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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28
Republican Promises Ignored.

NSPuohSdh iOinlSSS ASnOIcu.
Congress VIII adjourn next week
after a session of seven months
During the presidential campaign tht
air was full Of promises for the relief
Of the country. How many Of these
promises have been kept? How
much has our moral aud financial
condition been improved by the pres
ent congress?
The tariff bill, the mother of trusts
and other iniduities, has not been
touched. Reciprocity, which is only
another way TO acknowledge the fallacy
Of a protective tariff, has not been
provided for. Unlawful combines
have not been mentioned, and the
sympathetic howl about poor Cuba
has been forgotten. "Let well
enough alone, " has been the motto of
this congress. These men who are
paid s., 900 per year seem to think
that things are ''well enough, while
the w%orkingman sees prices advanced
until his labor will scarcely support
himself and family. The full dinner
pail has proven a delusiou; a full
treasury for trusts aud combines con-
tinues to be a reality.
The country demanded a ship canal.
Congress has done nothing but split on
the questionable house demanding
the Nicaragua route, the senate de-
manding the Panama route.
The regular iniquity, known as the
river and harbor bill, was passed,
appropriating seventy millions of the
peoples money to be sQuandered on
eastern frog ponds.
The senate passed the ship subsidy
bill, but it was killed in the house.
The author should be politically
killed. aa a
| tpassed thousands Of appropriation
bills, and the pension list lacks but a
few more names to make one million
pensioners. ai7ssn1ia afa99igidi
II failed to pass any bill to regulate
trusts; it failed to give any relief to
Cuba; it failed to pass any reciprocity
bills. In fact, one-half the legislation
was against the welfare Of the conn
try, The bills that should have
passed were killed, Thus have the
ante-election promises been remem-
bered.
H. HINWNMHNaE HurfIH. ..UH ..H E.l
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Colonel Humbert, a French artillery
officer, claims that he has invented an
apparatus which, applied to a rifle or
to a rapid-irlng cannon, completely
%suppresses the flash, sound and smoke,
even of black gunpowder. He says.
~ have succeeded in converting the
explosive power which has been
known for centuries, into a motor
power giving impulse to ~projectiles
from rifles and cannons, without
smoke, without flash, without recoil
and without any diminution of force
or effect. The above sounds fshy,
but we have See 50 many improbable
things that we have learned to wait
for further developments.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28
Little Ancient History,

Nj
Jesse James was murdered by Bob
Ford, at ST. Joseph, on the Bird day of
April, 1882 The body was taken by
his mother, Mrs. zerelda Samuel and
buried in the back yard Of her home,
where for years she kept a close
watch over his grave. Tomorrow,
June 10th, Frank James will have the
body exhumed, and will place it in
the family buryIng ground in the
Kearney cemetery, four miles from
the old homestead. The pail bearers
will be William Gregg, Sim Whitsett,
Hiram George, Hicks George and
Warren WEIGH.
Bob Ford. the assassin, was killed
in a gambling house brawl at Cripple
Greek, Colorado, bis murderer being
sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
Charlie Ford, who vas present at the
killing Of Jesse James, committed
suicide from remorse. Bob Ford's
widow committed suicide a few days
ago by the morphine route.
What a gathering that will be
tomorrow around the grave Of Jesse
James. There will be his brother,
Frank, who was with him in all OF
bis eFcapales, and VINO ssas as brave
and reckless as Jesse; there will be
Bill Gregg, whose record as a fighter.
during the war needs no eulogy. He
was one Of Quanlrell's most reliable
lieuteuapts; there win BE- Sim Whit.
sctt whose name was a terror to the
eneny's scouts; there VIII be III
George, Hicks George and Warren
Welcp, whose records as rough
riders and reckless fighters could only
have been made under such a leader
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

The Nebraska fusion convention at
Lincoln, nominated W. H. Thompson
as a candidate for governor. The
populists unanimously nominated w.
J Bryan, and tried to force the dem
ocratS TO accept, Mr.. Bryan was
present, and begged the democrats
not to acquiesce, as he would not
accept the nomination. He could
have had the nomination, at any
time, as every member Of the conven-
ton was anxious to vote for him
Republicans take pleasure in trying
to ridicule Bryan, but he is the most
popular man in private life that lives
in the United States today.
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Bert Pemberton aud John Thiele
engaged in a rough and tumble at
W~arrensburg last Friday. When the
oelligerents had been pried apart
PemOerton's off ear was missing. After
his nose was pulled around to its
accustomed place and he had received
other necessary repairs he had Thiele
arrested for disturbing his peace.
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The drouth over northern and cen.
tral Texas is becoming alarming.
Crops are burning up on account of
the hot winds. At Taylor business
was suspended Monday morning while
a mass meeting was held at the Ban.
list church, at which prayers were
offered asking for rain. Stock is
for the want OF water.
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A girl in a factory 10 Connection
allowed her hair to be caught la the
machinery, and in a moment she was
almost scalped, The doctors think
her life can be saved by skin-graftinq,
and two hundred OF her fellow EN-.
ployeS have volunteered 10 furnish
what skin may be needed.
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A train was wrecked in western
Kansas, and forty tramps were found
concealed on the train. The farmers
surrounded the tramps and made them
go to work in the harvest fields.
Women with loaded shot guns watch
the tramps to prevent their escape.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28
Star-Eyed Goadess Avskes.

The Star-Eyed Goddess Awakes.
Henry WatterSoa, editor OF tn.
Louisville Courier-Jourual who wen.
off on the Palmer-Buckne jambaree
If we mistake not, gives Grover CleYe
land a few hot shots Il, a recent
editorial, headed ga Deaths Head al
the Feast, " the. CD. says:
"It seems a kind Of irony Of fate
that it should be a Tllden club that
welcomes Mr. Cleyeland's balefuI re-
entry Into political activities. Mr.,
Tilden died with scorn and contempt
upon his lips for Grover Cleveland.
He understood perfectly the coarse
texture Of Mr. Cleyelaud's physical
and mental makeup; his obtuse sell
tisbness; his ignorant obstinacy; bis
vulgar se%lf-assertion; his indefatigable
Implicitly. 3m
"That Mr.. Cleveland should put
himself forward as a eonjectural party
leader is proof Of a self-confdence
which would be snblimei il il were not
sinister; because leadership with him
means office, and nothing Gut office.
Such well-termed disclaimers as that
which irradiated his elsewise aptly
phrased speech of Thursday night
mean nothing to those who are
familiar with his peculiar methods.
They know for a certainty that Mr..
Cleveland never puts himself to the
trouble Of a public appearance without
a definite objective point and that his
objective point always relates to his
own appetite and interest.
From the day he was one-and-
twenty until now he has been an
olice-seeker. He never drew a disin.
terested respiration iu all his life. We
are not permitted, therefore, to see in
this artfully-timed and o~stentations
temperance upon the scene from
which be withdrew into the %conspicu-
GUS shade Of a great university, any,
thing except the organization of a
presidential boom as it is called.
"We rather think the party will
agree, without much division, that it
has had its fill Of Mr.. Cleveland. The
idea Of his nomination ia 1904 is little
short Of ridiculous. He would be
hailed by the republicans as the Diaz
OF democracy, that is, as its only,
onliest captain general, 1t is safe to
say that as a candidate for a third
term in the White House and for the
fourth time as a presidential nominee,
he could not carry a contested district
10 the United States.
"The Tilden club has decided not
to put its best foot foremost. Rather.
as the saying is, it has put its foot
into it, The name Of Cleveland may
Stlli De a name to conjure with for the
republicans; with the democrats Of
the west and south it is simply hate
full. Addressing it, the party might
paraphrase the familiar qpips Of Rip
Van Winkle,n Il got enough and /
knew when / got enough, though it
would hardly be able to complete the
sentence, and to add, II am glad
when | get enough
"The substance Of what Mr.. Cleye-
and said was done in his character
.stically felicitous sublimity, but one
the fables tells of a certain animal
sad memories in mind, saying 10
'espoase to a certain other animal:
Mr.. Fox, you talk too we'll"
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The GID. expert who charged that
the democrats Of Missouri bad paid
81, bis. 1000 OF Missouri Pacl6c bonds
twice, has been shown up as being SO
ignorapt BRAT he could not tel a Mis-
souri, Pacific bond from a Frisco bond
WHlthc GID. acEaow edge the false
CHARGE Mo- Justso tits ale, and.
casts a slur at a democrat is all the
whisky-ting organ desires.
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A scientist reported one day last
week that Mount Pelee was quiet, and
would remain so for a long time. The
next day the old volcano was spouting
hot mud to heat the band.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28
The Discipline Of Washington
BY HON. ALBERT j.. BEVERIDGE,
United states Senator from Indians.

The meaning OF Washington in American
history is discipline. The message Of Wash
@ington's lie to the American people is dis
cipline. The need Of American character is
the cultivation OF discipline Washington
did not give patriotism to the American
colonies, The people had that as ~abundantly
as he. He did not give them courage. That
quality was and is in the american blood.
He did not give them resource. There were
intellects more productive than his.
But Washington gave balance and direc-
ton to elemental forces. He was the genius
of order. He was poise ~personi6ed. He was
the great conservative. 1t was this that
made an other elements Of the revolution
effective. 1t was this that organized a nebu-
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

II the Panama hat is evidence that
the wearer is in favor Of the Panama
canal, lots Of the hats will be traded
off.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Jane Toppan, a professional nurse,
IS under arrest at Boston. She con-
fesses that she has caused t~hirty-oue
deaths Of her patients. She was so
expert with poison that she deceived
the doctors She loved to see people
die.
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senate.

"Sedalia is safe-Missourl Pacific
shops will remain here-no cause for
uneasiness.' The above headlines in
the Capital of Thursday morningneed
no explanation.
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The Warrensburg Star and tue
Warrensburg Journal Democrat are in
a theological debate. One says that
the Bible does not speak Of the gates
OF hell.p The other thinks It does,
but is unable to find the quotation.
They had better take a few lessons in
a Sunday school.
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Tariff and Anarchy.

Tariff and Anarchy.
a spirit OF anarchy is rampant IL
New Jersey and other northern and
eastern states. Whenever a strike i.
on, the strikers do not hesitate to
destroy property, and in many TO-
stances life has been recklessly taken.
The silk dyers OF Patterson, New
Jersey, went out on a strike a few
days ago, and created many riots.
The mayor ordered the chief Of police
to suppress the riots, but he failed 10
do so The mayor then suspended
the chief, and took the police under
hiss own control He also organized
a vigilance committee, and, with his
forces well in hand, he charged the
rioters, and after cracking many
heads succeeding in dispensing them.
The night after this attack on the
mob, the strikers held a meeting, in
which was developed a plot to assas-
sinate the leading silk operators, and
TO destroy their property. The night
of July 3 was set as the time for their
diaeolical deeds. The chairman of
the meeting called for VOLUNTEERS to.
kill Bob Gaede, and five men in the
room raised their hands as being
to do the job. He then
called for volunteers to kill Charles
Augur, and five more volunteers we're
enrolled The chairman called for
volunteers to kill Jake Weideman,
nearly every man in the house
raised his hand. AT the call Of every
OF operators there was a
show Of hands, ready for the dirty
work Of the assassin. They also
resolved to dynamite the newspaper
There are plenty Of idle men and
women in Patterson who are anxious
take the places left by the strikers.
They were afraid to do so until the
mayor showed that he would not
permit the anarchists to run the
town. The mills are now running
under strong police protection.
While these riots were going 90 in
New Jersey there were other riots
on in the coal fields Of Penn.
iylyania, where mobs of men, women
children attacked the men who
to work at the mines. The
men were Knocked down and beaten
nto insensibility, the women being
specially violent.
This miners strike has been in
progress for six weeks, and it is
'stimated that the miners have lost
nearly eight million dollars in wages.
The operators have lost heavily, and
notwithstanding the fact that they
paid out $500, 600 for police pro-
the strikers have damaged
heir property to the extent of a
and a half Of dollars.
The republican party claims to be
BILE to settle any question that may
rise. Why does it not settle this
uestion Of capital and laborg Why
re men not permitted to run their
wn factories in their own way, when
undreds Of idle men are anxious to
'ork in those factories?
The truth is, the republican party, !,
y its tariff policy, has destroyed the !
nall factories, and has built up a
Nv enormous trust-controlled con- :
erns; thus concentrating labor and .
and breeding a spirit of con-
smpt on the one side and anarchy on |
le other. Satan inspired the tariff
III, and he blinds the republican
artu intn It's continual snnnnrt
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Dennis Flynn refused a reDomina-
tion for congress from Oklahoma, and
Bird S. M'Guire was nominated.
Dennis is laying for the United States
senate.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

The Mlrshall school board has
elected Mr.. B. shackleford, Of Rich
mond, Mo, as superintendent Of tile
public schools, TO succeed Prof.
Spencer, who goes to ST. Louis.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

The SedaIia State Fair is to be held
August 1928. The catalogue Of pre-
miums has been issued. Write to j..
b.. RippeY, secretary, for a copy.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Cholera has broken out in the Phil
ippines, and ninety American soldiers
have died from it. Over 1000 natives
have died.
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The grand jury at st. Louis keeps
the bribe-giyers and bribe-takers Of
that town OF nettles. Wonder if the
cid WHISPERING organ is not trying to
attract attention In another dlrectionp
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Republicans charge that democrats
are anxious to get away from the
Kansas City platform. Republicans
left their platform as soon as the
election was over, and democrats can
do the same If they like.
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Republicans keep on fighting Bryan,
They are afraid he will be nominated
for some office, though he says he
does not want any Office.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

The house conferees have agreed to
the Panama route, but the house has
not adopted the report.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Those lifelong republican congress.
men and senators who do not
endorse all Of Rooseyelt's actions are
called Boxers Z This is but little
better than "Traitor.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

Jessie Morrison is being tried for
the third time, for the murder OF Mrs.
Olin Castle, at Eldorado, Kansas.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

It is just as bad for a mob to kill a
white man in Iowa, as for a mob to
kiln a negro 10 Georgia.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

1t is now said that all yolcanos have
an underground connection, and what
ever disturbs one is liable to disturb
all
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-28

There were llght frosts last Friday
night 10 the uorlli rest part Of tie
state, and it was almost cold enough
to frost all over the state Excessive
rains have greatly lalerfered with
harvest.
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as Quautrell, and with such COM

panlons.
Jesse James was a bad man; but
around bis name fingers a memory Of
bravery, OF hardship, of endurance, OF
charity for the poor. The NAMES Of
Bob and Charlie Ford would long
since have been forgotten but for the
great act Of treaehery by which they
slew their benefactor, and that too,
for a paltry bride Of money.
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The Marshall, Mo, Republican has
suspended.
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lous independence into a nation OF liberty. The parts OF a machine
are useless until assembled and fitted each to its appropriate place.
Washington did that. And so it is that we are a people,
BUT WE ARE NOT YET A PERFECT PEOPLE any more
than a youth is yet perfect man. We are yet in the making. It is
a glorious Circumstance. Youth is the noblest of Gods great gits
The life of a nation is like the life of a man. Read the history Of
people who have done things in their day. Read the life Of a man
who has done things in his day. They are as similar as sea and ocean.
1t is only a question Of magnitude.
The American people are young? Yesl Vital? Yesl Powerful
Yesl Masterful? Yesl Disciplined? Not entirely. Reserved?
Not yet, but will be. Moderate? Not yet, but growing in that grace.
And, therefore, bear you the message of Washington-he whose
sanity orderlness and calm have reached through the century,
steadying us when untamed passions OF riotous youth had all but
reached the climax of chaos. a alAga. asl ld4U uaa
The American people have finally overcome every convulsionf
True. The element Of sobrety has never failed to master the mad
dest agitatohs? True again. But the cost Of the struggle in every
instance has been measured by the strength ofthe instinct of discipline
at the time. To-day we are calm, and are conscious of no need for
selfresrant? Yest But yesterday we were delrious, and the
rumble OF cannon on your streets and the rattle of musketry at your
doors was hailed with feelings Of security and relief. The necessity
for this should never have occurred. And many crises may be re-
called by men not yet old. The political convulsion of five years ago
is a peaceful example of popular hysteria, overcome by strenuous
work that tested the powers of conservatism to the ultimate limit.
Popular reserve, the seH-restraint of the people, the 6reside confer
ence, would have lessened every excited circumstance in our history,
and prevented many or most Of them. ba e.p.N
REASON is BETTER THAN BAYONETS Sober second
thought is better than the destroying violence Of a campaign over
passion-born propositions. aa.nl 4as@ ua 6
f4H A H
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The law Of altruism is the law Of existence and life in the world
everywhere. Everything has its being in and through some other
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
oonNrY TIoKFr-

For Congress- W n. Hamlin. of Greene
County.
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The Law Of AItruism
BY ARNOLD TOMPKlNS, A. NJ.
Principal Of Chicago Normal School,

is as essential to its environment as the environment i 10 The tbing
Even in competition and grasping monopoies the law Of altru-
ism still holds. Competing industries and organizations to- thrive
must come to terms dictated by those who tpatronize then. aoNo
greater kindness was ever done to man than that done by a heardess,
grasping railroad corporation # some charity organization had put
itself to work to do the very best thing itcould do for humanity, it
could do no better than has been done by so-caled heatless corr
Porauons. suppose that mankind had waited for the church and
benevolent institutions to have built up the industrial system BY
which man attains his physical and spiritual freedom, we should still.
be in utter bondage. l am not claiming that it is the conscious Dur-
pose Q a corporation to benefit Others, but, to all intents and pur-
poses wnat IS done under competition works to that end. God.
makes the wrath OF man to praise him. There is a spirit that rules
IN these matters above the individual consciousness, There is such
a thing as true and honest competition. 1t is the method by which
civilization is worked out. In true competition both parties are
be~nehted-both he who completes and the one whose PATRONAGE i
sought.
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thing. Evolution has taught US
the great truth that nothing can
live unto itself alone, The finger
lives in and through the hand,
and the hand in and through the
finger. The plant lives in and
through the soil, and the soil in
and tlnonoh the nlantILa sth;nn
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No case can be found in which ahruisdc and egoistic duties re-
IN eonnct Inc young lady who misses school to take care Of her
invalid mother seems to be very selEsacrihcing: but what would
she sacrifice if she deserted her mother2 Her duty to her mother 4
likewise a duty to herself Mans duty is to be polite to his fellow
man, but 1t IS a duty which he owes to himself. AN OBLIGATION
" NE SIDE - EQUALLY BINDING ON H OTHER.
Man can love his Asighbor as himself Mans standard % ssNIoss
is this; he will do nothing to mar the jewel Of the soul and he will
do everything possible to realize his highest manhood. This standard
Of setlove applied to ones neghbor proves that one can love bs
my fellow-rnan, and / will do everything in nv nower 81 "a XII
the pursuit Of the highest good Altuism does not require one
VINO has earned a dollar to give 81 to another. If so, It would reonire
1s other who. earned a dollar to give ii to the first. In this case
W. woat0 : shrhng q dollars to no purpose. In fact, If the law
t a dollar would Be compelled to refuse it. The whole movement of
he is blocked on : onedded altrutsm. B
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lous independence into a nation Of liberty. The parts OF a machine
are useless until assembled and fitted each to its appropriate place
Washington did that And SO it is that we are a people,