The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-04-25


would not even guarantee the purity
of whiskey bottled in bond and with
the government stamp on it. But
it does rather look like splitting hairs
for the Secretary Of Agriculture to
fume and illuminate as be has done
over the advertising use that has
been made of the Departments reg
;stry numbers. The government
does say that food products to bear
stamp of Apr oval of the department,
must be put up in certain way and
labeled in certain way, and while
this may not be {. government guar
antee in the strict legal meaning of
the term, it looks rather like it to
the man on the street. But the Sec
rotary says that he is going to pros
tcute and tlenounce all manufactur-
ers who resort to this sort of adver-
Using. SO the manufacturers had
better take notice. Also The people
who furnish the purchase money can
take notice that the government
does not guarantee any thing, and if
they think an agricultural depart
ment label means anything, they can
think again, for it does not. At
least, Secretary Wilson say SO, and
he ought to know.
Speculation continues rife over the
Ohio situation and the ge neral out
iook for the next nomination. Some
of the p olitical wiseacres have dis
covered possibility that the Presi-
dent may drop" Taft and throw his
influence in support of Cor e'you or
Hughes. This is an importan t
enough development except for be-
ing handicapped by the fact that it
is not so. The President, as he has
pointed out to number of callers,
has never taken up Taft or any 9th
er man in the ense of supporting
him for the next nomination. What
he has said to all inquirers was that
he wanted to see some man nominal
ed who was footloOse and would not
go into Office with corporation col
lar on which would be the case with
any one of several possible candi-
dates.
The President is interested in the
fight that Gov. Hughes is having
with the Legislature in New York,
and if need arises, will assert his
right as citizen of New York to
help the governor i'll any way he can.
Should Hughes win in New York
and Taft lose in Ohio, of which
there always is possibility, the
President would naturally use his
influence in favor of the strongest
candidate. There is even a chance
that Secretary Cortelyou may enter
the race in New York, though this
is not an imminent possibility. Ii
Mr. Cortelyou develops sufficient
sire myth to be serious factor in tie
fight for the nomination, the Presi
dent will accord him the same sort
of an open field that he will accord
all the other candidates of his own
faith and in the end, the horse who
shows best in the trial gallops is the
one that will have his backing The
President has never gone any fur
Their than this in declaring his pref
erence for any particular man, and
that talk of his having Withdrawn
his support from Taft is futile simp
ly because he meyer gave it.
Naval officers are 'ooking with a
a great deal of interest to the com
ing trial of the submarine boats at
Narragansett. There are two con-
Germs inter ested in these tests, one
of which has always had oil the con
tracts for sul, marines from the gov
eminent, and the other which has
never had any. There is something
little peculiar in the way that the
appropriations have always been
made to favor one firm Of course,
there is 10 telling which tyre of
oat will prove the better till there
has bee trial of them under SINH
lar conditions. But both have made
good records and the endurance
tests, tests of rapidity in diving,
target prac ice both under and
above water, and the like will rrove
spectacular beyond the average Of
naval competitions There are con
tracts amounting to about $1,000
coo depending on the result and of
couse, the makers of both types of
boats will do tt e;r utmost to win.
Washington has been treated in
the past week to a meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion. This organization is about
the most fashionable gathering of
patriotic women that ever gets to-
gether in the United States, and it
is equally remarkable as a spectacle
for its display of the latest Paris
fashions and its lack of parliamen-
tary training that almost brings On
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