The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 7, 1912, Page 4

become a candidate for it? Is there| jany possible way to prove, now or, \later, that Theodore Roosevelt is not | today a candidate for nomination? Is | there a sane man in the United States 'who believes that Theodore Roose- | | velt i is not at the present momen: al candidate? If he is a candidate, his. a | pledge is broken. ANNOUNCEMENTS | “The Colonel’s sophistry falls hope- | We are authorized to make the following an- | Jessly.’” nouncement subject tothe Democratic primary of Bates County, Auguet 19:2: ! —— af REPRESENTATIVE | “IN STATU QUO” L. B BASKERVILLE | Each day it becomes more and more Of Deepwater Township |evident that the chances for Demo-} cratic success this fall are growing | | brighter. | _| While the Democratic party is un-' JUDGE RN DISTRICT. 'questionably daily gaining strength | Fa Sa euy jand followers, the Republicans seem | Of Walnut Townehip ; to be in a pitiful condition indeed. The fight for the Republican presi- | | dential nomination lies between two! The Butler Weekly Times Printed on od of each week - OCD ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLEN, Editor and Manager BEAUTIFUL NEW : Spring Coats Suits and Skirts | : Garments which are perfectly tailored, have theright cut and | hang and made up in the latest fabrics. Entered at at the Fost Office of Butler, Mo., as | second-class mail matter, PRICE, $1 :00 eee YEAR J WALLI3 1 EWIS Of West Point Pee Coats, $ 7.50 to $25 FRANK FIX - epee ‘Township | candidates. The one, regarded even Suits, 12.50to 25 i : |by his own party as a miserable fail- | 5 JUDGE NORTHERN DISTRICT. The other, a quibbler, a man of Skirts, 5.00to 15 |ure. jmuch talk, but whose words mean S (nothing. A man who has, for the 1. L HARPER sake of gratifying personal ambition, Mt, Pleasant Township deliberately broken his pledge given - |voluntarily to the American people. SHERIFF It matters little which of these two: JW. BAKER ;men the Republican party chooses for Uf Osage Township. jits leader, It is doomed. Republi-, ‘can voters, honest in their desire for ithe right kind of government have jrefused to give their support to Mr. | | Taft, and to men of honor in the Re-| ‘publican ranks Mr. Roosevelt’s frantic | quibbling to defend his broken pledge | lis nauseating and disgusting. The; |one will have the support of those | | Republicans who are now at the pie | Wm F, WOLFE Deer Creek Township. COME AND SEE THEM. Sterling Muslin Underwear on Sale This Month TREASURER. F, PERRY Of Osage Township. ROBERT L, BRADEN CHARLES M, BARKLEY Mt. Pleasant Township Corset Covers from 39c up Drawers from 23c up Gowns from 45c up W. B, WELCH summit Township ‘counter and desire to remain at the, ( public trough. The other will be! Skirts from 48c up ‘ JOHN H. STONE | followed by the petty politicians on or Creek Townshi Dees Green one e | the outside of the administration who E hope for public patronage or notorie- | UU SU SST SeDTe \ty. Neither will get the support of | On the 4th of March next 1 shall! decent Republicans. pat pad spe baa : a half A Havel | It matters not who the Democrats UL AE a Gl ha jnominate, he will win. The G. O. P. tutes my first term. The wise cus- a a5 tom which limits the President totwo |'8 in “Statu Quo” which has been A terms regards the substance and not | | fined by an eminent statesman as d the form, and under NO CIRCUM- | hell ofa fix.’ : | 5 STANCES WILL I BE AGAIN A CAN- | —_—_—_ e || ; DIDATE FOR OR ACCEPT ANOTHER | ‘ NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. Theodore Rovusevelt, Nov. 8, 1904. IT IS A FINE SAVING TO BUY NOW. New Shoes are Here Packard’s for Men Buster Brown’s for Boys and Girls Budd’s for Babies LONELY MR. ROOSEVELT. ' Among American citizens of com: | manding prestige and_ influence, ; Theodore Roosevelt alone has in-| I have not changed and shall not |dorsed Theodore Roosevelt’s third- | change that decisiun thus announced. term candidacy. | —Theodore Roosevelt, Dec. 11, 1907-' No great lawyer has endorsed it. ' No great jurist has indorsed it. TWILL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION No great educator ‘has indorsed it. | A good stock of Rubber Boots, etc., always on FOR PRESIDENT IF ITIS TENDERED , No great publicist or student of y : TO ME.--Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. government has indopaed it. | =" hand at lowest prices. WALKER-McKIBBEN’S | | No United States senator of ‘the | THE QUALITY STORE aM A big shipment of Walker’ s Specials for Ladies will be in in a few days. TAKING HIM AT HIS WORD. first rank has indorsed it. No representative in congress of | the first rank has indorsed it. No governor whose political influ- ence extends beyond the borders of his own state has indorsed it. That Theodore Roosevelt's utter re- pudiation of a pledge twice given and | which should have been held sacred | a by him, is disgusting and repulsive | to all men of honor and a sense of; Hardly half a dozen newspapers of decency, no matter to what party | power and importance have indorsed they belong, is evidenced by the fol- | it. lowing from the Kansas City Journal, Every time I come to town The boys start kickin’ my dawg aroun’, Makrs no differen: e if he is a houn’, was plainly provoked. ‘The com- | plaint of this practice by express com- W. ASHINGTON | LETTER. in silence themselves, they could not Five days after the formal an- bear to see their children go hungry. - and, in short, refuse to act as a candi- Semommann prem one of the strongest Republican pa- pers in the west: “Colonel Roosevelt is very anxious to impress the country that there is a vast difference between “becoming | a candidate”’ and ‘“‘accepting the nom- | ination if it is tendered.’’ He pledged | himself, he says, not to become aj candidate, but did not say he would not accept if the nomination were | tendered him. “Taking him at his word, it is yet | plain and inescapable that he has violated his pledge. For he is today a candidate, and the nomination has! not been tendered him. “His ‘‘hat is in the ring” and he is actively giving encouragement and aid to those who are managing his campaign. How cana man who has thrown his hat into the ring and chosen a campaign manager be other than a candidate? “The only way he could have kept his pledge, assuming that his explana- | tion is sound and sincere, was to keep out of the campaign entirely—give no aid or encouragement to those who were boosting him, keep his hat on his head and his head on his shoulders date acts. Then, when the conven- nouncement of his candidacy, Mr. Roosevelt finds himself surrounded exclusively ‘by third-rate and fourth- rate politicians and notoriety-seekers. —New York World. Ex-' Governor D. R. Francis has ex- pressed his belief that Champ Clark will be the Democratic nominee for president. It is neck and neck between Clark and Wilson in Kansas, with Clark most of the time a nose in the lead. |Gov. Wilson is a great and good man, but that nose is what is going to beat him.—Republic. Kansas Counties Put Clark Ahead. Topeka, Kan., March 4.—Of the 105 counties in Kansas thirty-six have|plan, many children were sent away, | held conventions and Clark has 140|some to New York and Boston, and instructed or - endorsed delegates, | others to Philadelphia. while Wilson has 134. There are eleven uninstructed del- egates, and-the Clark men claim ten of these and concede one to Wilson: |Lawrence gained courage to carry on Harmon has gathered three votes so far. The following shows the delegates ton met, if it insisted on tendering} elected to date: him the nomination, he might under the distinction which he himself has drawn, flimsy though it be, accept without doing violence to his solemn promise. “Buta man can’t prove himself a candidate by throwing his bat into the ring, choosing a campaign man- ager and mounting the stump and at For Clark — Shawnee county, 16 votes; Smith, 6; Thomas, 3; Lyon, 9; | children were sent away from Law- | Miami, 9; Cowley, 8; Edwards, 4; Brown, 6; Reno, 13; Wyandotte, 27; Cherokee, 13; Washington, 7; Ander- | orders to the servile police and militia | son, 3; Leavenworth, 8; Finney, 3; | commanders Decatur, 5. For Wilson—Sedgwick, 23; John son, 9; Geary, 4; Saline, 9; Harvey, 6;|lawful imprisonment and all other | the same time keep his pledge not to Douglas, 6; Rawlins, aie poets be a caniidate. Lincoln, 5; Anderson, 3; Lear : “Suppose the nomination should not worth, 5; Neosho, 9; Marion, 7; a Se tadlacas bes ty the ooatealiane +l Braaia,. 7; Scott, 2; tagg 6 and it will not be—will he attempt, in | Morris, 5; Pratt, 5; Republic, 8; Phil- view of what he has done and is do- | lips, 6. ing, to make it appear that he did not For Harmon—Leavenworth, 2 Special Washington Correspond- ent of The Times. By Clyde H. Tavenner. Washington, D. C.—The woolen) trust,- having found that bayonets | would not compel its $6, $7 and $8 a Accordingly, there was issued an They gotta qu t kickin’ m: dawg arcun’. edict against sending the children away where they could obtain food. ; ‘Immediately a squad of state soldiers was sent to each railroad station, and | when the strikers arrived with their: \children many of them were seized Taking the above for their cue, the | poets got busy, as follows, and if any | reader thinks he can do better he is invited to send in his contribution to the editor of this paper: panies is universal.”’ Relief From Express Companies. | A charge of 25 cents, instead of $1.32, for the delivery of a 11-pound package on rural free delivery routes, ‘is in prospect, as the result of the week workers.to call off their strike, | is now utilizing the hunger of 7 to return to work at a reduced wage. Here is how the trust is working its new scheme: Many charitable organizations in cities adjacent to Lawrence, Mass., | where the strike is in progress, after reading of the desperate straits to which the strikers’ children had been reduced, made arrangements to have hundreds of those children cared for in private homes outside of Lawrence | until the strike ended. Under this} With the knowledge that their| children were being cared for tender- | ly, the mothers and fathers back in the fight. Freed from hearing their) little ones crying for bread, the strik- | ers took renewed hope. What happened? The trust mag- nates, realizing that if all the little; rence the strikers could loriger en-| dure the struggle, at once issued )‘put-a stop to the de-| portation of children. They knew that where bayonets, persecution, un-| ordinary weapons of big corporations | Diabolical as! this may seem it actually is being! and thrown into jail. Diaboli | these United States. Now the woolen trust is the most | highly protected of all trusts. It! makes millions of dollars annually in| | profits on stock that is watered unti it is soggy, and it is the same trust; which refuses steadfastly to listen to the plea of its men for a conference to talk over wage differences. Query: Since Aldrich and Smoot and Guggenheim declared that Sched- ule K—which places a heavy tax onj| every article of woolen clothing used in the United States—was passed for ithe “‘protection’’ of the workers in the woolen industry, and since these workers are receiving persecution and absolutely no protection what- ever, why should the ‘American peo- | ple longer tolerate Schedule K? “Houn’ Dog’’ Helps Democrats. ~Pemocrats with poetry in their souls are coming to bat in every part of the United States with protests against jabuse of the “ole houn’ dawg.” Years ago some unknown poet of the | Ozarks wrote a few homely verses ‘onacertain hound which everyone seemed to have a desire to kick; around, and now that Missouri has! supplied a likely candidate for the | Presidency, this plain ballad from the | zine laden hills of Missouri has leaped {into national fame. A Washington newspaper has offered a prize for ad- Champ’s on the hunt with bie ole houn’, ; An’ he’s gettiu’ votes in evry town, The people are ga her.n’ for miles aronn’, children as a club to force the parents | |done, not in Russia, but right here in | Te vo e for him and bis Ozark houn’, LaFollette’s the msn who has been thrown down, Whieb is no excuse for kickin’ him aroun’ | And ifanyof yon double-dealers ever come totuwn, You’Il have to stop kickin’ Lafollette aroun’, Every time the door bell rings Somebedy raises the prices of things. Makes no difference if we're se rich as kings They gotta quit boostin’ the prices of things. A Holdup Game Exposed Before you pay charges on an ex- press package again, it might be a | good idea to make sure the charges have not been paid at the other end. The extent to which the express {companies have been robbing the people by collecting charges at both ends of a shipment, as revealed be- fore the Interstate Commerce com- mission, is amazing -and outrageous. In the case of one company alone it | was shown that it made 3,000 over- charges in one day and collected in one year $67,000 as overcharges! And in addition to the cases of over- charging which have come to the at- tention of the commission, it is be- lieved that fhousands of shipments | are paid for at both ends of which the | commission never. hears, owing to the | fact that the victims do not know they jare being fleeced. An officer of the company above referred to admitted that the system employed to identify prepaid packages was faulty, but had no Particular could not long resist, and that was! ditional verses. Even members of | 2Pology to make. the suffering of their own children. | Hh eee Soar The first oe eo “Demand for transportationcharges | on prepaid shipments must cease,” declared Commissioner Lane, -aetion-of Democratie-members of-the— | house committee on postoffices and | Postroads i in incorporating in the ap- | propriations bill provisions for a ten- | tative parcels post system. The com- | mittee members. also agreed upon a general domestic rate of 12 cents and a maximum package of 11 pounds. This is the present international parcels post rate. Taft Tariff Board to Go. The Democrats have had suggested to them a way to kill off the infam- ous Taft tariff board. The plan is to pass through the House a bill for the creation of a bureau of tariff statistics that shall be responsible to the legis- lative branch alone, and that shall in- vestigate and report on facts at the request of the House, which has authority to ‘initiate revenue meas- ures. There will then be no neces- sity for an appropriation for the tariff board, Permitting that body to die with this fiscal year. Wait for Barnhart’s sale for your mares and stallions. Notice. Use McConnon’s Laxative Cough Syrup and keep well. : L. A. FULLER, Butler, Mo. Wait for Barnhart’s sale for your mares and stallions. House For Sale. 19-4t -:-