davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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grazing rates would not be changed
ior MINOR fluctuations in the market
which would naturally occur from year
10 year, but would apply in case OF
radical or unusual changes.
Minimum Not Affected.
The new schedule does not affect
the cases where the minimum charge
OF 3 cents a head has already been
alIowed or no rate has been fixed
on account of some local conditions.
In most cases the revised fees will
mean a reduction of about l cent a
head.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
Mr.. TAFT AND THE EDITOR.

When Mr.. Taft was a young man
there was a scalawag of the name of
Rose running miasmic weekly paper
IN CINCINNATI. Ii was an unhealthy
sheet, given over TO personal attacks.
the printing of scandalous gossip and
thlnly yelled innuendo. Rose was a
hghting editor. He really could fight.
and he stood ready to back up his
articles with his fists. Also he con-
sorted with bruisers, who constituted
a oodyguard. The town was intim-
idated. His victims squirmed. but
none of them cared to join issue with
Rose.
Mr.. Taft did 1t. Rose would have
Deen all right had he possessed suf-
hclent wisdom to keep the point of
his pen away from Judge Taft. But
he did not So he was forced to take
the consequences, which came in a
hurry in the shape of a substantial
apparition of $50 pounds, whitehead,
with locked jaws and a simmer like
that of cold steel flashing from his
blue eyes. Rose weighed nearly as
much as Taft, so no advantage was
taken of him.
Are you Rose?" demanded Mr..
Taft. Rose barely had time to wag
his head afiirmatively and insolently
when he was jolted severely on the
Jaw, hurled to the street, and. over
borne by the weight of the Nemesis
from Mount Auburn, was forced to
submit to having his face literally
ground into the dirt. If you'll leave
town tonight III let =. ou up" offered
Mr. Taft, when the grinding process
had proceeded as far as he deemed Il
should. Rose promised. Mind. :"
cautioned Taft, Il am coming down.
town again tonight, and if you're
still here you'll think that this thing
has only just begun"
Rose did leave that night, and Gin
cinnati saw him no more for a
term. He went somewhere to lead a
better life, and did it, so much so that
when he finally did return to the city
he felt impelled to hunt up Mr.. Taft
and assure him that he harbored no
animosity. He also explained one or
two things.
Il knew there was trouble coming
my way when you asked me nv
name" said Rose, "and | thought /
was ready for you. | was waiting for
you TO hit, and then | was going to
eat you up because, you know, could
fight some myself. But you fooled
me. You hit out with your left hand
An amateur always strikes with his
right first, and I'd figured that you
wouldn't do anything different. But
over came that left of yours and
caught me-"
They say that Mr.. RATS roars of
laughter as Rose offered this explana-
tion could be heard over half OF Gin
cinnati
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
BRYAN CAN'T GET AWAY FROM
HIS SHADOW.

There is a famous story about a
man who's sold his shadow to the
devil, and was haunted through life
by the fact that he was different from
all others OF human kind in being
without a shadow.
Bryan is quite different from the
hero, or victim, of that story. He
wants to get away from his shadow
the shadow of the record he has made
as a champion of free silver and a
fifty-cent dollar, OF free trade and
abandonment of the Philippines, of
Government ownership of the rail-
ways and other more or less disor-
dered fads and fancies, which have
accumulated from campaign to cam
paign, until now they loom up as the
most remarkable aggregation of po-
litical monstrosities that ever amazed
and appalled, the American people.
Bryan cannot get away from the
shadow Of his past, beat the air as he
may. It is part of him, and he must
be judged by ii as well as by the
later vagaries which he would fain
have considered as his sole political
outfit. There is only one Bryan, and
his shadow will not be buried out OF
sight until both Bryan and his past
shall be showed under in Novem ber
by the ballots of American freemen
electing Taft and Sherman President
and Vice-President of the United
States.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
WILLIAM H. TAFT'S FATHER.
Admirable Traits i'm the Parent of the
Republican Standard Bearer
Which Descended to Son.

Persistence, industry, justice, clear
sightedness, all the inestimable lega-
cies of birth handed down by Judge
| Alphonso Taft to his son William,
were dominant and determining quail
tiles in the elder Taft's own career.
The place of his nativity was a
! farm near Townshend, VT. The aus
| tere, delving round of farm life of
more than generation ago was his
portion until the voice within him,
the innate hunger <or knowledge, for
progression, spoke and stirred him TO
ambitions for an education, to a fut-
ure living to be earned with his head,
rather than his hands. The Tafts
were folk in only moderate circum-
stances. So Alphonso taught school
in winter, worked in the fields in
summer and saved up his money un-
til ne had enough to bridge the hia-
tus 'twiXt income and outgo during
course at Amherst. His plans were
DETECTED for some reason, and he
chose Yale for his alma mater in
stead. He was graduated in 1898
Another season of toll and saving
and he was financially equipped for
the course. that turned him out fin
! ished lawyer in 1888. Cincinnati, q
] raw ulSHdpSu lONu, WITH pIODlOlU-
atical future, needed men like AL
phonso Taft in the fourth decade of
the last century. He settled there,
and his law Office speedily became
centre of legal and civic interests. In
which Judge Taft invariably took a
commanding part.
An intensely human man he was.
'of imposing presence, dignity and
refinement" as has been written of
him." unostentatious. kindly and
gentle, yet of strong and forcible
character, which won for him re-
spect, confidence and love" Almost
identically the same enumeration of
traits would serve for the son. He
zealously championed the cause of
education, especially the common
school system.
A pioneer in his sensing of what
means of land transportation meant
! to Cincinnati. he strove to encourage
the building of railroads as a compile
ment TO the advantages of Cincin-
natl. II was he who successfully ar
gued before the Supreme Court of
the United States the claim of the
city for the estate of Charles Nc
Micken, which was the start of the
endowment fund for the University
of Cincinnati. He was Judge of the
Superior Court of Ohio. as his son
was after him. and like him was also
| Secretary of War and Attorney-Gen--
eral OF the United States under Pres
ident Grant. Later he represented
his country as Minister to Austria
and Russia
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
BRYAN AND LINCOLN.

While the grotesque something
styled Imperialism" Is included in
the rich and varied assortment OF
freak issues which Mr.. Bryan offers
to his countrymen this year, he is not
urging II quite so vehemently as he
did in 1900. In the campaign of that
year he cheerfully assured his hear
ers that IL was actually live Issue,
menace to free institutions, and could
be overcome only by electing him to
the Presidency, He declared, more
over, that II Jefferson. Jackson and
Lincoln were living they would rec
ognize the acquisition OF the Philip
pines by the United States as a step
toward imperialism" and would op-
pose 1t with all their energy.
In his reckless zeal Mr.. Bryan tried
to make II appear that Jefferson was
opposed to the very principle which
found expression In the Louisiana
Purchase. He perverted the utter
ances of Jackson In tricky attempt
TO show that "Old Hickory" resisted
the policy that led to the acquisition
OF Florida. And finally he deliber-
ately misinterpreted the State papers
OF Lincoln in an endeavor to show
that the Emancipator upheld the doc
Niih0 AndA Tue american
has no right TO suppress a revolt
against its own authority. and IL he
were President at that time-1900-
he would either withdraw the United
States troops from the Philippines or
order them to surrender TO Aguinal-
do, the leader OF the Filipino insur-
rection.
Mr.. Bryan's attempt to misrepre-
sent the principles and purposes of
Lincoln was the prize blunder of the
ludicrous campaign of 1900. There
was then, and happily still is. a
living son of Lincoln who, in distin-
guished positions both public and
private, has disclosed many of the
rugged attributes Of his martyred
sire. Mr.. Bryan's perversions of Lin
coins State papers were so fragrant
and so frequently repeated that Hon
Robert T. Lincoln finally protested
He publicly ana with great indigna-
tion denounced the uses. inventions
and distortions" TO which his fathers
language had been subjected by the
Democratic nominee, and expressed
the confident belief that the people
would judge them as they deserved
How completely that belief was iusti-
fed at the polls is a matter of history.
To man of fine sensibilities a re-
buke like that from such a source
would have been a staggering blow
right between the eyes. Its effect
upon Mr.. Bryan was far less impress
sive. The only lesson he drew from
II was even If man knows history
he is fool to misquote it.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
MIR. TAFT REGISTERS.

The Republican Presidential candi-
date shows he Is a good citizen by
going home to register. The regis
tration place was in plumbing shop.
He was catechised thus by the reg
istry clerk:
"How old are your"
"Fifty-one."
How many years have you lived in
the State of Ohio?"
"Fifty-one.
"How many in the country?"
"Fifty-one.
How many years in the precinct? ?"
Twelve"
Married."
"Yes."
The distinguished citizen then
signed the registry book "Wm. How
ard Taft"
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
BRYAN AND PENSIONS.

In denying what he declares to be
certain erroneous statements with re-
spect to his attitude on the question
OF pensions for veteran soldiers and
sailors and their survivors, William
Jennings Bryan defines his position
In these general terms: II favor a
liberal pension policy"
II is needless to refer to Mr..
Bryan's record on the pension uues-
ton. On this as on other issues
free trade alone excepted-his record
is purely negative. His Jealous sup
port of the Wilson-Gorman tariff was
In fact the only positive, aggressive
act of his career in Congress, and in
the history of the frightful industrial
ruin which that measure caused Mr..
Bryan's act is designated by a broad
indelible mark In black.
Nevertheless. while Mr.. Bryan's
record on pensions is insignificant
and negligible, the record of his party
is properly a matter for careful ex-
animation. 1t may be outlined and
its tendency accurately indicated by
a few facts derived from official
sources.
During a single period of two years
under the administration Of President
SitNGldHu obJt pensioners were
stricken from the rolls and 23.7O2
pensions were reduced. In the course
OF his two terms President Cleveland
vetoed 524 pension bills, while Presi-
dent Grant during his two terms We
toed only five. Lincoln never vetoed
one, nor did Hayes. Garfield. Arthur.
Harrison or Mckinley.
IL is worth while to carry the in
quiry step further. The record in
Congress on fourteen important pen-
sion measures prior TO 1900 shows
that 4l7 Democrats voted for those
measures, while 64S Democrats voted
against them. On the other hand
1O6S Republicans supported them.
and not single Republican was re-
corded against them!
With these facts TO guide them the
old soldiers will have no trouble
whatever in determining where their
interests lie in the present campaign.
The Republican party, faithful to the
nations defenders in time of war.
has been their steadfast friend and
protector in time of peace. AS
against its honorable record in that
respect we place the reproachful fact
that the only Democrat to occupy the
White House since the Civil War We
toed 524 pension bills while his
seven Republican predecessors vetoed
only five.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
WHEN THE ACTORS CAME TO YALE

During the last reunion of Mr..
Tafts class in Yale some one recalled
the advent into New Haven of
Count" George Johannes. histrion,
and his leading lady. Virginia. so
tall and so fair" The Count was re-
puted to be an actor. He was strong
in Richard III. The class of rs took
him to its collective heart in the role.
witnessing the performance from a
block OF reserved seats In the front
of the house. They liked the show.
particularly because the Counts tin
armor provided surprising target
for beanshooters. The rs mon were
good shots. and the Count that night
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
BILLY BRYAN
BY REV. HY. ). BoATMAN.

BY REV. HY. ). BOATMAN.
(No tune.)
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan,
Still a-tryin', still a-tryin',
Nainly tryin';
Thrice before us like chorus,
Jackass chorus most uproarious,
Tried to floor us.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
Far too high your kites a-hyin'-
Winds a-layin':
Cease to mouth us, cease TO mouth us,
Jackass discords don't alright US
Only rouse us.
Billy Bryan, Billy BRYAN,
Nainly cryin' like one dyin'-
Calf a-dyin';
Once you'd give us halves for whole uns
Silver dollars-them sixteen uns-
For our gold uns.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan,
GlVe up tryln', quit your tryin',
Call your "Cry" in;
Once you hitched the ass and monkey.
Now you'd ride that poor old donkey
Played-out donkey.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
Forces routed, forces fyin',
-. Still you're tryin,;
Still you're .plaadin' like a lover,
OFT rejected for another,
Better brother.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan,
You're a good un, you're a lion
little chained UNI;
i3Ht nut your roarln' sounds too chaffy-
Deed it's daffy-give us Taft.y,
Give us Taft-y
T.-A.-F.-T.
Fullerton, CAL, September, 1908.
Copyright applied for.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
FROM SECRETARY ROOTS sAR-
ATOGA SPEECH.

Mr.. Bryan charges that the Repub-
lican party is responsible for the
abuses of corporate wealth. AS well
might he charge that the man who
plants cotton is responsible for the
boil weevil, or taat the man who
plants fruit trees is responsible for
the San Jose scale.
Until the millennium has brought
the eradication OF human selfishness
and greed. social abuses will come ac-
cording TO the shifting conditions of
the times.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

read his lines to the accompaniment
OF beans impinging against his he'll
met and cuirass until it sounded like
a professional rifle shot ringing a
Continuous tattoo of bull's-eyes. But
when the boys carried their appre-
citation of artistic worth so far as to
endeavor to draw the fair Virginia
to her lodgings in her carriage it re-
quired the arguments OF the consta-
bles to dissuade them.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
TAFT SPEECHES INSPIRE CONFI.
DENCE.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle. J

The aggressive tone of Mr.. Taft's
speeches will soon put Mr.. Bryan
either upon a failing defensive OF
will drive him to an outburst of rad
icalism that will still further challenge
the apprehension and alright the
judgment OF the country. The
thoughtful jurist is playing the mis-
chief with the mercurial Bohemian,
and the man of Ohio who inspires
confidence Is destroying the vogue of
the man OF Nebraska. who inspires
only the reverse.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

Mr.. Roosevelt caused It 1t to be
denied that he would go on the
stump. But he spoke to the entire
Nation, Just the same!
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

Mr.. Taft is first. last and all the
time Yale man. His father, his four
brothers, himself and his son Robert
are all Yale men and his youngest
son. Charles p. Jr., is going 20 be
when he gets big enough.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

II Is the public interest, not the in
terest OF any single or separate "in-
terest. that demands the election OF
Taft and Sherman. as we'll as of a
Republican Congress.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

II is apparent that the private cor
respondence OF Judge Taft can stand
the sunlight of publicity.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

Experience and association are the
fiyst-class qualifications Of Judge Taft
for popular promotion to the Presi-
dency.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

Every subsequent fact has refuted
every economic theory ever advocated
by Bryan.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
LABOR MOVEMENT
is NON-PA ARTISAN
Daniel j. Keefe, Sixth VicePreSident of the A. F. Of
L., Insists That President GomperS Has Been Mis-
represented, and Denies That Any Attempt Has
Been Made to Swing Labor Vote to Bryan.
TAFT A FRIEND OF LABORING MAN.

Ocober.-'We he movement
political
has its history"
That the keynote n made by Daniel D.
Keef Detroit Mh president International LOnghore
Marine Workers sixth vice.
president of the American Federation of Labor.
his which he a query from the
editor of the Buffalo Republic, MIR. Kcefe
that the American Federation Labor is
committed political candidate for Pres
dent been ndorscd by the executive council
II of the belief that the public does fully
the position of the of the American Fed
movement is nOn-parsan, and is follows;
"'We
council its members,
his,
working of how they shall their the
election has promised the of the working
particular
phatay duty presented the situation in which the
of themselves which
labor has made both political parties action
received
working
friends of labor throughout the since both political
parties spoken
dictate.
Misrepresentation others the
Notwithstanding and insist and have
labor
shall remain and independent from political domna
a been i'm its history
American Federation
Labor political and nonpaTtan, which permits
whom please for President
other officers, without of criticism All Of which heartily
dorse
Federation of doubt will
shall support
Brotherhood Steam Shovel and Drcdge Men of his
the enforcement the eighthOur
jurisdiction the
eight did become established
In
Secretary of War
' might add further that Mr. Taft Secretary OF War; has
organized labor
predecessors
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

Perhaps Senator Bailey could cast
a little OIL on the troubled waters.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
SUPPLEMENT TO
The Mountain Advocate

sarbOursvilIe Kv.. FrIdav. Oct. so. 1903
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
|MR. TAFT AND THE
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
President RooseveIt's Battle Won,
His Policies Have Reached
the Constructive Stage.
NOBACKWARD STEPPOSSIBLE

As President Mr.. Taft Will BE as
Loyal to the Roosevelt Policies
as the Needle Is TO the Pole
Under His Regime Will BE Har-
mony, Prosperity and Long
Period of Development of En-
terprIse and of National and In
dividual Progress.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-02-21
AsLE SOUTH CAROLINA STATES
MAN PASSED AWAY YEsTER-
pAY IN WASHINGTON.
S0IGEa WITH APPENDICITIS
Deceased was Prominent in The Coun.
eiisSnf the Democratic Party
and was a Strong Man in
the Senate.

Washington, Feb, e0.-Seuator As.
bury C. Latmer. OF South Carolina.
died at the Providence Hospital this
morning Of peritonitis. He had been
al the hospital since Sunday last,
when he underwent an operation for
appendicitis. 1t was then discover
cd TINT he was suffering with u far
more seious ailment,
Ills bowels had become twisted and
his couditionwas found to be sucn
chat the uggeons held cut little hope
tor hts recovery He rallied how
ever, ard his progress was satisfac.
tory urtn o'clock last eening when
steadily he began to grow worse. ana
at midnight it appeared that rocoy-
ely was Impossible
Members OF the senator's family
we're with him when ho died, having
been informed that there was little
hope that he could survive the night.
Cclcael Ransdoll. sergeantat-arms oi
the senate. at once made arrange
ments FOR the removal of tha body to
the !-atiffer home AT Belton. s. c.
Mg I4atimer was 81 years of ago
ard was one OF the most earnest
and conscientious committee work
cfs "a congress. baing q menber OF
,he t6anit,oe on agriculture. imml-
grafton. manufactures, public build
ings ard q oundg and the census, as
we'll as others OF les importance
lie Ves especially interested in
good roads ana probably did more 50
promote the national movement for
government building Of good roads
than any othe member OF congre s.
lie was the author OF the Latimer
good roads bill. aud as a member OF
the committee on manufactures he
gave such attention to the p eparatlod
of the pure food law and also played
prominent part in aftng the
penang copyright bill
During last summer Senator Las,
inner visited turop3 rs a member 0.
tl immigration commission. and
@as p. eparing an elaborate report
covering The immigration conditions
~ tso countries assigned TO INN
Senator Latmer has been a senator
siTce 1903 and had serve4
terms in the hoase
The funeral party loft he at s
o'".cck this een!ng over the South
en- railway. which is dua 10 arrive
at Bolton at noon tomorrow. The fu
neral services will b held there at
,. N.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-02-21
THE HOLMES CASE
KNJTTY PROBLEM
MqNTosA COUNTY NEGRO is
GIVING PARDON BOARD CON
siDERABLE TROUBLE.

Taa following from the Atlanta
Constitution will be OF more than Or
dinary interest in Brunswick for the
reason that Holmes was brought TO
this city for safe keeping immedia-
toly after the killing in Mcintosh
county
ut would appear That u rather knot
ty proposition confronts Governor
Smith in the case Of Lee Holmes,
the Mcintosh county negro, senten-
cad 10 be hanged for The murder OF
I)r. u. A. Bands, Of Tatnall county
Holmes has been granted a respite
until Friday, February 2S, and BY
that time it is expected a decision
will be reached.
The prison commission has twice
recommended to the governor that
communication to life imprisonment be
granted in this case, and when the
papers were last sent TO the Cover
nor one OF the commissioners, Hon.
Thomas Eaaon dlsscnted from the
recommendation. holding TO the view
that Holmes should pay the penalty
on the gallows. The two other com
missioners. Chairman Joseph S. Iui
ner and General Clement A. Evans.
recommended commutarion.
Owing to his relations and friend
ship in ratnau county Commissioner
,4ason thought fer time that he was
DISQUALIFIED to sit in the case. 1t
appears, however. he did not hold to
that viow. as he has presented q mi
nority eport, so TO speak, ursns tn
death penalty
After Che Holmes case Arst went
10 the governor with favorable recon-
mendatlon from the prison comml-
sion. several petitions wer' sent in
from Tatnal and Mcintosh counties
u ging the governor not to approNe
the recommendation Of the commits
sion. but to let Holmes 90 to the gai'
lows
with these petitions the governor
sent the papers back to the PRISON
commission. asking IT to reopen the
case for further consideration. whicsi
it did. Hith tee result that a second
time clemency was recommended, nc
conpanied By the dissent OF Com
missioner Eason
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-02-21
REACHED THE PERUVIAN HAR-
Dor IN GOOD SHAPE YES
TERDAY MORNING.
ADMIRAL EVANS STILL Ill
Admiral Thomas Of the Second and
Third Divisions Of the the Fleet,
is Now in Commang OF the
Vessels.

Calloa Feb. 20.-745 a m The
American battleship feet has just
been sighted on this port.
The latest wireless dispatch from
the Connecticut says that Rear Ad-
miral Evans is sbll in poor health and
that Rear Admiral Thomas. comman-
der Of the second and third division
Of the fleet has assued charge of
the vessels From an early hosr
this morning street cars coming into
Callao were crowded With passen-
gers who are eager to witness the
arrival Of the American warships.
Cailoa is one of Che nnest and safes
harbots on the Pacific. and the Pc
ruvian government is showing great
energy. not only to make it moderu
convenient and secure, but alss 10
equip The city itself with every nee
s!ty FOR comfortable ana hygienic I.y.
ing. These are massive wharyes at
tho waters edge protected by pier
500 feet long In the hay is a iioa
ing dock which will admit essssS
Of q feat draught and 5000 tons in
weight.