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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22
THE SALOON AND THE
ELECTION IN DISTRICT NO. 3
Voters to Decide Whether or Not
Liquor Can Be Legally Sold
Therein
o the Editor of The Republican:

10 the Editor Of The Republican,:
At the November election the saloon
question will confront the voters in
many sections of the country. In our
own county in District No. the voters
will be called upon to either continue or
put their stamp OF. disapproval on the
legalized saloon, and from the present
outlook it seems to indicate that the
people will rise in righteous Indignation
and smite this baneful institution and
place old Grantsville in line with her
sister towns in this and other counties
and states which have shaken off the
chain Of slavery and asserted their in
telligent manhood and declare that the
saloon shall no niger spread death. sor-
row and shame throughout the land.
We would appeal to every fair minded
man to lay aside all prejudice and con-
slider this great question impartially.
Let me ask you, Mr.. Saloon-K Keeper
and your supporters, few questions:
What are you doing to improve your
fellowmen? Can YOU claim to be a
benefactor of your race? Are you
helping your brother to higher plane
of life? Has the saloon ever accom-
plished any good in any community? All,
the answer is such that you should hang
your head in shame. We need not 90
to distant cities for proof against you,
but 90 only to the cemeteries in your
neighborhood and there will be recalled
familiar faces who owe their downfall
to your nefarious traffic your traffic in
human souls. Oh! if you will only re-
call some of the lamentable scenes of
the past your heart should bleed if it is
not as hard as stone
We will not mince words: it will not
pay. Let us be outspoken on this mat
ter. Who was that young man and
what was the cause of his untimely end
who yielded up his life on one of the
merchants porches in your town. Oh!
we fear that some day you will stand
before that Eternal Court, that Just
Judge, that Highest and Final Tribunal.
to answer for numerous crimes commit
ted in other names.
Think of the ragged and hungry wives
and children at home, in the cold of
wintry night, while you are taking the
last penny from poor broken husband
or father and when you have crazed his
mind with rum and he becomes disor-
derby you kick him out on the street
only to be taken IN by some officer to
spend the night in a gloomy cell. while
his starving family is at home anxious
ly waiting his return.
How many blasted lives in your own
town who would have been useful
men had it not been for your business.
Go and ask your neighbors who have
suffered from rum but have not vet
fallen and they willpont to you as their
chief enemy. Go and search out the
cause for the murders in this county
and the writing will appear IN bold
letters on the wall: Rum! Rum! Rum,
Go and ask that young man behind
the prison bars, what brought Won
here? and the answer will come like
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

CANDIDATE BRYAN isn't saying word
this year about the Wilson'S German bill
which he helped to enact and which
President Cleveland denounced as "a
creature of perfdy and dishonor. Can
it be that Mr.. Bryan is ashamed of the
only important measure he eyer helped
to place on the statute book?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22
Lecture At Loeb Lynn.

The subject Of the lecture to be de-
livered at Loeb Lynn Heights on Satur-
day by Mr.. Hall, of the Watch Tower
Society, will be bible Proof of Saliva
ton Beyond the Grave" All are cor
daily invited to be present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

THERE is muca speculation as to the
sort of platform the perpetual candidate
will adopt in 1912 But whateverit may
be the paramount issue will inevitably
be W. j. Bryan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

Mr.. BRYAN's running mate, Mr..
K ern, predicts Democratic victory in
Ohio. Somebody has been painting
little rainboWs on Mr. kern's eye
glasses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

REPORTS from the front state that
Candidate Bryan looks somewhat worn.
His political policies presenta somewhat
similar appearance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

The Democratic Campaign Text Book
can hardly be reckoned among the sea
sons best sellers, but its originality
as work of fiction cannot be denied.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

Mr.. TAFT calls MIR. Bryan's speech
making an oratory of fancy Only
a few years ago Col. Watterson called it
an oratory Of infancy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

BRYAN is not talking about the tariff
His vote in Congress. for the Wilson
German bill brought its own sad elo-
quence of subsequent disaster.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

Mr.. BRYAN challenges Mr.. Taft to
take the people into his confidence. 1t
isn't necessary. The people long ago
took Mr. Taft into theirs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

A DEMOCRATIC guarantee for the re-
turn Of borrowed umbrellas would touch
the hearts of Millions
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

Mr.. KERN has lost his railroad pass.
Happening at this time Of the year,
when walking is bound to get worse
and worse, this is indeed a misfortune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

~ EVENTS have nullifed everysprophecy
ever made by Bryan. Such a prophet
merits no trust for the future.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

Mr.. BRYAN has suffered two defeats
at the hands of an Ohio man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22

THE West reports bumper crops Of
all kinds, including Taft votes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
The New Li9h Rate

As will be seen from an article, pub
lished elsewhere, the council has
made a sweeping reduction in the
electric light rate. When the present
council took charge of affairs it was
apparent that the city was not getting
reasonable pay for the amount of
light furnished, and meter expert
was called in who cleaned and regu
lated some of the meters and con-
demned others. After that light bills
ran up to unprecede figures and
the council was roundly cussed for
what they had done. The council
desires only to be fair both to the
city and users Of electric lights and
have put in force a new rate which
carries with reduction of 20 to 40
percent. When all the facts are fully
known we believe it will be conceded
that the council has handle the light
question in business-like manner.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
Subscription Offer Extended

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St. Paul, MINI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

expresses, although he 10 not specific.
but he is not man Of force or Of
very decided opinions and that natur-
ally robs his remarks of that ring
which the public has come to look for
in the speeches Of public men.
Although there will be little gener-
al legislation at this session of Con-
gress, Rep. Sulloway has introduced
in the House a measure which it is
generally believed will pass. This
bill provides that the widows of all
soldiers who served ninety days or
more in the Civil War shall be pen
stoned at the rate of $12 a month;
raises the pensions of all widows now
on the rolls from So to SIP month
and removes the present restriction
which makes it impossible for a
widow to secure a pension if she has
an income from other sources Of $3.50
a year, or more. The benefits of the
bill, however, can be conferred only
on those women who were married to
veterans before the passage of the act
of June, 1890. It is estimated this
measure will add 100000 year to
the cost Of pensions, and as the esti-
mated cost under existing law is for
the coming year $151, 045, 900, should
this bill become law it will raise the
total to something over $16O,000,000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
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! 17ksSET UNCLE INC By :

She "Didn't Care"
/ recall when Arthur Whitson cuna q
proselytin' round =5+ IT = s<s
With a grip-sack full o. neckt1ss and .
Good Book, leather bound y
Cum t lead tn young folks meetin' and
t. sell sum bonds and stock .
Thet wuz safe, as Gibyraltar, er a New
York City block! -
He wuz dapper az a preacher and as neat
as any cat
In his Sunday-go-t'- meetin's an his shiny
stove-pipe hat.
Next thing I remember, he wuz cuttin'
quite a dash
Seemed t. be sum weak on preachin', but
a screamer on tn mash!
It was whispered that, sub rosy, he wuz
sorter shy of means
Bout tn time he met May Higgins who
Wuz scass1ey in her teens,
Say! TIL ledge he stormed and threat
ened, cussin' up TIL limpid air.
But Miss May wuz kinda heady an she
swore ''she didn't care!'
And her ma she wept and pleaded, but it
want no earthly use
When gal is bent on lovin' she kin play
tn very deuce
In a week they'd skipped t. Cleveland
an tn ledge broke down an cried
Wh1le her ma TUX SICK with grieVin', an
gist Yesterday she died!
They he'd hardly left tn village fore a
wire cum siftfn' in
To arrest an hold Art. Whitson on
charge ser forgerin'!
He'd a wife and sev'ral children back in
Kansas, SO they say
They's a sad and Weepin' woman up t.
Higginses t'day!
She's cum home t. tend tn funeral an t.
kiss tn cold, cold lips
OF tn womern who is layin' with tn
folded finger tips
Folks thet's seen her says she's difrunt,
tibet they's silver in tn hair
OF tn gal whose heart is broken gist be-
Gus "she didn't care!''
Which reminds me that tn devil allus
likes t. meet a miss
Who Is SOrter free and easy an not over
hard t. kiss.
He is kinda hangin' waitin' at tn en-
trance to his lair
Fer pretty gal who's wilful and who
sez ''she doesn't care''
She's tn flame that feeds tn passions Of
tn pyre of human woe
In tn pit of black perdition. in Inferno,
down below!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
BODY FOUND IN THE RUINS
Minneapolis Student Persisted in Fire
at Cornell University.

From the ruins of the Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity house at Cornell
university, Ithaca N. Y, which had
been destroyed by fire, were taken the
charred remains of J. S. Kiehle, a
Junior in mechanical engineering. That
any lives had been lost was not known
until a meeting of the fraternity was
held, when a roll call developed the
fact that Kiehle was missing. The
ruins were searched and his body was
found near the elevator shaft where
the fire originated. It is supposed
that Kiehle was on his way to an up
per floor to save ted" Seeleye of the
Cornell cross country team, who was
known to be an occupant of a room
there. Seeleye, scantily clothed, es.
capped down a ladder.
K1ehle was from Minneapolis and
was one of the squad tried out for the
football team last fall.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
]. .s 3 n \ ! { Z: $ GENE IN COURT.
!. minneapolis chinan1an efuses to
s. s. axe Blood Oath. 7. 5@Ssss

axe Blood Oath. IA
Cringing in terror Tom Lee stood n
the basement in the city hall at Min
neapolis and fatty refused either to
TAKE the blood oath or make the sac
rl1ce OF the chicken as witness in
the case OF Jim Mar against the ouong
Quan Lee Long Kee company in the
municipal court. At the same time he
denied the oath was binding to any
Chinese.
me refusal of the witness to take
the oath came as the climax to a SEN
satlonal court session before judge G..
L! smith, In which there were fire.
q"ent accusations that the Interpreters
wore not translating truthfully. Then
Judge Smith ordered Tom Lee to take
the blood oath, or the Confucius oath.
as 1t is called in China.
AT the conclusion of arguments and
testimony introduced to show that the
Con1uclus oath was the only binding
one tor a Chinaman Judge Smith or
dered the clerk to take the witness
from the room and swear him over the
blood OF the chicken. The birds were
in the basement, but the Chfnaman
refused to carry out his part of the
programme.
Judge Smith Immediately remanded
the witness to the custody of court
officer, saying he was satisfied that
the oath commonly administered in
police court was not binding to tho
Witness
Judge Smith later reversed his own
decision and decided the blood oath
was not necessary.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
FIRE DANGERS
From Matches--Public Bulletin
No. 4.
Office of the State Fire Marshal
St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 1908.

st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 1908.
Reports made to this Office show
that ten per cent of our six million
dollar annual fire waste and the loss
of several lives is due to carelessness
with matches. Six hundred thousand
dollars year is too much to pay for
the privilege of using poor match
instead of a good one.
Nearly all fires caused by careless
use of matches are due either to the
explosive qualities of the head of the
match, or to the fact that the wood in
the stick continues to glow for an
average interval of forty eight seconds
after the fame is out. In igniting,
the head often explodes or the stick
breaks; flaming chemicals fly and ig-
mite waste paper, sweepings, lace cur
tains and clothing. After using the
match a twirl or a toss given to it
without looking to see if It is still
glowing will often place it where it
may start fire. And a large proper
ton of match fires result from
one of these hot sticks being thrown
upon infamable substance. Matches
lying loose in drawers or on desks or
the floor or walk are liable to take fire
from rubbing or from a blow. On the
mantel piece they are often ignated
by heat from the CRATE or stove. In
each one hundred matches fires, forty
one are from flying match-heads or
glowing sticks throw n into rubbish,
which fact says "clean up the place. !"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
LID VICTORY AT DULUTH.
Roland D. Haven, Rep, Elected Mayor
by Small Plurality.

Roland D. Haven, Republican, de.
feated Emil Tessiman, Democrat, for
mayorship of Duluth by approximately
700 majority. The voters of Duluth
have given the brewery and saloon
interests to understand that they can.
not hope to control the administration
of this city.
Mr.. Haven does not pretend to be a
radical, but he will enforce the laws
and says that he will treat saloon men
as fairly as any other class and not
undertake to prosecute them. The
common council is now a tie, eight
Republicans and eight Democrats, but
there is majority of law enforcement
aldermen.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
Wounded by Highwaymen.

A. F. Peterson of Minneapolis was
shot by highwaymen while on
his way home. The bullet struck
MS forearm, breaking one of the bones.
He was taken to the city hospital.
Peterson was aecosted by two men
who commanded him to throw up his
arms. Peterson obeyed and as the
thieves were approaching to search
him one of them shot, probably acct
dentally. The bullet hit the victims
appraised arm. The thugs ran and were
followed by patrolman who was at
tracted by the noise OF the revolver.
The policeman fred several shots at
the fugitives, who escaped.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
Side Remarks.

Great men have large brains, but it
does not necessarily follow that they
should have the big head.
The worst fate could wish for my
enemy is that he be made to lie awake
Just one night and listen to himself
snore.
The trouble with a good many men
is that they are standing around in
vit1ng temptation to come and do it's
worst
There must be family of cannibals
out in Iowa. At any rate. read in
Hawkeye exchange that mr.. and
Mrs. Dove had a scrumptious dinner
Sunday including Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond, of Howard"
The turkey that escaped Thanksgiv-
ing has two more Rubicons to cross
before he can rejoice the second day
Of January. The wise turk will regu-
late his meals accordingly.
When I moved into my new house
a few days ago, found that had
been preceded by tenant who had
taken up his abode in the basement
For the first few nights heard
strange noises and after .cfrcumnavi-
eating the various halls and stairways
in my robe-de-nuit in the middle Of
the night, discovered that the afore-
said tenant was a chipmunk Mr.
Munk had installed himself in a big
pile of kindling wood and was help
ing himself to the store of nuts I
gathered off the place last winter. I
had heart-to-heart talk with him and
we are very good friends at this writ
ing. He takes the nuts that l leave
by the furnace door and hides them
away in his stomach or his nest and
frisks about as thankfully as he knows
how. If the nuts hold out and he is
not forced to eat nut coal before
spring, he will undoubtedly come
through the winter in fine form
The funniest thing about little
man is that he usually has big wife.
Some men could lose their mind
without any noticeable disturbance in
their ballast.
When is a policeman laundryman?
When he collars and cuffs an offender.
Thompson, the poet, is said to have
written his beautiful poem, "Sunrise''
at 10 o'clock in the morning while he
was still in bed. It makes a man
think beautiful thoughts to be allowed
to sleep until that time in the morn
ing.
The word juggler now and then
drops one. That is what, in literature,
is known as making a slip.
Many man is keeping a $500 lock
of hair In his writing desk as his sole
remnant of a young and beautiful girl
who cost him that amount and then
went away and married another man
and usually, he is glad of it. Time
changes all things, even our loves.
Johnny was asked to tell the names
of the meals of a day. He replied:
Supper, dinner, breakfast and oat-
NEAL" II & 1z ** H., -. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
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Washington Notes

The Presidents message dealing
with recent decisions of the Supreme
Court received a more enthusiastic
reception than any hitherto accorded
to any of the remarkable list of state
papers he has addressed to the nation
al legislature. His fearless and man
ly denunciation of evil, his scathing
rebuke to the Standard Oil Company
and other great corporations which
have sought to deceive the voters and
poison the public mind against him
and his policies, were the occasion of
bursts of applause in the House and
when the reading of the document
was concluded the members, ire
spective of party, burst into cheers.
In the Senate, where no applause is
is permitted, Senators sat quietly in
their seats, listening to every word
and the absolute silence constituted
as remarkable a tribute from the up
per chamber as the more noisy dem
onstration of the House.
"President Roosevelt has by this
message nominated Taft or elected
Bryan" was the comment heard on
all sides in the Senate. It was gener-
ally conceded that the great mass of
the people, who almost idolize Roose.
welt, would never accept as their
chieftain half way, conservative,
half-hearted, follower of his policies
or a reactionary. The utterance of
the President, which in the recon-
mendations for further legislation
borrows the ideas expressed in Secre-
tary Taft's Cooper Union speech, is
in striking contrast with the cautious
utterance of Governor Hughes, made
before the New York Republican
Club, in which, for every word he
said in support Of the Roosevelt poll.
cies, the Governor added a reassuring
statement in behalf Of his Wall Street
friends. RI. + ID &. s Fl [. II. Y sa
Governor Hughes declaration in
favor Of the Roosevelt policies is re-
garded as silent politics, in Wash
ainptnn. the onlv f]afect being n tha
lack Of force with which the q 81
expresses his views which leaves the
reader wonde ring if be real j believes
what he 50 20. + is probable that Ne.
Hughes does believe ID the views he
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
Suspended Banks to Reopen,

The State Bank of St: Paul, which
failed recently, will, It is. said,
reopen it's doors for business Mon
day, Feb. 10. This information was
conveyed to Public Examiner Schaffer
and he says he has every reason to
believe It will be done: The bank, to-
gether with its savings department, is
still IN the process Of reorganization
and e 50 far everything has progressed
satisfactorily. 81 !. II. 5.ss4@. ..=s 4 i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

The Herald continues to have epilep-
tic fits, and founders around good
deal like a calf in aquagmire. Wont
some one save it from making such a
spectacle of itself.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

The Commercial Club might Will
profit to the city take up the matter
of securing driveway clear around
Oklahoma lake. It would be an i'm.
provement that should not cost a
great deal, and would be highly ap-
preciated by everybody.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

"You seldom hear of a man getting
a divorce from a good COOK remarks
a Texas contemporary. No; but we
have heard of good cooks getting a
divorce from worthless men.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07
T, armer Suddenly Stricken.

Nelson 2 Therein, q prosperous and
respected farmer living on the White
Bear road west Of saltwater, fell dead
from ['g g cake s Of Ice on his farm. AS
sisted BY his son he was pulling ice
from q small lake to be stored on the
farm. Being oyereo1n wit faintnsss
he sat down On e cake of loo and Z
moment later foll over dead Heart
s5lissass WAS the oauss ~ lsath
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

The signs of the times point quite
clearly in the direction Of comfy Local
option, and we have heard a good
many license people say that they
think the present is a good time to
get on the water band wagon,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

PRINTERS who have served at
least four years As com positors can can
secure valuable information Of inter
est to them BY addressing j. g. Dew
ereaux, j, Rooms 4O4 -5-6 Court Blk,
lst. Pau, Minn. 2-21
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

Gov. Hughes will always feel that
Mr.. Taft passed him a trump from the
bottom of the deck just to encourage
him to sit in the game.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-07

Just think a moment! Be land
owner in North Dakota. Coal at
your door, good spring water free
and clear Of alkali on G. NJ. & St. r..
coast extension. Ask A. NJ. Greger-
son local agent for the Western Land
Securities Co, for plats and all IN
formation. Il: .5a z=#. III =5,#