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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
BRYAN COULD HARM.
Danger of Placing Nebraskan In
White House.
EVEN WITH SENATE OPPOSED.

Administration and Enforcement of
Laws Would Be In His Hands-The
Treasury Would Be Under His
Thumb-National Banks Would Be
at His Mercy.
Nobody with brains enough to get in
out Of a blizzard can have patience
with the argument so complacently put
forth by some of the Bryanites who
want to humbug others into believing
what they don't believe themselves
that Bryan can do no harm should he
be elected. The usual way of putting
1t is that there will be a Republican
senate and probably a Republican
house and that Bryan's hands will be
tied even if his tongue continues to
wag-certainly a poor reason for elect
ing president even were 1t true.
But 1t is not true. A grammar school
boy who has studied the constitution
Of the United States knows that OF
course Bryan as president in face Of a
sane congress could not pass laws. But
the whole administration of national
laws, including their enforcement.
which is at least as important as pass
ing them, would be in his hands He
would have the treasury under his
thumb; the national banks would be
at the mercy of a comptroller of the
currency appointed by him; the foreign
policy of the government would be di-
rected by him. and ambassadors, min
listers and consuls would be named by
him. The army and navy would be I'M
der his command. Collectors, postmas-
tiers and other officials of the civil serv-
ice would be nominated by him While
he could not establish "a tariff for rev.
enue only" he could make things much
smoother and easier for the class that
come back from European trips loaded
with all sorts of luxuries purchased
abroad to the detriment of American
labor
Then he could smash any bank that
might offend him by not going into his
compulsory guarantee scheme, Just as
his campaign treasurer, Governor Has
kell, smashed the International Bank
Of Coalgate. OKLA, to make a demon
stration of the guarantee law for the
Democratic Denver convention.
Oh, yes, Bryan could do harm-so
much harm that it might take the coun-
try many long years to recover from
the damage done by four years of
Bryan In the White House.
But Bryan will do no harm because
he will not have the opportunity, be-
cause the American people are going to
elect as their president William IT
Taft, the candidate of the Republican
party, the impartial judge, the con
structive statesman, the man of whom
Mckinley said "He is the broadcast
and most unselfshly brave man know
and will carry the constitution of the
United States in his very blood"
Taft's election will be an assurance
that the voters of the United States are
determined to have In the White House
one whose presence there will be in
itself pledge Of good government, Of
efficient and equitable administration
of the laws, Of intellectual and educa-
tional Advancement and of progress
and prosperity In the material affairs
Of the republic.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
AMERICAN GOODS ABROAD.
Policy Of Cheaper Sales Has Consent
of Both Parties.


Of Both Parties.
Secretary Shaw estimates that out
Of every $1,000 worth of manufactures
exported from this country 80 cents
worth are sold abroad cheaper than at
home So far the complaint of the
Democrats that our manufactures sell
abroad cheaper than at home seems to
be true. But this is not as great a dis
count in the export trade as the ad-
vantage given to manufactures in the
importation of raw materials, that they
may employ American labor at Amer
lean wages in the manufacture of goods
that are to be sold abroad in competi-
ton.
1t has been the policy of the Repub-
llcan party for number Of years to
encourage such competition in foreign
markets. The drawback on materials
imported for manufactures that are TO
be exported is not peculiar to the
Dingley law The same provision was
in the Mckinley law. and it was incor-
porated in the Wilson-Gorman law by
when the Dingley act was passed be-
cause 1t became the policy of the gov
eminent by common consent of both
parties
Last year we imported $10,000.000
worth of materials which went into
manufactures for export, and the draw
back was paid on about 3 per cent Of
our imports. This would make it pos
sible for the American manufacturers
to sell about 3 per cent of their exports.
or $120,OO0,OOO worth. cheaper abroad
than at home. The advantage given by
the drawback was given for the pur-
pose OF enabling them to go into for
eign markets and compete, even If
they had to sell cheaper than at home.
And this advantage was given in the
Democratic tariff act Of 1894 just as 1t
had been in the Mckinley act Of 1890
and as it Is now given by the Dingley
act of 1897
II is therefore not a partisan ques-
ton, because it has had recognition
from both political parties 1t is a
part Of the policy to meet competition
In foreign markets rather than protec-
ton for the home market Its definite
purpose is to enable manufacturers in
this country to give employment to
American labor for the production Of
goods for consumption in Europe in
stead of leaving that manufacture to
European producers employing Euro
pean labor.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
Easy Money.

Theodore Hook was one Of the Gar
rick clubs most famous members. He
generally arrived at the club late in
the afternoon and "never went home
till morning" He had been told by
the doctors. he said, to avoid the night
air. A member of the club in Hooks
time predicted the advent of the NIL
lennium at the end of three years.
"Al right" cried Hook. "Give me a
five pound note now. and l will repay
you ESQ at the millennium"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
THE BRYAN PARROT.
The Same Feathered Nuisance That
Sereeehed In 1896.

In nos. as in 1900 and 1896. the dom
inabt voice in the Bryan campaign is
the voice of the parrot 1t is just as
shril, just as insistent and just as
meaningless as it was twelve years
ago and is bound to become quite as
wearisome TO the public.
In 1896 the sleek. green parrot of
Organism teetered to and fro upon his
comfortable swing and screeched
Free silver Free silverr' That was
the only phrase the bird could utter,
and its dismal iteration so exasper-
ated the people that they grabbed the
noisy parrot from his perch and cast
him into the garbage heap.
But the plumed nuisance survived
and appeared in the campaign of 1900
with a brand new scream. This time
It was imperialism! Imperialism
To the unthinking that alarmist cutlery
was momentarily terrifying, suggest
ing thrones and tyrants bent on OPP
pressing the people, But it never
scared the sane people themselves
even for a moment. They knew 1t
was the same old parrot singing the
same old tune with merely a change
of words. To every challenge to a dis
cussion Of real political issues the par
rot made but one reply-"Imperial-
ismw-and again the feathered pest
was torn from his perch and tossed
into the junk pile by the public whose
patience he had exhausted.
With his inability either to charm or
frighten, so rudely demonstrated In two
successive trials, an ordinary parrot
would have dedicated himself to a fu-
ture Of silent meditation on the follies
of talking too much. But the Bryan
parrot is an extraordinary parrot, not
an ordinary one, and the campaign of
1908 finds him perched aloft again
with another screed wherewith to af-
fright the timid and amuse the thought
full. His cry this year-and its accents
show that it has been rehearsed with
rare patience-is, Shall the people
ruler" 1t fits the parrots voice to per
lection, and. though it is as empty as
his own head, he accompanies it with
an uprolling of his eyes that might
scare people IL they could forget for
moment that it is only a parrot
screech, after ALL
The voice of the Bryan parrot is I'M
changed. 1t is as rasping, monotonous
and as lacking in the note Of sincerity
as it was twelve years ago. The sense
less Shrek of Free silver" could not
mislead the people in 1896. The alarm
list scream of imperialism" never dis
turbed their composure for a single
moment in 1900. And the shrin, in
sulting screech, "Shall the people
ruler can have no other result than
to provoke their angry contempt in
1908.
Parrot politics will not do this year.
Serious questions are before the peo-
pie for discussion and settlement. Pub
lie attention cannot be drawn away
from them either by the witless chat
ter Of parrots or the theatrical tricks
of demagogues. This Is no more a par
rot year than was 1900 or 1896.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
DEMOCRAT ADVOCATES
NEGRO DISFRANCHlSEMENT.

National Committeeman Atwood, Bry-
ans Close Friend, Openly Favors
Taking Vote From coIored Men Of
Kansas.
Disfranchlsement of as many colored
voters as possible is advocated by John
II. Atwood, Democratic national com
mitteman from Kansas, chairman Of
the speakers bureau of the Democratic
national committee, one of Bryan's
closest friends and a man who, it is
said, Mr.. Bryan intends to make at
torney general II he should be elected
president.
Disfranchisement Of the colored men
Of Kansas was advocated by Mr.. At
wood in the following letter published
in the Kansas City Post of Kansas
City, Kan, May Z, 1908:
Letter Urging Disfranehissment.
by one Of those strange ironies Of
fate which sometimes overtake the
benefactors Of individuals, peoples or
races the state Of Kansas, which has
done more perhaps for the negro than
any other state In the Union, is
now suffering a grievous political
wrong from the hands Of the freed
man and his descendants.
william A. Harris would now be
governor Of Kansas had 1t not been for
the ignorant negro vote, and there have
been times In the past when the Demo
cratic party could have elected its
state ticket had II not been for the
ignorant black vote Of Kansas City,
Kan. Leavenworth, Atchison, Law
renee and Topeka.
There was a time when the negro
vote was not considerable factor In
Kansas politics, but that time has
passed. The influx Of negroes from the
south, the rapid multiplication of those
native TO Kansas soil and the increas-
ing insistence Of the negro upon social
equality make the Kansas negro not
only a political factor, but a social and
political menace.
Atwood FaVors "Jim Grow" Schools.
IF the last election be a criterion,
the negro now holds the balance of po-
litical power in Kansas, as he does in
Missouri This in itself is bad enough,
| but in Kansas we have suffered for
long years the outrage Of mixed
schools, fastened upon us by the Re
| publican politician.
Mixed schools lead the negroes to
aspire to a mixed society, and this
close contact of the races is productive
of troubles from which Kansas would
be free if the negro had less political
power and were not admitted to the
same schools with the whites.
kansas has long been weary of the
negro politician. and it is more than
weary of the mixed school Patience
has its limits, and l believe that
the time has come when the people Of
Kansas will join with the people Of
Missouri in restricting negro suffrage.
81 do not advocate the disfranchise-
ment Of the negro on the ground of his
color. That idea is abhorrent to the
principles Of sur free government, and
its execution would be in conflict with
the constitution.
"But our constitution will permit the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the ignorant, de-
prayed. lazy. vicious and debauched
negro and this disfranehise ment
should be accomplished to the end that
our free institutions may not suffer"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
WEST BOUND.

No 147, Daily, Evansville accommodation
caves ClOverpOrt 9 90 a. m. stops at all way
stations. arrives Evansville 900 "A. m.
Train No. III. Daily, fast mail and express
caves ClOverpOrt II O5 a. m, stops only af
Hawesvile, Lewisport, MaceO. Greensboro.
stanley. SpOttsville, Reeds Henderson and
Evansville, arrives st. Louis so D. m.
Train No. ll3. Mail and Express daily, ar
eives CloverpOrt 40p. m, Evansville 1890
y. IN. stops at all statiOrs.
No. 115. daily St Louis fast train, leaves Clio
yerport II C6, r. M. arrives Evansville IS A.
VI. St. Louis Z 40 A. NJ. stops at HaWesville
OwepsbOrO and Henderson only
Chair cars on trains III, l12. 49, ia between
Louisville and Evansville. Through sleeping
cars and free reclining chair cars on trains / is
and IL. between Louisville, Evansville and
St IOuiS.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
L. h. & ST L. TIME TABLE
EAg n non Nh

No. 1i6, Daily Fast Train leaves Cloverport
> :O7 AN. stops at IrvingtCn and West Point
only, arrive at Louisville :25 A NJ.
No. ~ Daily. Mail ara Express, leaves Clio
,erport 1904 A. NJ. stops at all way stations
arrives Louisville 12:45 D. 10
Train No. ia. Daily, fast mail, leaves ClU-
yerpotttc 100 p ~; stopS at an way stations
Louisville 7 IS D. m.
Train No. las. Daily, Cloverport accommo-
1atiOn arrives ClOverpOrt $40 D. H. @
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14

A splendid business stand. store
house, stock of goods, good will, etc
Annual sales $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Post office in connection which pays
about $l20 per year. Three miles from
railroad station on the branch. Here
is a fine opportunity for a man with
a small capital to drop right into good
business. For further particulars write
JNO. ID. BABBAGE.
Cloverport, Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14
DANGEROUS.

Giles-Hows your son gettin' on up
in LunnOn? Garge-Very well. he
tells me he's got a job partly behind
the counter and partly out o doors.
Giles-And what 'appens when the
door slams ?-London Telegraph.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14

Mr. Gompers betrays distinct signs
of irritation because nobody thinks it
worth while to get out an injunction
against his speaking his mind to the
fullest extent. He will awaken In
November to the fact that there is a
great gulf between his partisan mind
and the strictly economic purposes of
labor unions
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-14

The Bryan proposition that conserv.
alive banks should pay for the failures
OF speculative banks win not appeal
to the thrifty depositor.
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11
Blessed Thomas More.

In 1884 the unhappy Henry VIII.
King of England, had plunged his
country into disorder by his schisnl.
He hoped to find in all his subjects
the same docility he had met in some
wretchcs without morals and without
conscience. He was mistaken. Among
those who had tho courage to resist
him, history loves to cherish the name
of Thomas More, High Chancellor OF
England The tyrant had him de-
spoiled Of all he possessed, and
thrown into d gloomy prison, but he
did not succeed in disturbing the
peace which reigncd in his soul.
reason with him. "How can you be 50
blind and obstinate" said they, "as to
maintain an opinion contrary to that
Of every member Of parliament? IT
is madness, for surely you alone have
not more intelligence than all these
gentlemen put togcther?' ~ am not
alono in my opinion" answered
Thomas; "iny opinion is that Of the
whole Church, spread throughout
France, Germany. Spain, and the en-
made by him was on the occasion as
follows: His wife had the weakness
to try to tempt him. She came to visit
him in prison, and besought him to
regain the Kings favor. by doing as
he desired. Then added she, "we
shall have the consolation of having
you with us for a long time to come
"And how many years longer, wife
do you think | could livc?" "At
least twenty years yet" "TWenty
years. repeated the heroic Chancel-
lor, twenty years! and madam would
you have me barter All eternity
of happiness for twenty years of {;
troubled and dishonored old age?
!! would not gain by the exchange
Some days after Thomas More died
g. martyr on the scaffOld, and com.
lncnced that eternity Of happiness
which they would have him sacrifice
for twenty miserable years
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11
o very harsh treatment.

" very HARSH treatment.
1t was in the town of Geneva that
Calvin, in the middle OF the sixteenth
century, started his teachings, ani
laid the foundation, "in sand,' of CAL
vinism | say advisedly "in saiiu, y
for Calvinisn, as it was taught,
preached and eXpounded by John CAL
win, is dead. This, indeed has been
the fate of many crceds, the origin
ators or manufacturers of which have
seceded from the Catholic Church.
One writer in speaking Of Geneva,
says: "ln this city of the Spirit, built
of a stoicism, on the Rock OF Pre-
destination. Calvinism Is as dead as
Calvin is himself" DIR. Montet, pro-
fessor of theology at Geneva, speaks
of 1t as having disappeared completely
in Switzerland. Another writer,
equally emphatic speaks of the Cal
whistle clergymen proper as no longer
existing among them. He adds: "If
ono does meet some specimens. they
will rather find their place in an his
toric museum OF the reformation. Trim
itarians and Presdestinators arc intill-
itely rare. IL Calvin came back he
would have to seek for them with a
lantern"
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11
Daniel o'connelI and Lord MORA.

Daniel OConnelrS desire. expressed
in his last breath, that his body should
be laid to rest i'll IrcIard--A circun-
stance recalled by the completion or
the O'Connell Crypt at Glasnevn--was
shared by another great Irishman, but
could not be granted. The lrst Mar
quis Of Hastings, the Lord Moirn of
the 1898 period, who in the Houses of
Lords both in Ireland and England
protested against the atrocities OF the
British soldiery, and at whose Dublin
mansion, now the Mendicity lnstitu-
ton, and then one of the most sunptu-
GUS residences in Europe, Pamela was
was cndeavoring to elude arrest. was
subsequently Governor General of In
dfa.
He was seized when ON q voyage with
illness, which Terminated fatally. He
knew that the end was approaching,
and realizing that his body could not
be brought back To Ireland for inter-
ment gave special directions, which
We're carried out, that his right hand
should after death be amputated, pre-
served in spirits of wine, and Inferred
i'll his wifc's grave in tho family buri-
al place at Moira, County Down. AT
a. later perod in 1872 the body of Lord
Mayo, a Governor General of India,
who had been assassinatcd in India,
was brought to Ireland for intermcnt,
but in tho time Of Lord Hastings the
difficulties Of bringing the bodies of
the dead for interment at home from
far distant places were almost insur-
mountable.
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11
cALvINIsM is DEAD.
After a Long Struggle Under Unjust
Laws Catholics Get Relief.

Little, If anything, has appeared In
the daily press announcing the sue
cess OF the Catholics in obtaining the
separation Of Church and State in
Geneva, says the hnstral Light. The
wires from abroad published by the
daily press treating Of Catholic matters
invariably report features hostile to
the Church, and statements, moreover,
consistently inaccurate. Through the
untiring efforts Of the Catholics in
Geneva, the National Protestant Church
founded by Calvin. has ceased to be
the church Of the state; the alliance
existing for centuries between this
church and the State has been broken,
and the National Protestant Church has
lost its highly privileged and subsi
died place.
Geneva, though not a large canton
yet, is one Of the leading cantons in
Switzerland. This latter country is
comprised, as VIC know, of d. number
Of cantons, each exercising practically
unlimited powers in all matters af-
fecting internal interests, including
matters of faith and1 religion. Over
these individual cantons is the Fed
eral Constitution. This latter consti-
tuition, as a constit itutton, does not deal
with the religious questions, leaving
the solution of these matters to each
canton In most Of the cantons fair
play and Just treatment Is accorded
to Catholics owing, no doubt, to the
latter's ever increasing power, influ.
ence and numbers Geneva has beer
an exceptional canton in this respect
Catholics there having been subjected
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11

and second ballots. Lincoln was NOM
mated OF the third ballot. After his
election he invited all OF his old rivals
into his cabinet, and they accepted the
call. All of them except Chase, how
ever. gave UP their presidential am
bition when they entered the Lincoln
political family. Fron, the beginning
of his service in 1851 Chase seems to
have believed that. Lincoln would not
be renominated, and therefore he felt
free to aspire to the. candidacy in 1864.
Most of the Republican politicians
| We're about AS much opposed to Lin
, coin i'll the first three years of tile
, civil war as the politicians of the same
party arc to Roosevelt today, though,
OF course, for widely different reasons.
Senator Pomeroy of Kansas, who took
control of Chase's forces, issued cir
cular in the early days of 1864, urg-
ing the nomination Of Chase, and say
ing that Lincoln was unfit for the
| IIcSiueACy Ill llldI tllSaS' iiIo pue
! Chase in an embarrassing position, but
he wrote to Lincoln that he knew Moth
ing about the circular until after 1T
was issued. Shortly afterward, how
ever. the Republican members of the
| legislature i'm Chases own state Of
Ohio declared for Lincoln's renonin-
alton. Chase then directed his friends
to stop talking about him in connec-
tion with the candidacy. In a conven-
tion held in Baltimore on June z, 1864.
Lincoln was renoninated. Soon aft
erward Chase left the cabinet, and
later on, after the death of Ianey, Lin
coin made Chase chief justice Of the
supreme court
Nobody in Grants cabinet in his
first term was all active presidency
seeker, but in the second term, Bris-
tow, the secretary Of the treasury, ap
peared in that role. Sherman, who
held the treasury portfolio under
Hayes, was Hayes choice for the NOM
ination as his successor. but Garfield
carried off the prize Blaine was the
active presidential aspirant OF the
GARFIELD cabinet. -hN.ss ;.e Garfield lived
only half a yeai. after his inauguration
no maneuvering for the nomination
for the next term came, up to trouble
him. Blaine's service under Arthur,
the vice president who went to the
higher office at Garfield's death, was
short, and rivalry between them for
the succession did not get a chance to
fairly develop at The time that Blaine
stepped down. Eayard, who headed
Dental figure before Cleveland be-
came known to the country, and he
was Cleveland's leading opponent in
the convention Of 1884, which gave
Cleveland his first nomination. In the
cabinet, however. Bayard and all 9TH
er members were loyal to their chief.
When Blaine, the secretary OF state,
atesigned from I1Iarrisons cabinet ~
few days before the convention of 1899
(which was to rcnominate Harrison,
the country graspcd the truth of the
rumors which made the cabinet officer
a rival of his chief. In the Roosevelt
case there is no rivalry between tho
general and the subordinate officers,
for the general has said that he would
not accept another election.
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11

The Most Rev. Daniel Murphy. D.
d.. Archbishop Of Hobart, Tasmania
and the oldest prelatc in tho world
died there on Dec. %.
The Irish standard., 1908-01-11
Chase an Active Candidate.

In Lincoln's cabinet there was one
active presidency seeker, Chase, the
head Of the treasury department.. The
convention of 1860 had Seward, Lin
coin, Chase, Cameron and Bates among
the contestants for the candidacy, and
Seward led all of them on the first