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The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.

The Log Cabin Democrat is authorized to
announce JOHN w. HOLT of Cadron town.
ship a candidate for County and Probate
Judge of Faulkner county. subject to the ac-
ton of the Democratic party
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19
FOR ASSESSOR.

The Log Cabin Democrat is authorized to
announce DIR. f. o. BRANNON of Cadron
township candidate for Tax Assessor of
Faulkner county, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.

The Log Cabin Democrat is authorized to
announce r. X. WILKINSON of Eagle town
ship a candidate for Treasurer of Faulkner
county. subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19
FOR CONSTABLE.

The Log Cabin Democrat is authorized to
announce f. l.. KING a candidate for Con-
stable Of Cadron township, subject to the ac-
ton of the Democratic party.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19
HOGUE CASE UP MONDAY.

Pcrryville Nov. l9.-The ease of
Walter Hogue, sentenced to hang
for the murder of Grover Meis-
ner, in Perry county last winter, is set
for submission in the supreme court
Monday, provided the attorney general
can get his brief ready by that time,
Hogue was to have been hanged near
ly two months ago, but got reprieve
from the governor in order that the
supreme court might pass upon the
case. HoGue is still held in the peni
Tertiary for safe keeping instead of
being confined in the Perry county
Jail.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-19

Mrs. A. B. Albro of New York, who
has been visiting her father, l.. B.
Atkieson in this city, left this morn
ing for visit in Texas, before re-
turning to her home.
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in New York, up the state" said the
Hotel Clerk. Rome Ca, at last ac-
counts was also dom as we'll as could
be expected with a prohibition law in
force, so / feel quite sure in my mind
that 1t mustve been Rome, It., that he
spoke of. Imperial Rome, you know,
Larry? The ancient city sitting on its
seven hills at one and the same time,
which in itself is quite a feat for any
body except a fieshy contortlonist. Rome
that once sent forth Its mighty legions
to rule the world except on those occa-
sions when the barbarious Teutonlc
hordes stood the said mighty legions on
their heads and invaded the capitol, In
measles, the German two-handed broad
axe the clarionet solo and other products
of their native land among the Roman
patrfcians and senator's.
"I thought 1t was almost time for some
member of the Sodom and Gomorrah Re-
vival Association Marching club to come
forth-we usually detect several of them
at large during the prickly heat and
foolish season--but it's been quite a
spell since a member of that organiza-
ton undertook to double in Rome for
the street parade. Personally, my rec
objection of the frst-named cities is that
they had a promising building boom
spoiled By adverse remarks on the part
Of a prophet His name escapes me. but
according to what everybody said, he
must have been one of those human
hang-nails, all right. Those old time
prophets certainly were a bunch of kill
Joys anyway you took 'em. And short
ly after this prophet began knocking on
the realty development some attention
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cault, or somebody else, wrote It the first
time"
Anything elseT" said the House De-
tective when the Hotel Clerk paused, out
of breath, to take another taste of the
aromatic fluid In the tall glass with the
mint casting grateful shade over 1t.
Lets see,' said the Hotel Clerk
Seems to me I did read something else
that was>interesting. Where is it? UNI
Hay Fever Cured in Twenty Easy Les
sons by Mall no, that's not it. Har-
riman Going to Live on Beer and Bread
He must've tired of an exclusive diet of
undigested securities. Washington Team
Holding It's Place in the American
League Those Washington players are
certainly the lads to night for a princi-
pie. Let others engage in the sordid
struggle for the rag called pennant.
at the foot of the percentage column and
trust them to defend 1t against all COM
ers the season through.
'Um-um-oh yes, here 1t is, Larry,
under large headlines prominent re-
former has discovered that any one of our
great cities is worse than Sodom and
Gomorroh and he feels certain that it's
only question of a short time until this
republic, for which our forefathers
fought and bled 50 many people, will
share the fate of Rome"
''Wot's wrong with Rome?" asked the
House Detective in a startled tone OF
voice. IT got a married sister Twin up
there. Her husbands in the retail shoe
business and dom well the last time 1
heered from EN-
ct take 1t the reforming gentleman had
in mind Rome, In Italy, and not Rome
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was attracted to the situation by a lady
named Mrs Lot, the wife of a very
prominent citizen, turning around to see
how the skirt of the lady who'd just
passed her was trimmed in the back.
and being converted on the spot into a
by-product of a dill pickle (no benzoate
of soda used for a preservative) as a
warning to her sex, and they must've
taken the warning, for now any of them
can take in all the details of a cos
tune at one side glance and go right
home and duplicate 1t out of her own
head.
las for Rome. I've given the subject
some study, paying particular attention
to the period treated so fully by the late
Mr. Gibbons In his immortal work. The
Did Her Foot Slip?' Yes. sir, Larry I've
Romulus and Remus, which sounds like
a song and dance sketch team the first
time you hear it. but on the contrary
was the first Arm of real estate promo
tiers of which we have any record. I'm
familiar with the golden days when
gle person got across from Brooklyn
Horatious, the HackenT6hmidt of his
time held the bridge that not sin
during the rush hour that day; and when
Caius GRACIOUS and Quintus Ounce and
old Tertiary Tonsllitis and Eczema, the
Younger, and all those old boys
were pulling off the big dolngs
in the forum and the field.
could tell you by the hour about
Pompey and Cato and Brutus and others,
who are remembered by a good many
persons on account of so many bird
dogs having been named for them; and
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airships for tree-pruning and artesian
well-digging purposes. Or they might
take them out on the water and use them
for submarines
II see that ex-President Eliot of Har-
ward says his Five Foot Shelf of Books
Is enough reading matter for any ordi-
nary man. ! think so too. Enough, and
then some. Twas certainly a great list
of literary irnmortals that President Eliot
included in his selection. l think l heard
Of one Of them once, at a Chautauqua
lecture. The others were total strangers
to me. None of them played in the Big
League In my day and time. But If I
had a f1ve-foot gap on my library wall,
If had the library wall, and had no
drag with the government printer that
would enable me to secure a suitable
number of bound copies of Geological
Survey reports, I'd subscribe for Presi-
dent Eliots set Of favorite authors in
a minute. I know I could put 'em on
one housekeeping season to another,
and not to be disturbed or pulled out of
line by careless hands.
zine theatrical managers are predict
ing great coming season for the drama
There's to be one new strictly Ameri-
can play with a strong original plot deal
ing with a mortgage on the old southern
homestead and a horse race that wins
the day in the last act, and the old plant
erSs heroine daughter, named Madge or
Virginia The lucky producers say this
one can't fail. And l don't see how it
could it never has / can't remem-
Der when 1t wasn't hit and I've been
going to see it ever since Dion Bouci-
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row fafrer and warmer weather is prom
ised But would you call it promise
or a threat?
Walter Wellman, the intrepid president
of the Heart and Home Society of In
door Polar Explorers, Is getting ready
to start back to civilization again, after
making another of those daring dashes
for the pole, which carried him so far
into the frozen north that he was fully
two days away from the last good Amer
lean and European plan hotel and
couldn't even find a pressing club to have
his Arctic exploring pants pressed Of a
morning He's one of our greatest pole
dashers, is Walter. The time before this
he reached a point so remote that he
was fully 40 miles beyond the last all
night drugstore and nowhere near a de-
cent hand laundry. There's only one
trouble with Walter that I can see. He
must we learned the art of dashing from
one of those old-fashioned churn dashers,
because when he's not going straight up
and down he's moving around in circles.
The angry Wellman dashed high ON a
stern and bone-head coast as the poet
says, and then dashed right down again
in the same place. But nevertheless and
to the contrary Notwithstanding, he'll
dash again next year about this time,
mark my word for 1t. When 1t comes
to making those non-removable balloon
ascensions. or fixed flights, the German
Count Zepplin, with his gallant crew
consisting of a stationary engineer and
an eccentric fireman, has nothing what
ever on our Walter. 1 don't understand
why Walter, during the dull seasons for
pole dashes, don't form q partnership
with the Count and use their combined
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Gore idea the result will be the same IN
1912 that it was 20 years earlier. OF that
there is not the slightest doubt
in the world. Possibly we will lose North
Carolina. Florida and Louisiana; but GER
tainly we will gain Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Kansas and Nebraska, out west
and Connecticut, New York, New Jersey
and Delaware In the east while we will
hold Indiana and make Ohio and Illinois
almighty doubtful.
But as Henry Watterson remarked at
the 1roquois club, somebody with have to
be tossed overheard and some other body
sent below, and after all it may require
new party to emancipate trade as 1t
did to emancipate the African, and it
Is sort of instinct that has told me all
the time that 1t was a blunder greater
than crime to dissolve the Palmer and
Buckner organization. BY this time It
would have been the democratic party
with faith to believe and courage to do
democracy.
Thomas P. Gore was born in Mississippi
less than 40 years ago. In childhood he
lost the sight of one eye, and In early
youth he was bereaved of the sight of
the other, both the result of accident 1t
Is sore deprivation. the los, OF sight,
but in the case of this remarkable man
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by Edmund Burke, about crown Of
thorns and a cross of gold that the
event made so ridiculous.
BY 1891 Gore was a citizen of the then
territory of Oklahoma. Here he was in
stanuy a marked and a distinguished
man. the first orator in either territory,
and one of the finest stump speakers in
the union. A public man always, a lead
er and teacher, he was constantly on
the stump and went from triumph to tri-
umph. 1t was inevitable that he would
be senator as soon as the new state was
born, the forty-sixth daughter of the
union
And SO 1t proved, and in the Senate Gore
has more than made good, done more to
supply the loss of great Carmack than
any one else He is not only formid-
able debater, for he is always thoroughly
prepared and ready for the fercest en-
counter, but he is scarce second to Ray
ner of Maryland as an orator. and that is
praise indeed. What is more, and what
is better. he and Rayner are in perfect
accord on the tariff question, again par
amount 1t is now demonstrated that 1t
1t impossible for "the friends of the tariff
to revise 1t downward. The job, II ever
contaminated, must be intrusted to the
enemies of protection. But who the devil
are they? There's the rub.
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I know everything that's worth knowing
about the reign OF Nero, when violin
playing had such a boom and fire rates
went up high, and the head execu-
toner used to come at breakfast time
into the dining room OF the Coliseum
Hotel. where Nero was stopping that
summer. and lean over the Emperor's
chair and say. Good morning, Boss:
how'll you have your Christian martyrs
this morning.?
Yes, Larry. I've gone over the whole
history and I'm willing to admit that
don't see that we're drifting toward
the doom Of decadent Rome very fast
1t seems to me the United States of
America ought to be able to worry along
quite a spell before we fall into the
pleasing old Roman custom of getting
deep dish poison pie or a short-bladed
stabber into his delicatessen shop. While
there is a democrat who will take a NOM
nation, there's hope.
But every time, some white-tied de-
scendent of the Pilgrim Fathers wakes
up with bad taste In his mouth or dis
covers that the democrats have carried
his ward, or observes that there's a class
OF citizens who see no harm in going to
a ball park on Sunday afternoon. he
feels it his Christian duty to announce
that New York and Chicago have got
Sodom and Gomorrah looking like twin
additions to Zion City and that Ancient
Rome is right around the corner laying
for the nation with a gas pipe in an
cover. Sometimes l wish, Lar
ry, that we could have a few months of
Nero's style of administration.
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when he was 10, but had to decline be-
cause he had not attained to the legal age.
He was graduated from the law depart
ment of Cumberland university. Lebanon,
Tenn. BY this time he was citizen of
Texas, and about the time he arrived at
the age of q Grover Cleveland was nom-
mated for President, in 1892. Gore was
young, ardent, enthusiastic, impetuous,
reformer, and all that, and what was
more natural than that he should turn
up Pop, which he proceeded to do in
King Cambyses vein. They were the ar
gonauts-these Pops-and went on a wild
goose chase after a golden fleece that
not Jason and Jason's crew secured. 1t
was a dream, radiant and iridescent, inn
possible because it was based on the fun
damental error that government can
create blessing. Grover Cleveland ex-
pressed the true doctrine that every free
man should learn: '1t is the duty of the
people to support the government not
the office of the government to support
the people" And If our system Is to
endure, the people must come to that
view, grapple it and hug 1t until it is
fused with them.
Gore was one of the groomsmen at
that fatal marriage of democracy and
popuhsm in 1895, and doubtless he went
into ecstasy over that figure, invented
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tically abandoned the Judaism of the Old
Testament Philo. Spinoza and Mendels-
shon were born Jews. but not one of them
can be called a Jew In his creed. Abstract
theological speculation is foreign to the
spirit of Old Testament teaching. The
truth is that an abstract God is much
the same as no God A God who cannot
hate sin and love the penitent sinner; who
cannot reward the righteous, nor punish
the wicked; who cannot be loved by his
people. nor dreaded by his enemies, would
be of little avail in controlling the conduct
of average human beings
When Christ taught his disciples to pray
Our Father which art In Heaven" he
knew that the disciples would think of
God as occupying a place; and he could
not have intended to inoulcate a concep-
ton of God which it was wrong for them,
or for us to entertain. When he said:
I'm my Fathers house are many man
sions I go to prepare a place for you"
he necessarily called up the same con-
ception. And when he promised to come
again and receive them unto himself, and
added the words: THAT where | am
there We may be also" he powerfully en-
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head of his class, because of that acute
mind, quick perception and marvellous
memory of his. While his fellows were
engaged in athletic sports he was doing
deal of thinking, and thus laid up vast
stores of acquired knowledge, and dis
ciplined his mind to absolute accuracy.
He was hand and-a-haf in the school
debating society, where pupils were reg
ularly accredited senators from the
various states, and the blind boy, with
glowing mind and expanding intellect, In
the grapple of debate. where quarter Is
never asked nor granted, gave earnest of
the intellectual gladiator he is now be-
come in a real Senate, in some respects
the greatest political deliberative body on
earth. Every community, child, youth,
adult has a natural leader. Society
would be chaos otherwise, and the supe-
rior in that community is ever its leader.
They called Gore at school Governor
Stroke of sovereign has dubbed many
miscreant knight; but when that splendid
democracy, a few scores of American
schoolboys, picks it's leader, their judg
ment is nfallible. He is the real stuff.
No pinchbeck there, favoritlsm In that
high court, where character, and charac-
ter only, Is the one plea that stands the
test of demur.
He was nominated for the legislature
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S. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-Bv H. S. w. w.

monster mountain of Luzon. This giant
is near San Fernando and rises from wet,
dripping rice paddles as level as the sea.
Batson and two companies of his scouts
were sent out at midnight toward Lbu-
tad. where the fight was expected to
take place. 1t was one of those rare.
marvellous nights, that during the rainy
season momentarfly brush back the murk-
mess in the atmosphere and the stars
shine out brilliantly. In spite of himself
one would think that the heavens had
been a mass of phosphorus which the
incessant rain had drenched and set to
dazzling. The trail was soft and muddy
from the seasons rains and the small
bare feet Of the little black men sucked
and splashed in the ooze. This was the
only sound that the advancing column
made. That sweet, heavy odor of moist
tropical earth was In the air. There is
something animal about this SMELL 1t
makes one feel the strength that Is in
him-especially in the night. The full
moon was racing across the sky toward
the great black mighty cone of the noun
tain called Arayat. At dawn the Maca-
bebe warriors crawled up on the works
of their ancestral enemies. The nucleus
of the defence was an old stone sugar
house, partially screened by tall pampas
grass. Suddenly formidable fire crashed
out of the works. and Batson saw at that
him. and mauser was thrust out and
his little black soldiers were. They hurled
themselves In the form of ring about
their enemies and closed in.
The Philippine seldom allows himself
to be surrounded, but when this rarely
happens he f1attens out upon the ground
and, like chemeleon, becomes the solor
of whatever substance he touches. Being
devout Catholic the Tagalog crosses
himself, turns pale, and loses his gun.
He forgets that he ever wanted repub-
lie of his own. He has only one passion
during such a moment-it is fear of
God and an intense desire to become
invisible. The firing had been strong,
though very inaccurate, and 1t stands to
reason that Jimmy the Tough was in the
thick of 1t. About Is yards to the side
of the stone fort by which Jimmy was
approaching was a big stump about four
feet high. Jimmy dashed for 1t, ahead
of the skirminshing scouts, screaming
like demon. Everybody thought that
he was going to use the stump as
breastworks, but he climbed on top. He
could see better, he explained after
wards. Like a monkey he balanced him
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ton is that It is too gross; that it robs
God of His spirituality; that we cannot
conceive of God as existing in a human
form without also conceiving of Him as
existing under human limitations This
conception, We are told. puts God under
the conditions of time, space-even mat
terror a form that Is not material is in
conceivable.
Let us look at this question seriously,
and yet critically. Professor Davis, in
dealing with the question, SAYS that
whatever there may be Of anthropomor-
phism in this view e. e., Cardinal New
mans view, given above) need not trouble
us. The conception that we hold to be
true to the objective reality q. e., to the
real character of God involves no element
in common with man other than what be-
longs to personality" And he holds that
without this no conception whatever of
Deity is possible; for an impersonal God
is a contradiction" On this point it seems
clear that Professor Davis is right The
conception of God set forth by the prophr
cts, by Christ and by the apostles, In
the Old and in the New Testaments, is
distinctly personal. The God of Abraham
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THOMAS P GORE, u S. S-By Savoyard

from Delaware Bay to the Rio Grande.
Even the old Wing states forgot Henry
Clay and followed in the train Of the star
eyed goddess of tariff reform. 1t is true
that Louisiana deserted, and pity 1t is that
she did not remain in the republican
camp, when she got where she belonged
then and belongs now.
On the idea of tariff for revenue only
the democratic party elected eight con-
gressmen out of total of 10, the period
of 1874-1S92. Finally Carliseism buried
Vandalism, and the democratic party.
proclaiming free raw materials and tariff
for revenue only on finished products,
gained the presidency, pronounced ma
jority In the House OF Representatives,
and a nominal majority in the Senate.
But right then silver became paramount,
and the democratic party deposed its own
President as its leader, revolted, and
went into the camp of the populists They
all now confess that 16 to l was worse
than folly, and everybody knows that the
cause of tariff reform went down in the
melee between gold and silver.
But in the whirling of politics tariff re-
form is again paramount, and If the DEM
ocratic party shall adopt the Carlisle
Mills Watterson- Breckenridge -Turne Nor
rison- Beck Vance-Hurd = Tucker Rayner-
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:: .' $ : r., : :: 4, s T. =
Reckless as the Hotel Clerk laid down
his paper and reached for a tall glass
containing pleasing mixture of fruit,
flowers, ice, outrageous foliage, straw
and a quantity of an amber-colored fluid.
We'll" said the Hotel Clerk after
preliminary sip, summer seems to be
ensuing about as usual. The cable news
SAYS An Englishman's Home is going to
run in London until fall. Only they
ought to rename 1t What Every Ger
man Knows The tariff will remain in
the hands of its friends, especially its
Weather friends. A couple more sum-
mer hotels have caught fire and burnt up
with all the spontaneous abandon of
ing with their lives. The management
already had their valuables.
"A trained ape is entertaining the Gull
tured classes of New York with a dis
play of intelligence that has rarely been
equalled in the metropolis of the nation,
on the stage or off. Well, it must in
deed be relief to turn from roof gar
den shows to an entertainment where
brains have a part. Our President is re-
ceiving attractive souvenir postcards
regularly from his summer home swept
by ocean breezes. up on the Massachu-
sets coast. At Washington the impress
sion prevails that President Taft will be
able to start his summer vacation along
about October l, Congress and the wealth
er permitting. Several more JOY riders
have met an untimely fate. i am bear
ing up we'll under the blow. For tomor-