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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

Democrat feels that Bryan is much
stronger in New York than Parker
was four years ago, and yet Par
ker's vote was several thousand
ahead Of the best Bryan was able
to show in his two campaigns.
Bryan cannot hope to do much
better in the Empire State than
Parker did four years ago, when
the Republicans carried the state
by an overwhelming lead.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

The Democratic campaign man.
ayers are giving out Just such IN
fol nation about their campaign
subscriptions as they feel tho pub
lie are entitled to. What the pre-
datory interests opposing MIR. Taft
and the continuation of President
Roosevel.'s policies are putting up
is regarded by our Democratic
friends as no concern of the pub.
Eo
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

AT Lincoln, Neb., the other day
Mr.. Bryan offered IS to any Re-
publican who would carry in this
campaign the banners he carried
eight years ago. Would MIR. Bry
an consent to bring out his own
banners of eight and twelve years
ago for that price! Where are
the bIazonments of 1G to and i'm
perialism in 1908.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21
ONE WEAK SPOT.
Most potosl People Have A Weak
Part and Too often It's the
Back.

Everyone has weak spot.
Too often it's d bad back.
Twinges follow every sudden twist
Dull aching keeps up, day and
night.
Tells you the kidneys need help
For backache is really kidney-ache.
A kipney cure is what you need.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid
Cure backache and urinary ills.
Potosi people recommend the
remedy
w. o. Williams, liviog two and one.
half miles West OF Potosi, Mo-. says
"Doan's Kidney Pills proved of more
benefit to me than any remedy l had
previously used. My back was very
weak for several years and any ex.
posure to wet weather or OVereXer-
tion brought on such severe pains
through my loinS, as to almost cripple
me. l was fully satisfied that the
trouble arose from my kidneys as the
secretions from these organs were
highly cOlOred and very scanty
finally procured Doan's Kidney Pills
from the City Drug Store and they
relieved me OF the trouble. I have
been feeling we'll since taking this
remedy and am pleased to recomm end
it to other suffering in similar man
ner.'
For sale by, all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Duans and
take no other
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

The Independent endeavors to
disparage the candidacy Of Polite
Elvins, Republican nominee for
Congress. on the ground that he is
attorney for one or more indepen-
dent mining companies in St.
Francois county. In this respect
he is no worse than his opponent
was two years ago when he first
became a candidate for the office.
1t was generally repated and not
denied by Mr.. Smith, that he was
at that time attorney for the
Houck system of railroads in
Southeast Miss onri. For all we
know he may still be serving in
that capacity. 1t is easy enough
to believe that Mr.. Smith has in
the past been, and may still be, in
the favor Of the railroad corpora
tions Judging by the way he lean
ed toward them when he was State
Senator, and his lodging going on
record against the empIoyers' liza
bility bill, which affected railroad
interests more than any other, is
another indication of his leaning.
Most of the men that the Demo-
cratic party has sent to Congress
from this district in the past thirty
years have been railroad lawyers.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

Our Democratic friends seem to
have an idea that they can carry
New York, but they evidently
ignore the election figures in presi-
dental years ID that state in get
ting at the notion. The average
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

Missouri should 90 Republican
this year Just to maintain the de-
cent standard Of its government 1t
has had during the past four years,
if for no other reason.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21
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4 Consistent. C..:.;.t..:>., with Ms SPOT
U5o,. ELL 1:eco-,; C -'-ci!Ate Con-
duct AKA P;,t::c cesvice.
To ii>:r,-e u ',;!. S.;t1- which should
.iot t., ;.-;,cti Il; speedily IS possible let
Us Say t:!a M. T:.ft i, Il member Of
lie Unitarian c!!,i,-,.!.: i.iat WAS the
church If !.;e; ,,nr,..;,. a:d he has never
separated hii,A>3'if firm il. Ills wife,
however. Is al E,i$acpaliHn. and he
Worsili,,s more uf.tl! beside her In her
church.
These are tx. e.. Is. which are utter
ly and absolutely uIimportant. The
matter of Il man $ religion has no right
ful place i'll consideration Of his fitness
for the presidency. The constitution
of the nation. ordained and established
to secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our pcsterity," expressly
places the very suggestion OF such
thought outside the pale Of patriotism.
No words can be clearer than these
from our country's fundamental law,
NO ItilSlouS tSSt CNCI Sudll OS Ic-
quired as a qualification to any Office
or public trust under the United
States"
The numerous queries about Mr..
Taft's religious belief shows simply the
extent to which his enemies have gone
to rouse some prejudice against him.
Since there was no spot upon his whole
clean record Of private conduct and
public service TO which they could
point to Taft's detriment they display
ed their willingness to descend to any
depth Of petty. cowardly. contemplate
attack that might do him harm
Philadelphia North American.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

The Republican voters Of this
county are under no obligation to
nut Democrats in Office. Vote the
party ticket and let US have An
election on IL clean party division.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

The chief reason why the Demo-
erals are 50 eager to disfranchlse
the negro vote is that it persistent
ly votes the Republican ticket.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21
$1.OO Per Annum.
Republican Ticket.

For President.
WILLIAM II. TAFT.
For Eice-President.
JAMES. S. SHERMAN.
For Governor,
HERBERT S. HADLEY.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JACOB f. GMELlCH
For Secretary OF State.
JOHN f. SWANGER.
For State Auditor.
JESSE A. TOLERTON.
For State Treasurer.
WILBUR +. MARlNG.
For Attorney General,
FRANK +. FULkERSON.
For Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioner.
WILLIAM w. WILDER.
For Judge Supreme Court,
ARGUS COX.
For Judge Court OF Appeals.
GEORGE d. REYNOLDS.
For Congress,
POLITTE ELNINS.
For Representative.
MARION Il. RHODES.
For County Judge-lst Dist,
THOMAS II. Il. PAUL.
For County Judged Dist,
GEORGE w. SEAROGRNE,
For Prosecuting Attorney,
SIMON G. NIPPER.
For sheriff
LAWRENCE w. CASEY.
For Assessor,
HENRY l.. SMITH.
For Treasurer.
NORMAN F. ROBINSON.
For Surveyor,
HYRCANUS HAWKINS.
For Coroner,
FRANK w. MCFADDEN,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

An election on rajght party
lines in this county wnn!d wipe on,
the Democratic party.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

Straw votes show the drift not
to Bryan, ont away from him.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-21

Z Consistent C1..,.t.:,y, with Ns Srot
Jpc.. ai1 l:tco-s &C '-:yAte Cen
duct ara F..t::c clr.ice.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
OPPORTUNITY

VIZ e RENEW our charge to Democ-
w Gratis to be true to their prln-
w ciples and their party and their
nation, and take advantage of the OPP
portunity presented to them to NOM
mate for candidates men representing
the highest type of citizenship, and for
tunately many such men are to be
found within the party. There is no
reason for choosing political champions
who are not exemplary citizens, men OF
intelligence, education, experience and
responsibility. Opposed to Democrats
representing the highest order of Amer
icanism will be machine-made Repub-
licans, representing corporation in
terests. Between high class Democrats,
of honesty, integrity and good Ameri-
canism, and controlled marionettes, in
telligent voters will not hesitate. Self
respecting Americans will undoubtedly
vote for capable, courageous, I'M
owned Democrat rather than for the
ninion of a meretricious machine.
The Democracy has an opportunity
of asserting it's independence and It's
Americanism, and asking the support
of all good citizens for clean and I'M
trammeled men, for whom Republicans
will vote on principle, in order to re-
buke the usurpation of their party s
name and powers by the scheming
agents of a cunning corporation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
DIRECT PRIMARIES

MT o MORE cogent argument in favor
of primary reform could be adj
4s duced than the labyrinth entan-
clement of confusion which almost
baffied the efforts of election officials
and the Los Angeles county board Of
supervisors to canvass the returns.
According to one account, "Such a
nixup and complication of figures,
names, party classifications. ticket col
umns and other technical details has
never been experienced in the history
of the court house."
According to another, Approximate
ly 40 per cent of the primary election
tally sheets from Los Angeles and
Pasadena precincts are faulty" The
newspaper which publishes the latter
statement adds drolly: "Many names
= were in befuddled condition"
We cannot understand why a direct
method should not be adopted of ar
irving at conclusions at present
reached by a circuitous and may
route which makes primary voting an
intellectual pursuit calling for mental
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
INVITES CLERGY TO TACKLE
MEN ON THE SOCIAL EVIL

Los ANGELES, Aug. H.-[Editor
Herald: l think it is high time that
the so-called better class of citizens did
something toward cleaning up the
morals of the community in which they
live. The number of churches in a city
seems to lessen the dives and dens not
a whit. / think it would be better II
the preachers would come out Of their
cozy corners instead of just preaching
to lot of children and women who
have no voice in the making of the
laws, most of whom do not fully under
stand TO what the preacher Is referring
when he speaks of the vices of men.
Why do they not go to the sinners
themselves; go to the dens of vice and
see who supports them? re they
afraid to beard the devil in ms den?"
Are they afraid to learn thr names of
the men who visit the PLACES? 1t looks
like it. Instead of prea hing to the
mothers, wives and CHI 1ren Of these
men. go to the men the, 1selves. 1t will
be a good deal harder work, but 1t will
be more manly on the part of the
preacher, and will please God more.
This is not work for the police any
more than delivering a Sunday SER
mon is part of the police duty.
If the question of disorderly houses
is not the most vital question with
which the church could possibly deal
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
IMMIGRATION

TN NEW YORK Republican hard
times are not over. Many men
Il have deserted their wives and fam
lilies, either because they cared more
for themselves than for their nearest
and dearest, which is the uncharitable
way of viewing the case, or because
they could not bear to see the distress
of their loved ones, or to take any
share Of the scanty family food supply,
which is the charitable way. While
there can be no reasonable objection to
the emigration traffic, there is now a
moral and natural objection
to immigration. craftsmanship of
heroic proportions would defy the
steamship trust, and, for the sake of
poor Europeans as well as suffering
Americans. refuse to allow any more
workingmen to enter a country which
cannot support it's present population.
immigration has done a great deal
for the United States, and America has
done a great deal for immigrants. But
under conditions now prevalent, i'm
migration is madness. and II persisted
in will make confusion worse con-
founded. and may be cause Of serious
trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
UNFORTUNATE

TT LOOKS as If the efforts to make
1 Los Angeles a city above reproach
"a would be interfered with by some
of our citizens who persist in taking
class view of a public question. Mem
bers of the Liberal and German-Amer-
lean alliances are protesting against
the proposed dance hall ordinance,
which will be acted upon Monday after
noon.
In the attempt to protect young girls
of Los Angeles from fate which in the
opinion of decent people is worse than
death they see only an interference with
personal Iibertyi There is not news
paper in this world which will break
a lance for personal liberty with more
willingness than Los Angeles Her
aid, and The Herald has proved this
over and over again. But personal lib
erty to interfere with the lives of the
young people of Los Angeles is not
liberty, but tyranny, fact which must
be apparent to every intelligent person
with a trained brain. Conditions in
Germany are totally different from
those in the United States and the other
countries which use the English or
American language. 1t is not at all
with a sense of superiority we say we
cannot Germanize our people. On the
contrary, the statement is a confession
of inferiority in one marked particu-
lar. We have not the Teutonic self
restraint and sobriety-never had, never
will have. From time to time Germans
in the United States and Great Brit
ain protest because they have to obey
rules and regulations made necessary
by the preponderance of non-Teutonic
element in the population. They want
to pass Sunday in their own way"
There is not the slightest objection to
this, if a guarantee can be given that
to grant the request will not interfere
with the rights and liberties of other
citizens, who also want to pass Sunday
In their own way. If arrangements can
be made for an orderly German Sun
day, this will not eliminate the princi-
pal proposition, which is that disor-
derby dance halls, which corrupt the
morals of the young and are constant
menace to society, must be suppressed.
The foes of the dance halls are enc
mics of immortality, not champions of
ultra Sabbatartanism
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
A DOUBLE TRAITOR

TT IS not often given a man to, by a
single act, prove himself a traitor
= to two causes which he has pro-
fessed to champion, yet this evil en-
fnence has been achieved by the Hon.
William Randolph Hearst and incident
ally by the Independence league jour
nails for whose publication he is sup
posed to be responsible.
In an editorial appearing in Mr.
Hearsts papers accusing the Demo-
cratic party and lis leader. Mr.. Bryan,
of receiving from 1.-The interests
sum of money, which, it appears, was
never received from anyone, Mr.. Hearst
showed his treachery to the Democratic
party.
In the same editorial, by a scandal
Gus and shameful reference to Mr.
Gompers. the great labor leader, in
which he accuses him of being "the
man of Mr.. Belmont" Mr.. Hearst has
also shown his treachery to the cause
of labor of which he and his papers
have always claimed to be the especial
and devoted champions.
This double treachery undoubtedly
arises from the same desire for revenge
on account of the failure OF the Demo-
cratic party and the labor organiza-
the subservient instruments for graft
flying Mr.. Hearst's political vanity.
The Herald has no interest in defend
ing Mr.. Gompers, nor does he, as to
anything that may be said against him
by the Hearst papers, need any defense.
At the same time The Herald desires
to remark that Mr.. Gompers has de-
voted a great many years of his life
in the cause of labor without ever once
having given ground for the accusation
that he had betrayed that cause.
It will be remembered that while Mr..
Hearst's Los Angeles paper was founded
on, and received its birth from, the
support of the labor organizations of
the city of Los Angeles, it was after
ward guilty of such betrayal of the
cause Of those organizations to which
it had pledged itself as to provoke from
them a resolution denouncing it and
urging their members to withhold the
support that they had almost unani
mously accorded it when 1t first began
it's existence in this city.
Carrying the burden as he must of
his treachery to the Democratic party,
whose support first gave Mr.. Hearst
his prominence in American journalism,
and of his treachery to the cause of
labor, TO which his publications had so
long and so successfully appealed for
sustenance, one can well understand
that Mr.. Hearst will require the bank
account of Mr.. Hartman and the in
terests he represents in order to con-
tinue the publication of the various
newspapers that he has devoted to the
cause of the Doodle Dees and his
political revenge.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
INSURANCE CONVENTION

ONE of the most important and IN
teresting conventions ever held by
~ the insurance men of the western
hemisphere will be the nineteenth an
nual convention of the National Life
Insurance Underwriters' association of
the United States and Canada, at Los
Angeles next week. At the convention
action will be taken tending to infiu-
ence life insurance legislation in nearly
every state in the Union, and especially
in California.
Among other important steps win be
one looking to revision of state IN
surance laws with view to eliminat-
ing or reconciling conflicting regula-
tons which make it difficult for ma
tional companies to conduct an inter-
state business, and to bring about, If
not uniformity, at least consistency in
the regulations governing this great
business. From the standpoint of the
more enthusiastic life insurance men it
is almost disrespectful to call it BUSH
ness. To them 1t is the safeguard of
the family, the benefactor of the home,
and the only friend that may be de-
pended on in time of need. The life
insurance agent is proverbially enthusi-
astic and persistent. and there is not
the slightest doubt this sometimes de-
rided and sometimes resented enthusi-
asn1 and persistence have saved many a
family from hardship when the bread
winner was called away by death. We
hope the life insurance men will have
what President Roosevelt would call a
"bully good time" and 1t is naturally
to be expected after their return home
they win be among, the boosters of
California. AS soon as they insure
man for high figure they will want
him to come to this state, in order that
he may live for century or so and
keep on paying his premiums
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
CHARLIE RICHARDSON

HTHEN, after a life of achievement,
wv a man full of years and honors
is gathered to his fathers, 1t Is
customary and right to deplore the loss
to society. But how much greater is
the loss to society when a young man.
on the threshold Of life, equipped for
the struggle in a way which promises
unusual success, is suddenly deprived
by death of the opportunity of serving
his country and promoting the best in
terests of the human race-because SER
vice is all that is real in existence.
"A man who lives for himself alone Is
superfiuous.
Charles Richardson, the well beloved
and highly popular student and ath-
lete of the University of Southern Cal
ifornia, gave promise of living for 9TH
ers, and the world needs men of the
type he represented. Filled with the
university spirit, devoted to the institu-
ton, proud of. his own achievements
only because they brought credit or
glory to alma mater and Los Angeles,
here was truly a man who exhibited
every patriotic virtue, and whose citi-
zenship would have been of the kind
called highly desirable. the kind of
citizenship which will be needed during
the years in which his life would have
run it's normal course. Southern Cali
fornia has not in recent years suffered
a loss as severe as that she has sus-
tanned by the death of Charlie Richard
son, and this community should be as
keenly conscious of its deprivation by
his sad death as it is conscious of its
deprivation when man ripe in years
and usefulness goes down the dark
valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
MAKES STRONG ARGUMENT
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE

SAN PEDRO, Aug. 10.-[Editor Her
adj: / take issue with M. T. when
she says: II think there is better
way by which women can get what
they want and that is to make them
selves the power behind the throne.
l think l was born woman suffragist,
for from my earliest recollection have
always had keen sense of justice, and
l have always felt that the legal sub
ordination of one sex to the other is
wrong in itself and that it ought to be
replaced by a system of perfect equal
ity, admitting no form or privilege on
the one side nor disability on the
other. This is the ground taken by
John Stuart Mill in his essay on the
subjugation of women. 1t seems to
me 1t is not what women wants. or
rather what they think they want, as
it is what is right and just for them
to have.
Women have had injustice melted out
to them so long that many of them
have learned to love the chains which
bind them. They have been taxed
without representation, which our
forefathers declared was tyranny. Our
forefathers also declared that govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, and yet
women are governed by laws which
they have not consented to or had
any share in making.
The constitution OF the United
States says: Cali persons born or nat
uraIized in the United States and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof are citi-
zens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside" Webster
defines a, citizen as "a person native
or naturalized of either sex who owes
allegiance to a government, and is en-
titled TO protection from it." The con-
stitution of the United States declares
that 1.-THE right of citizens to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the
limited States or any state" Mark you,
II does not say male citizens. If women
are citizens why is this privilege denied
When women gain their rightful
Mace as real citizens of thia republic
these questions will settle themselves,
as they have done in states where
women have been given the ballot
through state law. To my mind women
are no better or worse than men. Each
sex must work out it's own salvation,
but along different lines.
Mutual helpfulness should be the
watchword between the sexes, and this
cannot be truly brought about when
women are a disfranchised class
SOPHIA HILDRETH. .
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
BELIEVES RELIGIOUS BODIES
HAVE RIGHTS ON STREETS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.-[Editor
Herald: Replying to ]. NJ. G. as to
especial privileges" on streets: 1t
would appear that ]. M. G. Is of the
opinion this question is simply one
which is asked by the Salvationists
and Volunteers, because they accept
offerings from the public while holding
their meetings. If SO, it is a mistake.
For instance, why should the Peniel
mission workers be prohibited from
singing and speaking on Main street.
opposite the valuable property they
own and on which they pay taxes?
They obstruct no one in the evening.
Have they not as much right to stand
in front OF their premises as the mer-
chant has to halt his team during the
day as long as he pleases? 1t is not
Especial privileges these workers are
asking, but what they are entitled to.
While it may be custom for some
of these workers to accept offerings,
this cannot be said of the Pencil people.
They take up no Offering They are de-
MED the privilege of standing in front
of their own place OF business" SIM
ply because they wish to speak and
sing, instead of unload liquor or the
like.
Christianity is certainly a great
principle, as stated. and these people
are not asking for it special priv
ileges," but equal rights. j.