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he - VOL. XXX. Butler Weekly Cime ag*htngt tr, “Qin? ~ste'3t**" BUTLER, MISSOURI, -THURSDAY, NOVEMBER.21, 1907. “A Great Sale i OF 30 HEAD OF FINE AND FINELY-BRED ® DUROC-JERSEY HOGS At Buena Vista Stock Farm, owned and operated by 8. G. Banke, located southeast corner of El Dorado Springs, Mo., ' Wednesday, Nov. 27,’°O7 at 11 a.m, SHARP. bene ¢ vey consists of 17 epring boars, and 18 gilts. Part of these pigs are stred by my great herd boar Top Notcher Corrector, No. 89991, and the reat are by my assist- ing herd bour, Eche Advance, No. 57257. All pigs are out sows of the following blood: Surprise, Red I Am, Oom Paul, and other noted sows. All parties coming by ratl will be met at 9:30 a. m. train and taken back in time to catch afternoon train leaving at 8:50. Auctioneer, Col. 8. W. Kidd. Write for catalogue, and come whether you buy or not. i eT dependent upon the prospect of eve! cess. The prospects now seem excel- lent, but a Democraatic National Convention will be held, a platform | adopted and candidates nominated, | whether the prospects be bright or | gloomy, and the party must make | the best fight it can, whether it en- ters the campaign with ‘fear or with | confidence. “Democrats believe that Democrat- ic principles are sound, and that Democratic policies are necessary; they should, therefore, indorse those principles and present those policies, and then select as their candidates those who, in their judgment, will give the party the greatest assur- ance of success in the campaign, and the country the greatest assurance of benefit in case of victory. REFUSAL NOT JUSTIFED “No man can ask fora nomination |§ as @ compliment if his nomination 9 SARSAPARILLA, will not benefit the party, and no} y PULLS, Democrat would be justified in retue- ers ne ing @ nomination ff his party de- manded his services, and if the mem- | well as morally right, for the con- bers of the party belleved that Mr. |actence is the most potent force Bryan’s nomination will help the | with which man deals. party, ite principles and polictes,he| “The national conscience has al- will accept the nomination, whether | ready been aroused, and a large ma- the indications point to defeat or | jority of the voters have been edu- victory. A defeat can bring no dis- | cated to the necessity for real reform grace where the caise Js a just one, | —a reform that will make this gov- but cowardice would be disgraceful, | ernment again a government of the especially in one who is as deeply in-| people, by the peopleand for the peo- debted to his party as Mr. Bryan is. | ple. It only remains for the Demo- “Just a word more. The next| cratic party}to convince the voters campaign will be an appeal to the | that it can be entrusted with the public conscience. The investiga-| work of reform, and nothing will do tions have shown not only the cor-| more to convince the public than a rupt use of large campaign funds, | a refusal to negotiate with predatory but the only source from which they | wealth as an honest appeal by hon- can be drawn, namely the corpora- | est methods to the honest sentiment tions that seek to convert the Gov- | of the country.” ernment into a business asset. The | ~~ Appen dicitis Democratic party stands for the doctrine of equal rights to all and Is due in a large measure to abuse of the bowels, by employing drastic special privileges to none, and, there- purgatives. To avold all danger, fore, cannot promise favors to favor- | use only Dr. King’s New Life Pills, seeking corporations. If !* made | the safe, gentle cleansers and invigo- such promises to the corporations, | ators. reconengen to cure head- {6 would be guilty of duplicity, for it yn icisaee aaa would have to betray the voters, as pe Ai seach the Republican party has done, in Babies Cutting Teeth order to reward these corporations [Pm as the Republican party has reward- ON Certified Checks. ed them. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 18.—The “The Democratic campaign must | only man fn this town whom the fi- be carried on by volunteers who will | nanclal pantie has left unscathed is work because they desire the triumph | James Whitcomb Riley and that 1s ot Democratic ideas. We cannot | because he has no babies. Just what hope to appeal to the sordid or to | relation babies had to the panic is buy the purchaseable, even ff such a | not exactly clear, but Mr. Riley has course would contribute toward stopped writing poetry long enough Democratic success. No one should|to give the matter deep thought favor Mr. Bryan’s nomination unless | and he explained {t to the first visit- the party {s willing to open its books | or he saw frum the East. and show where {ts conéributions| ‘‘Suppose the financial trouble has come from and for what the money | hit you hard,” was the stranger's is expended. opening remark. “The Republican party oughttobe| ‘Hasn’t hit me,” replied Mr. Riley, challenged to conduct its campaign |because Ihave never believed in in this open and honest way, and if| banke. But there {s much trouble the Republican leaders refuse to ac- | among the men out here who do or cept the challenge, the Democrats | used to. Coin has become so scarce can well afford to leave the issue | through Indiana that the babies are with the public. An appeal to con- | now cutting their teeth on certified sclence {s politically expedient, as | checks. ed to do that hecannotclaim a nom- BRYAN WILLING TO tattle © voserd; ndliher chould ACCEPT NOMINATION. sme oe, en can ona ty to @atisty any reasonable ambi- tion. The only question that ought to weigh with the party is whether the party will be strengthened and aided more by his nomination than by the nomination of someone elee. re “Tf he can eerve the party by be- WOT TO ASK NOR SEEK, |!0g tte candidate, he will accept the commission and make the best fight W. J. Bryan will accept a nomina-| he can, It, however, the choice falls tion at the hands of the Democratic upon ailother, he will not be disap- party in 1903, but he will not seek pointed or disgruntled. His availa- she honor. bility fs a question to be decided not Mr. Bryan outlines his position in) by him, not by a few leaders, not sa Commoner as follows: by the leading newspapers that call ‘A-year ago last summer while in| themselves Democratic, but by the Europe, Mr. Bryan in an interview! yogers of the party, and to them he stated that 1 was too early to dis-/in¢ruste the decision of the question .Jeuss the campaign of 1908 from ®)_shey are the supreme court in all personal standpoint, although dur-| matters concerning candidates, as ing that summer the Democratic] ho {n all matte { conventions in something like half of epiaiorn. eS ee the States of the Union had passed! «fio assumes that they will not se- resolutions complimentary to bim|joog pir unless they desire to make and mentioned his name in connec-| ,, aggresslve fight for the applica. tion with the Democratic nomina-| sion of Democratic principles so pres- tion for president, He has from time} 414 eonditions, and he also takes it to time refused to discuss the availa-|1or yranted that the organization bility elther of himeelf or any other] of ¢he party will be in harmony with condidates, believing that the party | 4h. platform and will be composed should have all the Yght possible be-| of men whose political records will lore attempting a selection. Invite confidence and give assurance ‘A prestdential candidacy should |sha¢ a victory, {fwon, will not bea fit the platform adopted by his party | parren victory. and platforms are made to.fit the) «1, has been asserted that Mr. Bry- conditions existing when the plat-| 1 wag waiting to see who the Re- form {s made. No one can eee very | pybiican nominee would be. This fe far ahead or speak: with certainty 48) angrne, He has never felt that his “4 the issues or as to the relative) jositton should be dependent upon importance of issues in thecampalgn. |4h4 acsion taken by the Republican Sometimes a day will change the alt- party. The Republicans must nom- uation, and afew monthe will bring] inats etther a reformer, a stand-pat- forward a new {esue which will have)... or one whose position on public an important bearing upon the) doog¢ions is unknown, and the course availability of a candidate. For) + the Democratic party should be this reason Mr. Bryan has refused t0|414 same no matter which element make any announcement a8 to bis} ontrolg the Republican convention. position, although he has from time |p, Deraderatic party must make to time discussed issues old and new. |; its fight for what !¢ believes. “Now that the election of 1907 is) wwatie ts may take advantage of past and labs are being made for! po ybiican mistakes, it must depend next year’s campaign he feels that a upon {ts merits for success and not statement is due the public. Those upon the errors of {ts opponents. who prefer another cand{date are en- It the Republicans nominate a stand titled to know his position, and those patter, the Democrats can take ad- who favor his nomination have a , right to demand an answer to the vantage 6f the efsentional work question 00 often put—Will you ac-| Wat hee bees done by the Repel an reformers; the publicans cept & nomination. His refusal to) | vinate a candidate who is bellev- re yo nd the ye t ed to be favorable to reform, such a woe ports, and uniriend’y | vomtnation will strengthen Demo- newspapers have taken advantage of centlyreport the killing ofa manat| Vowing in 1860 that he would not cratic doctrines, because Republican cme Sanne Bet ile eva te eateregrenent Ne ob reformers advocate the reforms that Walnut crossing. Adam Beach, 49 | shave untilhe was 80 years old if] titude. aged resident of the Walnut nelgh | Stephen A. Douglas, in that year, aOnNS ke OR came: = pecan tac etapa = borhood, started to drive across the | was not elected President of the “Mr. Bryan willnot ask for or seek oe aoe 4 a 5g track just when the flyer swerved | United States, John Carmichael a nomination; and he will not aa-|° 0) poms Maca Aoi see i ound thé curve near Walnut, and | came to Philadelphia yesterday and|sume to decide the question of bis se) nanan gr appa ig oe asi belore the team could be forced from | had his forty-seven years’ growth of javailability, He has been ao recom- indorsement to a few Democratic the track. the locomotive crashed in- | whiskers shaved off. pensed by his party for what he has —- to the vehicle, completely smashing} He {s the owner of “‘Hilcrest,” @ done and for what he has endeavor- the buggy and instantly killing the | farm in Barren Hill. After having occupant. The train was stopped | his whiskers removed he returned and the old man’s body was taken | home, and as he tramped across the /@ to Walnut where \t was identified by | fields to his house he was espied by -™ several persons who knew the de-| his wife, Not recognising her hus- qq cessed. The buggy was literally | band in the clean shaven man she (fy Smashed into kindling wood by the | fied indoors in fear, and a dog that terrific collision with the rapidly | guards the place wae turned out-| ry moving train. The old man, who | doors to chase the unknown man. fs believed to have been deaf,} The dog did not recognize its mast- probably never knew what struck | er and attacked him, biting him sev- him. eral times in the leg. Finally Mr. | sug My Hair is Extra Long Feed your hair; nourish it; give it something to live on. Then it will stop falling, and will grow long and heavy. Ayer’s Hair Vigor is the only genuine hair-food you can buy. It gives new life to the hair-bulbs. 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Scott parties returning from Forty-Seven Years. the south on the Katy Flyer re-! prom the Philadelphia Inquirer. “It the Republicans nominate one who straddles the issues and at- tempts to take both sides, {¢ is none Of interest To Women. | the less necessary for the Democratic ‘o such women as are not seriously out | party to make an aggressive fight. of|health\ but who have exacting duties |e action of the Republican con- to}perforn\, either in the way of house- cares\or in social duties and func- | Vention may have its influence in the igh\seriously tax their strength, | determining of the relative availabil- ursing mothers, sae pape {ty of Democratic candidates, but it inemgers Leb posh new ought not to have any influence in {mely use, much |determining the question whether be ithe one chosen by the Democrats should accept the nomination. If i i Careibihnal agi a thd animal and | ; the rank and file of the Democratic 1 { | later wet to the Germantown hoe- 2 Prescrip- party desired Mr. Bryan to make 0 ume, verite P- | the race he will make it no matter i q * | pital where his wounds were cauter- | tlon=h t boon to expectant er to cryssles in this | ized. moans ty the system for the |Who may be the Republican nom- ' eas ponomrl compiles Ob rias- coming of baby, thereby rendering child- | inee. onablet Satisfaction gusr- cCasSTORIA. ete Set teens tao De. Pi .. | “It has aleo been charged that Mr. anteod, Have been a trader and | Baste 71h (ind You ton Ay Bog | ryyorits Prescription is not » secret or | Bryan was waiting +o ascertain she) chipper: of live stock 10 years. Biguaiure . | patent medicine, against which the most |chances of victory, ready to run if a lo intelligent people sre quite naturally | the outlook seemed bright, or to re- be pall pasted ir pcan, Jou eee tise ree eee becca dheed fuse to run if the chances seemed un- ened ; Mt °° | President of Big bat oe =i KNOWN compost- |favorable. This charge, like the oth- oF Bank Kills Himself. : Tron, 8 full list of all tte ingredients bern er, is without foundation. No one aut pe empath 8 rng. gramingn of i i con esimate be chances of Wo ae cream of tartar j .D.8.{. New York, Nov. 18.—Charles T. . fact thatitis |ty in the next with suf- F en a ‘¢|Barauy, nil rcesiy_present of 8 Sey a fue accuracy to make ts cand " baking powder—Makes ; a Tram Compan es connegion it | 2407 dependens opm te have reas Food More Delicious and Whole- ] of this~clty, prominently identified |B, icrte out-of place to “ Democrats have reason 1 C. E. Robbins, |via siryinteonat on Plate Weeenran of De 5 lemons tact shat| {4% gome—No Alum—No Phosphates s eae, pecul} ; z m mocroratic principles have grown oa Ngee pee Care Must be Taken to Keep Alum | Auctioneer. From the Food