Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — Roosevelt and the Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt and the Farmer.

President Roosevelt once lived In the West and he afterward conceived the idea of glorifying the cowboy and bronco-buster in a book. That was a thing about which no one need concern himself, for it was merely a matter of taste, but when the writer took occasion to make invidious comparisons between his heroes and the quiet, sober and industrious farmer and workingman, he presented an entirely different question. Here is the way he pictured the bronco-busters and farmers, mechanics and workingmen In his “Ranch Life and Hunting Trail,” pages 9 and 10: “They are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath.” 1The great newspapers of the country are flocking to the support of Judge Parker and there is little doubt but the independent press of the country will be largely for him before the campaign closes. Among the influential newspapers which supported McKinley but are now for Parker, are the Washington Poet, the Baltimore Herald, the New Yortc Herald, the New York Times, the New York Staals-Zel-tung, the New York World, the Brooklyn Eagle and many other equally Influential publications.