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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
MORNING SLEEPERS
Shaken in Their Beds BY a Morn
ing Wind.

On Tuesday morning abaut four
o'clock, heavy storm struck Louis
vile, doing damage to property which
has been variously estimated from
$4,000 to $4,000. No lives lost at
this point. All the surrounding
county suffered heavily. The wind
at this place did no damage, save
breaking off a few fruit tree limbs.
Heavy losses are also reported in Ohio
and Indiana.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

S. w. Gaitskill returned on Satur-
day evening from Washington, where
he has been pressing his claims for
appointment as Revenue Agent for
Kentucky. Mr.. Gaitskill is being
<xksssgongly endorsed and his chances are
49, yningly very fair. No better equip
goes or more thoroughly deserving
'tions, j, in our knowledge, has applied for
Pfalike position. We hope for his own
M sake and for the sake of the party
w that Mr.. Gaitskill may receive the APP
I &osintment he seeks.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

Theodore Schwartz, charged in an
indictment with embezzling $27S01--
money belonging to the German Pro-
testant Orphan Asylum of Louisville,
was settled by verdict of mot guilty.
in the Shelby county Circuit Court
last week.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

Shelby Cook, farmer of Shelby
county, suicided on the % inst, by
shooting himself through the head
with a double barrel shotgun. He
was in good spirits the day of the sui
eide and no reason was given for his
act.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

In Indianapolis Annie Wagner,
who lived in the house of Charles
Rooster, fell in love with him and in
order to marry him poisoned his wife
father, mother and two children.
Keoster's wife died in October, 1892,
and since that time others have been
poisoned, the last occurring last week.
Miss Wagner is under arrest.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

with patience and without bias. So
far as lies in my power this will be
done. If public money is being paid
to the unworthy it will be discon-
tiDued.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

The editors of morning papers in
Germany leave their offices at . O'Clock
and the papers are in press at IL
o'clock. BY II o'clock even the prin-
tiers have gone home, and when Gen.
Won Moltke died at IL o'clock at night
there was only one Berlin newspaper
that had line about it in its issue
next morning,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Cash Always, Is Our Motto.
ENoCI7S
Bargain House.
Orginators and promoters of Low Prices
Mt. STERLING, KY.
Murder In the FIsrt Degree.

AT Hopkinsville, Fred Mcneil, who
killed his father-in-law in 1891, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. Mcneil is a brother to August
Mcneil, a celebrated wood cut artist
of Chicago.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

Judge James Flanagan, of Winches-
ter, was in Washington last week on
legal business. This is the way it is
reported, but it don't look that way to
Kentuckians.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Tinware.

We can offer you some Big Bargains in this
line. Dish pans, lOc, 15c, zoe, 25c up. Watch
our window for Big Bargains in this line Cover
ed Buckets at &c, at Sc,3 at loo, A OF I8c, at
l5c, at 2Oc, 10 at 25c. We have not the space to
quote Onr many Rnrpains in this limo
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Queensware and Glassware.

We have the best line we have ever shown, and
we have some Big Bargains to offer. We have
seven lots Of the Finest Vienna China Tea Sets
that would be cheap at $3.50 per set, which we
are Offering for the snail sum of $3.50. Call and
see our new line of Chamber Sets from 1899 to sIa
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

The Princess Eulalie left Washing
! ton Friday for new York. where she
was received with much ceremony,
Mayor Gilroy formally welcoming her
to the city.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
At FL He Webs a Widow of So.

AT Mt. Ebcr, Adam Hoesline, aged
q, married Mrs. Marie Bell, aged 50,
Her children protested but to no effect
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

The scene in the Kentucky Legisla-
ture between Representative Bolts, of
Shelby county, and Representative
Kremer. of Louisville, demonstrates
more forcibly than ever that the time
has come for that body to adjourn.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

The deeds of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Nations for certain lands
in Oklahoma, which were rejected by
President Harrison, have been APP
proved by President Cleveland. The
money, $2,99l ,450, will now be paid.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

The attention of the defenders OF
women's rights is directed to report
submitted to the Southern Presbyter-
ian Assembly Thursday in which the
following language occurs: "The
session must absolutely enforce the
Injunction of Scripture forbidding
women to speak in churches q. Cor,
xiv, 34), or in any way failing to OBJ
serve that relative subordination to
men that is taught in I. Cor, XII, IL,
and other places"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

William e. Quimby, editor of the
Detroit Free Press, has been appoint
ed United States Minister 10 the Meth
erlands.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Stoves! Stoves!

We will put in a full line of Great Western
Stoves, which we sold about $50 here in couple
OF years, and every one has given perfect salts
faction. Call and see us when Won want one.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

Ex-Secretary of the United States
Treasury, Hon, Charles Foster, of
Ohio, has made an assignment. LA
bilities S5O0,0O0.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

A bill enabling women to vote in
municipal elections has been passed
by the Michigan Legislature and will
become law.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

We are Headquarters in this line. We can
show Lace Curtains in prices from so cents to SO
per PAIR. They are Big Bargains Others can't
compete in this line. Window Shades from zoe
to I5c each; poles 2Oc to 65c each.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

United States District Attorney,
Milchrist, following conference with
Attorney General Olney in Washing
ton, has sent a lengthy telegram OF
instructions to Assistant District At
torney Handy, in Chicago. That Off
cial has already begun the work OF
drawing up bill for an injunction
restraining the Worlds Fair officials
from opening the Fair gates Sunday.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Carpets, Mating and Floor Oil
Cloth.

You must not buy till you have seen our line
Table Oil Cloth l5c per yard up.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Dry Goods

ls another new Department. We want our
friends to call and see how Cheap we can sell
you Dress Pattern, etc.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

Ex-Secretary Fairchild, to whom
Secretary Carlisle recommended the
Cherokee delegation which went to
New York this week to place the &c.
100000 in bonds based upon the de.
ferred payments from the Govern
ment for the "Cherokee outlet" did q
good turn for the Indians when he
advised the delegation not to follow
its original intention of negotiating
the bonds in Wall street, but instead
o advertise for bids for the entire
amount of bonds, to be opened here
and the members of the delegation
showed their shrewd business SENSE
by recognizing at once the value OF
the advice and accepting it. AS the
bonds will pay per cent interest
which is more than the Government
has paid on its bonds for years, and
are practically guaranteed, principal
and interest, by the Government, Sec
rotary Carlisle having agreed to sign
statement to that effect printed
across the face of each bond, it is ex.
pected that the bidding will be lively
and that the bonds will be sold fol
enough above par to pay all the costs
That's the way Democrats show theil
friendliness for the Indians.
Judge Lochren tersely defines the
policy upon which he will run the
Pension Office as follows: "The
equal energetic and exactly just ad.
ministration of the pension laws as
they are found upon the statute books
If man is entitled to a pension he
ought to have it, and if he is not en-,
titled to it he should not apply. The
department is really court of claims
and it is the business and duty of it,
officials to enter upon examination
of the papers submitted in each case
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
MOVED!
To our New,
ELEGANT QUARTERS
IN the Reese Building, one door west Of the Mt.
Sterling National Bank.
We have Big Bargains to offer you in our many
... ... Departments
Wall Paper

is one OF our new DEPARTING which wonld do
credit to city. We can sell you Paper from
to 80 cents per Bolt.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Hardware, wire, Etc.

We:can sell you Rakes, Farm Bells,Hoes, 2Cc up
Forks and WOodenware. We carry Full Line
of Tubs, Buckets BroOms, etc.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

A call of inspection is solicited from all
whether purchases are intended or not. Polite
attention to lockers as well as buyers.
Follow the crowd and you W find the place
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30

President and Mrs. Cleveland &C.
quilted themselves handsomely of the
unprecedented task of entertaing as
the guest of the United States the Off
cial proxy of the Queen Regent of
Spain, in the person of Princess Eula-
lie, the Spanish Infanta, and they did
it without importing any European
frills. After spending a week in
Washington the Infanta and her party
left for New York Thursday, where
they will spend few days before
going to the Worlds Fair. The Prin-
cess made things easy from the start
by expressing the desire to be treated
just as an American lady would be,
which fitted in exactly with the plans
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland. The State
dinner given in her honor at the
White House is said never to have
been surpassed in Washington.
-
Senators and Representatives who
made no kick over the four-year full
term rule of the Post-office depart.
me ntare not taking kindly to the last
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Ohio Democratic congressman
and P. M. G. Maxwell
Have a Talk.
Hold-0ver Republicans are
Sneaks.
How ex-Secretary Fairchild
Manages Business.
PENSION BUSINESS.

Washington, D. c., May 20, 1898.
No more scathing arraignment of
of the methods of Republican officials
has ever been drawn by Republican
than that which is contained in the
official report of the investigation of
Weather Bureau, which has been
made to Secretary Morton by Assis-
tant Attorney General Colby who
conducted the investigation. The re-
port finds that the charges of official
abuses, favoritism and entire absence
of business methods in the bureau
were fully sustained by the evidence,
and concludes by quoting Significantly
the expense of the bureau during the
last year it had under military control
500, 606-and the amount appro-
priated for the next fiscal year-$95l, >
100. Secretary Morton will bring the
the matter to the attention of the
President before taking action.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
MT STERLING, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, MAY 80 1898.

rule of that department, that no Re-
publican fourth-class Postmaster will
be removed save for malfeasance in
office, or on complaint and proof that
he is an offensive partisan" The
following conversation was told to me
as having takn place between Ohio
Democratic Congressman and Assis-
tant p. M. G.. Maxwell Congressman
--I don't like your rule; it offers a
premium to the sneak and the infor-
ner. Why shouldn't these men work
for their party? Why should they be
dismissed for doing itp / want them
dismissed for being Republicans, not
for:being good, working Republicans. !"
Mr.. Maxwell-"There are some va
cancies in your district, and If you
will name your men for those vacan-
cies will appoint them at once, I
mean those vacancies where the occu-
pants have resigned"
Congressman-"Well, I won't make
any recommendations in those cases.
There are two kinds of Republican
Postmasters in my district. One kind
are manly, and when their party lost
they sent in their designations. The
others are set of sneaks, and when
their party loses they still hold on to
their places. Your rule offers a
premium and protection to these
sneaks. AT the same time you ask
me to name successors to those who
were mani enough to tender their
designations. won't do it. I'll not
be party to arrangement which will
cut off the heads of decent Republicans
and allow the sneaks to live in official
safety"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-05-30
Lace Curtains and Window Shades

quOte Gun many Bargains I'M this limo.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20
NOW FOB THE HOME STRETCH.

The last move on the financial checker
board is now being made with the issue Of
bonds the objective point. Last Friday
81, 800 900 in gold was shipped to Europe.
This will be followed by moro and more
until the bonds are issued. They will come.
Mr.. Cleveland and his gold bug adherente
hold both ends of the string and will work
the thing to their own taste.-HutchinSOn
Gazette, December IA.
Yes, they will probably come. They
will be authorized under the Aimsy
pretense of buying gold; and when
they are issued they will be ex-
changed for securities and no gold
viii be bought. Paste this In your
hat, where you can refer to It cor
Veniently.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

THERE is some reason to believe that
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Alliance may select the city Of
Topeka as the place for holding the
next annual session of the supreme
council. The movement to secure
this meeting should be encouraged.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

DURING the past week two murder
ers have been executed, and died
happy in the belief that repentance
had secured for them q harp and
crown in heaven. The moral effect
Of this "scsffold repentance" doctrine
is doubtful if not pernicious.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

If those papers whose editors de-
vote so much space to the crisis in
South America and Hawaii would
talk more about the crisis in the
United States their efforts would be
much more appreciated.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

A PRESS dispatch says that forty Cslifor-
MIA tramps are headed for Kansas. Who
says the Populist rule is keeping out immi-
gration2-Emporis Republican.
Rats! Who says the fool-killer Is
doing his duty?
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

Why have all of our western papers
been so careful not to publish the
resolutions of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor? Why?
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20
THAT TRAMP CIRCULAR


party press upon the subject Of tn
governors circular to police commits
sioners has not only been devoid O.
common decency, but it has beer
characterized by an utter disregard
of law and of human rights as W.
will here undertake to show.
1t is but a few years ago that such
an anomaly as a beggar or a tramp
was unknown in the United States
When Charles Dickens visited this
country he specially remarked the
absence of beggsrs and vsgrants, and
in his American notes he speaks oi
this circumstance as one that made q
very forcible impression upon his
mind. The conditions that make
beggars and tEamps have long ex-
listed in England, and Mr.. Dickins
had been so accustomed to see them
in his own country that their sb-
sence here was one Of the recollec-
tions that he carried away with him
and to which he referred with pecu-
liar interest and pleasure. Since
that time European conditions have
been established by statute in this
country, and have produced their
natural fruitsge; and with the law
made tramp and beggar have come
the laws making vsgrsncy q crime.
These laws undertake to override the
constitution Of the United States and
Of the several states and to trsmple
the rights guaranteed by those funda-
mental instruments in the dust. Sec
tion 6 Of the Bill of Rights of the
state of Kansas provides as follows:
There shall be no slavery in this state;
and NO INVOLUNTARY sERv1TUDE except for
crime, whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted.
Section 10 of this same bill of
rights provides that:
In all prosecutions, the accused shall be
allowed to appear and defend in person,
or by counsel; TO demand the nature and
cause Of tho accusation against him; TO
meet the witness face 10 face, and to have
compulsory process TO compel the atten-
dance Of witnesses in his behalf, and
speedy public trial By AN IMPARTIAL JURY OF
THE COUNTY Oh DISTRICT IN WHICH THE
oPPRNsR IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN COMMIT
TED.
Notwithstanding these plain and
unequivocsl provisions Of the bill Of
rights a republican legislature has
enacted laws under which it has Deen
the custom to arrest men and try
them for crimes before a police JUS
tice sUithoWt a jury, and to admin
lister the penalties Of such crime by
sentence Of such court Not only
that, il has been the custom to arrest
men who haze committed no crime
on suspicion that they trere going to
do so, and to administer the same
penalties, provided the prisoners
we're without friends or money, as
though the crime had actually been
committed. Fines have been levied
by such courts under the provisions
Of these republican statutes, and #
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

by police justices and put upon rock
piles to work out their fines. Fur
ther than this, it has been the GUS
tom, under former administrations,
for the police in collusion with the
railroad companies to set box cars
upon convenient side tracks and cover
the floors with dry hay as a decoy for
''tramps," and policemen have been
set to watch these cars and arrest
men who might go in them to sleep.
All these practices have been com
mon in this capital city of Kansas.
We have been assured that these fla
grant abuses have not been prscticed
under this administration; but it is
against the arrest OF men because they
are homeless and idle and without
money, against the usurpation of au-
thority by police justices, and against
the rock pile for the collecting of fines
which are only debts, that the govern
or's circular is directed.
But, it is said, Kansas statutes and
city ordinances have conferred upon
police justices jurisdiction in such
cases, and have provided for fines
and penalties such as have been ad-
mlnistered. But the governors cir
cular declares these practices uncon-
stitiutionsl, and commands them to
cease. Isit objected that this is a
usurpstion of authority by the gov.
ernor? Does anyone hold that it is
not within the province of the gov
ernor to decide upon the constitution
ality of a statutes Let us see.
In State eT rel Miller, auditor, vs..
Buchanan, assessor, the supreme
court of West Virginia said:
Before the governor executes a law, he
must Of necessity decide whether the act of
the legislature, which he is called upon TO
execute, is constitutional and valid, or un-
constitutional and void.
And further:
II is not the right of a subordinate eXeCu-
tive or ministerial officer to arrest the ex-
eCution Of the law as construed by the chief
executive, and he cannot justify his insu-
bordination on the ground that the gov
ernor had decided wrong; his duty is obedi-
enoe to the law as thus construed.
If the governor finds a law upon
the statute books, therefore, which is
clearly unconstitutional, it is not only
has right to 80 declare it, but, in
the language of the decision, "he
must Of necesSity'' so decide, "before
he eGeca.teS the IatV;;" and when that
statute is such a manifest invasion Of
human liberty as the one involved in
this instance it becomes a duty for
the neglect Of which there could be
no possible excuse.
1t is thought by some that it would
be sufficient for the governor to
simply put a stop to the arrest Of
men for the crime of vsgrancy, and
that he might still permit the punish
ment of men actually guilty of crime
by sentence of police courts. 1t Is
difficult to see where this conclusion
Gnha innkifinnkinn Tho hill nh rirrhkn
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-20

The question of the Jurisdiction Of
municipal courts is settled beyond
controversy in Dillon's Municipal
Corporations. Section 434 reads:
Where the legislature undertakes to con-
fer upon the courts Of the corporation, or
where the corporation seeks to give it's
court summary jurisdiction to try persons
for acts which are indiotable, or Iare
criminal offences, it not unfrequently hap
pens that Sound provision of the Oonstitu-
ton, designed to protect the rights or
liberty Of the citizen, is violated. Thus,
under the constitution declaring 4
that no freeman shall be convicted of any
crime but by the unanimous verdict of
jury Of good and lawful men in open court,
an aOt Of the legislature which
gives to an officer of an incorporated town
the power Of trying assaults and batteries,
or other crimes, is, in the opinion of the
court Of North Carolina, void, because it
violates the provisions ofthe constitution.
The supreme courts of Arkansas,
Texas and Michigan, have held the
same view. The supreme court of
Michigan (sec. 436), held that
Trial and conviction of offenders in the
municipal court without INDICTMENT, was
unCo Institutional, the Judgment Of the court
resting upon the principal that, under the
constitutional provision quoted, there could
be no summary conviction under an Ordt-
nance for that tUhtch Is q criminal offence by the
general la1US Of the state.
The involuntary ssrvitude referred
to by the constitution is defined by the
su preme court o. the United States
Elk part Wilson, ia u. s. 429).
imprisonment at hard labor, compulsory
and unpaid, is, in the strongest words fn-
voluntary serVitude for crime, spoken Of in
the ordinance Of 1887, and of the thirteenth
amendment Of the constitution, by which
all other slavery was abolished.
If fsuch involuntary servitude, there
fore, cannot be inflicted except as a
punishment for crime whereof the
party has been duly convicted by a
jury of his peers, clearly it cannot be
inflicted upon the Judgment of po-
lice court; and if legislatures cannot
confer upon municipal Justices su-
thority to try offenders under city Or
dinances for that which is criminal
offense by the general laws of the
state" then police courts have no
jurisdiction over such cases; and they
should all go to the district court, or
to Justices courts where they belong.
In an ordinary Justices court the
accused may demand and obtain a
jury trial, and in such court punish
ment may be legally inflicted. Ajus-
tice may, after trial by jury, sentence
a prisoner to labor. But in a police
court no jury can be had and there
fore no legal trial for crime.
But there is another point con-
nected with the rock pile that is not,
perhaps, quite clear. The police
court does not sentence the prisoner
to the rock pile. He is simply fined,
and then the custom has been to put
him upon the pOck pile to work out
his fine at a certain specified rate per
day. A fine is simply debt and the