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Mountain advocate., 1904-03-25
'The Widow" One of tbe Most Noted Writer'S OF the
Metropolitan Press, Turns Her Pen on
Legal Injustice in kentucky.

something should be done inn
mediately. The Federal govern
ment comes to the front to save
many lives in riots that are
against law. Cannot the govern
ment step in to protect this one
man from the sentence Of death,
when the sentence has been pro-
nounced after the evidence and
all Kentucky law could not prove
his guilt? The evidence is not
even circumstantial. Every cir
cumstance proved it an lmpos-
sibility that this man could be
the guilty man. Every circum-
stance almost named-did name
to every intelligent thinker-the
murderer.
LEGAL INJUSTICE.
One circumstance only went
against Caleb Powers, and that
circumstance-to us who live
among the strikers and rioters
in its worst impression, would
have shown a fearless and open
stand for protection for himself
and his party. Caleb Powers
came down from the mountains
with a regiment of armed"
mountaineers. They were called
THE Mountain Army" Caleb
Powers had spent year at West
Point. He did not bring these
men to fight but to petition the
Legislature. Every man carries,
or is likely to carry, a gun" in
his pocket in Kentucky, and at
this time in the fight for the
Governorship of the State guns
weresin sight in buildings and
outside pockets. This armed reg
iment of mountaineers was legit-
innate, but it was like a red flag
to a bull. 1t seemed either to
challenge or to incite fear. 1t
did both.
Caleb Powers was not con-
demned TO death for firing the
shot that killed Senator Gobel-
/ do not call this victim of a
cowardly assassin's bullet Gov
ernor," that point being the dis
puted point which caused the
political seething--though he died
Governor of Kentucky, an d
though am writing without
prejudice. Caleb Powers was
sentenced by the jury upon the
charge of being accessory before
the fact---in other words, con-
spirator. A conspirator is con-
sidered to work in secret.
The evidence in the Ken
lucky court failed to prove him
a mem Der of any conspiring board
except on the strength of his
military instinct, which made
him plan his campaign of petit
tion to the Legislature with an
openly armed regiment of men.
The hundreds or the thousands
of men were not arrested as con-
spirators, but the fact was used
as a prejudicial point. That guns
and ammunition were stacked in
the municipal buildings of the
Capital City, Frankfort: that
Senator Goebel himself went
about with a body-guard; that
there was talk of shooting Gov,
Taylor; talk of killing Senator
Goebel, that every man jack OF
a politician had. his artilley
cleaned and ready for action, anc
that frank, open, armed mill
tary protection showed a law
abiding and law-protecting dis
position, counted for ugh t
This regiment meant murder e
the ignorant and prejudiced an'
not warming or caution against
murder. Itwas "circumstantia
! evidence" and to the preju
diced, impulsive, unreasoning
Southern tropical mind itwaspro
conclusive. So Caleb Powers ha'
Mountain advocate., 1904-03-25
"TOWN TOPICS" ON CALEB POWERS.

HIS ISBlluclO DuCh W tuC ulOuli-
tains and was on his way to col
lect a milder looking crowd of
Republicans at the time of the
murder.
1t is not necessary for me to
go into the details of the claims
of the two men-Goebel and
Taylor---for the Governorship of
Kentucky; it is not necessary
for me to go into the bitterness
and hatred and prejudice of the
two political parties in Kentucky;
it is not necessary for me to go
into the details of the farcial
trials---the evidence that did not
prove, the prejudice that did not
convict. All of this has been
thrashed out in the newspapers.
But we of the North are also
prejudiced. Our courts may not
be under the control Of preju-
dice, but many of our news
papers are. The newspapers
throughout the country were in
clined against the armed-to-the-
teeth mOuntaineers. Somebody
should suffer for "a killing in
Kentucky" and the sentence to
death of Caleb Powers was in a
measure applauded. The acquit-
tai of Tillman in South Carolina
was condemned. We said the
Tillman acquittal was a dis
grace to the country. He was
proved a murderer. Here is a
man in Kentucky, condemned
to death, who has been proved
not a murderer, and has not been
proved a party to any conspir-
acy. If political conditions in
Kentucky have sentenced him,
why cannot political conditions
outside of Kentucky demand a
fair trial?
The leader of Democrats in
Kentucky was foully murdered.
A Republican was arrested. The
court was presided over by a
Democratic Judge. The officers
of the court were Democrats.
The jury that condemned to death
was composed of eleven Demo
Gratis and one Republican. In
military courts during the Span
lish- trouble when we
had in the field volunteer regi-
ments, Secretary Root ruled that
trials by court martial of offend
ers in the volunteer service should
be presided over by officers of
the volunteer regiment, that no
question of prejudice shoul d
arise. In Kentucky jury COM
posed, in this case, of Republi-
cans would have been as unfair
and as controlled by prejudice
as the jury composed of Demo-
Gratis. But should not such a
condition---where human life is
in the hands of the bitterly hat
ing, prejudiced people, where
the laws of the State are put to
farcial use---bring the case with
in the scope of the Supreme Court
of the United States? Can any
justice-loving citizen of the Uni
ted States read that speech of
Caleb Powers in his own defense
and not understand clearly that
crime of injustice has been
added to the crime of the Goe.
! bel murder?
This speach--which has beer
published in pamphlet form by
: l.. f. Sinclair, of Georgetown
{ Ky.-is said to be the greatest
speech known in the history o.
jurisprudence. The accompany
ing portrait Of this young man
thirty-two years old--shows char
acteristic features and expression
that go well with the strength
D and convincing facts which h
puts together in his speech. HI
{ speaks of himself in connection
with the different circumstance
: exactly as he would of anothe
!, man, only he speaks Of himsel
Mountain advocate., 1904-03-25
From Le1lngton sunday Leader.l


other champion in The Widow, "
a brilliant member of the editO-
rial staff of Town Topics, whose
letters to that noted New York
paper from Chickamauga, Tampa
and other camps during the Span
ish- war did much to
arouse the War Department and
the country to the deplorable
conditions existing there which
were exposing the volunteer SOL
diers to the ravages of disease.
"The Widow" has since visited
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines and her letters have given
pictures of conditions there that
have been universally admitted
to be faithful and valuable to the
general public and official author
tiles.
1t must indeed be gratifying
to poor Caleb Powers to find that
his cause has won the approval
of such noted writer's and jour
nails as Samuel Hopkins Adams
in McClure's Magazine, Harper's
Weekly and THE Widow" in
Town Topics. 1t is an interest
ing coincidence that Harper's
Weekly has had strong Demo
cratic leanings for twenty years
and is controlled by one of the
leading Democrats of the East;
that Mr.. Adams says he is and
always has been a Democrat, and
that Town Topis is owned and
edited by an unreconstructed
Confederate Democrat from Ala
bama, whose Democracy is so
much a part of his being that it
oozes out all over his popular
weekly publication, nOtw h.
standing the fact that it is pri-
marily a society and not a po-
litical journal.
THE Widows" article in the
current issue of Town Topics is
as follows:
A mans life is in peril in Ken
tucky!
These words cause a careless
smile. A few ives-mOre or
less-off in Kentucky ceased,
ages ago, to make even a ripple
on the surface of our eXistences
we whose homes are away from
that atmosphere, that State and
other States of the South, where
"a killing in Kentucky" and
''as sure as shooting" are every
day earnest and playful express
sions of men, women and chill
dren.
This man, Caleb Powers, who
is condemned to die for the muir
der of Senator, or Governor Goe-
bel, on January 80, 1900, has
spoken for himself in a way few
men can speak. We must listen.
We cannot smile. He may be
guilty, he may be innocent, but
he has proved conclusively, ac-
cording to law and testimony,
that he is the victim of political
prejudice and not of justice. He
has proved cOnclusively another
thing: that he belongs to all OF
us, to the United States, and
that we will be responsible fol
the next, or for this, murder in
Kentucky-God knows how many
can take place in the mean time
unless we, as nation, demand
a fair trial. Not only should
there be a fair trial for the sake
of the crime and future crimes
. but there should be u fair tria
for the sake of this mans calm
reasoning, wonderful character
. istics and intelligence. Ken
! tucky may not feel the need o
this mans remarkable intellect
. but we as a country need him
and IL a fair frial can save him
Mountain advocate., 1904-03-25

Who is too busy this week baking
to write his ad. Go and get some Of
his fresh bread.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
TEST METHOD OF ESCAPE
FROM SUBMARINE BOAT

Newport. L. l.. April 14.-Chief Ma
chinist Harry Schaub. Of the subma-
riue torpedo oCat Porpoise ut the tor
pedo station here viii. during the COM
ing drills of the submarine boats. al
low himself to be shot through the fir
ing tube
1t is thought that the test viii prove
valuable in the study of submarine
warfare. 1t i designed TO prove that
the crew Of >uuken or disabled sub
marine TORPEDO beat could be given a
fighting chance for their lives by be
ing shot thr ugh the firing tubes 10
the surface
Commander Fletcher says man
can can be sent through the tube by
placing him i'm the 1S-inch diameter
tube, closing the door. then opening
the outer door and letting the tube
fill with water. thus forcing the man
to the surface lie would rise through
his own buoyancy.
Schaub believes that the experiment
is safe one. and is ready for the
test.
The loss Of the British submarine
torpedo boat by collision with the
steamship Berwick Castle March II. is
the cause Of the novel experiment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
EIkins Auti-Hebate Law Evaded.

When the ElkinS anti-reJate law w.;s
passed last wear the Republicans crow
ed loudly. They called il antitrust law
which VAS 10 curb the railroads by
compelling them 10 treat all shippers
alike II was observed. however. that
the railroads were not opposed 10 this
law. And why should they Ice. when
its object was To prevent the secret
cutting Of rates by one road as against
another and To guarantee that all
roads would charge and collect the
maximum rates? Is il surprising that
the values OF railroad stocks rose rap
idly in Wall street after the passage
OF this act:
BUt. Just as the Democrats then
said. TN" law is proving ineffective TO
ston discrimination. The Iron Age OF
March IA mentions one way in which
the law is being evaded. IL is done
through the payment OF switching
charges to switching companies These
amount IN some cases to SO 4 car.
The Iron Age says that this device
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
TODAY'S MARKETS

Chicago, April lI-Fonowing are the opei
ing, highest, lowest and closing uuotatiors
in today'E markets:
what
May, gsas. e4ls. eass: 92ss.
Iulv, new. S56s. SSla 81 S75s-
Sept, new, S2ss; 80 Is S2A S3s,
Nav. ssh; 53al 52'i 'aX.
July s. Sis sos sos
Sept, 4ja4; 5O4. 1853; %.
Oats.
July. 37li: rs: 37N-: 379i
Sept, 32ls 52as--; 32; 81.
Pork.
Nav - IS: - Is. - 70. - q
July, II -; II %; j. 81; y 20.
Lard
MAY. 6 IS; o.; -: & ~
July. ESQ; -; 672: -.
Ribs.
Nav. 6.45 6 -. 6 -. 6 -
July. 6.e5 e.65; 6 -, 6.57
Receipts TO-DAY: Wheat Q. corn 10, oats
81. nogs 1000; cattle g. o. sheep Is 900.
Hog market opened steady
Light f4l005.2l: mixed and butch
heavy SI9O1S5lO
Cattle InarSe! opened steady.
sheen market opened steady.
Hog market closed weak.
Lteht, a. Ssf55 -; mixed and butchers o. 90
as 30, good neavy, 81 9O15 b; rough heavy
cattle market closed strorg to I-c higher
sheep market closed steady
New YORK StoGkG.
New York. April II the following are the
closing quotations on the New York stocs
exchange:
sugar 1874 Gas p6sl. C. r. &P 2}Jl, South
ern Pacific 1875. Il. & o. 20 Atcnison com
mon 7S's, Atcnlson ptd. 9Sl4. c. NJ. & 81. =.
IHal Manhattan I42Is copper 49i4. w U.
Tel Co. So. L * y lns1z c. s. a. IS. Rdg.
common iI7s Can. Pacific ICY. Leather, com
mon 600. a. r I. 40 Pacific mail O.. u
y Steel ptd. COS q. y. Steel common II9s
Penna. 1iSl1. NO. Pacific 92li. Union PaCitit
- =. coal and iron SEA. Erie common 262s
Wabash pfd. SSia Car founury 1914. q q
W. l6is Rep. Steel ptd.. 46lt. Rep Ste el com
mon as. New York Central Ca, Illinois
Central 1908
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

mas Deer II operTJIon- since a very
few months after the passage Of the
EIkins law. and its existence has been
a matter of frequent comment"
Another way in which this law is
evaded is this: \ big shipper. located
favOrabiy for shipping over two or
more railroads. ships over the road
that will allow the greatest claims for
lost goods. No packages or goods are
actually lost in transportation. bat the
agent is authorized TO deduct so much
for such losses. In this way rebates
amounting TO 20. 80 and even 80 per
cent of the freight bill are allowed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
A WORD ABOUT
GOLD-MOULDED
RECORDS X "

Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records
were the first moulded records on the
market by about Il year.
They always have been Gold-mould-
ed. \ gold mould is the only economi-
cal and efficient mould known to the
art.
Moulded records are superior to the
old engraved records because they
may be made Of harder material.
Hard records last longer and have
better quality of tone.
\ gold-moulded record made of soft
material would be no better in quality
than an engraved record in soft ma
tcrial
The best moulded records are not
only Gold-mouldcd. They are super
hardened.
Gold-moUlded records are less ex-
pensive than engraved records. The
process is simpler.
Formerly, blank cylinders were
moulded, then shaved, then engraved
from an original. The originals soon
wore out under the reproducing
stylus.
Now, a goId-lined mould is made
from the original. and the product of
that mould is smoothly finished cyl
ndcr, with the sound record already
on it. The life of the original is in
creased 10 times, hundred times, a
thousand times.
\ record is not more expensive be-
cause il i gold-moulded.
1t * less expensive.
Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records
are new records, made by n new pro-
cess. They are not only gold-moulded.
They are super-hardened.
Irrespective of price, they are su-
perior in quality to any other gold
moulded record on the market, and
they sell for only p cents.
We have just received n large ship
ment Of these improved records, max
ing our stock a very complete one.
Call at our warerooms and investi-
gate. We are. and have always been,
sole agents for Columbia goods in
Rock Island. We handle n complete
Inc Of both disc and cylinder ma
chimes Prices, s. to 500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
Which is Sense. which Nonsense?

a.lp senator AIdrich WAS saying
ut Providence that tariff duties do
not encourage or create monopolies or
trusts or combinations" the German
minister OF commerce. MOeller. COM
mentinS upon the recent decision Of
the United States supreme court in the
case of the Northern Securities com
pany. was saying that "the evils OF
the American trust system can only be
counteracted by 4 tariff reduction be-
cause the high protective tariff is the
cause OF the evil acts the trusts are
guilty Of"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

The object q tins grand "iler Is |"
prove TO the sick and aIlinS ci'izens
of this vicinity that we nave lhe
grandest. simp!es' anu most success
full method OF reSteii"S Nlt2u'N anu
curing diseases 'hal l. hA""A 10 TIC
scientific world.
We want the true hivFi's OF our
successful treatment kn'"h l" every
body and we don know ~ neIter
way OF introducing II tAah n| "lerihG
our service NEE VIZ 'h-Ni'N'- l" al
who call before April Il. should your
case be lncu'ahic we VIII tf2hkiE ten
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Wien Ald. Waters died I'm Michigan
the other day. he left Will which fur
ri~hc~ "a corollIry To the poets words
about love. There are three women
who are saying that IL Is better To-
have been loved and lost than never
90 have been loved at all The alder
man LETT three lrgacic> of $4,000 each
for a. many If his old >weethearts
whom hc had a>>iduuu~lv courtcd bur
never won. tie remained a bachelor.
and become rich. but apparently never
lost his "Verlikc feeling for the only
girl. except two. he ever loved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

The big four who 90 ~ delegates to-
the republican national convention
from the tate of New York are Scna-
tors Thomas {. Platt and Chauucey VI.
Dcpcw. GOV. Hen iamiu i. OdclI and
cX-Gov. Frank :. Black. II l. not be
lic,cd that one train can carry this
Naluabl, consignment OF freight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

On, saucer remains of the purcc-
lain ~ct presented i'm Is~3 10 Martha
Washington. This j. carefully pre-
served Ia the Smithsonian institution
at Washington. IL the center appear
the monogram Of M. and w" for
Martha and Washington. and about
the edge il the name of every state
" hich was then ia the union.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Bloomington Bulletin: i. !. Hill. The
original merger man. l. much alarmed
for the .afcty Of the public. lie sees
i'm HarTiWau'> law suit against him Il
gigantic plan whereby the Union Pa
citic t. q" swallow the Northern Pa
citjc. burlington anu -. Paul and the
Northwestern j. 10 get the Great
Northern. Mr.. Hin appears To- he
afraid that he will not have an iu,i-
iutiuu when the cake j. cut.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
z. E. MORGAN.
Skinner Building.
HENRY j. GRIPP.
141O Fifteenth Street. Moline. III.

y tonic for the aged and infrm.
Gives strength and vital force to
every part Of the body. \ spring ton
ic that makes sick people well. Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea. - cents.
tea or tablet +. H. Thomas. Pharma-
cist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Fire hu~ destroyed the high school
building at Galena. The COO pupils e>-
capped i'm safety. This building was
erected in 1850, and in it the Camp
heii~. E"hi-aat>. the Younger Wash
buruc> and Others who have become
noted in the business history IF Chi
ca-o secured their early schooling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

\ an eNampic If science. skill and
nerve. the Savannah surgeon who OPP
Grated upon himself and saved his life
j. one to which even the annals of
surgery can scarcely furnish par
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
LOYAL MARKET COHDITIORs
roaHy's Quotations on Prov,sIous. Live
Stock. Feed aud Fuel
Icln nd Z n.


stock. Feed aud Fuel.
Rock Island, April Ii-Followiug are the
quotations on the local marSet:
Provisions.
Butter-Creamery 22cGe3c- dairy 2Oc
ERgs-Fresh lIc.
Lard iOC
Live poultry-Spring chickens IOc per
pound mems lOc per pound, tui keys lic,
ducks IOC, geese &c
egetables-Pol4toes DOC. Oniors $3.50
Live stock.
Cattle-Steers 1850 to H15 cows AND
aeifers %. 90 TO G.OC, calves 900 to 1850
Hogs-Mixed and butchers q - to f5.25
Sheep-YcarlnPs or over, $3.50 80 o. o..
lambs q. 90 TO - so
Feed and Fuel
Grain-CoTn 80 TO 55C; oats. 46c
Forage-Timothv hay $3.50 TO az; praric,
% 10 1880 straw fG.5
Woou-Haro, per road = so
Goa Lump, per bushel lac. slack. D
bush. ! IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

rERMs-Daily. 10 cents per week weekly,
81 per year IN advance
All communications of argumentative
Character, political or religious, must have
real name attached tor publication No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town
ship in ROCK Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Philadelphia police prev cnted Emma
Goldman from making a speech Sun
day. Emma IL the woman made IA
nous by the police.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

The prelude TO the war in the far
east ha~ not yet ended. and probably
Will not end til Tu"a has exhausted
his supply If small bots.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
]. Alvin Horne, M. D.,

and Associate Physicians, 40,
30 and u Mitchell d Lynde building,
Rock Island. Hours . a. IN. to ; p. m;
evenings, to s; Sundays, . to II
a. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

For Illinois. new railway mileage
contracted for 1904 will reach 2O4
mile. la this state in 1908 u roads
laid 1870 miles of new track.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

John l.. sullivan j. writing article:
on temperance and the evils of drink
NJ better authority.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Speaking of presidential candidates
what. after all. Is the matter with
Nelson !. Miles?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

Senator Burton seems 10 have been
another United States senator who
didn't know it was loaded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

We shall all welcome the >pring
poet for the sake II spring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
Thursday, April IA, 1904.

The dowager empress of China i
dead" again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1914 Sec
oud avenue. Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED Al
the postornce as second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14
Land Excursions to Oklahoma

Land excursions to Oklahoma will
be run over the Rock Island System
April ; and 10. For further particu-
lars, cali on or write
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-14

BY THE j. w. POTTER 90.