The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 28, 1912, Page 8

Cane Sugar We have just unloaded a car of Cane Sugar. If you want asack to run you buy where you know what you are getting. GARDEN SEEDS . All kinds of garden seeds, both in bulk and in package, all NORTHERN GROWN— early, and true to nam e. SEED POTATOES No doubt potatoes advancing every day. will be higher—market We are selling some varieties to-day cheaper than you can buy at car load. FIELD Barbed wire, sm wire. Poultry fence, all weights. FENCE ooth wire, telephone Nails, staples—every thing you need—and we will save you money. Let us show you our stock. Another car field fence on the road now. GROC ERIES We make the prices—others can’t meet them. We buy in quantities and get the prices. Watch our ad list of prices. next week for a large Yours for business, Norfleet d neal The Only Independent Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store. White Front Phones, 144 and West Side Square 49 BUTLER, MO. And will call for Telephon MISSOURIANS IN ARKANSAS Judge Graves, Hon. Sam B. Cook and Ex-Gov. Lon V. Stephens Talk at Hot Springs. At this time there are a number of prominent Missourians in Hot Springs and all of them are full of enthusiasm for Speaker Champ Clark for the Democratic nomination for President. Hon. Sam B. Cook, ex-secretary of state of Missouri, now president of the Central Missouri Trust company of Jefferson City, with his wife is at the Eastman for a visit of several days, and to a News reporter this morning Mr. Cook had the following to say regarding Clark: ‘Mr. Clark, 1 think, is the strongest candidate. in the field. Every other candidate is being bitterly opposed from this and ’ that quarter, while Clark hasn’t a single knocker. He can unite all elements, can carry New York and Missouri, and can be elected. Mis- sourians, who are very partial to Hot Springs, are relying upon you in- . Structing your delegates for him.” Judge-Graves of the Supreme Court Pete Carpenter Is Still in Business sengers and baggage to any part of the city. and deliver pas- e No. 138 'Clark is the logical candidate. Mis- souri hopes her neighbor, Arkansas, | will stand by her favorite son, Speak- jer Clark, and give him an instructed | delegation.’”’ Ex-Governor Lon V. Stephens ac- companied by bis wife and Miss Pheia Hawkins, is at the Arlington. To the News man he said; ‘“‘It looks bright- er for Clark every day, Kansas, Okla- homa and Missouri have instructed for him. With these votes and those of the District of Columbia he now has 72 votes. He will easily carry Tennessee, California and Iowa, and more than likely Illinois, Wisconsin and most of the western states. “The news from all over Arkansas is encouraging for Clark. Since I have been in Hot Springs hundreds of the most active Democrats here have told me they. were for him. It will be very pleasing. and gratifying to all Missourians if Arkansas gives Speaker Clark its instructed delega- tion.””~ Besides those interviewed, there are many other prominent Missou- rians of ‘more or less prominence here who have spoken their sentiments in ;my predecessors. _ versed in three opinions, but the Ap-| {pellate courts have reversed them- | road fund of the State. ||| ment of this law now amount to ap- GEN. MAJOR OPENS Attacks Hadley and National Adminis. ‘ tration in Address at De Soto. the misadministration of the Republi- can party, the trusts and pleading for just rights of the working class, Elliott W. Major, Attorney General of Missouri, opened his campaign for the nomination for Governor in an address here today. Mr. Major paid a tribute to Speaker Champ Clark and pictured the op- portunity to win that now confronts the Democratic party, not only in Missouri, but throughout the entire United States. He declared that Gov. Hadley has acknowledged his administration has been a failure and that he must have assistance from outside sources to carry the State again. He accused the Republican party of denouncing the trusts, yet pursuing a policy that creates them. Of his record as Attorney General, Mr. Major said: “Since my incumbency the busi- ness has increased fully 50 per cent. I have had forty-nine cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, which is more than the entire number handled by all other Attorneys Gen- {eral since Missouri was admitted to the Union. At the same time, I have had forty-six cases in the United Dis- trict Court, some thirty odd original suits in the Supreme Court of Mis- souri and about 400 criminal cases. “In the three years I have written | over 1,500 opinions, which is three times as many as were ever written GOVERNORSHIP FIGHT De Soto, Mo., March 22.—Attacking |, in the same length of time by any of} I have been re-| selves more than three times in writ-! jing an equal number of opinions. “Among the most important cases | which I have conducted I might men- tion the one involving the validity of the stamp act. This required a 25- cent stamp to be placed upon certain sales made at certain places. Having sustained the constitutionality of this | law in the Supreme Courts of Mis-| souri and the United States, at the close of the litigation, I collected | $70,000 from those who failed to ob-j serve it and placed that amount in the “The proceeds from the enforce- proximately $90,000, and are increas- ing at the rate of practically $100 a day. j “In sustaining in the Supreme Courts of Missouri and the United States the full-Weight statute passed in 1909, relating to the weighing of hay, coal, seed and grain, saved to the producers of grain alone approxi- mately 1,000,000 bushels, safely esti- mated at $500,000 a year. “T successfully prosecuted and con- victed the Harvester Trust, with a capital of $120,000,000, before both the Commissioner and the Supreme Court of Missouri. The trust was fined $25,000 and ordered to dissolve. It has a,monopoly upon and controls 80 per cent of the harvester business in the world. referendum amendment to the Cons- titution of Oregon. or the right of the people to initiate and ratify legisla- tion, of which, the Missouri initiative and referendum amendment is an ex- act copy, wasattacked in the Supreme Court of the United States, on the ground that it was contrary to the | Constitution of the United . States, in that it violated Section 4, Article IV, wherein each State is guaranteed a ‘Republican form of government.’ “At the request of United States Senators and others I filed a brief amicus curiae in the case, taking the position that such a question was a political one determined by ,Congress alone and that its action was binding upon every other division of the gov- erment, and that the courts were without jurisdiction in the premises. I was gratified indeed to find that the Supreme Court of the United States sustained the position presented in my brief and thus set the question at rest and beyond the realm of its legal critics, “1 have briefed and argued the Standard Oil and the Republic Oij cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, defending the first as- sault made upon the antitrusts statutes of Missouri. I am expecting a de- cision upon any opinion day, and if delegates to the State Convention to Mr. Roosevelt has won easily. That has led the managers to demand that the Taft managers consent to pri- maries in all States. control of the old-time steam-roller, the Taft managers are gathering in the delegates in the old-fashioned way and are refusing to consent to absence of proper legal safeguards “The validity of the initiative and| The Taft managers are filled with an SALE DAY” POSTE - Butler’s Monthly Sale TO BE HELD SATURDAY, APRIL 6th See page ad and TAFT NOMINATION APPEARS ASSURED ON FIRST BALLOT Impartial Canvass of Situation Shows Roosevelt is Far Behind. New York, March 23.—Taft forging | ahead; Roosevelt slipping back. That is what The New York Her- ald’s impartial canvass of the Repub- lican presidential situation shows at the close of the third week since Mr. Roosevelt threw his hat into the ring. Careful study of the reports from unbiased correspondents in all sec- tions of the country indicates beyond question that there has been no spontaneous outburst of Roosevelt sentiment and that Taft has been gain- ing steadily. His nomination seems assured on the first ballot. In some sections Roosevelt has made headway. In some sections| there isan overwhelming sentiment for him, asin West Virginia, and in Northwestern Pennsylvania, but in States where he was expected to de- velop his chief strength he lost ground heavily. His defeat by La Follette in the North Dakota primaries was a hard blow to his canvass. His defeat in the primaries in Indiana Friday, when be held on Tuesday were chosen, was an added blow. President Taft was the victor here. | Where district primaries have been held in some sections of the West, In complete primaries on the theory that they would be fraught with frauds in the which could not be provided, as there would be no law governing them ex- cept the law of parties. Roosevelt Collapse Seen. Taft lieutenants declare the Roose- velt buom is on the verge of collapse. Roosevelt managers assert that they have by no means given up hope. Sale List for particulars, Next Week f i v NEWEST TAILORED MODES REGINA HATS WORN BY WOMEN OF STYLE Best Styles for Least Money WE APPRECIATE AND WANT YOUR PATRONAGE 'Mrs. J.W. Allison €» Daughter West Side Square, Butler, Mo. New Bus Line I now have my New Bus Line in operation and solicit your pa- tronage Calls answered promptly, enthusiasm that is almost boyish. The Roosevelt workers are far less optimistic in their predictions than they were a week ago. _ Up to date Taft has 138 delegates instructed, pledged or favorable to him, as against twenty for Mr. Roose- velt, two for Senator Cummins and ten for Senator La Follette. * The list made out by William B. McKinley, manager of President Taft’s campaign, gives Taft five more delegates than The Herald’s table. They claim the delegates from the Third Oklahoma and Fourteenth Missouri, and seven of the eight New Mexico delegates. For Sale A span of good coming 4-year-old *| mules, about 14 3-4 hands high. DeWitt McDaniel, Route 4, Butler. Annual School Meeting. Notice is hereby given to the quali- fied voters of the Butler ‘school dis- trict, county of Bates, state of Mis- souri, that the annual school meeting of said district will be held at the vot- ing precincts of the respective city wards in Bates County Court House ‘on. Tuesday, the 2nd day of April 1912, commencing at 7 o’clock a. m. and among other things specified by of Missouri is also visiting in the city|fayor of Champ Clark, and also a at present, and is a guest at the Ma-!nomber of prominent politicians of jestic. He says: “I find to my great this state have done likewise.—Hot pleasure a strong sentiment here for | Springs Daily News. Speaker Clark. There are represen- Cow For Sale. tative Democrats here from all sec- Sale. tions of the country and they very} For Sale—A goud milch cow. largely agree with me that Champ! 22-tf. W. M. Arnold, Butler, Mo. law, the following will be proposed day or night. Baggage transferred any part of the city. to HARLEY SMITH, Prop. LEAVE ORDERS AT ‘‘FRATERNAL INN” We have about 100 gallons of Stearns’ Paint which we will sell at $1.65 gal Stearns’ Paint. is a high grade paint, the solid mat- ter being Pure White Lead and zinc, and the li containing Linseed Oil, Turpentine and Japan. z Malcolm Ross of Kansas City en-| An extension of the school term joyed a visit here the first of the|from eigh} to nine months. © week with homefolks. J. E. Harper, District Clerk.