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Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
KNEN SIjHURT
Latter Was the Same Fault Find
er lie Is TOday-Presidents
Just Rebuke.
Forty Years Ago the Shifting Politician
Was Regarded as Performing
Poor Part.
Nov. "a, 1862.

NV Dear Sir-I have just received
and read your letter of the goth. The
purport of it is that we lost the late
election and the administration is ran
ing because the war is unsuccessful
and that | must not 1atter myself that
am not Justly to blame for it. GER
toinIv know that if the war fails the |
administration fails, and that VIII De
blamed for it, whether deserve II OF
not And l ought to be blamed If
couId do better You think / could do
better. therefore you blame me already.
l think | could not do better, therefore
I blame YOU for blaming me. under
stand Won now to be willing to accept
/ tbe helm of men who are not RepuDllc-
/ ans. provided they have heart III IT,
Agreed. l want no others. But VINO
is TO be the judge of hearts or OF
..beort in it?" If l must discard my
own Judgment and take yours, l must
also take that of others, and by the
time I should reject all should be ad-
vised 70 reject l should have none lett
Rsniiblicans or Others-nOt even your
saff For be assured. my dear sir
there are men who have heart in II
that think you are performing your
mart as poorly as you think l am per-
forming mine. / certainly have been
dissatisfied with the slOwness of Buell
and Mcclellan. but before l relieved
them l had great fears l should NOT
find successors to them who could dobet
tor and l am sorry to add that nave
soon little since to relieve those fears.
1 do not clearly see the prospect o.
anv more rapid movements. Iea
we shall at last find out that the dim
cultv is in our case rather than in par
ticular generals. wish to disparag'
no one-certainly not those who sym
na+bize with me-but 1 must say
naad success more than l need sym
i na+bv. and that l have not seen the $
!. n,ucb greater evidence of getting su'
~ cess from my sympathizers than iroi
II those who are denounced as the col
trorv If does seem to me that in III
: fold the two classes have been yer
:, much alike in what they have don
: and what they have failed to do. /
- sooling their faith with their bloo
n Baker and Lyon and BoAlen and Rlc
70 ordson. Republicans, did all that ms
~ could do. but did they any more th'
so Kearnv and Stevens and Reno al
in Mansfield. none of whom were kepu
90 licans and some at least of whom ha
in been bitterly and repeatedly denouhc
,ot to me as secession sympathizers
rIv will not perform the ungrateful task
as comparing cases Of failure. 49,
an In answer to your question: ii
ec- If not been publicly stated in the neV
of papers, and apparently proved as
trv fact that from the commencement
ore the war the enemy was contlnua
civ sunplied with information by some
i've tbe confidential suoOrdinates OF as
riff nortant an officer as Adjutant Gene
mo- Tbomas?" / must say No as tar
vas INV knowledge extends. And l
rec that if you can give any tangible
? of dence upon the subject l will tina
Won 10 come to this city and DO
, Very truly your friend,
). WY A. LINCOLl
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
Cleveland Not President In Fiscal
Year of 1892.


washington dispatch to the New YORK
Tribune.l
Amazement is expressed here at the
blunders made by Henry G. Davis IN
his letter accepting the Democratic
nomination for vice president. The
most striking are his selection OF the
fiscal year 1892 as one Of the years OF
the Cleveland administration and his
quotation of the total and per capita
expenditures of that year for purposes
of contrast with those Of the hscai
wear 1904. President Cleveland was not
elected until November, 1892, four
months after tic close OF the nscal
wear which MIR. Davis selects as sam
ple of his administration. and was not
inaucurated until March 4, 1898, al
most the close of the fiscal year OF
1898. so that the first fiscal year OF his
term. properly speaking, was that OF
1894. 1t is pointed out that by select
ing the third year of the Harrison ad-
ministratiOn he secured an advantage
of 500. 100000 difference in the total
expenditures of the government ana
difference of 13 cents in the per CAPITA
expense. Mr. Davis also utterly fails
70 show the increase of expenditures
of the Cleveland administration over
those of the preceding Republican ad-
ministration and leaves it to De IN
ferred by the inattentive reader that
increases in the expenditures are coin
cident with Republican rule.
Mr.. Davis reiterates the usual cam
naign fulminations against trusts, Du
does not suggest a remedy. he was
nrobably restrained from prescribing
2 the Republican remedy of federal pros
e ecution of contracts in restraint o
4 trade by the Albany Democratic pia'
form and the assurances Of Parker
managers that the presidential candl
. date will hold that federal prosecute
of corporations chartered by the stat
. is vocation of the constitution l
! fact If is remarked. Mr. Davis follow
, his arraignment of the trusts WIN
= paragraph on violations of the Col
% stin1tion. apparently intended to +
assure any timorous contributors
Ie the Democratic campaign fund.
u u Mr.. Davis charges Of extrayagan'
~ against Republican administrator
~ have not even the merit of origlnaht
y having all been uttered by Judge ia
le ker in more amplifed form and
ne fpct1allv disproved by the sound thih
rs ers and experienced economists VINO
80 attention was called to them by II
" ker's letter of acceptance.
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
P. W.&B. RAILROAD
DgLAW RB DIVISION.

on and amer July. 2. 1894, traias will leave
~ follows:
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
n.o,..,,on Makes No monopoly.

Protection Makes NO moH"bNAF'
rE7ron, the Iron and Steel Association Bull
letin.l
ProtectiOn has not established III tills
country any manufacturing or other
,nononolv. The express and telegraph
comnanies. the sleeping car companies
+bo railroad companies themselves IN
oIvdin- the electric and street car COM
nonies the gas and electric light com
paries in towns and cities and every
p+ber aggregation Of capital to when
exclusive privileges are granted OF Sc
o,,rod nv legislation. are in their very
nature monopolies, but none OF these
--o have snecifcally mentioned is IN
onv way protected by tariff duues'
Tha only manufacturing monopoly III
tho supplv of American markets tha'
we have ever known to be properly
oborreable to our tariff legislation was
the welsh tin plate monopoly, now nap
nilv ended. which for decade after dec
sde absolutely controlled the supply o.
tin mates to the people of our country
and the prices at which they WeI'
sold but that was a foreign monopoI
and not a creatron of our protecuV.
no,i,.v For years and years our tarii
iorisiation fostered this foreign nc
nopoly by means Of low duties II wa
olyovs defended by American IRE
+r,ders It was the protective tarlh G
,ooo ,,,bich brought it to an end.
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
PINCHED THE VETERANS.
How the Democrats EeohOiniAe"
when They Had a Chance

When They hhu
rF5itorial in the New York tribune Ne''
H. 1885
The Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary Oh
+ba interior. has sent in his estimates
for the next fiscal year, ending June
On 1s05. wherein he makes 1t appear
that in his opinion an aggregate Vi
s176779. .134.26 is needed for the sever
oI branches of the public service uh,
der his control. He seems solhe"ila'
nroud of the fact that this is ae-
prease from last year of S3,3os'496. ls'
tho to,.l then being S1SO,OsI '63O. IA
Pnt he omits to call public attention
20 IN. suggestive fact that he gets All
and more than all of his apparent saw
ing ont of the pension bureau. his es'
Inmates show a decrease for pensions
of s5.O0O.OOO Further than that' Ut
w.nts an increase of S1.OOO,OOO for eA
omiuing surgeons, 100000 for cierS
bira and 100000 for expenses OF IN
yestiration. This is a total of Sl'4UO'
ana which he must have in order u
,ut down the pensions to the extent 0
s5 100000. and the secretary propose
- D,oI,e the Old soldiers pay 1t all.
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28

ever to that plank in the Republican
platform which his running mate,
Davis, sa: created a race issueT The
solid south is being kicked and cuffed
into the support of Parker upon the
ground that he differs from Roosevelt /
on the negro question. Before the
south is dragOoned into voting for the
New Yorker and against her own son,
hers in blood and sympathy and death |
less devotion. ought not the New York
er to be compelled to speak on this
ouestiOn? >
when Dave Hill. Pat McCarren and
August Belmont finished their work
the Democratic bosses were so nearly
nude that had it been personal mat
ter rather than political they could
have been indicted for notorious act
of public indecency.' Able statesmen
had undressed themselves in public.
And now they are furiOusly angry with
me because am renewing the struggle
which they abandoned. They resent
the fact that some one else should try
to do that which they were not willing
to try to do.
Parker's Trust Advisers.
"They went to st. Louis with princi-
ples; they came back without them.
They were clay in the hands of the
Pat NcCarrens of Standard Oil, Bel
mont of the Louisville and Nashville
and German of the sugar trust. The
very first speech of the campaign was
! Inv Gnnnfnr Rn1lnV
of Texas under the auspices OF the
Standard Oil company lobbyist, Pat
, McCarren. The chosen advisers Of Mr
| Parker are the men who led for the
, trusts and corporations when the tax
= payers were looted during Cleveland
q second administration. From German
< who reeks with the fOulest trust leSls
t Iation for twenty years, to Carlisle
+ who wrote the sugar schedule at tn
a dictation of the sugar trust, and Bel
| mont of the secret midnight bond dea
n down to Olney, who, in effect, advises
q the too willing Cleveland to lend III
n United States army to the Pullma
a Palace Car company in Chicago, til
, notorious old band of boodlers AT
o- there
r Every line of the platform seems
is be in a tremble lest it should displeas
q. the beneficiaries of class Legislation
% Every tone of its quaking voice seen
N to say to the corporations, Don't |
at afraid; l won't hurt you With Il
70 anxious fear of Snug, the joiner
~ 'Afidsummer Nights Dream the a
parent lion kindly dissipates the te'
of his audience by assuring them
advance that its roar is only for stai
-, purposes"
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28

| lri
lOrtnts
Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28

ma ~ EDalIV eNCtpI oNHUHI'
'NrTy CASTLE ACeOMMoDATION TRAIN 8. =
1 aags WILMINGTON 7.S7, S.2S am, Soi, Arl,
: Ss n 'ns' week days. Leave New Castle Ssh
. 81 II D2 a m, 2,S2, 6.4l p.lsi. week days.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

people who were not in sympathy
with us, and gradually it went
down until today only a few faith
ful ones are there. They keep up
regular meeting monthly by
Bro. r. d. Chinn, a worthy and
able preacher of the gospel.
In conclusion I will say that a
very large majority of our churches
in Boone, Galloway and Au-
drain counties are in a good
healthy condition, as far as | know
and Pm sure | know as much
about them as some others. All
have goodschurch property and
are not in debt. Nearly all have
regular monthly preaching, and
have no thought of giving up the
ship. | would like to know what
the brethren &about it. Speak
up, Brethren.
w. II. Hook.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28
Back to the Farm.

One of the distinct features of
the age is the tendency to return
to agriculture, comments the st.
Louis Chronicle. Where few
years ago the farmer boys were
rushing to the cities to crowd the
professions, there is now decided
move in the other direction. The
natural reaction that must always
follow a movement so radical in
some measure, accounts for the
disposition to return to the soil for
a livlihood, but there is more.
The agrieulturalist has become a
professional man, The college
and the university have added a
special course for his benefit, and
gives him a degree. He is a bot
anist aud a chemist, and science
has taught him to take in the iad,
ed and worn-Out farm, aud will
intelligence cause it to blossom
like a rose.
The dispiriting labor which ben
the forms Of the elders and SEN
the lads seurrying cityward has
been lightened by devices that bet
ter accomplish the end sought.
The long hours are short ended
and the farmer finds time to in
dulge in the enioyments Of life
This new condition, added to tn
fascination Of Independence. ha
turned men from other profession
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

Harry Hawes came out of the
Jefferson City convention a bigger
man than when he entered it-big-
ger because at last he has thrown
his magnetic personality and power
of organization into the cause
against Doodle; he waited till
the critical time. He had tested
the full Folk strength, and it ran
up to $50 votes, and then before
the result could be announced
moved that the nomination be
made unanimous.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

The ladies of the Nj. II. church,
South, gave a social in the parlOrs
of the church Friday night, that
the new members of the cOngrega
ton might meet and get better ac-
quainted with the other members.
Literary exercises were given and
light refreshments were served. 1t
was a very pleasantly spent hour
to all present.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

The Columbia Herald remarks:
The Fulton city council, at its last
meeting, raised the license fee for
saloons from 81, 500 to $4,000 a
year. The vote was unanimous in
the council and came as com.
plete surprise to the saloon men,
all of whom have paid the increas-
ed fee. Fulton claims the dis.
tinction Of being the original high
license town.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

John Barker, who left Mexico a
couple of years since for Colfax,
Wash, writes to have his MES
SAGE sent to him at 2OOs Spofford
Ave, Spokane, Wash, in which
city he has secured a position as
manager and buyer of gents fur
nishing goods for one of the larg-
est retail stores in the place. Says
he is sure he will like Spokane, as
it is an up-to-date city, having
65, 600 inhabitants. Says he ean't
get along without the MESSAGE;
considers it the newsiest paper in
Audrain county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

A Sunday school picnic train
having run into Illinois, and many
killed, it is now proposed to call
upon the Legislature of that state
to regulate the running of excur-
sion trains. 1t is quite wondrful
how little forethought resides in
the American mind. Not until
after the Iroquois theatre horror
was it thought necessary to make
theatres safe; not until the burn
ing of the SlOcum was it deemed
necessary to have steamships prop
erly inspected, and not until after
a train load of Sunday school chill
dren have burned up, is any move
made for the saftey of excursion,
lists by rail
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

DR.. E. A. Hicks, son of Mrs. ia
cob Berry of near Mexico, who
for some time was located at
Greenwood, Miss, but who this
spring completed n course in med
icine at Louisville, Ky, has To-
Gated in Mexico for the practice of
medicine and is established with
DR.. NJ. +. Crawford. The Mes
SAGE is glad to have DR.. Hicks To-
cate in our city. We hope to see
him get a large share of the public
patronage. Crawford & Hicks
makes a strong firm.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

G. w. Lewis large barn on his
farm three miles north of Mexico
caught fire in some mysterious
way last Wednesday night, July
20, and burned TO the ground. No
live stock in the barn, as it hap
pened, but vehicles, farming i'm
plements, harness, and some
amount Of grain destroyed. The
loss is over $1,000. Insurance,
5000,
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

A good looking young lady Civ
ing her name as Mrs. Anna
Smith recently visited Monroe
City representing an Orphans
home said to be located at Joplin
and carried away some $25 worth
of the portable wealth of the chari-
tably inclined people of Monroe
who from information since re-
ceived are inclined to think that
ANNA" is the only orphan that
the donated currency is likely to
benefit, and the next orphans
home agent that drops into Mon
roe City will likely have a chilly
reception until he, or she, as the
case may be, demonstrates beyond
the shadow of a doubt that he OF
she is the genuine article.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

We find the following item in
the Monroe City Democrat: Hon.
w. T. Ragland returned Tuesday
from business trip at Midland,
Tex. Mrs. Hugh NJ. Clark was
no better, in fact, when Mr.. Rag.
land left they had taken her to a
sanitarium at Fredonia, Kas.
where a sister, Mrs. Locke of
Mexico, met her.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

VIM. Kleine, a negro, whose
home was at Fayette, who was
tagging for the G.. & a. railroad,
run over by the cars this side of
Rush Hill last Saturday morning.
1t is said that he sat down on the
track and went to sleep. He was
struck by the passenger train due
in Mexico going west at 9:22. The
body was brought to Mexico and
an examination was made aud an
inquest held, Almost every bone
in his body was broken and death
evidently resulted almost instanta,
neously. Justice w. r. Dudley
conducted the inquest aud the ju.
ry was composed Of j. O. Givens,
F. A. Mitchell, r. s, Norris. S.
M. Nolan, Elmer Reed and J K
Greer
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

The Southern Methodist church
at Hobart, Oklahoma, certainly
has h proper idea of what it stands
for. 1t was damaged by fire and
the insurance company allowed the
trustees 81, 800 for repairs.
The repairs cost 81, 900 and
the church returned 5000 to
the insurance company. Must be
some religion in that church.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28
ViSiOnarieS And Their Hobbies
'When Men Forgot That Jehovah Wrote, Thou
Shalt Not SteaI.'" - ~ g -

Hon. W. II. Wallace, a broth
er of Rev. A. A. Wallace of Mex.
leo, and who year since was Il
prominent candidate for United
States Senator from Missouri, in
his speech nominating j. w. Folk
for Governor at Jefferson City last
week said;
In this regretable emergency in
our public affairs-and to which
thank heaven, the Democratic par
ty has been equal arise to place
in nomination for this high office
man who has dared incessantly
to prOmulgate, in the face of much
criticism and opposition, the no.
BILE doctrine of civic righteousness.
His enemies have constantly charg-
ed that he was stale person,
wearying his countrymen with
the dull mOnotony of a single idea.
They have sought to injure him in
the esteem of the people by refer
ring to him as "a man with a
hobby"
But these unjust critics have
not read the life of this old world
of ours Alright. The greatest ben
efactOrs to the human race have
been men absorbed with a single
idea. John the Baptist, with his
raiment of camel's hair and his
leather girdle. stood by the banks
of the Jordan constantly proclaim
ling one idea-the preparation for
the coming of the Prince of Peace
Il am his senior in years,
know, aud the frosts are begin.
ming to cluster somewhat about my
temples, but l take off my hat,
hold it high in the air, l cheer thi.
yOnng man from st. Louis with I
hobby, and who in these lax po,
litical times of ours has possessed
the moral courage to preach thu
lofty gospel of civic righteousness
of good government and official in
tegrityf
when men forget that mids
thunderings and lightnings Je
, hOvah, with His own hand, wrot
the words, Thou shalt not steal
when they pillage, plunder, rob
burn, bribe, sell their souls 70
money, Liberty regards the com
mission of their crimes as an as
. sault upon her own existence, an,
she demands their punishment a
: the hands Of the law. Thus ha
been evolved the great truth t
which attention is now being ealle
/, that the maintenance Of orderl
government, the preservation lo
. the life Of liberty herself, depend
. n "A
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

Senator Biggs and Tom Pearson
both tell the MESSAGE that when
"Ruhe"Oglesby was nominated for
Railroad Commissioner, Bronough
giving the way for that crippled
boy, it created the widest scene
of any happening in the conyen,
tion. Oglesby's sweetheart, Miss
Houts, was held aloft by strong
aud brawny arms-whether she
was a little embarrassed at first OF
not-and men shouted and Older
men fell into tears and reached for
their handkerchiefs. The nomin-
alton was not thought of, most
likely, as intended for rebuke on
the Supreme Court. The cOnven
ton in giving the nomination t
Oglesby yielded to some passion
even to septimentalitywbat,as an
other has remarked, such eondi
tons are close % the plain peopl
and always can be trusted
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

No man in Missouri, no man in
America, has done more for the
triumph of this sublime principle
than the young prosecutor whom [
am nominating Many prosecu-
tors have bOasted of the number of
their cOnvictiOns-Of the number
of scalps dangling at their belts,
but often when their work has
been analyzed it is found that
their victims come exclusively from
that great class that is always with
us, the poor, the friendless, the
unfortunate, the outcasts, the
hopeless and helpless along the
wide highway of life. Never at
any time have they taken their
lives in their hands in the enforce
ment of the law. Never have they
hazarded their political fortunes by
cOnvicting criminals with wealthy.
powerful or numerous friends.
Never have they dared to attack
that excrable shape that is begin
ming of late years to raise its head
in America, that grim monster
that comes at last to despoil a
free peOple-crime in high places.
Not so with the prosecutor
am nominating for governor.
Mammon loaded his minions
down with the booty Of plumber,
treachery and bribery. He pano-
piled them with a rich aud thick
armOr, cleaning with silver aud
gold, but the intrepid lance of this
quiet, dauntless Young knight
found its way thru their harness.
! The revolving door of the peniten-
tiOry has already turned upon
some and justice is demanding that
many more shall follow. / do not
believe that have cruel heart
but | have witnessed so often the
lash of the law falling unerringly
on the backs nf the peuniless and
the friendless; / have seen the
widows son led away with such
certainty to his punishment; L
have beheld the poor Ignorant ne
gro in whose black arms was en-.
swathed wheE a child, convicted
so regularly by Republicans and
Democrats alike, that am re-
joiced to be assured that liberty
still reigns, that justice still reigns.
| that justice is still blind, aud that
those who are clad in purple aud
} fine linen and fare sumptuonaly ay-
cry day may also be convicted
T and punished by the courts Of
{ Grand Old Missouri
! " ! aln reipiced also "a he Ear.
fen,sr.i .,.. W
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

A. G. Butts of Mt. Carmel, this
county, is said to be "A man who
farms in the spring and summer,
makes brick in the fall and when
winter comes he takes a musical
organization composed of his own
family on a little tour over the
country.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

In the w. G.. 4. L. column of
the Piueville Democrat appears the
statement that there are 1000 con-
victs in the Missouri peniten-
tiary who were sent there as re-
suit of drinking, Only 10 per cent,
it is stated, were fully sober when
they committed their crimes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

A city girl, visiting near Mex
leo, saw her country aunt putting
baking powder into the bread
dough the other day and asked;
uWhat is that auntie3" "Bakiug
powder" replied her aunt, "Oh"
said the girl in surprise, "then
YOU don't use the oven for
baking any morei"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

A hay wagon loaded with youn G
people from town last Wednesday
evening went out to the country
home of Victor Wayne, south of
Mexico. They had a big romp
and an enjoyable time. Got back
just before the curfew rang on
them.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

The Bowling Green Times states
that Rev. Don w. Nichols, who
formerly served Methodist
churches in Audrain county but who
since 1888 has been Il missionary
in China, will in the future be
located in st. Louis in the interest
of foreign missions.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-28

Gilmore Bros, in Burke neigh
borhood, are feeding drove OF
fat cattle at an expense of ten dol
lars a day which stock they in
tended to ship two weeks ago but
for the strike among the butchers
in the big cities.