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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-24

conspiracy, even.
And it would seem that President Lindsay
entered into Livingston's little game. It would
seem that it was through Lindsay that Living
ston administered his snub and borrowed his
false plumage.
The Georgia Convention of the R. F. D. men
expressly instructed Lindsay to invite Mr..
Watson to the Convention. Mr.. Lindsay posi-
lively promised to do so.
Let Mr.. Lindsay deny this and we will con-
front him with witnesses from among the R.
F. D. men.
Mr. Lindsay then said that he was not only
willing to extend the invitation, but would be
delighted to do So
Thus lulled the R. F. D. men into state
of confidence. They had no suspicion that their
President was playing them false.
At that time, it is probable that Lindsay
meant to do what he promised. 1t is probable
that Lon Livingston got in his work later.
Being a Congressman and a member of the
Appropriations Committee, it was in Living
ston's power to do certain things for Lindsay.
And, previous to an election Livingston can
be lavish in promises.
Therefore, it is easy to understand how
working basis" may have been reached by
Lindsay and Livingston. What the trade was,
we will perhaps learn hereafter.
By the time the indignant r. F. D. men get
done with their deceptive President, he will
doubtless realize that nothing which Living
ston can do for him will compensate him for
what he has lost.
But why should anybody suspect that Clark
Howell was party to the conspiracy?
We do not believe that he was There is no
conceivable motive. Mr.. HowelTs speech, it
is true, did not give credit to Mr.. Watson for
the R. F. D., but neither did it give credit to
Livingston. Clark said, in effect, that it was
either Watson or Livingston that started the
ball. but that he had been so busy, or some
thing, that he had not investigated the
caseeand did not know, with precision and
fnalty, just who ought to wear the honors
When it is borne in mind that old Lon was
sitting there simultaneously wearing said
honors, Clark's speech was fairly bold speech
1t isn't every person present at court who
will mar the amenities of the occasion by chal-
lenging the right of the sovereign to wear the
crown
So, all things considered, I think Clark did
mighty we'll.
His speech, laid side by side with that edito-
rial in fhe Journal, came near enough to being
one more pea of the same sort in the same
pod
The fact of the business is, Democratic
editors find themselves greatly harassed and
harried these days; and the amused public
must not be too exacting.
True, Clark Howell has editorially declared
that Watson was the author of the R. F. D.
system; but that was several years ago. There
is no use for us to be unreasonable in dealing
with these Democratic editors. It's as much
as they can do to remember the editorials
they wrote last month. If they were required
to live by what they wrote years ago the stu
alton would simply be scandalous.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-24
Where Was Jim?

Our Tariff laws compel the American mer-
chant to buy his ship in the monopolized
"Home Market"
European merchants, such as Englishmen
and Germans, are allowed to buy their ships
wherever they can buy them cheapest
The result is that the European merchant
gets cheaper vessel than the American mer-
chant. Therefore, the European can afford
lower freight rate than the American mer-
chant.
Result: the American merchant cannot COM
pete for the business and the European gets
What is the remedy which common sense
would suggest?
Allow the American merchant the same priv
ilege enjoyed by the German and the English
man. Let him buy his ship wherever he can
get it on the best terms
But the Tarif-spawned Trusts and confed-
Grated Interests" will not hear to this They
want the common people taxed to make up to
the American merchant, the difference in cost
between the home-built ship and the cheaper
foreign ship.
The measure which proposed to tax the COM
mon people for the benefit of few merchants
was known as the "Ship Subsidy BILL"
The Ship-Subsidy thieves wanted Congress
to let them take out the tax-money of the peo-
pie huge sum of money, as a bounty, as a
donation, as free gift to the American mer-
chants who carry ocean freights.
Owing to the poor leadership of John Sharp
Williams, this vilainous Ship Subsidy bill
passed the House.
At the-critical moment in the fight, there was
much lodging on the part of certain members.
One of the Congressman who failed to show
up when most needed was Jim Griggs of
Georgia
Where were you, Jim?
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-24
Hob AbOut That Conspiracy 2

Hob About That Conspiracy
Mr.. J. c. Flanagan, writing from Lawrence
vile, Ga, sends to the Atlanta Journal most
interesting letter.
Mr.. Flanagan states the snub administered
to Mr. Watson by the r. F. D. Convention
was the result of conspiracy between Lon
Livingston, President Lindsay, and Clark
Howell.
What?
How is it possible that this can be true?
1t is not possible.
Lon Livingston would of course, do any
thing and everything to gain votes just at this
time, for his job as Congressman is about to
slip out of his paws. He is now posing as
Farmers Friend, Laboring Mans Friends
and Everybodys Friend-for an election is
ahead of him. Once the day of election is
passed, Lon Livingston will be the same old
thing that he has been during the seventeen
years of his disreputable career in Congress
the Office-jobber's Friend the Appropriations
hunters Friend, the Subsidy-hunter's Friend
and, above all, the Southern Railroads Friend.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Lon Liv-
ingston should be eager to conspfe with any
body and everybody if, by so doing, he can ap-
pear before a respectable body of men, in the
credtable attitude of having originated so ben
efcent measure as the R. F. D. service.
1t not being possible for him to appear re-
specially, save when appearing in false col
ors, he resorts to conspiracy, from the neces-
sity of the case Not single line has he ever
placed upon the statute book in favor of the
R. F. D. system; and not single one of the
great reforms which he used to preach, with
tearfulness and hypocritical whines, as Farm
ers' Alliance President, has he ever made the
slightest effort to secure for the honest but
deluded men whose votes put him into Con-
gress.
Among all the accidents" that were lifted
into power by the Farmers Alliance, none was
lifted from a lower depth and boosted into
greater elevation than this same Lon Living
StOn.
His name reeked of Marble Lobby and Ma
con Fair Scandals. He had to beg and cry and
whine, in the Agricultural Society, to keep
down. open exposure and disgrace The Atlanta
Constitution contemptuously classed him as
the Thirty Dollar Mantle reference being
to his taking service under the Marble Lobby
which was scheming to exploit the state in the
building of Our new capitol.
But he wormed himself into the upper cir
cles of the Farmers Alliance identified him
&sef with the Farmers as their most devoted
champion, won the confidence of men who
were too honest to suspect the true charac-
ter of such man as Lon Livingston, and thus
got himself into Congress. ~
Once in Office, he stopped his championship
of the "down-trodden" laborng classes, and
hecame smooth, artful, selfish and thoroughly
unscrupulous placeman.
The man being absolutely devoid of convic-
ton or principle, the Congressman has been
utterly null, so far as rendering service to
his country is concerned, and notoriously evil
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR
ANCE.

Our city was stirred, on Tues.
day, by the fact that Miss Vir-
ginia Young, the pretty daughter
of Mr.. Stiles Young, (who lives
in the Weisenburgh fiat, over Mr..
Bowen Henry's meat market, on
Main street). had disappeared
Monday night.
Diligent search had been made
and no trace of the missing girl
could be found.
There was no known cause Of
the girls disappearance.
She was handsome girl, 16
years of age, a close student in
the city schools, and popular with
those who knew her.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
SATURDAYS WRECK ON L
& n. r. r.

On Saturday morning, just
before daylight, section of a G..
& o. freight train, going East,
was left just this side of the Wal
cult cut, east of the tunnel, while
the engin, and the rest of the
train went on to Jets. 1t is sup
posed those train men left with
the caboose and back section must
have gone to sleep, while awaiting
the return of the engine, for there
were no lights or signals out.
The switch engine from the L..
& n. yards was sent up tho hill
and, in the darkness, ran into the
caboose and was ditched. Luckily
no one was hurt, and the only
damage was the ditching of the
engine and delaying of the trains
On both ends of the road.
The engine was finally returned
to the track, the road cleared and
all trains went out about clock
p. m.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
BUYS FAYETTE FARM.

On Saturday last Admiral Chap
man Coleman Todd purchased
from U. S. Senator J. w. Bailey
his farm, known as the Freeman
farm, lying on the Versailles
pike, four miles from Lexington,
containin, 1913 acres, for 5000 an
acre.
The farm is a splendid piece Of
land, under high state of culti-
walton, and good Improvements.
Admiral Todd is now living with
his mother-in-law, Mrs. James,
near Wiley Station, aud not i'll
this city as stated by the daily
papers.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
PROMINENT LADY DIES.

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Innes,
widow of the late Mr.. H. B.
Innes, died at her home, on the
Peaks Mill pike, on Tuesday
night last, aged about 70 years.
Mrs. lines maiden name was
Hudson, her father having been a
magistrate for several terms. She
was a woman of wide information
and great intelligence-being an
omnivorous reader--keeping up
with the advancements of the
age.
Mrs. Innes was a member of
the Christian Church, and had
bsOu from. her giElaOsd.,--- - -
She leaves a family of nine
children-four sons CDR. H. B.
lines, Jr., of Render, Ky; Alex.
II. Innes, of New York City;
James w. lines, of Logansport,
Ind, and VIM. T. Innes, of this
county,; and five daughters Mrs.
Susan Graves, of Logansport,
lid; Miss Hannah Innes, of
Mexico: Misses Margaret and
Frank Innes, and Mrs. Samuel M.
Brown, of New York City,.
Her husband was a prominent
and highly respected citizen of
this comfy, serving one term as
high sheriff. He was a grandson
of U. S. District Judge Harry
Innes, one of the first, if not the
first, District Judges to serve after
Kentucky was made State.
The funeral services will be
conducted from the family resi-
dence this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
end the burial take place in the
family buying ground, at the
home farm.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
FRANKFORT. Jan. 10, 1907.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

In a short time we will begin
sending out our bills for subscrip-
tion to the ROUNDABOUT.
We trust that our patrons will
take time by the forelock and will
pay up their arrearages before
these reminders are sent to them.
There are q lumber of our pa
irons who owe us two or more years
subscription, and, while these
may be small sums to them, the
aggregate to us amounts to quite
respectable fiugres.
We do not wish to discontinue
any subscription, but those who
owe and will not pay, after a rea-
senable time, will have to be cut
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
TRIAL START AT GLASS
WORKS.

Mr.. R. d. Armstrong brought
to our office sample of the flint
glass, which will be made at the
Modes Glass Works, on Wednes-
day afternoon. A trial run or
two have been made to test the
workings of the new furnaces.
1t was as clear an pretty as any
glass We ever saw.
The works Will soon be under
way in earnest.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
Tooth BIRTHDAY OF GEN.
ROBT. E. LEE.

Joseph H. Lewis Chapter, U.
D. c., the Confederate Veterans
Association and Fayette Hewitt
Chapter, Sons of the Confederacy,
will celebrate the Tooth anniver-
.ary of the birth of Gen. Robt. f.
Lee this Saturday. evening, at
the Parish House of Ascension
Church.
Mr.. Lewis McQuown will be
the orator of the occasion.
Everybody invited to attend.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-19
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Officer Kills Man in Self-Defense.

On Wednesday night last Officer
VIM. Hayden was called to the
Aldridge house, on the corner of
Broadway and Washington
streets, by the occupants to try
and quiet James Sudduth (who
occupies a portion of the house,,
but who was drinking and annoy
ing some young ladies in the
house.
When Officer Hayden, who had
been summoned by telephone, ar
rived at the scene, he found Mr..
Finnie Bryant (who also lives in
the house), trying to persuade
Sudduth to GO up stairs to bed.
The two men finally succeeded
in getting Sudduth to his room
and agreeing to 90 to bed. Hay
den them started down the steps
with lamp in his hand. Just as
he reached the landing place
below, he heard Sudduth exclaim
Here 1 am after you, like brave
man," and looking up he found
the muzzle of q dou ble-barreled
shotgun leveled on him, and.
before he,could move, a shot rang
out and load of buckshot whizzed
within few inches of his head,
burying themselves in the door
and wall.
Quickly realizing that he must
act rapidly, the officer still hold
ing the lamp in his left hand,
drew his pistol and fired three
shots as fast as the mechanism of
his gun would work. One shot
took effect in Sudduth's abdomen,
severing an artery and producing
death in a few moments. One
shot went through Sudduth's
pants and the other went wild.
Sudduth fell to the floor, still
grasping the gun, with the other
barrel socked, but was so badly
wounded that he could not use it.
Mr.. A. D. Brown and Mr.. Fin
ME Bryant took the gun out of
Sudduth's hands and placed him
on the he'd. Drs. Fish and Kel-
Ter we're summoned, but when
they reached the scene Sudduth
was dead.
Officer Hayden at once sur.
rendered himself and was taken
by Chief of Police Mangan before
Judge J. H. Polsgrove, who re-
leased him on his own recognizance
to await the action of the grand
jury.
Coroner Graham took charge of
the body and held an inquest, the
jury returning a verdict in ac-
count with the facts.
Sudduth leaves a wife and three
children. He is we'll connected
in the county. He has paid the
penalty for his misdeeds, and
many hearts will bleed.
Officer Hayden has the SYM
pathy Of the public in his misfor-
tune, which, however much he
may be blameless, will be source
of sorrow henceforth. He seems
to bear a charmed life, as, once
before, he was shot squarely in
the abdomen, and was thought to
be mortally wounded, but it
turned out to be only slight
flesh wound, the ball barely pene-
trating the skin. The marvel is
that he was not instantly killed
this time, as Sudduth was so close
to him that it was almost
miracle that he was not killed.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
Sugar Statisticts

The cons1 mptioR of sugar in the United States is Increasing rapidly, more rapidly than is the production. During the year just ended we used theenormous amount of 6,50O,O0o,000 pounds of sugar, worth $500, ,OOo,0O0. If each citizen got his fair share during the twelve months he consumed 7G pounds. 0f this sugar only one-fffh was pro duced in the United States; one fifth came from islands posses sNns. and three f1ftlls was i'm ported from foreign countries. Of the American-produced sugar, a little over half was from the sugar beet, the remainder from cane. This is the first time the beet-sugar has exceeded in quan- tity that manufactured from sugar cane. During the last ten years the increase in the con- sumption of sugar has been three times as great as the increased domestic production. Scientific American.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
4 Semarkabie Masonic Incideas

The first Masonic funeral that ever occurred in California took place in 1919, and was performed over a brother found drowned in the bay of San Francisco. An account of the ceremonies states
 that on the body of the deceased was found a silver mark of Mason, upon which were engrav- ed the initials of his name. 4 little further investigation reveal ed to the beholder the most sin
 gular exhibition of Masonic emblems that was ever drawn by the ingenuity of man upon the human skin. There is nothing in the history of tradition of Freemasonry equal to it. Beau tifuliy dotte q on his left arm, in red and blue ink, which time could not efface appeared all the emblens of the entire appren
 ticeship. There was the Holy
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
The Motae- anad the Or owing Boy

"A boys life goes forward by leaps and bounds after he passes the nursery stage" writes Mar garet E. Sangester in Wonan's Home Companion for April. At least it seems so to his mother. There is day when his father remoustr&tes about those babyish curls that are so beautiful, and that the mother twines around her fingers with such care and pride. The boy has began to hate them, and he goes joyously to the barber's to have them cut of. As the shears separate each
 soft ringlet, the mother feels as
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09

if something precious was sever ed frem her very heart. She gathers them up and lays them away, and as her little lad walks beside her with stuc0ier step than before she realizes that the coming dawn of his manhood is quickening on the horizon
 There is the day when she sees her boy, a gallant little figure, with his hands in his pockets, looking an inch taller than yesterday, because he is dressed less like a little girl and more like the boy across the street whom he has secretly envied. Those pockets mark an era ia boyisn development. Are they not distinctivelS 6 badge of sex? Surely considering that man has fourteen pockets and a woman none at all, the day
 when the boy first realizes that he has pockets and that they are
 to hold whatever he pleases, is a great day for him. The boy has
 his own happy day, too, when he first puts on real pair of stout
 shoes, shoes in which he may
 run and jump and kick a ball. .''
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
Ncw IS Thas Fer Big Ones?

All liars are not dead. Tie Mobile News says an artist in that city painted cog so natural that the animal had nydcophobia during the hot weather. He is the same man wEo painted a copy of a beer bottle with such skill that the cork few just as he was finishing if. And after he was married he painted a picture of his first baby so life-like that 1t cried and his wife spanked it before she discovered the mistake Exchange
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
FOR SALE By L. E. kRSHKA

Bible, square and compass, the twenty four inch ga auge and com mon gayel. There was also the Masonic pavement, repres enting the ground floor of King Soloman $ temple, the indented tessel which surrounds 1t and the blazing star in the center. On his right arm, and artistically excuted in the same indeIble liquid, were the emblems pertaining to the Eel lowcraft's degree, viz: The square, the level and the plumb. l There was also tie five columns representing the five orders of architecture; the Tuscan Doric. Ionic, Corinthian and Composite In removing his garments iron his body, the trowel presentea itself with all the other tools of operative masonry. Over his heart was the pot of incense. On other parts of his body was the bee hive, the book of constitu- tions, gaurded by Tyler's sword, pointing to naked heart, the All Seeing Eye, the anchor, and the ark. the hour-glass the scythe, l the forty seventh problem of Euclid, the sun, moon, stars. and comets; the three steps which are emblematical of youth, man. hood and age. Admirably execut- ed was the weeping virgin, reclining epon s broken column, upon which lay @ book of con- stitutionS. In her right hand she held the pot of incense, the Masonic emblem of a pure heart and in her left hand a sprig of acacia. the emblem of the i'm mortality of the soul. Immedia- tely beneath her stood Time with his scythe by his side, which cuts the brittle thread of life, and the hour-glass at bis feet, which is ever reminding us that life is whitening away. The withered and attenuated fingers of the destroyer were placed amid the flowing ringlets of the disconsolate mourner. Thus were striking emblems of morali- ] ty blended in one pictorial re presentation. It was a spectacle such as Maso12s never saw be fore, and in all probability such as the fraternity win never witness again. The brother's name was never l.n own. .-Phila delphia Age
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09

The following paragraph is from an exchange and contains a whole lot of truth: Move on or get outsof the way Did you ever drive cattle oe9 of Len: If you haze. yog have often seer an -ol3 COW stop in the gate and horn everything back. There are lots Of people IT tt.s country just ike the old COZ, thev stand in the pathway of success and horn everything down that for the better Dent e our town and country -Exctange
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09

Good roads will lead to the general improvement Of the coun- try. The farmer who drives to and from town ever 6 spacious, smooth well cared for road will EJnconciously come to effect cor responding improvements the management sll& gQperati0n.of the farm.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-09
The Wiiv Politician

Tn ere are now two great far mers' organizations in the South. One is composed entirely of farmers, just as was the Farmers Alliance, and naturally this CT ganizatiou will be the one which the willy and oily tongued politi- clan will endeayor to seduce in his own interest. The work has already begun, it is being public l ly discu Ssed and candidates are busy in many counties, at least in one large cotton growing state, if reports received are to be cred ted If states can be worked and the farmers movement to organize all over the Union sue ceeds, the time is not far distant when politicians who aspire to great national honors will be actively playing their trade and setting their traps to catch the interstate vote under the old plan of rounding the farmers up and passing the word along through leaders who can be controlled. God save the country from any such disaster again.
 The only hope of the farmers to maintain their business or ganiGations for effective work is to steer clear of the politician and his indigidiouS influences. The politician offering for office and who makes himself too con spicuous in an advisory capacity as to how farmers organizations should be conducted ought to bel let reiigiously alone. Such men have no real interest in the wei fare of the farmers. They are playing for power and political control.
 It makes no special difference to them whether cotton is F cents or 6 cents. They appear only on the surface and give ad- vice when they see a chance of developing enough popularity among the farmers to count votes for their own purpose.
 The time has passed, it is to be sincerely hoped, when southern farmers can be roped and led to 10 the polls as in the days of the Alliance. The people are think ing fer themselves, they are reading and seeking information of higher order than that which comes from the tongue or pen of the modern slick-tongued politi- clan. Farmers all oyer the South are warned now as they were .. never warned before. Watch the men of the political arena who are becoming so in- terested in the welfare of the farmers all of a sudden and ap- pealing to their prejudices; cut them oat and the country will prosper, the farmers will win in their heroic struggles and the whole country will enjoy an era of unalloyed prosperity.
 The politician who makes it his business to farm the unspspicious farmer is a man without principle and a canker on the shoulders of the people which should be quickly thrown of Gotten Journal