The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 21, 1892, Page 1

J The VOL. XIV. errant ne nace Seemmen ree ae NO 44 vu ber of geod, law -~abiding citi- zens,” or even swell number If t does, it bus pe syinpathy of mine. ‘ing these names, instead of hinder- | ing, all good citizens will unques- tionably assist. The prohibition Missouri State Bank Irs jsuimmteut isto protect the bal-| party, though it only received in this jot from spurious tickets. It may state at the al election FARMERS BANK OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - $110,000. jnot be the best method cbtainab! fons it is, confessedly, the best that has been suggested in this state, as | bone that would stand the slightest | Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and | examination has yet been proposed | | does a General Banking Business. DEPOSITORY FOR COUNTY FUNDS. In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make loans on Real Estate on long or short time at lowest rates without delay. STOCK HO LDERS& Allen, Mra. Levina Boulware, TC, Physician Burk, Monroe Farmer Ballard, J N Farmer Brown, Lula Hardinger, W Heath, D'B Kartlett, Edmund Farmer Jenkins, J RC Bryner,’ Margaret inn’ Chelf, 1. B. Farmer Levy, Sam Dry Coleman, Sam’l L Farmer Morrigon. C Hi ruthers, @ A Farmer Christy, J M Physician Clark, Robert Farmer Courtney, J M Stock Dealer Deerwester, John Farmer Dutcher, C H Prof Normal Sch Powell, DeArmond,D A, M C Eyans, John Farmer E eringham, J Physician Freemam, Caroline and Eliza Francisco, S P Lawyer Reeder, Oscar Reisner, J W president vice-presiden WM. E. WALTON BOOKER POWELL Hickman,G B Furniture dealer Starke, L B Dep: . Don Ass’t Cashier Miller, Alf Farmer MeCracken, A Owen, M V' Farmer Pharis, John Grocery Davis, J R Foreman Timxs officePharis, C F Grocery Booker Farmer Pigott, "HH Bank Clerk Deerwester, Frank Co sch com Rosier, J M Farmer Radférd, Chas R Hannah, W D medical student Slayback, Ed Farmer N Farmer th, GL Livery. cult clerk Turner, Mrs M E Capitalist Tucker, WE Dentist Tyler, W B Farmer Gooils & Clothing’ oris, Frank M Farmer Farmer Vaughan. J M Capitalist ashier Wyatt, H amber dealer Farmer 4 eacher obt Farmer West, RG Farmer WwW alton, Wm E President Wright, TJ Capitalist Weiner, Max Merchant Walle, Wm Farmer Walton, G W Farmer Walls, J T Physician Farmer Whipple, N L Physician Pension Clerk Sullens, J L Banker cashier asst. cashier J. R. JENKINS t DON KINNEY ALL TREATED ALIKE. Prohibitionists Will Not be Dis- | franchised. Secretary of State Lesueur Replies Categorically to a Personal Letter Addressed to Col. Prohilntionist—The Aus- trahian Law Upheld. Jetferson City, Mo., Sept. 17.— The following correspondence ex- plains itself: Butler, Mo, Sept. 3, 1892.—Col- onel W. J. Stone, Nevada, M Dear Colonel—No doubt, from “sur- face indications,” you want to be governor of Missouri. There _ will be polled in Missouri this fall, if al- lowed to vote for their nominee, about 4,000 prohibition votes. They will come about equally from the democratic and republican parties. If their votes are cast for their par- Stone by a ty it will not change results as be- | tween you and Mr. ‘Warner. should all be cast for might defeat you. W arner has declared (as all fair- minded men must) against the out- If they Warner it rageous clause of the “Australian | ballot law” which seeks to disfran- chise a large number of good and law abiding citizens and deny them the right of suffrage. The prohibitionits, at great labor and expense, will comply with law and file the application of their 1,- 000 petitioners with the secretary of state, but they are looking for some trick, some technical flaw to be found in their petition whereby they will be disfranchised, as a party, af- ter all their trouble. If such is the ease, the 4,000 votes will be east for Warner, in hopes that in the future they can have the rights of treemen. Now you cau prevent any unfair dealing on the part of the ‘state of- ficials and let the prohibitionists vote as their conscience dictates (which is not for Warner,) or by re- fusing that force them in self de- fense to vote for your opponent. Very respectfully, your friend, Joux M. Vaveny. ANSWERED BY MR. LESUEUR. The above letter was some days in reaching Col. Stone. who referred it to Secretary of State Lesueur without comment. Secretary Les- ueur has written the reply given be- low: Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 16.— Si Colonel W. J. Stone, demo- eratic candidate for governor, bas referred to me your letter of Sep- tember 3. Permit me to say that one para- graph of that letter is a reflection upon me which is unjustified by anything in my past private or pub lie record, and one which I venture > believe would be condemned and | vepudiated by your lamented father who was my friend. and who voted in the main the same ticket yeu did me the high» houor to me when he bad the opportunity. In order that there m mistaking the import of y guage I quote it here: “The probibitionist bor and expense, will the law, and file the ep; i their 1,000 petitioners with th do retary of state, but they are looking i ; for some trick, some technical flaw | te vote for | | to be found in their | by they will be disfranchised, | party after all their trouble.” Can you point to any act of mine asa public officer which justifies such Janguage as this? I certainly think not. On the contrary I have taken every opportunity to assist and advise persons interested in the preparation of certificates under the Australian ballot Jaw, remaining con- stantly in my office and out of the state campaign, where I should like to be, in order to do so. Three fourths of my correspondence upon the subject has come from the third party or prohibition votes, and in- stead of the “tricks” and “technicali- ties” which you seem to look for at my hands, I have endeavored in every instance to construe the law, where susceptible of construction, in favor of the rights franchise as untrammeled as is con sistent with the purposes of the law in securing secrecy of the ballot and an unintimidated vote. THE FIRST INSINUATION. asa During my four years’ incumben- cy of this office I have received | many kind notices, in the press and | otherwise, from political opponents regarding what they have been pleased to call the impartial avd un- | partisan manner in which 1 have dis charged my duties. It has re ;ed fora son of one of my mo teemed and valued friends to say | that he is looking for some “trick” or “techni flaw” to be used by me to disfranchise a portion of my fellow-citizens. I trust his fears are unfounded. franchising American citizens. This can only remain a free country by respecting the rights of representa tion for all the weak as well as the strong. Let me say, however, that it is easier to condemn the 3 per cent clause in the Australian ballot law than tosuggest for it a substitute which Will atford the relief sought | without emasculating the law; and also to say. without intending in the least to be personal, that much of the cry against the clause arises from misapprehension or demagogy. It is clearly demagogy in Major Warner in his speeches, and in the Globe-Democrat, in its recent at- tacks on the law in Arkansas,because the republicans in this state suport- ed the the passage of the law the | Globe-Democr' » ‘iculed democrat- ic states that failed to adopt it, and strongly supported Governor Fran- cis’ veto of the bill to repeal the 3 per cent clause. Mr. Hendrickson, the third party member of the legislature from Bates county, in my presence, being there ..i:h others, to seek Governor ! Francis’ recommendation of new leg- islation by the extra session of 1891 on this subject, said he approved ‘the ground of the governor's veto. Aventleman who represented him- ain- | retary of the committee of the state | , prohibition party, at my desk — al short time ago, agreed to the a H tio: : that the requirements of w were 2 ae about as easy of fulfillment could be devised to pr j <a overber dening the ballot boxes with tickets only “jutended to de-| ceive. SUMMARY OF VARIOUS I donot believe the 3 clause “seeks to disfranch STATUTES. per cent petition where}. of voters to a} Ido not believe in dis | self to be and no doubt was the see-; . a large | nize names to the county. In secur-! i to take its place. Our republican friends are stop- ped from criticizing us they them- aS have enacted the provisions into law in quite a number of states I have taken the pains to examine these laws carefully, aud tind them all to contain similar restrictions. The Illinois law has a 2 percent clause, and requires not less than 1,- 000 voters on a petition for eamah dates. The Towa Jaw has a 2 per cent clause, and requires not less {than 500 petitioners. The Ohio law petitions it requires 1 per cent in number of the entire vote cast in the state at the next preceeding general election. Such a provision as that would necessitate in Missouri this year for the prohibitionists 4648 petitioners, yet the republicans of this state are not denouncing Ohio as being engaged in an effort to pre- vent the suftrage. ‘The Massachu requires not less than 1,000 petition ers; and the Pennsylvania law has a 2 per cent clause, and requires peti tioners to the uumber of “one half of 1 per centum of the largest vote for any officer elected in the state at the last preceeding election at which a state officer was voted for.” Ap- plied to this state. this year, such a law would demand of you 1,250 pe- titioners. The Vermont law has a 1 per cent clause but also requires 1 per cent of the entire vote to be sign- ed to petitions. INTENT OF THE MEASURE. I might cite the law in other states but the tendency of legislation is all one way, the greatest latitude being given by the law in Arkausas, which has recently been so roundly abus- ed by the third party people. In \that state a petition is accept which contains anywhere 50 and 1,000 signatures. pose of these WS; not to disfranchise honest voters, it is not to stifle the expression of any between The pur is not eyento judge of what is ins | telligent or honorable. so long as any ‘fairly considerable body of men shall desire to record their yiews signed to reform evils long complain- ed of in connection with our electo- systems. sans from being tleeced by dishon- est committees ostensibly for the | purchase of ballots. It is to protect the voter from imposition by ballot peddlers at the polls. It is to se- ‘eure real privacy of the ballot in preparation and after it is cast, thus preventing intimidation of the weak by the strong, and largely eliminat- ing the purchase of votes, since the deposit of the ballot in pursuance seen the vast majority of the good, pat- riotie citizens of the republic, re- gardless of party affliations It has the opposition of corrupt, trading, bull dozing politicians. Suppose it does incur some labor and expense? | Donot the benefits derived more than compensate for these? Are: ho carp and cavil at doing a little work to secure petitioners or at expend- ing afew doll&s for notary fees which are absolutely necessary to prevent fraud, friendly to the effort to purify the ballot, or are they not rather arraying themselves on the | side of those who would like ‘9 dis- credit the law and tear it out of the statute beok? I understand the reply, but is not this the practical effect, and does not the corrupt element smile and applaud at every attack which weak- eus the law? Would it not be bet- | make sacrifices if necessary in order uphold it? The most honorable and pure party ight be used as a cloak for fraudu- ! jleut 7 es. hence the care of the that the ballot is as abaruo door sxets, concocted to dis system and confuse the} i jeredit the | Voter. PRCHIBITIONISTS RECOGNIZED. Coustruing the law as I do, that} all of the 1,000 names, or any por- {tion of them that may be convenient hean be embodied in one acknowledg. ment, the preparation of the certiti-! ‘eate need not be so troublesom or | } | eXpensive as seems to be feared. It | concerned. will require an average of less than | has a 1 per cent clause, but for state | setts law has a 3 per cent clause,and | j have on is not evil; it is | intelligent or honorable purpose, it | jupon it at the ballot box, but is de | It is to protect parti-) sure me by te legram that they are thereof cannot be followed up and} The law has the support of | ter for honest men of all parties to} name imaginable y of exchange p prices where the failure ot | publishers’ not supplying local d | books promptly has been pressed Merritt Z | change the books of 989 votes is 2 legitimate and receg- nized party in the country. No | good purpese could be subserved by freezing it out from re presentation at the polls, and I am quite certain that the democratic party of Mis-| souri, which detests disfranchise | ment as the sum of all political vil-! lainies, would have repudiated in- | . stead of renominating me by accla ‘Cash Capital. mation, if it had even suspected | that I could become a party to any | scheme which elective franchise. Allow me to brietly notice another | feature of your letter. You say to | Colonel Stone: “Now, you can pre | Vent any unfair dealing on the part) lof the ‘state officials,” ete. pray? This a government of pow-j ers prescribed and limited by law. | Even if Colonel Stone were already | GrRRRAGHS N @encral Banking elected governor, which he certainly | ee re ought to be, and will be, he would! Solicited. have no more voice in the execution of this law than you have yourself. There is but’ one state officer that | has to do with it under the law in the sense that you discuss it. That officer never interferes or meddles with the duties of any of his col- leagues. He attends strictly to the affairs of his own office, and he has jmever, so far, had to complain that any of his fellow state officers pre sumed to relieve him from the bur- den of attending to his own business. You evidently misapprehend the character of your state government. Permit me to conclude, sir, with the assurance that I will go as far and do as much to see the prolnbi- tionists of Missouri accorded all of their rights under the election laws as you or any other gentleman. I am far more interested in the matter, for | while you can only cast a ballot to represent an idea, however good it may be in the abstract hopeless of fruition at this election, my person- al character aed standing as a man and citizen are involyed. It is true that, besides my family, this is all I earth. Perhaps it is for OF BATES Receives Deposits subject to che Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. To lay, with one hand, the power of the citizen aud with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortune, 1s none the less a robbery because the forms ef law and is called taxa- tion. This is not legislation. a decree under legislative forms.— Decision of United States Supreme Court, February 1, 1875 A Duty to Youself. use a common ordinary i A. A. Lesvevr, Secretary of State. \J M. Vaughn, Esq., Butler, Bates sick headache and ail liver troubles. They are small, sweet, easily taken, | and do not stipe. v aerate Items. Book E Xe nanees Sheldon and company and E. H. Butler and company have failed to | go. farm 3 miles southeast of town keep all dealers supplied with their | books. However, these houses as- ence....When you want the doctor go to his office door and make your making extra dinary exertions to supply the enormous demands made upon them. As previously stated time and again in this department, books should be promptly exchanged either through the local dealers or directly through the publishers. Sheldon & Co., New York (assignees of Taintor «nd Brothers,) the pub- \skers of the Franklin Readers, ex- change books until Oct. 1 1892. D. C. Heath & Co., Chicago, the pub- lishers of Hyde's Grammars, and Leach, Shewell and Sanborn, Bos- tor, the publishers of Brand's Phy pa oni ae i area oa 1 | club has arranged to meet at Me Butler & Co., PhiladelpLia, the pub- Fadden’s hall every two weeks, on lishers of Butler’s Geographies tele- | Thursday night. Don't forget it, graph me that they will exchange | and ali turn out....Miss Ella Durst | (through their Philadelphia house] } me on a visit from Kansas, where ch ee ING eas (eae she has been for some time studying . Misses cal dealers by patrons or pupils prior to Sept. 1, 1892. The Ameri aud Surah Oldham were out horse |back riding Sunday. The girls say can Book Company, Chicago, the! this is leap year and they are going neighbors do. Albert Pilgrim two bouncing baby boys, al F & L Us; Amos Lock- ridges only has one new boy, he says its a democrat...... p Briden and sister, Miss Lina, Lone Oak township, were visiting two days last week.. der if Geo. M Jenkins has found his missing letter that wasto come from the west....Mr Johu Hussey my house very sick with con of the stomach....The is at stion democratic 3 music... publishers of Ray’s Arithmetics, Mc-| Guffey's Revised Speller, Barnes’ | History, Townsend’s Civil Govern- | All old text books in use should | and wife were down from Mulberry be promptly tendered local dealers |: 4:10 the family of John Hedge: | that exchange prices may be obtain | 8 ed. I think I can safely say that no | Mr. Ben Bigg has a new buges. aud | person will be denied the privilege | Warren Ayers and Gordon Wallace expect to use it Sunday....Two of ; to exchange before the expiration of | yfat Hinson’s children are going to | time for exchange is caused by th rraudmother the . Will Darst and made a flying it their part of The necessity of exchaugi ers. ng} trip to from time to time in $0,000 circulars | Rockville Saturday on business.... isent out to county commissioners | yy p Schutt killed a wad for ribution to teachers and ee ge separk’a card chool officers, in the press of the es ee tate, andin the county insti tes quite attended by 12,000 teachers To ex the Tres 700,090 pur s the ah for sa herculean undertaking. ‘ ee patience must be exercised b: Very Respectfully, ok Worze, aoe it is ee of your investi- Book Commission. | i cog one Sick... Pres. School-B would obstruct the | D.N. — aN business. of the goverument on the property | it is done under | It is | It is surprising that people will pil when English | ate at reason that I value them the | they can secure a valuable | more highly. Yours truly, one for the same money. Dr. Ackers | English pills are a positive cure for | Sorghum factory on the bridge-| by Miller and son; 20 years’ exper: | racket. He does not care how much | noise you make in the street but the | Born, to the wife | but | Emma Rinehart | ment and Steele's Hygienic Physiol- | to enforce the law...... oa Olie | ogy, decline to extend the time for | Huwphrey, teacherat No. 2, went exchange beyond Sept. 1, 1892. to Butler Saturday...... Mr Hilton latter | gation: bookkeepers can't afford to} COUNTY, $50,000.00 -. President Vice-President id Vice-President . Cashier Secretary Attorney How, * ek, Lones Money, issues Drafts and Your patronage respectfully When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria | When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, | When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castorig, do without it... .Hon. ‘and son Geo. of Hume, Johu Biggs were over Saturday looking after his prospects for treasurer, in this neck o’ the i woods. John isa grand fellow, we all know him...... Dan Nestlerode | has a new wagon..Mrs Jolu Hens- ley was in town visiting one day last. week.... Little Mona Ruble is up }and can (rallc around and jally regaining her | Morris a neighbor is gradu- speech. ...Mr of uncle Billy Drysdale, was down on a yisit a short time ago fron county «Mis MeMichi ter in- law, of East Linn, visiting the | former’s sister, Grandma Drysdale | --OM Drysdale is on the sick list. .. They have their new organ | at the Nestierode schoo! house and has given the best of satisfaction. Those that have agreed to help pay Jonry und dau | for it may look for the cullector this week.... Virgil failed to make his regular visit Sunday evening...Mr- | Hedges and family aud Miss Ola Humphrey were in Virginia Suuday -..-...Mrs Carr Dadley has the Reavley fever, hope it is not conta gious?....F.d Dadley is the horse j trader at present; he says Le won't cheat....3 Mr. | Sunday swapping jokes with boys. Wes Mullis was down ihe N. M. Nesrierove. - Won- | | SCROFULOUS SORES Lady Badly Afflicted Three Years. Tries Many Doctors Here and in England Without Bene- fit. Cured by Cuticura. My wife having euffered from Scrofuia sorea on the years, and at times she could not and she tried ail the doctors I 80 went to England to try and be , and all of them failed, and told hee uid do nothing for her; and having tried «it f remedics [ at last tried one box of your | she . le, and her back is as clear a can recommend me I could fi 25 Sayles Street, Cicveiand, Obio- Scrofula Ten Years J had a ruaning sore in my ear of a scrofulm efor ten years. Had been treated by seve but oMained no rehef untit . Which healed it up in a few daze. than three yeare ago, and I hase had ro trouble with it «i I consider your Crmievma ee ipexceiled for the diseases you caim wa Mas. BR. A. WOODFORD, Ecatterwood, Ho. Dak. ‘ Cuticura Remedies the greatest Skin Cures, Bicod Purifere and Remedies the world has ever known. ESOLVENT, the new Biood and @kin the blood of all im- VEE | i 5 ; i ; { jinn ial nasa ie