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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
PrOfitIess Lives.

The newspapers during the past few
days have carried two stories OF so
called "human interest" that goes to-
wards illustrating how narrow and
small life may become under certain
circumstances. ODDLY enough. 10th OF
the stories to which we have referene
were from Massac from
Essep and the other from Somerville.
In the first instance a man Of the
name of Drittendon, who had lived as
if he were a victim of extreme poverty
for years, and who mad frequently re-
ceived charitable aid from his neigh
bors, died, and an examination OF his
effects showed that he was worth up
wards of $40, 900, which he had depos-
tied in the banks.
In the second case, Benjamin Had
lev. of Somerville. died, leaving an
estate OF some 81. 100000 value. He
had rever INDUCED in any diversion,
had never spent a penny in purchasing
pleasure for any human being, hac
never given a cent or thought Of
making brighter the life of himself OF
any other person.
These men led negative sort Of live:
measured by accumulations, their car
ears might have been called success
full. They piled up money, but thell
wealth never did anybody good. Their
activities were always selfish. Th'
only happiness they ever knew was Il
piiing one dollar on another. Ihel
held aloof from their kind, for fea
that one of their beloved dollars woul'
be required of them. They neve
assisted the progress of the race
They never lent a hand to the advance
ment of civilization. Their existence
was barren. There was nothing Of tn
milk of human kindness in THE
hearts. They were utterly despicabEe
Their diety was the dollar.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Caps the Climax.

While every Democrat in Kentucky.
especially at his home, is cursing Lii
lard for his treachery little balm for
his wounds comes from a negro paper
published at Danvilie. 1t prints his
picture and soft soaps him as follows
A brave Kentuckian, who puts the
good name Of his State and the inter
est of his people above party ties and
his own political ambition, and votes
to end the dead lock in the Legislature
and to give Kentucky United States
Senator who will represent the highest
ideas of her best citizenship" Verify,
this should cap the climax Of his vault
ing ambition.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Interesting Republican Mix-Up
in Bourbon.

Senator-elect Bradley has stirred up
the Federal Office holders in Kentucky
and the fight for supremacy in Repub-
lican politics in the State will be to q
finish. The leaders of the administra-
ton forces, who are for ItTaft,
Ernst and Yerkes, with Bradley lead
ing the Fairbanks crowd.
The fight for control in Bourbon will
be very interesting, the. two Republi-
can factions here being divided. Post
master J. l.. Earlwyine, who up to this
time, has always been one of the NOV
ing spirits of the Howard faction, is
now a pronounced Taft man, while
Judge Howard and the majority of his
ola forces are for Fairbanks.
Mr.. James McClintock, the leader
of the opposition faction to Howard, is
for Taft and ir looks to an outsider
that Earlywine and McClintock, iold
political enemies, will join forces in
their power to control the Republican
convention in this county and send
Taft delegates to the State convention.
This is the way things look to a
Democrat who is on the outside of the
fence. Truly, it will be interesting to
watch the mix up in Bourbon.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
LET Country Democrats Take In
fereSt.

In short time a State convention
will be called TO select delegates, four
from State-at-large, and one from each
Congressional district, to attend the
Democratic National Convention to be
held at Denver. in these boiling
times the people are entitled to know
who these delegates are to be. The
only way they can know is for the men
who aspire to be selected for the posi-
lions to let their candidacy be known.
Before the State convention will be
held, county conventions will be called
in each county to select delegates to
attend the State Convention. The
Democrats who meet in the county
conventions have the right to instruct
their delegates as to how they shall
vote in the State Convention, what del
egates to the National Convention they
shall vote for, and what policies they
shall ask the State Convention to
adopt.
The Bryan plan is for all Democrats
to attend these county conventions and
name the delegates they want sent to
the National Convention. Only in this
way can the great body of the Demo-
cratic voters have q voice in the State
and National Conventions.
If there are men who want to be
sent as delegates to the National Con-
vention, they owe it to the Democrats
of the State to speak out, before the
county conventions are held. SO that
the voters who attend these conven-
lions can express choice.
The Democrats of Kentucky DO not
want to witness ANY more embezzle
ment of power. The way to avoid that
is to instruct the deleagtes from each
county as to just what sthey shall do,
and select delegates that can be trust
ed to obey..those instructions.
The country Democrats, the bone
and sinew of the party in the State,
have the power to control the State
Convention, if they will but exercise
it, to fix the policyof the party. and
to say who shall represent it at Den
yer. If the country Democrats want
to be represented in the Denver Con-
vention by men like McNu.t. Charlton,
Mueller and Lillard, and the men who
were behind them and forced them to
do what they did at Frankfort, all they
have to do is to ignore the county con-
be not concerned about the
questions as to who shall go from the
counties to the State convention, or
what the delegates do after they go
there. and Kentucky will be represent
ed at Denver by men who are no bet
ter Democrats than these four The
Democrats should be on guard against
smbezzlers Of power.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Plundering the Poor.

1t would hardly seem probable that
the poor people, impoverished by Re
publican policies, would be able to re-
duce the amount Of coal they burn. Ii
is reported, however, that the Soft
Coal Trust is only doing about half of
its usual business, and the Anthracite
Trust is producing one third more than
it can sell. :. Still the Coal Trusts do
not reduce the price of coal or the rail-
roads reduce their exorbitant rates for
carrying it. Another instance that the
boosted Republican trust-busting is a
failure.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Another Scandal.

Still another scandal, the latest be-
ing charges of fraud in the patent
Office with the alleged conspiracy in
granting letters patent on an electric
lighting invention. But we are told
this is Reform Administration, yet it
has yielded more frauds, scandals and
Investigations than any other Admins
tration.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
b 36o15, trial 2:1S TrOtting.
II Does the Business.
PARIS, KY

!, Mr.. z. E. Chamberlain. of Clinton,
Maine, says of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve: at does the business; l Nave
used it for piles and it cured tnem
Used It for chapped hands and it cured
them. Applied it to an old sore and it
healed it without leaving a scar be-
hind. Csc at Oberdorfer's drug
store.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Slap at Teddy.

The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights. and Measures has reported in
favor OF the bill to restore to certain
coins the motto ''In God We Trust, "
which was removed from such coins
by order of the President. This is a
slap at Teddy.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10

1t is most worth being away from
homo to find, upon returning. how
much she has missed you.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-10
Or Rent

House of s rooms, bath, gas, water
works and all modern conveninces.
Apply on premises for futher particu-
Oars.
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GA High Street
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1908.

''Mr. Taft" remarks The Chattanoo- ga Times. seems doomed to reap the whirlwind's harvest. although he had nothing to do with its cultivation. As the campaign progresses 1t becomes more and more evident that MT. Taft's reliance must be upon his own person. aiity, his own record and his own character, and not upon the help of his tempestuous Warwick |" In his anxiety to play the role of Warwick. the kingdom as the great Earl of Warwick was called. Roosevelt has shown what is we'll termed 'pernfcIous activity on so many occasions that it has ceased to excite wonder. Mir. Taft is slow of comprehension if he cannot see that Roosevelts meddling in his campaign is about the worst thing that could happen to him. If he is defeated. as prospects now indicate, he may properly attribute his failure to the would-be boss at oyster Bay Perhaps. however, he may feel himself under obligations to the man who made him what he is and will not as- sert his own independence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
BRYAN TO LEAD
His New York FIwht ,n Person

His New York Fight in Person.
 Lincoln Special to N, Y. World.
 and Mr. Kern by the committeemen Ohio and New York are debatabie ground. Therefore 1t was decided that speaking time to those States.
 As result of the conference Mir. Bryan gave up all idea of going into inter-mountain States are certain to go for the Democratic ticket and that there awas no use In his going there. On the Pacific slope the only State chance is California. MT. Bryan has been ur~ed to go there. but the reports brought to him today indicate that Call ifornia Is in pretty much the same shape as the i've inter-mountain States.
 All his tnformants impressed on hIm the necessity of making his main fight In Ohio. Indiana Illinois and New York and trusting to his lieutenants in the far West. This does not mean that Mir Bryan will make no Western speech es, but does mean that his main endeav- ors will be concentrated on the East. He is billed to speak in Kansas, Iowa and possibly South Dak kota on the trip which begins August 20. After he gets Into Illinois. however. the plan. is for speak in Peoria Ill on September g, He was advised today to spend some time in Illinois then go to Indiana and from there to Ohlo ana then eastward until he reaches New York.
 The Democratic leaders seem to be easier on the financial question than they have been. It came under review in the conference today and everybody was optimistic.
 "We don't want much and we'll get that" declared Governor Osborne. Heretofore all the talk from men of Mir. Osborne's rank in the party has been anxious on the money question. Today 1t Is different.
 of course" said MT. Daniels. i've | have got to get our money from the l people since we have adopted our dec 1 laration turning down corporation con- l trtbutions and limiting the amount of | individual offerings. At first the idea of gettig money from the people may have looked quiXotic but we are get ting 1t. We won't need a big fund to l run this campaign and the people are | coming to the front In great shape. | There were a dozen men in the Old | Mems Home at Memphis who clipped | ia from their little savings and sent us
 a dollar. woman sent us $l0 in mem 1 ory of her dead husband as she put 1t 1 saying that she didn't know any better | way to honor his memory because If l he had lived he would have done the | same thing. That sort of thing shows 1 the extent to which the people to whom we have got to look for our funds are | Interested In this campaign,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
CHANGE CANADA HOLIDAY.
Why i'm Future the Dominion Has !
 Monday esThanksgiyiing." Montreal Star

Why i'm Future the Dominion Has a
 Monday "Thanksgiyiing."
 Montreal Star.
 The premier's announcement that Thanksgiving Day will be fixed for a Monday instead of Thursday, as has bten the custom from time immemo- rial, will be welcome news to the thous- ands of Canadians who will thus be en- abled to make the Thanksgiving a home festival. The change has been made at the request of the Commer. ciai Travellers Association, back ed by a section of the press. and 1t is not diff ficult to believe that the army of com mercial trvelers would prefer to eat their Thanksgiving dinners at home rather than amid the chill gloom of a strange hotel on holiday.
 But the benefit will not be confined to the commercial travellers by any means There are thousands of students who will be able to get home for Monday Thanksgiving who could not break in on the week for a Thursday festival. Then there are a great number of other young people-young men, young wo- men, and young married coup1es-who are making their fight In the town or city and who will now feel free to spend this extended week end at home with the old folks and eat their Thanksgiv- ing turkey once more under the fam eature of the day be less observed. for many of these home flying birds will feel 1t a rare delight to attend service again in the old church-possibly on the Sunday--and sit with their own people in the accustomed pew.
 This is the second reform which has been worked in the date of the Thanks giving festival which we have had the justification of pressing on the govern ment. The first was the change from the cold, gray days of late November to the bright weather of October, thus making Thanksgiving a real harvest home and a joyous holiday which could be spent in the fields for whose yield we were to give thanks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
POLITICAL POINTERS
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on the
 National Contest.

Penrose of Pennsylvania, on the Ad- visory Committee, is accounted for the fact that Taft did not know of the ap- pointment until they were made. Penn sylvanians here say that Penrose was put on the committee because the men expected to raise money in that State are friends of his apd demanded re, cognition for him. It is the belief at
 Hot Springs that Roosevelt passed on the Advisory Committee list before 1t
 was made public.
 Taft Angry All overa
 Arthur I. Vorys arrived today and Mir. Taft. who Is slow to anger. but
 earnest in his wrath when he has ac-
 quired it, is determined that Vorys and
 Hitchcock shall meet and that Hitch cock shall learn that Vorys Is a force
 in the campaign. with the backing Of
 the candidate. Though 1t has been an
 nounced for more than week that
 Hitchcock was expected here by Mir.
 Taft the chairman wired Mir. Taft that
 he would have to go to Chicago from New York The candidate wired per-
 emptory that the chairman come here before going to Chicago.
 It was learned today that Mir. Taft.
 after his experience with Hitchcock.
 seeing his appointments held up. de-
 manded that the list of men selected for the publicity bureau be submitted
 to him. when it went back to Hitch cock number of names had been crossed off.
 The interview tomorrow will be a warm one, also, over the resignation or Elmer Dover as secretary of the Ma
 tional Committee. When Mir. Taft saw
 Dover in Cincinnati. he told the secre- tary that he must keep his position, and Dover promised that he would. An hour before he resigned fin New York. Dover told a friend that he would not resign, that he had been elected by the National Committee for four xsSrs and that Hitchcock could not force him out.
 Mir. Taft does not know what meth | cd was used that could make him change his mind in an hour. He VIII | ask Hitchcock. Dover's friends do not believe that he will be content to serve as secretary of the Advisory Commit I tee, nor that Hitchcock intends that he shall keep that position
 Hard Questions for Hitchcock. To predict that Hitchcock will give up the chairmanship. or that he will be | asked to do so. probably would be go- I ing too far; but Taft is determined 1 that there shall be a thorough under. | standing that he is the court or iast : resort In running the campaign. ana That bis orders are final. What hap pens after that will depend upon how | Hitchcock takes the Information.
 It Is felt here that there Is more need of coneiifation by the national or ganization than of the steam roller
 methods The immediate case Is that of west Virginia. Neither side can be I driven. Harsh measures will only drive them so far apart thaS the Dem- ocrats can walk through the breach to victory. Troubles that must be han- died Automatically exist this year irl
 a number of Republican states, ana az ready there is doubt If the "business- like" methods of Hitchcock are the right ones for this campaign.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15

''one of the most interesting of the many interesting people whom Que bee's ter-centenary brought together on the banks of the St. Lawrence" says The Hartford Courant. twas Lord Strathcona-now Ss. When he first saw Canada-and that was more than sixty years ago-he was young Donald Smith from Scotland. on his way to a job in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. He made q great fortune; he recrossed the Atlantic as Canada's s High Commissioner; his title-Strath- coma and Mount Royal-speaks of love divided between the land of his birth and thefIand of his choice. The case of this young Donald Smith is a noted instance of a youth seeing and seizing the opportunity when it comes his way. Other young men with the same chance might have failed to re- alize what was before them. or might not have had the courage and determi- nation to profit by 1t as he did. Don aid Smith. IS was, Lord Strath coma, as is. furnishes an example that many a young man might follow with honor and profit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
THAw NOT ALONE.

If Harry Thaw was not insane when they were trying so hard to prove him so it should excite no surprise if he loses his mental balance when he comes to look over the expense bills connected with his various court trials. The lawyers and the doctors. the spe- cialists and the alienists. and all oth- CTS who served him or pretended to serve him in any capacity seem to have regarded him as legitimate prey, and each acted as though he feared an- other would get an undue share of the pickings. The New Bedford stand ard says of the matter:
 An attorney who is said to be famil. far with the Thaw trials, speaking or the bankruptcy petition. says the eon- duct of hogs about a trough is that of refined gentlemen in comparison with that of most of those who nave served Thaw in a professional or any other way. The public has suspected as much, and is rather inclined 10 sympathize with Thaw in this par ticular trouble.
 Thaw may have merited punishment for his crime. but that punishment should have been administered legally. That he committed a crime is no de- fense for those who have literally and deliberately robbed him under the plea of pay for professional or other ser vices rendered him during the long months his case has been before the courts. It fs authoritatively stated that they bled him to the tune of more than half a million dollars and re- duced him to bankruptcy. It is put ting it mildly to say that much of this was hold-up money extracted from him because he was unable to help himself and simply had to stand and deliver what they demanded. It is not neces- sary to go into the details. but some of the bills against him were so out rageous that a professional hold-up man would have felt some compunc- tions about taking the money. We ] may blame Thaw as much as we please but he was not the only one who de- serves eensure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
Brvan,s caanees Briehsen.

There is no doubt of the fact that the chances for Bryan's election seem to grow brighter each day. Before the Chicago and Denver conventions there seemed to be no chance for him what ever. That was the general view out side of a few close personal adherents. But when the peop.e saw the bold and unblushing attempt (and successful attempt so far as the nomination was concerned) of the adm ministration at open demand for the succession of "a prince of the royal house" as 1t were: and the same successful demand to make "my policies' his platform, a re- vulsion of feeling swept over the land. And when, on the other hand. the peo- pIe saw a successful side-tracking of some of the Bryan demands" such as railroad ownership. and the initiative and referendum. and Bryan's acquiesc- ence fin the action taken, thousands of East "took heart" and buckled on the armor again. Eight out of the ten surviving members of Cleveland's two Cabinets are outspoken for Bryan, and the other two may be for him, but so far they have not been quoted.
 South. He Is stronger than, ever, in York is doubtfuI-that Ss. fighting ground. It Is by no means certain foT Taft.
 Bryan has undoubtedly a fighting chance this year to win, and that Is the best chance he has had. The people are weary of Big Sticks and bosses. They are tired of auto crats and overlords. We would not be a thud about the time of the Novemb CT election. May there not have been a forecast of it in Georgia on June 4tk Last?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
A Sign From the West

Washington Herald. -
 If the West is to be the battle ground of the national campaign--the great Middle West that has been so soidiy Republican in recent years--then there is something to think about in the re- suit of the Kansas Senatorial primary, teal. Otherwise it would not have chosen Bristow instead of Long. If there had been a reactionary spirit in the State. it would have stood pat. extremes of Republican sentiment, Bristow stands for La Folletteism. and so much of Rooseveltism as IS em- braced in La Folletteism. The Wiscon- sin statesman has had no more stead sincere admirer than Joseph L.. Bris-- tow. An uncompromisingly honest man. he possesses few of the personal qualities that make for success in po- litical life but he stands for the things Likelihood will come to the United States Senate. Long who loses the toga Is 6 capable lawmaker. but es- sentially the representative of the 'in- man, ever ready to sneeze when the White House took snuff. he was: never theless a reactionary and 1t is clear now that his constituents found him out. He Is of that class of statesmen fast passing off the public stage as the result of the primary system. which so surely proves their undoing.
 Who best represents the Kansas idea In the Presidential contest-Taft or Bryan? That is a question that will until election day comes. But this we know now: The Republicans of Kansas have not turned reactionaries. They are radicals. The choice Of Brlstow is doubtless true of all the States in the Middle West
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
What the Farmer Needs

Washington Herald ,t.,.. .,,
 Colonel James c. Hooe. who lives on ana cuitivates one of the best farms in tbe T.oudoun valley of Virginia. was at tbe Shoreham yesterday. Speaking or ina commission recently appointed by the President to Investigate the back yards of Southern and Western farms, he said: l. ..a, nation not investigation. not smell Ing committed but a market for pro- ducts: not a clearing house commission, bu. a clearing house; not college pro fessors to make suggestions, but !egis- iators who will remove the tarih on everything he buys. for he gets no pro tectlon on what he sells.
 Let the great regulator and gov ernment by commission expert recon . mend next December when Congress meets the removal of the duty on hides. on wool. on lumber. on farming ma chlnery on utensils which the poor,
 sad wife requires and the farmer wlll have more money to build sheds for stock more shoes and clothes for his family. better equipment for his farm, and more contentment and rest for himself as we'll as better sanitary ar engagements for his family He needs also more accommodation at his tanks, a lower money rate of interest, and cheaper freight rates These blessings might have come earlier if my poll ces had not been invoked. They will not come If continued and the farmer too. cries. God spare Us from regula tlsn by commission. and let us alone.