The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 16, 1900, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES: J. D. ALLEN, Eprror. |. D. ALLEN & Co., Proprietors. fHIS PUBLIC RECORD. 1M. Dockery ) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ulate linen invites a criticism of both. The Weexiy Times, published eyery | E Thursday, will be sent to any address | experiment a one year, postage paid, for $1.00. | Dockery has done june says Democratic National Ticket. delivery for which, by the way, the republican national conven- tion declared the other day with such He believes the farmer is en- he benefit of the postal system For President : WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. ‘ gusto. For Vice-President : | ; = err ES ; | titled tot ADEE B; SEEVENSON. service as well as the merchant. DEMOCRATIC ATE TICKET is the author of the bill extending : the privilege of the special delivery For Supreme Judge—James B. Gantt. , Panes =p For Governor— Alexander M Dockery. stamp to all postoftices in the United For Se Sain B Cook States. He thinks that everybody S Gamat eG Grow is entitled to the same treatment at pee ns cod Worehon ie Oona Joseph p|/the hands of the government. He Hepingion. was the author of the provision for the first fast mail system ever inau- gurated in the United States. The fast mail has revolutionized business and increased trade between all sec- tions. He brought about the pas- sage of the bill abolishing the fee system as to United States marshals and attorneys and substituting sal- aries. The fee system here as every- ras ae where was most costly. Under the eee Dockery reform over three million We want every democrat and all}dollars is saved annually. He was a these opposed to the policy of the}chairman of one commission which introduced the treasury system of accounting. This madea saving of a million dollars a yearin the federal department at Washingten beside expediting public business. The new mail Tae Times to any address un- plan is the personal work of Dockery. til December 31, 1900, for 25 cents|His service on the appropriations eash ; or we will mail regularly, each | committee of the house of representa- week for the same time toa fod of] tives made him familiar with public xpenditures. The economy prac- ticed during democratie control of congress was largely helped by Dock- ery. He served asroad overseer and improved the highways around Gal- latin. foreed the le rector for years, hotand robbed of the COUNTY TICKET. For Representative—Thos. L. Harper. For Treasurer—W. T. Johnson. For Prosecuting Attorney—Miles 8. Horn. For Sheriff—Joe T. Smith. For Probate Judge—Calvin F. Boxley. For Public Administrator—D. V. Brown. For Surveyor—K. E. Johnson. For Coroner—0. F. Renick. ¥or Judge County Court, North Distriet—L. D. Wimsatt, South District—John J. March. present administration in Bates county to read Tue Times until after election, and as an inducement offer the following low price: We will five for $1.00, or a club of ten for $2.00. ean take advant Any of our old subseribers >of this rate by paying up. ——_______. Two Andrew county farmers were attacked by robbers near St. Joseph Sunday morning He served as mayor and en- v. He was school di- and helped to make Gallatin of publie schools of $1.65. Both are thought to be mor- high character. He was curator of tally wounded. the state university and aided in “A tax system which overburdens lifting that institution out of poli- ties and upon an advanced plane of usefulness. Whatever he has done some and lightly burdens others is larceny by law: itis an an indirect i z means by which one man's money is he did well. And this can be said in 1905 of the administration of Gov. transferred to another man’s sh pocket.” —William Jennings Bryan. Dockery. $e ————— Congressman DeArmond addressed the democrats at Appleton City last : Saturday afternoon and a Bryan] S¢™ser ¢ harles Lane, ia the Pennsyl- = 2 vania, east bound train. was mur- dered and his express car robbed. The double crime was discovered fick Dasa ccacats when the train reached Columbus at a midnight. There were no clues and The Nevada papers nowclaim that {it looked as if it might remain a “Dutch” Poors, who murdered John|great mystery. On Sunday night T. Adams, while traveling through | detectives arrested Charles Farrell, a the country with him in a wagon, |former employee of the Adams Ex- was a former citizen of Nevada. No] press Company in presence of his one, we presume, will dispute their|Sweetheart, and he confessed to the claim. crimes. He said Lane was his friend and he represented to him that he wanted to goto Columbus and did not have themoney. Lanetook him son inLondon, adding: “Americans into the express car, and after talk- ought to read Roman history and ing awhile pleasantly, turned his see what terrible disasters Imperial-| back to attend to his duties when ism brought on that great republic.””| Farrell shot him. He emptied his The-suggestion is a mighty good pistol into Lane’s prostrate form one. and then took the messenger’s pistol and fired two shots from that into his body. Ferrell got off at Plain City and went toa small hotel and bay “Whatever show of ‘résistance tooka room without registering. He to our authority there is at the pres- i Sa ee packers ae ent time in the Philippines will be pore ee mon pend: iter do: On last Friday night express mes club was organized. See that one is also organized in your school dis trict. Don’t be a laggard.—St. Clair —— “I'm going home in a few weeks to help out Bryan,” says Tom L. John- —— The campaign liar is industriously atwork. Last week in an alleged interview he made Admiral Dewey kept up until after our election in Se oe a peeee, expressed them to a fictitious ad- dress at Lockport, N. Y. He lifted up the mattress of the bed and hid November. The insurrection is kept alive by the leaders who hold out to the soldiers the hope of Bryan’s elec- a : : : tion.”” Admiral Dewey, when shown ee peo) pores ple ines eo the above, emphatically denied mak-| "2 eee Bieta by the detectives, ing any such statement, and further me nen ba ae eee eee denied making the statement attrib- BuGuEeu Sere Lag bs Seeeane, uted to him in the same alleged in- eave chon pasmeg clue nee terview that in his opinion a state of ot Se eneek a Pama amen war exists between this country and ee China. ; The Free Press grows very indig- nant over a short dispatch in the St. Louis Republic from Butler about and|the populist pienic, and out | author of the dis rounded | tal liar.” ranch near Good- pe The two Union Pacifie train bers who robbed two sleepers killed the old man in his berth, of Denver last week. were su ina dugout on a land, Kan., by a tempted to run and death, the other barric in and wit! al pect to support the hours. rosse succeeded | ticket.” im setting fire to the house and the! identity of robber sent a bullet through his own | pateh bus he iscertainly n ‘ head and was cremated. Two of the! rented liar.”* nor pe . ee officers lost their lives in the fi ht. & liar for etna ‘ On the body of the dead robber was! .... ey found a watch, two black calico face! masks, a lady’s watch chain and charm. It is believed that the valu- ables and money taken from the sSengers were in possession of the cremated. rob- calls the atch a “‘monumen- The fault the editor of the | Free Press finds with the notice is in ‘tt-/ the last few lines. which were as fol- was shot to/lows: ~The leading populists 3ates county are for Bryan, and e posse, One aded himself | ood a seige for sever. Finally the I . Now, we do not k other kind of d t the leading populists of Bates county are for Bry the democratic ticket. This is not very palat son, but it is ney When we speak of “Promir lists” we do not People’s party.” see, ertheless the truth. one The public record of the democrat- | for governor, an accident Bescon | ‘ic nominee for governor, Hon. Alex commissioner forthe past four years, s an open book, his) and is not a believer in the old ad- private record as spotless as immac-}age that lightning never strikes The democratic party | twice in the same place, tried to get He is no|cheap notoriety by advert In summing up ‘‘what intention to make a canve g the State Trib-| state on a railroad bicycle, has* dis- “He was the active friend | covered that the intelligent _people | and promoter of the free rural postal | of Missouri estimate such chaff at its He| leral Clinton B. Fisk; that acompany to be known as the South Pacitie railroad company, should be organ- ized by twenty-nine gentlemen nanved for the purpose of extending the road to the western boundary of the state lin Newton county by July 10, 1872. The persons named in the act were not required to pay a dollar to the state in any manner, shape or form Joseph Flory, republican nominee ng his of the for the vast property—nor did they ever pay a dollar into the state treas- discarded his is They were | proper worth, has | tread wheel and gone back to the| UY ; steam cars. But he has fallen so far} Simply required to complete theroad : é ; ree hon eas behind that he couldn't catch Doek-|t® the point mentioned in the orig? ery now with the use of an eleetric nal charter of the southwest branch, {&F) t on that account. current. Pacif The road is now known as — the ‘‘Frisco” line, or St. Louis and “Dutch” Poors, who murdered |San Francisco, and the extension of John T. Adams, attempted suicide} the road vindicates the judgment of in the Hickory county jail by tear- ing a tow-I to pieces and making an imprc vised rope. It brokeand Poors fellto the floor, striking his head against the iron bedstead, cutting a gash and knocking him senseless. He has been removed to the Polk county jail, it having been satisfae- torily proven that the murder was committed in Polk county and the body carried to —St. Clair Co. Democrat. FALSE TO THE TRUST. the projectors. The state held a first mortgage on the road and the 1,040,- 000 acres of land along the line for the following Seven percent bonds, guar- $1 sums: anteed by the state..... Six percent bonds loane to the company. 589,000 Total due the state. Installment paid by Gen. Fremont on his purck of the property for B00,000 sent 325,000 198, Net loss to tax payers “TOUCHED” FOR OVER SIX MILLIONS, Another Chapter of the Story] vp Noth Pacite railroad; now of Republican Misrule. known as the Wabash, defaulted January 1, 1859. No attempt was foreclose the state’s ever made to MISSOURI HAS BEEN SHOWN.| mortgage. On March 17, 1868, (same date of other acts of the kind), Millions of the Tax Payers’ Money| ®™ 8t Was passed entitled “An act to sell the claims of taestate against the North Missouri railroad company and to amend the charter of said company.” (Laws of 1868, p. 112.) Section 1 of said act declares “that the debts due, or te become due, from the North Missouri railroad company to the state of Missouri for bonds of the loaned to said company to aid in the construction of their road, amounting to four mil- lion three hundred and fifty thous- and dollars ($4,350,000) and for interest paid on said bonds by the state is hereby sold and assigned to Henry T. Blow (and five others herein in the auditor's office and open to}named) for the sum of two hundred any person desirous of learning the|thousand dollars (200,000) which Frittered Away---Facts Shown by The Railroad Record “Losses” on Mortgages in Eight Years. Total Over $25,000,060. state Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 10.—The history of the republican party in Missouri during the x rom 1865 to 1873, as shown by the records in ars the state capitol, stamps it as a par- ty to be distrusted by the voters of Missouri. These records are on file | Of | passed, entitled “An act to dispose X-| of the southwest br democratic | road, and to secure now the! pletion of the author of that dis-| ‘mon-/| the sale to Gen. F. ‘longing, able to Atke-! nent popu- | mes “Pp, ssive' i mean ‘Progressive persons therei i ‘ truth concerning the worst state ad-| sum may be paid in any outstanding ministrations has ever| state bonds, and shall be paid into shown. It was on January 1, 1865,| the state treasury on or before the as related in the Kansas City Times|4th day of July next."’ The grantees of the 7th instant, that all branches| were required to enterinto a bond to of the state government passed into] the state in the sum of $500,000 to republican control. The control} furnish the North Missouri railroad continued until 18 During those|company money sufficient to com- eight years a debt of $21,000,000 | plete the road to the Iowa state line was saddled upon thestateandevery|and to finish the west branch to a interest in it was robbed and plun-| point opposite Kansas City. At the dered. The history of one of the| time this act was passed the road transactions. The sale of the Iron| was completed and in operation Mountain and Cairo and Fulton|across the state, and the extension roads, was given in the K. C. Times} mentioned were being pushed as rap- last Wednesday, and it was shown idly as men and money could do the that because of it there was a loss to] work. the tax payers of $6,086,454 record- The state held a first mortgage on ed. the whole property to secure the pay- The Southwest Branch Pacific} ment of the following sums: road, now known as the St. Louis Six percent bonds loaned and San Francisco, was also “man-| to the company......... ipulated” during the republican} Accumulated unpaid in- regime. It defaulted on the interest} terest..........0000.000000002. due July 1, 1861. An act was passed by the general embly and approved by Gov. Fletcher February 19, 1866, which provided for the sale of this road, with its 1.040.000 acres land grant, under the first mortgage, held by the state. Thecommissione sappointed | Pacific railroad (now the Missouri by the governor advertised the prop-| Pacific) defaulted on theinterest due erty for sale and stated as a eondi- January 1,1860. The usual tion of the sale that the purchaser | mittee was appointed and a report should extend the road to the wes-| filed February 3, 1868, placed the tern boundary line of the seate, as] yalue of rolling stock and material on hand at $12,797,479.22. The the original company was incorpora- | value of its real estate in St. Louis ted. On May 12, 1866, asale was] was given as $573,600. Subsequent- made to General John C. Fremont ly the company paid $5,000,000 of for $1,300,000. By the terms of sale| state bonds in thestate treasury and payment was to be made in depre-| the mortgage was released. At the iated state bonds (worth 60 to 65] time the company owed the state cents on the dollar in the market) in] $7,000,000 in bonds loaned to it and six installments. General Fremont | material, unpaid interest amounting paid $325,000 of the purchase price, 3,780,000, making its total in- and then, for some reason not ex-|debtedness $10,780.000. By the plained in the official records, refused settlement the net loss to the tax o make further payments. payers was $5,730,000. AGAIN TAX PAYERS SUFFERED, The records show that the state On March 17, 1868, an was | mortgage on the Platte county, St. Louis & Iron Mountain, Cairo & Ful- ton, Southwest Branch, Pacific and North Missouri roads, amounting to $20,955,840, was disposed of for ;8ums aggregating .131,496, and Tremont on May 12, | that the state lien on the Pacific road 1566, null and void. Section 2 de-! for #10,780.000 was disposed of for elares that the road, its franchises | $5,000,000 and all other property thereto be-| A summary of the trantactions ineludi the 1,040,000} which grew out of the action of the acres of land grant along the line, | democratic party in 1851 to 1847 “is hereby granted” to A. C. Kings- granting aid to the railroad com- land & Son and twenty-seven other Panies to the extent of one-half the nhamed, among wheus taawe of the construction of their were General John B. Gray and Gen-' roads and taking Missouri »,000 2.610,000 Total due the state -$6. Am’t paid by Congress- man Blow et al... 960,600 200,000 Net loss to tax payers.....$6,760,000 MISSOURI PACIFIC MANIPULATED. The same records show that the com- was intended by the projectors when act neh, Pacifie rail- an early com- id road.” Laws of 1868, p- 115. Section 1 of said act declares = ng 911,000} first mortgages on} he whole property for security anal the subsequent management of the matter by the republicans from 1865 to 1873 inclusive, makes the | following showing: | Tota! bonds loaned...... Total unpaid interest due at the time the mortgages 11,034,840 $20,701,000 were closed out Total #31 S40 } Am’‘t realized by republi- cans.. GAS1L 496 Total loss to taxpayers s “sales”. | About 3 | tion of the Iron Mountain road by | the state was paid into the treasury, which should be deducted from the | total loss sustained on the “sales,” which 25, 579.344, actual net loss to the tax payers. To fully understand the cireum- stances the sale of the mortgaged railroads, it remembered {that all the roads, with theexception of the Cairo & Fulton, had been kept jin fair condition because of the neces- {sity for their use by the military authorities during the war: that the country in 1868 flooded with “greenbacks,”’ and allclasses of prop- erty brought extravagantly high rices, and that our state bonds (which the state received in payment for the roads) could be purchased at 30 to 40 per cent discount. Coaied Look at your tongue. Is it coated ? Then you have a bad taste in your mouth every morning. Your appetite is poor, and food dis- tresses you. You have frequent headaches and are often dizzy. Your stomach is weak and your bowels are always constipated. There’s an old and re- liable cure: 5,604,344 5,000 profit on the opera- >= as the leaves must be was Don’t take a cathartic dose and then stop. Bet- ter take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good freemove- ment the day following. You feel better the very next day. Your appetite returns, your dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, your tongue clears up, your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer give you trouble. Price, 25 cents. All druggists. “I have taken Ayer’s Pills for 35 years, and I consider them the best made. One pill does me maore ook than half a box of any other kind I have ever tried.” Mrs N. E. TALsor, March 30, 1899. Arrington,’ TH SIDES OF THE CAMPAIG! BL The Kansas City Star's Novel Forum Feature. The Kansas Star has decided upon a special feature for the presidential campaign which was never under- taken before by any newspaper. At its request the chairman ef the two national committees, Messrs. James K. Jones and M. A. Hanna, have se- lected and appointed two distinguish- ed writers to conduct, in the Star,a department to be called “The Cam- paign Forum.” In this department the arguments of each of the two great parties will be presented, side by side, day by day. To conduct the! democratic side, Mr. Jones has select- ed and formally appointed Mr. Wiilis | J. Abbott, chief of the press bureau jof the democratic national commit- tee, and, for the republican side, Mr. { Hanna has selected and appointed | | the famous journalist and literatenur, | Mr. Murat Halstead. Upon learning the decision of the two chairmen. The Star immediately engaged the/| two gentlemen and on Sunday, A 9, the campaign forum will be in-| augurated, to be continued in the regular issue of The Star, daily and Sunday, until the end of the cam-| paign. An interesting feature of the forum will be the answers to ques-/ tions upon campaign topics, submit- ted to The Star to be answered by either Mr. Halstead or Mr. Abbott, orboth. Under the cireumstanees, | the answers thus given will have the stamp of authority of the national committees. ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS BY BRYAN AND sf, Candidates and Leaders Urge AN Sympathy With Platform to Unite J Chicago, Ill., Aug. 9 —W. SB E: his wife and son, the ste Venson pay Governor and Mrs. Thomas of y John sergeant-at-arms of th. natio committee, arrived in this cit 5:30 p.m. to-day. Mr. Bryan party went tothe auditorium, Mr. Bryan will rem: several days. for the purp of cousultation i: 4 Chairman Jones and members Of the national committee regarding the conduct of thecampaign, When Mr. Bryan leaves here he will go to rado, and Colonel me home in Lincoln toremain there dur ing the balance of the month, 4 To-morrow Mr Stevenson will pro. ceed to Lake Minnetonka with hid family, where he will remain for some 4 weeks. é 3 The following address was ineued | to night: “To the democrats of the United States The party and its friends must meet the forces of eor ruption and intimidation in Politica this year by thorough organization, A democratic club or society should be organized in every city, town, vil lage and precinct in the United States, Democrats, and all who are in sym- pathy with the principles set forth in the Kansas City platiorm, are earn estly urged to join democratic clubs, or when exists, to assist in organizing them. This work of unit- ing the forces of law and liberty into temized civie army sheuld be carried on simultaneously inevery part of the country, and without delay. The friends of gov- ernment according to the hitherte unchallenged American theory of political equality everywhere under our flag cannot afford to be less zeal. ous or active than the advocates of an American colonial empire support. ed by rifles. No patriotic citizen can ignore the attacks which are being made upon the very foundations of our present irreproachable form of government. This year every citizen should bea politician. Clubs and societies should at once communicate with the ‘Secretary of the national association of democratic clubs, 1370 Broadway, New York City,’ so that the united membership may work systematically in defense of the re- public as the fathers made it. All democratic committees, state and local, are requested to aid the na tional association of democratic clubs in this whork. W. J. Bryan, Apvat E. STr James K. Jones, Chairman National Dem. Com. Wo. R. Hearst, Pres. Nat'l Association Dem. Clubs. Killed by Lightning. Nevada, Mo., Aug. 13.—George Matlock, a prominent stock dealer residing at Schell City. was instantly killed by lightning while loading three cars of stock for Kansas City and his two helpers, Lute Wilson and John Goodman, were badly injured. John Boatright’s large warehouse was struck by another bolt. Dam- age light. The Jolly Girl Often changes to the jaded woman. *I can’t see what’s come over Mary; she used to be such a jolly girl,” was the remark of a young woman visiting a married school- mate. Marriage chan; a wom- an. e drains and pains which are so often the sequence of marriage rob her of all vital- ity. Give her back her former strength and she’ll be as “jolly” a wife as she was @ maid. Doctor Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription pres back the ost strength by re - establishi: the health the delicate womanly or- gans. It dries the drains and stops the pains. It cures ulcera- tion, inflamma- tion and female weakness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. “For two years I had been a sufferer from chronic diseases and female weakness,” writes Mrs. Allen A. Bobson, of 1125 Kodman Street, Philadelphia, Pa. “1 had two different doctors, and they gave me medicine w only reliew me for a time. My niece advised me to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescri cluded that to open a correspon: © with you for your advice would be safest, so I did, and have been highly benefited. I find that after taking six bottles of * Favorite Prescription" and Sve of “Golden Medical Discovery’ and foliow- ing your advice in regard to local treatment, I am how a strong woman. my sincere thanks for the interest manifested in my case and the happy results obtained.” Sick women are invited to consult Dr. wate Adsense VS, democratic none one great sy NSON,