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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13

OF the Interior design. The plans and
the specifications were drawa by Mr..
Theodore Link. of So. Louis. the ar
ehitecs who designed tho magnificent
Illinois Cehtral depot at 81 Louis, and
who has prepared the plans for some
Of the handsomest buildings being
erected on the exposition grounds Of
that city. They were passed upon by
Mr.. Barnard Green. the famous con-
sulting architect Of Washington, who
was here to-day, and who made few
suggestions OF changes. save such as
were needed 20 bring the cost within
the reach OF the appropriation OF one
million dollars. wherefore the build
ing is practically as Mr.. Link planned,
and has been built under his direction.
The building occupies the highest
point In the city OF Jackson, and can
be seen from all the railroads entering
the town. The material is Bedford
stone, brought here from the quarries
In Indiana. but millions OF brick, man.
ufaotured at Fernwood. La. also enter
into it's composition. and these are
welded with sand taken from tho bars
along the silyery Peafi--a stream that
has been immortalized In story and I'D
song. The site is that upon which
was located some sixty years ago the
State penitentiary, and 10 get rio Of
which the citizens OF Jackson contend
ed. for a decade with the legislatures.
but Intellectually until II was decided
to pitch the new capitol there. The
location is four blocks from the old
| capitol; right in the heart Of the pret-
| tiest and most desirable section OF the
/ city, 1t is convenient to the electric
car lines, the depots and the business
districts.
The structure Is not only the most
expensive, but the most imposing in
| the State, The entire length is 402
feet by about 200 feet ride, three sto-
ries and basement, the whole being
surmounted by central dome on
which is perched q monster gilded
eagle, with wings outstretched. and
though fifteen feet from tip to tip, so
great is the elevation--ll5 feet above
the level-that at a short distance Il
seems a very ordinary bird Each OF
the two wings of the building are sur
mounted by smaller domes, from
which 1t Is intended the American flag
shall forever float to the southern
breezes.
The style OF architecture employed
Is what the architects term Renais-
sance classic-on the order of pavil-
ions, joined by wings, and in which
are quarters for all branches Of the
government, equipped and arranged
in the most convenient and modern
manner. The approach, or main en-
trance, Is to the south, and yet there
are imposing entrances on all sides,
which lead to the broad and high cor
ridors on the second floor. where are
located the legislative halls, one at
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13
GEN. MATos BADLY WHIPPED.
Venezuelan Troops Come Out yicte-
rIoas After a Two Days
Hard Battle.

Coro, Venezuela, June g.--After two
days hard fighting the Venezuelan
government troops, under the com
mand Of Gen. Gomez, assaulted the
camp OF the reyolutionists commando
ed b. Generals Matos, Riera and Lara.
and inflicted a complete defeat on
them. The rebels were encamped near
Pedegral, 20 miles from this place.
The capture ef Gen. Matos lsexpecses-
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13

It is ever true that he who doe.
nothing for others does nytning for
himself. Goethe
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13
ns.erIptIon d the New nuIIdIna.

No adequate conception Of the mag
nlEicence and the completeness Of Mis-
gissippi's new capitol caa be formed
without q personal inspection or study
OF the photograph Of the structure.
and after all. the exterior view Goes
not begin to DO Justice to the elegance
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13

From a New York exchange comes
this: when see dogs and horses
muzzles' said a middle-aged lady,
whose face wore an expression OF
loathing as a man near swore volubly,
"and when hear men use language
that no animal would use, could II
talk, I ofte1 think what a blessing II
would be If some men could be muz.
zled or gagged-better gagged,
think. II such proposition were made
publicly 1t would be met with shouts
of derIsion. | know; but would IL be
80 bad, after all The howl would
come entirely from thoae who would
be In danger Of being muzzled II such
an ordinance went into effect. SOME
parents, II they hear their children
swear. or tell Tie. wash out the
youngsters' mouths with soap and
water. I should like the position Of
maaager In washhouse to which
men heard using vile language In pub
Tic would be sent 10 have their mouths
washed out with assafoetida."
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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13

40 witness the Decentralization Of
as crowd at the depot It looked like
hs 49, OF the small surrounding towns
ss sau oeen picked up bodily and dumped
ssa .ao jackson; for practically their en-
~ population was aboard, and it is
asle 70 assert that there has been
aao'ning doing in the country to-
nLooknaven, for instance. Ia esti-
..ated to have 1000 Of her citizens
szss. and other nearby communities
- equally well represented. proper
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-13

tanning corn, brother with the silver
vessel of wine, a brother with a vessel
containing salt, principal architect
with square, level and plumb, grand
secretary and grand treasurer, Bible,
square and compass carried by lodge
master and two stewards, grand chap
lain, the five orders, past grand war
dens, past deputy grand masters, past
grand masters, two large lights borne
by masters of lodges, grand wardens,
one large light borne by lodge mas
ter, master of the oldest lodge bear
ing a book of constitutions on vel
vet cushion. grand deacons with black
rods, grand master, grand sword bear
er, two stewards with white rods.
No Delay in the Ceremony.
There was no delay In starting the
ceremony. The procession of Masons
opened to the right and left and the
grand master ascended to the plat
form where the cornerstone was to be
laid, Just under the post cochere on
the main facade. The stone, a small
bit of granite, smoothly polished on
one side, pore this simple inscription:
"A. d. J901-1903. This Cornerstone
Laid June Sd, 1903" The grand Off
GERS who actively participated in the
ceremony proper we're as follows:
e. N. Thomas, grand master; H. NJ.
WaddelI, deputy grand master; 7. U.
Sisson, senior grand warden; w. H.
Howard. junior grand warden; Chas.
II. Blum, senior grand deacon; G. s.
Joiner. junior grand deacon; J. l..
Williams. grand sword bearer; A. NJ.
Hicks. grand lecturer; Frederick
Speed. grad secretary; Thos. b.
Franklin, grand treasurer; w. b.
Boyd. grand pursuivant; w. D. Dem
ton. grand marshal; J. A. B. Jones,
grand chaplain.
Spread out in front Of the big build
ing was a perfect sea Of humanity,
only a small portion OF whom could
view the exercises
Those Who Spoke.
After the cornerstone ceremonies
were concluded the vast assemblage
was addressed by Hon. J. r. McCool,
who spoke on behalf OF the Masons OF
Mississippi; Bishop Charles b. Gallo
way. who turned back the pages Of
history and reviewed the wonderful
progress Of the State,. Chief Justice
Whitfield. OF the Supreme Court. who.
with poetic grace. paid a charming
tribute TO the women OF the South;
Rabbi Brill. OF Greenyille, who pre-
sented the portrait of judah p. Ben
jamin 10 adorn the walls Of the capi-
| tol. which was accepted on the part
of the State by Dunbar Rowland, in
well ehosen words.
After this the immense concoErse
was dismissed, and the most auEpi-
cIous event OF Mississippi'g existence
as a State passed into history
1
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
H~YPOcPITIcAL HORROR.

There is a strange interest in re-
publican quarters 10 the Breathitt
county, Kentucky, trouble. A feud
10 the mountains of Kentucky or
Tennessee is kept constantly in the
public eye with flaming headlines.
1t is never suffered to rest. 1t is
exaggerated and lied about until
people near the spot cannot recognize
the facts. This lawlessness is given
a political significance through the
ignorance of the public that the
mountain section Of these two states
has always been OF the minority
party. The mountain region of Ken
lucky is republican by IS per cent.
Moreover these feudS arise from per-
sonal difficulties and while they are
unfortunate and ought to be sup
pressed, If possible, they are but
trifles in comparison with the whole
sale assassination or sheepmen by
cattlemen in the Rocky Mountain
region. Within the past ten years,
according to Off ;ial figures, more than
$40, 600, 900 worth OF sheep have been
wantonly killed and more men than
lost their lives In the Cuban wal.
These difficulties arise over no per-
sonal or property wrongs. The range
is government property and is not
even leased by either the cattlemen
or the sheepmen. Neither has any
rights to be infringed. The noun
tain troubles OF Kentucky are inSig-
nifcant as compared with the wars
between Tanchmen and farmers in
Kansas and Nebraska. Texas has
more public State land than there is
In Colorado, more cattle and more
sheep. But such troubles are never
heard Of. The public lands Of Texas
are managed by a democratic legisla-
ture which leases the range and gives
definite property rights in it. The
public lands Of Colorado and Wyoming
are controlled according to the poll
cies Of a party which would legalize
piracy for a rakeoff.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
A ON MACADAM.

Elsewhere in this issue will be
found a letter on the subject Of tar on
macadam streets and roads. st.
Louis is putting down about twice as
much Of this kind Of streets as OF any
other and the Worlds Fair grounds
will contain about twenty miles OF it.
Experiments with tar on macadam
in this country have not extended
over a sufficient length Of time to
m lake conclusions certain, but so far
as they 90 they indicate a favorable
verdict, Streets and roads cOnstruc-
ted In this way are impervious to
water and give of no lime dust, as
ordinary macadam roads do. They
may be washed or swept. They are
easily and cheaply repaired 1t is
well worth while for our city council
to look into this subject and to ex-
pertinent with a few blocks Of this
kind of street. 1t is likely that in
some residence portions of Lexington
where there is already a macadam
foundation such a street could be put
down for not more than one third the
cost Of brick.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
AMENDMENT CARRIED.

Under the amendment to the state
constitution permitting the people Of
ST. Louis to vote on a charter amend
ment allowing the mayor and council
to submit a proposition to issue bonds
to the amount OF $40, OOO, 600 FOR
municipal improvement on account Of
the exposition, the vote was taken
Tuesday and resulted in the adoption
OF the amendment by a vote Of more
than three to one.
Soon the bond proposition will be
submitted. Over this there may be a
stronger fight. 1t is the fashion ofcit-
les Of both the old world and the new
to carry as much debt as their credit
will stand. The Kansas City Star
argument, that since future genera.
tions will be benefited by present
Improvements, said future genera
tlons should be permitted to pay for
them, seems to be convincing to those
who wish to believe. 1t may become
fashionable one Of these days to leave
to future generations something be-
sides bills to pay.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
THE CANAL SITUATION.

Colombia shows no sign Of ratifying
the canal treaty. 1t is alternately
given out from Washington that the
trans-continental railways have made
up a $40, 900, 900 bribery fund to secure
the defeat Of the treaty before the
Colombian congress, and that Euro.
pean nations are inducing Colombia to
hold of by offers Of better terms. 1t
appears that the United States select
ed the Panama route chiefly because
1T is two thirds completed, and being
further away than the N~icaraguan
route it was feared that some other
nation might finish it, II we did not,
and thus be a rival. 1t is not likely that
any other nation will ever attempt
to use the Nicaragua route, it icing
between Panama and the UOited
States II hard times come on within
the next year or two, or a general
election intervenes before the begin
ming of the canal enterprise, it rs
very likely that the whole matter will
be suffered to lapse for ten years more.
There is no question but that Roose.
welt is anxious to signalize HE admin
istration by the beginning OF this
great work, and his persistent interest
10 the matter affords the best grounds
there are for hope that the thing MAY
not be dropped-that is to those who
think that the work is worth while.
1t will signify that we consider our
selves committed TO an imperiallst
policy. It's value will be naval almost
exclusively.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
AN OLD EDITOR RETIRES.

H, H. Gratz, editor of the Ken
lucky Gazette for the past thirty
eight years, once a citizen Of this
county, publishes his valedictory 10
the issue Of June 20. He is about
eighty years old. Eighteen years ago
he was one OF four interesting old
men to be seen together every day on
the streets Of Lexington, Kentucky
They were about the same size and
from constant association they were
enough alike in manners to be taken
for brothers. They dressed very
much alike aud always carried big
canes more than an inch in diameter.
One Of these old men was Madison
G. Johnson, one Of the greatest and
least known OF Kentucky notables.
He wrote with his own hand the
Funding fill which has always been
attributed to his personal friend and
political enemy, John Sherman.
Nearly every Sunday these old men
spent the afternoon at Mr.. Johnson
house which was a stone castle
invisible from the street, with a gate
perpetually kept locked. The writer
passed this gate nearly every day for
more than a year and never but once
found it open. Entering he passed
along a winding patti lined with
ilponica hedges which excluded the
view beyond, at a turn the ledge
opened disclosing perhaps hall an
acre otl1wer beds aiame with tulips,
h%yaciuths and other liliaceous plauts.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

At the head Of the path just a few
feet away Mr. Johnson was parting
with his friends with the fine
courtesy OF a day that is gone. One
would have thought that these old
gentlemen were leaving on an ocean
voyage around the world. A few
months later the circle was broken
by the death Of Mr.. johnson.
Mr.. Gratz is the lone survivor Of
this interesting quartette. He
planted and maintained the beautiful
little Gratz Park 10 the very heart Of
the city, where the most notable
event in all the state, the annual
horse show is regularly held. The
grief of his old age is the fact that
the city has permitted Carnegie to
build a library in this park.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

and hence a higher cost Of production
TO English manufacturers. Listen TO
this: THE simple truth which stands
foremost is that no country can
employ the protective tariff success
fully unless it is a country so richly
endowed by nature that it is able to
produce an excess Of foods as well as
manufactures. w haze tariffs on
same food Pyodnets but they haze nothing
10 do auth The cost of h0fng, for ue are
exporters Of foods and oHr prizes are
frcd BY The 7O0yAi'S markets"
If the prices OF our food stufIs are
fixed by the ''world markets, why
have we tariffs on them? Is it to
make our farmers think that the
protective policy embraces them in
its comfortable folds? Have Iepub-
licans ever admitted 10 campaigns
that tariffs on foodstuffs do not affect
the prices Of foodstuffs?
The Journal continues: 1.-THE pro-
tective principle cannot be applied
to foods and manufactures stimuli
taneously." Who then pays for the
protection which is afforded manufac-
lures? Must the producer Of food
stuffs sell in the world markets and
buy in a restricted market? If this
is not class legislation, what would
constitute class legislation? Viewing
the matter in its moral aspect would
1t not be more defensible for a nation
to protect with tariff laws the pro-
ducers Of fO~odstuffs, who are many
and cannot unite to form trusts,
rather than the producers of manu-
features who are few and who caa
and do so unite?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

The workings Of a protective tariff
are very neatly illustrated by the
proposed tariff Of one cent per pound
on coffee 10 favor of the Porto Rican
producer, The crop of Porto Rlca
amounts to 81, OOO,O OG pounds. Our
total imports Of coffee last year
amounted to 1901, OO4, 252 pounds.
In order to protect Porto Rican plant.
ers to the amount of 1910, 900 it would
be necessary to tax American consum.
ers $40, $40, O42, That is, it would cost
us $4O.40 to help the Porto Rlcan to
the amount s1.OO. 1t is very easy
for a republican to see the Importance
OF such a proceeding. Boston and
New York capitalists have bought nm
thousands of these plantations and it
now seems to them only fair that
their neighbors should make the
investments good.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

The Kansas City Star, not content
with destroying the CAN'T boom by
endorsing 1t, has now transferred the
warmth OF its affections to Joseph
Folk. This is the first setback to the
rising fortunes of the promising young
attorney So warm and hearty and
general had been the admiration for
Mr.. Folk that the people began by
suggesting him for attorney general
E~m6oldened by the favor with which
This suggestion met, it was proposed
to run him for governor, and some
even dared to mention him as possible
presidential timber. Mr.. Folk is a
new public man. 1t is not known
now much he can stand. II was
thought he might bear up under the
adulation Of the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat and Brockmeyer's State
Republican, hut will he be able 70
live down the favor of the Star? If
he can, then we do not want him for
governor. We should not think of
humiliatlng him with a triae like
That. Two terms in the white house
and the title Of father Of his country
Is the very least that we could do.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

The Kansas City Independent has
made a change in its general charac.
ter as a weekly newspaper and Is de.
voting itself to a particular mission
that Of the Interests o~femployer and
Independent employee" In the first
Two issues it treats the subject Of
unionism with calm, philosophic spir-
II, ana its present intentions are evil
IDENTIFY the best in the world There
Is much to be said that ought to be
SAID IN the line Of the Independents
mission, but the man who attempt to
tread The course which the Indepen-
dent has marked out lor itself win be
gro und between the upper and neither
milestone.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27

A very notable circumstances 10
connection with the st Louis Doodle
prosecutions is the use which Mr..
Folk has all along made Of printers
ink. Starting out with a very
slender thread Of evidence he has
given out anonymously from time to
time broad intimationS which have
struck terror to the ranks of the
boodlers and made the more timid
mes anxious to confess. And much
as he has given out, he has never
disclosed his hand: nobody seems to
know how much he knows. He
has been criticised for this method of
prosecution, but the validity of the
CRITICISMS fails to appear to the
uninitiated. The moral sense of the
people Of Missouri is with Mr.. Folk.
and those who criticise or retard him
In the pursuit of his official duty will
injure only themselves. No good
mai is going to be over tender about
the means used to land thieves and
SAND baggerS behind the bars.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-27
THE CASE OF JOHN A. LEE.

The case Of John A. Lee grows
worse and worse. When he first an
nouuced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship it was generally believed
that Lee was an honest man with
small experience 10 politics, who had
been imposed upon In the formation
OF his committees, but who could be
depended upon to redeem his errors
by a wiser curse in the last legisla-
ture. Even after he had appointed
the senate committees 10 the last
legislature, it was thought by those
who are accustomed to think no evil
that his course signifed nothing
worse than the desire Of a candidate
to please everybody. Not until his
hand was forced by a tie vote on the
alum bill did the general public
begin to suspect that Lee was a posi-
lively corrupt man.
1t now transpires that Lee has
been in all the boodling that has gone
on In the legislature since his election
to office. In some cases he seems to
have accepted brides on both sides of
the same proposition and in some
cases he was a solicitor Of brides. He
seems TO have devised injurious legis-
lation for the very purpose Of being
bought off. Recent development in
volve several men who have not
hitherto been suspected. The ma
joritY of them, however, have been
under suspicion all the time, and ia
these cases there is nothing to shield
their constituents from moral &C
countablity as parties to crime.
There is no excuse for electing any
man to public Office who is either
known or suspected to be corrupt OF
c%orruptible.