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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29
Red Letter Day.

November 20 Universal Tenn
perance Sunday throughout the
world.
The delegate from Monroe City to
State W. c. T. U. Convention re-
ports the largest attendance in its
history Great increase in member
ship the last year.
At the memorial service for the
departed comrades, Mrs, Sallie
Christian Of Warren (whOse men,
bership was in the Monroe City
Union) was among the number.
The 9Th district has gained 60
members. Total membership of
state STU. 200 newspapers pub
fish w. c, T. u. notes. IT'S that have
a weekly column.
Mrs. Carrie Lee Carter Stokes
was elected President; Miss Roena
Shaner, Vice President; Mrs. Kate
Newton, Corresponding Secretary;
Mrs. Lettie Hill May, Treasurer.
The work is to be more active dur
ing the coming year than ever be-
fore.
DR.. A. H. Chambers Medical
Officer of Health has prepared a
most excellent poster from which
we quote the following:
Alcohol is not a food.
1T is not a source of muscular
vigor or deXterity but the reverse.
1t may produce temporary exhilira-
ton but depression soon follows.
Its continued use whether in the
form of beer, wine or spirits even
though never to the extent of pro-
ducing drunkness results in chronic
poisoning.
1T weakens the natural forces
which resist disease.
1T increases the risk of consump-
ton.
1T shortens life. The death rate
of abstainers is little more. than
half that of the whole male popula-
ton between the ages of rs and
S."
These statements were recently
submitted to parliament by the
committee of Physical Deteriora-
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29
MONEY NEEDED TO CONDUCT
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP AIGN.

Appeal Of National Committee for Funds Garry Work Of Ed
ucatnG and Organizing for Election Of Bryan and Kern
Appeal is to the Millions Let the People Control
Their Own Elections and Pay the Bills.
There are no secrets this campaign Strictly practicine
what he breaches Mr. Bryan would win victory with tainted
money paying the election expenses
Not dollar to be accepted which requires any promise
either express implied other than for honest impartial
Mr. Bryan will the White House absolutely from
enanGng alliances free to all classes Of honest citizens
alike, or he will not enter at all
Hence the plain The campaign Of Bryan and Kern
must be conducted by the people
The people pay the necessary campaign expenses if
they want public servants who will their interests
Special interests and favored classes having secured swollen
fortunes by purchasing fav0rs in the past with millions contrib
uted to control elections stand ready give millions for
continued favo But that class gives dollar unless it
buycs tIedGc
Mr. Bryan says March 4th 1909 Let the people rule"
This only the people pay their bills and
control their elections
"Bcwara " the trusts bearing Gifts"
That goj,y u the favored few buying mortgage the
Government that the candidate president knew
people only in an entire state
Bryan says we will take the peoples rule home
the people and will know people in every country"
You can serve the grand cause Of popular government
Your paper reaches the fcside Of the patriot who loves his
country for his count8 Good distinguished from the greedy
Of swollen fortunes who loves his country only for his
counuyS goods
Please carry this letter in bold type at the mast head of our
paper
hstna every who vors Government by the people to
pay many dollars he spare aid the
paG or Bryan Kern and Peoples Rule forward these gifts
Of honest hearts and homes every weeks the Treasurer Of
the Democratic National Committee with the of each
trbuto and amounts given The Treasurer will forward you
certificate like the copy enclosed for each asking you de-
liver these certificates
Once more you should part Of the Great Organization
bearing the Lamp Light every nook and Of Free
America.
Our country for the people, its Government be by the
people Sincerely
NORMAN f. MACK
Chairman Democratic National Committee.
M. G. WETM0RE
Chairman Finance Committee.
HERMAN RIDDER,
Treasurer
Chicago Aug 15 1908
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29
Loves Laws.

Be sure you're right, then lose
your head.
A ring on the hand is worth two
at the door.
A fool and his money are soon
married.
A little debutante is a dangerous
thing.
Proposals make towards of us
all.
The longest way round is the
sweetest way home.
One good kiss deserves another.
It's love that makes the man
come round.
Kisses speak louder than words,
He loves best whose love lasts.
People who live in glass houses
shouldn't hold hands.
The woman who celebrates is
won.
Where there's a will there's a
wedding. Carolyn Wells.
Judge Meriwether was a Paris
visitor Friday.
Miss Sylvia Davis has been with
Bluff City friends.
Ennis Tooley was a business visi-
tor in Palmyra, Thursday.
Perry Lewis, of Hannibal has
been with the homefolks.
W. E. Crigler, of Florida was with
friends in this city Thursday.
Sam Saunders, of Lakenan came
over Friday to hear Gov. Folk.
H. c. Scheetz, of Palmyra, was
with friends in this city Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

MIRA J. B. Anderson and dsueh-
tiers. Mrs. C. N. Lasley and Miss
Lils Anderson were Quincy friends
Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Miss Gertrude Sharp left Thurs
day for Padueah, Ky, to visit her
sister, Mrs. Stella Stockwell.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29
The Panama Canal Scandal

down challenge to President
Roosevelt and the Taft family,
which cannot be ignored without
exciting reasonable suspicious
that certain very disquieting gossip
is true. For several years this Cos
sip has trickled into all kinds of
circles. business, social and pOliti-
cal, 1t is to the effect that Mr..
Taft's brother and financial hacker,
Mr.. Charles p. Taft, together with
Mr. Cromwell and Pierpont Morgan,
acting in collision with powerful
persons in the Federal government
carried through, with reference to
the Panama Canal, a particularly
neat specimen of Morganistic finan-
ciering, to the detriment of the
French investors and the American
people and to the profit Of one or
more of the gentlemen named
above The trick consisted in buy
ing up the French interests in the
Panama Canal for a trifie and sell
ing them the United States for
$4O0,O00,000, the profit being esti-
mated at many millions. Replying
to this gossip, Mr. Charles P. Taft
denies all connection with and all
knowledge Of the Panama Canal
deal. That denial must be accept
ed, Of course, unless contrary evil
.dence appears; even if Mr.. Taft's
friends, including President Roose-
welt. are on record in the Haskell
case against accepting denials of
improved gossip. But now the
Chicago Journal comes forward
with perfectly fair challenge. Sug-
costing that the whole controversy
can easily be settled, it says in its
issue Of October ID:
1t must be very unpleasant to
have such rumors floating about, |
and if Charles P. Taft will make
very simple request Of his brother,
the candidate for President, they
can be disposed Of effectively. June
3 last the new Panama Canal Com
pany. whose stocks are the subject |
of these rumors, after dragging |
along in liquidation for four years,
suddenly wound up its affairs. clos
ed its offices. and handed over all
its archives to the United States
Government. June Is Judge Taft |
was nominated for President. If
Charles P. Taft will urge Judge w. |
H. Taft to urge Theodore Roosevelt |
to open these archieves to the pub
lie, of course they will be opened. |
And by revealing the identity of |
the owners and directors of the ca
nal company all these unpleasant !
rumors will be laid by the heels.
The remedy is very simple, and
The Journal suggests that this plan
be followed, the facts be made pub
lie and the American people be
trusted to act accordingly.
A refusal of that fair and proper
challeee puts all commemorative |
Republican President and the Re-
publican Presidential candidate, as
well as the candidates brother and
hacker, in worse plight than they
claim that Governor Haskell has
dropped into. Governor Haskell
has, at any rate, offered to submit |
his denials with reference to the
Standard Oil Co. to the ordinary
tests. Will President Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft do, as much with ref |
erence to the Panama Canal deal? |
II not, what shall the inference be?
The Public.
A NJ pr;okar IF Rnchnall III |
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mesdames F. H. Baldwin and
Richard Glenn have been with Gem
City friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

r F. Pierceall sent a-welI. 1t
Was labeled . dog to his friend.
c. Million at. Clarence. Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Frank Courtney, of Frankfort
was with the homefolks, Thurs
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Misses Lottie and Myrtle LANCE
Of Hunnewell have been visiting
their brother. Bert and family.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. J. N. Sparkling went to Kinks
vile, Friday to remain over Sun
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

A, M. Bricker. Of Bushnell, ILL.,.
arrived Thursday to visit his broth
er, j. N. Bricker and family. n
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Thursday Mat Losson had a cher
ry tree with a nice second crop Of
fruit on it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. b McElrOy. Of Rensselaer,.
was the guest Of her daughter.
Ms Jaspss kccHntic Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. R. L. Young, of Palmyra
has been visiting her father. W. o.
Foreman.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Miss Aurilla Spiker went to Ely,
Thursday to visit her brother. j. r
Spiker and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

W. D. Young, Of Carlyle, KY, has
been the guest Of his cousin, W. P
Young and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. S. N. Kelley. Of Hannibal
came UP Friday to visit her brother
D. r. Campbell and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. W. B.. A. McNutt went to
Bowen, ILL.,, Thursday to pay rela
tives a visit.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Mrs. Abbie Howe, of Quincy has
been with relatives in this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

H. c. Scheetz, of Palmyra, was
with friends in this city Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Through the courtesy of the Dem
ocrat this space is reserved for the
w. c. 7. U. 1t is edited by Ella L.
Sherman, District Press Superin-
tendent of the W. C. T. u, who is
responsible for all statements which
appear in this column.
Our Watchwords: Organize, Ed
ucate, Agitate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29
OUR PRINCIPLES.

Total abstinence, Prohibition of
the liquor traffic, One standard of
morals for men and women. The
education Of public sentiment for
right.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Chicago, Aug. IS, 1908.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Sam Saunders, of Lakenan came
over Friday to hear Gov. Folk.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
CARMAN LEADS
WINNING OWNERS
NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE HAS
WON $3.50
Mark Antony II Is Biggest Money
Winner at Meeting and Lord Nell
son Has Won Most Races.
Powers Heads Jockeys

States of the first nine days of rae
ing at Santa Anita this season, includ-
ing all races run Saturday, show some
interesting facts. Two stakes have
been decided in that period and were
captured by rival stables, Sam 9. Hill
dreth and r. T.. Carman. The racing
association has distributed in purses
and stakes in that period the sum of
$26 $50, and siXty-four owners have par
ticipated in this distribution. No rec
ords have been broken, probably owing
to the poor track conditions, but La
Gloria equaled the track record for five
and a half furlongs. r. F. Carman
leads the list of winning owners with a
total of S2690 earned by his horses, Mark
Antony IL putting him in front by
winning two Vernon selling stakes Sat
urday and by the same victory Mark
Antony II becomes the biggest money
winning horse of the season, with $2475
won in three starts. Sam Hildreth
ranks second on the list with $2100 won,
Restigouche being his largest money
winner, with $1770 to his credit as his
share of the Pomona handicap stakes,
the opening day feature. which was the
only start of the Keene castoff. Four
teen owners have won $500 or more in
the nine days of racing, as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
RUNNER STARTS
SIX-DAY RACE
SIXTEEN TEAMS OF CYCLISTS
IN CONTEST
WINNERS OF LAST YEARS RACE
AGAIN COMPETING
Six Nations Represented In Great
Endurance Test - Ten Thousand
Spectators Gather at Madison
Square at the Start
[By Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Amid the
plaudits of. 10000 spectators, Dorondo
Peitri. the Marathon runner, at 1903: 45
o'clock this morning fired the pistol
that sent sixteen teams of American
and foreign bicyclists away in the six
teenth annual six-day race around the
big saucer-shaped track in Madison
Square garden. Many Of the riders
who in past years have participated
in the event again faced the starter,
Rutt and Stool, who won the
big end of the prize last winter Matt
Downey and Patsey Logan, Bobby
Walthour and Eddy Root, Floyd Mac
Farland and Jimmie Moran, and Leon
Gorget and Victor Dupre, the French
men who made such a game finish last
year; but there also were several COM
petitors new to American bicycle en-
thusiasts. Among the newcomers are:
Brocca and Labrousse, and Faber and
LaFourcade
The teams that started are as fol-
low: German Holland team: Walter
Rutt, Germany; Johan Stoll, Holland.
Danish Italian team: Norman Ander-
son, Copenhagen; Carlo Vanoni, italy.
Dixie Yankee team: Bobby Walthour,
Atlanta, Ga; Eddie Root, New York
City. Inter-city team: Joe Folger,
Brooklyn; Iver Lawson, Chicago.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
BASKETBALL PLAYERS
ASK TO BE RELEASED
Officials of A. a. u. viii Consider
Exchange of Neutrality-suspicious.
ton of Water Polo League
Proposed

There will be a meeting of the A. A.
U. officials next Wednesday evening
at the Y. M. c. A to consider, among
other things, the cases Of J. &c. Star
buck and Earl Dutton, Y. M. c. A.
basketball players, who desire a re-
lease in order to join a basketball team
that c. W. Hahn intends to take on
a three months transforming trip
through the south.
The formation of an amateur water
polo league will also be discussed, as
there are about forty members of wa
ter polo teams in various leagues who
have no official standing. 1t is pro-
posed to organize these clubs under
the A. A. U.
The officials of the A. A. u. have
been considering the standings of many
OF the amateur ball players who have
been playing with clubs in Sunday
games, with the result it recommends
the clubs protesting to hold amateur
cards shall receive either medals or
suitable trophies instead Of prize
money, and it is suggested that purely
amateur leagues be organized.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07

A THOUGH there are five selling
n races on the card at Santa Anita
- this afternoon, it is such an I'M
usually attractive offering that it de-
serves special mention. The fact
that so many great horses are being
raced at Santa Anita this season makes
the stake horses of other days figure
as selling platers now accounts for the
excellent class that Is the rule, instead
of the exception, in the selling events
this season. The selling events this af-
ternoon are featured by the good class
of the horoses engaged. At least three
of the six races today can lay claim
to being affairs of class. The third
and fourth races will be strong rivals
for the post of honor as the feature
event. The third race is a purse af-
fair at five and one-half furlongs,
while the fourth is a selling race, yet
in each will be found Aorses that have
run in and won stake events. In the
third race Old Timer, Gear, Colonel
Bob, Center Shot, Seymour Beutler,
Maltbie, Rosegal, Gold Heart, Hasty
Agnes and Ida May are among the
probable starters. In the fourth Mark
Antony H. winner of the Vernon SELL
ing stakes; Harcourt, Woodcraft, Red
gauntlet, Miss Ida and Astronomer
are among the probable starters. All
these horses have fair, or better, class.
Interest probably will center In the
third race because Colonel Bob, Car,
Maltbie and Seymour Beutler, cracker
jacks, will make their first starts of the
season. Colonel Bob was the sprint
ing champion of the coast last season,
and Gear was one of the greatest
horses In the middle west during the
summer and fall meetings. Seymour
Beutler is one of Barney Schrieber's
good ones, and Maltbie is the maiden
that has been the sensation of morn
ing workouts for several weeks. Center
Shot Is the speed marvel that William
Walker has developed into a speed
marvel of good class, and Old Timer
ran second in the Pomona handicap
opening day. Large fields are entered
in Ehe first three races, while ideal
fields will be the rule in the last
three. Scratches undoubtedly will re-
duce the larger fields, and the best
blue Monday card that ever was ar
ranged at a local race meeting viii be
the result, while the sport should be in
accordance With continued sunshine
today the track should be fast, and 1t
need not be surprising if track rec
ords are shattered in the third and
fourth races
Hen Berry says that his friends need
not be surprised If he takes to the
woods in a few weeks, as he finds him.
self attacked by the Alaskan gold fever
again, and it promises to be so ire
sistible that he fears or hopes, he
may have to go to the frigid zone late
in the winter. Recent advices from
the frozen north are to the effect that
ne and his brothers are the owners of
the greatest gold vein ever discovered,
as it has shown assays of more than
$4,000 to the ton, which breaks the
record. Hen says that he must go and
see it for himself, and his brothers are
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07

as anxious to go as himself. With his
gold mines, oil wells and baseball team
Hen promises to be so wealthy in
few months that John d. will look like
a pauper in comparison. Here is
oping it all is true.
Tom Jones has reconsidered his plans
for going into partnership with Jeems
Morley in the ownership of the Casino
billiard parlors, owing to a fattering
business proposition made TO him by
Freddie Maier. Jones has found good
and strong friends among the sport
ing business men of Los Angeles, and
he fails to figure out any loss by rea-
son of the dissolution of partnership
with Billy Papke. Jones is good
fellow and popular here, so he should
make a success in any line of business
he may undertake,
Those who hold lists from the sport
ing department of The Herald for sub
scriptions to the Christmas dinner and
tree for the poor children of Los An
geles are requested to put on extra
steam today and fill them as nearly
full as possible. as it is desired to pub
fish list tonight that viii be a repre-
sentative one as far as it goes. The
lists will not be closed for several days
yet, but 1t is desired to report por-
ton of the subscriptions, anyway.
Several horses that never have raced
at a local meeting are named in the
Santa Anita entries today for their
debut in the south. They are Dot
Bingham, Belleek, Joe Coyne, Gear,
Seymour Beutler, Redgauntlet, Wood
craft, Cannot and Norbitt.
Young Corbett, who is matched to
AL, r,Y,r =
course December IL at New Orleans,
asked his manager, AL Lippe, for hard
work in preparation for his bout, and
Lippe LEASED" him to steamship
company as stoker on a ship bound
from New York to New Orleans, and
the former champion will get all the
hard work he wants at shoveling coal
during the trip. They have taken state
rooms and will sleep there, but Young
Corbett will work during the days so
that he will not grow stale. He has
trained for six weeks in the most siren
uous manner possible, and is in fine
trim for the battle.
w. R. Midgeley, who shipped Whip
Top to Santa Anita with the horses
owned by T. e. Mannix, expects to
leave New York for Los Angeles to-
day. He was compelled to delay his
trip several days, owing to the illness
of his daughter.
Willie Knapp, the once great jockey,
will come to California in a few days
and expects to be reinstated and per-
mitted to ride again. He is said to be
as light as he was year ago, which
will let him in at about ITO pounds.
Horsemen down east are making ar
engagements to attend the race meeting
at Hot Springs next spring with all
the assurance that would go with posi-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07

The fifty-four races run at the meet
ing have been won by forty-six horses
and Lord Nelson, owned by S. A. Clop-
ton, leads all others in number of races
won, having finished in front three
times in four starts in nine days, be-
ing second in the other start. Only six
others were fortunate enough to get In
the repeaters list, Mark Antony II.
Gerrymander, Captain Burnett, Proper,
Alma Boy and Canique having two
winning starts to their credit. Mark
Antony II leads the list in money won,
with Restigouche second and Lord Nell
son third, this trio representing the
entire membership of the Thousand Dol
lar club of horses. The horses that
have won as much as $500 this season,
eleven in number, are as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
MASS MEETING OF
MEMBERS WEDNESDAY
Los Angeles Athletic Club Boys viii
Discuss Plans for the Further
ance of Local Sporting
Events

The members of the Los Angeles Ath-
letic club will hold a gigantic mass
meeting at the club next wednesday
night to talk over plans for the big
minstrel show, and incidentally to lay
plans for the forming of an athletic
committee to be composed of the mem
bers of the club, which will in future
have entire charge of all athletic en-
tertalnments which are given under
the auspices of the Athletic club. It
Is not definitely known who is at the
head Of the movement. although sew
eral OF the members have been dis
cussing it for the past week. AS the
meeting undoubtedly will be one of
the most important ever held by the
members since the organization of the
present institution, every club member
is requested to be present.
Vice President Frank Garbutt has an
nounced that the directors of the Los
Angeles Athletic club viii hold a BUSH
ness meeting Tuesday, December Is.
after which a statement win be given
out regarding the new club building
which is to be erected at Seventh and
Olive streets.