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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
NO ONE WILL BUY
THE NEXT ELECTION
Cash Is Scarcer Than During
Any Previous PreSiden-
tiaI Campaign.
LACK UF INTEREST SHOWN.
POLITICIANS ARE PULLING OV-
Err THE SiTUATION- PORTO
RICO HAS A SET OF CLEVER
POLITICIANS.

Washington, Oct 24.-If financial re-
ports from Republican and Democratic
national headquarters are to be relied
upon, there isn't going to be any op-
portunity to charge that anybody
bought next months election. Cash is
represented to be scarcer than in any
presidential campaign since the civil
war. Both committees have abolish
ed soft snap" jobs, and other ex-
penses have been cut to the bone. The
managers will be mighty happy if
they are able to pay their legitimate
bills when it is all over.
OF course, something may turn up
to start the flow of dollars between
now and election day, but that some
thing does not now appear. on the hor-
lion. So far as can be determined
from this place of view, the big inter-
ests" which ordinarily are looked to
for the financing of campaigns are not
interested to the point of opening up
the purse strings. In addition to the
lack of vital interest, public sentiment
and legislation against corporate con-
tributions have made it extremely hard
for the cash collectors to make any
sort of showing.
The situation this year leads many
to believe that the prophesy Of the late
President Harrison is on the way to
fulfillment. President Harrison, short
ly after his election in 1888, pre-
dicted that the time would come when
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent would be nominated quietly in
conventions attended only by the dele
gates; each party will adopt its plat
form, each cadidate will publish his
letter of acceptance, and the platforms
, and acceptance letters will be the only
campaign documents. There will be no
such campaign organizations as are
| now maintained, and practically no
! money will be needed.
When Benjamin Harrison made this
prediction he had been sickened by the
charges and counter-charges Of corrup-
ton that marked his candidacy. Prac-
teal politicians laughed at him and
wrote him down a dreamer, but the
best informed opinion today holds that
he was looking accurately into the fu-
ture
The lack of keen general interest in
| this campaign is puzzle politicians
are utterly unable to solve When the
controversy between President Roose-
Walt and Mr.. Bryan was at it's height,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
TABBY PLAYS THE
PIANO With DELIGHT
BoonviIIe Girl Has Music Low
ing Feline.

Boonville, Ind, Oct. 24.-Little
Gladys Schultz has pet cat of which
she is very fond and which is always
at her feet or around near her. Miss
Gladys is about ten years old and is
very assiduous in practicing her music
lessons on the piano when she is not
in school.
While this is going on the pet cat,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25

The lack of keen general interest in
this campaign is a puzzle politicians
are utterly unable to solve. When the
controversy between President Roose-
velt and Mr.. Bryan was at it's height,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25

Tuesday, Oct. 9th is annual Dona-
ton day at the Home for the Friend
less, SOC South Tenth street 1t is to
be hoped the citizens will remember
them literally ON that date. They
have the children, the young girls, and
the old ladies to care for. Help them
If you can. Cast
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
WOULD MORTGAGE THE FARM.

A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire,
Ca, w A. Floyd by name. says:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the two
worst sores 1 ever saw: one on my
hand and one on my leg. 1t is worth
more than it's weight in gold. 1
would not be without it if I had to
mortgage the farm to get it, Gully
25c at A. G. Luken & Cos drug store.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25

Gy VOteu. ulFlueu between LH6IH III pTO-
portion to their vote this year, and
the other % per cent would be divided
among the smaller parties in proper
ton to their total votets. And if they
were allowed to spend no money ex
cept that furnished from the public
treasury, the smalled parties clearly
would be handicapped. out of the pos
sibility of growth. On the other hand
1t would be manifestly ridiculous to
treat all parties alike in the matter of
campaign funds, giving the populists
as much, for instance, as the democrats
received. Under such a system the
starting of new political parties would
become flourishing and highly pro-
fitable industry.
Serious consideration is being
given to the suggestion that the meth
cd of raising campaign funds should
be reversed, that the national organ
iZations should look to the state or
CARNATIONS for campaign funds, the
state organizations in turn looking to
the district or county organizations. In
it is believed the national organiza-
lions should be relieved of the necessi-
| ty of handling any large sums of mon
ey; that it has no legitimate use for
campaign fund beyond enough to pay
Office rent, clerk hire, postage and
telegraph bills and for a limited
amount of printing
For instance, it is argued that the
whole expense of campaign oratory
ought to be borne by the states, in
stead of the national committees. A
presidential candidate or other distin-
| guished stump speaker would become
| the guest of the state organization as
soon as he crossed the state line and
would remain such until handed over
| to another state committee at the Dor
| der of the next state.
Literature Distribution.
Similarly, campaign literature would
| be shipped to state committee in
such quantities as it might order, and
the state committee would be expected
to distribute it and reimburse the ma
tional committee for the cost of print
ing.
The chief objection to this plan is
| that it makes no provision for one
state helping another. For instance
| the republican state committee OF
| Pennsylvania ought to be able to raise
much larger campaign fund than the
republican state committee in Indiana
| but much less money would be needed
| to assure Pennsylvania electoral
vote to the republican ticket. Like
| wise there would be no provision fol
the democracy of Texas helping the
democracy of Maryland. Practical pol.
iticians would regard this objection as
a damning one.
Theoretically, however, it would
have just the tendency that is desired
If the republicans of Indiana were
barred from receiving help from safe
ly republican states, the democrats
of Indiana would likewise be barred
from getting money from safely demo
| cratic states. and both parties in In
diana would be on an equal footing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25


Mother used Gold Medal Flour.
THERESA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
PRESS POWER IN THE LAND.
pr. HadIey Says 1t Has SuDpIanted
 Courts as Peoples Forum.

pr. HadIey Says It Has SuDplanted
 Courts as Peoples Forum.
 pr. Hadley. of Yale, In Youths Com
 panion.
 It can be shown that our choice of newspapers and our way of reading them have an important bearing on the government of the country, and that we must take this into account In order to do our full duty as American citizens.
 Among the many reformers which are needed In American politics, re- form In the spirit in which we read our newspapers is one of the most im- portant.
 Our statute books are full of in- stances of law which are evaded or nullified because they have not the public sentiment of the people behind them. The newspapers are the chief agents in forming public opinion. This used to be done by courts of law and by political assemblies. but the modern newspaper has supplanted both as forum of public discussion and as a means of public education.
 A hundred years ago intelligent men used to learn about the workings of the law either by serving on juries or by reading the decisions of the judges. but tho Jury service is today managed so badly that in most of the States no intelligent man wishes to serve on a jury If he can help 1t. And If he does have to serve on jury he does not gain an understanding of the law as much as a contempt for the way in which criminal lawyers are allowed to misapply 1t. And most of the decisions like railroad mana cement or the equi- ties of taxation are so much occupied with precedents and so little actual facts that they have every slight effect on public opinion.
 Nor do the people get the instruction from a political speech which they did two or three generations ago. Politl- cal speakers may address enthusiastic meetings, but their addresses are ap- peals to the emotions of men who have already formed their views, other than deliberate discussions with a view to aid In their formation.
 If we want responsible government we must have responsible newspapers If we are to have responsible newspa- pers. the reform must begin with the readers themselves. The newspaper reader must get into the habit of sec Ing whether the statements of fact In nis paper are supported by evidence or not It Is not possible for a country to be we'll governed unless the people who do the reading are in the habit of weighing evidence. If they shut their eyes to all facts except those that they like. the government will be at the mercy of passion and prejudice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
LET COTTON SHARE THE PRos-
 PERITY.

Even the South, which voted so heavily against his candidacy may feel gratified that on the occasion of his first public utterance after his election to the Presidency William H. Taft struck the keynote of conservatism and pledged his assistance to a return of the prosperity which fled under the drastic policies of Theodore Roosevelt. Mir. Taft's speech before the Cincinnati Commercial Club Thursday night will be gratefully received by the entire country. Without repudiating Roose- velt's policy of government by denun- clation any farther than he could avoid. MT. Taft gave his hearers to under stand that the first great work of the country now. was the carrying forward of the business enterprises. which had been halted by the panic of year ago.
 He studiously avoided a repudiation of the Roosevelt administration. and endorsed 1t to the extent of saying that as far as the lines of legitimate and illegal business had been marked out in the past four years they would be maintained under the new adminis- tration. Then he summed up the poli- cy of the coming administration to the business interests of the country by saying:
 This shall be so that men who con- duct a legitimate business may under stand that the government is back of them. and does not intend to do any thing to interfere with their leEiti- mate advancement.
 In the first flush of his victory Mir. Taft declared that he owed his election to the business men of the country and 1t is apparently his intention to give them every consideration that their needs justify.
 Mir. Bryan. had he been elected, would have been no less willing to as- slst with the governments aid all le- gitlmate business. The repeated state ment that his election would jeopardlze the country's business was nothing more than campaign buncombe. It was used in the doubtful States with some effect. brt there was never anything more In 1t than campaign material for the detriment of his candidacy.
 The new administration might prof itably enter upon an investigation of the growing and marketing of cotton, and 1t might with great credit to itself work some reform that would benefit the cotton grower. Of all products of the farm. cotton today Is bringing the smallest price in comparison to It's cost of production. This should not be. There is no reason why cotton should be sold at its lowest price, for Its pres ent price is as low as the cost of pro- ductlon. while on the other hand every other farm product is bringing a splen- did price. In remedying this unjust condition. fine field is offered for gov ernmental endeavor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7t 1908.

About the most thoroughly assinine statement that The New York Sun has lately made-and it makes them occa- sionaIly--is the editorial assertion made a few days ago that when news papers dared to print any criticisms of tie President they were stormed im- mediately with protests and angry comments from their readers, and that their subscription lists suffered; there- fore. they were compelled to remain si- lent" Is not that just about the limit unfair criticism of The Suns contem- poraries? There may be some newspa- pers up in that region which are afraid to express their opinions about Roose- welt but for the credit of the profession we hope they are very few. If The Sun is not aware that the President is rudely criticised and commented on by the press all over the country it is sim gularly ignorant of what is going on and if it is not thus ignorant 1t clearly islanders the press. A paper that fails to speak its sentiments about Roose- welt is a discredit to the whole frater- nity, but The Sun may not be able to see it that way
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
Hard Winter I'd Prospect

EIfZabetntoWn News
 Signs of the times are beginning tc come in, and. for reasons not generally advanced, it may be a good thing that Elizabethtown is not further North Not that anyone born in Kentucky ever thought of such a thing, however, un- til someone advanced the idea that q long, hard. cold winter is ahead of us To the people who throughout this beautiful Indian summer have contin' ued to wear sleeveless and knee-length in comfor:: the information comes some thing of a shock.
 The prediction does not come from the Weather Bureau, but from observ- CTS who place their faith in workings nearer to nature than combination of chemicals sensitive metals and combi- nations of springs and cog-wheels- Folks who have grown up far from the purileus of scientific theory and who have theories of their own. per- haps equally as scientific. have learned to rely with as much certainty on other means of prognostication.
 Coming from all parts of the coun- try the signs show q coincidence that Is food for thought. The Northern and Eastern farmers say it Is going to be cold. The farmers and ranchers of the West and Southwest are prepar- Ing for cold winter, and the black folks of the South and the hunters In general are expecting a season of ri- gidity and frigidity.
 Foremost among these signs is the belief of the Southern darkies, shared with complete confidence by white hunters, in the absolute reliability of the hide of the 'possum and the coon. When these representatives of the mar supalia and the genus ursus go to the trouble of growing extra heavy coats the hunters begin to stack up an extra supply of nrewood and the darkies to chink the cabin and lay in all the lightwood knots they can find.
 Up In New England the farmer has gone out into the north lot and looked at the leaves on the hickory trees that have escaped the forest denudatlon. He says they are all turned up at the points. If they had frizzled downward he would have taken less care in the "holing-up" of his potatoes in the veg etable garden. Instead of that he gave them an extra layer of straw and thick.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
CAN'T WE GET BACK.

The New York Globe advocates the discontinuance of stump speaking by the Presidential candidates. It in stances the case of Blaine who was the first Republican candidate to take the stump in his own behalf. and of the three campaigns of the kind made by MT. Bryan. all four of which ended in defeat No other Republican made such campaign until Mir. Taft was nominated. Then 1t adds:
 The experience of ths campaign has been such as to suggest that In the next 1t would be better to so back to candidates stay at home. It is possl- ble to have a more intelligent discus sion of the issues with tho utterances made In a more orderly manner than ls possible when the chief spok esmen are hurried about In railway trains and automobiles talking ten minutes at thls way station and another ten minutes at that street corner. Never has a campaign been more jumbled ly because of the scrappy discourse of the two candidates.
 Whether "stumping" had anything to do with the election of Taft or the de- feat of Bryan is a matter about which there are likely to be differences of opinion. Each of them made a clean
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07

campaign, and both made active ones MT. Bryan, especially, made such per- sonal struggle as has never before been witnessed in this country on the part Of candidate for the high office. Win any one claim that his much speaking contributed to his defeat? and will it be claimed that Taft was elected be- cause he didn't travel and speak as much as Bryan did?
 But however different people may view these two propositions we agree with The Globe that such campaigns are unseemly. to say the least of 1t. We believe it would be much more in &C., cordance with the dignity of the office If candidates for the Presidency would remain quietly at home and let the fight be made for them by their friends. There are always plenty of good speak CTS in each of the two great parties to do all the campaigning that is needed. and for whom such work is appropriate and proper. We should be glad to see both Republicans and Democrats get hack to the old way when nominees for the presidency remained qulet while the fight was made for them by others. Such a course would be much more in accordance with our conception of the dignity and honor of the position sought. and we do not believe the cause of either side or the fortunes of the candidates themselves would suffer if the stumping business were discontin- ued. so far as the principals themselves arc concerned. To quote The Kansas City Journal:
 IL might well be hoped that never again in this country will the candi- dates for the presidency resort to stumping tours of the country, when their opinions could be quietly uttered publicity However, now that the precedent has been established. it is probably futile t9 expect return to the dlgniied methods of Mckinley and Cleveland. It seems to be established that the candidate for the presidency must be a very hardy and very ener- getic man. The job is not for the physical weakling. for no matter how great an intellect the candidate may haveN present methods demand that he Ko through the most nerve-racking physical exertion.
 Back platform campaigns are agree able enough to the people. The en- trance of a presidential candidate into a town. large or small Is the occasion for pleasant excitement. But 1t is doubtful lf after all 1t Is conducive to sound statesmanship to force a candi- date to talk day and night under un- favorable conditions when he is ex- pected to say something different at almost every gathering. He Is obliged 10 rack his brains for some new idea from town to town until he spins a web of theories so complicated that he himself cannot remember them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
Castro As He Ia


 There Is vivid portrait of President Castro in an article on Venezuela in the November Atlantic, which apparently shows him exactly as he is
 Says the writer: They were dancing the waltz, which in Venezuela has peculiar time all it's own and most engaging, when I first caught sight of Gen. Cipriano Cas- tro ricochetting from couple to couple, his collar wilted, his gray frock coat damp, and a wild light in his eyes CaraquenIans look ed mortified and tried to keep out of his way, but could not. The spirit of the dance unclaimed in him. As we watch. ed. he dropped his partner. waved to the musicians who stopped and then began a quaint air. Castro ran down the length of the loggia. separating rudely the dancers into two lines. He ran back and. and, with a coat tail in each hand began jigKiing cu-. riously to the music. swaying right and left like an auotmatic toy. The dance, some one whispered, was La Dansa,' a rustic en- tertainment forgotten in Caracas. Some of those in the lines knew it well, and re- sponded to Castro's swings and waggings by equivalent scrapes and Jigs. But most did not. and confusion followed. The little fellow fairly screamed with wrath. His face grew yellower. He seized women by their bare arms, Jerked them. whirled them. left the imprint of his fingers on their arms and fear on their faces. It was fear"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07

For the past eight years I have been tracing out the cigarette boys biogra- phy and I have found that in practical ly all cases the lad began his smoking habit clandestlnely and with little thought of it's seriousness. l have tab- ulated reports of the condition of near Iy 2.500 cigarette smoking school boys. ana In describing them physically my informants have repeatedly resorted to the use of such epithets as 'sallow, 'sore-eyed,' 'puny,' 'squaky-voiced,' sickly,' short wlnded' and extremely nervous In m3 tabulated reports 1t Is shown that out of group of twenty i've cases of young college students, smokers whose average of beginning was 13, according to their own admis- sions, they had suffered as follows: Sore throat, 4; weak eyes, 10; pain in the chest, &; short wind 21; stomach trouble, 10; pain in heart, g. Ten of them appeared to be very sickly. The younger the boy, the worse the snok- ing hurts him in every way, for these lads almost invariably inhale the fumes, and that is the most injurious part of the practice"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
The pefeat of ..Tomn Johu.on.

N-ltAlh1CkpIfd 4ScuS6Ts cleveland @ ~ of Mayog @ Johnson's S5fiTehs latest t plan for operating the street railways of that ,y. city upon Io basis of Scent general disgust with Johnsons pra- tensions and a recognition of his fail ure to give them practical effect. For many. years Johnson has bAen preach- ing 3-cent fares, not as a business proposition, but as political fad. He has kept Cleveland stirred up and it's his insistence until he got himself elected mayor upon the promise of cheap transportation. After much liti- gation, he finally brought about a semi-municipal operation, which was to bring about the long promised era of low fares, universal transfers and selfish capitalists had refused to fur nish at the price for the unsatisfactory reason that they could not afford it. Johnson was going to show them how. He did carry passengers for cents But to do so he had to limit the basic fare to a very short ride, with addi- tional charge for greater distance, and so the people soon found them than before. With all this he could not meet expenses. The old company, charging cents, had promised an in- crease of wages. On a s-cent basis this could not be given. and strike resulted, which added fresh compHca. tions. Then the times were bad. and
  ment, and the people grumbled at that In Ohio they have the new -fangled de- vice of the referendum" which John. son had favored and by which the mu- nicipa1 ordiance under which he was acting was subject to confirmation or rejection by a popular vote. The vote was demanded and Johnson has lost On a very full poll it Is decided that his experiment ia failure.
 Cleveland must go back 10 com mon sense, learning by hard experience what all other communities must learn, that business cannot be conducted suo. cessfully upon theory. in opposition ts economic law. The rate which 1t ia reasonable to charge for transporta- ton, or the service that can be per- formed for q given rate must be de: termined by the cost, since the cost cannot be adjusted to the rate. and the man who proposes an arbttary rate. unjustined by experience, whether or not he make its advocacy means of self-advancement whites himself down a humbug.. From" Johnson Is still capable of giving Cleveland trous ble. but the referendum indicates that his fellow citizens have taken his measure and people elsewhere should profit by the lesson.