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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
And INDUCED in Oratory and
Personalities For
Three Hours.
STANLEY A FAVORTTE.
e Givens Grows Per-
sonal and Clements
Makes a Hit.

In the presence of an audience that
illed the circuit court room, the
.hree aspirants for the Democratic
=, domination for Congress spoke
bursday night, after ar afternoon
speech at Crofton to a fair-sized
audience.
Congressman A. 0. Stanley led off
with a speech of fifty-minutes,
pitching his discussion altogether on
national lines. Most of his speech
was devoted to a discussion of the
new issues raised on the tariff ques-
ton, which are causing the great
Republican revolt in the middle
west. He said there was a crisis in
the affairs of the Democratic party
and the right kind of a platform
would draw to its ranks enough
Republicans, who were tired of
being crushed to earth by the awful
increase in the cost of living, to
sweep the Republican party forever
out Of power. He called attention
to the fact that half of the Demo
cratic senators voted for some form
of protection, a system that was
vicious and burdensome to the peo-
pie outside of the trusts and favored
iHterests.
Tile called upon his opponents to
tell where they stood on the ques-
ton that threaten to divide the
party. 1t was time for the people
to put none but men of known con-
victions on guard.
He struck a popular cord in prom
ising that the city of Hopkinsville
should have a government building
that would be a source of lasting
pride to the best little city in Ken
lucky and that would be an orna-
ment to the city for all time to
come.
He INDUCED in no personalities,
excepting few facetious references
to Mr.. Clements. He said Judge
Givens was not courteous in his de-
bates and he had but few references
to make to his canvass.
Judge Givens spoke next and was
allowed one hour. He stated at the
outset that he stood on the Demo
cratic platform and would vote just
as Mr.. Stanley had voted and as
Sberhaps any other Democrats would
vote on party question. He indulg
ed in considerable criticism of Mr..
Stanley, particularly of his patron
age of the advertising columns of
the newspapers of the district in
furtherance of his political claims.
He referred to this class of patron
age as buying newspapers" and
made some rather discourteous re-
marks along that live, indicating a
radical and recent change in his own
views as publisher and a candidate
Mr. Owens speech was unfortunate
ly in=bad temper and found but
little sympathy with his hearers.
Mr.. Clements, who came last,
made better impression. He YVES
given quite burst Of applause and
made good natured speech, telling
some good stories at Mr.. Stanley's
expense and at times giving him
some pretty lively tits of repartee
and criticism. His speech make a
good impression, even among Stan
ley's friends,
! Mr.. Stanley was allowed a few
lNutes rejoinder which closed the
r1bate about eleven o'clock. The |
three candiGites spoke at Pembroke |
yesterday afternoon and at Perry's |
School House last night. The last |
closed the joint discus
bions in this county, with Stanley a !
Stronger favorite then ever.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
For Sale.

Kennedy place. beautiful two
story brick residence on Walnut
street.
L L7II;o
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
BEACH HARGlS
Must Serve Life Sentence for
Murder of His Father.

The court of appeals Wednesday
affirmed the life sentence given
Beach Hargis for the murder of his
father. Judge James Hargis, of
Breathitt county. Judges Mum and
Barker handed down dissenting
opinions.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
Magazine Club.

The Magazine Club will. meet with
Mrs. Blakeyj during the month of
December The first meeting will
be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
Residence Sold.

J.F. Ellis has sold for Mrs. j. M.
Campbell a six-roo4n cottage on
High street.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-04
JUDGE C. Il. BUSH
Presiding AS Special Judge
AT Mayfield.

The $4,000 suit of Mrs. Holden
Lewis, administrators of her hus-
band. Holden ]. Lewis, VS.. the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
The Question of a He'll.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: The
question of hell seems to be the
reigning one in New York city. The
statement of DR. Eliot that the fear
of hell has not acted as deterrent
is what seems to have started the
pending discussion One New York
paper has printed a whole page OF
opinions from ministers, expert opin-
ions, they may be called DR.. Aked,
perhaps the most prominent Baptist
preacher in that part OF the country
agrees with DIR. Eliot in saying that it
has not deferred the masses of men
from wrong doing. One minister ven
lures the opinion that hell will be
such a bore" because there will be
no new ideas or new styles there-sin
has been the same since the world be.
gan. Archbishop Ryan says that to
hold out the delusive idea that God is
indulgent will be striking down the
great motive. 1t is a matter in which
no layman has right to interfere
Men and women will continue to be
lieve in hell, and many have never
believed in 1t and will never be
brought into the fear of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
FARMERS AND AUTOMOBILES.

Some wise people think that the
continued prosperity of the farmers
is demoralizing that important por-
ton of our population: that their in
creased incomes are doing them more
harm than good, and that their fam
lilies are departing from the habits of
thrift. economy and the simple life
that have characterized the tillers of
the soil since the beginning of time.
In reply to this complaint W. E. Cur
tbs writes in letter in the Chicago
Record Herald:
1T is doubtless true that the farm
houses, particularly in the west. are
now provided with more comforts. con.
veniences and luxuries than the
richest of them could afford few
years ago, and 1t is true that the
farmers sons and daughters are buy.
ing better clothing and are spending
more money for trif1es than ever was
known before. The farmer himself
is buying better stock, better machin-
cry and implements, better vehicles
and 1t Is common nowadays to see him
come to town Saturday afternoons
with his family in an automobile which
cost $1,000 or $4,000, and even more
An automobile dealer in a town OF
about 5000 inhabitants In Oregon told
me last month that he had sold forty.
two machines to farmers in that
vicinity within the thirty days pre-.
| yious and that he expected to eeIl AZ
many more before snow files. Another
dealer in another place told me that
he was selling all the machines he
could deliver; that he had orders al
1 the factory that could not be filed till
next spring, and he was afraid that
! his customers would buy other ma
chimes in the meantime, because they
were impatient to shoot the air, as he
described it,
4 in that scornful person remarked. he
wants to go around in buzz-wagon
spending his money.
Not long ago the highest ambi
tion of farmer was to own pair oil
thoroughbred horses and drive them
to piano box buggy and haul his
family to town in surrey continued
the garage man, but nowadays NJ
horse is good enough or fast enough
] for him, and most automobiles are
| too slow
Mr. Curtis comedies that there is 6
good deal of truth in these observa
tions: nowadays at state or county
fair in the west one will see quite al
| many automobiles as carriages, and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

they are driven by men who would
have been satisfied with a good road
ster and a buggy few years ago.
Automobiles are seen standing in front
of the stores in every village and are
met on every road in the west. par
ticularly on Saturday afternoons and
Sundays, but they are mostly light
weight, low-power patterns OF last
year made expressly for country roads
and sold at low price. Mr.. Curtis
conclusion is that while it may be
considered extrayagant for farmer to
buy an automobile, he has earned the
money and deserves the satisfaction,
and SO long as man will get up in
the morning at o'clock and milk
half a dozen cows before breakfast
and repeat the performance every
evening after supper by the. light OF
lantern he is not in much danger OF
becoming a sybarite. Nor, he sug-
gests, is there much danger Of farm
er losing his head and becoming a
spendthrift when he is compelled to
earn his automobile and other luxuries
by the sweat of his brow. 1t is So
difficult to obtain farm labor OF any
kind at any wages in nearly every
part of the country that the owner OF
the land is compelled to work it him
self or let 1t lie fallow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
Buffalo News,
lowa,s Best Crop.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: An Iowa boy
is running for mayor in the city Of
New York. Another Iowa boy, Frank
J, Stoltz, formerly Of Eldora, has Just
been elected vice president of the
Armour company in New York city.
While there has been an awful drain
on the state in recent years, and
thousands OF the brightest and most
promising of the young men have gone
elsewhere to make good, Iowa con.
tinues to produce. among other great
crops. the very best boys and girls in
the whole world And she is always
ready and willing to furnish little old
New York and other sections OF the
country with real men to put in DO
sitions where such are needed and
where the product Of the big city
simply will not do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
For Postal Clerks.

Quincy Herald: The railway postal
clerks look to the next session of con-
gress to grant them expense money
while they are on the road. In this
they are strictly in the right. From
the President down, no other govern
ment official pays his own trayelin,z
expenses when on the road in the dis
charge of his duty. A congressional
junket abroad to study currency or
other questions with members paying
their own expenses would be the joke
OF the season. A United States mar
shall postoffice inspector or other
travelling representative is allowed
pay for actual expenses while travel
ing, and the bills are not pinched
down TO the lowest mill either. But
the railway postal clerk, who Is on
duty half his time at least. must bear
all Of his expense while away from
home. And this Is no small drain on
his salary, either, as most of the men
in the service can testify. There are
OF course, few local runs where the
men are at home each night, but they
are extremely small In number. The
wages Of railway postal clerks are
not so large that they are noticeable
There are $4,000 postal clerks In tn,
United States, but according to the
national president of their association
but 2S0 out OF the entire lot get 81 SOC
per year or upwards. The great ma
iority work for $1,000 and many Of
them for $500 There is regular
clerk running on local run through
this territory today whose expenses
during his period as substitute ex
lceeded his income by over 5000. Mos
of the clerks on the long runs mus
have room at the place where the
run breaks" and in addition they
must have their meals. With all dus
care they spend $15 per month on al
! average, which cuts ont a considerahi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

Notwithstanding the fact that AS
312 veteran pensioners of Uncle Sam
died during the past fiscal year, and
over 5000 more were dropped from
the rolls from other causes, the
amount paid out in pensions during
that year was larger than for any pre-
ceding year; the amount was $751;
973,703. Commissioner Warner ex-
plains these facts by showing that a
large number of new pensioners were
placed on the rolls by the act of Feb
ruary 6, 1907, granting s12, SIS and
$40 to survivors Of the war with Next
CO and the civil war on reaching the
ages OF sixty-two, seventy and seventy
five, regardless of injuries having been
received.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

In an interview in Pittsburg few
days ago President McCrea of the
Pennsylvania railroad EXPIRE ssed the
belief that the present rapid return to
prosperity win continue if legislators
and politicians do not interfere. He
suggested that the legislators should
wait awhile and see the effect OF
laws already in force before proceed
ing further. II politicians are going
to keep stirring unrest and destroy
ing confidence, investors are going tt
be frightened away and progress vii
be blocked This is an era OF this
double track; all roads with single
track are considering great improve
ments and money is needed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
The Melancholy Days.

The melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the year,
When hotel bills in vast array IL
fathers mail appear,
When Marmaduke goes back to school
to learn his A-B-C's,
With charges high for chalk and
states and sundry other fees;
When William he goes OFF to Yale te
study Roman Law
Mixed in with English Letters and
course in "Raw-Raw-Raw!'
While sister out a-shopping with nel
mother daily goes
Upon quest for hats and furs ane
winter furbelows.
Everybody works poor father!
He sits round all day.
Eyebrows blue with bother
Over the bills to pay.
Works without cessation
Trying to save his vest
"a swell vacation,
They get-the titivation,
the education,
Father gets the rest
-Lippincott's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
Glorious Iowa

Tama Herald: Iowa raised s40o,-
100000 worth Of grain this year This
just about equals the output Of all the
gold mines of the world during the
past year. The average Iowa farm is
the best gold mine man can have. In
addition TO the competence he can Sc
cure by filling it he gains good health,
intercourse with the best people on
earth, good school and church privi-
leges, climate that for ten months
of the year cant be beaten-and a
climate the other two months that
makes him appreciate that of the ten.
Iowa Is grand state worth living in
as long as one can-and her farmers
and all her citizens are especially
favored and have especial reason to
be satisfied with their lot.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
THE HOME GROCERY TRADE.

Speaking before the grocers of Rock
Island 8. W. Roth of Chicago and
George E. Green of Peoria, men of
state wide reputation in grocery mat
trs, emphasized several points that
can be made useful by every retailer
in that line who desires trade Mr. Roth
stated that the mail order houses
spend thousands of dollars every week
for printers ink They carry their
leaders and their regulars to the very
doors of the people and are constantly
on the alert to catch and hold their at
tention. They advertise and advertise
in lavish manner, while the local
dealer too often sits idly by and neg
lects the medium through which he
can more than counteract all that
these mall order houses do. That
medium is the local newspaper. which
Mr.. Roth well declared is a force and
power more potent than all the cata.
logues that were ever published and
spread over the country. Continuing
he said:
The sooner you realize that the To-
cal newspaper Is the strongest factor
in your community with which to
fight the mail order houses. the sooner
| you will begin to win back the out
going trade and Danish the Chicago
mail order house trade from your
midst. You have q better chance and
greater opportunity to win the peo
ple than all of the mail order houses
| in Christendom. You are on the
ground You know most of the neo-
| pie personally. You know their chill
dren, and you know their whims. TIE
mail order houses evist aud wax fat
because you permit them to do So"
Mr.. Roth strongly favored neat win
dow displays in the grocery store
stating that an opportunity is
there afforded to make favorable
Impression upon people passing the
window But the best way tt
win them to the window display
and to the interior of the store
4 is through the plainly stated an
nouncements of the goods and prices
/ in the local newspaper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

The Republican Editorial Associa-
ton OF Missouri in session at Joplin
the latter part OF last week gave cor
dial and unqualified endorsement to
the principles and politics OF the Re
publican party under the leadership
and administration OF President Taft,
and especially commended the new
tariff law under which prosperity is
finding its way TO every corner OF the
nation" The speech OF President
Taft at Winona, Mimi. on the tariff
Law which he declared to be the best
ever passed by an American congress
was also endorsed It Is unnecessary
to add that the Republican editors OF
Missouri are real Republicans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
clandestIne Correspondence.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The post
office department is now investigating
another evil, the evil of clandestine
correspondence. A test was recently
made In Washington, D. c., with the
result chat O. of about 1000 letters
addressed to women, 119 were ad-
dressed to fictitious names. 1t is also
noteworthy that nearly all of them
were to married women, who we're evil
IDENTIFY carrying on some kind of
clandestine correspondence, presum-
ably with other men. Eight of the let
tiers were addressed to girls in their
teens. The presumption Is that there
Is something wrong and something If.
regular when a woman receives let
ters in fictitious name Such persons
are generally known to the postoffice
clerks, but there is at the present
time no rule or regulation that pre-
vents persons from receiving letters
addressed to assumed names. Once in
a while such letters are intercepted
and then there is trouble somewhere.
The postoffice department has pro-
ceeded on the theory that it is not a
matter that it can regulate and that
it can not prevent any one from re-
ceiving letters in assumed names. But
the evil has grown to such proportions
that the postal authorities may be
compelled to make 1t their business
and refuse to deliver letters except
that they are addressed In the right
names of the parties calling for them.
No effective way of combating the
evil has yet been devised.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
The ground on which the Nebraska
hank dannsif praranfu Law was de.

The ground on which the Nebraska
bank deposit guaranty law was de
clared by the United States court al
Lincoln to be unconstitutional and
void was that the principle OF the
enforced contribution OF each bank to
common fund to meet losses amount
ed to taking money from a person
without due process OF law The court
left undecided two other questions
namely, whether the state can re
strict the banking business to corpora
tons and whether the implied power
OF the state constitution permitted the
arbitrary amendment of charters pre-
viously granted to persons and cor
porations SO as to restrict them te
corporate form
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

During the fourth annual conven-
ton of the meat packers at Chicago
a committee reported to the effect
that prices, which are now higher than
ever before, will never go lower, and
probably must go still higher. This,
it was said was due to the rising cat
tie market, on account of tae increased
cost of raising cattle. The committee
said that the prices were purely mat
ter Of supply and demand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

The Burlington railroad will run a
special train over its lines in southern
Iowa from which will be preached the
gospel of good butter and cheese and
how to make them. The speakers will
be H. x Wright, state commissioner
from Des Moines, R. d. White, chief
of dairy manufacturing Investigations
from Washington, D. c., Prof. H. G.
Van Pelt. dairy expert from Waterloo,
and r. K. Bliss from the Iowa State
College at Ames. They will talk on
dairying and other subjects of inter.
est to the farmers. The lectures will
not be delivered with the purpose OF
furthering the interest CT any particu-
lar person or corporation but will be
handled in broad and comprehensive
manner, with the sole idea of aiding
the farmer to obtain better results
from the work he is now doing. The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

A ret INT report from Washington
shows that contrary to the common be-
lief the number of Indians in this coun-
try is not decreasing, but has In
creased some 10000 in the past TWEEN
ty years. Tie increase is attributed
to the governments efforts to raise
the Indian through practical educa
ton to the level OF civilization. More
than 10000 Indian girls and boys are
being educated by the government al
an annual exp>nse of $4,000, 200.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
When Farmers Go VISITING.

Grundy Democrat: If you expect to
go out in the country Sunday after
noon to visit with some of your
friends you had best let them know In
advance. If you don't the chances are
that the family dog will be there alone
TO receive you. The visiting habit is
stronger among country people than
1t Is among people in town and Sun
day afternoons when the weather is
good there are very few families at
hnne --'nss Soma Of their neigbbors
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

amount of their yearly salary. The
work is hard and exacting, the men
on the Eli runs through this section
working for fifteen and sixteen hours
at a stretch almost daily. The least
the government could do for them
would be to grant an allowance for
monthly expenses and place them on
the basis of other travelling employees
of the government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

The Springfield Register speaks of
the Dubuque Telegraph as a Republi-
can newspaper. The inference is war
ranted that the Dubuque Telegraph
doesn't reach the Springfield Reg,
listers exchange table. The worst
thing in connection with the incident
is the bitterness of the cud of refiec-
tion which Editor Murphy must chew
on the hollow mockery of fame.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

In what was understood to be his
last public appearance before retire
ment, United States Treasurer Treat,
before the Bank Officers Associa-
ton at Boston, Endorsed the idea of
Ia central bank, as affording an oppor-
tunity for rediscounting loans, but
still was inclined to think the people
would not accept any currency that
does not have the government guar
antee behind it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25
TIE DAILY GATE CITY

place to start it. have no idea what
the reason it unless it is that you peo-
pie, raising so much corn and wheat,
know what good food it is. We never
hear of a breakfast food failing in
Iowa and Iowa people are showered
with every brand that was ever in
Vented
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

California wine dealers are engaged
in war of prices, as a result of which
port which two months ago sold at
371a cents gallon today is offered at
from 10 to is cents. Claret, which for
merly brought % cents gallon, now
brings Is cents. 1t is to be remember.
ed. however, that Californians are
good advertisers, and 1t may be these
quotations are simply bait to lure the
bibulously inclined to that state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-25

interest of the Burlington road. of
course. is only in getting larger pro-
duction OF the various commodities
that the farmer raises; hence its bene-
fit will be from increased traffic
only. The special viii be at Mt Ayr
on November 5.