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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13
COUNTY COURT.

Louis Levy deeds to Pauline Levy,
for % and other considerations, prop
erty near Thirteenth and jackson
streets.
Brooke Crawford, colored, of the
city, age 81 and Maude Fitzgerald,
of the city, age 20 have been licensed
to wed and IL will make the first mar
rage of both.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST, 10, 1909.

DAILY THOUGHT.
Many a man has bought his comfort
at the cost of the achievement of his
aims.-Suocess.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13

for paying interest on the repudisted
bonds was appropriated and collected
from the taxpayers. There ought to
now be in the treasury this money,
sufficient to pay the debt but it is not
there. Instead of having it ready, as
cautious, painstaking officials would
and should have done, it has all been
spent, and to make up the deficit the
council in its last levy made an ap-
preparation of $4,000 with which 10
pay the interest, thus helping in
crease the tax rate. Money for this
interest has been collected regular y
every year, and there ought TO be
some way to hold those who illegal
ly spent it to account for it.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13

One Of the methods practiced by
public men in Paducah in the past
was to appropriate money for one
thing and spend it for something else.
This is Illegal, but it was done just
the same. An example of the baneful
effects of such acts is found in Padu'
cab today. Year after year the money
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13

Il is indeed true that a member of
the Republican council was the first
TO mention the matter of the illegality
of the bonds, but when he did, know
ing full we'll that great confusion
could be created by fighting them on
technicality the council refused, as
the records will show, to consider
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13

Councilman Joe Fowler was chair
man IL the finance committee Of the
council when the bonds were repudi-
ated, and fought ana bled to have the
council pay the interest He is again
chairman Of the finance committee
and has lived to see his position vim
dictated.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13

tors for trespsssing on the Rottgering
farm with the extension of their road,
was called and the defendants waived
examination and were held over 10
the action of the circuit court This
will enable them to continue the
work.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-13
SUIT ON A DOCTORS BILL.

]. d. Smith, NJ. D., has filed a suit
in circuit court against frankie Wat
son for an alleged doctors bill Of
s7s.75.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

The Atlanta Journal notes that the
Democratic campaign committee is send
Ing out Cleveland's tariff letter. and says
this action is 1.-The first hopeful symptom
it has manifested in some time" To this
The cambridge Argus adds:
1T also shows symptoms of a return to
Cld-fashioned Democratic. hard, horse
sense. 1t will do more good than a thous.
and of the campaign books sent out by
the Congressional Campaign Committee.
The Committee has had it's ear to the
ground and has heard the tramp of the
old Democracy as it returns to the house
Of its fathers. Democracy of the Cleve-
land kind has been at discount for some
years. but it was not in the nature Of
things that 1t should remain So Truth,
sound doctrine and pure Democracy can
not be kept down forever. The people
may be misled and deceived for a time,
but returning reason may be depended on
TO triumph in the end. The Democratic
Committee could do no better, for New
York and the Union. than circulate
"CIevelandism." If that is a correct
term.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Electricity and Politics.

new YORK Evening Post.
The Electrical World and Engineer
illustrates from the case of the city Of
Boston the difference between practical
politics and practical engineering Since
1880 the city has had a commission OF
wires. the duty of which has been to
inspect all electrical wires throughout the
city and especially to carry through the
change from an overhead to conduit
system. The follies and extravagances
or this department. as fully described by
Captain Brophy at the recent Richmond
meeting of the International Association
OF Municipal Engineers, were wholly the
result of mixing politics with electricity.
In the twelve years of the commissions
existence. no electrician has received the
appointment, and only one Of the lay
incumbents has taken pains to surround
himself with expert assistants. On It's
present basis. the department presents
an annual budget of $50, 900, "a per cent
of which goes to fixed salaries. The
present commissioner, who 10 continually
under fire to make political appointments,
and has In several cases surrendered at
discretion, gets $500 year. For the
sum, not an electrician himself, he super
vises the inspectors who are only excep-
tionally electricians. and manages the dis
bursement of $500 annually for miscel-
laneous expenses. What his percentage
is of the total budget and on the sum
for which he IL directly responsible, any
one may reckon. If there were needed
any new argument for civil service re-
from it might be found in the Boston at
tempt to combine electricity and politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

The course which the IrisN members
OF the British Parliament are now pur-
suing was explained by John Dillon at
the meeting in Carnegie Hall, New York,
sunday evening. He said: we have
shown that Great Britain is not a united
empire. The boast that the House Of
Commons was in dignity and conserva-
tism above any other body has not been
made good. for we have shown it is the
most helpless and discredlted body in the
world, and is not capable of governing
the British empire" Both John Dillon
and Michael Davitt declared that it is
only a question of time when Ireland will
be self-goverped. Davitt admitted there
was a marked improvement IN the island.
He stated that 10000 farmers now own
tho land they till and 10000 tenants have
obtained iitteen-year leases. A commits
eicn. and not the landlord, now establishes
the rate Of rent, and 10000 unsanitary
houses have been torn down and replaced
BY inhabitable dwellings,.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

tenn of profiting through the punishment
of criminals is In accordance with the
higher principles of civilization?-Mobile
Herald.
Hiring out convicts is the present law
of Alabama. and The Advertiser believes
they should be comfortably clothed, hu-
namely treated. we'll fed and housed in
such manner as will conduce to good
health and morals. If, under these con-
ditions. they can be made a source of
revenue rather than of direct loss to the
people. we do not see that any moral
principle is violated. Under Republican
rule. convicts died by the Wholesale; they
were not well treated and the people of
the State were taxed every year to meet
the deficit. which took place in the man
agement of the Convict Bureau.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Honor Well Bestowed.

Huntsville Democrat.
The commission appointed by Governor
Gambler to designate two Georgtans whose
memory will be.honored by statues in the
statuary hall at Washington at the
National Capitol, have agreed upon Alex
ander II. stephens. Georgta's most dis
tinguished, and honored statesman and
historian and one of DR.. Crawford H.
Long the discoverer of anesthesia. Thus
do Georgians fifty commemorate two of
the greatest citizens not only of the
South, but the world, the one whose wis
dom and learning have been benedlction
rights and freedom and the other to the
great world of sieence panacea for
suffering humanity. No discoverery in
the materia medica has contributed to the
advance Of surgery and medical sicence
as that of anesthetics. Dr. Crawford
Long should have his memory perpetual
ed by a grateful world for future genera
tons
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Ex-President Cleveland.


1t Is announced that Grover Cleveland
has consented to take the stump in New
Jersy in behalf of the Democrats ticket
No man in tie United States will be heard
with more interest by thoughtful people
There is in the Democratic party an ele-
ment with which Mr.. Cleveland is not
popular. There are Democrats of a GER
tain type who grow furious at the men
ton of his name and who bitterly de-
nounce him without being able to give a
sound or intelligent reason why he should
be an object of abuse. But there are
many thousands of Democrats who re-
Democrats. He is the only man who has
led the party to victory in over forty
years, winning two contests out of three.
He has never deceived his party. has
never changed his views or his politics,
and stood like rock at hazardous pc
Rod when strong man was needed and
when weaker man would have faltered
and yielded in the face of the storm. No
or more grossly slandered and no man
ever stood more cOurageously and loyalty
to the duty his judgment pointed out.
Any talk of again nominating Mr..
not accept the nomination if it were Of
fered him. He will never again hold
public office Praise of MIN must be hon.
est, because none can eulogize him with
hope of future favor or reward from his
hands. No private citizen in all America,
no man who is without patronage or the
hope of it, can utter opinions or give ex-
preston to views that will have more
influence on the political thought of the
country than the utterances of Mr.. Cleve-
land. He has always been Democrat.
He is the same sort of Democrat today
that he was in 1884, in 1888 and in 1892. II
there has been any change it has been in
the party not in Mr.. Cleveland. As
Pres ident his recognition of the South was
all that could be desired. A Southern
man could not have been better friend
to the South.
Cleveland will go down in history as
enc of the really strong mer who have
occupied the great oftice of President OF
record will be judged intelligently and
impartially by the future student of the
history of this country when the names
of his detractors are utterly forgotten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
THE INJECTION NEXT TUESDAY.

On Tuesday next will be held the first
18Th At that time. George s. Houston, OF
glorious memory. was elected Governor.
and the shackles of Republicanism were
thrown off. The Convention OF 1876 left
the date of the State election with the
Legislature. and that body wisely enacted
a law fixing 1t for the first Monday in
August, and from that day until 1900 we
had a State election in August and Fed
eral election in November. The two cleo
tons were inconvenient and expensive,
but in view of the intention of the Re-
publicans, as foreshadowcd by acts of
Congress, to take virtual control of Fed
eral elections, It was deemed best to have
our State elections separate frq6h those
for President and Congressman. The
plan worked well and could not have been
changed except by the adoption of our
new Constitution.
The registered vote of the State on the
LIST of last August was $4,000. all white
except about $500. Today and tomorrow
opportunity for registration will be given
to those who, from sickness, or
absence from the State. could not
also who have become of age since
the LIST of August can register. All thus
situated should gladly avail themselves
of the chance of being enrolled on the
life list of voters. II they do. several
thousand more voters will be added to
the list. By the census Of 1900 there were
2S2. 600 white men Of voting age. Accord
ing to the usual per cent Of increase in
this State. about % in 4 decade, there
are at least 1000 more voters in the State
now than when the census was taken.
This was Democratic State by a good
round majority even when every ignorant
negro could vote. They. when allied with
white men who were in opposition to the
Party, were not able to make the result
Of elections at all doubtful. Now with
the negro vote nearly all cut out, there
will be fair trial OF strength between
the Democrats ana Republicans. Both
sides have full State tickets in the field
and a candidate for Congress in each dis
trict. II the Democrats do their duty,
and go to the polls and vote for their
Party nominees, their victory will be so
overwhelming as to silence the claim of
a large white Republican element in Ala
bama. In certain portions OF the State
there are possibly as many Republicans
as Democrats, but when the entire State
is considered, the former are in a woful
minority. Great efforts have been made
to get out all of the Republican voters.
1t is their first real attempt to do any
thing as a party in this State since 1874,
and under the new dispensation they will
strain every nerve and try to get every
one of their men to the polls. Under these
Democrats should need no
urging to vote. They know what Repub-
licanism has been in Alabama, and what
it would be now If the negroes were vot-
ers. The Democratic Party has given the
people the benefit of wise laws. and hon
est and economical government, and is
entitled to the continued confidence and
support of the people of this State. Go to
the polls next Tuesday and vote for the
Democratic State, County and Congress
sional nominees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
SAVE THE PARTY
Is tn Republican Cry to

4S III
Washington Special to New York World
The Republican managers of New York
and other States where the Democratic
chances are represented to be steadily
improving have asked President Roose-
Welt to take a Hand in the fight to save
their States.
Particularly strong is the appeal that
comes from New York. The friends of
Governor Odell and some of the Repub-
lican Congressman who fear defeat are
understood to have urged the President to
make a public declaration in favor of the
Republican cause in the shape OF let
ter that may be used as q campaign docu-
ment.
The President has so far declined to in
terfere in any of the State or Congress
sional fights, but it Is not improbab
that he may be induced to write letter
in response to invitations to attend some
Of the wind-up meetings Of the cam
paign, in which he will make known his
views and urge the election OF the Re-
publican candidates.
The requests for aid come not alone
from New York. but from Pennsylvania,
where many Republican candidates for
Congress are threatened with defeat, as
we'll as from Illinois. Ohio, Iowa and
Michigan.
If the President decides to respond to
the call for help, he will probably do so
in a general letter that can be used with
equal effect in all the States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

Mr.. Kohl OF Cleveland, Ohio, who is
"A Democratic candidate for Congress,
appeals to the voters for support on the
ground that IL he goes TO Washington he
will not wear a dress suit. Exchange.
That reminds us of certain Senator
from Alabama who was much more at
home hunting foxes than he was attend
ing social functions in Washington On
one occasion he unwillingly suffered him
self encased in a dress suit to attend a
ball or State dinner, or something of the
kind. When he was fully arrayed, he
looked at himself in a mirror and turned
to his friends in disgust, exclaiming:
Boys, by G.. take me out and bury me
quick!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses GER
tain signs to denote the relative standing and
merit OF the whole held Of newspaperdom
which comes under its notice. and one Of these
sIEns 10 the mystic symbol l0l denoting
golden, Whieh stands for high quality. and
- thus explained:
Advertisers value this paper more for the
class and quality OF its circulation than for the
mere number OF copies printed"
Such papers are credited with q single sym
Dol: but there is Q higher grade. according TO
this standard authority. which have BOTH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY, and require the
pOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 0Ol to describe
aaeQuatsly their standing.
The Advertiser has been accorded this
aenbls golden symbol COL and is the only
paper 90 distinguished in this section Of the
Gouth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
IT Is STILL PUBLISHED.

IT Is STILL PUBLISHED.
In quite a number Of our exchanges
lately-and, in fact. for several months
we have read something like the follow
ing. which is clipped from THE Fourth
Estate" New York publication devoted
principally to journalistic news, and
which ought to be familiar with all sub
jects relating to newspapers:
The Cherokee Advocate, the only news
paper ever printed In the Indian language.
has suspended publication. 1t had ben
printed at Tahlequah, i. T., in the Chero-
kee strip, for the past twenty-five years,
and prior to that time was published at
New Echota, Ga, where it was estab-
lfshed in 1880 Lack of funds and patron
age Is the cause of discontinuance.
why this error should be so persistently
circulated We do not know. The Advo-
cate is one Of our regular exchanges, the
issue for October Is being on our table.
BY the way, nearly two entire pages of
this issue are taken up with an exhaus-
tive detailed report on the educational
interests of the Cherokee Nation, which
is very interesting, as showing the ad-
vancement of those people in the ways
of civilization. One feature of this report
will be found of special interest The re-
port shows the conditions existing in
nine school districts, with a total enroll
ment of 1856 pupils, an average attend
ance of 2.s3s. and with 40 teachers en-
ployed. This shows an average of one
teacher to q pupils The total amount
paid out for the spring term. 1902, contin-
uing four months. was s1e, 2n5o, and for
the nine schools the average for each pu-
1t may also be interesting to note that
they have schools and seminaries of all
grades, including a high school for COL
ored pupils.
Coming back to The Advocate. we are
glad to note that there Is no evidence that
it is likely to suspend publication in the
near future. and it would be unfortunate
IL 1t should. As the Cherokees are the
only Indians on the continent having a
written language, so The Advocate is
the only newspaper printed in the native
language. in any portion of the Union
From one to two pages of each issue of
the Tahlequah paper is printed in the ma
tive characters and alphabet invented by
Sequoyah. and it is to be hoped that
there will be no suspension of the paper.
1t is the principal-almost the only. We
hicle through which may be perpetuated
one Of the most sonorous and typical of
all the native American dialects. a Ian
guage which has left its impress for all
time to come in all Northeast Alabama,
as shown by the numerous local names
now-in use. Their country embraced all
the territory drained by the Tennessee
River and its tributaries, as well as that
on some Of the other streams, and lay
partly in Georgia. Tennessee and Ala
bama. A brave. warlike and intelligent
people in their savage state they are
now among the most advanced of all t
Indians on the continent In Civilizations
education and refinement. We hope The
Advocate will continue for many years to
illustrate the language OF the Cherokees
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

A fellow in Portland, Oregon, who shoots
birds and things. is trying TO come back
at the country people who often rail
against the townspeople. He wants the
season for shooting birds to open ono
month earlier. and he wants screens put
at the mouths of all the irrigating bitches
so that the trout in the streams will not
stray into said bitches. All this he wants
done, as he puts 1t, so that the sports
men may be protected from the grasping
agriculturalists." That is a good one on
the farmer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Tn No Better Way.

In no better way can supporter OF
Governor Johnston show his manhood and
his loyalty TO the Democratic Party than
for Governor Jelks.-Marion County
News.
With hut one or two exceptions the
newspaper supporters of Johnston are
pr wing their loyalty to the ticket in the
most emphatic manner. Certainly as far
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
SOME COMMENTS IN PASSING.
It Must Be Kept.

Let every ballot be counted next Tues
day as cast. The pledge of the Demo-
cratic Party has been given and must be
kept sacred.-Jasper Eagle.
That Is the concensus of Democratic
opinion all over Alabama, and II any
frauds are committed it will not be the
fault of the press. More. we want the
state papers to be equally emphatic in
condemning and exposing frauds If any
are committed, as they are now in pro-
testing against them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

by taking the initiative regarding the
selection of appointees in the South or
elsewhere In Mr. Jones's case, as In
some others his opinion has been request
ed by the President and he has given 1t;
but the Presidents action has always
been Independent. the result of counsel
and opinions asked Of and given by many
persons and has in some instances fol-
lowed Mr.. Washington's ideas and some
times not. The choice of Mr.. Jones, for
example. had the Endorsement of hun
dreds Of the most prominent citizens Of
the South, as we'll as of General Wood
ford and other conspicuous Northerners.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
How They Boast.

The lilv white combine boasts that it
viii capture forty members Of the Leg
isiature, and that 1t will thus be able
to dictate the settlemsn of nine problems
out of every ten that will arise.-Blrm-
ingham Age-Herald.
A Wing orator once spoke OF the Dem
ocratic Party as IAN organized appetite
and we might change the language a little
and call the Alabama Republican Party
IAN organized bras." But their forty
LEGISLATORS will be wofully "swunk' when
the votes are counted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
wAsH1NGToN's ADVICE ASKED.
He Never Tries to influence the
President.

Washington Special to Boston Transcript.
The publication the other day OF a per-
sonal letter written by Booker 4. Wash
ington to the President last year con-
corning the character and fitness OF ex-
who was later appointed to a Federal
judgeship has caused some commotion In
the South. The Democratic press has
been making large use of the letter
which appears to have been distracted
surreptltiously from private hle-by
having it reprinted where color prejudice
Is strongest in that section. as proof that
the President is making his appointments
Of Southern officchOlders at the behest Of
a negro 1t should he said in justice to
NJ Washington. whose educational work
II be injured by the false face put on
this matter. that he has never sousht to
influence the President in political analrs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Very Liberally.

contemporary asks. HAS Addicks
given up?" A cursory view Of Delaware
politics of recent wears makes the conclu-
sion irresistible that he has. and very
literally. too.-Birmingham News.
He can make enough at his gas busi-
ness to give up literally and frequently.
And yet they predict that he'll not be
elected Senator.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
Will Be Elevated.

An ingenious Indiana man has invent
ad a method of keeping medical school
ghoulds away from the grave of his wife.
He has buried a quantity OF nitro glycer-
inc with the coffin and the ghouls VINO
attemnt to open that grave will receive
a welcome they don't expect and an ele-
yation they deserve.-Anniston Hot Blast
Possibly the mtan thing has adopted
this plan for fear his wife will resurrect
herself and come back to vex him. Some
husbands are just that hateful