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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
SPECIAL OFFICERS
Placed on Guard at the Cinder
Pit.
Rumors OF Threats Against Tom Gill
son Caused Some Alarm.

Trouble among the laborers at the
local l. @. cinder pit was for awhile
yesterday afternoon threatened and
two special officers were placed ON
duty at the shops last night to see tina,
no outbreak resulted.
IL is said that some Of the oolored
laborers had threatened Tom Gibson.
the white youth who was said to be-
responsible for running On engine over
Willis Haynes neck yesterday morn.
ing. with violence, because they
thought the accident a result OF pure
negligence.
There was much sullenness mani
tested among the laborers and several
openly avowed that they were willing
and ready to do anything towards set
Ting the matter a. ths crowd saw Mt.
This report reached the ears Of tho
officers who placed two special men on
duty. The trouble is now over.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
PLANKS IN THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

Z. We deplore the fact that our city
has recently been forced to answer an
indictment for maintaining q public
nuisance, this added TO the many 9TH
or lawsuits, has not only been cost
to our community, but is disgraceful as
we'll. We promise that IL elected, such
improvements as will forever prevent
the possibility of being indicted for
maintaining q nuisance Of any Kind.
8. We favor the adoption Of . civil
service in our schools, that will award
efficiency, promote education, relieve
the anxiety Of the faithful teachers
and reward them for their efforts.
.. We favor better streets, better
health, better morals, better schools,
fewer city officials, no CRAFTS, less tax.
es, and . better city government from
every standpoint, and pledge to bring
about this result If favored with the
support Of the voters, whose help and
influence we solicit.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

is the time to begin. Every substan-
tial citizen would like to see ample
facilities provided in Paducah for
fighting fires. Every man with prop
erty would like to see it. because he
never knows whose property it is that
will 60 next. Better fire facilities
would reduce insurance rates. And
along with more facilities, we should
have . branch fire station on the North
Side and another in the West End. Il
would cost money, but IL might pay
in the long run. Now, while the fire
Of Wednesday 10 still fresh in the
minds Of the people, 10 the time to
begin an effort to improve our facili-
ties.
The local Aremen should receive
special training. Fire fighting 10 .
regular science, and men who are
adept at it usually have had q course
of training::just o. doctor. lawyer or
minister. The Memphis fire depart.
ment is about to have class Of a6 of
its fremen drilled by o former chief
of the New York dre department. He
charges small price for drilling Ere.
men In smaller cities iu ell the tactics
used in Tho large cities, and guaran-
tees to graduate Q class second to none
in the United States. Those he
teaches may afterwards instruct the
other men. II Memphis firemen can
be taught these things, so can firemen
in the smaller cities. and we believe
10 is no reflection on our own firemen
to suggest that the city secure for
them instruction in modern fire fight
ing. It may prove to be of great use
to the city some day.
Only recently Q gentleman wrote
the trust that dictates insurance in
this state, regarding . reduction in
rates for his property and was told in
reply that the reason rates could not
be reduced in Paducah was that the
fire fighting facilities were inadequate.
Some time ago the city was told what
to do to secure better fire protection
and lower insurance rates, but moth
ing has ever yet been done by the city.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

sufficient proof Of its unworthiness to
represent the people. No Republican
should vote for the Democratic ticket.
The stupendous outrage Of trying to
strike the names of two or three hun
dred Republican voters from the regis
tration books solely because Of des-
perate desire 60 win in the coming
election should be enough to cause ev-
cry Republican voter in Paducah to
rebuke the gang by voting solidly for
che Republican ticket.
Those Democrats who are dissAtis-
fed with the administration of public
affairs in Paducah, should remember
that the only certain way to get a
change is to vote for the Republican
ticket. The Republican platform is
to be found in The Sun, and every
candidate is pledged to support that
platform and faithfully carry it out to
the best of his ability. A glance at
the names of the Republican candidates
should suffice to convince anyone that
these men are in earnest and will full
fill their pledges to the letter. The
tactics of the ofiiceholders to hold ON
to Office shows in what desperate
straits they are, and it remains only
for every Republican and every Demo
orat who is dissatisfied, to 60 to the
polls and vote the Republican ticket
Tuesday. The administration gang
has made On effort to disfranchise be-
tween 800 and 400 Republican voters,
most Of whom, IL not all, are entitled
to vote, and the gang knows It, vari-
ous stories have been started with q
view to frightening others away from
the polls, but the Republicans will
see that every man gets fair treatment,
and the effort to intimidate will fall
Dat. The scheme to make the taxpay-
srs of the county pay for the effort Of
. few men to disfranchise or intimi-
date legal voters shows how unscrupu-
Ions, these demasogues are in their
methods Of ofSoe hunting. Every good
citizen should 60 to the polls early
Tuesday and vote she Republican tick
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
D. A. R. MEETING
Annual State Convention in
Progress in Greensboro.
Brilliant Reception for Delegates Civ
en- at Vice Regents home.

Owensboro, Ky, Oct. 30-The an
nual convention Of the Chapters of
Daughters of the American Revolu'
tion is having an interesting session in
the chapel of the Y. NJ. @. A. build.
ing.
Mrs Emma Bunch Tanner was chos.
en- secretary pro tenn and her appoint
ment was made permanent. Twelve
of the eighteen chapters in the state
ere represented and there are seven
teen votes. Mrs. Cunningham. state
regent, divered . thoughtful address
on the state of the organization. Last
evening a reception was held at the
residence Of Mrs. y. Il. Todd, vice
regent, on Frederick street. II was
easily the most brilliant event Of the
season.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
THE ONLY SURE WAY.

Il should be evident to every good
citizen in Paducah that the only sure
way to defeat the Yeiser ticket is to
vote for the Republican ticket. 1t is
not q matter of politics, but Of freeing
the city from . clique thst has domi-
natei it to the detriment of the people
for several years past. Politics may
be out of place in city election, but
politics were introduced into local
affairs years ago by the Democrats,
who have long been accustomed to
elect anything that happened to be on
the Democratic ticket. They have
not chosen their men with . view to
their fitness, and by drawing political
lines have succeeded In unloading q
lot of incompetent men on the taxpay'
ers year after year. The records show
1t. The people know 1t, and now ID
he time to call . halt.
The people generally seem to desire
fairness to prevail in local politics,
and when a clique of politicians IN
deriaKes to get into Office by intimida'
tirn and trickery, that in itself is q
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AN ERROR.

Mr.. Editor In your issue Of the goth
l noticed fine display Of the beau
tiful Carnegie library, an institution
that we all are justly proud of. There
is q mistake, however, in regards to
the Ministerial Association, and In
justice to that body I will give the
facts. When the condition and needs
of Pad ucah were being discussed in
the association moved that Rev. g.
w. Perryman write to Mr.. Carnegie
and see what he would do for Paducah
in regard to a library. The vote was
unanimous. The correspondence was
made known to the association and
was unaer Its direction. The pastors
supposed that what was done by their
representative was their work. They
soon saw their mistake, for when the
corner stone was laid they stood
around In the crowd without notice
while other men were recognized, and
now 1t is published that they held
aloof from the plan. Most of the Pa
ducah pastors are modest men and
think it right to state these facts that
the people may know their relation to
this great WORT. Truly, H. B. John.
atom
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
DRY LEAVES
CATCH FIRE IN EAvES OF MR..
L. G. BOONE's HOME.

The fire department was called to
the residence Of Mr.. Eli Boone, on
South Sixth street near Washington
this morning about $3.50 O'Clock to ex.
tinguish Q small blaze in the roof
which originated from q fIue. There
were leaves on the roof and large
pile had accumulated about the caves
on one corner, and . spark from the
chimney set them afire. Little dem
age was done and the firemen had Int.
Il. trouble in stopping the threatened
con fiagration.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
Wed IN METROPOLIS
MISS AMELIA LEBRER AND MR..
II. o. MERCER MARRY THERE
THIS MORNING.

Miss Amelia Lehrer and Mr.. Henry
@. Mercer, of this city, were married
this morning in Metropolis. 1t was
not an elopement but the young peo-
pie only went to Metro polls to have q
quiet wedding. They were married
by Justice Thomas Liggett, in bis
office. A.
The bride is the pretty sixteen year
old daughter Of MB. Christina Lehrer
Of South 18th street, and . grand
daughter Of Mrs. Catherine M. Kstter.
john. Mr.. Mercer rs a popular en-
ploye Of the I. O. shops.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

A. We promise the citizens Of Padu.
cab, that we will give them q wise,
conservative and economical admins.
tration. While having an eye to econ
omy, we will at the same time contin-
ne to favor all municipal improve.
ments that are lasting and permanent,
using every effort to keep up with all
other cities of the size of Paducah.
We pledge ourselves to protect
the interest of the business mep, to
favor no measure that would be detri-
mental to the business prosperity of
the city, and to see that the laws are
enforced and the morals as we'll as the
streets are improved
6. We heartily favor the issue Of
bonds for the building of new streets,
and especially for the building of a
suitable hospital and market house, a
hospital that will house our unfortu.
mates and be a credit instead Of dis
grace to our beautiful city.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
SHAFT BROKE
AND THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL
SHOPS WERE SHUT DOWN
THREE HOURS.

This morning q coupler broke on the
main shaft in the machine department
Of the l. q. and necessitated . shut
down for mere than three hour. The
machinery in all three shops was stopp-
cd and the men had short vacation.
The break was repaired - quickly
. possible and the shop put In opera
tion again.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
NOW AND THEN.

The News Democrat, the only news
paper in Psducah that is supporting
Mayor Yeiser and the Democratic
ticket, has evidently changed ITS opin-
ion considerably inside one brief year.
On Sept. 18th, 1902, little oser .
year ago the injunction suit fled by
Councilman Voolfolk, Fowler and
Hummel. to prevent Paducan going
into the second class and curtailing
Mayor Yeiser's term of Office two
years. aroused the News-Democrat.
and caused it to say some real naughty
things about the mayor. Its headlines
the day the suit was filed were in box
car letters, as follows: mayor Yeiser
Attacks Bill Making Paducah Second
Clsss." "Files Injunction Suit this
Morning to test the Question and Will
try to throw Paducah back Into Third
Glass"
The following day it said in the
centre Of the page, with . border
around it:
1.-The News Democrat wishes to go
on record as being absolutely opposed
to the attempt to throw Psducah back
into the list Of third class cities. The
motives Of the gentlemen causiny this
suit to To filed may have been the best
possible, bat they have made q
wretohed mistake. Regardless Of
opinions, the fact remains that this
fall an election would be held for
some offices, and next fall for all other
offices, and Mayor Yeiser will have to
test his right to hold his Office until
1905, with either Republican or
Democratic nominee, elected in 1908,
under the charter Of second class cities
If Paducah is thrown back into the
third class, Mayor Yeiser can peace
fully fill out his term, and so can some
other city officials. Whether Mayor
Yeiser can or cannot serve under the
second-c class charter is not now in
question. The facts ara Mayor Yeiser
will be certainly allowed to serve his
term If this suit against him is won by
the men who are now suing him. This
fact cannot be evaded. IL must be
faced and explained by all who are
seeking to explain this injunction suit.
This suit is brought for no other pur-
pose than to try in advance il posi-
BILE, the rights of officeholders, and
office seekers in Paducah. We shall
not attempt to call names or question
motives. We have no quarrel with
Mayor Yeiser. We do not wish to do
him any injustice. But in the matters
brought up by this suit. we must dis
charge public duty, and that duty
DIVORCES from the way Mayor Yei'er
has elected to go. We leave this mat
ter to the people to judge. If they
are satisfied, we also are satisfied.
But we expect to continue to give al
the facts possible, and throw all the
light possible on the most remarkable
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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
WILL NOT run
MR.. EARL HAZEN Is NOT A
CANDIDATE FOR REPRE-.
SENTATIVE.

Mr.. Earl u. .Haxen. Republican
nominee for representative from Nc
Csackeu county. has decided not 70
make the race, and has instructed the
county clerk to take bis name from
the bslloss, which hes been done.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
ELECTION OF 1899: ". s. TAY-
LOR, 1874 VIM. GOEBEL. l91, 1881
JOHN YOUNG BROWN. 1910.
THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Tax rate for the first year of
Mayor Yeiser's present
term. 4 I.SS
Taxrate for the second year
of Mayor Yeiser's present
term. 1855
Amount OF taxes raised the
FIRST year on an assessed
valuation of $s,096, $50, 149, 791. IS
Amount raised the second
year, on assessed valua-
ton of $s,9l1,49O. LAT. oss. SO
Total amount Of taxes rails
ed in the two years. 900. $50. 9s
Revenue from licenses,
etc.. (estimated) $4,000. 90
Total money at disposal Of So
administration during
the two years, $40. $50. %
What have the people of Paducah to
show for the expenditure of this
amount Of money during the past two
years?
Do the people Of Paducah want the
same thing to occur during the next
two, or four years?
If they do not, let them vote the
Republican ticket in November.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

Every voter should remember the
bond issue when he casts his vote
next Tuesday. Paducah desires mod
ern streets and Q new city hospital
and market house, aud money thus
spent would be we'll spent.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

The same man who sent out the &C.
counts of the Beckham speaking here
to the Louisville Democratic organs
must have sent out some Of the reports
of the fire night before last. judging
from the inexcusable manner in which
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

Mr.. W. J. Bryan Indignantly de-
mics that Judge Stoddard called him .
liar. He says the stsnogrsphic report
shows Judge Stoddard only said "law-
yer" Humph! Why this hair split
ting?
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
the confiagrstion was garbled.

Local Democrats are very much
amused at the accounts in the Louis
vile papers of the Pad cah reception
of the governor, and the staff writers
put the crowd at 1900 people. They
only got on an "0'' or two too many.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
OUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS.

The time to strike is when the iron
is hot. II Paducah should ever again
be SO unfortunate as to have big fire,
We want TO be prepared for it. Now
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

Mayor Yeiser is quoted 40 having
said that the FIRE department 10 not
large enough. His administration has
had two years In which to make II 90.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30

Dowie has ignominiously failed to
reform New York. He and his fol.
lowers will return to Zion in few
days and Gotham will have TO seek
some new form Of entertainment.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

DAILY AVERAGE, 7I97. - 9.
Personally appeared before me this
day E. ]. Paxton. general manager Of
The Sun, who sfirms that the above
statement of the circulation of The
Sun for the month Of Sept, 1903, 10 true
20 the best of his knowledge and belief.
PETER PURyEAR,
Notary Public McCracken County.
Oct. 1. 1905.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-30
DAILY THOUGHT.

Nature and Morality provide all for
virtue-except the life to live it
Drummond.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
THE OUTLOOK FOR AUTHORS
Really Good Writers Need Not Fear
Discrimination

The rush of the crowd to read q
book which may have no literary merit
or vitality, either of material or OF
presentation, simply because 1t Is
talked about, Is never wholesome, and
IL the crowd has grown more critical
and clear-nfnded in its judgments
and has ceased to move upon sudden
impulses and learned to decide for
itself, the loss will fall, not on writer's
Of real merit, but on a few whose re.
wards were generally beyond their
deserts. The average of literary work
in this country in many departments
is high. If great books are not pro
dueed in large numbers, good books
are produced in very considerable
numbers, and in soundness Of knowl
edge, in good taste and literary work.
manship, a great advance is evident
over the work of an earlier generation.
It Is period Of quiet progress, time
OF preparation rather than time OF
mplishment
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
What One Man Said.

AT the City Federation meeting in
the Waldorf there were many amusing
Incidents Husbands of the broad
minded women tarried in the ante
room waiting for their spouses TO go
home One of these patient escorts
was Leroy Sunderland Smith. He
gazed through the glass doors once,
sighed and returned to his chair Men
would come, inquire for their wives,
and then retreat to the cafe below. One
man heard few minutes Of certain
PAPER He said: II these women's
clubs did not struggle with the prob
lem Of how to raise other women's
children they would have no excuse
for being" He flung out the last
words savagely and then disappeared
to the place where highballs are con.
cocted.-New York Press
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
Minister Rowen's Wife.

Mrs. Bowen, wife of our minister to
Venezuela, talks very entertainingly
of the venezuelans, whom she de-
scribes as models Of domestic virtue.
Many are also very beautiful, but they
60 out very little In public, being Of
Spanish descent. Mrs. Bowen, who
Is slight in figure and of girlish man
ners, was a Miss Clegg Of Galveston,
Tex. She is fond Of pets, and among
the unusual ones entertained at the
legation In Caracas are several par
rots, fine peacock and some monkeys
which are allowed to roam at will in
the garden.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
An Enterprising Woman.

Miss Jessie McCubben Of Alamo,
Oregon, is the owner of valuable
mining claim in the Granite district,
which she Jumped" precisely as the
year 1903 came in Learning that the
claim would be vacant the LIST day Of
January, she drove through blind
ing snowstorm on the night Of Dec. 81,
the mercury IA degrees below zero.
and, waiting the advent Of the new
year, staked her claim. Another pros
pector had done likewise earlier in
the evening, but Miss McCubben was
legally In the right, and the court sus-
tanned her. She is a Portland girl.
10 years old.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
N laa.-ss-.s-.t ~
THE NEW ARMY RIFLE.
1t ls Practically Certain to Be the
Best in the World

It Is Practically Certain to Be the
Beet in the World.
The new United States army rife
is remarkable evolution in small
arms since the old Springfield single
loader had its day. Practically twelve
years cover the period of the develop
ment, although the experience Of the
Spanish and Philippine wars has nat
ura]ly made the progress more rapid
since 1898 than before that time.
When the Krag was made the basis of
the army magazine rife there was
more or less criticism, but 1t was
poorly conceived. The Ordinance de-
partment has never regarded any
model as necessarily a fnality, but has
ever been bent on Improvements.
Consequently notifications have been
numerous and steady, and there is no
reason, why. with this constant appH-
cation Of experience and inventive ge-
MUS the United States service maya
zine rife should not be equal to any
In the world Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
What We're COMING To.

AS we have already transmitted fair.
~ recognizable pictures OF individuals
by wire we may be able, before long
to do the same thing without wires
Why not? And then for the wireless
polychromotelepantophonophotoscope
by which we can see everybody, hear
everybody, talk to everybody, when.
ever and wherever we please without
cost, anywhere on the surface Of the
globe. And then, hurrah for a short
trip to Mars just to initiate our chests
and show off!-Magazine OF Humor.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
Charity in ENGLAND.

Some idea Of the charitable DISPOSE
ton of the British people is found in
the report Of the charity commission.
ers, just issued. The total value Of In
vestments held by the official trustees
of charitable funds at the close Of
last year was e22,314,735, divided
into 22,798 separate grants. The ag-
gregate income from stocks, securities
and annuities aggregated e646,517 In
1902. During the three-quarters end
ing Dec. 81, 1901, 1.67O new charities
founded by will or deed came to the
notice Of the commissioners, involving
capital of G6,500,00O and upward.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-11
LAWYER MADE AN APOLOGY.
Revised the Opinion as to the Intellect
of the Court.


Some years ago there was an old
Judge on the bench IN Berks county,
Pa, whose decisions, in consequence
of numerous reversals did not always
command universal respect. One day,
In case In which he was sitting, one
of the lawyers lost patience at his IN.
ability TO see things in a certain light,
and in the heat of the moment re-
marked that the intellect Of the court
was so dark a flash OF lightning could
not penetrate it. For this contempt
the Judge showed a disposition to be
very severe with the offender, and it
was only after much persuasion by
friends of the latter that he yielded
and decided to accept public apol
-ogy. The following day. the lawyer,
accordingly, appeared, before his honor
and made amends by saying, II re-
greet very much that said the intel
lect of the court was so dark lightning
could not penetrate 1t. / guess it
could. 1t Is very penetrating thing"