uncle Joe went out to the
farm to help. He was given the Job
of driving 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 assisting the leaders OF the
wagons and worked alongside CT
them for several days.
Uncle joe made good. too and
was as spry and clipper at nightiaii
as were the younger men. People in
Vermillion county would stop at Old
man Rankins place to see real
live congressman pitching hay as II
he enjoyed It and now they join IN
the acclaim 'llt, II hay tossing or
any other sort of farm labor lS a l.f'-
requisite 20 presidential nomina-
tion. Uncle Joe" has the rest OF the
bunch of caudidates-not excepting
the president himself-beaten by
turn around the fair ground track.
In iyew Of the stories about the
president and speaker Cannon in the
hay fields. II Is understood that Sec
retary Taft, during his sojourn at
Murray Bay, is arranging to split
next winters crop OF kindling'wood
for his land lord; that Vice President
Fairbanks will rush into the breakers
aud save a few more lives-this time
i'm the presence OF a camera so, there
may he no dispute about the feat
that Senator Knox will prove his
title as really and truly farmer
by peddling milk In the Valley Forge
section OF Pennsylvania; and that
Senator La Toilette will contribute
his earnings on the lecture platform
this summer to the support OF the Ma
tional Grange.
1t is expected that these enter
pli,'- will offset the hayiNitns issue
raised by the explo,;s of President