The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 9, 1893, Page 4

ee 8 ITLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Ep:ror. J- D. Aten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexry Times, published eyery Wednesday, will be sent to any address ane year, postage paid, for $1.00, Announcements. TOWNSHIP COLLECTOR. We are authorized toannounceR. B SLEDGE as candidate for Collector of Mt Pleasant township, subject to the action of the demo- cratic convention Feb’y 25, 189% We are authorized to announce W. G _WO- MACK as candidate for Collector of Mt. Pleas- ant township, subject tothe action of the democratic convention Feb’y 25, 1293. We are authorized toannounce WALTER M @RAETREE as candidate for Collector of Mt. Pleasant township, subject to the action of the democratic convention Feby 25, isvs CITY COLLECTOR. — We are authorized to announce JOHN E. @HUTT, candidate for Coljector of the city of Batler, subject 10 the action ofthe democratic sonvention called for Saturday evening Feb'y isth, 3. CONSTABLE. We are authorized toannounce E P HART- WELL as candidate for Constable of Mt. Pleas aat township, subject to the action of the dem- cratic convention called for Feb’y 25, 1893. We are authorized to announce W. M. AR- NOLD as candidate for Constable of Mt. Pleas- ant township, subject tothe action of the dem- oc ition called for Feby 25, 1893. DEMOURATIO COMMITTEE. Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the democratic central eommittee of Bates county will be held at the city hall, in Butler, Mo., on Saturday, February 18th, 1893, At 1 o'clook, p. m., for the purpose of making all necessary arrange- meats to provide for the nomination of a county school commissioner aud to transact such other business as way properly come before it. T. K. Ling, Parisu NIckEL1, Chairman. td Secretary. The police of Kansus City raided two crap gambling dens in that city Monday and the two places yielded @total of 106 men, including the proprietors, dealers, cappers and frequenters. Congressman W. L. Wilson of West Virginia in an interview pre- dicts that the present congress will not repeal the Sherman silver pur- chase act, as the time is too short for tbe repeal of the law. No one will object tu the county eourt building a jail for this county provided they cap arrange for the payment of the same out of: the eounty revenue without materially in ereasing taxes. We have reliable men on the bench and they will do nothing that is not in accordance with taw and demands of the county. A volume id be too limited to tell the endless blessings of good country roads and the loss and wor- riment of bad ones. I will say, how ever, Iregard the public highways ofany country as much a part of that country as her laws and people, and her people may be expected to prosper in proportion as she keeps her roads in perfecc order.”—Gov Reynolds. The Kaheas City papers are mak- ing a desperate fight against the fee grabbers of that city. They favor paying all officers a salary, the sur- plus to be turned back into the treasury. It would be a ggod thing if the legislature would pass a general law for the siate and put all county officers on a salary and do away with the fee system entirely. ——— Township and school elections will not be held under the Austra lian system as the following section frum that law shows: “Section 4792. This article does not apply to elections for public of- fices determined otherwise than hy Ballot, to township or village elec- tions, to school elections, or elec tions of county commissioners of public schools or election of road overseers.” Sedalia Gazette, a republican pa per, pays Gov. Stone the following flattering compliment: “It must be admitted that Gover- nor Stone's future ‘seems a bright one. He is but 42 years of age. He is the ablest man, taken from any standpoint, in the democratic party of Missouri to-day. And notwith- standing the fact that mossback bourbonism iv Missouri is in the way of national recognition, yet his destiny promises to overcome the national disadvantages these condi- IT SHOULD GO. able article, found in another column. jtakes us to task for our position on jthe township crgauization law. Mr. Newberry’s defense of the jroads in Bates county is superb aud | the condition just now will no doubt bear him out, but the first thaw tbat |comes, and the gentleman has occa- sion to come to town, he will find they are bottowless. The roads in | Mr. Newberry’s township may be in | good coudition, if they are it is an exception, for they are not good in tue majority of towuships, and we deny that in a majority of the town- ships they are worked efficiently aud intelligently. As faras the assessing and cul- lecting is concerned it would be much better if it was done by coun- ty officers instead of by so many different ones under the towuship law. This seems to us so plain that it is useless to enter into an exhaus- tive argument to establish it. If Mr. Newberry could but see the con dition of of the assessors bvoks which are turned over to the county clerk, and the vast difference they make in the vaiuation of simi lar property, he would materially change his mind. His argument that a majority of the people are for township organi- zation, else they would vote it down, is no doubt true; but that ma- jority comes from the larger town- ships, as pointed out in our last week’sarticle. If township organization is such a good thing, as pointed out by Mr. Newberry and its other advocates, why is it that such a very small per cent of the counties in the state are working under it, only seventeen out of one hundred and fourteen, al- though many have tried it and after- wards voted to abolish it. Each county is only a small part of the big machivery of the state and there should be no friction in laws governing them collectively If township organization is a good thing, let every county adopt it, if not then the whole system should be abolished and all work under the same code of laws. some ‘a GRACEFUL ACT. In the appointment of Judge Jackson to the supreme bench Presi- dent Harrison did a very graceful act, and one whith will put a halo around his departure from the cheif executive's office which nothing else could have done. As president, Mr. Harrison basn’t shown that he is a great man or brilliant statesman; in fact he has tended to the mediocre. His own party admit that But in this matter he did what but few men would have done under similar circumstances. He looked above and beyond party lines and choose @ man pre eminently qualitied for the office. He realized that the south was entitled to recognition on the bench, and justice would give hera judge in political sympathy with her people, as the one he succeeded was- Of course no one knows Mr. Har rison’s motives for such an action, but the purest of motives should be ascribed until the contrary is sown. The rantings and vaporings of Mr. Clarkson,who is writing open letters abusing the president for not ap- pointing a republican, will tend to make the act more popular with the great mass of the American people. Asto whether the present senate confirms the appointment or not is of little moment. If it refuses Mr. Cleveland will immediately re-ap- point Judge Jackson and a demo- cratic senate will cofirm his appoint- ment. All praise unto him who merits it. A BLOTCH ON HER ESCUTOHEON. The crime of the negro brute, Smith, at Paris, Texas, most heinous known to civilization. It called for retribution surely, swiftly and terrible. | But those on whose shoulders devolved the un- pleasant duty of meting out the proper punishment should not have placed themselves outside the pale} of civilization. By their acts they made themselves more brutal than the brute they tortured. The negro when he committed the crime, was little above the wild animal in bu- man intelligence and far more fexo- cious and vicious. Add to this the further fact that he was drunk and you havea pretty clear idea of the criminal. On the other hand his was the executioners were sober, intelligent | Hon. Johu B. Newberry, in an | citizens and had had sufficient time | to view the crime with reason, if not without passion. The brute deserv- ed death, but civihzation and hu- manity had claims which should not have been iguored. The death which was meted out to this wretch was more horrible than any we have record of,conceived and executed by the savages, and the middle ages, with all its damnable torture of criminals has no counterpart to this in all its horrors. A blotch bas been! placed upon the fair escutcheon of Texas, which dims the luster of even her Alamo, and which can never be effaced. Governor Hogg did right in issuing a proclamation to have the offenders brought to justice. The tair name of the state should be pre- served. O'Neil’s Pension Reform. When the proper time comes Mr. O'Neil, of Massachusetts, will en- deavor in the house to restore 'to the peusion appropriation bill the clauses his committee struck out of it. The principal of these provide disability pensioss shall not be paid to men having an income of more than $600 a year, and that widows’ pensions shall not be paid to women who married their soldier husbands since 1870. These are perfectly just require- ments. The one simply withholds pensions from men well able to take care of themselves. The other does not take a pension from any one fairly entitled to the government bounty. Experts in the pension office esti- mate that the saving by the first provision will be $20,000,000 a year. The saving from the other is va- riously estimated at from $10,000,- 000 to $30,000,000. Provisions so important should no be suppressed in committee. They should be considered in the house. The reform of the pension lists in the direction of justice aud economy is an imperative duty of congress, and Mr. O’Neii's proposal is the most important one yet made in the extent of the saving it prom- ises.—N. Y. World. The Force Bull. Hon. D. A. DeArmond, of Mis- souri, has reported a bill for the repeal of the law authorizing the appointment of supervisors of elec- tions, which is the parent of the late infamous force bill concocted by John I. Davenport, carried through the House of representa- tives aud only defeated in the Senate by the patriotism of the Democrats reinforced bya number of equally patriotic Republicans During the discussion of that measure in the late campaign this paper frequently mentioned the law now in force authorizing the appointment of supervisors, which is a miniature form of the diabolical measure defeated at the last election, and urging its repeal, which should be promptly done. Mr. DeArmond is rapidly taking rank among the ablest statesman of the country. He is a fearless champion of the rights and liberties of the people and opposed to centralization and all ag- gressions of the Federal Government upon the reserved rights of the states.—Springfield Leader The Death of Mrs. Whitney Causes Widespread Regret. New York, Feb. 5.—As announced briefly in the early morning dis- patches Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the ex secretary of the navy, died at her home, 2 West Fifty-sev- enth street, at 3 o’clock this morn- ing of heart disease. Only Mr. Whitney and the nurses who attend- ed her illness were present at the deathbed, the end coming unexpect- edly. Dr.I. Wood McLane, who with Dr. Charles McBurney, had been attending Mrs. Whitney, left her at 11:30 o'clock last night. To Nominate Postmasters. Harrisonville, Mo., Feb. 6.—The democratic committee met here to-; day and fixed Saturday, February 18, as the day to nominate postmas-; They fixed | ters for Cass county. the boundaries for voting b> town- ships instead of the patrons of each office. The method will likely cause a great deal of dissatisfaction as it barsa great many democrats from voting. Not In Favor of Abolishing It. ! Sprucs, Mo. Fes 6, 1893. | Ep. Trwgs: In last week's issue. lof the Tiwes I tiud an editorial un i der the heading “Township Organi-| zation Should be Abolished;” which, | | fident does not reflect the sentiment | | county, else they would vote them- jselves from uud-r it. As to the) lopinion that monev “is frittered jawWay~paying salaries to twenty-four | | sets of officers,” I will say that it 15 | collected from the people of the township, who are thereby saved the trouble and expense of going to the county seat to tran-act their busi- ness, which probably saves more to the tax payers aunually than is paid to the towuship officers. As to what is suid about the mon- ey being “fiittered away payiug sa!- aries, ete. which might be spent profitably in improving roads and bridges” will say that in comparison with neighboring counties, Bates is well to the front in the amount of money and labor expended on roads and bridges as well as in their con- dition and quality. Haying been a resident of the county before town- ship organization was adopted, I cannot quite agree with you about the ecouomy of collecting by ‘‘one man”and expending “judiciously &c, by county vourt,” I make the asser- tion, that the roads in Bates county never were worked as efficiently, in- telligently or as well as since each township worked their own roads, in their own way. You say “The rate of levy for county purposes could be reduced if the township aud county levies were combined” On the contrary, an experience of about forty years leads me to believe that the smallest possible amount requir- ed to defray the expenses, however ecouomically adiniuistered, is always equal to the largest possible amount allowed by law to be levied; (and sometimes more too.) You say: “the onty reason that towuship orgauiza- tion is retained in Bates county is because the politicians in the larger towuships want to keep the offices Cank-robver Lewis’ Sentence. Love’s Death. (WRITTEN FOR THE TIMES.) Buriiugtov, Kan, Feb. 5.—Frank 2 | Come, dry thy eyes, you mast not weep, Lewis, of Melvern, the young MA&n; | “ Overa piece of lifeless clay. with Wm. Vanor- \ ‘Tis fairly moulded, aye, ‘tis trae’ es | But then tis naught to-day. mau robbed abauk at Waverly Janu: : ary 27,and when trying to escape } i who in company { "Tis the common lof, this cold still death, | Each,—ail must hear the call, j giee. ig for the money in it to themselves.” Now, it has been my opinion that the reason why it has been retained was because a majority of the peo ple favored it, as they have the priv- lege of voting themselves frum uu- der it whenever they become dissat- isfied with it. Now, Mr. Editor, che reason assigned by you (“Lue poh- ticiaus in the larger townships, &”) for its retention is evidently errone- ous, neither are the people likely to abolish it just to satisfy a few of “the politiciaus in the larger town ships.” Whenever a majority of the voters of Bates county by their bal- lots say they wish to change the present organization for some other and not until then ought “Township Organization be Abolished.” Jno B. Newserny. Twenty three days more and Grover Cleveland will be inaugurat- ed president CoPYRictr ies) In the place of a woman who’s weak, ailing, and miserable, why not be a woman who’s healthy, happy, and strong? You can be. You needn’t experiment. The change is made, safely and shrely, Court Friday and Saturday About of a majority of the citizens of the | 11 oclock last night, after being out! hezrly twelve hours, the jury retura | | -Twiil mingle with the earthly sod, eda verdict of murder in the first de grounds of errocs iu the indictment wis wade and argued by the prison ers counsel aud overruled, and Lew- | jis was sentenced tothe Penitentiary for one yew and then to be hanged The sher- Pennitentt by order of the gcvernor. iff will take him to the ary tu morrow merning. Lewis is ouly 20 years old aud was never be fore arrested for any offence against the laws. His ace wii vot b+ tries antl the next term of court in April mpliee Vanorman Itis reported that the young e di tor of the Border Telephone is soon to lead to the altar acharming an] | dashing young actress of Fort Scott; but the last issue of that sprightly little paper was us silent a3 a clam ou that matter. Others say that he is preparing for the stage or negotiat- ing with the fair oue to be her busi- ness mavager. At all events there seems to be some ki: d of a dicker on hand.—Pleasauton Herald. NIST" KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and fends to personal enjoyment when A wotion fora new trial on / while it may express the personal! slot aud killed A. P. Ingleman of | rny love was rst, what matters then opinion of the writer, I fee. very cou-| that place, was tried in the District | | Thou art wrong to weep and sadly For you life soon will pall ali, For this thy once fair love, now clay: The marble brow, will dust soon be, And as the form does lay From whence it came, by law superoal,— Thou shouid’st dwell with thoughts of joy, | On the life that blooms eternal. | Where the soul of this thy soul now dwells, In a place unknown of years. Then let them take her to her graye, Come, dry your falling tears. 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