The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 11, 1895, Page 2

Gov. Stone is Severe Uses Bitter Language in His Call for an Extra Session. POTENT LOBBY INFLUENCES. Every Measure is Subject. Says to Its Inspection. He AN OPEN TEST TO BE Whether Just Legislative Measures Can be Enacted .—To Consider Election Bills. Jefferson City, Mo., April 3.—- Governr Stone today issued a call convening the Thirty-eighth Gener- ral Assembly in special session April 23. The proclamation is: State of Missouri, Executive De- partment, Jefferson City, Mo., April 3.—For a number of years the state has been disgraced by an organized and salaried lobby maintained by special interests at the capital dur- ing the session of the General As- sembly for the purpose of influenc- ing legislative action. Encouraged by a seeming lack of public resent- ment at their presence and embold- ened by repeated successes, these lobbyists have, from year to year,in- creased in numbers, influence and audacity until they have become an almost dominating torce in legisla- tion. So confident have they grown in their strength and so potent in influence that they now ply their vo- cation almost without disguise in defiance of public opinien. It has come to pass that almost every im- portant measure of legislation must undergo the scrutiny of the lobby before its fate can be determ- ined. What it approves is not with- out hope, but what it condemns is lost. Perhaps the most conspicous illustration of this disgusting dom- ination is to be found in the treat- ment of the so-called fellow servant bill. I do not now discuss the mer- its'of the measure; I refer only to the means adopted to suppress and defeat it. Those means have been 80 generally discussed in the press of the State, and the people have thus become so familiar with them that I deem it unnecessary to restate in detail. A number of Senators and Rep- resentatives, as well as many good citizens who have felt appalled at the overshadowing influence and humiliated at the triumph of the lob- by, have pressed upon me the im portance of reconvening the Gener- al Assembly to the end that the issue may be fairly presented and an open test made as to whether a just legislative measure of this char- acter can be enacted into a law in spite of the contaminating influence of those who openly boast their abil- ity to direct the current of legiela- tion. These are strong words, I know, {and I write them with the greatest regret. But it is clear to me that the time for mild protest is past. We are confronted by the question whether the people or the lobby shall rule in Missouri. The public safety and the honor of the State are at stake. Every Senator, member, public official and citizen familiar with the truth knows that these words are justified by the sit- uation at Jefferson City. I believe the condition of affairs to which I have averted is alone sufficient to make it my imperative duty to re. call the Senators and representatives elected by the people in special ses sion to consider the particularly im- portant subject of legislation to which I have referred, which kas been so long delayed and so often defeated by influences dangerous to the public right. In this way it can be considered free from the multi- tude of other perplexing questions incident toa regular session, and thus every Senator and Representa- tive can be afforded unhampered op- portunity to discharge his duty to his constiteuncy with the greatest deliberatiou and intelligence. But there is also another question of the moet commanding importance the proper settlement. of which should not be delayed. I refer to the laws governing elections in St. Louis and Kansas City. In the pres- ervation of a free representative gov- ernment nothing is so important as MADE. | | | | purity of elections. Generally throughout this State I am confi- dent elections are characterized by high integrity. But unfortunately this is not true in the large cities. It is known that gross frauds have been committed in these cities. The | inducement and opportunity for cor- rupt practices in large, populous municipalities are great, and experi- ence proves that dishonest men of | all parties have not beea slow to de- bauch the elective franchise. rages have been perpetrated. Candor will compel a general ad- mission that the digrace of election frauds is fairly divided between the adherents of the different political organizations. The truth of this statement is made evident by the fact that both Republicans and Democrats, so-called, have been re- cently indicted in St. Louis and Kansas City, which has a “boss” so conspicuous and potent that the ward, there are twice as many votes registered as there are adult males residing therein. This “boss” is a noted Republican politician. In the same city it is well known that elec- tion returns have been fraudulently changed in the office of the recorder of voters, so as to alter the result at the polls as certified by the judges of election The officer under whose administration this crime was per- trated was a Democrat. When such wrongs are not only possible, but actually and boldly committed, it is evident that the public safety im- peratively requires such changes in the law as will not only terminate existing abuses, but prevent their repretition in the future. This isa question which affects the rights and the interest of the people of the entire State almost as vitally as it does the people of the cities immediately concerned. When we reflect that about one-fourth of the total population of the State re side in St. Louis and Kansas City, and consider the tremendous in- fluence which those cities can exert in the election of national and State officials and on the legislative poli cies of the State, no thoughtful or patriotic citizen can be oblivious or indifferent to the paramount impor- tance of vigilantly guarding the bal- lot-box against every description of fraud and crime. Therefore, in view of the prem- ises, and by virtue of the authority in me vested by the constitution of the State of Missouri, I, William J. Stone, Governor of the State of Mis souri, do hereby convene the Thirty- eighth General Assembly of the State of Missouri in extra session, and I hereby call upon the Senators and Representatives of the General Mesembly aforesaid to meet in their respective places in the capitol in the city of Jefferson, at the hour of Nota | few consummate and dastardly out-| Short Nearly $116,000. Foxcroft, Me. April 2.—Elias J. Deacon Bros, & Co. 4 judge of probate, town clerk, Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Cutlery and Guns first selectman and town treasurer, Stoves and Tinware, and Field Garden seeds, | Buggies, Wagons, and Farm Machinery, ; wanted him at once on business | Upon the hostler’s return the ju ige lay on the office floor with a bullet } | i lhishand. The funeral was post. % | poned until to-day, that his brother, |@ prominent lawyer of Kansas City | might attend, and while the services | were being held the selectmen look- |ed over the town books and discov | ered shortages of $115,780.83. The |first for $50, dated back to two | Thursday last sent his hostler to an! Pamps and Pomp revairing, Groceries and | Undertaker with a message that he! Farm Produce hole in his head and a revolver in! (i eae | NO HO-AX, As to the Quality of our Hardware Listen to the ring of the metal, We do not play April foo! by selling a poor thing and rep- resenting it as a good one. Remember our Refrigerators. (Hot weather is coming!) We carry only best makes of garden tools and L. L. May’s Minnesota bulk garden seeds. STOP! THAT NOISE. NOISE MEANS WEAR ARE Silent and Durable,| The DEERING PONY BINDER and the} DEERING IDEAL MOWER are the light- | est running machines in the world. Sold by. | DEACON BROS. & CO.) Low Priced Hardware and Grocery House. | CS EERE unto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of | Missouri. Done at Jefferson City, this 3d day of April, A. D. 1895. Wii J. Stoxe, By the Governor, A. A. Lesever, Secretary of State Elections in Missouri. St. Louis, Mo, April 3.—Returns | received this forenoon from the mu nicipal elections held throughout Missouri yesterday indicate that a large majority of the cities heard | gained by a | tal and nervous debility. 12 o'clock, noon, on Tuesday, the] fom were carried by the democrats, 23d day of April, A. D. 1895, for the who elected their entire ticket, or a following purposes: majority of the candidates thereon. First—To enact such legislation Of the forty four municipalities | as may be expedient and neccessary to properly define the relations be- tween the different classes ot em- ployees of railroad corporations in this State and also the proper re- lations between all such employes and the railroad corporations em- ploying them, and to define and fix the legal liability between the dif- ferent employes themselves and al- so between such employes and the said railroad corporations for injuries done or received by one such em- ploye as the result of the culpabie negligence of another such employe while engaged in the service of such corporation. Second—To provide such legisla- tive enactments as may be necessary and expedient to prevent the main- tenance of an organized lobby at the capital of the State, either to ob- struct or promote any legislative or executive act; and also to regulate the manner of presenting any question affecting legislation by persons in- terested therein before the General Assembly or any committee thereof. —Third to enact such laws as may be necessary and expedient to pre- vent fraud against the elective fran- chise, and to secure henest elections in all cities having over 100,000 in- habitants. Fourth—To consider any other subject that may be submitted by special message during said extra session. Fifth—To make an appropriation for the expenses of this extra session of the General Assembly. In testimony whereof I have here- heard frem, the democrats were suc- cessful in twenty five. the republi-| cans in nine and the citizens’ ticket | in five, while in five other cities there | was a mixed result. Among the larger cities in which | jthe democratic tickets were elected} are Sprinfield, Mexico, Independ- ence, Nevada, Moberly, Joplin, Cen tralia, Paris, Poplar Bluff, Salem, Monett, Carrollton, Fayette, Neosho, | Gallatin, Richland and Bowling} Green. Sedalia, Macon, Carthage, Lebanon and St. Joseph were the} principal republican cities, while Jefferson City was the only one of prominence in which the result was favorable to neither party. The towns in which citizens’ tickets were elected are of less importance, among them being Bevier, Holden and St. Charles. | At Bunceton, a freight train! switched off a Poland China sleeper | in which four tramps were stealing aride. The hoboes walked several | | blocks down the track expecting to | catch on when the train pulled out, | but seeing it was starting too fast for them, one bum flung himself de- | liberately across the track. The | engineer, however, was no chicken, he didn’t doa thing but put on more lively to avoid being cut to piecés. —Ex. What's the Use of Talking About colds and coughs in the sum- mertime. You may haye a tickliug cough or a little cold or baby may have the croup and when it comes you ought toknew that Parks co Syruy is the best cure for it. Seid by H. L. Tucker, | weeks after Hale became town treas- | urer, thirty-eight years ago, and the last, for $1.200, was taken within two weeks. Hale had been thirty-seven years without bond, and his accounts were never audited. Ten days ago the {town appointed an auditor to go over the books of all town officers, and Hale had been notified an hour before he shot himself that the next day the auditor would call to exam- ine his accounts. He was always considered wealthy, had no bad habits, nor fast horses, but his death reveals that he had little property. He raised the $115,006 on town notes signed by himself, which, when they fell due he paid }out of the treasury, but failed to It t+ AND -:- make return of the money. is WEAR ay, | believed he lost it all in Western MEANS WASTE | mortgage investments. Deering | a = Zano restores nervous energy and restores Roller lost manhood. Zano cures mental and sexual Sof aa | debility ofmen. Sold by H. L. Tucker, drag- Bearings gist. pete nes Elyria, O., April 4.—An attempt was made to blow up the vault in the county treasurer's office here last night. A fuse was found this morning attached to the vault door which had been plugged with nitro. glycerine. The fuse appeared to jhave been lighted. Half a dozen horse blankets covered the door. The outer door leading to the office had been forced with a chisel and entrance to the had been window which was A full outfit of tools was found near the vault, indicating corridor found open. the work of professionals. There is $17,000 in the vault. The sheriff has telegraphed for an expert to open the vault, as it is feared the glycerine will explode if tampered with. There is no clue to the rob bers. Zano cures all diseases resulting trom men- Zano restores the broken down nervous system and lost §man- hood. Sold by H. L. Tucker. Much is now being said about the Monroe doctrine. Here it is, as tak- en from the message of President Monroe to congress on December 2, 1823: ‘We owe it, therefore. to can- dor and to the amicable relations ex- isting between the United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any part of this hemisphere as dangerous te our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of jany European power we have not in- terfered and shal! not interfere: but with the governments who have de clared their independence and main- tained it, and whose independence we have on great consideration and just priociples acknowledged, we could not view uny interposition for the purpos+ of oppressing them or controlling in any European power in any other light than as the mani- festation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States. ERHEISIECK. PLUG TOBACCO. | | THE GUARD FIRED TWICE. Smallpox Quarantine Results in the Wounding of Captain W. H. Stiles. | Ridgeway, Iil., April 2 —Smallpox _|is raging in Shawneetown Ill. There are now 18 cases reported and one ‘death. This place pas been quaran- | tined against Shawneetown for some \time and to day came very near re-| | sulting in a tragedy. Captain W. H. Stiles, who lives at New Market | a small place 14 miles from here, was | driving into Ridgeway this afternoon | | with a boy when at the edge of town | he was challenged by one of the) guards. Captain Stiles refused to| stop but kept on driving in. guard, Herny Ro!Jman, raised his} The| THE Bates County Bank, BUTLER, MO. Svecessor to Eates Co. National Bank. Established in 1870. Paid up capital $125,000 A general banking business trans. acted FACTYGARD, < — - President. HON. J. B. NEWRERRY Vice-Pres. J. C. CLARK - - Cashier double-barreled shotgun and fired, | ———————__————— the load taking effect iu the back of | DR. F. M. FULKERSON | sonable cause absented himseif from pisintif® Stiles head. The captain still failing | to stop, the guard fired another load | at him which struck Stiles in the} back. Neither shot will prove fatal | as the captain was protected by aj very heavy overcoat but he is badly wounded. Ardmore, I T., April 3—To night while playing with a Winchester Willie Lewis, aged 10, was accident ly shot and fatally wounded by his brother Jake, aged 14. Jake Lewis is the same boy who shot and killed Zeno Martin, an Indian Jad, last November, for which crime he is now indicted by the Federal court at Paris, Texas. fl, pes! < LESSENS PAIN—INSURES SAFETY to LIFE of MOTHER and CHILD. My wife, after having used Mother’s Friend, passed through the ordeal with little pain, was stronger in one hour than in a week after the birth of her former child. J.J. McGoupnicx, Beans Sta., Tenn. Mother's Friend robbed pain of its terror and shortened labor. 1 have the healthiest child Lever saw. Mus. L. M. AnERs, Cochran, Ga. Office, front DENTIST. Southeast Corner Square, over Dea- con Bors, & Co.'s Store. BUTLER, MISSOURI T. J. Smirn. A. W. Tucrman SMITH THURMAN. LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Natn'l Bank, Butler, Missouri, RAVES & CLARK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office over the MissourijgState Bank North side square. Silvers & Denton ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, BUTLER, MO. Office over the Farmers Bank. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- en aspecialty. | DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIUC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, room over McKibbens Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt |store. Ail callanswered at office day or ot ae per bottle. k “To Mothera” | night. mailed free. 5 5 te BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Specialattention given to temale dis For Sale uy all Druggists- ATLANTA,Ga,. | eases. Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI | County of Bates In the c! t court of Bates county. Missouri, in va on March x Merit Zinn, % i n, Artilda B, er husband, and George inn, defendante Now at this day comes Merit Zinn the plaintif herein by his attorney, WO Jackson, before the undersigned clerk of the cirouit court of Bates county, Mo., in vacation, and files his petition and ‘gfidavit, alleging among other things that défendants,Jsas E Zinn, Artilda B Wellsand Elmer Wells, her husband and George W Zinn. are not residents of the state of Missouri. Whereupon it is ordered by the clerk in vacation, that said defendants be no- tified by publication that plaintiff has com- menced # suit againet them in this court by petition and affidavit, the object and general nature of which is to partition and divide among the said plaintif® and defendants as owners of the same and heirs of Mary A Zinn, dec-ased, the following described real estate in Bates county, Mis- souri, to-wit: the east half of lot two (2) and two undiviced thirds of the east half of lot one (1) of the northeast quart-r of section five (5) 3 ) of range thirty-two (32) and the north half of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section five (5) of township forty (46) of range thirty-two (32) and the southwest quarter of. the northeast quarter of section thirty-one (31) of township forty-one (41) of range thirty-two (32, and one undivided third of the east half of lot one (1) of the northeast quarter of eection five (5) of township forty (40) of range thirty-two cording te their interests and that unlessthe said defendants be and appear at this court at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden at the court ,house in the city of Butler, in said county, on the loth day of June next, and on or betore the third day of said term, ifthe term shali so long continue —and if not then on or before the last day of said term, answer or plead to the petision in ssid canse. the same will be taken as con- fessed ard judgment will be rendered accord- ingly. aa be it farther ordered that a copy hereof be published according to law, in the Batier Weekly Time~, a weekly newspaper printed and published in Bates county, Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least fifteen days before the first day of the next term of the circuit court. STEWART ATCHESON, Circuit Clerk. A true copy of the record. Wit- [SEAL] nessmy hand and the seal of the cirenit court of Bates county, this 27th day of March, 1585. STEWART ATCHESON, Circuit Clerk. of township fort 20-48 Order of Publication. STATE OF “aves County of Bates, ses Iu the Cirenit Court of Batec county. Missouri in vacation, March 27th, i835. Ollie Ann Wigton, plaintiff, vs, Samuel Wigton, de- fendant. Now at this dav comes the plaintiff herein by her attorneys. Silvers & Denton, before the un- dersigned clerk of the circuit court of Bates county. Missouri. in vacation and files her petiticn and affidavit, things, thet defend: not & resident of the eging among other Samuel Wigton is of Missouri. Where- upon it is ordered by the clerk in vacation that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintif has commenced a suit against him in this court by petition and affidavit the object and general nature of which ts to obtain a de- cree of divorce from defendant upon the grounds that the defendant without any rea- for more than the spaceof one year next be- fore the rliaz f plaintif’s petition and that | unless the ssid Samuel Wigton be and appear | stthiscourt at the next term thereof, to be ve- | gan and holden at the court house in the city of | atier, in saidcounty. on the tenth day of | June. next, and on or before the third day | of said term. if the term shall so long continue and if not, then on or before the last day of said term—answer or ples tothe petition in| said canse, the same will be teen as confess- ed udgment will be rendered accordingly | it farther ordered that s copy hereof be published according to law. in the Batler | Weekly Tinks, a weekly eg oe printed | and published in Bates county. Missouri. for | fear weeks successiveiy the last tmsertion to; be at least Sfteen days before the first day of the next term of the cirenit court STEWART ATCHESON, Circuit Clerk A true copy of the record. ( t Bates county, this Zk dsy of SEAL} oO! 7 ) ares 107 3 STEWART ATCERSON. Cizeuit Clerk. 30-48 Iron C. HAGEDORN The Old Reliable PHOTOCRAPIHER North Side Square, Has {the best equipped gallery‘Zin Southwest Missouri. All, Styles of Photegrphing executed in the highest style of the act, and at reasonable prices. Work A Specilty. All work in my line is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Call and see samples of work. C. HAGEDORN. Crayon In Poor Health - means so much more than you imagine—serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don’t play with Nature’s greatest gift—health. 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