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The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Five members of the senatorial
branch o. the Arkansas legislature
have been arrested on the charge Of
bribery. their arrest having followed
the legislative Doodle inquiry which
has recently been in progress. The
Doodle inquiry dates back to 1905,
at which time there was pending be-
fore the legislature a bill known as
the Hopefeld pool room bill. The
bill as introduced proposed TO pro-
hibit the operation of pool rooms
throughout the State, but was aimed
chiefly at the pool room at Hope
field, which was owned by Memphis
concern. The measure passed in the
lower house but was killed in the
senate by a small majority, and it is
said that the Memphis firm expended
several hundred thousand dollars in
order to bring about the defeat of
the measure. The senators arrested
are all out on bond.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07
THE MAN BEHIND.

1T has leaked out that the steel
trust was behind President Roosevelt
an his fight to secure four new bat
fIeships for the United States Navy.
The building of the battleships would
have meant money for the trust, and
its officers are not overlooking good
things of this kind Every battle
ship constructed means the consump-
tion of thousands of tons Of steel,
and it is perfectly natural that the
steel trust should want four instead
of two. 1t is said that one of the
shrewdest representatives of the trust
was in Washington during the entire
time that the bill was being consid-
cred, and did everything in his pow
er to secure its passage.
A Washington newspaper corre-
spondent points out that with all his
hue and cry against monopolies
President Roosevelt has never ut
tered one work against the steel
trust, which is, with it's capitaIiza-
tion of one billion dollars, the most
gigantic trust in existence. On the
contrary, the president has always
been extremely friendly towards the
steel magnates, and when the cor
pOration decided to absorb one of its
greatest competitors, the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company, a short time
ago, the merger was sanctioned by the
administration without the least hes,
itancy.
The fact that the bill providing for
the construction Of four battleships
was amended so as to make provision
for only two rebounds to the ever
lasting credit and glory of the men
who baked this pretty little scheme
ON the part Of the steel trust The
defeat Of the measure shows that the
majority of the senators and repre- /
sentatives in Washington really have
the interests of their constituents at
heart, and will not fritter away gov
ernment funds merely to swell the
already plethorie pockets of preda-
tory trust magnates.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

The sundry civil appropriation bill
came up for consideration in con
gress recently. and Representative
Gaines, Of Tennessee. offered an
amendment providing for an appro-
priation Of $4,000 to the Ladies
Hermitage Association to care for
s.The Hermitage" the home and
tomb of Andrew Jackson. The
amendment was rejected on a point
of order by Mr. Tawney, of Mime
sofa, and the appropriation will not
be forthcoming.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Senator Bailey has won his fight
in Texas, the ticket headed by him
having won out by a large majority
in the primaries held throughout the
State 4ast Friday to select delegates
90 the National Democratic Conyen-
tion in Denver Bailey has been
freely accused of corruption, and was
forced to face trial in both the house
and senate on the charge of graft
in connection with the Standard and
Waters-P Pierce Oil Companies. The
lower house committee exonerated
the senator and the senate committee
was discharged before any conclusion
mad been reached. Senator Bailey's
enemies claimed that the vote in the
senate was forced, as a number of
senators had expressed himself
against him. IN the eyes Of the
country at large, the charges against
Bailey have never been disproven or
explained, and his vindication at the
hands of his constituents is somewhat
difficult to understand. The Texans
seem to be satisfied, however, and as
his fate rested solely with them, his
triumph seems to be complete.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Senator Money has passed through
thirty-five years Of his life with
broken neck. The startling discov-
cry was made by an osteopathic ply
sician in New York. to whom the
senator recently Went for the purpose
Of being treated for neuralgia. It
seems that during the civil war Sen
ator Money was thrown from a horse,
and fell on his head. He was cap
tured soon after his fall, but as he
did not realize that he had been Sc
riously hurt neglected to ask for sur
gieal treatment. For many years he
has been a suffered from neuralgia,
and when examined by an osteopath
in New York recently his neck was
found to be dislocated. The doctor
placed Senator Money on a table,
took hold of the misplaced vertebrae
with both hands and snapped it into
proper position. 1t is believed that
the senator's eye trouble and neural
gia both resulted from his dislocated
neck. and now that the cause of the
trouble has been removed he will
prohab bly, regain his health.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07
Notice 80 Subscribers.

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or through the mails will confer a
favor on the management if they
will file written complaints of any
failure Of the paper to reach them
promptly and regularly.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

The Dispatch covers Northeast Mis-
eissippi and Northwest Alabama, the
territory tributary to Columbus, like
the dew.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Weekly: Mailed every Thursday.
Circuiates in Northeast Mississippi
and Northwest Alabama.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

The W. c. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. G. n. Smith at 4:30 o'clock on
Thursday afternoon.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Home of Publications:
Dispatch Building, Main Street,
Columbus, Miss
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

673 and 674. Brothers saw uilz
men. You couldn't do better at auy
price. Warranted not 10 rip. raveI
or run down at the heel. (No. sister.
YOU can't have both.l They are sev-
en-octave. quarter sawed. perfectly
sound-there goes the phone Tvs
an cid maid or a young widow
know by the earnest ring-wrIte Ue
what you want have f.
We are requested to announce that
there viii be an important meeting
of the young men Of Caledonia and
vicinity next Saturday afternoon at
three o'clock in Caledonia for the
purpose Of reorganizing the Caledo-
MA Rifle Company, which company
is soon TO be mustered into the Mis-
sissippI National Guard. An election
of officers viii De held ana everyone
who has agreed to become s Usemae
of said organization bv signing Is pe-
tftion recently circulated Cor that uur-
pose. is requested fo De present at
said meeting We are also requested
to state that any young man llviug
in or near Caledonia who has uot
had an opportunity 70 join said COM
pany and who desires 20 90 80. Wiu
be given an opportunity ro JON Ar
this meeting intime TO participate r.
the election of said officers We want
TO take this occasion TO congratulate
! the young men OF this community for
the pride and patriotism displayed oy
them in the organization Of one o.
the oldest military companies thar
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07

Delivered by Carrier to the People of
Columbus and Vicinity
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07
Snhscrintion Rares

5eni-Weekly, by Carrier, $500 per
Annum, Payable Quarterly.
Weekly, by Mail, s1.00 per Annum.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-07
TIE COLUMBUS DIsPATCf
Edited, Owned and Managed by
PERCY W MAER

Senal-Weekly: Sunday AMI Wednes-
day Mornings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
years they have referred ia glee-
full terms to the "Cleveland' hard
time of 1898 and following years.
l TAKE these two paragraphs

1 TAKE these two paragraphs
from Benny's ~vindictive sheet:
The Dalton Adding Machine is
a Missouri product and is guaran-
teed to be better than the best but
the Universal, a foreign machine is
bought for S100 more than it could
have been bought for. Where did
that 500 go? Search and see.
With an expenditure of $4,000 for
the work of the clerk OF the court
when the statutes of the state allow
only Si100 for the clerk and 5000
for a deputy the necessity of ma
chinery to facilitate and lessen the
work has been questioned.
The first item is intended to con-
vey the impression that some Off
cial got a ''rake~-off"-or, in other
words, was bribed-in the purchase
of the Universal adding machine.
That machine was selected after
several months trial of the Dalton,
the Burroughs and the Universal,
upon, chiefly, Mr.. Reyburn's rec
ommendation. Therefore, if any
one was bribed, it is fair to assume
that this officials hands were in
the pot. If, as is asserted in the
second paragraph, Mr.. Reyburn
has accepted, or is accepting, more
per annum than the amount allow
ed by law for his services and for
clerk hire (S1700), he is defrauding
the public. Yet, after insinuating
his probable guilt in the first in
stance, and in asserting it in the
second lin that the court is giving
him and he is taking 5000 more per
year than the law allows, the
blathering, lf-stultifying sheet
seeks to avoid the consequence
of its baleful m~outhings in these
words:
This criticism is not directed at
the clerk, Mr.. Reyburn for he is
but human and presumably accepts
the graciousness of the court with
human generosity but Buford and
Meyer significantly voted for both
a raise in salary and an expend-
iture of $4,000 to purchase a ma
chine to do the onerous work of
addition.
Why this placebo to Mr.. Rey-
burn, if he is accepting and pock-
citing $500 yearly of the peoples
money? The receiver of stolen
goods is as guilty as the thief.
o, what a tangled web they weave
Who seek to honest men deceived!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

number of Republicans of Iron
county, who had the welfare of the
party at heart, he went to Robert
Johnston, prior to the recent pri-
mary election, and solicited him to
run for the Office of Judge of the
Western District, and, after dis
cussing the matter at some length,
the said Robert Johnston agreed to
run, and in next issue of the two
county papers he announced him
self a candidate for the office
aforesaid on the Republican tick
ct; that he candidly believes that
the individual who stated that the
said Johnston was brought out as
a candidate by certain Democrats
of Ironton made the statement
knowing that it was a lie, and did
it maliciously, intending to derive
some personal benefit therefrom.
JEHU JONES.
Subscribed and sworn to before
(SEAL) me this Sth day of Sep
TENDER, 1908.
JOS A. REYBURN,
County Clerk.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
Des Arc Items.

The Camp meeting closed Sun
day night. 1t was the biggest
thing Des Arc has ever had. Over
one thousand people were on the
ground Sunday. They raised
over $500 in cash. Five and ten
dollar bills were thrown around
like paper. Over 50 conversions
to the Holiness faith. They are
doing a wonderful work there.
They had some fine preachers,
among them Rev. Ferguson from
Illinois. He scored Taft's reli-
gion. In addition to the meeting
we had a two days picnic and a
steam merry-go-round.
Among the visitors here were
DR.. Toney and wife and DR.. Fill
moro and wife and about half of
Piedmont, to say nothing about
a large delegation from Leeper,
Mill Spring, Williamsville, Pat
terson, Coldwater, Annapolis, Sa-
bula and Ironton. Several candi-
dates were here and they gave
literally to the Holiness cause.
There were several local preach
ers here, among them were Rev.
May, and Rev. Brooks of Bis
marck and Patterson, and over 30
Holiness preachers. ISAAC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
Marble Creek Items.

Euseba Polk has returned home
after a visit with her sister.
Nettie Boswell is visiting hel
mother on Marble Creek.
Died-Mrs. Lizzie Laplant, Sep
TENDER 1, 1908. She leaves a hus-
band, three children and five
brothers to mourn her loss. HeI
father, mother, and only sister
have passed over the river. The
writer joins tender sorrowing tc
the bereaved relatives.
The school is improving nicely
under tho management of Miss
Alice Twomey.
Oscar Hurst is very i'll.
The meeting closed Sunday.
There were eleven converted and
six were baptised. May Gods
right hand ever lead those who
have an interest in the cause.
A box supper will be given at
the Blue School house Friday
night, September II, 1908, begin
ming at eight o'clock, Everyone
invited. Money to be used fol-
school benefits.
FRECKLED FACE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
Now Put Up or Shut Up.

For several weeks the arcadia
Valley Enterprise has been calling
for an auditing of the books of this
county by a "bonded expert" Just
as though these books had not
been audited by the court in open
session, and as though the court
was either incompetent to settle
the accounts of the officers or were
in collision with them to defraud
the taxpayers. At all of these
auditings or settlements the three
county judges were present, the
utmost care was exercised and they
were correct to a cent, according
to the figures presented.
If the Enterprise, or any person
back of it, has reason to believe
that any officer has made a false
showing to the court, and is there
by guilty oftheft or embezzlement,
the court will re-audit his accounts
and give the result to the public:
but if a charge is made against
any officer, it must be backed up
by information necessary to sus-
tain it.
An untruth, similar to the one
charging this court with allowing
County Clerk Reyburn $4,000 last
year, or even exceeding what is
allowed him underline law, will not
be considered for a moment.
Base insinuation is as easy as it
is disreputable, butan honest man,
or body of men, will make specific
charges to the end that the truth
may be ascertained.
If evidence sufficient can be pro-
duced to warrant the employment
of one or more expert accopntants,
this court is willing to proceed
with the work at once, but if not,
and it is nothing more than what
it appears to be, a species of black
mail, we don't propose to become
parties to it.
Any statement to the court on
this subject must be in writing
over the signature CT the party
making the charge, with proof of
the guilt of the party accused.
In this connection, we would like
to know if the parties who pre-
tend to be willing to pay the ex-
pense of this investigation will
deposit the sum of $1,000, or what
ever may be necessary to cover
the Investigation, in some bank to
be named by this court, and will
agree to sign a contract to forfeit
the same in the event an investi-
cation is made by competent ac-
countants appointed by the court,
should said investigation fail to
disclose evidence sufficient to con-
Wet any officer of embezzlement
or theft.
w. H. BUFoRD,
A. G. MoYER,
Judges County Court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

CROW, he who murders the
Kings English on the De Soto
Republican, doesn't like to be re-
minded of the fact that there is a
panic in the land in these days of
Roosevelt prosperity. He even at
tempts to deny that the past year
has been a hard one for the rail-
road men, and by intimation says
that affairs in De Soto are in as
good shape as ever. Get a COM
parative statement, Bro. Crow,
from the railroad company of the
money it has disbursed in De So
to the past twelve months and
and then another of what was
paid out in the Democratic" pam
ic Of fifteen years ago. AS to the
REGISTERS gloating over the fact
that there is industrial depression
in the country to-day, we have
just this to say: II there is any
thing that mean and contemplate
IN our makeup it i'll becomes Re-
publican papers to make any ref
erence to the fact. For years and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
A OPINION
OF OLD BEN.

1t has been repeatedly asserted
by Old B. B. Reagan, the Enter
prise man, that Robert Johnston,
late Candidate for Judge of the
Western District of Iron county,
Missouri, was brought out by GER
tain Democrats of Iron County,
denominated by tho said villify-
ing, mendacious sheet as ring
sters."
In behalf of Mr.. Johnston, |
take this opportunity to say that
am one of the Republicans who
solicited Mr.. Johnston to run for
the said Office. / believed then as
| do now that he was a more de-
serving, capable and broad-mind-
ed man than the one the Republic
can Ring was SO solicitous in
nominating. l know, as every
we'll informed man in Iron County
knows, that Robert Johnston
could make a better race against a
Democratic candidate than his
opponent, Mr.. Paullus. And the
Enterprise force knows that it took
all the power back of them to de-
feat Mr.. Johnston at the Primary
that it was only accomplished
through unfair means.
Mr.. Johnston has been doing
business in Iron county for years,
and has earned an enviable repu-
tation for energy, honesty, and
stalwart integrity, while his OPP
ponent, Mr.. Paullus, has only liv-
ed. in the county since he became
useless as a citizen (unless to lend
himself as a willing tool to the
selfish interests of old B. B. Rea-
gan is an element of good citizen
ship, and we all know that the
latter named gentleman(?) has
rendered himself so odious to the
minds of decent citizens that he is
now looked upon by Democrats
and Republicans alike in the same
esteem that a NANCY cur is regard
ed. His lying campaign against
Johnston is a fair sample of the
tactics he has practiced against
both Democrats and Republicans
since he has been in the county.
In his selfish zeal to help his bank
and his paper he has done more to
defeat the Republican party in this
county than all other agencies to-
gether.
l am a lifelong Republican, an
old Union soldier, a member of the
G. A. R., and have always had the
welfare of the Republican party at
heart, but l have reached the part
ing of the ways If to endorse the
party of Lincoln, Grant and Nc
Kinley is to uphold the methods
of old B. B. Reagan and his kind.
In Iron county my word has al
ways been taken to be as good as
my note or NY oath, but for the
benefit of those who might doubt
my word, | append the following
oath:
STATE OF MISSOURI, !.
COUNTY OF IRON. s.
Before me personally appeared
Jehu Jones, who, being duly sworn.
says that at the suggestion of a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
Democratic Committee Meetinq.

The members of the Democratic
Central Committee of Iron county,
are hereby called to meet on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER u, 1908,
at two o'clock P. NJ, at the office OF
w. R. Edgar, in Ironton. All mem.
bers urged to be present.
w. R.. EDGAR, Chm.
n. A. WARREN, Sec'y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

THE preachers of Kansas City,
Kansas, want John L. Sullivan
and Jake Kilrain arrested for Civ
ing an alleged sparring exhibition
on Sunday. They might have diff
ticulty in proving that the two old
fellows really gave an exhibition
of sparring. Why not accuse them
OF obtaining money under false
pretenses?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

THE Texas Harpoon logically
voices itself thusly: cat the next
session of the Legislature l will en-
deavor to have a law passed max
ing it a severe offense, punishable
with not less than thirty days in
jail, for a prohibitionist to get
drunk. They vote to compel every
other man to keep sober, and then
get as full as balloons every time
they hit a wet town. They make
me tired, and l want to try and
pass a law to keep them sober"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

Mr.. DALTON makes the remark
able statement that the Dalton
machine is the best made. Mr..
Dalton isl very, very smart young
man.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

FoUR-FLUsHER Hadley is los
sing his temper as the fight warns
up. He will have plenty of time
for rest in the Rocky Mountains
after January next.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10


UNDER the heading ga political
Trick" the Springfield Leader tru-
ly says: Had Dave Ball been
nominated the same Republican
organs that are crying fraud now
would still be crying fraud
They would weep over the fact
that the two Butler wards in ST..
Louis went almost to a man for
Ball. They would declare that
Ed. Butler stuffed the ballot box
es and beat Cowherd. The Re-
publicans are anxious to carry
Missouri this year for Taft. They
want to talk about the governor
rather than the president. They
know Bryan's strength in this
state and will resort to every
means to keep the people off the
main track. They know that Taft
with his injunction record is not
strong in this state. Anything is
better than discussing the real is
sue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

WHICH l pause to again remark
that lying and vituperation will
not win in Iron County. Put this
down and paste it in your hats,
We sweet-scented gangsters!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

THE fur now begins to fly.-En-
terprjSe.
1t does indeed! Read Mr.. Jehu
Jones' statement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

Best Elgin Creamery butter for
sale. E. L. BARNHoUsE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

CA. g
Bears the aTh Kind You Have Always Bought
signature e NMAzzM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10

It's going to be very thoroughly
demonstrated to a certain "Ring"
official haiti the editor of the Enter
prise can't be bought OFF by offers
OF patronage. The patronage of
the people is entirely sufficient for
our needs.-Enterpriss.
This insinuation, peculiarly
guarded in its verbiage, is intend
ed to convey the impression that
some Iron county official has at
tempted to 'buy off" the Enter
prise. Who is the official? Name
him! If the insinuation is not a
bald lie, Benny can, for once, sub
stantiate himself. Give the name
and put the enemy to shame!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-10
A OF
COUNTY OF O

Before me personally appeared
Jehu Jones, who, being duly sworn,
says that at the suggestion Of a