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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
OBJECT LESSON.

The small Democratic MAORI
ties in and out side Of Kentucky
have with them a significance
The people viii not stand fol
questionable methods OF bad mer
behind Wholesome principles.
Speaking for Kentucky, we have
not been careful as to the men who
should representDemocrsticpr inci-
pies. w. P. Thorne. the present
Lieutenant. Governor, could get
I'D an 'enrousenment and take
men off their feet but behind it all
was lacking the man that gives
tone and dignity. When the OPP
portunity came Thorne brought
shame and disgrace to the high
position by giving liberty to the
brute that would dehle the virtue
of his own child. Such mistakes
on the part Of Republicans may be
tolerated for awhile but never by
Democrats and the sooner the
party rids herself Of such a char
acter in high places the better.
The question concerning the peo-
pie is: Have we a Senate that is
willing to be governed by Mr..
Thorne as their speaker. The
people would ask hir. I nor nc &c 80
send in his resignation and If Mr..
Thorne would escape humiliation
he had best retire from the Lieu
tenant Governorship. Democrats
must put out only her best men if
they would maintain high moral
standard. Men must man the
party who have nerve to go up
against wrong and down it. There
should be no compromise with
methods, with wrong
principles and immoral standard
bearers.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
THE SCRAP COMING.

mo Third Timers, says Presi-
dent Roosevelt. This declaration
may be startling to some Of the
officehoders but it must be re-
membered that while the President
has acknowledged his gratitude to
the American people for their ex-
preston Of conhdencehe is the man
to carry out his word. He will
not himself be a candidate for a
third term neither will he be a
party to having third termers un
der him. This declaration will re-
vlve the Unsuitable thirst for office
and the wholecountry will be astir
with applicants for appointive po-
sitions, and the true metal of in
dividuals will be revealed.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
NO ROOM FOR TRUST-AP-
PROVED "CONSERVA-
TISM" IN THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY.
CRATIC PARTY

The Democratic party is being
counseled as to its future by many
advisers, some wise, some foolish.
The party's true course is suf-
hciently plain to all men Of sense
and conscience.
1t has been routed because it was
not faithful to its principles. 1t
has been punished for seeking to
make friends with its natural enc
mics, the trusts.
The duty Of the Democratic
party, as well as its obvious poll
cy, is to return to Democratic
ground-AND STAY THERE.
Fear is being expressed-gener-
ally in the organs OF the Sane
and Safe" statesmen who are re-
sponsible for Tuesdays wreck
that as a result Of the smashup the
party will swing away from ICON
servatism" and become radical. :"
Their fear is justified. The
Democracy has had enough OF
Conservatism to last it for a gen
eration-Gorever, let us hope.
The Democratic party has no
right to be in any degree "con-
sentative in the sense meant by
these disqualified advisers and dis
credited critics.
1t has no right 10 attempt to
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16

We would have all conserva-
lists, religious, political, moral and
others, to read the editorial in this
issue which we have taken from
the Chicago Examiner. To be
conservative is to yield the empha-
sis of a correct principle and to
give way in a measure to error.
No man can afford to be a party
in the PRONUNCIATION of a wrong
principle. He must be combata-
tive and radical in an effort to
eradicate it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
"Fhe Seeds Of DespOtism.

In his great speech at Louisville
KY, on October goth William Jen-
nings Bryan said:
"My friends, four years ago we
quoted q rrorhesy of Abraham
Lincoln. He said the perpetuitY OF
this country was not in its armies,
it's forts or powers; it was in the
spirit that prizes liberty as the her
ltage of all people in all lands every
where; he said destroy this spirit
and you plant the seeds of despot-
ism at your own doors We quoted
this four years ago, and some peo-
pie could not see. They thought
the Pacific Ocean was so wide that
the seeds of despotism could never
float across. 1t has only been four
years, and yet the seeds of despot-
ism have come and they fell in Col
orado and there you have a Repub-
lican Governor who has been sus-
pending the Constitution and de
porting laboring men without in
dictment, trial or evidence, and we
cannot condemn Peabody without
condemning our own Government
that for six years has been doing
the same thing in the Philippine
Islands and denying constitutional
liberty 20 the FilipInos there"
The seeds of despotism in this
country were not blown across the
Pacific Ocean. They were planted
here by the men who founded a.
government ''of the people, by the
people, for the people," and then
denied constitutional liberty" to
one half the people.
When American men care so lit
tie for the constitutional rights of
American women as to allow women
to be classed with idiots, lunatics,
criminals and minors, you cannot
expect them to regard the consti-
tutional rights of the laboring man
or the Filipino. There is no
stranger spectacle than that of men
like Bryan and Elk Senator Ed
munds, of Vermont, party leaders,
Democrats and Repub-
licans alike, hunting around for
"the seeds of despotismp in the
negro question, the labor question.
and the PHILIPPINE question, when
those seeds have lain for more than
q eentur, in the heart Of what we
call the woman question.
Ida CALVERT OBENcHAIN
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
DEMOCRATIC TICKET,

county Judge,
A. a. HAZELRIGG
county Attorney.
CLARENCE r. THOMAS.
sounty CLERK.
JOHN ?. EISG
sserif,
CLIFTON K. PREwITT
As-e-sor,
G. a. MCCORMICK.
CHAs. T. WILSON.
Superintendent u School,
NJ. GOODwIN.
Coroner.
GEORGE g. EASriN.
uari.trate-lst District.
VT. FITZPATRICK.
Nagisirate-sd District.
J. ". HENRY.
NsRi.trate-sd District.
CT. DEAN.
nazistrate-lth District
J. II. sHULTL,
Magistrate 9Th District,
tn. PERRY.
Constable-Ist District
ALBERT REED.
Constable-sd District.
RUFUS sTOCKDALE.
Csrstaile-5d District,
II. KIHBREII-
Constable-4th District,
J. ". OLDFIELD.
Constable-5th District
MARCUS JUDGE.
Councilmen-lst Ward,
AN. BOURNE
G. d. SULLIVAN.
Councilmen- % Ward.
T. b. RODMAN.
wv. WADE.
Couneilmen-lth Ward,
". o. COCKRKLI-
WILLIAM Bolts.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16

1t is said the Presidency of Har-
ward University has been rendered
to President Roosevelt, the duties
to begin with March, 1909, and
that the President is favorably i'm
pressed with the offer. THE man
on horseback" would have new
order OF things at Harvard, sure.
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ple
1t IS the.fundamentaI duty of TIL
Democratic party to be radical il
assailing wrong.
The Oil Trust wants the De
mocracy to be conservative.
The Beef Trust wants the De
mocracy to be conservative.
The Coal Trust wants the De
mocracy to be Conservative
All those business Interests
which are not business interests at
all, but piratical interests. want the
Democracy to be Conservative. =
The aim Of the plundering trusts
has been to reduce the Democratic
party to a conservative" servi-
tude-to make it nationally what
it is in Pennsylvania, where it is a
mere attachment to the Republi-
can party, and its organization can
not be employed by the people
when they seek to strike at their
despoilers and oppressors.
The American masses demon
strated or Tuesday how much re-
spect and liking they had for a
conservative" Democratic party.
Douglas was not elected elected Gore.
nor of Republican Massachusetts
because he was Conservative"
Those who approve a "conser-
vatism" which is good for the priv
legged and bad for the people are
not Democrats. They belong in
The Republican party, and will do
Democracy, REAL Democracy. a
service by going there.
The greatest need Of the repub-
lie today is an aggressive and we'll
organized radical party-a party
devoted to INTELLIGENT PROGRESS.
Tuesdays tremendous Republi-
can sweep has made it certain that
the republics greatest need will be
supplied.
Henceforward the Democratic
party, taught by gigantic defeat
the consequences of attempting to
Republicanize itself, will be radical
in its spirit and its proposals-pa-
triotically and wisely radical.
1t will be radical in its demand
for the destruction Of the criminal
trusts.
1t will be radical in its demand
that the protection Of the tariff
shall be taken away from industrial
which openly rob
the American citizen by charging
him higher prices for their products
than they do the foreigner.
1t will be radical in its demand
for the enforcement Of the laws
against combinations in restraint of
trade.
1t will be radical in its demand
for an income tax in order that
wealth shall be made to bear its
rightful share Of the cost of gov
eminent.
1t will be radical in fighting in
trenched privilege in the interest
of the unprivileged.
Radicalism OF this kind is the
truest conservatism.
The American people will not
submit in perpetuity to the rule Of
a predatory plutocracy.
AT the ballot box and through
the law government by and for the
trusts will be overthrown.
To accomplish this overthrow
progressive action in the
whole peoples interest-that is
the mission Of the Democratic
party.
Tuesdays defeat of the Demo-
cratic party means that there is to |
be mighty revival Of Democratic
ideas in the United States-the
spontaneous uprising Of a party
which will mean things and do !
things for the people, party that
will apply the undying principles
Of Jefferson to twentieth century
political and economic conditions. |
This party, the Democratic par
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
udge Alton Parker IS out

Judge Alton Parker is out of
politics. We believe it because it
comes from two reliable sources
one from Mr.. Parker himself and
the other from the people Of the
United States themselves.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR STATE SENATOR.

FOR STATE SENATOR.
We are authorized 70 announce
c. B. ECTOS.
81 the County of Clark, a candidate for state
senator Of the district composed Of the counties
o. Bourbon, CLARK and Montgomery, subject 20
the action n the Democratic party.
We are authorized 10 announce
CHARLES SWIFT,
Of the County 81 Ciarl. n candidate fCT state
Senator Of the disfr ct composed ~ the counties
OF Bourbon. CLARK aud Mont gomeiy, subject 20
the action 81 the Democratic party.
We are authorized to announce
Hon. a. j.. THOMSON,
OF CLARK county. candidate for stale senator
n the district composed Of CLARK. Bourbon and
Montgomery counte-. subject 90 the action Of
the Democratic party.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16

Metal lamps are the newest in
style. Large stock at Chenault &
Orear. 2t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
CnARLEs SWIFT,
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

We are authorized 10 announce
j. WILL CLAY
a candidate for the Legislature in The 00th Dis
tIIct composed AZ the counties Of Montgomery
and Meneiee. subject 10 the action u the Demo-
cratic party 30 tine prn airy % be held Noyem-
Der 18th. 1904.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-11-16
TERMS OF ANNOUNCEMENT:

w-Cash must accompany order No an
soussement inserted until paid FOR.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
STATE cATITAL ON WHEELS.

Only a few years ago Yanktou
was the capital Of all North and
South Dakota. When established as
sgch was in the center of population
81 this vast territory, OF nearly so.
When Dakota was deyidod into
tyo states the people Of North
Dakota located their capital at Bis
marc5 tae territorial center. The
people 81 South Dakota located
ther al Pierre, the territorial cen
ter. Neither place at the time was
ass near .he center of population as
the people looked to the future
r@eale1.og that Che states were youns
anl u1deyelopod and lhe question
ct removal would never have been
seriously entertained bat for the
machination 81 town lot boomers
THE Nor,h Dakota man who would
agitase capital removal from Bis.
marck would be laughed at. Ano
Bismarek IS furth ca from the pres.
ent center 81 population in Nortl
( Dakota than Pierre IS from the cen.
ter Of population IN south Dakota.
" thin a few years Pierre VIII bf
the center Of. popuiation as well a.
the geographical center of South
Dakota
Removal Of the capital to Mitchell.
az the southeast, would mean anothel
capital removal fight in the neal
future.
With the bulk Of the populatior
g the north and west of Mitchell
removal would be accomplished
and the people would pay the bill.
Of the second removal, IS they vii.
have to pay the bills Of removal t.
Mitchell in the improbable event
that q majority votes Yes at the
election next month
Removal to Mitchell at this time
would mean removal back to tht
north aud west in a few years With
the people footing the bills. Aber.
deem News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

dollar for his labor in building the
grade, and every nah dollar for dol
lar for every acre of land in the
right-of-way
They own it today and stand
ready to turn it over to any respon
siblc company that viii equip and
Operate it. They built no paper
road by newspaper advertisements
Of a couple Of week before election.
They put up 100000 in actual
work.
Contrast this with the paper rail
rord building Of today Contrast it
with anything Mitchell has ever
done to deyelope anything except
town lots.
The grade is in tact today. Title
to the right-of-way is perfect in the
people OF Pierre. Some day, soon
or lare, this grade will be irOued and
cars viii be running upon it.
The railroad milaege of this county
pays a snug sum into the treasury
for taxes. If nothing more good
comes Of it nothing in the way Of
commerce or trade the operation
of the Pierre grade will help pay
the taxes in Brown and the other
counties through which it runs. 1t
never will be ironed if the capital is
removed. Aberdeen News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
BE SURE TO VOTE.

There are those who thine that
some way or other only those votes
that may be cast in favor of capital
removal viii be necessary that it is
required that the yes" must muster
a certain amount Of strength in
order to be effective, and that it viii
not be necessary for the NO" TO be
recorded.
There are two candidates in this
contest Mr.. Eyes" and no"
The former is Mitchelrs candi-
date, and the latter is Pierre'a caudi
date.
For the capital to remain at
Pierre, Mr.. "No" must secure a mai
GRITTY of the votes cast upon the con
.stitutional amendment relating to
capital removal.
Therefore, every friend Of Pierre,
and every voter opposed to the damn
able SANDERS which Mitchell has
emitted against two-thirds of the
state, and every voter who is opposed
to causing the state the loss Of mil
lions of dollars in the value of lands,
aud every voter who is opposed to
an increase in taxes must put a "X'
at the left Of the word "No" on the
the special ballot ON which the cap
ital question is submitted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03


center OF agriculture m"eh Iur'her
toward the Facihc COST tne last
census placing II IN ILLINOIS, "h'cn
state within the memory Of men no"
living was " part OF 'he p~Ll'ne'a'
wilderness
Because we are proud oil ana io'e
south Dakota p resen' 'n't "hlch
detracts from hef glory az no"'e OF
abroad.
Because we ahhoIe sectional as
cord winch inc removal program mas
developed
Because we kno" 'aa' tns 'nLam-
GUS 'aIsehoods which have been
leaPed upon the western man q 'he
state bear mo more semoiahne OF
truth 'ii@A ana similar oeulolc.a'lon
Of the easter" H'ii by OUTSIDERS 'A
me carrier gays
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
RAILROAD

AL
Pierre showed her Willingness and
ability to do something when she
put 100000 into a railroad grade
bet ween this city and Pierre.
4 When the Pierre people put their
money into this venture they had
assurances from President Cakes,
of fhe Northern Pacific that he
would take the grade of their hands
iron, equip and run it. Within a
few months after the Pierre had
completed their part Of the deal
President Cakes was ousted from
the Northern Pacific and the whole
thing fell through.
This was no fault of the people of
Pierre, They did their part. No
people could do more.
Today they own the grade and
way clear through from
Aberdeen to Pierre. s.4
They paid every man dollar for
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

One by n the legs on which
MitcheIl's campaign sPraddled Itself
have been knocked from under it.
In tile beginning a great effort was
70 ridicule Pierre's natural gas sup
ply but the evidence Of the thous-
ands OF capital city visitors from
every county east Of the Missouri
has lopped off that leg from the
knockers
Now comes the second volume Of
,he collections Of the State His
torieal society, bearing date 1904
which contains this statement:
The supply Of natural gas in the
older wells Of the state continues
tndiminished and the boundries Of
the field have been extended during
the year by the sinking Of two wells
ON the large ranch OF Dir. IL. e.
Hunter u Western Campbell county
ON the Missouri river Both these
wells afford a strong ITO" OF gas.
80 then, It seems that Harry
Hunter, who : the backbone OF
Aitchelis campaign, didn't believe
EEf a. A 10
any.ot the time IN any ot The stud
peddlea by the campaign. managers
attacking the supply OF natural gas
n Pierre's region.
Non does ne seemed to have
beiieved either N the utter barron
ness OF that region Tor he located
hls otg ranch therein, on which he
successfully raises small grain, corn
millet, etc, Why didn't he locate
somewhere IN the southeastern part
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
II coooWlN
i a worthy building.

it a worthy building.
Several hundred people have
settled west of TT. Pierre this SUM-
mer, and they had very good crops
in this vicinity and especially west
Of the river.
The river is low just now, have
crossed it twice this afternoon as !
had some business at 1T. Pierre.
The natural gas here is a fine
thing and the natural hot water
which zones from artesian wells is
another nice thing.
There is a lot Of cattIemen around
here and they are not anxious for
this country to settle up as they
want it for range. There are hun
dreds OF cattle and sheep here. /
saw some very nice fruit from west
of the river.
do not think there is any ques-
ton but what the capital will remain
here which certainly is the proper
place for it. / hear talk on the
streets that some parties are trying
to buy votes for Mitchell, but all
who come here are in favor of Pierre
even if they favored Mitchell before.
can not think of any more SO
will close with regards to all.
Yours very truly,
j. B. Anderson.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
AN OPEN LETTER.


The following is a letter from j.
B. Anderson who was formerally a
resident of Webster and many of
our people will remember him; he
now resides in Sisseton and owns
real estate in Day county. The
letter will explain itself:
Pierre, $. D.,Oct. 27, 1904.
G. J. Schultz.
Webster, 5. ID.
Dear Sir:
will tonight drop YOU a few
lines. | have been here several DAYS
and expect to remain until 4 a. IN.
Monday, when | will go to High
more.
Pierre has improved considerable
since my previous visit, and | find
a nice city with all modern conven-
fences. l was in the capitol build
ing today and heard Mr.. Lockhart
speak to an audience Of several
hundred people. l went through
this large capitol building and found
there everything necessary to make
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

Others have told you why The
Indedendeni IS for Pierre: but we
desire to submit a few supplemental
facts:
The independent is for Pierre
because it has unshakable faith in
South Dakota-.all OF South Dakota
Because the history Of our country
from Plymoth Rock to the present
hour is written in western progress,
Because the wild and woody
west" which the colonials saw toward
the setting sun. has become the
granery of the world.
Because each decade has seen the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
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a festi sane railroad man-
arted to hniid D rail-
great bgrrcl waste
.pss pgar terms are due. The
5l Use whieh the Mitchell
peJfle are frying 10 fool the voters
wi.l. the baldest rot intelligent
peol Ia aere yer asked % swallow
Canton News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

If YOU are in favor Of deyelope
ment, advancement and improve
meut Tor the whole state, you will
vote far Pierre for the capital BY
placing a cross before the word
NO" on your ballot next Tuesday
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
IOWA NEARBY DEpoptLATED

Mitchell organs argne that because
the counties west Of Pierre have
shown an enormouse increase in
the number Of cattle, these counties
must be sparsely settled Accord
ing % such an argument the state Of
Iowa must be nearly depopulated.
for the cepsus reports show that
Iowa is very close to The top in the
production oi stock -Seiby Record
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

Vote NO" on the capital removal
proposition and you viii be doing
the Milwaukee road a kindness as
the future viii demonstrate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
49, IN FAYoR OF PIERRE

A meeting of the Commercial
club, 81 Huron, in that city, October
~, adopted resolutions strangely fay,
oring Pierre IS against Mitchell for
the state Capital in the present con
test, also depreciating the alleged
abuse Of large sections Of the state
by Mitchell iii her mistaken cam
paign method.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

Nest week when it is too late to
decay them, il may be expected that
a lot OF stories viii be set aloat by
the supporters Of Mitchell that are
false. The safest way is to pay no
attention to the stories that are
spread just on the eve Of election.
The itchell people have had all
summer to spin their tale OF woe
and wbet has not been told is no.
been told is not worth telling.
Pierre is a sure winner and the
Mitchell MEN know il. and that is
why the restaurants and hotels
are over charging their visitors.
They realize their garftiag harvest
in about over.
No Pierre visitor has had a just
cause for any complaint about over
charging, In fact everyone oompli-
ments her upon the splendid way
che has handled the immense crowds
who have visited Pierre this season.
Canton News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03
H 70 N Capital Question

Vote NO" on the capital removal
proposition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-11-03

1t is but simple justice that the
capital should remain at Pierre,