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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-11-06

Ell PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO
QUIERE UN GOBIERNO TERRIFIC
RIAL TAI COMO Ell GOBIERNO
DE NUEVO MEXICO Y OKLAHOMA.
COMO Los QUE DISFRUTAN ESTOS
SIN EMBARGO CUALQUIERA QUE
SEA LA DIFERENt IA DE LA POLL
TICA LOCAL, ESTAN UNIDOS EN
EST e PUNTO Y ELLOS DEBEN TIE
NERLO.
II : llegado d esta conclusion, despu6s
de una observation cerrada del pueblo,
duraute una jornada en- la cual Sc incIuye
las ciudsdes de la costa, las poblaciones
del interior las aldeas Y pueblos no
pocas cabafias aisladas en- los montes.
Yo he tenido oportunidad de acumu
lar las vsitas de las Autoridades civiles y
militares, los alcaldes de las ciudades, los
pulperos, los hombres profesionales, los
eatancieros J braceros, por los caminos y
veredas.
Sin exception suplicaban una oportu
nidad para exhibir su capscidad para ell
Self governaent debfan tenero bajo la
mejor libre forma que pudiera darlo
nuestro pats, y que es, IN gobierno Terri :
torial tai como Sc ha concedldo q otros Els
tados en- su perfodo de prueba.
e. pueblo de Puerto RICO sufrio los
efsctos de un cruel despotismo de 400 sfios,
que ia de m anif ssto ca todo pero la
m terra para hacer un buen ciudadano estA
allf.
Una conversation con Muioz Rivera
No nos sorprende en- nada que los re :
presentaDtes del gobierno de los Estados
Unidos en- Puerto Rico, preferan d los
republicanos de la isla, cslifquen d
Mufioz Rivera, ell Jtfe de los Eederales,
como turbulento y como un insurrecto
dafiino.
He hablado largo tendido con este
hombre y fuf sgrsdablemente sorprendido
al encontrar en- 6l, uno de los Eombres mas
cspaces y fuertes que he conocido. Iii
jero de imagination y f6rtil en- recursos,
capaz de hacer y defender para 6l y su
partido una buena causa. Es IN partida
rio intrepido, naturalmente, pero MEGA
que sea anti americana. Il Por que habrfa
de serlo -dijo el-si en- absolute nuestro
unico porvenir est& con los americanos? :?
Pero 20 necesito ser americana en- absolu
to, con los derechos libertsdes america
mas, fntegras y completas.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
BRIEF MENTION.

Only one prisoner has been in tn,
Bradley county jail in a year.
Amorel is the name of new post.
office in Mississippi county.
A $4,000 stone Catholic church
is being erected at Pocahontas.
The birthday of Gen. Robert E.
Lee was celebrated with appropriate
services by the local chapter, Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, at Hot
Springs.
The state executive committee OF
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
has selected Rev. W. R. Hudson. of
Missouri. as state superintendent of
missions.
Cotton receipts throughout the
state since the first of January have
been very light, showing that the
bulk of the crop was marketed be
fore that date.
The Tar-Kiln zinc mining prop
erty In Boone county was sold to
Joseph Gilbert, of Rhode Island,
latt week, the consideration being
$4,000 spot cash.
An order has been issued by the
mayor of Pine Bluff, comnelling
every citizen to produce certificate
of vaccination. Penalty for failure
tc comply is fine of $25.
Lum Butler, under sentence to be
hanged in Benton county for MUIR
der, has been granted a stay of exc
cution, pending the decision of the
supreme court on a motion for a
new trial.
The stores of W. P. Brewster.
grocer; G. T. Maddox, feed and
groceries, and the Home Sewing
Machine Company at Van Buren
were destroyed by fire. Total loss.
i0o'OOO, parClally covered by lnsur-
ance.
! Joe league and Charles Cooper
were arrested in Perry county on the
charge of counterfeiting. When
arrested league had in his possession
40 spurious silver dollars of the
mintage of 1896.
: W. b. Lane, under sentence of
death for the murder of his wife in
North Little Rock November 25,
1898, has written a pathetic letter
to Gov. Jones asking that his sem
tence be commuted to life imprison-
ment.
The executive committee of the
State Press Association will meet at
Little Rock February Sd for the
purpose of selecting time and place
Tor the next annual meeting of the
4asasASation.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

Our negro contemporaries are
discussing the ''Payne resolution
and all are loud in their condemna-
ton of it. 1t is all right for white
republicans to oppose the "Payne
resolution" We can readily under
stand the philosophy of their oppo-
sition but just how and where the
payne resolution" will injure the
black republican no amount of eye
stretching and mental perambula-
ton has as yet enabled our befogged
mental apparatus to discover. When
we shall have come in from our voy-
age of discoverer in the premises we
mean to tell our readers just what
we think Of the ''Payne resolution, "
and the reason therefor.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The killing Of ex-Lieut. Scott and
two innocent by-standers, and the
wounding of three others, among
them Col. Colson, who killed Scott
and is supposed to have killed the
other two men, is all the result of
a failure to enforce the law. Scott,
as an officer in Col Colson's Fourth
Kentucky regiment, was a failure,
and also insubordinate, but he had a
pull and succeeded in staying in
over the finding of a court martial's
sentence of dismissal. Just on the
eve Of the muster-out of his regi-
ment he shot and wounded for life
Col. Colson, but the war depart
ment nor the civil authorities took
notice of it. Then is it a wonder
that the awful tragedy enacted at
Frankfort took place?
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Murdered by a Thief.

A most foul murder was com.
mitted at a store just across the river
from Helena by an unknown ne
groes at an early hour on the night
of the 10Th inst. Two negroes en-
tered the store and while one Of
them engaged VIM. Meyers, the
only party in the store at the time,
in conversation, the other covered
him with a shotgun, and COM
manded him to open the safe. Be-
fore Meyers could comply, William
Tucker and a companion entered
the store and the negroes made an
effort to escape. Tucker tried to
detain them, when one of the ne
groes attacked him with knife, al
most severing his head from his
Aody.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Anti-saloon League.

At meeting of the state trustees
Of the Anti-Saloon League, held II
Little Rock. officers for the ensuing
year were elected, as follows: PreS'
dent, Rev. Frank Barret, of Jones
boro; vice-president, Col. E. u.
Robertson, of Wynne; secretary,
Rev. j. S. Hawkins, of Prescott
treasurer, R. E. Wait, Little Rock;
attorney, Hon. W. V. Tompklns,
Prescott: superintendent, Rev. Z.
A. Tabor, Russellville.,
The purposes of the league are set
forth as follows:
First. Law enforcement in pro-
hibition territory.
Second. True and honest temper
ance men for all official positions.
Third. Organization of all the
anti-saloon forces for an aggressive
campaign along every line through
out the state.
The work of the league has been
divided into three departments, as
follows:
First. The state. county and town.
ship organization department, under
the supervision of Rev. E. A. Tabor.
Second. The law enforcement de-
partment, under supervision of Hon.
W. V. Tompkins, whereby detectives
shall be sent into prohibition terri
tory to secure evidence of illicit sales
of liquor.
Third. The agitation department,
under direction of the state execu-
tive committee.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
PAYS to Raise Good Stock.

Mr.. John Carmichael, a Miller
county farmer, says: cit is really
astonishing what change the in.
PRODUCTION of blooded cattle has
made in the stock-raising industry
of South Arkansas. 1t used to be
not so very long ago that a COW Civ
ing over two gallons of milk daily
was a rarity. Now man in my
county would be ashamed to keep
one that does not give more than
that. The increase in butter pro-
duct has more than exceeded the
increase in milk. There are now
many fine Jersey herds scattered
over the state. "
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Fire at Holly Grove.

The town of Holly Grove suffered
a disastrous loss by fire, eight store
buildings with contents being de-
S royed, the loss in each case being
total, as there was no insurance car
ried by any of the owners. Follow
ing are the losers: Lonzo Mavo.
groceries; D. B. Renfro, general
merchandise; Frank Bros. general
merchandise; Jacob Geronin, drv
goods; j. F. Taylor, general mer-
chandise; Eber & Son, dry goods;
Laura Good, restaurant; W. D.
Kerr, general merchandise.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Looks Like Suicide.

Ed Dodge, aged % years, a son of
Hon. Geo. E. Dodge, a prominent
attorney of Little Rock, was found
dead in his room in a st. Louis
hotel. Death was caused by poison.
Young Dodge left Little Rock about
month ago to accept responsible
position with a wholesale hardware
firm of st. Louis.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
For Violating Revenue Stamp Act.

A deputy marshal arrested F. NJ.
Files at Hot Springs, on the charge
OF executing notes without placing
internal revenue stamps on them.
The outcome of the case will be
watched with interest, as it is the
first of the kind in this state since
the enactment of the internal reve-
nue. war tax law, The penalty for
the violation of the law is fixed at a
fine of from $40 to 800, or impris-
onment from 10 to 80 days, or both,
at the discretion of the court.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Pine Bluff Tragedy.

S. l.. Evans shot and killed G. L.
Rochelle at Pine Bluff. The two
men were employed by the St. Louis
Stave and Lumber Company, Roch.
ellie as laborer and Evans as night
watchman. Rochelle recently re-
ported Evans for neglect OF
duty, and Evans was discharged.
The killing occurred at a boarding
house. Rochelle was eating supper
when Evans entered the dining room
and, without a word of warming,
shot him dead.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The late w. G.. Brann, the errat-
ic editor of the Iconoclast, said some
time ago that no man a member of
the Baptist church ever rose above
mediocre in the history of this coun-
try outside of his church. He said
the nearest any man came to it was
in the case of President Garfield
who was member of the Campbell
ite church, which is a branch of the
Baptist church. Can this statement
be contradicted? If so, give us the
facts.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Missouri Murderer Captured.

Ben Richardson, who murdered
Jailer Henry at West Plains, Mo ,
on the 10th inst, was captured near
Mammoth Springs by Ben E. Elder.
Richardson called at Elders home
and asked for something to eat.
Elder recognized him by the de-
scrptlon he had read in a paper.
and placed him under arrest. Jailer
Henry was overpowered while feed
ing the prisoners, and Richardson
beat his brains out with a club.
Elder will receive a reward of 5000.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Those who have kept up with the

Those who have kept up with the
current political history of the
country doubtless feel amused at
the opposition of the democratic
party to ex-COngresSman Bynum, OF
Indiana. The democratic party in
recent years has had no more rabid
and noisy partisan than this very
fellow Bynum, a few years ago it
looked as though Speaker Reed
would be forced to ask congress to
eypel Mr.. Bynum from the house
of representatives. In his wild ca
reer in the house he had the SYM
pathy and backing of his party. The
sum Of Bynum's offense is that he
bolted the Chicago platform" He
was Palmer-Buckner gold demo-
crat, and hence when a few weeks
ago President Mckinley sent in his
name as the democratic member of
certain board the leaders of the
democratic party rose up in arms
against the little giant of Indiana
and his confirmation was hung up
IN the senate.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The contest for the seat now held
by Senator John t. Morgan, of Ala
bama, bids fair to be the hottest in
the history of that state. The con-
testants are: Senator John T. Nor
gan and Governor Joseph F. John
ston. Senator Morgan is a ''grand
old man" and is conceded by many
to be the ablest man in public life
a member of the democratic party
He, is typical southerner; loyal to
the core to its people and its inter
ests. The going out of his political
-stqr at his age would indeed be a
sad ending of a long and devoted
servide to his section and people.
The only thing the writer can say in
criticism OF Senator Morgan is that
he as always opposed the political
Advancement of the negro and on
several occasions made bitter at
tacks upon the race. We are sorry
this is true. Gov. Johnston NAV
not, in some respects, be the equal
of Senator Morgan, but that he is
an able man and one that is worthy
OF any mans metal cannot be do
MED. He is an astute and sbrewd
politician of nerve and determine
tion, and therefore Senator MORGAN
and his friends have on their hands
. Sc worthy of their best efforts if
eshey are to succeed.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

Senator Pritchard, of North Car
olina, delivered an able speech in
the senate Monday on the proposed
constitutional amendment to the
North Carolina constitution, the eff
feet of which is the disfranchise-
ment of negro voters. What effect
it will have upon the country re-
mains to be seen. We hope the
North Carolina amendments will 90
through, and we hope the Goebel-
ties in Kentucky will consummate
their infamy and Goebel be seated;
because, if Mississippi, South Caro-
lima and Louisiana have the right to
make constitutional amendments to
perpetuate the supremacy of the
democratic party, Missouri, Ken
tucky and North Carolina have the
right to do so, too.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
With Disastrous Effects.

Emmett Sims, colored planter OF
St. Francis county, bought bottle
Of worm seed oil and administered a
teaspoonful to each of his three
young children. Two of the chill
dren died in few hours, the medi-
cine being deadly poison when
given in such large doses, about
eight drops being as much as should
be taken.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
c. r. ROWLAND

To the Pine Bluff Herald Company,
Your salutatory bow you've made
We predict for you prosperous sail
Your foundation is well laid
We wish for you happy career,
On the journalistic stage;
Stand boldly for the right and then
You'll bless this glorious age.
Your sentiment is good, your ,prin-
ciple grand;
Your intention is a noble one;
You can but meet commendable
praise,
Although you've just begun.
On education, religion and industry
Speak in the possessive case;
Throw back the scroll, let on the
light,
For these are the needs of the
race.
On morality hold not your peace,
For its a deplOrable fact,
In speaking along this important
line,
Our papers are too slack.
We believe that you will stand your
ground;
In aggression know no fear;
Stand up for justice, protect the
right,
And always be sincere.
Now stand by the throttle and cry
aloud,
We're with you, heart and hand
You have our money and you have
our prayers,
Well move at YOUR command.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Well move at your command.
PINE BLUFF MINISTERIAL
INSTITUTE.

/
Some time during the month OF
October last a number of the lead
ing ministers and laity of the Bap-
tist church of this city and county,
members of the st. Marian and
Central Districts, met and discussed
the great need of some kind of a
denomination school into which
could be gathered together
the large number of Baptist chill
aren not attending, for various
causes, the public schools of the
city; also many older persons desir-
ing to secure educational advant-
ages but unable to enter the public
schools and too poor or otherwise
unable to 60 away from the city or
county to attend some school. 1t
was developed in the deliberations
and considerations of these ques-
tions that quite large number Of
Baptist preachers also desired liter
ary and Bible instruction; and af-
ter mature deliberation it was
agreed that the Pine Bluff Ministe-
rial Institute should be organized
on the joint stock plan. A maxi
mum capital stock was agreed upon
and the shares fixed at $25 a share
and a sufficient number of shares
was subscribed and paid for to en-
courage the leaders in organizing
and starting the school,
The officers were elected as fol-
lows:
Stockholders-President, Rev. D.
L. Lindsley;vice president, --;
secretary, Rev. j. Bolden; treasurer,
Rev. c. II. Williams.
Trustee Board-President, Rev.
L. J. Hayward; vice president,
-; secretary, NJ. W. Webb;
treasurer, Rev. G. H. Williams.
Faculty-Rev. S. A. Mosely.
president and professor of theology;
Rev. j. NJ. Bankhead, teacher of in
termediate grade; Mrs. S. E. Row.
an, teacher of primary grade; Mrs.
J. E. Lindsey, is also a teacher in
the primary department, but her
special work in the Institute is that |
If missionary and matron of the |
that is connected with |
he Institute. She has proven in
in the work Of gathering in
Door and destitute children. Her
'ostering care and motherIy tender
ness in the. handling Of the waits
already under the care of the Insti-
ute has won for her the praise of
III.
No attempt has been or will be
made to merge this institute into
oIlege. 1t cannot and will not at
empt to do the work of college.
t is not district school as vet.
That is to say, it has not that in
-orsement which obligates the dis
riots to guarantee its support. The
tockholders and trustees are all
of st. Marian and Cen
raj districts, and feel, while doing
heir full duty in every respect to
he state educational work, that
hey can at the same time operate a
chOOl at Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

We have received the initial num-
ber of the 'Pine Bluff Weekly Her
ald," Rev. S. A. Mosely, business
manager Alonzo Shanks, reporter.
The editor, whose ''fne Italian
hand" is discernible, does not let his
name appear. The Herald is well
edited and well printed.
Its salutatory has the right ring
to it, and we compliment its man
agement and constituency on the is
suance of such a paper. We have
felt all along that such centers as
Pine Bluff, Helena, Forrest City,
Wynne, Fort Smith, Hot Springs,
Texarkana, etc, should have a good
weekly secular paper and if they
fall into Baptist hands so much the
better for the denomination. The
Herald has our hand.-Baptist
Vanguard, Little Rock, Ark.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

That political abortion and hum
bug, the populist party, is on its
last legs. On the day of the ma
tional election in November next it
will be buried never to be- resurrect-
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

a plant to manu,.., NJ
~ .tO1,l p, mussel shells i tois sll button
, "oh Rock. ing put 4
feet high was I' ti,7tl lSst long and +,
Springs last week. N''''o near Gs /
sRn smith, was run over vyer',I1ggId a9S d. Sact
me e. cars in North Little ipI RnaL Killed y
,bot W. d., D, Mcintyre, an atto1..
1p Inot w;n and ID probably fataIIr alIpnsy, psg "
y F;ttn.' %tll "e'tmoreland at Nas,a;1ss. NIsa11s |
been shipped from EursEa E,pls' E hS,
Tor South Africa within a. S4 SPdna |
months. 'l 'ne past tM
A report that Lieut. SJ,
T;I,o1 ThOsS home 81 is at MulberrP RSl 7P11s
be false. proved . /
The Arkansas Hort;,
ssy will hold its twentieth ,'se., "oc
session in Little Rock Feb,r,slaa. ,n ANNA .g
Sth and 9th. III
The postoffice at Hsol..,
ourglarlzed lo.1 and the safe blown -. w
The burglars secured onlr,. oPel
amount of money. small
A negro named Gus Jobn,o,
run over and killed by a pas,s,.a y
train at Bald Knob. Jobn,,
home was at Helena.
Geo. Dunn, the Oldest mo-,
point Of service in the employ Of n
Iron Mountain railroad at Tow. + -
kama, died last week. -'
1t was an Arkansan-Cspt TN
man Campbell-who captura5 g., %
naldo's wife and the elusive pbiI,
pino's private secretary.
John Plaster, a well-to-do cif,,
Of Franklin county, committed nj
eide by hanging himself to 1 sr,s
He was 81 years of age.
A young man giving his name .
Vance Foster, of Nashville, Ten,
was held up and robbed by a gang 4
trampS near JOnesborO.
The Louisiana & Arkansas R,a
road Company has completed i,
system of telegraph wires from
jamestown, La, to Texarkana.
Near Madison, on the st. Fnra,
river, Henry Griffin shot and kind
Henry Young. Griffin claims that
the dead man was too intimate with
Mrs. Griffin.
Hon. R. l.. Lawrence, acting GOV.
ernOr, handled the affairs Of sap
during Gov. Jones absence on the
Little Rock business mems excursion
over the Choctaw.
Bud Garrett, a prominent Miller
county farmer, was cut to pieces by
another farmer named Henry Sha.
fin at Texarkana. The tragedyu
the result of a lawsuit.
Walter Davis was instantly killed
md James Douglass badly injured
n a wreck on the Little Rock 1
Hot Springs railroad near Benton.
The wreck was caused by spreading
'ails.
Sydney Duffie, colored, who shot
md killed a colored girl named Fos
er near Magnolia about three weeks
go, was bound over without bail.
)uffie claims the killing was accI.
Iental.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

There was, perhaps, never time
in the history of the republican par
ty when the leaders were more
united on questions of national
party policy than now.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The ''Pine Bluff Weekly Herald" "
which is published in Pine Bluff,
made its bow in our office last week,
for the first time. 1t was neat and
newsy; fearless yet conservative in
editorial expression. We welcome
our brother j. G. Duke and hope
that he, who is yet a young man,
may be driving the quill when his
temples shall blossom with age, and
be referred to as the "Nester," and
journalistic pathfinder in Pine
Bluff. We could hardly tell the edi-
tors writings from the apostle of
Blackstone, but as both make good
croneologic and physiognomic show
ing, we accept both as Worthless
American Guide, Little Rock.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

They say there is hot time (po-
litically) in store for Jefferson this
year. Every fellow and his brother
is a candidate for Office.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

And now comes the newly elected
governor of Mississippi with strong
and stringent plans to suppress
lynching. When Mississippi, the
hot-bed of negro persecution, be-
comes satiated with negro gore, then
indeed can it truly be said a better
day is dawning.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

Prof. II. N. Johnson is in the CITY
arranging to move his family to Sc
dalia, Mo-, where he will in future
reside. This community could
hardly lose more valuable citizen
then Prof. johnson.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

Prof. Junius Jordan, it is
thought, will be a candidate for
governor. This paper would as
soon see him governor as any demo-
crat in Arkansas, Notwithstanding
his TRADE against negroes.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

If it is not rebellion to do so, the
"Herald" would like to intimate
that there is perhaps at least one
man in Jefferson county that would
like to go as a delegate to the ma
tional republican convention, state
at 1arUa
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
Scott County Board of Health.

Gov, Jones has appointed the fol-
lowing board of health for Scott
county, with power to take such
action as is necessary to abate and
prevent the spread of smallpox: {:
A. j. Stephenson, DR.. J. W. Hin
kle, DR., R. L. Bowen, Judge J. N.
Craig and W. w. Edmonson.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The stupidity of national democ-
racy was never more manifest than
now, No two leaders are agreed OF
national questions.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

If the democratic party have any
chance Of success in the ensuing ma
tional campaign the warning going
on among the leaders would destroy
-
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27
State Capitol Commission Report.

In compliance with the act of the
legislature. providing for the erec-
ton of new state house, the board
of commissioners appointed under
the act have submitted their report
of expenditures on the work up to
December 81, 1899. The statement
shows that the amount credited to
the capitol fund from land sales to
January 1, 1900, is s27, $40. 90.
Following are the expenditures:
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

Rev. L. G. Jordan, foreign mis-
sion secretary of the Baptist de-
nomination, held foreign mission
institute and mass meeting at st.
Paul Baptist church Wednesday
and Wednesday night of this week.
The meeting was well attended.
The programme being an Interest,"
ing one, it was enjoyed by those in
attendance on the meeting.
Pine Bluff weekly herald., 1900-01-27

The man the Herald opposes
for county office will be beaten
mark this prediction.