The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-29

ARRANGEMENTS will be made next week
for the withdrawal of as many troops as
can be spared from further service in
Cuba.
OREGON voters are not very chiyalrous.
They have defeated at the polls con
stitutional amendment providing for wo
man suffrage.
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REPREsENTATIvE GRosvENoR reiter
ates his charge that the Hon. Lemuel
Eli Quigg mutilated the Republican Ma
tional platform.
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III is said that Hill says he will not ac-
cept the vice presidential nomination.
One Teddy" Roosevelt is also reported
TO have said the same.
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SENATOR HANNA says there is no truth
in the report that three Utah silver
kings have contributed $4,000 each to
the Republican campaign fund.
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TROUBLES in China are beginning TO
stir the sea fighting blood of Admiral
Dewey. Better turn him loose on the
boxers than turn the politicians loose on
him.
1T is reported that the Powers have
reached an agreement to partition Chi
ma, and that they have asked the United
States Government to indicate what
share il would like.
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ACCORDING TO the dispatches, justice
is for sale in Cuba by the native courts
No one has ever doubted this, but no
one expected our people to catch the
contagion of dishonesty as soon as they
did.
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PROF. SUMNER now hold the chair Of
political and social science at Yale, but :
he has Just said: The real issue that
men Of the future have got 90 meet is
struggle between plutocracy and Demo
cracy."
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JUDGE LEWIS said in a speech at
Owensboro that he hadn't been sick for Z,
20 years wasn't old enough to wear e
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canvass Kentucky from one end to an
other if nominated for Governor.
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THE torch lighted in China may set s
the world on fire The nations are hurry
ing there, like wolves around dying
deer, each waiting for its share. II is
easy enough TO overthrow the Chinese
but when it comes 10 d. j
viding the soil there will be trouble.
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New YORK advices state that Danforth !
is ex-senator Hills man for the Vice 4
President, and that boom has been {
started for him. Arkansas Democrats,
however, met in convention and il is I,
probable an attempt will be made 10 in v
struct for ID. B. fill for Vice President. C
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The Courier does not want the bitter
ness and folly of the last campaign b
brought over into this, nor does il de. b
sire any more elections by uniformed q
citizen constabulary,' Calling guns, =
militia or murder The d
Courier is for peace and abhors blustee
and bloodshed.
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LAST year the mass conventions held 5
at each county seat in the State to NOM .
mate candidate for Governor, were )
scenes of turbulence and strife. All
Democrats will be glad to know that ,
the call this year calls together the a
Democrats at their precincts instead of I
the county seats.
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THE United States Charge in Constan-
tinople has addressed a fresh note 10 the
Ottoman Government, insisting upon
an immediate reply to the demand Of
the Uuited States Government for a
settlement Of the indemnity in connec-
ton with the losses of Americans dur.
ing the Armenian massacres
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TIE long fight Of the doctors of the
old school of medicine TO prevent grad
yates of the new school of osteopathy
from practicing their profession in Ken
lucky was ended last week by the grant |
ing by the Court of Appeals of a per-
petual injunction restraining the State
Board of Health from interfering with
them or prosecuting them for practic-
ing osteopathy.
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The Hopkinsville Kentuckian in a
very able article ON the Governors race
says: Above and beyond any personal
consideration stands the fatal fact that
the boiling Democrats will not harmon
ize' upon the same candidate they re-
rejected last year. This is so generally
understood that the demand for new
laadar "a almost universal Evan tina