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Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
The Curfew's charm.

rbourville has curfew law A
sad incident in the city's life has just
reminded every one that this saluta-
ry law can not be too strictly enforc.
ed, The streets. especially after
dark, are not safe training places tor
the young. Boys. raised on the
street, acquire the thought, the Ian
guage. the ambition Of the street
In due time they reach the achieve
ment OF the gutter.
Home is, especially at night, the
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
LIGHT PLANT
Changed Hands this Week
Mr.. n. p. Miller Succeeds
Mr.. S. H. Hale as Manager
of Electric Plant.

The Barbourville Electric Light
Plant which has been under the per-
son management of MIR. Silas H.
Hale for the past two years,
changed hands last Monday and
Mr. NJ. p. Miller has purchased the
plant and will have full control in
the future. Mr.. Miller also has pur-
chased the ice plant and beverage
works of this city and will continue
to operate both plants.
He told the Advocate man this
week that he will be ready to begin
the manufacture Of ice with the
opening of spring and will try to
supply all the needs of our city
along that line.
He will make some improvements
in the Lighting system and assured
us that the service will be made
first class in every particular.
We are glad to have such men as
Mr.. Miller and his estimable family
in our midst and sincerely hope
that he will find Barbourville a
pleasant city in which to live.
We regret to lose the estimable
family of Mr.. Hale who leave this
week for their new home in Knox
vile, Tenn, where he will engage
in business.
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
ID. W. CLARK NAMED
BarbOurville HOnored and
no Mistake
Especial to the Advocate. I

Frankfort, KY, Jan. 23-Gov.
Wilson this morning appointed
the State Board of Equalization,
by Appellate districts as fol
lows:
First ID strict two years-Ed-
ward Thomas, of Fulton county.
Second District, four years-I.
q. Mason, Logan county.
Third District, two years-G.
Bruce Taylor, Metcalfe county.
Fourth District, four years
Wm. r. Waters, Jefferson coun-
ty.
Fifth District, four years-Dan-
iel w. Clark, Knox county.
Sixth District, two years-A.
K. Weber, Campbell county.
Seventh District, four years
John E. Garner, Clark county,
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
SCALF NEWS.

Vim. Davis has been on the sick
list the past few days.
Geo. Mills is still in the goose busi-
ness and is doing a very good busi-
ness.
Mud boots, slays and good, gentle
sleds, are the only way of travel up
here now.
Pleas Mills has quit the use of to-
bacco, except what he can beg, and
that is quite lot Of the filthy weed.
There was quite an interesting
meeting oi the Merrimac Tribe
No. 200, Red Men. last Saturday
night.
The candidates are now sitting
and viii soon begin to PIP, and some
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
TWO IDOLS
BeCkham and Taft
Which is Which 7

Secretary Taft's chief organ in
Kentucky. Two idols has this
paradoxical journal-B -Beckham
and Taft; Beckham, the prince
of Democratic machine politics;
Taft the product of counterfeit
Repu blicanism. Calling on Dem
ocratic Legislators to vote for
Beckham, in his race for United
States Senator, the Post states {:
Outside of three Louisville
members the Democrats still
bolting are Senator Wheeler
Campbell and Representatives
Virgil Mcknight, of Mason, and
Lillard, of Boyle.
Mr.. Beckham should receive
in the end all three of these
votes. These men stand or ought
to stand in a different class from
Charlton, McNutt and Mueller,
of Louisville. They should dis
associate themselves from men
who represent only the Machine
and the saloon. Every one knows
Charlton, McNutt and Mueller
oppose Beckham because Beck
ham threw of the yoke of the
Louisville Machine, but the State
Democrats who keep company
with the bolting representatives
of the old Machine in Louisville
will soon find that they misrep-
resent rather than represent
their constituents
In the self same issue of the
Post, that of January 10, 1908,
the editor writes:
Judge Taft speaks for a bet
ter understanding betW cen con-
flicting interests. He speaks as
a Judge and a statesman who de-
sires to secure for all men and
for all classes and conditions a
square dea! in the form of public
opinion. He would leave to the
energies of all Americans full
full play, checking them only
when individuals or combina
tions. association or trusts grew
strong enough to believe that
they might infringe upon the
rights of men equally entitled to
consideration"
Well for Republicans in Ken
lucky, and out Of it, to note the
alliance between the Taft and
the Beckham forces. That Repub-
licanism which indorses and
stands for Beck ham and his ma
chine is spurious indeed. We
appeal to Republicans whorevere
and follow the traditions of
Abraham lincoln to reject and
repudiate it. Strike it down or
the nauseous thing will vitiate
the very atmosphere we breathe.
Strike down, deracinate, cast it
in the fire. We may reflect as it
crumbles to ashes, on the legend
so applicable to Knott and his
politics:
"He killed the noble Mudjokivie,
Of the skin he made him mittens;
Made them with the fur side in
side,
Made them with the skin side out
side;
He, to get the warm side inside,
Pr the inside skin side outside.
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside;
That's why he put the fur side
inside,
Why he turned them inside out
side"
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
FAIRBANKS
BANNER ALOFT
No Splutter on Band Wa
gOn Tactics.
The ViCe-preSident'S Magnif-
iCent Record.

The New Castle (Ind.) Daily
Courier states:
THE splutter and "band wag-
on" tactics of the promoters of
the promoters of other candida
cies will bring neither terror nor
Encouragement to the Republi-
cans of Indiana. We are accus-
toned to the brilliancy of fire.
works, and the explosion of
bombs in air is familiar sound.
We know what sort of man the
people are hoping for to succeed
President Roosevelt and carry
forward the policies of the Re-
publican party, and we know in
Vice President Fairbanks are
lodged the attainments-t b e
craftsmanship, the integrity and
the courage of the man the peo-
pie are seeking.
AS day follows day and the
people study closer the condition
and needs Of the country, and
as night follows night and they
analyze the qualifications and
public utterances Of the men
whose names are urged for the
nomination, the stalwart c'Iarac-
ter, magnificent record, correct
views and ripe experiences Of
Charles Warren Fairbanks point
to him as the man great and
broad and brave enough to deal
with the new conditions before
the country"
Vice-President Fairbanks is
the choice of Indiana, and his
name may possibly he the only
one backed by a solid, first,
last and all the time" delega-
tion from any State represented
in the national conventions, yet
he is by no means a provincial"
candidate; on the contrary he
has travelled more and has de-
livered more public addresses
and has met and is held in high
esteem by more people through
out the country than any other
person as candidate for the
presidency From Maine to Cal
ifornia and from the Lakes to
the Gulf the name of Fairbanks
is familiar and inspires respect
and confidence. In no State or
Territory is there drastic criti-
cism or outspoken opposition to
his candidacy and in every one
he has many warm friends and
we'll wishers.
This the sort of mans that the
Republicans of Indiana bank
their hopes of success upon.
These are the merits and ad-
vantages upon which they will
rely, and with great confidence
for support in the great contest.
The country will not fail to
note the earnestness and SINGER
ity of our purpose as expressed
in the several resolutions unan.
mously adopted at the recent
love feast and in the district
conventions, and while the
friends of other candidates will
be melted to greater endeavor
they will, we feel sure, materi-
ally aid the canvass for the Vice
D,s,.;Jonf ~, n,anu loca alitiac -
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
O'REAR WITHOUT
OPPOSITION
Democratic Trust Organ
TO the Contrary
The Peoples rovorife.

Chief Justice O'Rear, the peo-
,ble's favorite, who will be unani-
inously named by the Republi-
cans of the Seventh Appellate
District for re.election. and who
Mill be triumphantly reelected
Is critized by the Democratic
Trust organ, the Times. ChIef
Justice O'Rear having expressed
himself against trusts, lawiess-
ness as we'll as against mob fury,
the Times misinterprets HIM
thus:
"For Chief Justice or any other
Justice to speak words that can be
in the slightest degree construed as
,untenancing the mob-that can
he even so scantily interpreted as
toIerating or justyfying or excuslng
the depredations OF the mob-'s
shocking. Justice O'Rear did not
openly defend lawlessness, but the
tone of his address before the to-
bacco confererce betrayed a sympa-
thy with mob spirit that was Ill be-
coming a Judge, 1t was the tone
that startled Kentuckians. And 1t
is the fact that the Republican party
is putting such a feeble friend OF
law forward as it's candidate tor
Judge Of the Court OF Appeals that
must strike all believers in law and
order as queer, to put the matter
mildly"
Hear the other side as express
ed by fair-minded tobacco
grower, one of the sufferers from
trust greed and lawlessness:
"Iudge O'Rear expressed no new
truth when he SAID that the Anglo
Saxon is not easily bayoneted into
dumb acquiesence and submission to
what he believes to be injustice and
oppression. Without question 1t
does seem unfortunate that the
Chief Jnstice of the highest court IN
the State should have been the one
wuo must make this this speech be-
fore the conference; but he stated
Fundamental truths and it would
have been even more unfortunate
had no one brought them to the
consideration Of the conference.
No one could say that riots,
strrks. boycotts and violations of
law are in themselves good, nor
could any one deny that through
these agencies the people have
wrenched wider freedom from the
hand of intrenehed greed and OPP
preston. The sound Judgment OF
the leaders of reform has often fai.-
ed to extend to the ranks who have
in nearly every movement slipped
the leash and in their fury perform
ed deeds that no one attempts TO
Justify and can execu e only because
the measure of the blindness and the
fu.y have been but the measure of
their suffering.
With our experience of free gov
ernment and in the light of history,
why do we not heed the distant
mutterings instead of waiting for
the storm to burst to provide
against an evil? Why do we wait
until m-n are pushed to desperation
to investigate their claims?"
Mountain advocate., 1908-01-24
DENOUNCED BY DEM
OCRATIC PRESS
Is Beckham'S infamous
Machine
SeIiShneSS its Bedrock.

LIE DelnocTdJlC hllOANllle OeI
tinel writes:
Kentucky is a State famed
for hemp and tobacco, fine whis-
ky and race horses, beautiful
women and chivalrous men, and
Kaleidoscope changes in in poll
tics. Just now, the State of
"the dark and bloody grounfl"
is witnessing the wreckage of a
political machine that was
thought by its managers to be
smoothly oiled and in trim or
der. As Bobby" Burns said,
THE best laid schemes % mice
and men gang aft agley." The
snap primary that was thought
to fix things for the youthful
Governor Beckham, when the
test has come, does not work &,
Several cogs have jumped. The
friction impedes motion. A dead
standstill is imminent. That sen
atorial toga seems in the far dis
tance. Failure to reach the des-
tination will prove a bitter eX-
perIence for the rash young man
who rode rough shod over the
bruised bodies of Joseph Q. 5.
Black burn aud James b. Nc
Creary, fine representatives, of
Kentucky's best craftsmanship
and worthy successors of James
b. Beck and John q. Carlisle in
the United States Senate.
Gov. Beckham presumed to
profit too greatly by the assassi-
tion of William Goebel. BY act,
he proclaimed himself the resi-
duarv legatee of the Goebel ma
chine. Taking it in hand, he be-
gan to use it mercilessly and
shamelessly for personal ag-
grandizement. Selfishness was
the bed rock upon which it
was laid. 1t proposed to grind
into powder all who did not bow
acquiescence to its mandates. 1t
tolerated no opposition OF opin-
ion not in harmony with the
cherished purpose of him whose
guiding hand was on the helm.
1t was daringly enterplising,
if not brilliant feat, to propose
to bring it to a safe landing in
the tickle and turbulent waters
of Kentucky politics. In its
gradual going to pieces, perhaps
no one is less surprised than the
steersman.
The tactics which Gov. Beck
hamam has used are similar to
those which have brought ma
chine politics everywhere into
dlsrepute. Political part s
must have organiza tion for the
carrying out of their principles.
Whenever the organization is
used for political ends, and con-
sideration of these rise above the
advancement of measures, the
organization is more than apt to
go to pieces. The revolt against
Beckham is an instance of the
kiud. Since he did not win on
the first ballot, it is more than
likely that his strength will
gradually fall away, and no nom-
ination or election result, A
deadlock is plainly in sight"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

THE reader remembers the revo-
~lutionary secession of the state OF
Panama from the Colombian Re-
public-iust like the attempto of the
South to secede from our United
States. The only difference was in
the result, and twas the Almighty
Dollar that gave Panama success,
according to Senior j. Gabriel Du-
que. l take this excerpt from his
testimony before the Senate COM
mittee having the Panama Canal
inquiry in hand:
"Mr. Cromwell made the revolu-
ton. He offered to make me pres
ident of the new republic and to
see me through if l would raise a
small force of men and declare a
secession from Colombia. He made
promises that9we would have the
help of his Government. 1t
was accompanied by the liberal
use of money. We bought this
general and that one, paying $4,000
to $4,000 per general. The Colom-
bian officers were all paid off and
the Colombian General who was
sent to stop the revolution was also
bought Off"
The Panama Canal venture is a
nice object lesson, almost any way
you look at it!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

| SEE the President and various
Governors elect-our own Hadley
among 'em-are devising ways and
means for raising greater revenues.
No suggestion as to cutting down
expenditures-of course not. That
would be mossbackism.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

SOME of the big city papers are
actually calling in question the 9
racity of the President AS a loyal
subject let me remark that the
moons altitudinous course does
not shield her from wakeful Ro-
ver's baying.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

THE God-and-M oralityites are
talking of "throwing out" enough
Democratic members of the Lower
House to make the Legislature Re-
publican on ioint-ballot. Verify,
the Ethiopian doth not change his
skin nor the leopard resolve his
spots into stripes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

THE Chicago Strap-H Hangers are
kicking. How long before a Fed-
eral injunction will, in conservA-
ton of the Business interests, de-
prive them from that privilege?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

ABOUT the 2Sth of last Septem-
Der a number of Union-Labor
leaders signed a pronunciamento
calling upon wage-earners to sup
port the National Democratic tick
ct. Among the signers to the doc
ument vas a fellow named Keefe,
of Detroit, Michigan. October 18th
following, the Democratic national
committee stated that it had learn
ed that Keefe, who had recanted
and pronounced in favor Of Taft,
had been induced to it by the
promise of an "ofis"-Commis-
sioner of immigration. Keefe in
dignantly denied the story, and
the following was given to the AS
ISOLATED Press:
WASHINGTON, D. G., October ID.
While no formal statement was
issued from the White House, Sec
rotary Loeb to-day denied that
President Roosevelt promised the
Office of commissioner general Of
immigration to Daniel j. Keefe of
Detroit, president of the Interna-
tional Association of Longshore-
men, in consideration of Mr..
Keefe's action in declaring for MI.
Taft in opposition to the pro- Bryan
campaign of President Gompers Of
the American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Loeb added that Mr.. Keefe in
his denial of the story was abso-
lutely correct,
That was a clear, unequivocal
official denial, was it not? Well,
time passes on and on, let hap what
may, and this is is the latest hap in
connection with the Keefe episode:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-Daniel j..
Keefe of Detroit, Mich, was to-day
appointed commissioner general Of
immigration to succeed the late
Frank P. Sargent. Mr.. Keefe is
president OF Lne INTERNATIONAL Long
shoremen's Union.
Now, what do you think Of that?
AS to Keefe, if he sold out-and l
leave the readers to form their in
dividual conclusions as to whether
he did, or whether his appointment
was only ga remarkable coinci-
dence,' as Mr.. Samuel Weller
would say-if Keefe sold out, one
would expect him to deny it.
He who betrays those who trust
him and barters his favor for po-
sition, is reticent by instinct, tenn
permanent and habit. With me,
Keefe and 'the lave OF them" are
exonerated by the White House
denial. His appointment s'after
the election was q coincidence
merely that, in my opinion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

"A FREE ballot and q fair count"
is a most sweet ante election re-
frain. After elect on-ah, we'll. it
depends, you know!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

THE hook was baited with "Home
Rule" and city suckers came -
plenty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

IF Taft is to bring us prosperity,
what must be said of Roosevelt?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

l PRESUME old Kriss KrIngle this
year is Republican-mostly.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14
ONLY TWO DELIVERIES
The Retail Merchants Association Held
 Interesting Meeting Last Night

A rousing meeting of the Mer- chants Retail Association was held last night at the office of Sam o. Logan, and further mat ters looking to permanent or ganization was affected.
 Offices in the Mckenzie hnild- ing have been secured, and the association will meet every Mon day night. It's present mem bership now numbers about forty of Prescott's business men.
 At the meeting resolu- tion was introduced effective Feb ruary 1st, by which the mem bers bind themselves to make buttwo deliveries each day-one in the morning and one in the afternoon Goods purchased in the morning to be delivered in the afternoon, and those pur- chased in the afternoon to be de.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14

livered the next morning. The resolution was discussed at length, and will be acted upon at the next meeting.
 A committee consisting of Sam T. White, Watt w. White, J. M. Pittman, W. T. Hart and Ira Gee were appointed to meet Mir. Hampton, one of Arkansas rail road commissioners, who will be in Prescott Thursday, for the purpose of laying before him the railroad situation here.
 After quite a deal of discus sion for the good of the order, the associatiod adjourned to meet next Monday night in it's new offices.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14
CAPITAL $2S,O0o. co

women and children from the stairways leading to the balcony.
 Some of them were so badly injured that they died before reaching temporary hospital. Skulls were crushed and the faces of some of the victims were barely recognizable. In one in stance the skull of a child appar- ently about ten years of age, was crushed almost to a jelly.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14

by the state, has been turned into the state treasury, and the war rants which have been drawn for salaries of officers and employees of the institution are now being paid. Sixteen and a half dollars, without the sacks, was realized oD the seed, a Pine Bluff crusher taking the entire lot. This re lieves the stringency, for the time being, in this department of the government, and as soon as the states cotton is sold nearly S100, 900 will come in.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14
PenltentIary Funds.

Little Rock, Jan. IA Special The money from the sale of near ly 300 tons of cotton seed owned
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14
A PANIC IN THEATER
100 Men and Women Killed in a Catas.
 trOphe at BOyertOwn, Pa., Last Wight

SoedStIOPile, nOfrlIylnS III It's de- tails and sickening in it's results tonight swept nearly 100 souls of this borough into eternity al most in the twinkling of an eve. and injured nearly three score, some of them fatally. A major ity of the killed were members of the leading families of the town.
 While the Scottish Reforma. tion was being produced in Rhoads' opera house by Mrs. Monroe of Washington, a tank used in the moving picture scene exploded.
 Immediately there was a wild rush for the exits of the building. Men of mature years endeavor- ed to still the panic, but their voices could not be heard above the shrieks and screams of the terrified women and children, who composed the greater part of the audience.
 The scenes cannot be portray ed ftly by the most imaginative. The blood-curdling cries for help of those who were penned in within the walls of the blazing structure, could be heard above the roaring seething flames. It seemed as though nearly the en- tire audience made a rush for the exits the moment the explo- sion occurred.
 In their attempts to quiet the great crowd, those persons who were on the stage, accidently up set the coil lamps used as foot lights. The burning oil scatter ed in all directions and the lamps which were used to light the op- era house exploded, throwing the blazing oil over the terror stricken people, who were fight ing frantically to gain the exits.
 In the mad rush, section of the floor gave way, precipitating scores of persons to the base ment. As the floor collapsed, the shrieks of the helpless per sons who were carried down were heard for blocks.
 It was scarcely , minutes from the time of the explosion of the tank until the entire heart of the structure seemed a roaring furnace. There was a mad scramble flor the stairway lead ing from the balcony and scores of women and children were down and trampled up- on, many of them doubtless, be- ng trampled to death.
 At least 50 persons, realizing that exit by the stairway meant almost certain death, risked their lives by jumping from the windows. Limbs were brok- en and skulls were crushed by this daring method of escape.
 In the meantime relief corps was at work at the entrance to the theatre endeavoring to re lease those who were wedged in 1 the doorway and unable to extri- cate themselves. Many persons who otherwise might have made | good their escape, were held in i check by the awful jam at the doors. As the flames ate their way toward the front of the ouilding,s women could be seen o clasp their. hands and fall back nto the flames.
 Once the doorways were clear ,d tho ,oso,,orc J,ooroJ ,,,a,u
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-14
A HAPPY NEW
 YEAR 70 YOU

Be happy, let the spirit of the New Year pe.ncate.
 We are happy because we have just finished the most successful year in bus- ness We have sold S20,0OO more goods than we have ever sold in any previous year, and we want to thank our friends and customers for making this possible. 'Tis true we have carried larger and better selected stock, and we expect to do even better this coming year