The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 31, 1899, Page 4

| | | orth BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN, Epbrror. J. D. N&C ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: “9 Proprietors The Weext.y Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00, The New York retail butchers are organizing to fight the beef trust. From the vote on congressman over in the eighth district, that mid- dle-of-the-road populist will never know he was in the race. Ex-Goy. Holcomb, of Nebraska, bas the nomination of the democrats, populists and silver republicans for supreme judge. It is estimated that 2,000,000 English sparrows were killed in Little Rock, Ark., during a terrible electric storm. The birds sought shelter in the shade trees and after the storm was over the ground was literally covered with them. Later reports from the eighth dis- trict congressional election, say Judge Shackelford, has come under the wire with over 3,000 plurality. The vote in the district shows a democratic gain over that of 1898 of 2,157. The fact that the repub licans made a special effort is a black eye to the administration. “We oppose conquest of the Phil- ippines because imperialism means nilitarism, because militarism means government by force and because government by force means death of government by consent, the de struction of political and industrial freedom and the obliteration of equality of rights and assassination of democratic institutions.”—Iowa| Democrat Platform. | | The papers throughout the state, | and especially the country press, are discussing the probable candidacy of Governar Stephens for delegate at large to the next national democratic sonvention. It is a little early to agitate that question, but at the proper time if Governor Stephens desires this honor, or his friends want it for him and he will accept | there is little doubt about his selec | tion by the state convention. Ex Governor Stone is reported as| favoring a very early National con vention, and the time is mentioned as early as February or March. The reasons given forthis seeming haste to get the ticket in the field is that the main features of the platform is practically decided on even now and will be wel! crystallized long before that time. That the nominee is practically selected and the action of the convention will only bea ratifi eation of the people’s choice. But| the real work of the campaign, the raising of sufficient funds for ita) conduct, can be prosecuted with vigor. Ths raising of money is always aserious question with the demecratic party. It has no money barons and favored classes to draw on. | Senator McMillin of Tennessee, | says the federal government is re-| sponsible for the trusts, and he will oppose the movement to shift the work of suppressing them on the several states Thisis one of the| few cases in which a southern man has been willing to concede the eu- premacy of the general government | One member of the board contended lasked for a half million dollars for In all kindness and candor we propose discuasing proposition =| with the school board which is of} | vital importance to the scrools and school children of our city. We ap- | preciate that the office of director is |one fraught with disagreeable duties jas wellas grave responsibility and that where so diversified interests reconcile them all so that no com- | plaints be heard. In fact, we take it, that broad minded gentlemen, | transacting public business of this {kind expect. and invite criticism. ‘For the past three or four years the | schoo! board has found it necessary lto rent three rooms additional . to those of our public echool buildings in order to accomodate the various | grades, and nota word of protest jwas offered by our people. At a recent meeting of the board one of the members introduced a resolution to rent three additional, rooms as formerly, which was veted down. One of the directors contended that the law forbade the renting of school rooms, although it is the same laws, without any change in this particu- lar that this board has been acting under for years. When Judge J. B. Gantt, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, was on the bench in this district, a similar case to this was brought from East Boone town- ship, when Judge Gantt decided | that it was not only the privilege but the duty of the school board to rent rooms for the school children when the district was not suitably sup- plied. The facts of this decision were communicated to members of the school board. To back this up we learn that the secretary of the board has a letter from the State Superintendent that the board has the right to rent the rooms. Now comes the hair splitting that these decisions referred to emergencies That this board sub- mitted a proposition to the people of the district to bmld a school house, which theysaw fit to reject, therefore no emergency exists. Gentlemen! Gentlemen! don’t you know that this is not a correct con- clusion to draw from those premises, in the absence ot a statutory clause to that effect. Suppose you nad building purposes, which you had a and opinions are, it is very hard to} A CLEAN SWEEP. |Judge Shackleford Elected by a Plurality of Over 2500. | SHOW BIG DEMOCRATIC GAINS, | Incomplete returns from eleven of |the thirteen counties in the eighth Missouri congressional district show that Judge Dorsey W. Shackleford, the democratic candidate, has been elected by a majority of more than 2,500 over Vosholl, his republican opponent. The only counties in the district from which sufficient returns had not been recsived to base a comparatively certain estimate are Camden and Maries. Bland carried Maries in 1896 by 750 majority and Vosholl in 1896 carried Camden by 200. Democratic gains were made in almost eyery county in the district. In 1896, although a populist candidate was voted for, there was fusion between democrats and populists on the elec- toral ticket and an understanding on congressional tickets which influenc- ed a majority of populists to vote for the democratic nominee. The populist vote fell off in the eighth district from 3,528 in 1894 to 1,467 in 1596, and these 2,000 popu- list votes were cast for Bland, so that in an off year with a decreased total vote and a populist candidate the democratic majority in the dis- trict is practically as large as it was in 1856 The republican newspapers and orators forced Philippine question to the front, and, with the exception of ex Gov. Stone, the democratic speakers and newspapers met the issue squarely and boldly attacked the President's policy. The fight was direct on imperialism, and every democrat who stumped the district was outspoken in favor of the Chica- go platform and the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The contest was one of the hard est ever fought in the state. The republicass were better organized than ever before in the district, and made a house to house canvass. The democrats were also thoroughly organized and made an unusually active effort to bring out the veters. Dees McKinley Appreciate the News? New York News. right to do, then do you maintain thatthe emergency for additional room would have ceased to exist? As a remedy the board has under advisement the plan of holding only half day sessions in the first six or seven grades. That plan would give the children of those grades only four and one-half months of school- ing instead of nine months, as voted by the tax payers of this district. It would take those children two years to complete a one year’s course. It would be decreasing the service ofthe teachers while giving them full pay. The children of those grades are as justly entitled to the blessing of educational advantages as those of the higher grades. It would place our new superintendent at a great disadvantage. In fact good and sufficient reasons could be multiplied why this should not be done. We are told by a member that the board had b2en warned not to rent rooms. which warning, no doubt, carried with it an implied threat of injunction proceedings. We venture the assertion that no man with children in the schools gave over the states in matters in which the latter might be supposed to have | aistinct rights. It is likely that) Senator McMillin holds to the theo- | ry of Mr. Havemeyer that the tariff! is the parent of the trusts, and that, of course, throws the responsibility of the vast combinations that have! been formed against trade directly | on the government at Washington. | It would be curious to see in the! next republican platform a plank fa | voring a protective tariff and one denouncing trusts, though that illegical association of principles is likely to be evolved by the conven- | tion that is now being rounded up| to renominate McKinley.—K. C.} Star. { The name of Thomas B. Reed is such warnings ard we venture the prediction that nv reputable, intelli- gent citizen of the town will dare to take such action in the faca of our people and the world. Now, gentlemen, you were elected to served the people of this district, to advance the interest of the schools and not to retard them. If the peo-| ple of this district do not choose to There isa grim yein of humor io the uncensered news from Manila that Philippine Mayors elected un- der our direction, and supposed to be our partisans. have been found acting as recruiting agents for the insurgents, and have consequently been arrested. Their cities were supposed to be friendly to our rule, and were given a certain measure of self-government. The result is trea- son at the very top, and what there is at the bottom even the most dense of our imperial expansionists ought to have learned by this time. Such a mess as the McKivley Ad- ministracion has made of matters in the Philippines has probably never had its parallel in modern history, upless it be found in the brutal blundering of the English in India. Iast year our troops were welcomed by the natives of all classes as friends and deliverers In less than six months they came to be hated as the tyrannical Spaniards never were, and te-day even those whom we pick out for positions of honor and trust intrigue against us when it is not safe to fight us openly. Admiral Dewey commanded both the respect and the affection of the Filipinos, and if McKinley had listened to him the present lament- able state of affairs would not exist on the islands. For some oecult reason, however, his advice was dis- regarded, and, weary of seeing the useless slaughter that he could not prevent, he started for home. In the meantime blunder succeeds blun der, and yet our President assures us that all is well, and and that the flag is being glorified by the sacri- fice of the lives of our own soldiers, as well as by the slaughter of the | natives vote ten thousand doliars in bonds| - then your duty | for a school building, in that direction ends. It is your duty to secure sufficient and suitable rooms for the proper conduct of our schools and the people will hold you responsible for any neglect or failure to do so. With the increase in the army the Philippine war is costing the gov- likely to be added to that small tut ernment over one million dollars a | Gov. Stephens Delegate at Large. | Independence (Mo.) Examiner. | To be a delegate to a national jconvention isan honor and to bea delegate to the next democratic | national convention will be especially j honorable as that convention prom- jises to bean important one in his- jtory. It has been the custom to send the governors of Missouri as exclusive list of men who were tco jday. It is going to take a good deal big to be president. Tom weighs! of prosperity to stand this expense cver 300. jit kept up much longer. \ ANOTHER DEADLY FEUD IN KENTUCKY. Pitehed Battle Between Members of Wealthy and Aristocratic Families. FOUR WOUNDED—ONE WILL DIE. London Ky, Aug. 28.—News has jast been received confirming the tween James Hayes and his three sons on one side and State Senator McKee, Jackson county, Ky. in the breast, neck and foot, and his condition is reported critical. Young Hays was shot in the breast with a double barreled shot- gun and will die. Leadford was arm. Another of the Hays boys was shot though not seriously injured There has been bitter feeling of long standing between the families, wounded in the delegates at large and the state con- vention to select national convention delegates will take great pleasure in voting that honor to Gov. Stephens. which are the wealthiest and most prominent in Jackson county Clark is senator from the seven teenth district and is a prominent lawyer in that section. All concern ed are reputed fighters. Excitement is great and more trouble is expect ed. Another outbreak would undoubt- edly be serious in consequences, as members of the families involved are thoroughly aroused and are armed to the teeth. Jackson County adjoins Clay, in which the famous Baker-Howard feud has raged for the past year, and the little war started Saturday promises-to give Jackscn as great a reputation as her sister county has achieved Pretender Beheaded, Victoria, British Columbia, Aug. 28.—The steamer Tacoma brings news of a recent attemptto seize the throne of Korea made by an alleged member of the old royal family, Wang Eui Soo. This patriot, or politician, bas been in exile since his birth. He returned to Seoul May 2,at once made himself known at the royal palace and declared him- report that a pitched battle took! place iate Saturday afternoon be-| William Clark and Sherman Lead-| ford on the other on the streets of | c Olark received three pistol balls | | “Doctors failed to | Gov. Stone on the Globe-Demecrat, |reach my case and/| advised me to try a higher air.” One of the most severe arraign: |} ments of a newspaper in these latter | days was that of ex Governor Stone of the St Louis Globe-Demoocrat ig ; bis speech at Bunceton on Saturday, se | Referring to the hypocritical eon. * |cern that paper manifested toward j|the deceased free silver chieftain 1 | during his last illness and after his - |death, Gov. Stone said il “And this old harlot pretends to ‘ | weep at the bier of Bland Even ag | the old stateeman lay a-dying, with ; | loving hands outstretched about him, |and when gentle eyes were red with i | weeping, the tender hush of that | pathetic hour was broken by the . |discordant sound of this vulture’s xicant cor in oun ; : squawk. Dr. Pierce's | “By what right does this libeling | GoldenMedical sheet, the mouthpiece of political Dis bigotry and hate become a mourner | for Bland and the accuser of big friends, now that he is dead, when itis spoken only to his discredit, and spoke in most offensive terms, while yet he lived’ Better had I asked for what motive is this change of programme made “It is done with a fool's hope of making mischief. It scatters its virus at random, sure there is noth- ing to lose, and with the hope that some simple democrat, not over watchful, may be inoculated by the poison. Its purpose is to stir up strife among democrats, that it may laugh at their folly. But it will be disappointed again, as it has been before; for I do not believe we have yet come to that evil day when many Missouri democrats will draw their inspiration from this source, or give the least heed of any kind to one whose malignant enmity has been sc often and so well attested.” Dr. Pierce’s Plea ful aids to the cle system. By all nt Pellets are power- sof the clogged dealers in medicine HE SPOKE HIS MIND. President McKinley Would Hold the Philip- pines. Ocean Grove, N. J, Aug. 26.— Before an audience thai filled the vast Methodist auditorium President McKinley spoke of the Philippines. In response te many calls for an address the President said: | “Love of the flag and love of} country are not inconsistent with religious faith. I believe there is|USY was the cause of a double trag- more love for our country and that|@4y here this Conrad more people love the flag than ever | Falscraft, aged 20, shet hie nineteen year old wife and then put two bul- Shot His Bride. Burlington, Ia, Aug. 25.—Jeal- morning before. “Wherever that flag is raised, it| ets into bis own body. stands. not for despotism and op-| The woman will live, pression, but for liberty, opportunity and humanity, and what that flag has done for us, we want it to do for all people and al! lands which, by the fortunes of war, have come within its juriediction. but Fals- craft cannot recover. The couple were married one year agoand have unbappily ever since. live GP 2eee 9090 80% 33 333332: self the rightful king. He was arrested, but so unusual were his actions that the court physicians adjudged him insane. He was then liberated, but immediately after re arrested by order of Lady Mo. the power bebind the throneof the king dom. He was sentenced to death and was decapitated Tae ailing Leaves Give Warning of Winter HAIR “That flag does not mean one thing in the United States und another in Porto Rico and the Philippines. “There has been doubt in some quarters respecting the policy of this govornment in the Philippines. “I see no harm in stating it in this presence: Peace first, then, with charity for all, to establish a govern ment of law and order, protecting life aud property, for the well being of the people who will participate in it under the stars and stripes.” 33332333 > Its Easy To Take Thin, pale, anamic girls ¥ need a fatty food to enrich ¥ their blood, give color to¥ their cheeks and restore their ¥ health and strength. It is | * safe to say that they nearly With Bryan and Blackburn He Will Stump | 9 all reject fat with their food. for Goebel. Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 28.—General | 4 Parker W. Hardin returned from the a uLs =" EM OF North to day, where he has been CoD LIVER OIL since the Louisville democratic con ; vention which ncminated Goebel | | #7” 4/POPHOSPHITES Or LIME & SODA 233333223 eetecececececeee 3323339: 325 HARDIN TO GET REVENGE rs ESSEC SEES SEE | | : and in which he was the contending | 3 ; e % ee une ot se are candidate. General Hardin has as 2 is exactly what they require; t declining Power. 7 5 yet made no public expression of | 2 it not only gives them the im- % matter how barren the tree i i 3] a . A q nor how leafless it may seem, what action, if any, he will take in| ® portant element (cod-liver oil) % you confidently expect leaves the present gubernatorial contest. 2 ina palatable and easily di- ¥ ee ae te enche Ex-Senator Blackburn ie authority ted fi eal alin then ‘ roots. for the statement that he expects Sene sibs, sieigdals yPo- % So you need not worry about General Hardin to take the stump| # Phosphites which are so valua- % the falling of your hair, the eee 2 ble i di d th t% threatene departure: of youth for Goebel within a few weeks. Har g ie in nervous disorders tha’ ¢ and beauty. And why? din f ze + e ‘ ans p Because if there is a spark of res <i ed Goebel —— either Sdetiest 3 usually accompany anemia. 4 life remaining in the roots of or Brown in the Louisville conven. | ® SCOTT’S EMULSION is a g the hair tion. His opposition to Brown is|® fatty food that is more easily & 9 due toa long standing political feud,|#@ © y ees ; Paid: the result of the fight made on Gen im digested than any other form a Hardin, ex Auditcr Norman and a/& Of fat. A certain amount of % jset of politicians which controiled|% flesh is necessary for health. § jthe convention nominating Hardin z You can get it in this way. four years ago. F pe eee Picks ae “ Itis charged that Brown knifed We have known per- sons to gain a pound a GEESE ECEE VIGOR will arouse it into healthy activ- ity. The hair ceases to come out: it begins to grow: and the giory of your youth is restored to you. We have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. The Best Advice Free. If you do not obtain all the benefits you e: from the use of the Vigor, write doctor about it. Probably there is some difficulty with your gen- wees “ Z — DB. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. 4 Hardin, and this resulted in the|® onteeneghaees ° : election of Governor Bradley aud|? day while taking it. ¢ | the republican adminictration. Many | 2 gies u a |law suits and newspaper controver eccec ecceccececseecoos® |}sies were isaugurated by Governcr ie } Brown, in which he showed the bit- | terest feeling against Hardin. | | This feud has never ended, and} | Hsrdin’s opportunity for revenge| i bas now come. It is said he will) a2 Public Administrator's Notic take the stump with Bryan and Blackburn for Goebel, and that ke will thus make himself sure to suc- ceed Deboe in the Senate. the date of pr from any bene ate; and if suct claims be not exhibited within two y: from the date of this publication, they shall be for- This 19th day of August, 154. D. Vv. BROWN, Pablic Administrawr ever barred. 41-4 ps