The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1892, Page 4

i | | i BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | the Missouri Pacific Railway Co. The editor of the Tnxes has 1n his | possession tke letter head of the Missouri Pacific law department, upon which 1s printed the name of this same William S. Shirk as one of the regular attorneys of that rail- road. Do our farmers want a salaried railroad attorney for their supreme judge? J, D. ALLEN Eprror. J. D. Aten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekty Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. CHAIRMAN CARROLL TO BLAME. William S. Shirk, the paid coun- selor of the Missouri Pacific railroad | company, was placed upon the peo ples’ party ticket without the knowl- edge of the ra: and file of that par- ty. Who, then,sis responsible for this outrage? There are only two ways his name could possibly have been placed upon the ticket under the law. The state central commit tee of the peoples’ party had the power to fill any vacancy which might have occurred on the ticket THE SITUATION. This issue closes the polls, so far as the Times is concerned. We have tried to conduct a fair, honorable and straight forward campaign, ab- juring abuse of individual candidates, but exposing fraud and corruption whenever and wherever it appeared. This has indeed been a campaign of reason. Littleof the enthusiasm that expresses itself in boisterous dem- onstations has beeu manifested and during the interval from the state|yet the people are studying the Convention to the time the ticket was | great political issues as they never certified up to the secretary of state, |did before. A caim and dispassion- or he could have been placed on the|ate review of the situation leads us ticket by petition of electors, (the|to believe that Grover Cleveland manner in which Atkeson’s name | will be elected president. Indiana was placed or the republican ticket.) /is sure to go democratic. In fact He was not placed on the ticket by |the republicaus virtually abandoned the latter method. Then the state|that state weeks ago. In New York central committee must have filled | Senator Hill and the full Tammany the vacancy. M. V. Carroll is chair-|organization are supporting Mr. man of that committee and went in|Cleveland ardently and enthusiast- person to Jefferson City and filed Jically and the World claims that the peoples’ ticket with Secretary | they will meet the republicans at Lesueur. ‘Then Mr. Carroll is re | Harlem river with 100,000 majority. sponsible for Judge Shirk’s name |The Press, astrong republican ad- appearing upon the peoples’ ticket.|vocate, concedes New York to the Granting, for the sake of argument, | democratic column. that it was consistent aud proper} Our own matchless Stone will be fora candidate for supreme judge] elected. There is no doabt of that. to be endorsed by the peuples’ par-|'I'he only question is the size of his ty, overlooking the fact that the| majority over the republican nomi- principles and policies. of the two|nee, Major Warner. Conservative parties are diometrically opposed, estimates places his plurality at did Mr. Carroll’s party do the prop- | 20,000, and we believe he will se- erthing ,by its party in selecting |cure that. Mr. Leonard is not con- Judge Shirk? There are three su-| sidered in the race, and it is doubt- preme judges to be elected; conse-|ful if the third party will poll as qeuntly there were three republican | large a vote as it did two years ago. nominees to choose from, William In the county campaign the re- wealthiest corporation in the state, the county clerk’s office instead of | were allowed all credits due them villifying and maligning the demo-|the county would be their debtor to cratic members of the county court. ja considerable sum. Unfortunately On December 24th, 1891, the! the order was not written up, but county court made 2n order to inves-|the Tres called attention to the tigate the county records aud em omission the verysnext week, show- ployed L. B Allison, ata ealary of jing that ifan error had been com three dollars and a half per day, to| mitted, and we believed there had, be paid out of the public treasury. | we were not disposed to shield the Judge Fix very properly voted | court or hide anything. We under against the order, holding that there | stand, however, that owing to the was no occasion for an expert exam: | action of the clerk i: writing up the ination, and if an examination was|former order in the made the expert should be allowed! Reece determined to w a per cent of the findings, (as was} order anJ not he ne to spare, the case when Wm. EK. Walton ex-| conclu led to j we it aud have it amined the records and found Wes- | entered of record at the next meet | ley T. Smith a defaulter and collect-| ing of the court. | ed off his bonds:sen some $15,000.) Tie Union iz wis “write up” fai! , Judge, s own) 03 W. Edwards, Charles Nagle and] publican nominees have fallen by Willian S. Shirk. The first named] the wayside, as they did two years is circuit judge of St. Louis county, |ago, with the difference that then ® good man, so far as we know to | the deal was made with the sanction the contrary, and an upright and | of the republican party, now the honest judge who has never been ac- peoples’ party leaders have exerted cused of being connected with @)the “influence” upon the republican railroad corporation. Charles Nagle | nominees themselves to get them to isa young German lawyer practic- | withdraw. The rank and file of the ing at the St. Louis bar. He haz es- | republican party are very indignant tablished the reputation of being a | at at the manner in which they have good lawyer and an honest man and | been treated by their nominees and has never been considered a corpo-| they will not be “dumb driven cat- ration lawyer. Judge Shirk while} tle.” It is claimed that no trade bas admittedly an able lawyer, has been | been made and republican candidates for years the local attorney of the |are free to vote as they choose. Mo. Pac. R’y Co., at Sedalia, and] The democratic nominees, one and for the past two years been regular |all, are making a straight forward, ly employed at a fixed salary iu the |honorable and manly campaign. jaw department of that railroad com- They are not abusing anybody,neith- pany with his office in the Missouri|er are they making any unholy al- Pacific building in St. Louis. If|jiances and trying to barter away these three names had been submit-|the rights of the individual voter. ted to the qualified electors of the They ask the intelligent suffrage of peoples’ party throughout the state does anyone doubt that the choice would have fallen om either Judge Edwards or Mr. Nagle. But who the people of Bates county. THAT INVESTIGATION FAKE. In conformity with his every act does Mr. Carroll choose? The name | during his conduct of the Union in of the railroad attorney appears on | this city, Carroll waits until less than the ticket as answer. What influence | two weeks of the election aud then do you imagine could have been springs the “investigation” fake and This would have been fair and right, i to tell the fact that after finishing | instead of spending the tax-payers jup the county trea effice, the) money in the fond hopes of manu | eourt ordered Pio facturing campaign material for the investigate the she usion labor party. For two months jour late lamented sh under a U. L. court Allison plodded | Glazebrook. Tuat Mrs. Glaze along drawing his salary avd find it irved over to him all of her ing nothing. During that time it) baud’s papers and receipts, % can be proven that he was frequent jter going through them, (at ly in secret caucus with union labor | per day) he notified the court that leaders and officials, showing that | they were perfectly straight and all the investigation was being conduct- right. ed for partisan purposes, instead of; Now we reaffirm that this investi- for the people's benefit. jgation should aud will react as a Then Judge Connell died and| boomerang to that party which in- Judge Reece was appointed as a} stigated it and should and_ will democrat. The matter of continuing strengthen the democratic party. the examination was freely discussed | as to whether the people's money | should longer be frittered away in that manner. The Times favored the continuing ers We do not believe that Mr. Colyer or any other candidate on the dem- We are satisfied that such talk emi of the investigation a reasonable|nates from the oppositien to the lengt': of time, but we insisted that | democratic party, and is done for are; esentative of the democratic | the purpose of creating disaffection party should be employed to work/in our ranks. Democrats are not in co; junction with the other party's | circulating these kind of reports. expert’ Judge Henry's name was| whether they supported Mr. Colyer sugg:sted as a man who was well! before the convention or not. It is acquainte lwith the books. and who |a slander on the good and loyal could ire been of inestimable ser- | democrats of this county, who pre vice to Pref Allison. This learned | ferred another to Mr. Colyer in the Professor expert objected to Judge! primary, to say that they are now Henry and to every other name men- tioned. The court decided te continue P.of. Allison alone for a reasonable time, and he was continued for near- | ly four months longer, or nearly six! months in all, and then instead of | coming up like aman and confessing 4 German Farmer Electr: his inability to find any embezzle-| ment, or defaleation, he played the, part of a truculent partisan and) 4, went to haggling on commissions | paid by the county court aud allow | ed by the state auditor, settle ments with that officia!, state funds. This is not the Allison has posed in this kind of a doubiful John Atki- son, a highly respected citizen of our couuty, was once sheriff and col that question, having always been a lector of Bates county. Uncle Johu republican. Mr. Naber followed Dr gained the ill-will of the members| Sim iNeely who most ably addressed of the county court at that time and ‘the Dore outantt wand faeces! they “weut after him” us it were. | Farmer Naber replied to Senator ordered an investigation and when | T, galls’ statements in his Topeka looking around for an “expert” to jspeech regarding the condition of He said the trouble j with Ingalls was that he didn’t iook brought John the inyestigation and |for any bappiness among the Ger Atkison out « defaulter in the sum loci, Tho erg Gentine of $12,000. eae counky court im: 9 y just as we could tind it in hap mediately brought suit on his bond, lpy America. The German peopie, and the case, after costing the coun leaid Mr. Naber, can buy all their ty several thousand dollavs was final- | agricultural implements of American circulating reports calculated to in- jure him in his race. There is plenty of work to do to defeat the enemy, without slandering one another. —— KNEW WHEREOF HE SPOKE. tfies a Meet- ing in Leyenworth County. Levenworth, Kan., Oct. 23—At a wmocratic meeting at Fairmount, this county, last evening H. A. Neber, . ja weil to do and prosperous farmer, ne only recently returned from an ex- tended tour through Germany and Uwe a visit to his old home furnished his fold for first neighbors quite a sensation in ;the form of a tariff speech aud a de- of the democratic party on transaction. ) fense serve their interests this same L. B. | his countrymen. Allison was picked upon. 7 Tle made for misery 'Franklsn, ‘(Cannon jocratic ticket is doing any trading | Oak Garland. Peoria Base§Burner The Wood Stoves. Celebrated Charter a 1 Oak Cook 2a al Stoves Stov a oe. for Coal or coal, r Wood: eee with Wis a Gauze Todd, rae at Box Doors, S| and Garland and Peoria Stoves. § Cook Stoves aT * Groceries, Hardware, Glass and Queensware, Schuttler, Studebaker and Moline Farm Wagons, Spring Wagons, Top Buggies and Ro:d Garts. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. BUTLER, MO. Steve Elkin’s Washington, D. C., S pt. 28.—A. Parkersburg (W. Vua.,) correspond- ent tells a story on secretary Elkins which creates a deal here. Mr. Elkins bougit a fine fowling piece for the eidest boy just before the McKinley bill became a law. Later on, after the passage of the bill, his other sous persuaded him to in my judgment never passed the order for them in New York a dupli- threshold of the doors of the senate | cate of the gun. Avowedly in the interest of ood The guns arrived while the seere- goyernment it was instigated im my When he returned the boys exhibited their guns with the statement that they An Infamous Measure. loys. From a speech on the Force Bill by Republicen Senator ‘feller of Colorado, Thave read that bill with care and attention more than twenty times. I have read it in the light of calm consideration. And I repeat that if it were presented to me now the party dismissal, I should not vote for the bill. A more infamous bill of amusement with alternative of party support or tary was on astumping tour judgment by men whose interest it was to prevent a free expression of the will of the voters at the polls | were “just like brother's.” eee ee. “Yes, boys said the secretary, i he Mighty Tammany. }“L ordered duplicates of the first The following extract was taken | O!® from a special dispatch to the St. After he bad examined th guns ove of the boys asked: Well, papa, where have you been this week and Louis Globe Democra!: “It was Tammany night ad the what bave you been doing?” “I have been to Martinsburg, Morgantown and King- wood making speeches.” “What did you taik about?” “The tariff.” “Did you tell them the tariff is not a tax aud that the cousuwer did not pay 1.” Certainly.” “Now papa, if the tariff is not & tax und the cousumer does not pay old tiger crawied Gut ot nis dai aud howled. The alleged ba Democracy of New York City made a pilgramnge to that temple of De- | mocracy, Camwmany | lall. cil fires did buru brightly,tie braves were in their war paiut aud as the bands played and the rockets and stars flew, they made the air quiver with their war whoops In the in ervals, soine one woul: yell nomiens Grafton, The coun- “Three cbeers for Cleveland! asd whoo these in the hall had subsided, une could hear, like av echo, the wild of the multitude in me street beiow 7 oer it, will you please explain to us what this ineaus vn the bottom of the bill thit came with the guns?” Here the Jad produced the biil, and on the bottom of it was wiitten: “Mr. Elkins, we are obliged to charge you $4 more for ench of these ly thrown out of court by the circuit} | mapufacture for nearly cue balf the brought to bear upon Chairman Car- roll to have induced him to thus vio- late every tenet and principle claim- attempts to make a great hellaba- lew, a veritable tempest in a tea pot. If there had been anything wrong judge. Any one who is interested | Rononlie articles Tiere in knowing the full history of this) >), people of my uative land love ed by the party he represents? The with the books of the ex-county of- “jnfluence” must have been very ficials Mr. Carroll would not have great to have thus warped Bro. Car waited until this late date to give it xoll’s judgment(?) Now will the publication. The facts are that the rank and file of the people's party investigation of the records by a so ratify this ‘sell out” by their chair- called expert has been one of the man? We think the honest men in| Very worst boomerangs that party that party will teach him a lesson|! this county has yet encountered. case can call on Uncle John Atkison | Auerica,” said Mr. Naber, “but they in this city. | But we digress. After this expert had drawn his $3.50 per day for nearly six months, aud the court called on him for an accounting, be brought forward, as narrated above, a charge of excess of fees and com missions, amounting to some $1,100. (have been compelled to buy their wheat of Russia because Awerica They prefer to | has shut them out. ‘trade with us. They have nothivg in common with Russians. They j hate them, but they love the Ameri- | can government and its people be- }cause their kinsmen are a part and not to be soon forgotten. EEE. THAT RAILROAD ATTORNEY. The name of Judge Shirk, repub After laboring over the books for six months the expert had to admit that no defalcation or misappropria- tion of the public fund existed Se Tican nominee for supreme judge, |in order to satisfy his employers and has, through some peculiar methods, | make some kind of show of earning found a place on the people’s party | his three dollars and a half per day, ticket. paid out of the peoples money, he Nearly, if not quite, half of this was, | parcel of it” by the Prof.’s report, due the state, | His speech bad a telling effect ‘ }among the many farmers present although Messrs. Catron and Reeder | and is one of the best object lessons held the State Auditor’s receipt iu/ they Lave yet had on the effect 0” a full for all moneys due the state. | robber tariff on the farmers of Ameri The county clerk was ordered to\ca. He said that Mr. Ingalls told a : | falsehood when h- asserted that Ger- notify Messrs. Reeder and Catron to cnastiwonien erejitohed algngeraal of | The People’s convention nominat-| began figuring on fees and commis- ed O. D. Jones, C. F. Moulton and|sions allowed these ex officials by a Wm. Munks for the three supreme|former county court. Here Prof. judges. Through the peculiar met-| Allison’s judgment and legal know] amorphosis it has undergone in the | edge came in conflict with the rulings hands of the leaders, the name of| of the county court and state auditor, Munks has been drcpped and that|and as a consequence of the superior of Skirk substituted. knowledge of this learned Professor Now, who is William S. Shirk/an overplus of commission was fig- whom the leaders attempt to saddle| ured out against two ex-officials, upon their party without the con- Messrs. Reeder and Catron. Mr. sent of the rank and file? Carroll knows fuil well there is noth- Aside from being a bitter partisan | ing whatever in that claim. If there republican, he is and has been for|was why did he not publish Prof. years the salaried attorney of the|Allison’s written report, as filed in come forward and account for this “find” of the expert. a dispute arose as to the form or wording of that order is not ger- mane to the issue, although an effort was made to make political capital out of that order, on account of its peculiar phraseology, by sending se The fact that | dogs to do work of drudgery. i He did uot deny that many of the | country women worked in the fiela, } especially where the sugar beet in-| } dustry is largely cultivated, but Mr. | | Ingalls forgot to state that the flow | ;er of Germany's manhood is doing| tservice in the German army, num-_ | bering nearly 500,000 men. Arrested —the progress of Consumption. In all its earlier stages, it can be cured. It’s a scrofulous affection of the lungs—a blood taint—and, as in every other form of scrofula, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is a certain remedy. But it must be taken in time—and now is the time to take it. It purifies the blood—that’s the secret. Nothing else acts like it. It’s the most potent strength-re- storer, blood-cleanser, and flesh- builder known to medical science. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, and all lingering Coughs, it’s a remedy that’s guaranteed, in every case, to benefit or cure. If it doesn’t, the money is re- turned. guns than for the first ope on ac count of the Mc-Kinley bill, making ‘ eight dollars.” The boys were still waiting for the secretary's explanation when last heard from.”—Ex. Proposed Amendment to the Coustita- tion of Missouri. Current resolution submitting to the qualified voters of the state of Missouri an amend- ment to the constitution thereof concerning the relief of diesvled and crippled firemen by the cities of said state having an organiz- ed fire department Be it resolved by the House of Representa- tives, the Senate concurring therein: That at the general election to be held on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, A D_ 1892, the following amendment to the constitation of the state of Missouri. concein- ing the relief ot disabled crippled fremen by the cities of said state. shall submitted to the qualified voters of state, to-wit: Sxction1] That section 47. of article 4 of the constitution, be amended by adding there- to the following words, to-wit: Provided, that this shall not be eo construed as to pro- hibit the generai assembly from providing by law for authorizing the creation, maintain- ance and management of a fund for the pen- sioning of crippied and disabled firemen. and tor the relief of the widows and miner children of deceased Sremen, by such cities, villages or incorporated towns as may have an organ- ized fire department—said fund to be taken fromthe municipal revenue of such cities, villages or incorporated towns. STATE OF MISSOURI, ss I, Alexander A Lesueur, secretary of state of the etate of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of a concurrent resolution of the thirty-sixth general assembly of the state of Missouri, en- titled: *“Concurrent resolution submitting to the qualified voters of the state of Misscuri an cret circulars out over the county, | ae pee and after the Tres exposed and | i punctured the bubble, the Union de- | pains a When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. f | z nied responsibility for the circular. | ee A= Se aa Messrs. Reeder and Catron appear-! wien she became Miss, she clung to Castoria ed before the court and proved con-| when she bad Children, she gave them Castors clusively that they did not owe the| county one cent, but in fact if they | \ is “jast as good” as the “ Discov- i In other words, it’s sold on trial. No other medicine of its kind is. And that proves that nothing else amendment to the constitution thereof. con- cerning the relief of disabled end crippled firemen by thecities of said stste having an organi: fire department,’’ as sppears by comparing the same with the original roil of said concurrent resolution now on file, as the law directs, in this office. ~~ In testimony whereof, I hereunto j set my hand and affix the great seai } of the stateof Missouri. . - e dealer is thinking of his |‘ 7” profit, not of yours, when he urges cighth day ofSepiember a De ise. a _A LESUEUR, S74 Secretary 5 7 SEAL something else.