The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 28, 1911, Page 4

PEAS ww | i 1 Scotch tweeds, etc. at $3 the pattern. New allovers and fancy trimmings. as we now have a complete assortment. We have a beautiful collection of Tailored Suits and Coats and Fine Skirts We are selling lots of Suits now. We only sell first class stylles and qualities and stand back of every sale. and each number is a dandy for the price. The prices run from $12.50 to $35, In the Coat line you will find a great variety of fancies—some with plain collars, some roll collars, some Puritan collars, some Charlotte corduroy col- ars. Popular prices prevail—$7.50 to $25. _ The Skirts come in serges, panamas, voiles, You will certainly enjoy tak- ngalook athese. They are priced from $3.98 to $15 Every garment fitted free in our own dress- making department. out on approval and have only one price—the We do not send garments owest. Choice new Silk Waist Patterns just received New wide ruffling and jabots. This is the time to buy Munsing Underwear, Men’s Saheb see nest See Tae are yet a windows for some of | Men's E. & W. Dress Shirts, 95c | WALKER-McKIBBEN’S numbers at 15c; two for 25c and 25c. Visit our Shoe Department but good shoes. Shoes which the manufacturer and ourselves back up. Packard shoes for men; Walker’s Specials for ladies and misses; Buster Brown and Godman’s school shoes; Budd’s shoes for babies. union suits $1 up. Ladies’ vests and pants 50c up. Ladies’ union suits $1 up. Boys’ and girls’ union suits 50c up. Other brands of underwear 25c up. Big lot of the celebrated Schmidt Knit Sweater Coats for men, women, children, priced from 50c up. Topsy hosiery in the wanted kind. Largest stock of good hosiery in*Bates county. Special Here you will find nothing See our the new stylish numbers. Men’s H. & P. Gloves, 50c up | | Come and See Us—We Want Your Trade The Quality Store Men's Adonis Socks, Linen Heels and Toes, 25c | For ‘Rugs on Sale FOR A SHORT TIME WE OFFER Smith’s Extra Grade Axminster Rugs. Size 9x12, usually sold at $25 $17 Smith’s Brussels Rugs Size 9x12, regular price $15 For $12.50 | Smith’s Brussels Rugs For FLOOR OI The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D. ALLEN, Editor and Manager Entered at the Post Office of Butler, Mo., as second-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR A GOOD COURT. The success of men in public life may be measured by the criticism of their political enemies. The mistakes of municipal officials are carefully pointed out by their political oppo-| nents, while, no mention is made of their official acts which might be creditable or praiseworthy. | Our present county court, three good men successful in their own} expense of fitting up a room in the BALLOTS CAST STRAIGHT! The so-called “transient” vote is, CAME OUT SCRATCHED. city, renting it by the month and hav- ing it kept at all times ready for oc. ;cupancy concerns not Mr. Funk nor’ Evidence Adduced at Hearing Proves any one else, but for the edification Fraud Was Used to Beat Democrats. of the public at large we will state’ the Democratic contestants for the shown not to exist by the fact that the | registration books always are sup- posed to contain records of transfers | of address when persons of this char- | acter change their place of abode. RECIPROCITY BEATEN; LAURIER OVERTHROWN Seven Men in Premier’s Ministry are Size 9x12, regular price $12.50 $10 LINOLEUMS L CLOTHS SHADES, CURTAINS WALKER-McKIBBENS “The Quality Store”’ Must be A Real Democrat. The campaign of 1912 will be a ‘plain, unmistakable, clear-cut discus- sion and decision between two lines \of national policy, involving radical that while in this city on county busi- ness the members of the court devote their entire time and attention to county affairs, and their interest does offices held by Republican Supreme When they move the notation is Judges Kennish and Brown and State ade on the registration books, Superintendent of Schools Evans, “transferred to Ward, dealt terrific blows at the ‘fair’ elec- Precinct,” with the date of such transfer. | differences upon fundamental points | not alone of national legislation, but \of the attitude and temperament of jthe federal executive and federal Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 21.—Can- | judiciary as well. Defeated in Their Districts, Although Leader Himself is Returned. not end as court adjourns from day |tion methods of Republicans at the to day, but retiring to the privacy of continuation yesterday of the hearing their room the affairs of the county |p otore Special Commissioner R. E. are discussed and matters concerning Culver, the county’s welfare, which willwork |" ‘phe first blow was squarely landed for the advancement of the county's’ when eight witnesses called in suc- interests are brought forward, thus | deccion by Judge William C. Mar- allowing the expediation of court bus- S141) counsel for the contestants, iness and thereby allowing the nec- toctitied that they had voted the essary business of the county to be! straight Democratic ticket at the taken care of in much less time and’ giection. Counsel for the Republi- respective business ventures, known | therefore at a minimum expense to to be thoroughly conscientious, and ‘the county. In order to do this it is having at heart the welfare of the ‘necessary that the members of the) he had scratched his ballot, and yet, county, have, as officials, served the | court be together during their leisure county well during their incumbency. | hours, a condition which would not In fact, they have so well cared for! always be possible were they in a the county’s interests that a local Re- | boarding house or a hotel, hence they publican newspaper, in casting about! have rented adjoining rooms upon for flaws in their official records up- | the square by the month. |cans failed to shake their testimony. | Not one of these men testified that ; it is claimed, and will be introduced in evidence, that the ballots purport- ing to be theirs had the name of, James Gantt, Democratic nominee for Judge of the Supreme Court, “‘Transfers’’ Not Recorded. In practically every instance no such notation is made opposite the |names of those scratched from these districts following that election. Clarence B. Shotwell, chairman of {the St. Louis County Democratic Central Committee, testified that after the election in St. Louis County he 'had tried to get a look at the poll books, and after fruitless efforts to find them was advised by R. H. Allen Wengler, Republican judge at the Clayton precinct, that his poll book had been either lost or stolen from him. ‘ Mrs. M. A. Gailey. jada has rejected the United States offer of reciprocity. By an overwhelming vote in all parts of the Dominion the Laurier Government, which submitted the Taft-Fielding agreement to the peo- ple in a general election held to-day, was swept out of office. The Conservatives have come in The national conscience, not less than the national intelligence, demand. a thorough change, a reversal as well as a revision of the national policy in many important particulars. The Democratic candidate for pres- ident next year must be distinctively Democratic. He must be not merely non-Republican, but he must be pos- itively anti-Republican. He must stand for the things that Taft does not with a majority of not less than 50. R. L. Bordon will be called. upon to form a Government and to become | chance of question or doubt, all the Prime Minister in place of Sir Wilfred principles and policies of progressive Laurier, the Canadian statesman who Democracy. has governed Canada for fifteen! The success of 1912, now seeming- years. 4 - /ly assured, can only be consumated The Liberal party, having just re-|along the lines of progressive De- stand for. He must represent, in- dividually and personally, without - on which to build political capital, has been unable to find one fact in the official careers of these gentlemen | cratic court is unable to pick flaws in which, if brought to the attention of the public, would but redound to their credit. Hence, rather than give them the credit due them for their economical administration of Bates county’s affairs and desiring to criti- cize rather than praise, this sheet goes into the private affairs of these gentlemen, and questions their right to establish headquarters at the coun- ty seat of government (at their own personal expense.) : Mr. Funk’s criticism is so puerile, is to be praised rather than censured. That the gentlemen composing the court are of economical personal habits is a ground for most hearty re- scratched, or had an entire Republi- can ballot substituted for it in the ballot box. Colonization Evidence. Then, bearing out the statement of The Republic, after the first of last week’s hearings, evidence was intro- duced into the record and will be submitted to the Supreme Court, showing that from fifty-seven houses within a few blocks on Franklin av- enue, Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Morgan streets, more than 320 voters were registered for the elec- The fact that a Republican paper in attempting to find fault with a Demo- the official records of its members, but is forced to complain of personal matters, is indeed a compliment to the members of that body, and we congratulate the people of Bates coun- ty upon having.a court in whose rec- ords even so acute a student of politi- cal economy as Mr. Funk is unable to find subject for criticism. The selection of E. W. Stephens of|tion of November, 1910, negroes in| Columbia, as a member of the Capi-|nearly every instance, and from some tol Board is indeed one of_ wisdom. | places as high as from twelve to sev- Assuccessful business man, a gentle-|enteen names being recorded as of man of tlie old’ school, highly educat- | those having the right to vote. ed, broadened by travel, and with the} Along with this will be introduced interests and honor of -Missouri al-|the fact that these persons did vote, ways at heart, he is indeed the typejor ballots were cast in their names, of-man in whose hands a and that after the election the names So.far as the judges going to the» wi question 80 vital to the state may be safely| were scratched from thefregistration placed. ; books. Mrs. M. A. Gailey, aged 66 years, _died at El Dorado Springs, Tuesday night, Sept. 26, as the result of a | stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Gailey had ' been in ill health for some time. ' She was an old resident of this |county and had lived in Amoret for | many years. | The remains were brought to this better trade relations with the United States, is smashed. ; workable majority, enters on a high tariff platform, avowedly, undesirous of reciprocity with the United States. cito Wednesday night and interment will be made in Amoret. Pending the been made. ' once for the sale of “Compendium of | géneral necessity, price $1.50; also for “The Devil's Bride,” a wonderful re- {arrival of Watson Gailey, a nephew, | ent prosperity. no definite funeral arrangements have|be no lower prices for food in the WANTED—Canvassing Agents ‘at |Procity with Canada, Everybodys Wants,’ the book of} Among the Rich Hill people who Canadian manufacturers, who asked the country to stand pat on its pres- United States if they depend on reci- turned to almost forgotten Liberal | low tariff principles by advocating | and with a candidate who shall be in mocracy, which is true Democracy, all essential particulars the apostle and representative of those progres- The Conservative party, with a | sive principles.—Denver News. Farm for Sale. A farm of one. hundred and forty The victory is a triumph for the |8¢Tes, located in Pleasant Gap town- ship, one-half mile south of Marshal school house, on the main road, with It means there will |'Ual telephone. A new four room house, good barn and outbuildings, with plenty of good water, one hun- dred and twenty acres of tillable land, balance in pasture. We will offer this land for sale for a short time on terms. Address, : attended the Bates County Fair at| 49-1 Nuckols Bros. Butler were: J. W. Lewis and wife, Route 8, Butler, Mo. Walter Howe, Hadley Fisher, Miss ; . heres ™, x eee