The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 14, 1883, Page 4

| THE LaSH IN THE PENITENTIARY BUTLER WEEKLY TIM ES The committee of the Legislature —_ arr | appointed to investigate the manage- Chas. T. Mc ar-aad. ment of the Missouri Penitentiary, DpiTOK AND PROPRIETOR, pores | Some recent expressions of Ex-Gov. TERMS OF SU. SCRIPTION: ‘The WeeLy Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any idaress | one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. ——_——— ; { BUTLER MISSOURI | Prison. WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 14, 1833. ; is : Cc am z | the use of the Iash in the Penitentia- for SCHOOL COMMISSIONER, | ° 3 eee ry, leaving the 1mpression tha -H. Ne. | 5 § . css = tel one man power is very noticeable im Democratic fowaship Ticket. the person of Capt. Bradburry, As- Cor Trustee, s.stant Warden, a ee >upporting his statements, non saucer eigen Johnson appends an interview with for Peis o : Capt. Bradburry, and also several AARON H. BELL. convicts, taken before the committee “or Constable, of the Legislature at its last sessien. Wm. T. HEATH. The interview, if a true representa- Pociluspces onthe Beses tion ot affairs within the Prison walis D. V BROWN. N. B. MEEK, telis a tale of wanton barbanity that forces the blush of shame to the cheek and indignation in the heart of causing the committee to examine the affairs of statement of still closer into The Gov. H. M. CANNON. Democratic City Ticket. every citizen with a spark of human- For Mayor Fe shown ity in his composition. : ie 28 Men are cruelly whipped with a for Marshal : JOHN MARSHALL. cow-hide on the bare flesh upen the for Ceuncelman, North Ward J. R. SIMPSON. er Counceiman, South Ward wise with only a chemise to protect them. Imagine, a strongman whup- ping a woman-even though she be a J. C. CLARK, #or Member of Schoo! Board convict. Humanity, civilization re- A. HENRY. volts at the idea. And what is wose, Capt. Bradburry, who uses the lask always, appears to have ab- solute control of the punishment of priseners, just when and tor what ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_———————— ALEXANDEK H STEPHENS. This great and good man is dead. The truest patriet and wisest man of the age sleeps his last sleep beneath the shaddows of Liberty Hall. Peace to his ashes, and to his soul a haven of repose and immertality in the life beyond. Burdened with honors won bytrue merit. full with a noble peoples loye and confidence never betrayed, the lite and spirit of this wonderful man went out within the marble walls of his nalive com- sanonwealths capital, the Chief Exe- cutive of her people. It is not meet that Georgia should -nourn alone over the.loss of her fa- -orite son. The calamity is felt in every State and hamlet of the Union forthe dead statesman revered the Union though he: leved his own State better. He fought disunien irom its germ to its culmination; la- bored earnestly, sincerily and untir- sngly to prevent Georgia from se- ceeding, but when, in spite. of his advise and influence, she broke loese | <rom the compact ot States he bow- ed his head to the mandate and ‘vent with her tertunes into tne vor- tex that tollowed. Though an avewed unionist he ws chosen Vice-President of the young Con- ‘oderacy, and had he been President the results might have been better for the South. When the Rebellion ended Mr. ‘stephens accepted its hard fate with- gut amumer, and at once began the work of rebuilding and regenerating Georgia and tae Seuth. How well ine did it let his recerd speak. He vas been 1m active public life for early the entire period since the svar. No American has exhibited a stronger fidelity in the cause ef the eople than Alex. Stephens. So tarnestly has he alway’s labored in che interest of the masses that he was given the name ef the ‘Great Commoner’. Pure und simple in *ig public and private life his exam- | vleis worthy enulation. Charitable | aad kind te all things and all peeple, “he humbiest citizen as well as the | of dignity, honesty and efficiency. san of honors, he was loved and re- Se spected in lite and will! be mourned! Out of one hundred and fourteen and revered in death. + counties in the State, ftteen coun- The physique ef Mr. Stephens | ties have adepted tcwnship organiza- - as dwarf-hke, his maximum weight | ton. Before township organization being about ninety pounds. AL | Was adopted tm this county. we had ugh an invalid for most of his | OP¢ assessor and one ceuaty collec- eventtul lite, yet his great mind nev- | fOr. wader township erganization we have twenty-feur assessors, twenty- four collectors and twenty-four township trustees, making imstead of two, seventy-two officers er an in- crease of seventy officers in the coun- the begining to the end of his politc. |t¥- We weuld like fer semeshrewd aicareer. No wonder the whole | financier to show us the economy ia South mourns to-day,—the disnn- | township organizatien: ei . os . SSS of 2 atacand emai veg : In anether column will be feund a dew his Gea with fears act — | — from Prot. J H. Hinten, the tle sweet flowers of remembrance | Demecrauc nominee on the turf that shallcover his Reaaadt School Commissioner. prnleaccein lies in eternal repose sdvectt: en eee be inflicted--a sort of Judge Jury and Executioner. He has wielded ford him delight. Let the committee prosecute the investigation tillthe fullest satisfac- tion is attained, and it the story as published be true, bind Capt. Brad- burry to the post, give him ferty- nine licks from his own lash in’ the face of all Missour:, amd thus brand- ed banish him frem the State. THE NOMIWEE FOR MAYOR. Judge David V. Brown, was nemn- inated by the Democratic Mass Con- vention Tuesday night of last week for Mayer of the city of Butler. The convention though very enthusiastic and attimes quite exciteing, termi- nated harmoniously. It would be superfluous to expati- ate te any great extent upem the fit- ness ef Judge Browm for Mayor, so universal and favorably 1s he knewn. It is ast eut of order, how ever, te say that he) will bring tothe pertermance ef the duties of the po- sition a ripe experience, a mature judgment and well trained executive abilities. He is a gentleman ef nerve and pesitive convictiens. and is eminently qualified in every par- ticular to assume executive control of the city Government where his able and efficient predecessor leaves off. Judge Brewn is also a man of excellent character, plam and un- assuming in his manners amd con- duct with men. He is conservative when and where it is necessary to be; has at heart the interest of every section and class in cemmon vith the welfare of all, and will there- fore begin his official career with an undivided suppurt. The Times isdem in nominating so worthy a gentleman, and the people at large ct gave way, and he was seventy- oae years and twenty-three days eld when he died. His power over the seple was magnetic and he hela a vse-like grip on their affections from Some seund [nobody need fear but what Prof. ' Hinton will carry it inte effect. lare still prosecuting their work. | | C. P. Johnson regarding the mede | | of punishing refractory convicts is! the | Gov. | | johnson criticise in a severe manner | slightest pretext. and women like- offense, and the number ot lashes to | the lash se long that it seems te af-! congratulates the Democracy on its; upon the prespect of having a Mayor i tor County | ALEX. H. STEPHE Death of Georgia’s Governor and Great Statesman. I | Biographical Sketeh of His Wen- -drous Career Incidents in Pablicand Private Life— His Quiet and Pain- } | less Death. | Atlanta, Ga., March 4.—Gover- | nor Alexander H. Stephens’ death | accurred at 3:30 0’clock, About 2 | | e’clock this merning it was evident that he was much weaker and the crisis was approaching. The doc- | | tors placed a strong mustard plaster | on his wrist and let it remain twenty minutes, When removed there was | not the slightest sign of inflamation, showing that there was very little vi- tality left. At 2:30 his extremities | became cold aad clammy, and as- | sumed a purplish hue. As the end jdrew near, Stephens was lying jon his back with his head turned j slightly te the right. tle in his throat that had been plain- ly perceptible earlier in the night had ceased entirely. There was no mere heavy breathing. aud not the slightest gasping. At 3:15 the fam- ily were calledin. After preathing almest impreceptibly a tew moments he died without the slightest tremor. i Alexander Hamilton Stephens, a | statesman whose career has been ; Studied perhaps more carefully by | public men than that ot any other modern politician; who was Vice- President ot the Southern Conted- | eracy, after having been prominent in the ceuncils ef tke Umion for years, and who, after the end of the rebellion, again entered the halls of Congress, died yesterday morning at 3:20. He was born in 1822, in Taliafero, Ga., and left an orphan at the age of 14. He graduated at Franklin cellege in 1832, and was admitted te the bar im 1835. His political ca- reer commenced in 1836, when he | Was elected to the Georgia legisla- ture, and served five years. In 1842 he was elevated to the position of State Senator, and in 1843 his con- stituents sent kim to congress. Atter the nomination of Gen. Scott tor the presidency, Mr. Steph- ens. who had been a_ leader of the | Wiug party in Georgia, become a supporter of the De rats, and in August, 1860, delivered a speech befere a convention in Georgia strongly in oppositien to the secess- ion of that state. When, however, he saw the rupture inevitable, he chose te cast his fertunes with his native state. He supported the Southern Confederacy and was elect- | ed provisional vice president of the | new government. He was sent as commissioner to Virginia, which had passed the ordinance ot secession, and through his agency a treaty was made with the state convention and | the state was admitted into the new ; Confederation, provisionally formed | at Montgomery. On the organiza- | tion of the permanent government he was elected vice president by the vete of the people. After the fail-j ure ef the peace conference, in | April, 1865, Mr. Stephens retired te | Georgia, was arrested and confined | in Fort Warren, Boston harbor, but was released. In December. 1865, he was elected senator ef the United States cenugress, but was sot per- | mitted to take his seat. | Throughout his leng Ife he kas been most active in public affairs. | He was a profound statesman and a | Shrewed politician. His bold vpon ithe people of his native state was |son.ething unparatleled. Early in | his political life, in the year ot 1547, | when he was but 35 years old, he} | submitted a series of resolutions in relation to the Mexican war, which ; became the platform of the Whig jpartv. In 1848 he opposed the | Clayton compromise. but took an | active part in the compromise of 1850 | The passage ofthe Kansasand Ne- | braska act of 1854 in the House of : Representatives was warmly suppor- | ted byhim, as chairman of the Com- | | Mittee on Territories. { Atthe close of the Thirty-fifth | | Congress Mr. Steghens declined | -|dectrine Is expressed therein, and | again to be a candidate. and on July ! i | 2, 1859, made a speech at Augusta, nis Tetirement from Ga... announcing The husky rat | | | complied with the conditions of not permitted | UNDERTAKING I have the largest Stock of Undertaking Goods in the county, consisting of and imitation Rosewood and walnut Coflins and Robes, Mills & Lacy’s Embalming fluid &c. METALLIC CASKETS, SOLID WALNUT, Caskets. burial 1 also keep a NINE HUNDRED DOLLAR HEARSE, and set of folding biers for the use of my customers WITHoutT HE TRA CHARGE, I do Embalming and am able ‘to keep a body any length of time without decomposition or discoleration. i Guarantee Satisfaction. P. J. JEWETT. East Side of Square. public lite. Notwithstanding this avowal he has been in public lite for nearly the entire quarter of # cen- tury which has passed since then, and has been one of the ¢entral fig- ures in the great contests that have been waged during that eventtul period. During the presidential canvass of 1860, he sustained Doug lass and denounced those who adyo- cated a dissolution of the union m case of Mr. Lincoln’s election. In Nevember, 1860, he made a speech before the Legislature ot Georgia against secession, em which subject lac had an interesting correspondence with Mr. Lincoln in December. Nevertheless he was elected te the secession convention which met at Milledgeville, January 16, 1861, and there spoke and voted against the As 1s stated elected vice secession ordinance above he was shertly president of the seuthern contedcra cy. On the 21st of March. 1861, he delivered a speech at Savannah, in which he declared slavery to be the | new govern- a special corner-stone of the ment. Om April 23, as commissioner froin the Confederate ! States, he addressed the convention at Richmond, urging the unien et Virginia with the confederacy. H frequently differed from the policy of the Richmond government, es- pecially upon the subject of martial law, and on September 8, 1562, he | by | prenounced the appointment Gon. Bragg of James W- Calhoun | as civi! Governor of Atlanta a pal- pable usurpation. His letters on the subject created a marked sensa- / tien througlout the the entire South. On the third of February. 1865, R.M. YT. Hunter and John M. | Campbell he held an informal con- ference on « stearmer in Hampton roads with President Lincoln aud Mr. Seward, which had practi- cal result. After Lee’s surrender Stephen's returned te h:s home in Crawtords- ville, Ga. February 1866, he delivered a speech before the Leg- islature of Georgia tavoring the res- teration policy of President Johnson. It was during the same he was elected to the Umted States Senate, but as the State no re- censtruction he was to take his seat. In 1572 elected to Congress, and again ix! > ! 1874. month that | had rot i he was; House until the year 1851 when he was elected Governor of the State, which office he filled atthe time of his death. His nem:nation to the gubernaterial chair was brought about by his desire to harmonize the the two factions of the Democratic party, whose contests were threaten ing the supremacy of the party. He was elected by one of the largest majorities ever given to a candidate im the State. The peculiarities and | personal appearance of Mr. Steph- \ ens have been so often given to the public that httle can be said that is | not already familiar to all. He was ja man whose mind scemed to have | dwarfed and enfeebled his body, al- though much of his ill health was at- tributable to a savage attack made upon him in his earlier lite by a po- litical opponent upon whose con- duct Mr. Stepkeus had commented very severely. he had enjoyed good health, though very slender and possessed of little muscular development. In the af- beaten. his life being despaired of ‘for sometime. Frem the effects of | the assault he never fully recovered, and nething marvelous ferce of will sustained him in his long and active \ life tyereatter. What may be said | of the political opiniens or public acts of Mr. Stephens, his abuiity, j stacerity and honesty will j ceded by all. In private life he was much beloved by those who knew } kim intimately and it is said that he over i { be cun- has, during his life, educated | one hundred young men in Georgia Not the least life was the fqgmer slaves | at his ewn expense. noticeable fact in his i devotion with which | clung to him after they were freed | by the war. Not one of them cver induced to discuss ‘the question of leaving him. His | body servant, Bob, who followed | him tor thirty-five years, was as well i known Washington as Mr. | Stephens himself, and was wont to say when questioned upon the sub- | ject, that **Mars Aleck never could | have sot wharhe waset I hadn't ‘left or could be in | nussed and toted him around.”’ All | who have visited Crawlordsy and experienced the hespitality of Lib-! ; erty Hail, Mr. Stephens’ homestead, ; will testify | exceptiona te the unobtrusive but warmth America’s artiness and of his greeting. Of ail ne will be purity and kindness in more re- public men 5 membered fe i social life. in 1876 he was again chosen Con- | gtessional Representative. and re- | rember of the lewer Mained a j fitee a line as canbe f In Gros graim sitks Burns & Co have as pund in the eit .. Prior to this attack | fair mentioned he was badly cut and j The Scheol Commissienership. To the citizens of Bates County: ‘ Tthas pleased the Democracy of Bates county to neminate me as & candidate for County School Com- missioner. The election occurs on the first Tuesday—3d day-—in April, Since the time is shert, and since | am at work in the Rich Hill public school, Icannot visit you personally. Allow me, therefore, to address yeu | briefly through the press. The public school system | be encouraged by all lovers of liber ty and good government. The sov- | ereignty of the people is a conceded axiom in our country. The preser- vation of this sovereignty, its nghts and liberties, depends upon the gen- eval diffusion of knowledge and the inspiration of a true patriotism. Within the school room much gen- eral knowledge can be ebtained, and | @ lefty patriotism miay be awakened, In order to have an interesting pub- lic school, the people themselves ve interested. laterested in j the election of « commissioner, in | the employment ot teachers, in the election of school boards, and in tae advancement of their children. You may not regard the commissionet- ship as the highest office within the gift of the people of Bates; but, let me say, it is none the less important. It is within the power of the com- missieners of the State to elevate the ' standard of scholarship. to forward | the cause of education, to in- should Must i } i | j H j and crease the interest therein. They should have a single eye to the pub lic school interest, a warm: and de- j veted heart dedicated to the work. | Each should, by an honest, earnest. | energetic and faithful discharge of | duty, try to place his county in edu | cational matters im the tront rank. They should place themselves in cor | respondence with the: schoel board= j and give to them all the aid within | their powcr in the selection of com- | petent and dilligent teachers. In the event ef my election, month ! ly examinatiens will be given at But- {ler and Rich Hill. Let me urge my | Democratic friends to mark the day | of election and be on hand to rote: ; Your banner you have trusted to m™) jecare. Duty and faithfulness upen my part shall return it to you with | out a single starcefaced, or the beau ty of a single stripe marred. Respecttully, J. H. Hixon. Don’t forget to buy your triend one of these handsome Easter cards i at Maynards. P.O.