The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 22, 1888, Page 8

MONE AND LAND. <r BATES COUNTY LOAN and LAND C0., JAS. K. BRUGLER & SON, MANAGERS, Butler Mo. This Company invests money in real estate, buys nates and School Bonds, and dealsinall kinds ot good seuuriteis. FINE IMPROVED FARMS Ut 40 to 640 acres each, and good grazing lands from 400, to 1,500 acres in a body for sale or ex- “LOCAL ITEMS. a H. C. Wyatt & Son AND BUY ‘THAT LUMBER WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN INTENDING TO GET. THEY HAVE IT AND WILL SELL IT CHEAP. Candidate's Picnic. We are authorized to announce that there will be a grand basket picnic in Pleasant Gap township, 14 miles east of Stump town, on Sat- urday, Sept. 1, 88 for the purpose of giving candidates an opportunity of meeting the people and present. ing their respective claims for office Everybody is envited to come and bring well filled baskets. Six per cent money; payable on or before maturity. Money paid promt- ly when papers are executed. 39 tf. Pracu & Spracve. A regular water spout passed west of Butler Sunday evening, and we are informed that the streams in a very few minutes were turned into rivers, and were considerable higher than they had been known this year. Papinville Rally. We are informed that a grand democratic rally was held at Papin- ville on last Friday night, that eclipsed anything of the kind in Bates county this campaign. Mr. Silvers was the orator of the occa- sion. The german band and glee club was the main feature of the oc- casion, furnishing excellent patriotic music and was pronounced by Mr. S.as simply immense. This band and glee club will be in demand dur- ing the balance of the campaign in Bates county. A number of names were enrolled to an already large list. Glass and Queensware. Wright & Walls the west side gro- cers wish to notify their many friends and public generally they have on hand one of the nicest lines of queens and glassware ever shipped to Butler. These goods have just been received and opened up for sale and the public is invited to eall and inspect them. Geo. W. Weaver desires the name and address of ali the ladies in Bates county that he may mail them each month Buttrecks Metropolitan sheet of fashions, he keeps the full line of patterns constantly in stock any one desiring the patterns mailed can get them by stating the number of pat- tern andinclosing the amount in pos- tal note registered letter or stamps. Money to Loan on Farm and City property on Long and Short time at a low rate of interest, Swearrncrr, Bowpen & Co. Nevada, Mo. Apply to W. H. Warnock, County Clerk's Office, Butler, Mo. 26-tf Take Notice. Having disposed of my grocery stock to Pettys & Welton, parties knowing themselves indebted to me are requested to call and settle with- out delay. Ican be found at the above store room. 39 tf. Cuas. Dessey ‘FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE GELS FEAR TO TREAD.” -_—— -0- AN" A Complete Refutation that Any Votes were Stolen to Elect Glazebrook. Bertier, Mo., Ave. 20, “88. Eprror Burren Tres: To those who have read what the Bates County Record said Aug ust 4th and August 11th, with reference to the “stealing” of votes and thereby fraudulently electing | Glazebrook over Burch, it must have appeared that the good editor of the | Record is one who has dared to} “yush in where Angels fear to tread.” | The good editor at first took the po- | sition that certain democrats had sto- | len (from the ballot box, I suppose) | ten ballots that were cast, and should have been counted,for Mr. Burch for sheriff. The truth of this statement having been challenged with an of- fer to show malice or stupid ignor- ance of the facts, the editor then says: “We re-assert that had the votes cast been counted, he, Mr. Burch, would to-day have been sher- iff of this county.” He then says that from the certificate of Mr. Har- per, clerk of the countycourt, he finds the following ballots to have been missing, No. 8 O.D. Austin, “23 Jackson Walker, 31 P. H. Holcomb, 42 O.J. Welton, 59 Alfred White, 120 H. D. Noble, 138 J. D. Tathwell, 196 Chas. Denney, 374 D. W. Drummond, 379 John Stewart. 520 J. E. Armstrong, 532 G. W. Friend. “Of these missing ballots eleven are republican and one democratic,” says the Record. I grant it for sake of argument, without knowing wheth- er it is entirely correct. But if sto- len, who stole the democratic vote? The good editor then says if they had been counted Burch would have had 2818 votes and Glazebrook only 2812. Even if the Record’s premises were true his conclusion would not follow, unless the rest of Bates coun- ty should have been ignored in the contest. But it is not true that the ballots named were taken out of the ballot boxes, but were counted by the judges and clerks of election in Mt. Pleasant township, and sent up to the county clerk in the ballot box under seal, and were there when for the first time opened in the pres- ence of Mr. Burch and his attorneys William page and C. A. Denton, both stalwart republicans who knew enough to have cried out “stolen bal- lots,” had there been any foundation for such a charge. They knew too much and were too honorable to “rush in, where angels fear to tread” in this matter. But it transpires that the good editor of the Record assays to know more about this mat- ter than the attorneys of Mr. Burch, who having instituted a contest for the purpose of deciding who was legally elected sheriff of Bates coun- ty, and after having gone over the whole ground, decided themselves that Mr. Burch could not maintain his case, and voluntarily dismissed it. But tothe proof of the issue raised; that is, whether or not the ballots named were “stolen” or “ta- ken out of the box” as charged in the Record’s indictment. An exam- ination of the certificate which is re- lied upon by the editor of the Ree- ord will disclose that in Hudson, Rockville. Prairie, Shawnee, Deer Creek, Mound, Mt. Pleasant, Lone Oak, Osage, New Home, Charlotte, East Boone and West Boone Town- townships, there was more or less improper numbering of the ballots by the receiving judge of election. Where ever this occurred a com- parison of the ballots with the poll book would show two facts, first that the ballot which the voter appeared from the poll book to have cast was missing, and secondly, that there were two ballots having the same numbering on each. Take for in- stance name No. 30 on Mt. Pleasant township poll book, there appears the name of J. R. Simpson, whom all know to be a democrat. The clerk's certificate show that in the ballot box were found two ballots No. 40, one cast for Glazebrook and one for Burch. There was no ballot No. 31! corresponding to the name of P. H. Holcomb, who no doubt voted for Mr. Burch, and whose ballot was improperly at the time numbered also 30 instead of 31. Ballot No. 42 appears to be mis- sing while there are two ballots with No. 41 on each. Ballot No. 120 appears to be mis- sing while there were two ballots in. the ballot box No. 121. In short an examination of the certificate of Mr. Harper from which the Record gets its information will show that while there appears to have been missing from the ballot box the ballots of ten persons who no doubt voted for Mr. Burch, there were ten ballots that had been voted for Mr. Bureh and were not counted for him by Mr. Harper, because two “ 3c 1-3 Per Cent Off In order to clear our stock of all Summer Goods, we will offe during the month of August at a reduction of 33 1-3 per Git ballots were found having the same | number on each. By a rule adopted by Mr. Harper when this condition of things was first found to exist in Hudson town- ship and which was acquiesced in by | the attorneys of both Mr. Burch and | Mr. Glazebrook, long before the ! count in Mt. Pleasaat Township had been reached, where two ballots were found each having the same number neither would be counted. In Mt. Pleasant township it was found that there were two ballots corresponding to each of the follow- ing numbers. No. 14, two ballots each for Glaze- brook. No. 30, two ballots, one for Glaze- | brook and for Burch. | No. 41, two ballots, one for Burch and one for Taylor. No. 55, two ballots, both for Glazebrook. No. 121, two ballots, both for Burch. { No. 135, two ballots, both for | Burch. No. 309, two ballots, one for Glaze- brook and one for Burch. | No. 373, two ballots, Burch. No. 430, two ballots, one for Burch | and one blank, as to sheriff. No. 432, two ballots, both for Glazebrook. | In this list will be found ten Burch ballots that were not counted | by Mr. Harper in the recount be-| cause of the double number feature. We find further from this same eertificate that there was found in both for the ballot box one Burch ballot with | best authority, may be inferred from | no number at all on it, which was | by Mr. Harper counted for Mr. | Burch. This accounts for the full number | of ballots that were voted for Burch | and the evidence of the facts isfound | by reading the certificate upon which , the editor of the Record relies. A further evidence of the fact that the ballots were in many cases not properly numbered, is found in the | fact, as certified by Mr. Harper, that ballot No. 58 as found in the ballot | box was voted for Mr. Burch, when the name of J. R. Jenkins, appears on the poll book as No. 58. No one who knows Mr. Jenkins, believes for a moment he voted for Mr. Bureb. i If he has any doubt about it, he; can call on Mr. Jenkins, who will) cheerfully answer as to how he did | vote. | The fact is, the only evidence of | anything like fraud that appeared to | have been perpetrated in the matter | jon which to found the cent, our entire stock of WME GOOD This Includes Every Department. GMT As This Reduction of Former Low Prices Will Move the Stuff Quickly) SAM LEVY & CO ter township and was an error, to put it mildly, in Mr. Bureh’s favor. In that township there were 205 votes polled as shown by the names on the poll book;—————of which Glazebrook received 115, as certified by the officers of election and as shown by a recount. Mr. Maddy received eight votes, and three were blank as_ to sheriff. Yet there were in the ballot box eighty Burch ballots, and they were there when the judges and clerks counted the votes and certified there- to; making in all 206 voters, one more than were in the ballot box. One of these burch ballots had no intelligible number on it, and was | spurious. Using the logic of the Record, I have a right to say, the friends of Glazebrook did not put it in the box; but it went in none the less. The fact is that at the last election there was a desperate attempt made by the Record and other parties to defeat Mr. Glazebrook by means fair or foul, and having been defeat- ed in their scheme, in which no less than fifty illegal votes were cast for Mr. Burch, like frenzied bulls, they turn around and bellow solemuly, say that ballots were stolen, when the very paper upon which they re- ly, furnishes the evidence of the fals- ity of the charge. In conclusion, I submit that Ihave proven the charge of the Record to be maliciously false or the editor stupidly ignorant of the facts. Malice, we are informed by the want of probable cause. There is no probable cause in this matter up- Record’s charge except it be in the stupid ig- norance of the facts plainly appear- | ing to any intelligent mind who would read the whole of the certiti- cates upon which the Record’s charge is based. Come up Mr. Editor of the Record and confess as you offered in your issue of the llth inst. to do. “And in the future don’t attempt to prove charges where your own attorneys have said there was no ground upon which to base them. Citizen. Three Young Short-Horn Bulls. One two-year-old and 2 yearlings past, all of good size, shape and col- or (cherry red), and ready for busi- ness. Will sell or trade for mule or mare colts. J. H. Artisox. , of fixing ballots occurred in Deep- 32tf 23 miles southwest Butler, Mo. Come Early in Order to Secure the Best Barpai Another Killed. Jesse Davis, aged perhaps 22 or! 23 years, was killed at Keith & Per ry’s No. 6 mine last evening. Davis had a hole drilled and partly fil- led with powder, which tamping with an iron bar when an he was explosion ensued with the above re- persist in such folly as the use of! iron tamping bars when their action is in direct disobedience of the posi- tive rule of the mine, as well as the largely enhanced danger to their | lives. There is always more or less sulphur in soft coal, or occasional | flinty substance, whose slightest | contact with an iron or steel pointed bar may cause aspark of fire suffi- | cient to cause an explosion and the | death of some unfortunate fellow | like the one in this instance. But, as the old proverb says, those whe will not heed must suffer the penal- ty. Itis only too often the case that others entirely innocent of their carelessness must suffer with them. —Rich Hill Review. ‘Sir, do You Snore? | We are able to offer you an infallable cure for | this most obnoxious practice and we publish it | at our own expense for the benefit of humanity. Keep your Mouth Shut and youcan’t snore. That’s all there is of it. | But if you can’t keep y ath shut and you | do not like to take the trouble every night to | | } | | TIE UP YOUR CHIN, why then you owe your wife some compensation | and ought to bring her withont delay and let | her take her pick of a present from the stock of | | JEWETT & HICKMAN, THE FURNITURE Men. i | { i | | | i i One of those neat rocking chairs may make | her deaf to your nocturnal noises or a pretty ; sofa may charm away her righteous anger. | Remember that THE BIGGEST STOCK GIVES THE BEST CHOICE, AND SEEK IT AT \O.- ES. Stock of Hardware at Auction. Ihave a large stock of gen | hardware, which I will auction off the public square in Butler. auction sale will be held each § | day afternoon until the goods are | The articles offered will consist | saws, pitch forks, spades, mowi sult. It is strange that men will | blades, carpenter's tools, bolts, ges, in short, a large line of first | hardware, consisting of eve: |kept in the line. | sale will take place every Sati Remember afternoon until sold. 36-tf. W. F. Ham Poultry Wanted. I will pay more cash money # anybody in Butler, for your chickens, turkeys. Spring chick wanted at big prices. Call at Atkinson’s or A. L. McBride & Good hand picked apples w: Jas. Surte High Graded Bulls for Sale. Ihave a number of fine, yo high graded bulls purchaser. J. which I will | Very reasonable price. Terms to: M. Hoacrasp, ~ Nyhart, Mo! ’ \ Absolutely Pure-§' This mer never vi s' e ordinary competition with the short weight alum or p! only incans. Borat Wallst..N. Y.: who! More kinds, andcannot be n aries. A marvel se cs of low bosphste| Baxixe Fowsas 00° mul