The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-23

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the defeat Of two leading candidates
in the recent Democratic SUITE prl-
mary election, and he vouches for
IL as fact as he claims 10 have
personal acquaintance with nearly
Everybody in that section of the
State. He started off by saying that
an Eastern lucky or mountain
Democrat is Of the dyed in the
wool variety with born hatred OF
everything that smaeks OF the SEM
bAnce of Republcanism. Taking ad-
vantage of this fact, he says the
astute managers of the successful
candidates In two of the races,
spread the report and made good with
II. that the rival candidates were
Republicans, and that the issue was
strictly party one between the Lem
ocrats, represented by their can
dldate and the Republicans repre-
selited nv the opposing candidates,
The conductor adds that while It
may sa-- strange he cunningly de
vised - me worked like charm
OF the State. rs was evidenced by
the enormous vote piled up for .le
successful candidates in those local.
.es.
o. o. Stealey, writing to the Lou
isville Times from Washington, ays:
1T Is safe 10 say that the Repub-
lican majorities all over the Union
have decreased on an average OF so
per cent, and in some cases 70 per
cent In many OF the STATES, nota-
bly, Missouri, the Democrats have
come into their own Kentucky y
an exception, but that is wholly at
tributed to the primary election. No
one here doubts that had II not
been for the primary, Richardson
would have been elected in the
Third district and Kehoe In the
Ninth. The Republicans here are
jubliant over the result in kentucky,
and claim that by the feeling en-
gendered in the Democratic par
~ the candidates on the Democrat
&c ticket for 1907 will be defeated
In all Of the returns received there
is a ray OF sunshine for the Demo
Gratis, notwithstanding the large ma
jority in the House OF Representa-
tives. That Is reduced. as the fig
ures show. or will finally show, al
least so per cent"
In store In Paris, where farmers
are won't to gather, Is 10 be seen
a collection OF agricultural products
Of the farm and garden that will be
hard to equal In any county in the
State. says the Kentucklan- Citizen.
There is on exhibition squash
grown by Doug Thomas that measures
"a inches in length and weighs a
pounds.
An old-fashioned pumpkin, grown
by Thomas Henry Clay. and big
enough to be handled on a wheelbar-
row, weighs 81 pounds.
i A kershaw, grown by J. Harry Holt,
Is 80 inches long and tips the beam
at AZ pounds.
The collection also embraces other
varieties OF garden squash, po-
tafoes. "eld corn and samples Of
white hurley tobacco OF all grades
| Another curiosity Is stalk Of
tobacco that measures eight feet
and ten inches In height.
At the Bluegrass Fair at licking
ton. Josh Clay. a well-known Bour-
bon county farmer took first prem
ium on sixty pound watermelon.
Minis Devereaux was hanged At
Milledgeville. Ca, for murder after a
desperate struggle with the Sheriff
ana MS uepuly.
A San Francisco paper charges that
vast sums were stolen by grafters
from the funds sont in for the re-
lief Of earth quake sufferers.
The monument TO the memory Of
| Iowa soldiers was dedicated al And
ersonville, Ca, by Gov. Cummins
The New York Sun says editor
tally:
When John Crepps wickliffe Beck
ham, OF Kentucky, takes his seat
in the United States Senate, he will
be so much simpler and fresner OF
face than Mr. Bailey. OF Texas. and
obviously so much younger and more
artless, that the fate of being call
ed the Boy Senator he cannot es-
cape. A page In the Kentucky Leg
islature at nine, Speaker OF the House
at twenty-six. Governor at twenty
eight and destined to be a United
States Senator at thirty four,
smooth-faced Mr.. Beckham must be
accounted prodigy. compared with
whom all other kids" OF Congress
will appear like slow beginners and
inconsequential persons. Sull BIr