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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26
THURSDAY, MARCH 2G, 1908.

Senator LaFollete has made a
third attack upon the Aldrich bill
He declares that the industrial sit
uation of the country is now con-
trollei by less than one hundred
men; that the AldriCh bill would
place additional power in the hands
of these men; in short. place not
only the industrial situation which
they now have under their control
but would enable them to tighten
their grip upon the money market.
The senator also sounded timely
warning when he declared that
along with the enormous increase
in trust power and monopolies has
gone steady process of centraIi-
zat!on in the control of that power
until now the situation is dominate
ny the Standard Oil-Morean com
bination. Mr. LaFollete pointed to
the fact that in 1904 the industrial
franchises and railroad trusts were
capitalized at twenty billion dollars
"'H mat bhiS dluOuul nau increased
more than eleven billion dollars
since that time, or more than fifty
five per cent
If the trusts have grown fifty five
per cent. within the past three and
one-half years, what may we expect
if additional power is given them
under the Aldrich bill, which viii
enable the bondholders of state. mu.
nicipal and railroad bombs TO issue
currency based upon them. The
Aldrich bill is not what Roosevelt.
wants nor does it please anyone ex-
cept the interests.
Mr.. LaFollete's speech is one a.
the ablest arrangements of the pres
ent administration. under which
truss and combinations have aohr.
ished as never before. Mr.. I.aFol-
lete is a Republican, but has the
courage TO speak his convictions and
for this reason is not in accord with
his party.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26

turc porter, ale. beer and drinks OF
like nature and TO sell porter. ale.
beer and drinks OF like nature at
their building on Bluefield avenue
and Locust street. in the city OF
Bluefleld. w. Va.
Ernest II. Arters. residing at Blue
field, w. Va. application for license
to sell at retail spirituous liquors.
wines, porter. ale, beer and drinks
OF like nature at the Windsor Hotel
Building. No. 453 Princeton avenue.
in the city OF Bluefeld. w. Va.
l.. Kaufman. residing at North
Fork, w. Va. application for license
to sell at retail spirituous liquors.
wine. porter, ale beer and drinks OF
like nature on lot adjoining the
city of Bluefield, w. Va.
Samuel l.. Matz. residing at Blue
field, w. Va, application for license
TO sell at retail spirftuous liquors.
whst. porter. ale, beer and drinks
OF like nature on Lot No. z "Hig-
ginbotham Reservation" on Prince
ton avenue In the city of Bluefield,
w. Va.
G.. T. Beamer residing at East
Radford, Va, application for license
TO sell at retail spirituous liquors,
wine. porter ale. beer and drinks
OF like nature in the building where
>. Baker is now conducting a sa-
loon on Bluefield avenue. in the city
OF Bluefield, w. Va.
A. II. Goodwin and Thos. III. Mil
Ter. partners trading as Goodwin &
Miller, application for license to sell
at retail spirituous liquors, wine,
porter. ale. beer and drinks OF like
nature in house where ID. A.
Fudge has a saloon at this time on
Raleigh street in the city of Blue
field, w. Va.
Given under my hand March 9Th,
1908.
ESTILL BAILEY.
Clerk of County Court of
Mercer county, West Virginia
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26
DEMOCRATS CHEER IUS1ILN
WHEN TARIFF REFORM IS
MENTIONED.

Washington. March ga spe-
cial message from the president was
read in both houses of congress
yesterday and In both IL was closely
followed. In the house the presi-
dents declaration that the time had
come for revision of the tariff
ELECTED handclapping on the part of
the Democratic members. Demo-
cratic approval also was given by
the way of pounding desks to the
suggestion that congress could with
advantage forthwith remove the tar
iff on wood pulp. with a correspond
ing reduction upon paper made from
wood pulp.
The Republicans waited and CON
fined the applause to the message as
2 whole
In the senate the message was
received without comment of any
kind.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26
TAFT TO SPEAK IN PHILLY.

Philadelphia. March 26.-Secre-
tary William H. Taft. presidential
candidate, will be the guest of hon
or and principal speaker at the an
nual dinner of the Yale Alumni AS
ISOLATION OF Philadelphia. to be neld
at the Bellevue-Stratford, Saturday.
President Arthur r. Hadley, of
Yale. will also be present and 70
spond to a toast.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26
SIDENTS
SSAGE

REFORMS URGED IN
FLOWERS LIABILITY FL
NANCE, POSTAL SAVINGS
BANKS, AND NUMEROUS 9TH
ER MATTERS DISCUSSED.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

Ed Cole and p. p. Pomeroy, associate
judges; Jake Hoffman and Richard
Dwyer, starters; Seymour Beutler.
superintendent of the track police:
Gene Elrod, in charge of the ring, and
Robert F. Leighton, patrol judge.
The meeting at Santa Anita, which
opened Thanksgiving afternoon, has
been a greater success than was indi-
Gated few days previous to it's open
ing. Despite that the country has not
recovered completely from the thirteen
months of practical panic that made.
money scarce, the attendance has been
averaging right up to that of last sea-
son, when better conditions existed.
This is accounted for in the fact that
a large number of the classiest horses
that usually We're raced only in the
summer season on the metropolitan
tracks, are to be seen in races every
week. and the class of the sport has
been materially improved and, natur-
ally, made more attractive. There were
no scandals last season, and not even
a hint of one has been noted so far
this season. The sport is clean and
will be kept SO if the vigilance of men
like Colonel Hamilton, Ed Cole, P. P.
Pomeroy. DR.. Gardner and Seymour
Beutler can make it so.
During the present season, such great
horses as Dandelion, Montgomery,
Uncle, Meelick Fitz Herbert, Don En-
rique, Dorante, Royal Tourist, King
James, Restigouche, Peter Ounce, Jack
Atkin, Philander. Chapultepec, Rifle
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

man, Mark Antony II, Light Wool
and large number of other metropoli-
tan turf stars will be seen in action.
Practically every prominent breeder in
American is represented at the track
with horses bred at the great studs of
the country. A large number of the
most prominent turfmen have stables
at Santa Anita and are running their
horses in the purse and stake events.
Several of the leading bookmakers of
the metropolitan circuit are making
books at the track and are making un-
usually liberal prices by their stiff
competition for business. In fact, there
is nothing on the horizon to mar the
prospect that now is in process of
realization for the greatest race meet
ing ever conducted west of Chicago
The track is easily reached by the
cars of the Southern Pacific and Pacific
Electric roads, which run direct to the
grandstand, the fare for the round trip
being 25 cents.
Six good races are given every day,
rain or shine, and with high class rae
ing and beautiful surroundings, Santa
Anita patrons are always assured of
a good days sport.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

N LASS, in it's broadcast as well as
its most literal sense, is the key
~ note to which is attuned every
thing that goes to feature the second
winter racing season at Santa Anita
park and because of this fact the
Los Angeles patrons of the sport of
kings are witnessing the best and clas-
Siest racing ever provided by pro-
moters of racing west of the Missis
-ippi river. Santa Anita park, from a
scenic viewpoint is the most beauti
fully located racing plant in the world,
and it's equipment is in accordance,
while its race course is the fastest
stretch of track anywhere in the world,
all of which facts seem most appro-
priately mentioned at this time be-
cause Santa Anita has succeeded to
the distinction long held by the metro
politan courses as the premier racing
center of America.
Only a decade ago Los Angeles hardly
could lay claim to being upon the turf
map. In those days it's chief distinc-
ton in the turf world arose from the
fact that it was a bush" racing CEN
ter, where horses of no class and own
ers of no prominence in the turf world
furnished the sport that entertained
the hundreds of patrons who supported
the sport Today, Los Angeles is the
real racing center of America and the
Santa Anita meeting this season is
featured by the attendance of the most
prominent turfmen in America, while
the class and value of the horses that
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

are racing here are so great that it
truthfully may be said that there is
one horse at Santa Anita today whose
purchase price represents a sum far
greater than the combined value of all
the horses that raced at the blush"
meetings ten years ago, and even later,
The development of the sport of
racing in California must be credited
in a large measure to the efforts of
the present chief official of the Pacific
Jockey club, the governing turf body
of the coast. Thomas II. Williams has
built up the sport from the ground
floor until it is in a most prosperous
and healthy condition today and Cali
fornia is now conceded to be the real
racing center of America-the only
place where the best class of horses
can afford to be raced and where
purses are offered of value that com
pare favorably with those offered on
the metropolitan circuit in its palmy
days
The inaugural meeting was such a
hattering success that the directors
violated all precedent by refusing to
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

extend the meeting one day beyond
it's original allotment. Horses of the
best class that ever had raced on the
coast had run in it's stake and purse
events, and the sport was high class
in every respect, while the public lent
enthusiastic support by a better av-
erage attendance than had been the
rule at Ascot, despite the distance and
time required to get to the track from
Los Angeles. This success was due
principally to the businesslike manage
ment of affairs by DR.. ]. 8. Gardner
of Kansas City, who had been Sc
lected as manager-in-chief of the as
ISOLATION affairs, and to the harmoni-
Gus and cordial support extended him
by the official board, which was COM
posed of the following: F. J. 0ucky)
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22

nurtured her, defended her, built her
up and made her name glorious.
Hence he stands on firm ground and
his words go forth like steel bullets,
because there is truth and meaning and
majesty in them.
He is democrat and he defends de-
mocracy, breaches democracy, exalts
and exploits democracy and defies the
enemies of democracy. He is a demo-
crat, and he deprecates republicanism,
denounces republicanism and, by tear
ing the mask from republicanism, ex-
poses its foul and fiendish lineaments.
His democracy is not new vintage,
so labeled. 1t comes down from the
past, mellowed by the alchemy of time
and enriched by the accumulated wis
dom of the fathers. His orthodoxy is
as adamant where principle is involv-
ed, yet he is abreast and sometimes
ahead of the times and the vigorous
adjustment and application of these
principles to current affairs. Fair,
fearless, enamored of the right, con-
temning everything that is small OF
mean or merely expedient, he has pre-
sided as chief executive with dignity
and wisdom, and his open record is ar
answer to the calumnies and criticisms
of his enemies and the enemies of his
party. He deserves an Endorsement
by reelection, and that he will re
ceive it at the hands of the democrats
in Tennessee there can be no doubt
Opposition to such an official by on,
calling himself democrat is incredi
BILE. The democratic party deserves t
live. 1t is the highest concrete politica
expression of our civilization, and Gov
Patterson is its prophet and preacher
No one can read his speech as it is her
presented, and no one who heard hin
last night, if fair-minded and open t,
conviction, can hesitate to admit tha
he has won the honors conferred upol
him we'll and wisely, and that he i
worthy of the new honors which h
seeks. The feelings engendered by tn
conflicts and vicissitudes of factiona
strife should now subSide, and ever.
democrat should 60 forth on election
day and do his part in winning a glori
Gus victory.-Nashville American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
PATTERSON IN DEMAND,
The Governor is Urged to Deliver
Speeches IN Several States to
Help Democracy Out.

Nashville, Oct. THE services of
Gov Patterson are in demand in many
places. Almost daily he receives invi-
tations to go to this state or that to help
the democracy, and tonight he received
the following telegram from Chicago:
Chicago, Oct. 7, 1908.
Gov. M. r. Patterson, Nashville, Tenn.
Please wire and write John III. At
speakers bureau, Chicago, the exact
number of days and where you can
speak during October in New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
This is of vital Importance. Please give
all the time you possibly can.
(Signed) w. J. BRYAN.
Gov. Patterson did not answer Mr.
Bryan's telegram tonight, desiring first
to meet and consult his campaign man.
ager. He is very anxious to go and
help fight the party's battles in the
doubtful states. He deplores the fact
that he has to fight over again in his
own state battle that he fought and
won few weeks ago Under ordinary
circumstances, democratic nomina-
ton in Tennessee is equivalent to an
election, and this year the governors
force as a debater and his eloquence as
an orator would be of great value to the
party, but, as his friends point out, the
detection and the chism in his own
party at home may compel him to re-
main in Tennessee and deny Mr.. Bryan
the benefit of his services.
While in Nashville tonight Attorney
General Gates was asked regarding thu
conditions in East Tennessee.
"The conditions in my section, sale
Gen. Gates, "are all right; there is NJ
room for fear or doubt. The democracy
of East Tennessee is going to supper
the nominees of the democratic party.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22

ton of the roads will be such as to en-
able him to reach his place of business
promptly in all kinds of weather.
l think it may truthfully be said that
there are few matters of such general
Importance to all the people of any
community as the provision of good
roads, and believe, therefore, that all
of us who have the progress and pros
perity Of the south at heart should do
all in our power to aid in the creation
Of a public opinion favorable to road
improvement. The system that should
be adopted in any locality is one on
which it would not be proper for me to
tender advice, even if were qualified
to do so. 1t is necessarily a matter that
can best be determined by the people
directly interested and who are ac-
quainted with the peculiar needs and
conditions in their neighborhoods. The
interest of this company in good roads
as means of aiding in southern devel-
opment was evidenced in very prac-
tical way when, few years ago, in CO.
operation with the National Good
Roads Association and the department
of agriculture, it sent special good
roads train over the system, carrying
road-building machinery and expert
road-builders, who built short stretches
Of object-lesson roads and delivered ad.
dresses at central points where good
roads conventions were held. The
Land and Industrial Department o.
this company is keeping in close touch
with the good roads movement through
out the territory traversed by its lines
and will be glad, at all times, to coop
crate with the people of any locality by
giving information, or in any othel
practicable and reasonable way.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
Messrs. Ridglll and Bnrna.

Thousands Of people. have stomach
trouble, constipation, indigestion, sick
headache, etc., and don't know what to
do for it. Perhaps the experience OF
Mr.. Ridgill, postmaster at Bruceville,
Tex, and Mr.. Burns, Wabash Ry. en-.
ginesF,, Bement, ILL.,, will suggest @
method. Both of these men take pleas
ure in saying that they cured themselvs
with. Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin.
twill do all that is claimed, and il
you want to try it before buying, send
your address for q free sample>bottle to
Pepsin Syrup Co., 119' Caldwell Bldg,
Monticello, Ill. tits sold by all drug
gists at SOC and 81 O bottle.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
n. A. PATTERSON WRITES
Open Letter to the Johnson City
Commercial Club-The Wa
tauga Valuable Asset.

Let me state the text to large sub
ject:
The streams Of water flowing into it's
great basin area are East Tennessee's
most valuable assets. Those from the
Allegahny range Of mountains are the
most numerous, Of larger volumes and
more regular in flow than those from
the Cumberland range.
The Watauga, with it's numerous
tributaries, is Johnson Oity's most val
able asset.
To utilize it, a system of locks and
dams are necesssry-the total cost OF
which will not be more than ten per
cent of the ultimate value to be realiE.
cd.
The lower dam should not be higher
up than the crossing OF the Southern
railway; and the steps Of slack water
upstream should be of levels, not to
seriously damage adjacent bottom land
but, after the mountain foothills are
reached, the dams should be from thir-
ty to forty feet in height, so as to i'm
pound large quantities Of water; and
secure great power.
A brief discussion of the text, is this
First, the slack-water grades secured,
by means of barges controlled by q
small steam tow-boat, will bring out,
cheaply. mineral ores that otherwise
must remain inaccessible except ai
heavy cost. Second, very large
amount of valuable hard and soft wood
can be cheaply foated to the lower dam
and there converted into merchantablt
lumber, and sizes, to be sent to marke
by rail. Third, the power to be used
in generating electricity will supply O
horsepower force amply sufficient to
drive all the machinery of johnson
City and adjacent area, having q radi
GUS OF at least forty miles, and TO light
all the public and residence buildings
in that area. By machinery" / NEAR
not only electric, passenger and freight
cars and manufacturing establishments
of all kinds, but threshers and mills in
the fields and on the high-groundI
where water-power cannot be secured
Really, such q system OF locks anG
dams on that part of the Watauga re
! ferred to would be of such adiunctivt
advantage to the Tennessee river il
checking the force of great tides, tha
the general government might we'll af
ford to incur q part of the expenses
but il will be better for private capita
I to do ell, and then hold full control O
; the organized power.
The largest part Of the work in thu
harnessing the waters OF the WataugI
will be concrete. cement construction
and for this abundant and cheap high
grade materials are close ct hand. Thl
river, q short distance below the placl
work, cuts through massive ledgss O
high.gFade cement rock and the Caro-
lima, Clinchfield & Ohio, soon to b
open for traffic, cuts into or tunnel
through not less than Eve ledge vein
of such rock between johnson City ant
Kingsport-some OF the deposits beinJ
anyllzed as 81 per cent pure
Cannot your club get the. ear, anl
then the eye and hand OF capitalists Il
take hold of this valuable workY-th
paying results to be better, by seYera
fold, than the beet bank or Failroa,
stock. N. A. PATTERSON.
Vinelsnd, Tenn.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
Where Bullets Flew

David Parker, Of Fsyette, N. Y,
veteranlof the civil war, who lost foot
at Gettysburg, saysa '"The good Eleo-
trio Bitters have done is worth more
than five hundred dollars to me. I spent
much money doctoring for q bad case
of stomach trouble, to little purpose.
then tried Electric Bitters, and they
cured me. I now take them as tonic,
and they keep me strong and we'll. SOC
ct Il. O. Miller's drug store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
BUT THEY ARE
DOING NO HARM
TO GOVERNOR PATTERSON.
Sinister Warefare of Disgruntled
Democrats Will Him do More
\ Good Than Harm.

Gov, Patterson has begun his cam.
paign with all the omens of success on
hie side. The lack-lustre gentleman
who is opposing him has no case. The
election of Mr.. Tillman would mean
nothing for Tennessee except q deplor-
able relapse. The republican party is
utterly insincere in its advocacy of pro-
hibition. We doubt whether there was
q single delegate to the republican con-
Yention who favored it. Mr.. Tillman
sent word that it must be embraced in
the platform; but every one knew that
it was merely ruse of war.
The sinister warfare being made ON
the governor by few sore-heads will
do him more good than harm. 1t will
rally all lukewarm democrats to his
banner A good democrat believes in
fair play; and when he finds that the
man who has fairly and honorably won
the nomination of his party is being
knitted by the soreheads, he is apt to
shake off his lethargy and put on his
armor.
Mr.. Tillman evidently went into the
campaign with the idea that he would
find the followers of Gov. Patterson's
foe alienatsd from the democratic party
and ready to vote for him. Doubtless
he already realizes his mistake. He is
creating no more enthusiasm than
wooden image. Members of his own
party manifest little desire to hear him
His platform is full of picayunes. There
is no life in either Tillman or his plat
form. Both, as the western editor said,
are dangerously dead,
Gov Patterson has proved himself
an able executive. His record has been
thoroughly aired. The most energetic
critic in the state assailed it for weeks,
but could point out no material flaw in
it. The democracy has put the seal of
its approval upon it, Mr.. Tillman's
criticisms are weak echoes of a mighti-
er censor. They are so small that they
reflect upon the intelligence of the man
making them. Surely this is not the
kind of man that ought to be governor
Of Tennessee.
Gov Pattefson's opening speech was
admirably in tone and conclusive in
argument. He laid bare the utter in
sincerity of republican promises in the
light of republican history. He estab-
lished the fact conclusiyely that Geo.
n. Tillman does not measure up to the
requirements of the hegubernatorial office.
| The governor had very little to say
about the little crew of democrats who
are fitting him from ambush. He re-
alizes that they are doing no harm.
They are not even entertaining. So he
can safely leave them to their chosen
spot in the Wailing Place. Nobody
knows exactly what they are bowling
about, and what is more, nobody cares.
Gov. Patterson is the standard bearer
of his party in this state, and he is not
unmindful of his responsibilities. He
has no time for small issues and per-
sonal suabbles. He is fighting not only
for himself but for the presidential
ticket. He can be relied upon to make
an effective fight, and leave the mas
queraders to their own devices. Com
mercial-Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
Would MOrtga the Farm

F Afarmes on Rural Route 2, Empire,
Ca, w. Az Floyd by name, says:
'Bucklen's Arnica Salve cuFed the two
worst sores / ever saw-one on my
hand and one on my leg. It is worth
more than its weight ia gold. would
not be without it II had to mortgage
the farm 70 get it." Only 25c ct q. o.
Miller's drug store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22
Lame Back.

This ailment is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles of the small
of the back, aud is quickly cured by
applying Chamberlain's Liniment two
or three times day and massaging the
parts at each application. For sale by
e. @. Miller.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-10-22

In Cheyenne the other day woman
asked her husband il Brysn's daughter
Grace was q debutante. "I have never
heard what church the Bryans belong
TO-, he replied. Press.