Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-24
PURE FOOD LAW.

I t.
 Responsible for Many Clashes Be
 tween Producers and the Law.
 Washington. D. c. April 24-As tn
 outcome of the severe and rather Ill
 temperate attack made upon Prcsi
 dent Roosevelt and -hepresenta tive Wadsworth, the hand of the ad
 ministration in New York politica
 affairs is plainly shown. Mir Wads
 worth was chairman of the house
 committee on agriculture and fol twenty years represented me Geneses
 valley district of New York. When
 the question of the examination and
 labelling of meat products was under
 discussion, Mir Wadsworth became in
 volved in a dispute with the presi
 dent which resulted i'll the exchange
 of several sharp letters. Previously when the oleomargarine bill was be
 fore congress Mr Wadsworth was ac-
 cused of favOring the manufacturers
 of that table delicacy. He represent
 ed constituency composed largely of
 farmers, but managed to weather that
 storm. When the controversy with
 the president came, however, his op-
 ponents saw chance to beat him and
 Peter A. Porter was put up as the
 candidate of the independent repub-
 licans an1 was also endorsed by the
 democrats. His emblem on the tick
 ct was a COW and he received the powerful financial support of Fred
 erick A. Stevens, a well known bank CT of New York and the District of
 Columbia. Mir Stevens had himself wished 10 succeed Mir Wadsworth but the later succeeded in having tile county wherein Mir Stevens claimed residence. transferred to another dis trict. While the president did not openly assist Mir Porter there Is little question his sympathies were with him and because of tine various req sons outlined Mir Wadsworth was de feated. At the last session of con- gross Mr WadswOrth quoted his let ter to the president and undertook to show that his criticisms of certain proposed legislation in connection with the meat inspection were justi- fled by the fact that they had not been enacted and there was no de mand for them. This did not tend to restore the entente cordiale be- tween the president and Mir Wads- worth. About this time the cOmmis- sions of number of postmasters in Mir WadswOrth's district were expir- ing and he made recommendation for their reappointment. These were disregarded and those made by Mir Porter were approved. Then the president called for the resignation of Archie D. Sanders, collector of internal revenue of the western dis. trict of New York. Mir Sanders was appointed by President Mckinley in 1898 on Mir Wadsworth's recom- mendation. This evoked from Mir Wadsworth criticism of the presi- dent in which he accused him of hay ing turned down postmasters whom the people wanted and in other ways eXerted his power to remove from office persons whose sole crime con sisted in the fact that they were friends of Mir Wadsworth. This, &C., cording to Mir Wadsworth, ..stamps the president as unreliable. faker and a humbug. For years he has indulged fin lofty sentiments and violates them all for the sake of gratifying n pretty spite" The re- ply to Mir Wadsworth is that tine president is determined to uphold the hands of Governor Hughes in New York and that the removal of Mir Sanders and the appointment of a successor likely to be more in sym pathy with Mir Hughes administra- ton is merely Il part of that program. ! 1t has also been pointed out at the | White house that Mir Porter is the | from the district for merly represented by Mir wadsworth 1 and therefore his wishes are to be re- spected In the matter of ap- pointments rather than those of his | predecessor. Naturally enough the | differences between Mir Wadsworth md the president have created the i'm. | pression that the latter is also hostile toward young Mir Wadsworth, who $ speaker of the New York assembly. It Is emphatically denied at the White house that any such hostility exists. The president did not object to his re- election as speaker and it is said that when certain friends of Governor Hughes undertook to criticize or to oppose Mir wadsworth. jr, the presi- lent exerted his influence to have hem called of.
 Former Congressman wadswort. las often been termed the Baron # the Genesee Valley" He comes of distinguished ancestry. long located n that section. and the proprietors of many broad acres. The family has lways been distinguished in war and 'olitics and has been represented fin very war from the revolution to the resent. Mir Wadsworth. ST. serving n the civil and his son in the Span