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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18

the present election machinery of the
state to his own selfish purposes.
The remedy for these evils is the
enactment Of a law by the next legis-
laturc which shall provide for the
direct nomination of all candidates for
public Offices from United States sena-
tor to constable by direct vote of the
people, safeguardcd by all of the re-
strctions and penalties now applying
to general elections.
This law supplemented by the abol-
ishment of the party head to the regu-
lar ballot, thus requiring each and
every voter to vote for the candidate
OF his choice for every office, will do
as much as legislation can accomplish
the people to select public officials.
The remedies are simple enough.
To obtain those remedies is most
difficult task and the result can only
be accomplished by the united cour-
age and tenacious determination of
patriotic voters in every Legislative
district in the state.
Time and again in county and state
conventions the Democratic party has
declared for an effective direct pri-
mary election law. Yet, when. in fun
power in the state, it made no effort to
enact such law.
Several tines in county and state
conventions the Republican party has
declared for the enactment of direct
primary election law. Yet, when in
full power, the Republican party made
no effort to enact such a law.
This year the Democratic state plat
form contains the following declara-
ton:
"WE DEMAND THE ADOPTION
OF A DIRECT PRIMARY ELEC-
TION LAW"
The Republican platform contains
this clause:
"WE FAVOR THE ENACTMENT
OF A PRIMARY ELECTION LAW. "
From what has been stated it will
appear to the most careless voter how
silly is the subterfuge of these dcclara-
tions.
In both platforms. whenever the
guiding hand that drafted them meant
real business, the subject matter was
made clear and distinct and the legis
lative candidates of the party were
pledged to enact such legislation.
Not SO with the all important subject
OF a direct primary election law.
Language could not make the
clauses any more general or perfunct-
ory or ineffective. The Republicans
do not even "favOr' the enactment OF
DIRECT" primary election law,
but just flavor the enactment of a
primary election law"
There is already on the statute books
of Colorado law entitled"A Primary
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18
REMEDIAL PARTISANSHIP

u. w. Foley, in the New YorkS SUM-
Park Wells bay trotter, Queen Thoroughbred Bess,
Got hit on tn track by the Lightning Express
An they beat Park in court cause tn railroads is rch
So he's down on tn COURTS tn railroads an sch;
He voted for Teddy last time, but he said
He's afraid Taft amt no such buster Ted.
So It's Bryan him!
Jay Gibbons amt got any job any more
An they shut off his credit at Jenkins store;
80 Jay is rproarin' an maxim m jump,
Tn bankers an shyocks, from on the stump.
An says that tn Bryan promises more
So it's Bryan for him!
But Hicks hasn't raised any crops wuth shucks
Since Can remember he lost all his ducks
From pharsee bug an his medders all weeds,
So he amt goin t git enough hay for his needs
He lost his bay team mortgage last week.
An his very best drowned down in tn creek.
So it's Bryan for him!
Aud Num- got hailed of a section of wheat,
1hatd go twenty bushels-it beat,
Till tn cussed hail came down an laid it all flat
An Aud never thought of insurance for that.
An lightnin bolt fell an it burned down his cribs
An his wife fell downstairs an broke four of her ribs
So it's Bryan for him!
An if we git bugs in tn wheat an TIL oats,
l tell you Billy Bryan is goin t cit votes
An Amos Hawk told me good deal depends,
On how things pan out when til crop ends.
An if tn yields light an tn price is down low
An tn boys caught short an can't pay what they
Waits Bryan for him!
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18
Direct Nominations by
Primary Election Law
l. ". Stevens in Pueblo Chieftain.

Popular government in Colorado is
tigment of the Imagination.
The vaunted rule of the people is a
lost art-as rare as the jewels of the
AZtecs- as weak as an average legis Ia
tor under the banishments of a mil
lionaire candidate for the United
States senate.
While the shackleS of machine des-
pOtism have been shattered in twenty
seven states during the past decade,
they have been gradually tightening
their grip around the, limbs of Colo
RADIO voters until they have forced the
supreme and overshadowing issue in
this state this fall of permanent po-
ltcal serfdom or absolute political
freedom.
There never was such crisis in the
due, legal and orderly government Of
the state, as exists at the present time
On several occasions in our history
individual criminals or bands of ad-
venturous outlaws have undertaken to
overthrow local government and TO
defy the regularly constituted author
tiles, but the strong arm of organized
and orderly society has always been
effective in suppressing them.
Sporadic anarchy is easily dealt
with. Individual crimes are suscepti-
BILE Of summary punishment. The raid
of the cavalry of disorder and of def
ance of law can always be overthrown
by the armies of the people, when such
armies are commanded by officers OF
| their own selection.
But what must be said of govern
ment that is founded on anarchy; Of
elected officials whose first obligation
is to the riotous leaders of disorder;
Of administrative, judicial and legisIa-
tive officials who begin to climb the
ladder to power with the unprotected
boost of avowed enemies to regular
and orderly procedure?
The voters Of Colorado are proba-
bly, well enough informed on the pro
ceedings of the recent Democratic and
Republican conventions to determine
how applicable these arraignments are
to the actions of those conventions.
To indulge in details, or to attempt
to arouse the public conscience to a
sense of civic duty and pride relative
to these questions is not the purpose
of this article.
That work will be fully covered
from the public platform during the
pending campaign. Already, from
every section Of the state, come abund-
ant assurances that thoughtful and
patriotic citizens are fully alive to the
Importance OF the issue and grimly
determined to substitute their rule for
the reign of the political boss, and
their authority for the domination Of
all government by any millionaire adj
venturcr who may wish to prostitute
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18

When | was in Cuba | was in
a skirmish one day when the
enemy kept up running fire"
L suppose that was the only
way they could keep you in
range. baltimore American.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18

One thing the next Legislature
ought to do is to put an end to
the float" Legislative districts.
Originally constituted by
Democratic Legislature in order
to kill the country Republican
vote, the gerrymander has been
acquiescCd in by two Republican
Legislatures Now it is high
time to put an end to the injus-
tlce. The country east of Den
yer is entitled to have it's own
Legislative districts made up of
contiguous territory. On the
face of it, it is ridiculous that
one man living in Denver should
be chairman of almost twenty
legislative districts including the
whole state east and northeast
to the Kan sas- Nebraska line.
Stony Point, around which
were fought many battles in the
war for American independence,
is shortly to be adorned with a
triumphal arch. The historic
battlefield on the Hudson not far
from Haverstraw is now reserved
as a state park and is enclosed
and guarded 1t has been per-
mltted to remain all these years
practically as it was in the days
when the nation was young.
The daughters of the American
Revolution are to erect the arch.
The structure will be of rough
cut granite, thirty feet wide and
twenty eight feet high, while the
span through which visitors
enter will be twelve feet wide.
Were going to send grapha-
phone to your town to make
campaign speeches."
Better send another one to
furnish the laughter an APP
plause. The boys are purity
busy getting in the crops. -
Washington Herald.
A Kansas Judge has decided
that it is not unlawful for man to
SVpar at bic wifi. Dorb,,,s ,,,+
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18
Suffering MOneY.

Conan Doyle remarked the pur.
veyor of literary gossip, gets dol
lar a word from his publishers for
everything he writes. -
Gee" exclaimed the maiden with
the dreamy eyes, waking from her
brown study. ''If | were in his place
I'd have hero that suffered. life,
Use Keen Kuttcr Safety Razor 80
days-if you don't like it bring it
back Dye Bros. Hardware.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18

A Kansas Judge has decided
that it is not unlawful for man to
swear at his wife. Perhaps not,
but it is unsafe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
A "sPIRITuALIsT,s" TRICK.

Some Of the most effective results
are produced when the medium is sup
posed to be held, Or tied so securely
that it seems impossible that he
could have escaped to play the 'spook'
part so actively. And yet, when the
method of escaping from these bonds
are understood. it all seems so simple
that it is surprising that any intelli-
gent person should be deceived by
UGH commonplace tricks.
'One Of the best rope-tying tests, >
Mr.. Darlington explained, SIS that OF
the Davenport Brothers, two clever
mediums who have received thous-
ands of persons. In preparing the
rope with which they are to be tied,
they take one Of the cords by the
middle and form at that point a bow.
or double loop. All that is neces-
sary to make this knot is to wind the
cord once around the fingers. and,
through the ring thus formed. draw a
small portion of the corn on each side,
in opposite directions. This, in fact, is
double slip-knot, the loops of which
may be diminished or increased In
size as the ends are drawn tight or re.
leased. Leaving the two loops open.
the two end of the rope are passed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

good instrument Of this sort distances
of several miles may be evaluated.
For still greater distances we may
imagine each eye replaced by a
Photographic plate. Even this would
be quite sufficient for one Of the heaV-
emily bodies, viz, for the moon.
At one and the same moment let a
photograph of the moon and the sur,
rounding stars be taken both at the
Cape Observatory and at the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich. Placing
the two photographs side by side in
the stereoscope, we shall clearly see
the moon hanging in space" and may
evaluate it's distance.
But for the sun and the nearest
planets, our next neighbors in the uni
verse after the moon, the difficulty
recommences.
The reason is that any available
distance on the earth, taken as eye
distance, is rather small for the pur-
pose. However. owing to incredible
perseverance and skill of several OBJ
servers. and by substituting the most
refined measurement for stereoscopic
examination, astronomers have sue.
ceeded in overcoming the difficulty for
the sun. / think we may say that at
present we know its distance to within
thousandth part Of its amount.
Knowing the suns distance, we get
that of all the planets by well known
relation existing between the planetary
distances.
But now for the fixed stars, which
must be hundreds of thousands OF
times farther removed than the sun.
There evidently can be no question of
any sufficient eye-distance on our
earth. Meanwhile, our success with
the sun has provided us with a new
eye-distance, "a 900 times greater than
any possible eye-distance on the earth.
For now that we know the distance at
which the earth travels in its orbit
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

through two holes bored purposely in
the chair, and with the ends the medi-
ums are secured tightly, the legs be-
ing fastened to the bottom of the
chair while the arms are bound close
to the body. To all appearances they
are thoroughly secured, but this is
what really happens; the moment
that the cabinet is closed they draw
back their legs a little, thus slacken-
ing the knot sufficiently to permit
them to extract one hand. With the
other hand they hold the knot, ready
to be drawn tight again as soon as the
hand is replaced, and it is quite easy
for them to make all the racket and
produce as many varieties OF phenom-
ena as the most captious critic could
require. Moreover, when the knots
are examined after the sitting, all ap-
pear in perfect order. John R. Mea-
der, in Bohemian Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
MAKE GLAD THE STOCKING
HANGERS.

Vtroqua Censor.-A thoughtful writ
er comments that the empty stocking
is a sad picture of Christmas morning.
A little one in her gown has jumped
out of her humble bed eager to see
what may be in the stockings. They
are empty! The picture shows the
poor little kid, face down upon her bed
in an agony of grief. Her hands hold
one of the empty stockings while the
other hangs limp and lean upon the
wall. Never in all her future life, per-
haps will that child face a sorrow thai
shall be as deep or a disappointment
as zen, as this one of Christmas
Lorning. She has been forgotten! She
was so full of hopes the night before.
She believed that Santa Claus was too
good and too kind to pass by one little
girl that tried to be good, and so with
trusting spirit and hopes that were
hlgh, she hung up the little stockings,
waiting the gift the dear old saint
would bring her. Maybe somehow she
had come to believe that Santa Claus
WIS poor, but she expected something!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

round the sun, we can take the diam
eter of its orbit as our eye-distance
photographs taken at periods six
months apart will represent the stellar
world as seen from points the dis
lance between which is already best
expressed in the time it would take
light to traverse it. The time would
be about sixteen minutes.
However, even this distance, i'm
mense as it is. is on the whole made
quate for obtaining a stereoscopic
view of the stars. It is only in quite
exceptional cases that photographs on
a large scale-that is, obtained by the
aid of big telescopes-show any stere
Oscopic effect for fixed stars. By &C
,curate measurement of the photos we
may perhaps get somewhat beyond
what we can attain by simple stereo
.scopic inspection; but, as we said a
moment ago, astronomers have not
succeeded in this way in determining
the distance Of more than hundred
stars in all.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
STELLAR DISTANCE.
And How the Astronomer Sets About
MEETING Nd Measuring It,

Scientific American.-With the ex-
ception Of a hundred stars at most,
we know nothing OF the distances OF
the individual stars.
What is the cause of this state of
things? It is owing to the fact that
we have two eyes that we are en-
abled not only TO perceive the direc-
ton in which external objects are sit
uated but to get an idea OF their dis
lance, to localize them in space. But
this power is rather limited. For
distances exceeding some hundreds OF
yards it utterly fails. The reason is
that the distance between the eyes as
compared with the distance to be
eyaluated becomes too small. Instru-
ments have been devised by which
the distance between the eyes is, as it
were, artifcial1y increased. With a
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

Jasper w. Thompson has at his
home in Danville. Ind, what he says
lis the only cultivated pawpaw orchard
in the United States. The trees were
planted by Judge John " Hadley, now
on the state supreme bench, fifteen
years ago, when he lived in the house
occupied by Mr.. Thompson.
The judge was a great lover Of the
fruit and conceived the idea of raising
his own pawpaws or Indiana bana-
mas" instead of securing the woods
for them. He planted seeds from
choice fruit and kept the little trees
protected from the sun for three
years by putting barrels over them.
They have now been bearing for
several years and not only is the prod
uct of an exceptional size. but the
quality is finer than that which grows
wild in the woods.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

wouldn't empty his own pockets. and
the pockets of all his relatives,
'neighbors and the stranger within his
gates to bid in the pfc made by the
dainty fingers of the dearest girl in
the world?
For years the PIE supper, as a
'time-honored custom, has been the
'reagent for the solution of church
debts, library funds, missionary con-
.tributionss and similar problems i'll
Hardin county 1t has never failed,
and in the nature of things it cannot
fail until the streams run dry and the
rocks melt in the sun.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
-
The Cure.

He talked too much-far too much.
Already he had driven his taciturn
companion nearly wild. He had
touched on subjects innumerable dis
coursed with volubility on anything
and everything Onward went the
unending stream of speech. And all
the while the voluble one danced
about and fidgeted and squirmed until
the other was well-nigh beside him
self with disgust
Finally the walking dictionary took
from his pocket a cigarette.
I'm a great smoker" he remarked.
Eyes, I'm a great smoker-great
smoker. I'm one of those nervous
men, you know; one of those high
strung, restless fellows who always
must have something in their mouths.
Yes, you see, I'm so nervous, as /
said, that 1 simply must, yes-must-
have something all the time in my
mouth"
TRY gag" suggested his com
panion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
MARRIAGE IN FALL RIVER.
!, Story That Reads Like a Chapter
From Dickens

=, story mat ReaoS Like Chapter
From Dickens.
Rheta Childs Dow in Hampton u lga-
zine.-In one of the mills in Fal Liver
| met girl whose marriage created
some excitement because OF the bitter
| opposition it met with on the part OF
her mother. Observe that in New Eng
land mill towns the father and mother
work in the mills until the Oldest
| child, or more commonly, until two
children are old enough to work.
Then one parent, usually the father:
obsarvs. e=aves the mill forever. T.
othee -.Sx leaves as soon as
comDIs=S& w~ges of the children amos
to living income. The mother {
Stunning her rightful function of hom~
keeper, the family enjoys q degree or
comfort and prosperity they never
knew before. They live in decent
house, eat good food and have some
pleasures of existence.
| The mother of this girl in Fall
River, Lille, was reused to a perfect
frenzy of apprehension as soon as Lii
Ilie began to keep company" with
good-looking young French Canadian
Iteamster. She forbade him the house,
she watched the girl to prevent her
Injecting him outside. she did all she
could to break up the affair. Finally
she told Lille that if she dared to
marry without her consent she would
have Lille arrested.
Now Lille, who was a weaver and
earned $40 a week. followed the uni
IYersal custom of carrying her pay en-
lyelope unopened to her mother She
Ireceived a trife back for pocket mon
ley, but she was unaccustomed to indie
Ependence. and she trembled under her
mothers threat. The transfers argu-
ments and pleadings finally prevailed
land they eloped, although she believed
THAT her disobedience was criminal
when she found that marriage was al
flowed even to working girls, and
against the will of parents, her JOY was
lamaZing. l never saw a happier bride.
She continued to work in the mill, of
lcOurse, for the transfers wages were
lOnly 81 a week which is not enough
ito live on. Seven dollars and $40 are
I$17-a fortune to girl who had never
lhad so much as 81 at a time to spend.
Life, for the present, became a bril-
Iliant thing. The teamster not only
permitted Lille to keep her own en-
Ivelope> but gave her his, and went
with her to market TO teach her how
to spend. William" said Lille with
ipride, has ideas. He intends to live
Hike people ought to"
Yet this beatifc resolve can only be
realized in the Iare event of their hay
ling no children. When the children
lCome Williams wages will be smalle..
than ever, nor will Lilies $40 look
large. Thus it will be that during IN
thine their children are small and nee
Inomishing food there will be littl,
money to provide it. Worse, much
IwOrse, there will be no mother at
home to cook the food and care for
1.-THE children. In Fall River old WON
len, broken-down mill hands, plus sooth-
ling strip, take care of the babies.
Lille will bury third of her children.
When the surviving ones are well
IgrOwn she will leave the mills and re
Ialize once more in her old age a little
Of the comfort and happiness she knew
in her bridehood-until her children
ibegin to marry.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24
possible. The educational function
of the advertising columns would ap-
pear to be unquestionable.
ORIGIN OF THE PIE SUPPER.
lit is a Institution of First Magnitude
in Hardin COUNTY. Kentucky.

IN Hardin COUNTY. Kentucky.
Hardin county, Kentucky. IS the
home of the pie supper. Eventually
the pie supper is destined to become
prevalent throughout these pie-loving
United States. but at the present time
the honor of discovery and the first
enjoyment belongs to Hardin county,
where the pie supper IS an institution
of the first magnitude. says the Louis
vile Times. :
Whatever the purpose, or for what,
ever cause. the pie supper IS the mos,
effective means of arousing an inter
est and raising the wind" in Hardin
county. And small wonder. The
same elements and conditions that
have constituted the attractiveness OF
the PIE supper in Hardin county are
bound to succeed everywhere. They
are founded deep as the inherent pas,
sions of the race. and while humanity
endures their appeal cannot grow less.
Like all supreme discoveries, the
component parts OF the pie supper, ex,
/ cept the ingredients are extremely
simple. Given an adequate number OF
charming girls who have been reared
| in the good, old-fashioned way. and
/ the usual complement of young men,
/ and the success of the pie supper IS
/ assured. The girls make the pies,
which are then gathered at some cen.
tr?l point, and auctioned TO the high
/ est bidder.
THE pocket empties cleanest in
Kentucky" sings Judge Mulligan OF
LeXin gton-which is evidence that the
earned gentleman has attended pie
supper n Hardin county. What swain
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-24

Dean Hole in his Memoirs, re-
cords the case of a sick man who had
been prayed for twice daily at a GER
tain cathedral during several weeks,
and the repetition of the name be
coming somewhat monotonous "the
canon in residence politely suggested
that the words for a sick person
should be substituted for the name
of the invalid. The request received
a brief ungracious assent and at the
next service and just before the
prayer for all conditions of men the
minor canon announced in a tone of
surly Indignation; The prayers OF the
church are desired for a person whom
I'm not at liberty to mention