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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-11-01

the principles of the party. But since
the enforcement Of your machine
the people have been spared this
trouble. Now an oligarchy of office
holders, rotating in violation of the
spirit of the Constitution, from one Of
flee to another are accustomed to meet
| In secret conclave with chosen MEM
bers of the machine, virtually name
the candidates and appoint committees
whose duty 1t is to instruct the peo-
pie to cast their votes for the perpe-
tuation Of the power of the ring, and
not for the good of the people.
! | hope you will not consider me in
any way personally offensive, for do
not mean to be, when l state you
hold an important and lucrative office
which seems to be dominated by MEM
bers of this organization. My critism
is intended only of the system, which
regards the choice of such an official
as eminently proper to be placed at
the head of the committee which is TO
instruct the voters in their duty. In
this capacity you urge me as Con-
federate soldier to vote for all the
candidates on your ticket, and against
the common enemy" the Republic
can party.
In looking over the list of your can
didates, l find that some Of them were
the direct beneficiaries of some of the
fraudulent election l have sketched;
some are seeking in violation of the
spirit Of our Constitution, to rotate
from office to office; all of them, as
far as / can learn, have aided and
abetted the preparation OF the poll
teal crimes which have brought dis
credit upon the State and destroyed
the life of true Democracy.
If as you say, the Republican party
is the common enemy of such a ma
chine as l have feebly described, ii
should not be imputed to them as a
crime, but commended as cardinal
virtue. And their assistance in an eff
fort TO overthrow an organization
which under the banner of the Demo-
cratic party is warning against every
principle of Democracy, should be well
coined and applanded by every true
Democrat and lover of his country.
For until this machine is overthrown
there can be no hope of resuscitating
the life of true Democracy.
AS your letter is an official COM
munication, and in no sense confiden-
tial l may give it publicity in order
that not only you, but anyone else, If
there be such, who may care to know
my position, may learn some of the
reasons which impel my action in cast
ing my vote for the overthrow OF a
machine which has strangled the De-
mocratic party, and whose constant vi
lations of law and justice are spread
ing a contagion of lawlessness TO the
remotest limits of our fair Common
wealth. In imitation of the methods
Of the machine a veritable Sicillian
Malta has been organized in parts of
the State. The toll of the farmer has
been lost in the destruction of his
growing crops, in the burning of his
barns with their contents, in the dyna
hitting of his threshing machines. Yet
no serious attempts have been made
by the authorities 10 suppress these
outrages; for officials chosen by fraud
and violence are incapable of eiforc-
ing the law against other offenders. |
| am sir, very truly, Your obi. svt.
S. B. BUCKNER.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-11-01
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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-11-01
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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

On another page in this issue is
report Of how the Farmers Union
fixed the price Of cotton.
It is unusual for the farmers to fix
the price of the great commodity of
the South.
The movement which has been re-
Gently organized, and which promises
great things for the farmers Of the
South, bids fair to become a realiza-
ton Of the progressive thought on
this line for a number of years. The
farmers have never before been able
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
UP TO THE MISSISSIPPI.

The boil weevil has reached cotton
fields in Catahoula parish, twenty-six
miles from the Mississippi river, and
its migration for the season is but
just begun. The insect pest is off
cially reported at Leland, in Cata-
houla parish, which is about central
north and south in Louisiana, and
about abreast of Natchez in Mis-
sissippi. Beyond all doubt, the wee
wills will reach the west bank of
the river before the season is ended,
and some observers think they will
cross the river this year.
But if they do not, then the great
battle against their advance in the
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

ment depends upon thorough cooper
alton. The Wall street manipulation
has had his day. 1t is time to change
the operation Of affairs to the end
Of the line where it rightfully be-
longs. Let the farmer have what is
rightfully his, and the spectators
can have it out between them.-Tal-
lahassee Sun.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
THE sOUTH's UNPEoPLED
REGIONS.

Hardly any one will consider the
South and West as having any COM
mon characteristic. One, we imagine,
is long settled, populous ~and refined;
the other raw with the newness Of
the borderland, and punctuated with
noisy towns separated by long miles
of silence and solitude. It is some
what surprising, then, to read that
the South, in many regions, is so
thinly settled that the land supports
less than one-tenth of the population
which might find an abundant living
there. There are districts almost as
deserted by man as are the vaster re-
gions of the far West; long miles of
rolling farm land, Of timbered tracts
and fertile valleys cleared hundred
years ago, perhaps, and now slipping
into the clutch of forest and under
brush.
One may travel for miles over de-
serted Southern roads where in the
days of our grandfathers planters
galloped blooded horses and ladies in
silks and laces, attended by obsequi-
GUS blacks, rolled along in stately, if
numbering, equipages. To-day these
roads are travelled only by an occas-
ional negro or shiftless "poor white"
going to mill with a bag of corn
thrown over his mules flank; and
one sees only rank growth where
once were titled fields, and novels
or ruins where formerly stood stately
manor houses.
The South needs settlers even as
the West, for during many years the
tide Of emigration has swept past,
bringing to it neither men to toll in
the fields nor in the towns. But the
"new South" which is but the re-
awakened South, is bestirring itself
to repopulate its country districts.
The two Virginias, the Carolinas,
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennes-
see, all are alive to the necessity of
having more husbandmen if they
would have more prosperity, and
their agents are searching through
the countries of Europe to find set
tiers for the now deserted tracts of
prairie, hill and valley land. Before
this invading host the silence and the
solitude must in time retreat and the
rich regions Of the old South will
quicken into new ife.-Chicago Post.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

have been in operation during the
year, IL were idle, and % are in
course Of erection, TO old and out
of-date concerns, which ceased bust
ne6s, having been crossed off the
list.
The years consumption Of cotton
by the mills Of the South has reached
2,439, ,108 bales, a net increase of 64,-
883 bales over the previous year, and
275,6O3 bales over two years ago. AS
In previous years, the Atlantic Coast
States have been the principal seat
OF the cotton manufacturing indus
try in the South, North Carolina be.
ing at the top of the list, with con-
sumption of 733,608 bales, and South
Carolina and Georgia following in
the order named. All these States
have increased their consumption,
whereas Louisiana and Mississippi, i'll
which heretofore but little manufac-
turing has been done, have actually
decreased their consumption, the
former by $40 bales, and the latter
by 1884 bales.
In reference to the general manu-
featuring industry of the United
States, Mr.. Hester says that the past
season as a whole has been one Of
unparalleled activity, the only draw.
back having been the scarcity of la
Dor. The latter was especially evi-
dent in the South, complaints coming
from every State south of Mason and
Dixon's line; that while the con.
sumption as a whole was larger thar
ever before, it was obstructed through
want of sorely needed help; that, in
fact, it was not question of fewer
mill hands, but of more mills and
spindles which could not be properly
manned. AS it was, in round num-
bers, 4,889,000 bales of American
cotton were worked into yarns and
fabrics by American mills, against
4,835,OOO last year, a gain Of $1,000;
that this increase, while in itself
meager compared with the manner IN
which domestic consumption has been
"piling up" during the years of the
near past, comes, it must be remen-
bered, Immediately upon the heels of
the increase of 535,0OO for 1905-0G,
swelling the excess of the two sea-
sons to $4,000 bales.
While the consumption of American
cotton has increased at home it has
increased even more rapidly abroad.
The worlds consumption of Ameri-
can cotton increased $4,000 bales
over the previous year, and Of this
increase $4,000 bales must be credited
to American mills, and 478,000 to
mills abroad. There were exported
to foreign countries of the last crop
1851 ,610 bales, as compared with g..
592,623 bales the year before. These
facts abundantly attest that the pop.
ularity of American cotton is steadi-
ly increasing the world over.-New
Orleans Picayune.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.

yune will be found copious extracts
from the annual report of Colonel
III. G. Hester, secretary of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, on the
movement and distribution of the
American cotton crop Of last season
end August 81 ult. The leading
totals Of this report we're made pub
lie promptly ON the close Of the sea-
son, two weeks ago, but the complet-
ed report has been delayed until now,
owing to temporary indisposition
of the author.
Secretary Hester puts the cotton
crop of 1906-07 at 13,510,982 bales,
an increase Of 2,164,994 over that
of 1905-06, a decrease of 3,449,608
over that Of 10000. He says, COM
pared with last year the excess has
been entirely in Texas, including In
dian Territory and what are termed
the "other Gulf States,'' which, to-
gether, marketed in round figures g.
274,0OO bales more, while the group
of Atlantic States, embracing Ala
bama, Georgia, Florida, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Kentucky and
Virginia, lost 100000 bales.
Although the past crop has fallen
a trife short of the crop of two sea-
sons previous, it has actually netted
very much larger return to the cot
ton producers than the record crop
of 19O4-05. Secretary Haster puts
the average commercial value of this
crop at $53O2, against $56.56 last
year, $46.31 the year before, and
$61.68 in 10000, and points out that
for the first time in history the
cotton crop of the United States
brought over seven hundred millions
of dollars, this computation being
based on prices which cotton brought
at Southern centers, that is within
the compass of the Cotton Belt; that
it brought seventy-fve million dol
lars more than last season, and over
eighty-eight millions in excess Of the
great crop of 19O4-O5, although it
was less an bales by about $4,000.
The total value Of the crop Mr.. Hes
ter makes $716,352, ,265, against $641,-
72O,434 last year, and $62S,195, 1859
the year before.
1t is not surprising that with such
results from the marketing of sin
gle cotton crop, general bust
ness In the South has been prosper
Gus, and that the entire section has
enjoyed degree of prosperity pre-
viously unknown in this part of the
country in modern times. It is also
probable that had it not been for the
big storm Of September last, which
undoubtedly materially lowered the
average grade of the crop, the money
results would have been even greater,
just as the yield would also in all
probability have run ahead of the
record crop of two seasons previous.
The commercial crop approximated
more closely the actual growth Of
the season than usual, showing that
the demand for cotton has been so
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
WATsoNs WEEKLY JEFFERsoNIAN.
or INTEREST TO WEALTH CREATORS

to fix the price of cotton, because
they had no organization.
Wall street has heretofore con-
trolled the price of cotton. AS pre-
posterous as this seems, it has been
fact, and the farmers have in years
past been compelled to take less than
the cost Of production for cotton
when the demand for the product
was such as to place the price natu-
rally far beyond it.
Somebody reaped the reward Of the
farmers labor, but the farmer didn t.
He, the foundation Of all prosperity,
has done with half rations and double
labor, while the spectators and ma
nipulators laughed in their sleeves at
his stupidity and sported at expen-
sive villas and winter resorts.
A change for the betterment Of the
farmers seems near. The patriotic
few who have labored all these years
for this consummation are beginning
to see a tangible result Of their
thought and labor. The farmers are
organizing. The meeting of the In
terstate Farmers Union at Little
Rock recently was an inspiration to
these leaders. Nearly two million
farmers were represented at that
meeting.
Farmers don't go to conventions
for fun and frolic. When. they get
on their Sunday best and start out
to meeting, it means business.
They went to Little Rock for bust
ness. They fixed the price of cotton
for the month of September at fifteen
cents, and for each succeeding month
at an advance of one-quarter Of a
cent per month during the season.
IF the members of the association
stick to that agreement, the farmers
will get what they demand. It is
obliged to be so. The demand is live
~. Warehouse receipts can always
be cashed.
The farmer is a dictator. He is
not lately come into this power. He
has always had it, but he has never
asserted his dictatorship. This has
been due to lack of organization and
cooperation.
That the New York Stock Exchange
should fix the price of cotton is as
irreconcilable to the natural laws of
trade as the idea of a pineapple ex-
change in the Klondike. This idea is
borrowed, but it is apt.
The producer is the person to place
the price on the product. He knows
what it costs to produce. He knows
better than any one else what ele-
ments of expense enter into the pro-
duction. He can be trusted to place
just price on it, for the farmer is
tho honest class of this country. He
is man of simple mien and habits.
He Is not versed in the ways of high
finance. He Is not a person Of vic
ious inclination or extravagant de-
sires. He seeks only just return
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22

The following extract is taken from
an address by Burton w. Potter before
the New England club at Waterville
Me-:
Having fixed our ideal as to size and
dairy qualities, there arises the inter
esting question. How shall we attain
it?'' AS the bull is half of the herd, |
will begin with him. The first requisite
OF a bull TO head herd of cows is one
that will sire deep milking offspring
and endow them with vigorous consti-
tutions. In the selection Of young
dairy bull we must take into account
his individuality and his pedigree.
When he is old enough TO have his of
spring speak for themselves Ii is rca-
sonably safe to select him upon his
record OF performance But as mat
ter of fact we usually select him when
he is quite young. and in that case we
are obliged TO fall back upon his pedi-
gree and the performance Of his for
bears, for IL is hard TO tell what calf
Is going TO he before he is six or eight
months old.
In the beef breeds n calf can be judg'
ed by points much easier than in the
dairy breeds. For them a square form
is the chief qualification, while in the
dairy breeds many Of the dairy points
do not show mp prominently in calf.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22

Business is booming with the Alma
Grain & Lumber Co. Since taking pos
session of the Alma Roller Mills they
have arranged with all Alma grocers to
handle their flour so the mill no longer
sells direct to consumers. In the past
ten days they have received three cars
of wheat, and shipped to their New
England trade, five cars of -four aud
feed. There is also something doing NJ
their lumber yards planning mill. eleven
car loads Of lumber having toon r.-
ceiyed and four cars sold.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22
Need Of Nutrition. Food.

In all pure breeds the original scrub
blood at the foundation is ever seeking
TO relnstate itself In short. there is
tendency in all pure bred animals 20
degenerate or retrogress toward origi-
nal and less perfect types. and nothing
will more surely and speedily stimu-
late this tendency than lack Of nutri-
tious food I'm the absence Of sufficient
nutrition the possibilities of perfection
Inherited from pure bred sires or dams
hut partially materialize or wholly fail
20 assert themselves.-Wis Tx
pertinent Station.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22
MAIxsrAY's eLEswooD BOY.


IL we find the color good. the hair fine
and soft and the skin pliable. with iD-
dications of a strong constitution, we
are pleased. and II these points are for
tilted by good breeding. we are reason
ably safe in selecting him for use IN
our herds, but there is always some
chance for disappointment when bull
is chosen in this way. | think we run
more chances in this respect than we
need 10.
If we would utilize the services of the
good old bulls more than we do. we
should avoid some chances of disaI-
pointment and improve our stock also.
We have fallen into the bad habit Of
sending our bulls 10 the shambles when
three or four years old and generally
before we know the qualities OF their
offspring. ana in this way many of our
finest bulls have been slaughtered pre-.
maturely.
] think our breeding bulls should he
kept i'm service until their offspring
have been tested. If their offspring
prove 10 he unworthy. then the sooner
they are slaughtered the better. ON
the other hand. if their offspring prove
TO be worthy. then they should he kept
In service FOR many years. or course
there is danger of too much inbred
ing when kept in the same herd. but II
is not necessary TO keep them In the
same herd They can be sold for use
in other herds. or their owners might
probably exchange them. Farmers
sometimes trade horses. and why should
they not trade bulls also?
! The Danes are certainly excellent
dairymen. and they do not sacrifice
their aged bulls as we do here They
keep their breeding bulls until they
/ have been tested. and when one has
proved himself OF merit as sire he is
kept until he has reached the maxi
mum age. A bull is not eligible TO reg.
istration MS Il pure bred till he is three
years old and has demonstrated his
usefulness as sire. Would IL not be
well for us to change our rules of reg
stry TO conform TO this sensible sys
tenn OF the Danish breeders?
How often we are ready to exchange
the old bull that has n splendid crop
OF calves TO attest his merit for some
young bull with good conformation and
pedigree, but without any record as a
sire! And how often at public sales OF
pure bred cattle do we see some aged
bull with splendid record sold at a
great sacrifice, while some young bull
with no record is purchased at big
price by some one with great expecta
lions. This sacrificing OF good old bulls
Is foolish practice. and il is time 70"
us 10 show more Judgment than TO let
good sires go begging.
The handsome Guernsey bull shown
in the Illustration, reproduced from
Country Gentleman. is son OF Glen
woods Mainstay and Jewel OF Had
Ton. He is In service In the highly Sc
iect and very choice Morven Park
Guernsey herd property Of Westmorc
land Davis. Leesburg. Loudoun county.
Va. This herd was recently enriched
by one OF the most important importa-
tons OF pure bred live stock that have
been made into this country In years.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22


appeared before legislative committees Minnesota recently
and confronted with all of railroad tariffs Nobody asked
about They all wanted know whether thought certain
In | admitted they They
asked why permitted the Great Western unfair
Nv answer that it BEYOND Ny POWER change
them. That could be done only by MANY RAILROADS ACT
ING TOGETHER.
Consider what Minnesota has donepaed law reducing freight
and another making mile the fare both
penal which the railroads CANNOT GET INTO
COURT
Freight should be advanced but way of doing that
There many CONFLICTING INTERESTS The interstate
commission should have lat power has the power
REDUCE
As the railroad side of the question: stated time that
reduction of per of last wears earnings would WIPE
OUT the average railroad dividend.
CONSIDERING REDUCTION THAT WOULD BE
LEolsLAToN PER
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22

The world has very many lambs whose
owners names are hid. and yet these
lambs grew wool as white as Mays ever
did OF course the fame OF Mary's
lamb Is not AZ al surprising; twas
brought about by stanard's Rexali adj
verising. +
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-22
Administration Is the
Principle For Colonies.

DEMONSTRATIONS is the principle upon which colonial
- policy should proceed FOR \ CENTURY TO COME
Il Wherever have departed from the idea Of adnsnisa
ton such have made which natural condi
lions will gradually COMPEL II o
Not sudden self peoples who have learned
tie alphabet of liberty; rr,r independence Tor Islands whose
ignorant, suspicious and primitive inhabitants lett themselves.
VOL Id PREY UPON ONE ANOTHER until they become the
inevitable spoil of other anything but the discharge Of
national national duty wards 10y
COMMON SENSE METHODS will achieve the welfare of
bring the civilized work which
called and the management of dependencies
PRACTICAL ADMINISTRATIONS of government until
trained CONTINUOUS industry and in orderly
liberty.
ACQUIRED
CHARACTER THROUGH