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Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30

The Kangaroo Kourt was in ses-
sion Friday and Saturday and a
full docket was disposed of. Near
ly every culprit brought to the
bar plead guilty or was found gull
ty on trial. Il. NJ. White was
fined for patching up family
troubles, Sam Cook for not looting
the Missouri school fund, Sheriff
James for marrying while in office,
Judges Sims and Lewis for being
Democrats, Sam Locke for remain
ing a bachelor, Joe Moore for get
ting married to avoid a bachelors
tax, and there were others. A
number of ladies served on the
different juries, and they proved
as good as the men in getting to-
gether for unanimous verdicts.
+. p. Van Ness served as Judge
and A. S. Houston and j. w. Ma
son were the prosecuting attorneys.
The proceedings made much mer-
riment.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30
Message Subscriptions.

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"best newspaper in the county.S
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30

appeared lately in the Fulton Ga
zette. 1t was written by one Of
Mexico's travelling men to another
Mexico travelling man who was at
tending the United Commercial
Travellers Annual Grand Council
held at Joplin. He wrote us fol-
lows:
DEAR JACK: Lest in the gen
eral hilarity of the occasion you
forget why you are in Joplin,I feel
it incumbent upon me as senior
Mikado of Mexico Council No. sc
to drop you few lines to again
remind you that you are expected
to get the next annual session Of
the Grand Council of United Com
mercial Travellers for this city.
AS this is the only L. c. 7.
town that has never had grand
council meeting, it should not re-
Quire an strenuous effort on
your part to land the plum. DO
your work quietly among the boys
before the question of the next
meeting comes up and spare no
expense. We Civ YOU carte
blanche to spend as much of your
money as you think necessary in
your efforts to warp the judgment
of the delegates aud get their votes
for Mexico.
| think the most effective way is
the button-hole, wire-pulling and
dark lantern plan, after the man
ner of Audrain county politics, but
if that won't work you will have
to capture the meeting with ora
tory. Give them one Of you,
crown of thorns, cross Of gold
brand of speeches and they can
resist you. Tell them about Mex
leo and her manifold advantages
and peculiar fitness as a place IL
which to hold IL Missouri Method
list conference or Il convention o
drummers. Not only are we thu
geographical center of the State
but we are located on the "Onl.
Way" and the Blanks of the Wa
bash" as we'll. Tell them about
Hardin College, with 800 beautiful
and hospitable young ladies', wh'
would welcome the L. G. T. will
open arms (perhaps) and the Mis-
souri Military Academy, with it
bunch of cigarette dudes AM
acmmic freaks that are well WORT
any healthy mans observation an,
careful consideration. Do not for
get to mention that this is tn
home of editor bob" White, tn
only one of his kind ever born il
captivity, and of J. Robinson
Esq, once the greatest horsebac
rider of the age and now the mos
frequent and cheerful(?) loser o.
earth in a game of pitch. Iol
might also remark in passing tina
this is the political headquarters o
and voting precinct of Hon. Sal
, b. Cook, present secretary
state, and future governor of thi
. glorious commonwealth, and c
James Newton Basket the fina
authority on everything tina
wears feathers and novelist c
note, author of AT You All
House and AS the Light Led
now in its s'teenth edition. ut
said that Mr.. Basket received hi
, inspiration for the last novel on
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30
Having Fun With rlexico.
Our Fried Chicken Hosptality-The "On1y' Born
in Captivity-"At You Ais House."

dark night on his way nome from
You All's House. shortly after
the city council put out the street
lamps for keeps, and as this is Il
reflection on our city government
you had better go a little slow on
James Newton.)
"Don't forget the historical in
tercst with which we are thOroly
soaked. During the late civil war
General Grant camped one night
ten miles north of the public
square and Bill Anderson rode
around the court house. AleXan-
der Jester broke out of our Gala
boose and rode out of town on his
Justly celebrated buffalo bull calf,
and later on Frank James attended
our county fair.
Remember that distinguished
men, good hotels, politicians,
statesmen. fine horses, schools,
churches, daily papers, mince pie
and fried chicken hospitality are
our long suit-our prince albert, so
to speak, 50 stick to your text and
avoid as much as possible embar-
assing explanations.
SHOULD they say that Mexico is
an old has been now performing
a retrograde' movement, explain
to them that we are only making a
loop to avoid a collision with
Thompson and Benton City. If
they say that we have had nc
street lights since 1899 you can
tell them in the language of the
immortal and only Zeighenhein
that we got moon yet, amt it!'
st. Louis delegates will appreciate
and sympathize with you on this.
Again they may claim that we
have no sidewalks, and that we
use the middle of the road for
promenade; that our moneyeC
men lack public spirit, and tina
we have no manufacturing enter
prizes. You can answer thes,
conclusively by exhibiting the
photograph herewith inclosed O.
our wagon factory and soda POI
works.
"To rest your voice and clear
your throat at this point you
recitc the following beautiful lines
by Longfellow, entitled It's a Way
We Have:
Our streets are paved taround the square,
The smclIof locust Tor lager fills the air
Sidewalks are not the fashion here
We've lived without them many year
From PoIocIl's to Abe JadkSon's yard.
From court house square to boulevard,
No electric globes flash forth their light
TO mar the granducr of the night.
For walks and lights we feel no need,
, Since we went broke on Mrs. Reed.
On dark and every present night
All undiSturbcd by electric light
Wen promenade around and round,
And with lantern view the town.
I The sights will Justify the pains,
And walking'S good unless it rains
To wander down moon lit street,
Our city friends will find treat.
Oh, we've the best burg in creation
Q dor private prayer or meditation
No better place on earth could be
l To entertain the L. c. 4.
{ "l am sure you will leave IL
) stone unturned and overlook n
f argument, that will help to brini
| the 1903 session of the Gran
Council to Mexico. There il
f much in your favor, and | hav'
5 great confidence in your ability t
exhibit the charms iof our cit
S in Il way that it will lay
S over Sedalia, like aclub flush
e over mines sup
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30
JEFFERSON CITY BRANCH.

*DaiIY Except Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30
Notice ofFilal Settlement.

All creditors and others interested in
the estate of b. p. Richie, deceased, are
notified that the undersigned, executors
of said estate intend to make final set
Element of said estate at the next term Of
the Probate Court of Audrain county, to
be holden at Mexico, in said county, on
the second Monday in November, 1902.
w. II. and j. $. RITCHIE,
Executors.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30
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Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-30

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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

publicans of Missouri take the ag-
gressive all along the line. Their
motto is Forward" at every point.
They demand that the Democratic
ring in control shall explain why it
mas been thirty years in reducing
a state debt from S22, 100000 to
5000, 600, why it has juggled the
school fund from agilt-edged cred
it into an illegal debt; why it has
violated the constitution, and asks
voters to patch it to" condone the
offense; why is it breaking down
the sanctity of elections; why it
farms out state authority to a lob
by and sells legislatures in advance
to big corporations. The work
for Missouri Republicans in the
campaign of 1902 is a most vigor-
Gus advance. They have the ring
in retreat, and not far from panic.
Let the fight 60 on Extensively
from start to finish.-Globe- Demo-
crat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

on holding a county primary for
the purpose of nominating the Re-
publican county ticket this year
will undoubtedly meet the endorse
ment of the party. The conven-
ton method of making the nomi-
nations, which has heretofore pre-
vailed with the party, though per-
haps without good reason, has al
ways caused more or less bitter
ness among the defeated candidates
for nomination and their friends,
coupled with insinuations of ma
chine work, and cut-and-dried af-
fairs. BY taking the nominations
directly to the people it is hoped
all i'll feeling will be avoided. 1t
will leave no room at least for a
claim of "machine" ticket. Let
the party turn out at the primary
and nominate the best men from
among the candidates presented,
and support them afterwards in
the general campaign, and there
will be victory for the ticket.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
IattY.

With rainfall almost every day this
month our farmers are getting along
slow with their planting.
Madam Rumor says there will be a
wedding in this locality on the third
Sunday Of this month.
Henry Matlock is home from De
Soto on vacation, being somewhat
on the sick list.
Mart Nicholson, of Belleview, spent
few days here last week.
There will be plenty of plums, cher.
ries, pears and early apples out here
this season, but no peaches. or gar
den truck there is an abundance.
Wheat never looked better than
now, aud indicates a full yield.
w. NJ. Matlock lost a COW valued at
500 one day this week. He also re-
Gently lost over 400 panels of fence
and about 1000 rails by high water.
W. M NJ
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Acknowledgement Grow has
started out after the trusts again:
This time it is the Beef Trust for
which he is reaching with the
strong arm of the law. Somehow
Mr.. Crow always fails of execut-
ing any serious damage to the
trusts, his blows fall short and he
fails to keep up steam after a few
Ineffective passes and the trusts
keep right on trusting. The fights
between our attorney-g general and
the monopolistic corporations pos
sess the elements of a hippodrome,
where the antagonists enter the
ring with a prearranged under
standing that neither is to be hur,
and the gate money of suckers
evenly divided after the farce is
over.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
Convention Call.

The Republican voters Of Wash
ington County are hereby called 10
assemble in mass meeting at their
respective voting places, at 1 O'Clock
p. NJ, on
Saturday, May 9th, 1902,
to elect delegates to county con-
vention to be held in Potosi on
Saturday, May 31st, 1909,
to elect delegates to the various
Republican state and district con-
ventions.
Atsaid precinct mass meetings
each precinct shall be entitled to
elect one delegate for every so
votes, or fractional part thereof
over IS, cast for the Republican
national ticket in 1900, which will
give each precinct the following
number of delegates to the county
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

With due respect to the position
occupied by the editor of the Hills
boro Democrat as the attributed
nestor of southeast Missouri journ-
alism, we must say that he makes
himself extremely ridiculous at
times in upholdipg u lobby-ridden
party by simply terming all who
expose the Missouri Democracy's
iniquities liars. Perhaps he finds
this the easiest way of disposing of
unanswerable argument against
the continuance of the corrupt ring
which infests the state capital.
When the Journal brought the
school fund question up to the
Democrat we were called liar by
that paper, but by keeping at him
the editor of the Democrat finally
had to confess that the best way
out of the muddle would be to re-
store the cash the party had mis-
applied. Many other contentious
we have presented in common with
other Republican papers have been
borne out by Democratic state
ments and admissions reluctantly
made. We refer our friend at
Hillsboro to the testimony in the
Cardwell case; to Brown and his
"dignifed sum-" to Governor
Dockery's statement that bis party
had used over S4O,Oo0,00O of the
peoples money to reduce debt of
s21, 900, 600 to IS, 900, 900, and to
the fact that the Democratic party
is dominated by gang, which in
the foreible language of the Iron
ton Register (Dem.) sis running
the party to hell as rapidly as a
railroad train on a down grade
under a full head steam."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
HopeWeII.

A good refreshing rain fell heres Sum-
day.
Farmers are about through planting
corn. Some corn is already large
enough to plow.
Born, last Thursday morning, to
the wife Of w. A. Nixon, an S-lb. boy.
Mother and child are doing we'll.
Mr.. A. o. Glore. of Potosi, was here
Monday taking options on mineral
lands.
The people of Rock Spring will hold
Children's Day services Sunday, May
18th. A pleasant time is expected
and good programme is being pre-
pared.
Mr.. J. F. Evans, of Mineral Point,
was in town Sunday. SAM.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

The publicity which has lately
attached to the Beef Trusts opera
tions is unexpectedly cutting in the
wrong direction. According to a
report from Chicago the decline
in the consumption of beef as the
result of the rise in prices'is hurting
the live stock raisers more than
the trust. 1t is estimated that
the loss to the former will reach
half million dollars. The pack
ing houses can play the game both
ways under the present conditions,
buying beef cattle cheaper and
selling their products at monopo'
lv prices.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Tire Salem Monitor has not yet
fallen in line for Senator Farris,
but after the Senator is nominated
it will either have to take its medi-
cine or become q boltor. A bolt
er among Democrats is regarded
as a greater criminal than a bood-
lov
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

1t is reported from Louisville
that the allied branches of the H.
quor industry through the coun-
try are being organized as a body
To influence elections. The liquor
traffic has already too much of =
hold upon politics for the good of
the nation, and it is time the peo.
pie were doing little organizing
in their own behalf to prevent this
octopus from getting a frmer hold
upon our body polite.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
Dead Sea Fruit.

Hon. j. l.. Fort has withdrawn
from the race for Supreme Judge.
The Register regrets it, for he is
an able, upright man-one whom
his fellow Democrats would de-
light TO- honor. He is the victim
of the machine, which is running
the party in Missouri to hell as
rapidly as a railroad train on a
down grade under a full head of
steam. When Judge Forts candi-
dacy was first announced, it was
believed that for once he would
have d united Southeast behind
him; but the machine set to work,
and insidiously encompassed his
certain defeat for the nomination
by dividing the forces that natural
ly belonged TO him. Judge James
D. Fox was induced to run, not
that he might secure the nomina-
ton, but in order to render more
certain theadvancement of a Jeffer-
son City pet. That Judge Fox
was knowingly party to the plan
/ am not prepared to assert, nor do
l insinuate it; but that he WAS a
tool in the hands of those who set
themselves up as the guardians and
masters of the party, he will real
ize and acknowledge later on. The
machine has at its door the turn
ing down of as good and fit a man
as ever asked preferment at the
hands of the Democratic party of
Missouri; eventually the honest
rank and file will down the ma
chine, even though that act of JUS
tice carry with it the temporary
defeat of the party ITSELF Gov.
Dockery, Jim Seibert, and the
lavo of them, cannot with i'm
punity ignore the wishes of the
people for all time to come
Jronton Register.
The Register has found its ap'
pie of Sodom a bitter one, indeed.
1t was a beautiful fruit as long al
it was given to the Republicans
only, but now that the machine
forces it upon those who have cul-
tivated it for their party opponents
tho bitterness of its ashe!
brings forth a wall of execration
The Registers chickens have come
home to roost. The Dockery
Seibert- Cook machine, which Bro
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
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to water but you can't
make him drink.
You can't make him eat
either. You can stuff food in
to a thin mans stomach but
that doesn't make him use it.
SCOTS Emulsion can make
him use it. How? By max
ing him hungry, of course.
SCOTS Emulsion makes a thin
bodyhungryallover: Thought
a thin body was naturally hum
cry didn't you? Well it isn't.
A thin body is asleep-not
working-gone on a strike.
1t doesn't try to use it's food.
SCOTS Emulsion wakes it
up-puts it to work again
making new flesh, That's the
way to get fat.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists. 800 Pearl St, N. Y
soc and $40 all druggists.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
AXE has until now upheld in all

AXE has until now upheld in all
its viciousness, snaps at the hand
that fed it. This is the logical Sc
quece of a departure from politi-
cal honor, the raseals have fallen out
over the spoifs; but it is due from
us to say that the Register has the
moral stamina to intimate that
honest men should come to their
due through the defeat of the
ringsters at the polls.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
SPRING AILMENTS.

There is an aching and tired feeling: the
liver, bowels and kidneys become sluggish
and inactive, the digestion impaired. with
little or no appetite. no ambition for any
thing. and feeling that the whole body
and mindneeds toning up. The trouble is
that during winter. there has deem an ac-
cumulation OF waste matter in the system.
Herbine will remove it, secure to the Sc
cretions rigkt exit. and by its tonic ef.
feet. fully restore the wasted tissues and
give strength instead of weakdess. soc
at Teasdales Drug Store, Potosi, and
Suitor & Co., Richwoods.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Democrats in Dent County are
evidently disgusted with the booze
methods of their party in politics,
and have passed resolutions against
the whiskey bottle and beer keg as
campaign aids. We wait to hear
their Washington County brethren
applau& this sentiment.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Aguinaldo is reported to have
said recently that the Filipino peo-
pie are not ready for an indepsn-
dent government because they are
incapable of conductingone. Some
Of our Democratic leaders here at
home will be denouncing Aggie
for an imperialist if he makes any
more such breaks.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
REVEALS A GREAT SECRET.

REVEALS GREAT SECRET.
1t is often asked how such startling
cures, that puzzle the best physicians,
are affected by DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. Here's the
secret. 1t cuts out the phlegm and
germ-infected mucus, and lets the
life-giving oxygen enrich and vftalize
the blood. 1t heals the inflamed,
couRh-worn throat and lungs. Hard
colds and stubborn coughs soon yield
to DR.. Kings New Discovery, the
most infallible remedy for all Throat
and Lung diseases. Guaranteed bot
ties SOC aud S1.OO. Trial bottles at all
dealers In medicines.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

The Republic is intimating that
it might be we'll to'bring out an
independent Democrat against
Senator Farris, but before the
campaign is half over we will see
the Republic accepting the Sena-
tor as ore of the confidential affairs
of the party.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Last Wednesday night Oney Camp
bell, Of De Soto had his right foot run
over by the Bismarck accommodation,
mashfng it so badly that amputation
was necessary. He got on the train
for a ride with some other boys and
in jumping of he fell under the
wheels.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
Work for Missouri Republicans.

The Republicans OF the state
may congratulate themselves on
the sweeping away of old slanders
that have served Democratic pur-
poses in Missouri for thirty years.
When the facts are examined in
the records the truth is found to
be just opposite of ring assertions.
But falsehoods repeated year after
year without searching investi-
CATION of true conditions, and with
out a general acquaintance with
the less obvious details of a past
era, have a certain effect on loli-
tical opinion. When hundreds of
Democratic speakers in each cam
paign say that the Republicans
when in control fastened an enor-
nous debt upon Missouri, the vot-
er of a later date may suppose
there is something in the charge
until it is made clear to him that
the debt of Missouri was contract
ed before the war, and by the loan
of the state credit to railroads by
Democratic legislatures. Not one
dollar of the bonded debt of Mis-
souri, came from the Republicans.
When Democratic writer's and
speakers are forced to admit the
truth, they take refuge in old IL
bells about the sale of railroads by
Republicans in open competition
to the highest bidders. The roads
were sold for the best price OBJ
tainable, under condition requir-
ing their extension by the pur-
chaser, and no one can deny that
the Republican policy of taking
the state out of the railroad busi-
ness was a master work of wis
dom.
1t has ever been characteristic
of the Republican party while in
authority to improve the finances
of a state. Only one state in the
North now has Democratic gov
ernor. The majority of the states
are under Republican control.
Where is there among the number
even one in which the finances are
not satisfactorily handled. Take
the nation itself for broader and
most conspicuous example of how
Republicans look after financial
and economic responsibilities. But
Democratic leaders in Missouri
want the people of the state to be-
ieve that Democrats are the able
financiers and Republicans the
bunglers. At last the slanderers
have been placed upon the defen.
sive. The Republican era in Mis-
souri, was one of high ability in f
nancial policies and action. In
every department their capacity
worked admirable results. In ST,
years they reduced the state bond
ed debt from $50, 200, 900 to s22,.
OOO,OOO. They formed new
school fund Of over 81, 900, 900 ant
delivered it to their successors il
the form of government bonds.
i In the present campaign the Re
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Since the stories regarding the
water cure as practiced in the
Philippines have begun to agitate
our Democratic friends they will
be more averse than ever to giving
up booze as a campaign lubrica-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07
FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ON Farm

FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ON FARMS.
DR.. Bergin. Pana, Ills.. writes: Il have
used Ballard's Snow Liniment: always
recommend it to my friends. as am con-
fident there is no better made. 1t is .
dandy for burma" Those who live on
farms are especially liable to many acci-
dental cuts. burns and bruises, which heal
rapidly when Ballard's Snow Liniment is
applied. 1t will alwaysbe kept in the house
for cases of emergency. 25c. soc and
81. 90 at Teasdale's Drug Store Potosi and
Suitor & Co.. Richwoods.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-05-07

Gov. Dockery has appointed Hina
c. Schult, of Caruthersville; R. N.
Anthony, of Fredericktown; NJ. P.
Casey, OF Pennington; DR.. Theodore
Frazer, Of Commerce, and DR.. c. M.
Whitmer, of Marble Hill, as the board
of managers for the new state insane
asylum at Pennington.