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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
Reputation.

The primary of August a, 1908,
was filled with many interesting
features to the student (not prac-
ticaD of politics.
Take Shelby for an illustration.
The local option forces selected
Judge W. H. Wallace as their stand
ard bearer and were thoroughly or
ganized for ten days or two weeks
before the election, and here are the
results, figures taken from Shelby
County Herald. Judge Wallace 1856
votes, D. A. Ball 947, a majority of
81. Then take vote given W. S.
Cowherd 1853, H. F. Staple ID, H. S.
Hadley Asst and you have a vote in
Shelby County Of 1915 against Wal
lace which is nearly 2 to /. Shelby
for some cause has repudiated local
option at the primary.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
Where is the Fraud7

One or two st. Louis papers, and
the Star and Journal of this city.
are raising the cry Of fraud in the
cities" in the primaries held last
Tuesday. The St. Louis papers are
intimatine that fraud was perpe-
trated in Kansas City, while the
Star and Journal are talking OF
gross injustices done in some st.
Louis wards.
Stop for a moment and consideI
what are the facts in regard to the
local election machinery. OF the
three election commissioners, one is
controlled absolutely by the Kansas
City Star. the bitterest enemy that
Mr.. Cowherd had in the campaign
Not more than one Of the commits
sioners was friendly to Mr.. Cow
herds candidacy. These commits
sioners appointed the judges and
clerks, and it is preposterous and
absurd that they would endeavOr
to Give Mr.. COwherd anything bet.
ter than an absolutely square deal
-Kansas City Post.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

There is nothing in all the world
so important as children, nothing so
interesting. II you ever wish to 90
in for some philanthropy, if you
ever wish to be of any real use in
the world, do something for children.
II you ever yearn to be truly wise,
study children. We can dress the
sore, bandage the wounded, inn
prison the criminal, heal the sick
and bury the dead; but there is
always a chance that we can save
child. If the great army Of phi
lanthrOpists ever exterminate sin
and pestilence. ever work out our
races salvation. 1t will be because q
little child has led them. - David
Starr JordOn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
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, 1908-08-13
COWHERD COURTS
CONTEST
be Nominee Without st.
Louis - Strongest Support
Where Best Known.


Louis Republic. 1t reads:
Kansas City, Aug. IL see by
the morning papers that Mr.. Spar
row, the law partner Of one Of my
opponents, Mr.. Ball, is claiming that
he has been defrauded out of the
election, and desires to contest the
same, if there is any method pro
vided for an appeal to the courts
under the new primary law.
want to assure him and the
public, that whether the law pro-
vides for such method or not, | will
never raise that question. | know
| have been fairly and honestly
nominated by the Democratic
voters of the State, and l am per-
fectly willing that any and every
step possible be taken to decide that
question by the courts.
The completed figures will show
that | am nominated outside the
City of St. Louis, so that if my en-
tire majority were thrown out in
that city, / will still be the nominee
of the party. l desire, however, to
call attention to the following facts:
There seems from reports to
have been four wards in st. Louis
where the majOrities ranged very
strongly for one or the other candi-
dato for Governor. Two of these
were carried by me and two by Mr..
Ball, In one of them he received
1859 votes to my 70; in the other,
1000 to my $50. His friends seem
to claim that the vote for me was
fraudulent, because it was so over
whelming, but make no objection
where an equally overwhelming
vote appears for him in the only
two wards he carried.
BEST RESIDENCE WARDS FOR
HIM
Il know nothing about conditions
in st. Louis. | do know that my
friends have contended from the
very beginning Of this campaign
that | would carry twenty-four Of
the twenty-eight wards. The re-
suits show that carried twenty
two. Mr.. Ball two and Mr.. Stapel
four. l notice further that even in
the best residence wards, where no
man has raised any question as to
the fairness Of the vote or the count,
have beaten Mr.. Ball about two to
one, This is accounted for, in part,
by the fact that both Of the great
independent evening papers in St.
Louis had advised my nomination.
welcome any contest that may be
instituted.
IN Kansas City the judges and
clerks were appointed by Election
Commissioners whom no man will
pretend were especially friendly to
me: one of them, in fact, is the per-
sonal friend and business agent OF
the Kansas City Star, a paper that
has bitterly fought me for fifteen
years, and is fighting me in this
campaign.
ALL FAIR IN KANSAS CITY.
mo man in Kansas City pretends
that there was any question as to
the fairness Of the vote and the
honesty of the count. In the best
residence wards, where business
men Of the highest prObity were act,
ing as judges and clerks, my ma.
jority was just as overwhelming al
it was in the downtown wards. Il
was almost equally as great in thu
country precincts, and this not
withstandine / was opposed by Mr.
Wallace, likewise a citizen of thi.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
The Democrat for Job Printing.

Miss Ferne Goodding of Atlanta
has been spending several days
with her friend. Miss Helen South
ern-
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

The town of Louisiana had an ex-
ceptionally fine district convention
recently. Mrs. Stokes the able
state president and two state super
intendents were present, together
with the district president, Mrs.
Matte Faulconer. Forty-one per-
sons had a place on the program
each with an allotted time and no
more. More than twenty subjects
were discussed, besides the regular
addresses, and musical features.
1t pays to be systematic.
At the Chautauqua just held in
Mexico, Mo-, from d to S p. m. each
day, was the w. C. T. U, hour.
Various lines of reform work were
discussed by national and state
workers.
The Grand Lodge of A. F. and A.
M. Of the state of Washington in it's
recent annual convention, to mem
bers of the order makes an IRON
clad rule prohibiting any Mason
from engaging in the traffic of in
toXicating liquors. The also pro-
vides that the violation of this or
der will in future be deemed Ma
sonic offense will be punished by
expulsion.
Miss Roena E. Shaner is back in
Missouri after a very successful
lecture tour of several months in
Maryland and Virginia. In Roa-
noke, Va, she secured one hundred
new members for the w. C. T. U.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Miss Ida Kirby. Of Monroe City, is
the guest Of Miss Mayme Burlington
in Stoutsville this week.-Stouts-
vile Banner.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Mrs. William Berry. of Kansas
City. formerly Of this city has been
with Monroe friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Mrs. Verne Hawker, of Hume
well was with friends in this city
Saturday,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Miss Eta Stormer of the Gem
City arrived Saturday to visit her
friends, c. L. Drescher and family.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Mrs. Fannie Boudinot is spending
the week with relatives in the City
Of FIoMeEa
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

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, 1908-08-13

Miss Odessa Van Stayern, of
Chicago. arrived Saturday to visit
her sister. Mrs, Henry G. FuQua.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
Fire.

During the thunderstorm Thurs
day night James Smith and wife
arose to to let the windows down
and at that time Gas afterwards
proved a bolt Of lightning struck
and fired the house. Unaware of
their misfortune they returned to
bed and almost the entire roof of
their pretty home was afiame and
beyond the saving point.
The house went down in ashes
and as there was only $500 in
surance the loss will probably
amount to 5000. Most of the fur
niture was saved.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

Mrs. William Elzea is spending
the week with Macon friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
Good.

At last the city has tackled the
job Of allaying the dust on its main
thorough fares in a practical man
ner. A shed has been erected at
the mineral well and an engine
and connection with the pump
made The water is to be elevated
into the large tank above the well
and a large outlet pipe down
from it will rapidly fill the 900 gal
lon patent Studebaker sprinkler.
Keep the upper tank filled and
the dust problem from a practical
view point is settled.
But this keep in mind: The Lord
will not fill the tank nor distribute
the water.
Now. if Jim Clay, a Butler drug
gist, had put in his time writing at
tractive advertisements sor the
local papers instead Of lacking up
signs in the country for his drug
store he wouldn't have smashed
his ribs by fall of the fence al
though he would have been fatigu-
ed by rush Of customers. Brook
field Gazette.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
DR.. J. N. SOUTHERN,
Physician and Surgeon.

Off'ce over Rogers ~ Thompson's
Store.
Telephones: Residence +. ~ Nj.
240. Bell 252.
Office: Bell So.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13

1T is only a poor sort Of hap
piness that could ever come by
caring very much abont our own
pleasures We can only have the
highest happiness, such as goes
along with being a great man, by
haeing wide thoughts and much
feeling for tbs rest Of the world as
well as ourselves. George Eliot.
Mrs |, A. Borden and Miss Stella
Fitzpatrick left Friday morning fol
Barring. Mo. to visit Mrs. Borden's
daughter. Mrs. FrancesNeIson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-08-13
- 'FrSek IS eSAtS
TRAVELLERS
AN GUNlt
Sss C<srk0TH d.. cbleA1e.

Miss l. A. White of Noel, Mo-, is
visiting former friends in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Living On Acre Tracts.

LeaYenWorth PoSt.
 People with families in Kansas City are buying acre tracts as far out as ten miles from the city on the subur- ban lines. They want to get their chil- the pure air. and this Is what Is being done in all the large cities.
 There are three races of people in Leavenworth who have done this Germans and the Polanders.
 In the southwest part of the city there Is French settlement just out side Of osS the etK 1mts a on the ne sr mans have their gardens all over the
 Americans wonder how it is that they they wwouid study them closely they would soon find out. These people raise their own vegetables and fruits and chickens and eggs and their own milk and butter and they generally sell as much off their land as buys every thing the family needs and the money that the husband makes at outside for the land and the Improvements,
 In the first place nearly all of these tracts are bought on credit. These peo- pie never lose their places When they once get start. they always pull
 The men and women and children who live In these garden patches have almost perfect health. In any part of
 
 a depth of from thirty to sixty feet and the roads are good with the exception perhaps of one or two months in win- ter time
 There are as many vacant lots lying idle in the city as would keep one-half of the people with fruit and vegetables If they were put Into cultivation. In the last year. a great many lots have been sold and put under cultivation and the city is better and looks better on account of this.
 Lots are very cheap in Leavenworth at the present time. Tn some parts of the city, lots can be bought at acre prices. The progress the city Is mak- Ing Is sure to Increase the value of real estate so that these prices will not last very long.
 man who knows what he is talk ing about says that half an acre of ground Is all that any family needs and on this they can raise fruit and Vege- tables for family use and also all the chick ems and eggs they need.
 There are a number of families in Leavenworth who only own TWO iots the house and outbuildings stand on one and on the other they raise all of their vegetables and most of the fruit they use.
 It would be better for the city and for the people themselves If great many more people would do the same thing. The movement that Is going on all over the country to get a piece of land and cultivate 1t IS a step in the right direction and ought to be encour- aged by property owners and by the city authorities
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Letter to The Editsr
Some Plain Talk.

some fl4tn Talk.
 Editor The Advertiser;
 As resident of Montgomery, take the liberty of using your column to call tne attention Go some facts, as I am the head of large family and an old resident Of the city. I cannot help but notice the vice that is open to youth on the most public thoroughfares of our beautiful city. Is there anything more demorallzing to youth. and es- pecially our girls, than visiting these cneap theatres and moving picture shows. exhibiting vulgarity and crime to illustrate, the Gunniss murder, the sheath gown--and to listen to the cheap so-ealled actors and actresses, fin song and dance, singing songs that are any. thing but edifying to youth.
 Notice nearly every afternoon little girls and boys flocking to these places. To draw a comparison between these cated in. the same district, would be drawing it mild to say that the bar rooms are far preferable to visit, be- cause little children and women do not go to such places.
 Parents should stop and think sf their children visiting such places and what 1t will lead tS. Personally. I have seen on our public streets conduct ex- hibfted by male and female performers of these theatres that was disgusting. They are nothing less than dens of vice exhibiting vice. and parents should take heed and stop their children frequent ing such places. I am speaking pfainfy and facts. to protect our youth and make good citizens of them
 Observer,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
THE DIFrERENCE

The Republicans are p=c.:y generally sneering as well as making merry over sryan's pan of ialeIng campaign funds. affecting to loo;x on 1t as a very small business. The Republican partys attitude on the tariff" says Tbe Pitts burg Post. "emphasesd by Taft's &C., ceptance speech is a ditr.t mandate to those protected int.r .sts which have been the care of the party in the past to come up with funds good and srorg. No question of campaign resources ever has bothered or over will bother the Republican party. uncer existI1> ideaIc. Perhaps the people Nili. however, see the advisability not only of opposing the huge lump sums of trust and cor porats privilege buying Legislation and the administration of laws in advance for itself with like amounts. even if in instalments so small as to be nexJI- gible by comparison. They may also see the need of doing for nothing and in opposition the kind of campaign work the Republican party liberslly spends the trusts corruption funds for"
 It Is not at all surprising that the Republican leaders look with some- thing like contempt of Mir. B=yan's Idea of getting campaign funds direct ly from the people. Those leaders know that the great copper atlons. the men of predatory wealth. the trusts. and other protectoi interests will "come across" with moneV to keep in power the party wtIch has be ,n SO kind to them. Democrats have no such bank to draw on; the' etore, they must get funds from the people who will be so signally benefited by Democratic success. This is a difference which the Republicans fail to see. but perhaps their eyes will be opened in Novem- Der. It Is merely a matter of enforcing money from protected interests or get cratic voters. and we are of the opin- ion that the judgment of a large ma jority of right-thinking people will de- eide in favor of the Democratic plan.
 There is such a thing as being "too previous" in politics, as we'll as in oth- CT matters. The old saying that "he laughs best who laugh last" may come home to our friends on the other side when all Is done. It may be an inno- vation to procure campaign funds in the way the Democrats are doing. but 1t is an honest and independent way Mir. Bryan and those who are assist ing him could not if they would and would not if they could. give assu- rance to the rich beneficiaries of the tariff that they will be nursed. coddled and protected under Democratic ad- ministration just as they now are, pro vided they will hand over an immense
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
The Presse and the People,

Noting the backsiiding of The Baltimore Sun in supporting Taft for the Presidency the Independent Indianapolis News says: we cannot doubt that The Baltimore Sun has failed to take into account the changed conditions of the present tima both as to Bryan and as to the people of the country. we have noted that most of the newpa- pers of the Atlantic coast have failed. They are still, for the most part, dwelling on the Bryan of years ago and the conditions of a past time, if we had progressed in noth- ing since then. and as if the political sun had not risen on a new heaven and a new earth. as indeed it has since the Adminis- traton of Roosevelt. Be this as 1t may, we feel sure that no news papers are going to decide this campaign. Unless we misread the face of things. the people are going to do that.
 It Is to be doubted if the people of any country, in the same time, ever had the political education that the American peo- pie have gone through in the last half dozen years. It would be futile to say that this has had no effect. It certainly has had a profound effect. The coming cleo tion will be the first opportunity to learn how profound this affect has been. What It shall be we must wait and see. The Democrats have ali the advantage of def influences of aim and incisiveness of deolara- tion. They announced definite issues and propose positive action to meet them. The Republicans shuttle in general terms. and appeal to their candidates proved ability and pRcificatory qualities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Desertine Hearst.

DCbeENEMk ElGMEWNs
 New York Evening Post.
 Is Mir. Hearstfs Independence Party going to pieces? Like the hero who dies In tie hour of culminant glory, like the bubble that breaks at the highest point of radiance, has the for- mer Independence League grown into a national party only to disappear? In New York the process of dissolution moves on apace. The old war horses desert. The other day 1t was Judge Seabury who turned coat and sold him- self to the predatory interests. Today no less an Independence mandarin than Attorney General Jackson Is said to be preparing to cast loose In Brook lyn, where Hearst and Coler, his proph- ct, counted d large congregation of the faithful, the sturdtcst pillars of their temple are coming out for Bryan. It Is hard on Mfr. Hearst that men who have been raised to bigh places through his efforts. should kick the useful lad. der away, put the founder of the Inde- pendence Party is wise enough in the ways of the world not to be taken ale together by surprise. Prophets and leaders must always take into account mans ingratitude. As Mir. Brisbane might say, all great men have been betrayed. Julius Caesar was betrayed by Brutus. Napoleon was betrayed by Bernadotte. Lincoln was betrayed by his own Cabinet officers. So if there be serious detection from the ranks of the Independence Party, 1t only proves Mir Hearsts just title to our venera- tton and our suffrages.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
WHITE CHILDREN REBEL.
Refuse to Drill With Negroes in Chica
 go.

Refuse to Drill With Negroes in ChIca- Chicago Special.
 Thirty Evanston children who are mem- bers of the Loyal Temperance Legion re- fused to appear in an exhibition drill before the Lincoln Temperance Chautauqua Asso- sembiy until eight negro children had been taken out of the procession.
 The toruble occurred Sunday afternoon. but It was kept secret until today. Then the children talked about it, and their parents admitted that 1t was true. Miss liar riet Zoll, superintendent of the organization i'm Cook County, was in charge of the chill anston. who is superintendent of the Legion in the suburbs. Announcement wes made that the children would go through drill before the chautauaua audience saturday. They were asked to meet at the First Meth odist Church Sunday afternoon. where they would go through their drill in practice and later appear st the Chautauqua tent for the exhibition.
 When the children met at the church eight little negro children were present to march with the white children. The lead CTS scented trouble at once. but were una ble to find what wrong until the chill white child fiatiy refused to march with the negroes. No amount of percussion was sufficient to induce the children to go ahead with their march. children should march in line and little George Washington. a negro, would bring up the rear with half of huge watermel Ion. It was argued that the love of the negro realistic to the audience. The white chtl- dren declared that they were not looking for realism. They still refused to msrhh. and the question was not settled until ev- cry negro in the group was sent home. Then the white youngsters proceeded with their march.