The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-05-02

tHt oNuNtt NHN l'NoSOh ihce WYNN
by the Lower House, for common
school purposes. This act is not |
to take effect unless majority of
the voters In each county indorse |
I, sud Muhlenburg. Taylor, War.
rem, Green, Lewis and Webster
counties were exempted.
REPREsENTATIvE Allen, of Mis-.
sissippi, explained in the House
: last week that he did not call Sen.
ator Quay thief. or make fun of
Wansmaker's piety, during debate
on the Legislative Appropriation
Bill. What he did say was that
If the Democratic party had de.
faulting State Treasurers in its
ranks, II did not elect them to the
/ United States Senate or make
them Chairmen OF its National
| Committee.
INSTEAD of waiting TO send
dribbles of money after the peo.
! pie of the Lower Mississippi are
drowned out Congress should take
care of the great national water.
way and, as far as possible, pre-.
vent 1t from inflicting damage
along its right Of way. After the
damage is done the only effect OF
government charity is to convince
the ignorant that they will be pro.
vided for whether they work for q
living or not.
Hon. w. J. STONE has introdu-
ced bill in the house requiring
the court of claims, when finding
/ facts in cases sent to that tribunal
/ by congress, TO also ascertain
whether or not the claimants were
loyal citizens during the war.
I The republicans who are fighting
the "Boreman act" in the house,
assert that SO of the 2S5 claimants.
named in that bill, were not loyal,
and that is one of the excuses
they give for opposing the same.
THERE will be two celebrations
of the Centennial of Methodism
in Kentucky this year. Southern
/ Methodists appointed Centen.
/ NAL Committee at their Paris Con
! ference, aud tho northern Meth.
odists appointed Centennial
Committee at their Ashland Con.
ference. Each committee issued
circular letter Of arrangements,
and yet neither conferred with the
other, although each was directed
by it's Conference TO do so, hence
a divided Centennial. Southern
Methodists chose May 10 as their
anniversary day according TO Nc.
Tyeire aud RedfOrd); Northern
Methodists chose May ii as their
anniversary after Stephens).
-.
EX-SENATOR Joseph f. Melon.
aid of Indiana ia an interview
published in the Louisville Courier
Journal says: The Australian
ballot system seems to work in
favor of the democrats. If il
stops corruption and favOrs a fair
CONT | am for il, though it seems
to be somewhat cumbersome. My
idea of election reform is To have
precincts limited to 100 voters.
Then all the voters can be known,
and repeating aud bribery more
easily detected, and quick returns
made. But the Australian sys.
TEN is more favorable to the dem.
oefats than TO the republicans,
because the latter are experts III
political trickery aud corrupt use
of money.
TIE Henderson News tells this
story on Observation-Disclosures
Underwood: AT a recent banquet
given At Atlanta By the Odd Eel.
lows, Grand Sire John @. Under.
wood. of Kentucky, got off a wit.
~ joke. When the dinner was
nearly finished, some one remark.
cd that he had not touched his
water. Such was fact, and
there was a hearty laugh at Under.
woods expense. But he was
equal to the occasion. Said he
"My friends, | plead guilty To
the charge, but am a true Ken.
tuckian, aud we care little for
water in our State. The truth is,
that in the Bible only one man is
mentioned as having asked for
water; and he was in bell-wbere
he ought to have BEEN"
-.
The National Democrat SAYS:
ave trust that every Southern
Democrat will realize what the at.
tempt of the new school of agi-
tatOrs, who would substitute the
Government warehouse scheme
for the tariff reform issue in ma.
tional politics, really signifies for
the South. 1t can result only in
one way. If the tried and true
men who have championed the in.
terests Of the people in the past
are to be set aside for new men
whose real purpose is to break up
the Democratic party, then the
Southern people must be prepar.
ed 10 go back 20 years and live
through all the sad aud miserable
experiences which they so well
remember. To defeat the Demo.
cratic party now is to enable the
Republican party to regain that
control over Southern affairs
which produced all the calamities
of the carpet.bag period, aud to
precipitate afresh upon the South
ern people all the woes from which
they fondly believed they were
fully delivered. Let Democrats
he faithful to the ideas and prin.
ciples of their party and avert
this most terrible of calamities.