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Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
.udv guessing on the outline.
Reed and the she1iT's 0mces

LEGG1 RIfa GE1E R3llG111 %SA-4SS6
The only contest in Rllsk county IS
Oh sheriff. ]. II. Reed appears on the
ticket as an independent republican
candidate.
The primary contest was made by
four candidates. The situation was a
peculiar one. No candidate received
a majority4 In fact no one received
even third of the vote. Certainly no
one. was nominated as we have always
understood the term.
Is it within reason that one third Of
the votes cast shall elect an officer?
Why this cry of bolter? It is all
nonsense. We should have the ques~
ton settled by a majority vote and
that is what we shall have.
The News heartily endorses the cam
didacy Of Mr.. Reed, if for no other
reason than that it will result in the
actual election Of a sheriff for RQsll
county.
Mr.. Reed has lived in Rusk county
many years. He has been a element
in the upbuilding of the county. He
is dependable man and will make a
dependable officer.
He entered the race on the square
deal plan and has made fair can
vass. The primary contest was com
plicated by four candidates. No one
had anywhere near majority.
Mr., Reeds candidacy amounts to
saying; >SNow that we can have a
two handed contest, let's see who is
the actual choice, :
That is what the reviewed contest
amounts to-What it means and all it
means. It gives the people the chance
they want-or ought to want-to Sc
cure an officer by actual majority vote.
After the 9th of November we shall
know who is the peoples choice for
sheriff.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03

/ Hapdalisad nsa3sTItB Isl shs Eebab.
lican state tielset of 5000. RIil#au-
kee Free Press.
The above IS sound talk. A party
that makes good promises, and
makes them good as the Republican
party has during the past six years, de
serves the confidence Of the people.
Whatever may be said or thought Of
LaFollette, it must be admitted thai
in politics be honest and earnest.
The party has done things and prom
ises to do more things along the same
line. There is no doubt that these new
things are wanted just as things done
axe approved,
The party was never so strong in the
state fol-, the simple reason that it
never was so active, earnest and hon
est in the peoples interest,
The man Of all men who brought
this about will not be forgotten. He
will live in the esteem of the people.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03

great soeIsi unrest and know tllsfe is
reason for it. Men are crying but
against privilege for the fey at the ex-
pense of the many, Wehear them speak.
in Mortified tones apout Hearst, and part
of New York is trying oscare itself TO
death over fear Of his success.
Yet scarcely one of them is asking
what it means; scarcely one is trying
to understand why greater readicalism
than the country has known befor is
tolerated if not really favored.
Here in Milwaukee and Wisconsin the
same questions confront us. Here, too,
is heard theslemand for Good Govern
nent and the Square Deal. For years
the Corporations that are wholly de-
pendent on privileges granted by the
public, privileges that no private bust
ness has. have been our dictators. They
are fighting desperately to restore the
old order of things. No local office is
too small, and no state nor national Of
fee too great, to meet their needs.
They are at work in every section OF
Wisconsin. Every reader of this paper
knows as we'll as we do what they are
doing. 1t is for each community to spot
| their men and defeat them.
If we cannot satisfy the mild demands
that are now being made, we must pre-
pare for radicalsm Of a kind that is
hardly dreamed of today.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
The Best Campaign Argument.

LuS 1JSSO ScS414 E}s& 1AA IiAAA~440'
When political party keeps all it's
pledges to the people, its pledges come
to have meaning which party plat
forms have not usually had.
When that party dominates as its
standard bearer a man who has been
strongly and sincerely identified for
wears with all that his party has prom
ised, and on a platform pledging fur
Their legislation which the people ask,
there is another reason why it should
retain and will retain the public conf
dence which its recond has inspired
That is perhaps why there is less
open interest manifested in the present
state campaign than in some previous
campaigns when the party was siren
uously fighting for the record it has
now won, and to secure the public con
idence which it now enjoys.
The Republican party's record in
Wisconsin for the past six years, and
the record of Gov. Davidson are likely
to prove stronger campaign arguments
than all the speeches of all the cam
paign speakers, one Of whom, who has
visited all parts Of the state, preoicss
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
He arst's Campaigning /.

Boss Murphy of Tamnany is having
a bad time of it with Hearst, and must
wish that he had nominated Jerome or
anybody else, rather than the spitfire.
Hearst treats the boss with utter con
tempt, deriding him, abusing him, telling
much truth about him, which is the bit
terest of all for the boss to stand; and
not only does the candidate scold, and
besmirch, and denounce, and defy Muir
ply, but he gives all of his elan the same
sort of treatment. This may makes
him friends of Republican, but it may
not help him with Democrats.
He told crowd in Brooklyn the other
night, while I repudiate that corrupt
scoundrel, McCarren, I do it because /
do not believe that he is Democrat. "
McCarren is the Democratic boss of
Brooklyn. Hearst repudiates him, not
because hei corrupt scoundrel," but
because he does not believe that he is q
Democrat.
There is only one kind of Democrat at
the present time that Herastrecognizes,
and that is the Jefferson" variety
He says that he is Jefferson" Demo-
crat. Murphy doubtless has said a
thousand times that he himself is that
kind of a Democrat. Most Democrat
have claimedthat they are Jefferson"
Democrats, beside and being Jackson"
Democrats; latterly they are all
"Rryan" Democrats.
Now here are certainly a good many
different styles of Democrats. Jeffre-
son was not much of fighter, but the
man who would have told him that
a Democrat of the Jackson kind was
a 81 eferSOn Democrat. would have
had trouble on his hands And Jackson
was fighter. Hewould have challeng-
ed any man who had called him the
same sort of Democrat that Bryan is,
or that Hearst is; and probably that
Jefferson was.
This, however, is aggressive. What
Hearst is doing is putting up hard
campaign to meet, and harder to esti-
mate the value of. His methods are so
entirely unlike those of other politi-
clans that we are left breathless after
reading the thugs he says about men
whose support one would suppose he
must have to carry the state. He is as
in his speech as in his news
papers, and seems to court libel suit
and all sort of trouble, and he has every
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Wisconsin's DUTY.

The readers of The Journal could con-
troll the election in Milwaukee county
and dictate the result in the state at
large.
Just think what that means, and just
think what is the responsibility of a
newspapers that is the daily companion
of so many people.
We are on the eve of election. The
Journal has tried to abstain from per-
sonalities; it has appealed to the patriot
ism of the people. We see all about US
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
The District Attorneyship.

The most important office milwaukee,
county is that of district attorney. The
administration Of hatpart ofour govern
ment overshadowsa all otherpolitical ques-
tons before our people. This contest,
fierce as tits, is not peculiar to MilWau-
kee. Even in that sinkhole Of corrup-
ton, Pennsylvania, where there is in
progress a great state reform movement,
the battle over the district attorneyship
in Philadelphia stands out so distinctly
as to hold the attention Of the nation.
IN a two-page descrip ton of the cam
paign in Golfers Weekly, The situation
is summed up as follows:
Philadelphia has discovered that
its greatest need today is not a
mayor, butt district attorney. The
administration of the district at
torney's office is always the test of
the efficiency Of the law, The
Tweed ring in New York was made
possible through controlling the adj
ministration Of criminal justice.
Tweed was possible because he kept
in the district attorneys office one
Of his notorious colleagues in crime.
If the district attorney is either the
active servant or the acquiescent
dependent Of corrupt bosses and ma
chimes, the people will be powerless
and almost hopeless victims of their
plunderers.
What are the good citizens of Milwau-
Iee (CIg? VItm sle they going
name for district attorney? What is
their duty? Amidst all the noise and
buster, will not the conscientious voter
go off by himself and think before it
comes time for him to act at the polls
one week from tomorrow. Milwaukee
Journal.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
shirt-Waist Box.

A very convenient shirt waist box,
described IN Good Housekeeping, is ar
extra long one divided into two com
partments, one Tor waists and the 9TH
er for white petticoats, for which
there is never enough room in closet
or bureau drawers. 1t is covered with
mating, and two rows of elastic tape,
tackled at intervals inside the lid, hold
stocks and turnoyers smooth and I'm.
runs9led.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
The State Tax.

Mr.. Ayward's estimate of the intelli-
gence of his audiences may be surmis-
ed by some of the things he tells them.
For instance, he tells them that they
are being burdened by the state tax,
which is constantly getting larger be-
cause of Republican extravaganza.
We have a suggestion to make to
Mr.. Awkward, and that is that he gets
some tax payer, a farmer or manu-
facturer, or a merchant, to bring his
tax receipts for the past four years to
bring his tax receipts for the past four
years to the meetings, and let him
take them to illustrate what he means
when he says that the state taxes are
increasing year by year, all because of
Republican extravaganza.
He will begin back with the first re-
ceipt Of the lot, that for the year 1902,
and will read the amount of state tax
that the holder paid that year; and
then he will look for the state tax on
the three subsequent receipts, and will
find that there has been none.
He might get files Of the newspapers
of 1903, and from that time on to the
present, and find much condemnation
of the Republican state administration
for renting the state tax for the
past three years, using money for cur
rent expenses, which they say ought
not to have been used for that purpose.
Mr.. Awkward must have seen much of
this kind of criticism of the La Toilette
administration. There was talk among
the stalWarts at one time of bringing
suit of same kind to restrain the gov
ernor from allowing the use of certain
funds for the current expenses of the
state, the pretense being that these
certain funds belonged in the trust
funds of the state, and could not be le-
gally used for current purposes.
We have no intention to discuss the
abstract question of law, the Free
Press not being lawyer, but the fact
that there was much of this talk
might, we should suppose, impress the
Democratic candidate.
Mr.. Awkward is unfortunately one of
those Democrats who is about dozen
years behind the times. He might be
supposed to have been asleep since
1894 or since the Peck administration,
but for the fact that he has been
legislative agent out at Madison, when
there has been a legislative session, for
corporations that could afford to en-
ploy him.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Congressional Que ton.

Chicago, Oct. 20. j Ohm C. Eversman,
assistant treasurer Of the national re-
pub lem congressional committee, ar
rived from New York last night with
a commission to arrange for a special
tour of the eighteenth and nineteenth
Illinois congressional districts for Sec
rotary Of War Taft, who will enter
the state Tuesday morning on a speak
ing tour which will take him to Idaho
Secretary Taft is coming west at the
suggestion Of President Roosevelt and
his appearance in the Cannon and Nc
Kinley districts is complimentary and
personal rather tnan political, as these
districts are reliably republican,
Mr.. Eversman, who comes direct
from Chairman Sherman's headquar-
tiers in New York reports that the con-
gressional committee leaders are am
azed by the apathy shown in the pre-
sent campaign and are counting on
losing thirty-six or thirty-eight con-
gressional districts. That is to say, tt
committee figures that the republican
house majority in the sixtieth congress
will range from thirty-five to forty.
Although this expected slump will
mean an actual loss of republican
house members, 1T is not to be con-
strued as a reversal of normal con-
ditions, as many districts were carried
by the republicans. two years ago
which were forced into the republican
c lunn by reason of anti-Parler and
pro-RooseFelt sentiment. In the cleo
ton Of 1904 the republicans gained
thirty-nine districts over the election
of 1902, and present estimates, if well
founded, would show practical return
to the party status of 1902.
IAN NOT ACCOUNT FOR APATHY.
n1ae republican congressional con-
mittee is unable to recount for the
general apathy thruout the~country,"
said Mr.. Eversman. 1T is much more
profound than it was two years ago
and, although it may be a forerunner
Of one Of many results, we are fgur-
ing on a house majority in the six
tieth congress of from thirty-five to for
ty. The losses we expect to suffer, due
to a reaction from the abnormal repub- |
lican victories Of two years ago, pro-
badly will settle for the most part in
the seat although they will be pretty
well scattered. President Roosevelt is /
much interested in the congressional
situation and reports we have received |
in New York show a general appro-
baton Of his administration and the
work Of the last congress-, However,
t was too much to expect that the un-
precedented republican victories Of
1904 should be repeated this fall"
Asked concerning the situation in
New York MIR. Eversman said, It is /
all guess. The state is in doubt. Much |
the same situation is presented this
year as in 1906. There IS 50 much /.
crossfring and such reversal of form
in both parties that any estimate Of
the result would be a mere hazard.
Many upstate republicans are foclzing
to Hearst; contrary to expectations,
while men who it was supposed would
support Hearst are working Hughes.
It is badly mixed-up affair. In gen
eral [ should say that Hear t has strong
support among the salaried men. Mr..
Hughes did not make much of an i'm
preston in the earlier stages of his
campaign, but is now doing effective
work.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
Donation Day"
Next Saturday

Six small children ranging from a
few months to ten years Of age, all
clamorlng for Merry Christmas with
plenty of toys and candy, and a sadly
depleted treasury are the important
figures in a knotty problem which Is
lust now confronting the local HUI
name society. The problem has grown
TO be too much for the society to han
die alone, so they have decided to
make an appeal to the public which is
sure Of a generous response. On Sat
urday, the 22d, Donation Day" will
be celebrated at the Humane Home at
the residence Of Mrs. Rice on Madison
street. From one o'clock until six, do
nations Of clothes, money and toys
viii be gratefully received. This call
for help viii surely meet with ahearty
response for there are few people IN
FaiFmcnt who would relish tie illea
q six small orphans finding empty
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
mot TOO OLD
FOR God"
DISCHARGED BY FACTORY SUPER,
INTENDENT BECAUSE OF AGE
OLD JOE HANGS HIM.
SELF.

WATERBURY, Conn, Dec. 1O.-Jo'
seph Sherwood, who at GO was still
strong and hearty, but whose hearing
failed a little over a year ago and who
couldn't see very we'll, was discharged
10y the Menden Manufacturing Com
pany Saturday on the score of age.
"You have been with us a long while
Joe, and you have done your share
said the superintendent You'd bet
ter lay off for the rest of your days
You ought to have saved enough tt
live on"
Old Joe packed up his kit and went
home.
"I'm too old to be any good" he told
his wife They've fired me. guess
I'm not worth having around anywhere
any longer"
Yesterday morning they found old
Joe hanging dead from his doorsill. He
had made rope of his suspenders.
Hes not too old for God" said hi:
wife, simply.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
SWEEPING RULES
ADOPTED 8 YKENTUcKY RAGING
COMMISSION AND BREEDING
BUREAU TUESDAY.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 19.-Rules,
sweeping in their regulation Of turf
men, trainers and jockeys, wer adopt
ed here by the State Racing Commits
sion and the Breeding Bureau. Action
was also taken which, it is believed,
will make turf wars impossible, SO far
as Kentucky is concerned.
One rule is that any reputable turf
nan, trainer or jockey can secure a Ii
cense to operate on any track in Ken
tacky he can appeal his case to the
commission.
Any reputablet urf organization can
secure a license to operate track If
the application for license is made
thirty days before the contemplated
opening of such meeting.
The commission adopted altogether
about 220 rules.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
GIRLS P|TIFUL
STORY IN SUIT
ALLEGES SHE WAS DEsPoILEo
by MAN WHO OFFERED HER
A HOME.

PARKERsBURG, Dec. BIN ap'
plication for an injunction and the
suit for divorce brought by Jessie May
Headley VS.. James Headley, startling
allegations are made by the plaintiff,
who is a young woman, scarcely turn
ed eighteen. The husband from whom
she seeks a separation is aged 50.
The girl alleges that she was an or
phan and was taken into the HeadIey
home. Headley's first wife died and
shortly thereafter, and while she was
still but fourteen years of age, she al
leges he seduced her, and later, TO
avoid prosecution for betrayal, mar
rled her, and that since that time he
has abused her and mlstreatcd her be.
yond her endurance.
A restraining order was issued in
hibfting Headley from selling or dis
posing of his property.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
RINEHART
HAS PROPERTY INTERESTS sur.
FrclENT TO PAY ALL THE
wAYNEssURe BANK CLAIMS
AND HE PLEDGES TO STRAIGHT.
EN- OUT THE DIFFICULTIES IN
THAT WAY.

PTTTsBURG, Dec. 19.-The develop
ment of to-day in, connection with the
Waynesburg bank failure is that some
people whose names are said to be on
notes which the bank holds are dis
posed to deny their signatures. If
this becomes a more prominent fea-
ture, it will certainly add ,complica-
tion to the affairs. Who these people
are or to what amount their names ap,
pear on paper cannot now be learned,
but 1t was said that they are not the
largest note makers. Attorney James
E. sayers, son of the former presi.
dent Of the Farmers and Drovers'
Bank, came to Plttsburg to-day to
meet State Cashier Measey in refer
ence to the States deposit of seventy
five thousand dollars which was in the
bank. Sayers, 1t is said, is prepared to
nay the sum of the bondholders at
once, II demanded. There is no ex-
citement in Waynesburg to-day it be-
ing the general belief that Rlnehart
has property interest of more than a
million dollars, which he has pledged
to Strengthening out the difficulties of
the bank.
One Of the most pathetic features
of the closing of the Farmers and
Drovers National Bank is the case of
Ezra NJ. sayers, former president Of
the institution and still a director and
one of the heaviest stockholders. The
venerable man, who will be 95 years
of age if he lives until next Memorial
day, has not yet been told of the clos
ing of the bank. He is blind and fee
bile, but still holds almost daily CON
ferences with the present president,
senator-elect Daniel S. Walton, when
he discusses the banks affairs as
usual. His heart has been wrapped up
in the bank and its interests for years,
and it is feared the news of Its clos
ing and threatened failure would kill
him.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
FOUND GUILTY
CHICAGO ELEVATOR MAN cHARG
ED WITH OBTAINING MONEY
FROM BANKS BY FRAUD.

CHICAGO. Dec. 19.-George S. Nc
Reynolds, recently prominent dealer
in grain. and in the elevator business
was found guilty of obtaining. money
from banks fraudulently.
The particular Indictment upon
which Reynolds, was tried charged
him with removing about 1000 bushels
of grain from an elevator in South Chi
cago when the corn had been pledged
as security for the money loaned by
the Corn Exchange National Bank.
Altogether, 1t was charged that he dis
posed of grain valued at more than
100000 on which he had borrowed
money from number Of local banks.
Several of these lost more than $780,.
900 each.
The offenses of which McRaynolds
is convicted are punishable by impris-
onment in the penitentiary from one TO
ten years.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
LYNCHING
WAS ON THE PROGRAMME HAD
ANY OF GEORGE eooDwIN's
VICTIMS DIED DURING THE
NIGHT AFTER HE HAD SHOT
FIVE MEN-ls NOW IN CHARLES.
TON JAIL.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 10. = officers
brought to jail here yesterday George
Goodwin, said to be Kentucklan, who
is charged with shooting five men al
Bluecreek. about 12 miles up Elk.
w. M. Armstrong, whose lungs were
perforated, will die.
The others, John Cart, shot around
eyes: Mark Cart, in right hand; Wal
ter Cart, in the body, and Laura Kel
ley, in the arm, will all recover.
All the men shot were prominent cit
zens of their neighborhood and ma
tives. After the shooting Goodwin
was pursued by Constable Melton, who
only stopped him after firing six loads
at him.
Goodwin was kept at the home OF
Kelley, one of the men shot, and had
any of the men shot died. he would un'
Guestionably have been lynched.
The trouble began by one Tom Lew
IL, who was drunk. declaring: 81 am
the best man in the crowd"
When Levi Jarrett took the chal'
lenge up and knocked Lewis down
Goodwin pulled his gun and began fir
ing.
Neither Of the origlnators of the
fight was hit
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
Wife WATTS IN
Vain IN COURT
HUSBAND, CHARGED WITH NON.
SUPPORT, ESCAPES FROM
THE OFFICER.

PARKERsBURG, Dec. 1s-special
Constable Perry Nolan has lost his
sprlnting ability. Nolan brought out
Elmer Murray for trial on a charge Of
non.support before Justice Ruttencut'
ter. He had started from the jail with
the prisoner when Murray broke and
ran down Williams Court alley. The
officer gave chase for short distance,
but soon gave up.
Murray's wife who brought the
charge was waiting in the Office of the
justice when the prisoner escaped.
She was greatly disappointed. The
woman claims Murray has not con
trlbuted a dollar to her support for
many months. 1t is said she will file
a suit for divorce.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-19
humane SOCIETY ASKS help in Buying
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR ORPHANS

stockings on Christmas morning in
place of the full ones which every
child expects.
The society has arranged with Mr..
Saunders, a man Of much experience
in arranging home talent plays, to
give his production Of "The Girls Of
America" on the 18th of next month,
The best local talent has been Sc.
cured for the leading characters and
the success of the entertainment is al
ready assured. The proceeds Of the
entertainment will go towards provld'
ing clothes and food for the children
in the shelter. In addition to the six
children already mentioned the sccle.
ty has in charge twin baby girls, Just
three weeks Of age.