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Free press., 1908-02-29

PRESBYTERIAN Church.

W. B. BROWN, Pastor
1000 a. m Sunday School.
11:00a. m. Morning Service.
$50 %. m. C.. E. Service.
7:30 p. m. Evening Service.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:30.
You are cordially invited to all these
services.
Free press., 1908-02-29

A meeting of the Hays Tennis Club
is called for this Saturday evening at
Harkness' Drug Store at $50. ALI
members are requested to be present,
as important business will be trans
acted.
Free press., 1908-02-29
NOTICE to Deputy assessors:

There will be meeting of the Depu-
ty Assessors of Ellis County, Saturday.
February 18th, IN the County Commis-
sioners' room. Every Deputy Assess
or is requested to be present as matters
of Importance will come before this
meeting J. Ii. SCHAEFER,
County Assessor.
Free press., 1908-02-29
Society Notes

The members of the Lutheran c. E.
Society rendered reception a recep-
tion to Miss Annette Foster, Wednes-
day evening, at the home of Rev. and
Mrs. G. F. West. The society pre-
sented a book to Miss Foster as
token of their appreciation of her SER
vices as president the past year.
Mrs. Leahy is visiting in Topeka this
week, the guest of Mrs. Judge Nellis.
Mrs. Clifford Black, who has been
visiting the past three weeks with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Beach, left
last Saturday night for her home in
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Saturday Afternoon Club of
Hays will meet with Mrs. Eda L. West
Saturday Feb. 10Th. Program will be
rendered as follows:-
BEN HUR:-Lew Wallace
Collect
Roll Call
Reading of Minutes
Book Talk Mrs. Mary T. Garland
Miscellaneous Business
Free press., 1908-02-29

We, the sons and daughters of P. W.
Smith, wish to express our gratitude
to our friends and neighbors for their
kind sympathy and help in the event
of the last sickness and demise of our
father. CLARENCE SMITH, P. H. SMITH,
EMMA SM1TH, Mrs. J. c. Anxnss.
Free press., 1908-02-29
Labor Unions: A Progressive Force.

At their recent annual meetings, the
State Federation of Labor of Kansas
and of Tennessee adopted resolutions
declaring for woman suffrage. Other
State Federations which have taken
similar action are: California, Colo
rado, Connecticut Illinois, Indiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washing
ton, West Virginia.
Free press., 1908-02-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Moore wish to thank
their many friends for their sympathy
in the loss of their little one.
Free press., 1908-02-29

Have your printing done at the FREE
PRESS Office.
Free press., 1908-02-29

Farmers stationery at low prices at
this Office.
Free press., 1908-02-29

Subscribe for The Free Press-$1 yr.
Free press., 1908-02-29

Mrs. Leahy is visiting in Topeka this
week, the guest of Mrs. Judge Nellis.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
ELIHU ROOTS MASTERLY
ADDRESS At SARATOGA
The Secretary of State Makes an
Impressive Review of Republican
Administrative Achievements.
BRYAN COMPUTED IN DETAIL

The Question Before the Voters in
November is How to Secure a
Continuance of the Good Govern
ment Under Which We Have At
tanned 90 All Our blessings, and
the Distinguished Speaker Shows
That the Logic of Past Accom-
plishments Answeringly Points
to Mr. Taft as the True Successor
TO Take Up the Work.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
THE COAT OF MANY COLORS.
Colonel Watterson Writes With the
Zeal of a New Convert, But His
Matchless Pen Merely Accen-
tuates the ChameleOn-like
characteristics of the DEM
ocratic Candidate.

Colonel Watterson, suave always
though bitter under his suavity when
bitterness is called for, is busily de-
voting the mastery powers of his
matchless pen to the interests of Mr..
Bryan, for whom his intermittent af-
lection burns, for the present, with a
lambert flame The wide reading of
the colonel cannot, however, have
permitted him to avoid knowing the
adjuration, Save, save. o. save me
from the candid friend!" NeYerthe-
less, he now plays that ungrateful
role, to the undisguised delight of a
grinning gallery, while the prophet
at Lincoln grits grating teeth and
wonders whether the Kentuckian has
ever been completely reconciled to the
nominee who supplanted the man
with a mOustache."
Mr. Bryan is an old-time Demo-
crat of the school of Jefferson and
jackson and Tilden, though his coat
may seem of many colors," chants
Colonel Watterson, in imprisoned
numbers. NAY. is. not seems" he
might quote. in answer to himself,
but he doesn't. He merely lets the
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

and such independence and dignity OF
manhood as in our country now.
Government did not make these
conditions, but they would have been
impossible without wise and good
government, and wise and good gov
eminent is necessary to their con-
tinuance
The substantial question for the
voters to answer in November is, how
shall we secure a continuance of the
good government under which we
have attained to all our blessings;
how select public agents who will
maintain the peace and order and
prosperity we now have; and at the
same time press forward and make
practically effective the reforms
which this Republican Administration
has inaugurated. and upon the value
and beneficence of which all parties
are agreed.
Plainly the true successor to this
great duty IS Secretary Taft. His
wide experience and long years of
successful service under heavy re-
sponsibility as jurist, legislator, adj
ministrator, his intimate acquaint-
ance with the public affairs of our
country, internal and external. prove
his wisdom, his skill and his capacity.
The confidence and sympathy and in
innate association with which he has
stood by and aided President Roose-
welt in every stage of the policies
which by the common consent of both
parties now lie before us to be con-
tinued and developed in practical eff
fectiveness, indicate him as the best !
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

| declaration stand as it is, holding up
! his chief S harlequin coat for the de-
rision of the country.
/ Yet, as a good friend, for the time
/ being, of Mr. Bryan, Colonel Waiter
son here has an opportunity to call
attention to one of the Democratic
candidates chief Characteristic
adaptability, his chameleon-like fac
ulty of changing the color of his prin-
ciples to match the time and the COM
pleXion of the particular set of voters
whom he happens to be addressing.
But Colonel Watterson lets this OPP
portunity go by, and merely leaves
us with the coat of many colors.
And the cOlOrs are varied, to be
sure; the garment is radiant with the
opulent hues of the rainbow. Some
of the tints are a bit glazing and
crude, perhaps, but one can't expect
everything, even from the gifted Ne
braskan.
First we see patches of cleaning
white, fragments of the Free Silver
toga, in which the great Tribune of
the Peepul first swathed himself when
he hurled mixed metaphors at the
Chicago convention and stunned the
delegates into handing him No. 1 in /
Series A of his nominations. Here |
and there on the coat of many colors |
are blood-red patches from the cloak p.
Of class hatred, which the Democratic
candidate has endeavored to foment,
and to which he has often appealed;
and again, in radiant sky-blue, the |,
hue of dreams, there appear irregu-
ar pieces from that famous Imme-
late Government Ownership of Rail-
ways hullabaloo, which first aston
shed the Democrats in Madison
square Garden.
The coat of many colors, to which
'Olonel Watterson calls attention so
is particularly be-
oming to Mr.. Bryan, rejecting the
nobility of his features and being at
nee artistic and symbolic.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
SUBJECT FOR THE HYPNOTIST.
A DIFFICULT
DRAWN BY J.. Campbell. CORY.

ocratic platform is to require all ma
tiOnal banks to guarantee the pay
ment Of deposits by all other national
| banks. This is another patent finan-
cial nOstrum, advertised to catch the
/ fancy of the multitude, and it should
/ be suppressed under the pure food
/ law until it is correctly labeled "a
measure to compel legitimate bust
ness to bear the risks of speculation. :"
After a reference to Mr.. Bryan s
lack Of sound judgment as proved by
his advocacy of the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of sixteen to one,
by his false issue of Imperialism, by
his announcement that Government
ownership of railroads was the cure
all demanded by the public interests,
Secretary Root concludes as follows:
Now Mr.. Bryan proposes that I'M
der supervision of the National Gov
ernment everybody shall provide for
the payment of everybody else's debts
by his bank deposit guaranty scheme
Is 1t prudent to place in his hands
the great power of the Presidency,
and above all is it wise to give to him
rather than to Mr.. Taft, the exper-
fenced judge, the filling of the four
vacancies in the Supreme Court of |
the United States which may be ex-
pected during the next Administra- |
ton?
What is furnished by the record Of
the Democratic party at large to show
that it is competent to maintain the
prosperity we have, and execute the
promises of reform it tenders? No
proof whatever of that is offered. All
he evidence we have is the other way.
The majority of us have not yet for
gotten the second Administration of
Grover Cleveland, which ended only
IN the 4th of March, 1897.
Under that discordant Democracy
he country drifted through years OF
commercial depression and disaster.
poverty and distress, without effect
We government until the first election
+ Mckinley and a Republican Con-
ress placed the reins of power in the
ands of party competent to govern.
Are the people of the United States
eady to repeat that experience of =
government?
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

the honest purpose to secure the best
possible administrator of the great
policies that were dear to his heart?
Is it to a dishonest purpose that Mr..
Bryan claims to be the heir, and is it
possible to ascribe a desire to perpet-
uate personal power to the man who
held the highest power in his grasp
and rejected it?
After showing the falsity of Mr..
Bryan's charge that the Republican
party is responsible for the abuses OF
corporate wealth, Secretary Root dis
cusses the two substantial proposals
made by the Democratic party as to
the policy IT will follow If brought
into power.
One is that they will wipe out the
protective tariff and substitute tariff
for revenue only, says Mr.. Root.
shall not discuss that proposition, but
II ought not to be forgotten. The
eleven years which have passed since
the Dingley tariff was enacted have
brought about many changes in the
to which the tariff law is
applied. Many of these changes have
resulted from the very prosperity
which the protection afforded by the
tariff has produced. In the nature of
things, such changes must occur and
from time to time every tariff must be
revised and adapted to the new con-
ditions. AS the period of revision,
however. is always one of uncertainty
and a consequent injury to business,
ought not to be made too Of
ten or upon slight grounds.
The other proposition OF the DEM
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

/ possible man to continue those poll
/ cies. The character that we know so
well, with its courage, firmness, and
/ energy, its unselfishness, modesty,
/ frankness and honor assures us of his
| honest purpose, and his eminent fit
ness for the greatest of Offices.
The Democratic party announces
as the issue of this campaign upon
which they ask the voters of the
country to take the powers of admin
istration and legislation away from
the party that has thus proved its
competency, and to embark upon the
experiment of Democratic control
as the Overshadowing issue" the
question Shall the people ruler"
Do not the people rule? This is a
representative government. 1t sure
ly is not proposed to do away with
representation and have eighty-five
millions of people make and execute
their laws directly without the inter
VentiOn of legislative and executive
agents. Are not the laws being made
and executed by the agents whom the
people have selected for that pur-
pose? | find that by the lawful re- |
turns of the last Presidential election /
Theodore Roosevelt received 2,54I.-
296 more votes for the Presidency
than Alton B. Parker. Has he not a
good title to the office? Are not the
people ruling through him, their cho-
sen Executive, so far as his part of
the Government is concerned? Has
not every Congressional district been
in Congress by the man
whom q majority of its voters select
I'd? Is not every State represented Ii
n the Senate by Senators chosen by
IS own Legislature, selected by the
leople of the State for the perform
ince of that very duty?
Mr.. Root next discusses the Demo-
ratio platform charge that the ac- I
ion of the present Chief Executive in {
sing the patronage of his high office !
o secure the nomination of Mr.. Taft /
o the Presidency is "a violation of {
he spirit of our institutions. Is E
here a man of full age in the United i
tates who does not know that the
over which Mr.. Roosevelt brought +
} the support of Mr.. Taft's candidacy L
as not patronage, but his extraordi-
airy and phenomenal popularity and Il
'adership among the masses of the
eople OF the country, popularity of
hich Mr.. Bryan is now attempting
} secure the benefit by declaring >,
mself Mr.. RooseYelt's natural sue 1
'ssor? Is there one who does not II
now that if Mr.. Roosevelt had de- III
red to perpetuate his power. he ! It
uld have been nominated by raising III
s finger and that his advocacy of a.
+. Tatt's nomination was because it ~
rs necessary for him to secure the "
of some one in order TO
event his own nomination? Is
ere one who does not believe in his IF
art of hearts that the selection of IN
:. Taft by Mr.. Roosevelt as his can tr,
iate 10Y tne Eresiuehey at the very an
'lneIL .eH ne uIi1selI was thrust re
aslue the FresIuency, was with err
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
OUR COMMERCIAL EXPANSION.

From the Republican National Plat
form - Under the administration of
the Republican party the foreign COM
merce of the United States has expe-
rienced a remarkable growth, until it
has a present annual valuation of APP
proximately $3,0O0,O0O,0OO, and
gives employment to a vast amount of
labor and capital which would other
wise be idle 1t has inaugurated
through the recent visit of the Secre-
tary of State to South America and
Mexico a new era of Pan-American
commerce and comfy.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

~
nave hot met all the
ltal requisites of 20
whether they do not
hat it is best for the
power the party v
e for them and is
lit of them. Hav,
rations within the
ge Nation been hon
been capable?
I efficient? Have
d all the people
of pure, high-m
C'service in pull
ti,not raised the S
which the YOU
CIT for themsely
beOne US honor
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

depOsitOrs. 1t is quite as dishonest as
the fiat fifty-cent dollar which he
urged upon the people in 1896, and
put forward again, with some shak-
ing of the knees, in 1900. In one
/ feature, however, the fifty-cent dollar,
/ had it been adopted instead of being
| Indignantly rejected by the American
people, would have been less unjust
| in its injustice than the deposits
guarantee plan The evils of fiat
money would have fallen on all alike;
the latest Bryan nostrum would be a
penalty imposed on thrift and hon
est management 1t would rob only
the depositors of sound banks, with
consequent injury to the communities
in which such banks are situated.
In a speech at Bennington, Yer
mont during the campaign which
preceded the recent Republican vic
tory in that State, Representative r.
J. Hill, of Connecticut, explained very
clearly the monstrous injustice of the
Bryan plan-an injustice so mon
strous and so utterly obnoxious to the
simplest principles of equity, that it
is remarkable that even Bryan had /.
the impudence 20 make it a pretense /.
for seeking popular support. MIR. |
Hills figures deal directly with Con- !
necticut and other New England +.
States, but they apply as fully and |
forcibly to New York, Pennsylvania
and the West. Mr.. Hill said
Now let me give you a statement of
conditions in Connecticut and
show you what the result would be
If the Democratic party should be sue
cessful In the coming election and the
WilliamsBryan bill should be enact
I'd into law in accordance with the
platform pledges of the party:
Connecticut has eighty
National banks with a
total capital of $780,
23O,050 and deposits
OF .-..... .... S57.S59.020 ,
ieven State banks with ,
a total capital of s2,- :
10000 and deposits
or ...... 49,. S,633,125
twenty-five trust com
panies with a total !
capital of $9,335,5OO $
and deposits of 49,. 19,973.S24
ighty-seven savings
banks with no capital, 0
but with 539,e7S de- ?
positors with deposits Il
averaging $474.S7 r
each and aggregating. 256,372.O61 Is
Total deposits for the "
State 49,. 1890. 342,S3S,O31 u
The figures are from the last re- -
1rts. BY concurrent reports the ~
tai deposits in all banks in the -
nited States were $13,742,3741S1 ~
The assessment of one-eighth of ~ on
II cent would make s17,177,967. or "a "a
mewhat in excess of the $4,000 Trr
10 guarantee fund ~
The amount which Connecticut Y 80,
'uld be required to pay would be a ee
28,547, divided as follows: Ma -,
NAL banks, $72,S23; State banks. ne nc,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
His Bank Deposits Guarantee
Scheme a Proposal to Rob De-
pOsitors of Millions of Dollars.
IT is A INDUSTRIOUS INJUSTICE
Shows Same COngenital Generosity
With other Peoples Money This
Year as He Did in 1896 When
He Assaulted the Rights Of
Property With His Dishon-
est Fifty-Cent Dollar.

Bryan was very willing to be elect
ed President in 1896 and 1900 at the
cost of fifty cents on the doller, TO Ds
paid by everybody who had a dollar.
The same congenital generosity WIN
other peoples money is shown IN ms
latest stolen patent for catching votes
his scheme for guaranteeing Dank
deposits at the expense OF the bank
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

If all that Mr.. Bryan has favored
during the last twelve years had been
enacted into law we should have been
overwhelmed with disaster and would
regard it as our chief business in the
future to find a way of escape from
the meshes of ill-considered legisla-
ton in which we would have been en-
tangled. - Governor Hughes at
Youngstown, Ohio.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
KEYNOTES SOUNDED BY GOV
HUGHES AT YOUNGSTOWN.

Twelve years ago the Democracy of
Tilden and Cleveland was overthrow
in its own house. Under the old
name, but with a new alignment and
leadership a desperate assault was
made upon the credit of the country
and the integrity of private debts
Governor Hughes at Youngstown,
Ohio.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18

Mr.. Bryan insists on an overthrow
of thu entire system of protection,
thus threatening the dislocation of
trade and the most serious disturb
ance of industry. He seeks not tariff
revision, but tariff revolution.-Go
ernor Hughes at Youngstown, Ohio.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-18
s24,s6T;

s1O.79S; trust companies, sZ4sSO''
savings banks, $S2O,465-
What would Connecticut get 10 Te,
turn for this great sum OF s4z6'Ss -
She would have the entire anfoHhl, ~
losses to depositors in heT Ial1eN
banks last year made good 10 ahel1'
How much was that? Not one co.
How mucl the year beforez Notn
ing How much for the laSI Lsn
vears2 Nothing for National BANKS
nothing for State banks, nothing l ea
trust companies, and only $Sl,3s5 Az
for savings banks; so that If this
benefcent Bryan plan had been ID
erect for the last ten years, assuming
the same average of deposits as last
year Connecticut banks would have
maid out S4,285,547 and their aepes-
itors would have got back S3l -SS4-lO-
She would, however, have had the
privilege of helping to make good the
losses to the depOsitors of the specu-
lative banks and stock gambling trusG
companies of Wall Street, and numer-
Gus other similar institutions I'D other
parts of the country.
Vermont would have paid into the
pool last year S90,351, and received
have been here to go back but four
wears in ascertainfng her losses to de-
nositors. For that period it was moth
ing. The amount you would have
paid meanwhile would have been
S361,404.
The total payments for the six New
England States for a single annual
would be s2,604,55o- This
is on the basis of the Williams Bryan
bill, which requires that the assets OF
the failed banks shall be first exhaust
ed. If the Haskell-Bryan plan of i'm
mediate payment had been in opera
ton the failure of the Knickerbocker
Trust Company and the other failed
banks of Greater New York last Oe-
lober, with deposits in excess Of one
hundred millions, would have made
an assessment while the
panic was in full force of the follow
ing sums. --sf-7-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-12
CITY IS RAP|DL'
FILLING WITH
VISITORS
Hotels ReSerying Rooms Daily
While Rooning Houses Are
Soon to Reach Limit Of Ac-
C0mmodatiOnS.


Albuquerque Is rapidly hlling up
already with visitors. who have come
to attend the Irrigation congress,
taking time by the forelock in order
to be sure of satisfactory accommoda-
tons. The Increase i'm the nightly
crowds on the streets is already plain
~ evident and hundreds of visitors,
who are the guests of friends or rela-
tivcs, are coming in. Hotels are be-
ing swamucd with requests that
rooms be reserved for the exposition
week and the leading hotels have re-
served large numbers of extra rooms
in adjoining buildings to care for the
crowds. A]lbuuucrque hotels are pref
~ we'll filled ordinarily and what to
do with an the requests for rooms,
two weeks from the congress. has all
ready become "a problem. It now be
gins To appcar to many that the cs-
innate Of ten thousand visitors viii
fan far short of the mark.
81 have il ON reliable authority that
the Santa Fe company has placed Al
buuuerquc stopovcrs on some 10000
colonist tickets sold from the east. %
said "a we'll known railroad man last
night. This is probably somewhat
exaggerated hut divide ID by two o.,
three and YOU have at least 10000
there alone
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-12
BIG MEETING Of
REPUBLICANS IN
OLD TOWN
Old Albuquerque Republican
Club viii Hold Session To-
morrow Night to Receive
New Members,

Judge Jesus Romero, chairman oil
the Republican club of Old AIbu-
Querque, has announced a meeting OF
the club for tomorrow night at 5
o'clock in the court room Of the coun-
~ court house for the purpose of re-
receiving new members. The meet
ing is held tomorrow evening because
it Is not convenient for many mem
bers of the club and many who de-
sire to join it to attend during the
week.
The ola Albuquerque Republican
club is one of the strongest organi-
cations of a local nature in the terri
tory and its membership viii De ON
sidcrably increased tomorrow cvcn-
ing Among the speakers viii be
Judge Romero, Hon, George :. Klock,
Felix Baca, +. ). Stovcr and Mel
quiades ChaVes, the veteran orator,
whose public addresses are always re-
ccivcd with enthusiasm,
All republicans whether members
OF the club or not, are invited 10 be-
present.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-12
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Big assortment If Post card Al
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Mark Twain scrap Book. ranging
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