The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 16, 1911, Page 2

The Butler Weekly. Times Printed on Thureday of each week J. D, ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLEN, Editor and Manager Entered at the Post Office of Butler, Mo., as second-class mall matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR Mr. R. D. Allen, Butler, Mo. Dear Sir: | The Republican press has been in- | spired to create the impression that the Democratic members of the State Capitol. Commission have injected politics in their affairs by standing | the sake of proving there was no for the election of J. K. Pool as Sec-| retary. I write this personal letter | that you may know the charge is| or’s political purpose? false. After the Commission was| named, the Governor himself started | the ball by singling out Pool from, those mentioned saying his (the Gov- | ernor’s) fealty to his party would not | permit Pool to be chosen if he could help it. Up to that time I had no preference for Secretary. Believing, however, that being an active Demo- | crat is no bar to official position, I at | once decided my fealty to my party | was as sacred to me as the Govern-| or’s to his. Every Democrat on the! Commission and on the Permanent Seat of Government Board concurred. At no time has Pool’s integrity or ef. | ficiency been questioned or attacked. | The Governor raised the issue of partisianship, and in the face of a} Democratic majority, admitting that Pool’s editorial paragraphs had punct- ured his hide and exploded some of his soap-bubbles. I have never con- sidered it a crime fora Democratic editor to unhorse a partisan Repub- lican official, so long as the truth was respected and employed. I therefore protest against Republican papers be- ing permitted to create a false impres- | sion and appeal to you for energetic | co-operation in assauiting such cita-| dels of falsehood. | With kindest personal regards, I/ am, Yours truly, CORNELIUS ROACH. PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT IN 1912. Graft Prosecutor Declares People Will | Rebuke Administration. Kansas City, Nov. 11.—If you want; to find out what is going on in this sountry travel and talk tu the people. That is what Francis J. Heney, gressive Republican, graft fighter and all-around enemy of special privilege, has been doing and that is why he was able to say at the Savoy Hotel this morning: “If a presidential primary could be held in the Republican party Senator LaFollette would beat President Taft for the nomination hands down.” Such a primary is not going to be) held—not this year, anyway—and so Mr. Heney had another conclusion to offer and it was this: “President Taft will be renominat- ed by a party convention and beaten by the people at the polls.” If it should be urged that President Taft had been doing some traveling himself, and doubtless has learned of some things, it should be remembered that President Taft isn’t talking about the things he learned, and Mr. Heney is. Besides, Mr. Heney was not traveling as President of the United States, and fancies he got a little closer to the people than the Presi- dent. Stone Out for Champ Clark. St. Louis, Nov. 9.—Senator Stone! has announced himself in favor of| Speaker Clark for the Democratic Presidential nomination. In this he is in direct variation with his col-! leage, Senator Reed, who announced some months ago that he considered | himself and the Missouri Democracy pledged to support J. W. Folk. Senator Stone’s statement, which he dictated, follows: “Tam for any good Missouri Dem- ocrat for the nomination for the ex- alted office of President who is and always has been a loyal party man and who apparently has a good chance to receive the nomination. “TI think Speaker Champ Clark fills | these requirements in every particu- lar. He has never failed to support his party and stand by his principles jan abuse of official power. | tions.”’ Does Haeley Order a Whitewrsh? Gov. Hadley says there is nothing in the charges of fraud in last year’s election, and nobody believes the charges, he says. Yet he orders the circuit attorney to have the December grand jury to investigate them be- cause, explains the Governor, their continued reiteration may lead many i good citizens to believe that they are | true. The circuit attorney, who will di- ‘rect the investigation, makes light of | the charges in the same way. Where- fore, are we to believe that a white- ' wash is a foregone conclusion? What {else could come ofan investigaticn of an investigation of fraud ordered for fraud, and under the direction of an official in sympathy with the Govern- Whether he means it or not the Governor, in ef- fect, has ordered a whitewash of his party in St. Louis. Utterances by the Governor and circuit attorney plainly calculated to prejudice and hamper the action of the grand jury beforehand amount to A self- respecting grand jury, which will re- fuse to allow itself to be used by poli- ticians for party purposes, may ar- raign both of these men for an abuse of official power. It is to be hoped that the grand jurors will resent the attempted interference with their functions. The grand jury is an agency of and acting for the people. As such it must thoroughly investigate the abundant evidence of election crime to the end not of clearing a party, but of proceeding against the criminals, if the evidence warrants.—Reépublic. A Scandalous Situation. How the election officers of St. Louis are debauced for party pur- poses was made clear by Commis- sioner Jamison at the Planters Hotel conference. “In looking over the records.” he said, “I find that since I have been in office there have been 250 vacan- cies among Republican officers of election as the result of appointments to Government, state or city posi- Further he said: ‘‘In the month of June I found that eighty-four jndges and clerks of election in one ward, ‘the Sixth, received appointments of this kind. ~In July thirty-two judges and clerks in the Seventh ward were appointed to office.” These appointments were not made on merit. They are in payment of party services: rendered. They are held out as rewards not for public duty done but for partisan activities of the most dubious kind. With our elections controlled large- ly by Republicans, judges and clerks who are intent upon commending themselves to the appointing power and by ‘‘Democrats’’ in many cases who always vote the Republican tick- et, is there any room for wonder that the St. Louis ballot box is under sus- picion? There is only one thing worse than corrupt election officers in a repub- lic and that is a corrupt electorate. One leads to the other.—Republic. Plan a State School Tax. Columbia, Mo., Nov. 13.—A cam- paign 1s to be started at once for an amendment to the state constitution providing for a 1-mill tax to maintain the public schools of Missouri, includ- ing the state university and the normal schools. The teachers of the state at their annual convention in Hannibal last week passed a resolu- tion for arranging theamendment. A committee is to be appointed at once to begin the work of circulating the petition necessary to bring it up at the next general election. The plan proposed by the teachers is a tax of one mill on a dollar for the public school fund. Of the amount derived from such a tax, it was de- cided that one-third should go to the state university. A proposed constitutional amend- ment providing for a tax of three cents on $100 for the support of the WASHINGTON LETTER. Special Washington Correspond- “ent of The Times, By Clyde H. Tavenner. 1912!” cratic handily. predominate in the 1912 campaign. Query: advantages of protection, how can tection? Why Mr. Taft Feels Shaky Here is an article which speaks for itself. Democrat, published at Aberdeen, S. 1912, deen—has come and gone. not with him at any stage in the game. Poor Taft! Big-hearted, jovial and |p companionable, a commoner in his|h bearing. Everybody instinctively ad- mires him for the personal charm of his manner. It is too bad that such a| p; We love him for his large personality, cannot vote for him again.”’ The President Voted! The President got to vote after all. A lot of red tape was necessary, but he voted. And thereby hangs a tale. Six years ago Mr. Taft made a machine in Cincinnati. could take great pleasure in voting against it. nostrils of all good citizens. him vigorously and with the utmost sincerity. : In the recent election Mr. Taft pub- | E' and the brothels that it was in 1905. excuse. He said that ‘‘conditions had substantially changed.” had remained as foul as ever. was not a candidate for office, he is today. South May Desert Taft The prediction is made at the La- Follette headquarters in Washington that the administration will find it im- possible to send a solid Taft delega- tion from the South to the next con- vention. “For many weeks,’’ says a state- ment given out at the LaFollette menace to their continued receipt of States treasury. The South is afford- mittee more encouragement than any other section of the country.” War-Time Prices Outdistanced state university. was defeated last year. Notice of Annual Meeting of Charlotte Telephone Co. The annnal meeting of the Char- lotte township Telephone Co. will be held at Virginia in John McFadden’s hall on December the 5th at 9 o’clock without equivocation or apology. a, m. 1911 for the purpose of electing lows: three foot vein of coal at a depth of “He and I have ot always agreed | three directors, also, todecide wheth-| War-Time Article Present Time} forty feet. We are told the. whole as to some matters pertaining to par-|er the Charlotte Telephone Co. will/ $4.10 BblL flour $7.75 country east of town is underlaid ty policies. ; buy the lines that are owned by. the! 14c Ib Hams 20c to 28¢ | with good .roofing. It seems to. us ‘1 think he has as good a chance members that are more than one-half} 8c to 12c Ib Lard 12c to 25¢ that this could be mined with very. as any man for the nomination. I| mile from the company’s line, also, to| 14c Cheese 2c to $6c | little expense, and being right on. ContinGously as long ss I believe andjcome up before the meeting. 2-4/6 1-2c lb Beef. % 13c to 16c Ib Coffee DST Gee FAR ee cause Congressman Littleton of New York spoke in condemnation of the Sherman law at the same banquet board at which he was.to speak in its Washington, D. C.—‘‘As Massa- | defense. chusetts goes, so will the nation go in | self protected the dignity of his office by refraining from talking politics on This was the slogan of both Repub-|his trip through the West, his dis- licans and Democrats in the Massa-|pleasure at Mr. Littleton’s action chusetts campaign. And the Demo-| might have been in better taste. But candidate, Gov. Foss, won|he had just traveled 15,270 miles, been seen by nearly.five million peo- The issue was. the tariff and Taft| ple, and made 306 speeches to an ag- standpatism, the same issues that wil]|gregate audience of approximately 1,555,000 people. If the protectionists cannot | President desires that only his side of carry Massachusetts, home of the| public questions should be heard. If cotton and woolen manufacturing in-| the president chooses to go upon the dustries, where the people are sup-|stump, he must not expect that he posed to reap some of the tremendous | can do all the talking himself. The census of opinion is that if the dignity they expect to carry the middle: and | of the office of President was not in- western states, in which regions live | jured by Mr. Taft in making a_politi- the people who pay the excessive |cal speech while a guest at a banquet, prices caused by high tariff and reap | it was not igjured by Mr. Littleton in none of the alleged benefits of pro-| stating his views on the same subject discussed by the President. D., and is a fair sample of what the | of the poor.” newspapers in the cities visited by | operation of the protective policy in Mr. Taft on his trip through the West ! the United States illustrates its effect. published after he had left town. In-| Of all the factors that have contribut- cidentally, this article in a measure}ed tothe colony of mushroom mil- reveals the sentiment which prompt-|lionaires in this country, nothing has ed Mr. Taft to make his now famous] played such an important part as the prediction of Republican defeat in| protective tariff. magnates who live in mansions along “The big event—Taft day at Aber-| Fifth avenue, and whose sons make Curiosity | life a joy for the sensational news- to see the President caused thousands | papers by marrying chorus ladies, to come to Aberdeen, stand in line} got their wealth through the Republi- and even give vent to a few feeble}can given privilege of picking the cheers when he spoke, but they were | pockets of the people through favor- ing tariff rates. But the President was there with an| Drainage Con. No. 2........ Works Both Ways President Taft was made angry be- If the President had him- Apparently the “Mushreom Millionaires’’ “Protection,’’ says a famous states- It is taken from the Dakota|man, ‘enriches the few at the expense of the many, the rich at the expense A half-century of the A majority of the The masses are joorer to the extent the magnates ave been made over-rich. “‘Wholehoggers,’’ In Germany the tariff wall is even igher than in the United States. good man should be spoiled in trying There, as in this country, the people to make presidential timber of him. | are crying out at the ever-increasing cost of living. But in Germany they but in view of what he has done we/have another name for the standpat- ters who resist any attempt to reduce the cost of living. They call them wholehoggers.”’ : County Court. Petition of W. H. Harris et al, for speech at Akron, O., in which hej opening road in Osage township, tak- roundly scored the notorious Cox|e€n under advisement for future act- He said he|ion. Petition of W. R. Walker et al, for He declared this foul Re-|Change in road in section 23, Lone publican machine was a stench in the | Oak township, presented and _high- The peo- | Way engineer ordered to view and lo- ple of Ohio, realizing that William H, | cate said road and make report at the Taft was telling the truth, applauded | next regular meeting. County Treasurer presents follow- ing warrants for cancellation: lection and jury... . 8 763.70 licly indorsed and voted for the Cox|Pauper........... +» 3577.49 machine, which is still the disgraceful Common School. . -» 1700.00 alliance of politics, corrupt business | District School............. 1000.00 Drainage Con. No. 1........ 1812.12 119.19 In matter of petition of Frank Craig et alto establish road in section 30, Whatever the President wasalluding | Deepwater township, highway engi- to, it was not the Cox machine, for it}neer ordered to locate said road. The| Provided, however, the petitioners only change visible to observers is|Geposit necessary money to defray that, whereas six years ago Mr. Taft] expense of opening said road. Dram-shop license granted F. H. Steuck of Rich Hill. Bond of Farmers Bank as deposi- tory for additional drainage moneys approved. Ordered that State Auditor be re- quested to draw his warrant in favor of County Treasurer, for amount of foreign insurance tax fund money due the County Oct. 1, 1911. Ordered that bridge be constructed headquarters, ‘‘there has been signs|0ver Willow Branch in section 13, that the Southern Republicans have | Prairie township, provided, however, been fearful that the nomination of| that citizens of township provide for President Taft will be a serious | hauling of all material for bridge. Road petitioned for by J. R. Welch bi-monthly checks from the United | ¢t al ordered opened. Proceedings of the A. L. Lewis ing the Progressive Campaign Com-| Toad case reinstated. Road case of W. H. Harris et al vs. E. Bagby et al continued until De- cember, 1911, term. Cost bills in the sum of $453.45 Itis no longer necessary to ‘hark presented by Circuit Clerk Maxey back to war times as an era of excep- tionally high prices. A Washington antiquarian has been at the trouble to dig up a list of war-time prices and compare .them with Payne-Aldrich approved. Court adjourned at noon Saturday. Struck Three Foot Vein Coal. tariff prices at the present time, 88) east of town, G. A. Corbin struck a Pictures | and have them framed NOW A big lot of new Mouldings and Frames. We have quite a bunch of pictures we are giving away if you buy a = frame for them. YOURS, A. H. CULVER Furniture Company PUBLIC SALE I will sell at public auction at. my residence, 3 miles south and 4 miles west of Adrian, and 1 mile east of Elkhart, on Friaay, Nov. 24, 1911 (SALE BEGINS AT 10 A. M.) 8 Head Horses 6 Head Cattle 100 Head Hogs Implements : (Including Farm Machinery, Wagons, Buggies, etc.) Grain 1000 bushels of Corn. 4 tons Timothy Hay. 2 tons Millet. 40 or 50 acres Shredded Fodder in barn. Chickens -About 90 or 100 pure bred White Plymoth Rock chickens. Household and Kitchen Furniture e All sums of $10 and under, cash; on sums over Ter ms: that amount a credit of 10 months will be given with 6 per cent interest from date. 2 per cent discount for cash. 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