The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 30, 1895, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprror. J. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: | The Weexty Times, published eyery | Phursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. | NEW ORDER OF THINGS. The second session of the first | republican legislature of Missouri in | a quarter of a century closed Satur-| day. Republican orators and politi- asians promised us a “new order of | ‘kings’ and the people of Missouri realize that they have fulfilled their pledges. Not since the corrupt and ronal Fletcher retired from the | gubernatorial chair, with the con- | tempt and hatred of every honest Beart on Missouri soil, and his servile tools in the republican legis- lature slunk away before the just mdignation of an outraged populace, aes there been so much talk of sorruption at the state capital. So notorious became the rumor of ‘legal and corrupt corporate influ- onee in the framing of legislation shat a circuit judge of that judicial district instructed the grand jury to nvestigate the rumors and to indict the guilty parties, if sufficient evi- dence could be obtained. This action of the circuit Judge seems to have hastened the adjournment of that >ody,much to the relief of the people. The governor's call for an extra dession, though made principaliy for the purpose of providing election laws to insure fair and honest elec- tions in large cities, incorporated a special recommendation that a law be enacted regulating the lobby, which had become a notorious and potent factor in making laws at the last regular session. But be it ever remembered to the discredit of the republican party in Missouri that the lobby proved too powerful, and prevented any action that would even abridge the great and corrupt power i¢ was wielding over the ‘egislature. .& democratic governor, who was old and courageous enough to defy this mighty legislative octopus, which seems to have our state capital in the fold of it’s tentacles, was villi fied and traduced and his motives questioned and misconstrued ky the tools of this unhallcwed monster. It was even claimed that because he at one time was befriended by the shief of lobbiests in a congressional sontest, that he is now in honor bound to repay that obligation by treachery to the people of the whole state, whom he is serving as chief executive. Be it said to Gov. Stone’s everlasting credit that he has dem- onstrated that he is a statesman and a patriot. That in his official capacity he called the legislature together to relieve the people, but he could not force it to action. It is true that the principal object Sor which the legislature was con- vened in extra session has beon attained. Av election law has been enacted So insure the purity of the ballot in the cities. This was necessary, as it was demonstrated at the last elec sion that the existing laws were jaadequate to protect the franchise and insure honest elections and fair aounts. For this, one of the most sesential laws under our form of government, Governor Stone is de- serving of the thanks of the people of Missouri. If Col. Pace wants to be State Auditor he should be able to count with safety on his own county. He has always stood by his home and the people thereof as firmly as a rock.—R. H. Review. There is no doubt of Col. Pace’s popularity with the solid democrats of Bates county, and if he desires to make the race for State Auditor he can count on his home county as coming up solid and enthusiastic for him. | of 59,793 for state treasurer at the FARMER’S BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. OSCAR REEDER .............. R. J, HURLEY E. A. BENNETT B.D. IPP... -. la horror of the traffic. The first! Republican eampaign found him in |a law office. He joined the party, jtqok up the anti-slavery cause, and ; was one of the five men in the county | who took the stump. In 1860 he was elected to the Legislature from Harrison county, $50,000.00 j= chairman of the military com-! COUNTY DEPOSTORY --:+-++President int Vice-President 2d Vice-President so -ss+-+ Cashier Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business. Solicited. DIREC D.N. Thompson, — Geo W Kiersey, Je Steele M. G. Wilcox, Oscar Reeder, J. 3. McKee, E. D! Kipp. Your patronage respectfully “TORS. R. J. Hurley A. Bennett,§ M. Gailey. - Secretary If the U.S. supreme court could not agree ona plain constitutional | question why blame the people for dividing on the intricate money | problem. — Justice Shiras. of the aaa Court, reversed himself on the in- | come tax on the second hearing. | Justice Shiras has passed the retired | limit. He is too old for the great and responsible position he holds. | He ought to step off the bench and | yet in his dotage take his place. E. E. Bean has sold the Nevada | Post. Geo. W. Edwards and R. W. | Mitchell, who have taken charge of | the paper. The purchase price was | $4.200. Mr. Bean expects to go to! Texas. The Post is one of the best | papers in this section of the state and is a valuable piece of property. | Mr. Bean was an able newspaper man and his successors have the ex- perienee and ability so that the peo- ple will lose none of it’s prestige gained under the former manage- ment. The dispatches say nearly every prominent populist in Illinois, will be in Springfield, at the June state | convention of the democratic party of the state to take action on the} silver question, and many of them} will set in the convention as dele- gates. Itis said that there is an} understanding that if the convention adopts a freesilver platform the pop- ulist party of Illinois which cast vote | last general election will join with the democrats on a free silver issue. In addition to the 337 delegates from Cook county, 1,000 Chieago free silver men will go to Spring- field to attend the convention. The way matters now look, the Spring- field money convention will be one of the largest ever held in the State. The trial of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor, in London, ended Saturday with a conviction in both cases. The sentence of the court was two years in the penitentiary at hard labor. In passing sentence the judge said: “I never before had sueh a shocking ease as this to deal with. Two men suck as you are by the very nature of your crime lost to all sense of remorse for what you have done. To think that you, Taylor, should be keeper of a male brothel, and that you, Wilde, a man of reput- ed culture, should be such a perver ter of young men. There is no doubt that the verdict is a just one and I shall give the full penalty al- lewed by law, and I only regret that it is not more severe. You are both sentenced to hard labor for the term of two vears.” WHAT IT HAS DONE. St. Louis Republic. Shortcomings may be charged against the special session of the Missouri legislature, but the most important by far of the duties laid before it has been discharged. At the next election the immense usefulness of the new law in protect- ing the purity of the ballot will be demonstrated. The adoption of the precinct system of registration amounts to a reyolution and one which St. Louis,and Kansas City have needed for many yesrs. This great reform at the very foundation of government has been accomplished in spite of attempts to belittle and delay it; to subordinate it to factious fights and partisan schemes. The Republic sought election re- form as the first object of the ses- sion. It is infinitely better satisfied that an election law of such admira- The statesmen who have just left; ble character was enacted than it Jefferson City are feeling much/|would have been if all the other easier. The grand jury of Cole|measures before the session had sounty adjourned without finding | passed and election reform had fail- an indictment against any of themjed. It is to be regretted that a just for bribery or riding on passes. |fellow-servant law has not been Sometimes grand jurymen fail to| placed in the statute books and that perform their duty. the continuance of the school book commission was not laid before the Congress passed the income tax/legislature. But an honest ballot is and the President signed the bill. | the basis of both purity and order. Then cometh rich man a kicking and | The s; pecial session has fallen short the supreme court, fiye to four, said|of what it might have done. Its the law was eadeth the farce. uncoastitutional and so/| merit is that it has done well the chief of its labors. } most One vu: the other of his physicians, | JUDGE GRESHAM DEAD. Secretary of State Peacefully, Quietly Passes Away—Acute Pneumonia the Cause. The End Came at 1:15 O'Clock This, | Tuesday, Morning.—Soldier, Statesman and Jurist. Washington, D. C, May ys. — | ed. He de : let some younger man who is not | Walter Quinton Gresham, Secretary >/#ughter for the United States | ‘of State, died at 1:12 o'clock this | Tistrict judgeship, but Grant sent | Tuesday morning. Mr. Gresham's illness began May 1, when he was attacked with acute! confirmed. age The effusion filled the|02¢e: Gresham insisting that he/ pleurisy. pleural cavity, but this condition | yielded to treatment until last Sat-| urday, when he suffered a relapse accompanied by acute pneumenia. His condition since that time has been extremely critical. His heart action became enfeebled, requiring the coustant administration of the powerful heart stimulants. Drs. Jounson and Prentiss, or both, were coustantly with him. His pulse reached 160 and was so feeble that it could barely be counted. But for the stimulants he would have died. Nitro glycerine and strychnine were|he offered the state portfolio to given continuously, hypodermically, together with digitalis and whisky. He was able to take no nourishment | judge. and which position he held save in a liquid form—principally milk punches—and the whole effort of the physician was cirected toward sustaining and strengthening him. The right pleuratic cavity was filled with the eftused fluid, and the lungs compressed so as to make breathing | impossible. No death could be more quiet, more calm nor more peaceful. He lay fer two hours with his head resting on the arms of his daughter, Mrs. Andrews, while his devoted wife sat by his side, her hand elasp- ed in his, his face so turned that his last conscious gaze should rest upon her. And so the minutes dragged slowly on until the end came. He suffered greatly during the preceding forty eight hours, after the pneumovia symptoms were com- plicated with his diseases, end was only temporarily relieved by fre- quent hypodermic injeciions. But as the end approached his suffering disappeared and he passed away as quietly as a tired child sinking to slumber in the arms of it’s mother. HIS LIFE AND CAREER. Walter Quinton Gresham was a soldier, a judge and a statesman, eminent and distinguished in those three great fields of human endeavor. He rose to the rank of major general of volunteers during the rebellion. He was for fourteen years United States Circuit judge for Illinois. and held three Gabinet portfolios, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury under Ar thur and Secretary of State under Cleveland. Judge Gresham came of English stock. His ancestors moved to Vir- ginia and later to Harrison county, Indiana, where he was born March 17, 1832, on a farra near Lanesville, Harrison county, Indiana. Wheo two years of age, hie father, then sheriff of the county, was killed while attempting an arrest The widow, with her family of six chil dren, struggled along. Young Wal- ter did his share of the work, in the summer working on the farm, while in winter he attedded the district school. In this way he passed 18 years, his mother managing to give him one year at the seminary at Corydon. Then he was employed by the county auditor at Corydon, with a salary of $8 a month and board, and, saving his money so earned, spent a year at the State university at Bloomington. He re- turned to Corydon and worked with the county clerk at $1 a day, passing his leisure hours studying law. under the guidance of Judge William A. Porter, one of the noted characiers of the section, a martinet who drilled his pupil thoroughly. After three years of such work Judge Gresham was admitted to practice, and enter- ed into partnership with Thomas E. ter, afterward a circuit court jadge. Seeing the negro drivers home county in early life gave him |mittee, and most active in aiding the legion law, which enabled Gov | }ernor Morton to rush troops to the front. Gresham had organized a company of home guards and led | them into the service, being first/ | captain and then lieutenant colonel. | | He became colonel of the Fifty-) ithird Indiana in December, 1861, | jand joined General Grant at Savan- | nah. He was made brigadier general ifor good work befere Vicksburg. When before Atlanta, July 20, 1864, | General Gresham was disabled, a |minie ball breaking his leg below | | the knee as he was leading a charge j |This was the last of his service. | | The next year he resumed the prac- itice of law at New Albany, with} (General John M. Butler. He was jthe Republican candidate for Con-| gress in 1866 and 1868, and, though | | beaten, it is known that the first | time he got more votes than his op-/| ponent, King. | When General Grant was elected | president, Gresham was offered the} collectorship at New Orleans, and the district attorneyship, but declin recommended Judge | | Gresham's name to the senate, with- ;out asking the judge, and he was | There was trouble at would not accept, but Slaughter turned i r him and insisted on it. | For tw years he served, not one decision being reversed by the su- preme court. He was called to Arthur's cabinet | jas Postmaster General and then as |Secretary of the Treasury, leaving the latter to succeed Judge Drum mond on the circuit bench. In the post office department he secured ja reduction of newspaper rates, re- |duction of the Canadian postage and a postal connection with Mexico. When Mr. Clevelond was elected | Judge Gresham. which was accepted resigning his position as circuit juntil his death | Onthe bench his greatest decision | was the Wabash case when he went | beneath technicalities, and put all the lines of the system under a re- ceiver thus giving Jay Gould a direct slap in the face. It was popular and |made him more famous than ever before | His predommating trait was hon- jesty of purpose. and he looked be- neath the technicalities to the equity jofevery cause. He was sociable, approachable and well liked by every one. Judge Gresbam married, in 1858, Miss Matilda MeGrain, daugh- ter of a farmer liying near Corydon. r. Mattitt is Right, lie. Chairman Maftitt of the State Central Committee places himself in a sound Democratic position. He will at any time on the request of three members call the Comumittea together to consider a silver conven- tion. If a majority of the County Com- mittees ask for a convention, Mr. Mafiitt will vote for it and has no doubt that the State Committee will promptly comply with the wishes of County Committees. Why some Democrats are striving to create the impression that the | St. Louis Mrs. Julia Kerwin St. Louis, Mo. Perfectly Cured Limbs Swollen and Aching With Pains of Rheumatism Restored to Cood Health in Old Age by Hood’s Sarsaparilia. “Tam glad to say that after eight years of suffering with rheumatism three bot- tles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured me. My limbs, which had been v inful a much swollen, have meats Ak re- duced to their normal size. All the doc- tors said I could not be cured at my age, 64 years, but I am here for any one at any a to consult me about the benefit "s Sarsaparilla has been in my case. I have not had an ache or a pain since Hood’s cured me. Iam Thankful For Cood Health, tee am we ee = others by giving this test: cannot Hood’s Sarsa) too have recommended it to many, highly Hood sz Cures, Kxrwrn, 1514 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo. Hood’s Pills 5. “Snarensa we, BENNETIT-WHEELER MER. C0. ——— DEALERS IN The Celebrated Light Dratt Millwaukee Binder and CHAIN DRIVE MOWERS No gearing to wear out or cogs to break. All sizes and styles of SULKY and DRAG HAY RAKES. DEERE, KEYSTONE and SANDWICH HAY LOADERS. Top Buggies Road Wagons, Carriages, Spring Wagons and Harnes Road Plows, Steel Road Scrap- ers, Barb Wire, Salt. Woven Wire Fence, &c. ——— THE LARGEST STOCK OF —— Groceries, Hardware, Stoves, Glass and Queensware IN BATES COUNTY. ; THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR ALE KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. BENNETT-WHEELER MERC., CO, ISAAC FOWLER. H- b- ARNOLD- ISAAC FOWLER & C0. Successors to H. B. Arnold, —DEALERS IN— Hardware, Tinware, Stoves AND CROCERIES. +e Higest prices paid for Country Produce we invite everybody to icall and examine our stock and prices. We expect to meet all competition. State Committee is refusing to do land dollars from the bank was al- what the county organizations de-| together without foundation. He mand is incomprehensible. says he owed her about $200 and We hope that Chairman Farris | that she got about $1,800 return for merely acted in baste, without in- | it. He would not swear out a war- quiring what information had been ; rant against her and preferred no laid before the State Committee. If! charges, but said he did not want to he proceeded with knowledge of be bothered by her and wanted the circumstences and reflection up-| nothing more to do with her. on the well known rules of party’ Last night Mrs. Lynch took mor- organization, it is impossible not to| phine with a view of committing believe that he wishes to break to suicide, but the physicians saved pieces the organization of the Mis-/ her life. She claims she did not souri Demceracy. | shoot at Mr. L., but that she had Request for a convention and pro-| the revolver and in some unknown tests against it should be made be-| manner she pulled the trigger, and forethe 4tate cammittee. If the com-| as natural sonsequence the weapon mittee does not then act as the ma | went off.—Rich Hill Review. jority desire,will be time to consider ee unprecedented ways of calling a con- | yention in a year of no campaign SHOOTING SCRAPE. After itis Over Mra. Lynch Tries to) Commit Suicide. | A Review reporter called at the! Klumpp block this morning for far-, ther particulars in the shooting | scrape in which Mr. and Mre.Lynch, \ were the principals According to Mr. Lynch's story, he was tired out and had gone to Jim Harkin’s room over Oliver's restaurant to lie down for rest. About 5 o'clock, Mrs. fe Lh \ a & = 1, KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to pocsona enjoyment when Lynch,accompanied by Jno Klumpp came to the door and knocked, but Mr. L. refused to open the door. Mr. Klumpp then went down stairs and Mr. L. went to sleep On awak- ing he left the room, supposing that Mrs. Lynch bad also gone down. hall way, Mrs. Lynch grabbed him from behind. All this time she had been waiting for him. After talking Lynch pulled a revolver and began firing. Luckily for Mr. L., he had her by the arms, and thus impaired her sim She fired five shots, none of which hit her intended victim.but perforated the ceiling and the floor. 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