davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
IDAHO WILL HAVE
DIRECT PRIMARY LAW
Bill Passed the Senate Last Monday and
will Receive Governors Signature
Some of It's Provisions.

salary is $500, and an additional
sum equal to per cent if the salary
is above that. If he is a candidate
for county Office, he files it with
the county auditor with a fee at the
same time. A petition may be sub
stituted in lieu of fee. If the
candidacy embraces more than
county, 1t must contain 8 per ceht
of the party voters; if for a county,
per cent.
After the nomination papers are
fled, candidate must 81 gnify hls
acceptance in writing within ten
days. Names of candidates certified
by the secretary of state are then
published in two newspapers In .
county for two consecutive weeks.
After that, each party has separate
ballots containing all of the nomi-
nees printed. All of the ballots
are to be uniform in size and color.
Beside the name of each candidate
shall be two squares one of which
shall be for ssfirst choice" and the
second for 'ssecond choice. The
rule of first a d second choice
applles to every Office.
The voter casts one of these bal
lots Amy qualified voter may par
ticipate in a primary election. Th'
general laws applying to election
and the appointments of judges ane
, clerks, are in force IN primary elec
tlons.
No candl 1ate for party nomiEa
fore primary election, may spent
J any money except for personal ex
penses. Even these are restricted Il
railroad fares and printed matte
not newspapers. Ten days after
primary election he must file
, sworn itemized statement of hi
) expenditures. If he fails TO do thi
or violates the provision, he is sut
: iect to fine of from 800 to $50
' aud imprisonment from 80 days I
: AK months.
a The nominees for county Office
e within a week after their selectio
t elect county central committees c
o their respective parties, composed {
not less than one nor more tha
e three mem bers from each precint
J. in the county. Each county con
mlttee then elects a state. eentr'
It committeeman and state eommitte
i men choose their own officers VIII
e fulfill the same duties as IN the PR
y sent organization.
y State platform conventions al
" held 30 days after primary ele
10 tion, and county platform conve
# tions 10 days later. The conlmi
n tees select delegates to such conve
es tions, but is case they do not do 9
I'd the candidates meet to formula
1e the platform
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

The direct primary bill, which
passed the senate last Monday by a
vote of % to /, meets the hearty
approval of Governor Brady and he
will sign the measure as soon as 1t
is presented to him. The bill ls
patterned after the Washington and
Wisconsin statutes, although il is
declared the defects of both those
laws are remedied. One provision
is taken directly from the Wisconsin
law and was conceived by LaFollette
himself, requiring that all party con-
ventions shall be helo on the same
day at the state capital. The signifi-
canoe of this is that the platform of
every party cannot be copied by an
other 10 its own credit.
Another clause is designed to be
an improvement upon the Washing
ton statute relative to the selection
of United States senators. In that
state ma jority of first choices Is re-
quired to instruct the Legislators for
any one party candidate. This is
corrected to read majority of first
choices, or, in the event there is not
a full majority, the most first and
second cholces-but the language Of
the measure does not stlpulate thai
this shall mean binding instruction
to the Legislators.
The party convention ls TO be at
tended, not by candidates, as in soln'
states, but by delegates designated
by county central committees wh'
have been chosen by the nominees
This plan is adopted to prevent tn
platform from being distorted TO ii
the individual purposes of the yari
Gus candidates. The same idea re
quires that the convention of all par
ties shall be held on the same da,
but shall be concluded within 4
hours.
This measure stipulstes that sepal
ate ballots shall be used at a prilnar
election by each party, a voter recei'
ing all of them upon entering
booth aud dlscarding all but the on
he wishes to vote. On each balle
under every Office is blank line
be filled in with the name of the il
diyidnal choice of the voter If b
he has no preference among the pul
lished candidates.
The law will operate in somewhi
the following manner: The first pr
mary election is TO be held on th
last Tuesday in August, 1910. An
person entitled to hold an Office ma
become candidate. He does so |
filing a nomination paper at least
DAYS before the primary election.
he is candidate for an office el
bracing more than county he til
it with the secretary of state al
pays fee of 50, if his prospect
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

The people of Montpelier have
witnessed a number of pretty dramasl
and laugh provoking comedies that
have been given by home talent, but
we feel safe IN saying that Little
Alabama, which was presented by
the Home Dramatic Company last
Friday night, was the most pleasing
drama, was presented in the most
ereditable manner and was more
heartily appreciated by the audience
than any previous entertainment
gived by the company.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

The play is one that will appeal
to most every class of theatre-goers.
The plot is we'll lald and the drama
tic scenes are frequently interspers-
ed with clean negro comedy.
The roles were exceptionally well
cast. The old members of the com
pany added new lanrels to their re.
cords and sustained their roles in Q
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
MARY GARDEN IN THE ROLE or sALoME.


attention
Thousands
tho theater on the secondn Of e
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
WILL MILK COW
BY MACHINERY

sz
One of The interesting features Al
the farmers institute to be held II
Montpelier next Monday will be I
demonstration OF milking machine
Smith Phelps has kindly consented
to.furnish a cow and the operation
of milking her by machine will be
novel one. .-.------s-.
Every farmer IN the valley shonle
arrange to attend this institute Al
the subjects to be discussed ar'
those that are of vital interest Il
every tiller of the soil. Dry Farm
Continued on last page
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The Oldest Drum.

Edwin Forbes, of Fordsyille, KY,
SAYS: II see in The National Tribune
that Robert Balm, of Saratoga Springs,
n. Y, claims to have the Oldest drum in
this country. / think l can go him one
better by at least 100 years before Bur-
goyne and his Hessian troops landed on
our shores. j now own an old drum
which is in a good state OF preservation,
whose early history is lost, but it was
no doubt brought to America during
the early colony days, tho at what time
it was brought to Kentucky is now un-
known. 1t is supposed to have been
during the Revolutionary War. About
the year 1886 Col. VIM. Hardin built a
fort. known in history as Fort Hardin,
on the site of the present town of Har-
dinsburg, KY. According to tradition.
this drum was not only beat for the
garrison at Fort Hardin but for all the
wars. militia musters, Darbecues, public
speaking, executions, etc, at Hardins-
burg, from 1856 to 1865, and ii is said
here that Mai. Seley, the old tenor
drummer of Hardlnsburg. beat this
drum on the bloody field of Shiloh. The
drum is 17-inch head, IT inches high;
the air opening is where the shell is
Joined together, and is surrounded by a
device made with large-headed brass
tacks, and is older than was ever seen
here on any drum, and looks like the
trunks which were heirlooms of our
oldest living inhabitants. The drum
sticks are turned hickory wood; the
handles are charged with lead, and they
look as old as the drum. The drum is
now used at all patriotic, political and
Grand Army parades and memorial
services"
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
Gen, Richardson at antie,am

Editor National Tribune: In your is
sue Jan. 30 you publish a correction in
resii.a 10 AntIstatn Dy Geo. Shultz stat
ing that Gen. Richardson did not COM
mand his division on the day of the
battle. and then give a graphic ac-
count OF his death about half a mile in
the rear under walnut tree l read
the statement with much surprise for
this reason: / was before, during and
after the battle carrying dispatches for
Gen. Sumner, in whose corps Gen
Tichardson was division commander.
mad just delivered message to Gen
Sumner, in the front personally direct
Ing his troops, and as / turned my
horse 10 come away he called me back.
asking if l knew where Gen. Richard
son was. / replied that Il did Go to
him with my compliments, and order
him to move his division into action at
ONCE" was his order to me. L found
Richardson, not half a mile in the
rear of Antietam Creek nor under a
walnut tree. but standing close behind
his division in the open and not half a
mile from Sumner. 1 gave him the
order. and he Immediately started his
division for the front. History saws he
was killed in the Bloody Lane" on
that day. Were there two Richardson's
In Summers Corps? Hardly. | am in
clined 70 think that Comrade ShuItz has
soH1e other General in mind.-Thomas
w Walsh, Co Il, Mcclellan Dragons
afterward Co. l. 18th H. Cav, Car
Dinteria. Cal
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
Out Of a Swamp,

Editor National Tribune: / would like
to locate three officers that escaped
from Columbia, S. c., when Sherman's
army got near that place in the Spring
of 1865. | was one of detail to for
age, and the morning after Columbia
was occupied by Sherman's army T.
with the other foragers, went in advance
of the army, and when we had gone
eight or 10 miles the foragers were
scattered, going from one farm to an
other l went alone to one house, and
there was on old negro who was anxious
TO know if / was a Union soldier. /
told him / was. Then he told me he
had been feeding three of our men
down in swamp. and we went down
a long slope, where there was a large
body of swamp land, the water over all
the ground He said the men were
away out there on mound or high
place. He called and they came out.
happier trio l never saw. They
hugged me and shouted for joy. One
of them gave the negro a gold dollar,
and told him that was all the money
they had in the crowd. We went back
until we came to the big road, and in
few minutes our main army came in
sight, and when they saw the old flag
they could hardly hold themselves. Such
cheers I never heard from three other
men. How / would love to get a letter
from one, or better, each of them. 1
know If either of them should read this
they would know l was the boy who led
them out of the wilderness to reiOin
their friends. ! never saw them after
that day AS remember now, one was
a Major one a Captain, one a Lieuten-
ant.-H. NV. Mccoy. Co. F. SD Ind,
Rockporti Ind
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
Ito be continued.)
Death Of A. p Hill

Editor National Tribune: A recent
writer in The National Tribune repeats
the statement that Gen. A p. Hill was
Killed in an attack to recover Fort
Malone. Now, as Hill was killed west
of the BOydston road, before 9 O'clock
a. M, April 2, more than "a hours be-
fore the Confederate lines were carried
IN Gen Parke's font, it is at least diff
cult to understand why anybody should
wish to claim that he was killed at
Fort Malone.
Headley in his history does not refer
70 his death, and Greeley in THE
American Conflict" merely states the
fact that Gen. A. P Hill was killed on
the morning of April 2. Harper,s pic
torlal History of the Civil War; gives
the clearest account of any history in
my library, which is as follows:
1t was now barely o'clock, hardly
three hours from the time when the
grand assault had been commenced.
Lee, A. p. Hill and Malone were to-
gether in the city listening to the sound
or Dattle. The reports grew momen-
tafiIy nearer and nearer. How is this.
GeneraI? exclaimed Lee to Hill Your
men are giving way Hill, buttoning
around him rough citizens coat. upon
the shoulders of which We're only the
stars OF Colonel, and accompanied by
a single Orderly, rode out to reconnoi-
ter. In wooded ravine he came upon
haif dozen soldiers in blue Federal
uniforms They had penetrated in ad-
vance OF their comrades. He ordered
them TO surrender, and for an instant
they were confounded by the very au-
dac1ty of the demand The next in
stant their rifles rang out, and Hill fell
dead from his horse"
The men who killed Hill were of the
sixth Corps, which was the first COM
f1and to break Lees lines at Peters
burg.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
SUFFRAGET FLAG.

ment of the power, the glory, the au-
thority of the United States Govern
ment and it would not comport with
the dignity of a great Nation to have
slapped across its Flag any kind of an
advertisement, not even that of man
who has been to the North Pole. Gen.
Grant said, when they painted his face
upon the Flag for political purposes,
that he did not like to see the Flag so
desecrated. He declared that that man
had never been born who had achieved
greatness enough to permit or admit of
his name or picture being placed upon
the American Flag. He was eternaIIy
opposed to having any kind of wording
placed upon the Flag. Yet this man
Peary, who styles himself q Com
mander" in the Navy, arrogatcs to him
self the power and the right to change
the Flag to suit his own advertising
purposes. Fortunately there are States
in the Union where Peary cannot fly
that flag. He can't show it in single
voting precinct in the State of Massa-
chusetts, for there is a stringent law
against it. New York has such a law.
but she enforces it just when it pleases
her and the courts. Many of the West
ern States have such laws.
Peary really seems to have "eaten of
the insane root that takes the reason
prisoner" He arrogantly wired the
President of the United States that he
had nailed the Flag TO the North Pole,
and now presented it to the President.
President Taft ironically replied that
"he really didn't know what he could
do with it," but thanked Peary for his
Then Peary wirelessed
the Navy Department that he had found
and taken possession of the North Pole
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

But, having changed his name so that
| it would be distfnctively his own,
Perry-Peary, having done something
| to bring him into prominence, has to
have a flag to exploit his individual
achievements. He wasn't satisfied with
Old Glory, the Flag of Washington at
Yorktown; of Key at Fort McHenry; of
Perry on Lake Erie; of Scott at Chur-
ubuSco; of Maj Anderson at Fort Sum-
ter; the Flag that Lincoln loved better
than his life and that led over 1900, 600
of loyal Americans thru four years of
woe and want and suffering such as
Dante never was able to picture and
beside which his Inferno pales into in
Significance; the Flag which led over
a 900 mep to rot and die in rebel pris-
ons rather than take oath to support
another flag with its two bars sinister
and ravished stars; the Flag which led
our arms victorious into far countries
and foreign waters. and which now
waves in one unbreken day the whole
world round and dominates every other
| flag on earth.
No! This World Power Flag was not
good enough for Peary, and he pro-
ceeded to manufacture one of his own
one that would tell to a breathless world
that he Peary, had pulled the North
Pole up. by the roots, stamped it with
his monogram, and staked it out for his
own particular possession. Peary re-
manned up North n week longer than
necessary that he might have this flag
made. 1t is described as being 10 feet
wide and 20 feet long. The press dis
patches said of it and the other flags on
the Roosevelt when it came steaming
into harbor:
1.-The ship was tidy and clean. and.
like a school girl fixing for trustees
day, the Roosevelt had decked herself
out with every bit of colored bunting
that she had in her lockers. Signal flags
climbed from the union jack at the
bow up the rigging of the foremast and
over the top of the barrel crow's-nest
on the main top truck of the nniZZen.
Hanging from the halyards, out at the
tip of the nizzen spar, We're the words,
Thank you
+'But above the string of flags was one
which set the lips ashore to buzzing-
1t was a long American Flag with a
broad white strip sewed to it from the
topmost star in the union diagonally
down to the outer tip of the lower strip
Across the white slash in letters of black
were the words, North Pole "
On the wharves were thousands of
young boys and girls to greet this man
with. hiszbastard flag. They whooped
and cheered as the poor, ill-treated
Stars and Stripes 'cafne into view, and
why should they do-any different? How
were they to know that man who has
worn for 25 years the uniform of the
Navy was violating one of it's strictest,
tho unwritten, laws, that nothing shall
be placed upon the Flag in the way of
printing or design or adornment? The
Flag is the Flag, the visible present.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

Gen. A. A Humphrey. in Virginia
Campaigns of '64-65." gives substan-
tally the same account He says:
AT $40 a. m. April 2, the columns
of the Sixth Corps moved promptly
forward, a sharp but brief conflict oc-
CURED, which soon resulted in giving
tack. in the oder of the attack some
troops from each division crossed the
Boyfton road and reached the South
Side Railroad. 1t is probable that Gen.
A. p. Hill was killed by one of these
parties"
Gen. Longstreet. in his book From
Manassas to Appomattox." says the
alarm reached Gen. A. p. Hill. of the
faird Corps. who rode to the front to
nhd his troops, but instead came sud-
| uehiy upon the enemy's skirmishers in
| thelr concealment He wheeled and
nlade dash to escape but the Federal
hre had deadly effect, the gallant Gem
eral fell. and the Southern service lost
a sword made bright by brave ;,,rt
upon many heavy fields"
L submit the question: Which ac-
count is more likely to be the true one.
that made by historians. both Northern
and Southern. or the suppositions of
men who saw some officer shot from a
horse and think it was Gen. Hill? The
fact Is, Gen. Hill was killed west of the
Boydton plank road, near the South
Side Railroad, more than four miles
from Fort Malone. as any map of the
Petersburg lines will prove-Chas
Porter, Co. E. 11th Vt. Grinnell, Iowa.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
{ Enjoys Longevity,

Editor oNatiOnal Tribune: 1 saw an
article ingour paper some time ago of
a family Of six brothers, all in the army
at one time. 'phere lived a man in
Michigan who had six sons in the army
all at the same time. Three of them
we're in Michigan and three in Iowa
regiments. Three were cayalrymen.
three infaHtrynen. Three lived to get
home without getting a scratch. Two
were killed within 10 days of each 9TH
er, one aocavalryman and the other an
infantryInan. IOne was twice slightly
wounded and enee a prisoner, and the
only one to re-enlist as a veteran. He
was the oldest Of the six One other
brother would have enlisted had he
been oId1enough, but his father would
not let him CO. The writer of this is
the one who was wounded, a prisoner
and who re-enlisted. To-day there are
four of these brothers living. All are
old soldiers. I am the oldest-will
never see so again. Also 1 have the
best health of the four, and bid fair to
outlive them all, as the other three all
have poor health. Our parents had 12
children, and both lived to be over 90
years old. How does that sound to the
old soldiers and others ?-Chas. Chase,
Colorado Springs, Colo.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

in the name of the Navy Department
The Navy Department quickly informed
the wondering world that Mr.. Peary
was not on a tour of discovery for the
Navy Department, but that he had leave
of absence with pay to go abroad for
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Another fragrant violation of the eth
les of the Flag is found in. the thing
which suffragets are flying. The par
tieuIar one shown is flying from the
window of a woman in Washington who
proclaims that she recognizes as sover-
eign States only those which have grant
ed women the right of suffrage. 1t will
be seen that hers is also a bastard flag,
as she has eliminated from the union
all but four stars.
1t is a pretty tough proposition to
teach ps triotism and love of the Flag
when this sort of desecration of the
National emblem is permitted to go un-
punished. If the people of those States
which have good Flag laws will see to
it that these laws are enforced and
these two bastard flags are not permit
ted to be shown within the confines of
those States. it will perhaps teach
salutary lesson in how to properly treat
the F'lag.-Isabel Worrell Ball, Chair
man. Committee on Prevention of Desc
Grafton of the Flag
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The Struggle for Missouri
BY JOHN McELRoY
BY Far the Best Account Nomenous
Contest.
BY JOHN McELRoY
Vivid Pictures Of the Men and Events Which Seais
the Great State to the Union.

froma
which
While
ederacy o. Union
leading this moentous
Blair John Fremont H W.
Franz
Claiborne Jackson
McCuloch Gideon
Thompson Shelby
Something of
to
excellent
and the o
and
bound
on of
Address, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington, o. c.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
UNFULFILLED HOPES.
One of the Unneted Sacrifices of the
War.


At memorial services held by Lyon
Post, at Oakland, Cal, Rev. F. NJ. Good
speed. ID. D., the orator of the day,
touched upon a subject which has re-
ceived so far little attention. He said:
ITO me one of the hardest things
that these men have had to bear is
seldom mentioned or thought of-the
disappointment of early untitled dreams
and hopes. Some came from our col
leges and universities, where the lee
ture room was deserted, the halls were
silent and the chapel still: SOME from
the farms of the North and ihe shops,
who looked forward to academic
courses and life in the higher pro-
fessions: But when four years have
passed these soldier boys came back,
some broken in health and some bur
dened with debt. but all with their
dreams of culture and professional sue
cess never to be realized. Gone forever
were the opportunities for professional
education; they had been out OF the
schools and out of the fields of indus
try so long as to be scarcely missed.
Others had taken their places; and so
many went to the plane or the plow or
the loom, who, had they been permitted
to perfect their plans, would have
graced the forum, the pulpit or the
professors chair. This is their life
long sacrifice Life holds no scene more
pathetic than men lookingiy longi:, giy
to positions they might have filled with
honor and success, and fully conscious
that they must go on to the end with
their dreams unrealized, their best DOW
ers all undeveloped, with the real riches
of life all ungathered and the gold of
life undigged; men to whom it has heen
given. not to die for their country N
glorious battle, but, what is more hard
and heroic, to turn a whole life into a
daily sacrifice and an hourly death in
existence, in which the hopes and plans
of youth must remain forever untitled"
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The nth Ind.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the 11tn Ind.-Albert
P. Loomis, Alexandria, S. D.
The 11th Ind. was organized at In
dianapoIis Aug. 81, 1861, and after
serving out two enlistments finally mus
tered out July 26, 1865. It was com
manded by Col. Lewis Wallace, who
was promoted to Brigadier-
Sept. 3. 1861. succeeded by Col. Geo F.
McGinnis, also promoted to the same
rank Nov. 2S, 1852. Col. Daniel Macau-
lay then took command. retaining the
same till final muster-out 1t belonged
to Hovey's Division, Thirteenth Corps,
and lost lis killed and 173 from dis
ease, etc.-Editor National Tribune