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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
EDITOR WARREN
HANDED PARDON
President Says Socialists Sen
tenCe Is Excessive.
CUTS OUT PRISON FEATURE

Also Reduces $500 Fine to $780,
President, In Brief, Says Appeal to
Reasons Exagserations and Wild
Accusations Should Be Treated
With Ridicule-Deelares That Free.
dom Of Press and Free Speech Not
Curtaied by Courts Decision.
Washington, Feb. editor Fred
ID. Warren Of the Appeal to Reason,
Socialist publication, Will not
be obliged to spend six months in
Leavenworth penitentiary and pay a
hne of $1,000 for alleged violation of
the postal statutes. President Taft
case IN which he commutes the SEN
tence of Warren by striking out the
imprisonment clause and reducing
the fine to 500.
In committing the sentence the
president took occasion to arraign
the editor in unusually severe terms
II would question:" says MIR. Taft
"the wisdom of making the defend
ant conspicuous and feeding his van
tty by treating him seriously when
his violence, his exaggerations, his
wild accusations and his mock
heroi:s ought to be treated with rid.
fcule."
Warren was convicted OF mailing
matter in a covering upon which
was rtamped In red letters: zone
thousand dollars reward will be paid
20 any person who kidnaps ex.Gov-
srnor Taylor and returns him to the
Kentucky authorities"
Held to Be Defamatory.
These words were held by the fed.
oral authorities to be scurrilous and
defamatory and obviously intended
TO reflect upon the character OF For
mer Governor Taylor. Warren was
prosecuted and convicted in the
United States district court and the
sentence was later affirmed by the
circuit court OF appeals.
In his brief, President Taft denies
that the liberty OF free speech and
OF the press is in danger.
"The purpose of the statute" said
the president, was to prevent the
use of the mails to make defama-
cory charge against one on the out
side OF mall package. II was a rea.
sonable regulation congress had the
right TO make and enforce as con-
dition OF the using the mails.
ITO enforce II was not TO deny free
speech or the freedom OF the press.
This Is not prosecution for libel,
Tor which under the laws of many
states the truth can be pleaded as
. complete defense for the publica-
don of defamatory matter. The reg
ulation applies TO mail matter labeled
on the outside, with defamatory mat.
or, whether true or not. The defend.
ant was therefore clearly guilty"
The president says that while the
law Is clear, the amount OF sentence
was excessive. He says that the
court In fixing sentence might have
anquired into the defendant's charac-
ter to determine what the good or
society" might require within the
limits OF the statute.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
Farm Notes.

Feed the birds. You'll need 'em
next bug time.
Get all the leaves you can for the
scratching pens.
Have hottie Of rubber cement on
hand and some good glue. Fix things
and do 1t while the other work Is not
pressing.
One Of the best tools farmer can
have Is good riveter for mending
leather straps of all kinds. One Of
these will save good many trips to
town and maybe more than one run
a away.-Farm Journal.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
Feather Eatina Hsns.

Feather eating Is vicious habit, and
one feels that the guilty hen does 1t
solely out of pure cussedness. It is
confined almost exclusively to the
smaller and more active breeds and
only when they are confined in small
yards.
When they once begin there Is
hardly any remedy except to give
them their liberty SO that they can
get busy and forget the habit.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
Town Topics.

New York has raised her assessment
and As now allowed by law to so into
debt ($S0000,0o0 more, VIII shef
watch lisrLC Cleveland Plain Dealer,
: New York Is brheging on a lowered
death rate, but Chicago, Gun console
itself with the time worn statement
Shnt everything Is bigger In Chicago
louisville Courier-Journal.
(. We obseyq htbAt cEast ISh IpYfs
counts on 4edG0bd peoAle " .fo36.4 w
:that ;eass tshe would, d,aAtt0r bei Eooidug
for the east end site OF acueiley. cat
tgRAIsl. .qRasr tps. aliaIsalpplSsSts ItQpis
GloDe- Democrat.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
cowpeas Profitable.

Cowpeas are a very profitable crop
for dairy cows and pigs. They are SO
hardy against drought and mature so
quickly that there are very few crops
that compete with these legumes for
soiling purposes. Cowpeas should be
better appreciated by farmers OF ths
southwest.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
Great lmaaination.

Mother You've always had a most
wonderful Imagination. Ethel.
Little Ethel-l know 1t. mamma. I
once imagined that was all your own
hair!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
Her Ooportunitx.

MARY loves to get her picture In
print doesn't sheT"
Yes. That's her only reason for
Joining so many women's clubs."--
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
TruA.

In life as In the airship game
This is no epi.;ram-
Full many fellow climbs to fame
And then comes down kersam!
Detroit Free Press
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
CHAMP CLARK FOR SPEAKER
Missouri Congressman Named by DEM
ocratlc Caucus In Washington.

Champ Clark of Missouri was nomin'
ated as speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives Of the Sixty-Second con-
gress at q caucus of the Democratic
members-elect here. The action Of
the caucus insures Mr.. Clark's election
when the house convenes next De-
cember.
The caucus produced sensation In
the form of resolution throwing Rep
resentative- Elect Theron Akin, of the
Twenty-Fifth New York district, out
OF the Democratic party. The resolu-
tion was adopted with a whoop
Akin used to be Republican. but
ran on an independent ticket in the
Twenty-Fifth district against Cyrus
Durey. The Democrats endorsed him,
and he was elected after hard fight.
Akin, so New York Democrats say,
has declared since election that he
would not attend a Democratic caucus.
The caucus went on record In favor
OF taking the power of appointing the
house committees away from the
speaker and lodging It with the four.
teen majority members of the ways
and means committee.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES

The bodies of ]. L. Michel, car
penter and contractor, and his son-in-
law, Stephen Evans, were found riddled
with bullets In the barn yard of w. Il.
Eads, at Rifles Crossing. W. Va. The
men were killed in broad daylight
within a short distance of their home.
No one has been found who saw
the shooting, but the shots were
heard. Nickel was evidently running
away from his assailant. His body
was found about 200 yards from where
he had been shucking corn He had
fallen face downward. W. G. Eads,
of West Virginia, is under arrest in
connection with the case.
In New York city, hearing the
shrieks OF an elevator man who was
caught between his car and the eighth
floor of Maiden Lane building, Ed
ward Kemp. the engineer, investigated
and then released the car by a switch.
The operator. Gabriel Cappaline,
instead of escaping safely from his
trap, plunged down the shaft and
broke every bone In his body when he
struck the basement, eight floors be-
low. Death was instantaneous.
A passenger train collided with a
coal train at Hopkinsville, near Pom
typridd In Wales. Three of the coaches
we're telescoped and many passengers
killed and injured. Those on the
train included a number of miners
who were on their way to London for
a conference with the mine owners,
Soldiers sent to help in the work Of
rescue recovered the bodies of eight
men and three children from the de-,
bris of the wreck.
Miss Lucy Pedford and Frederick
Belmfeld, both of Manchester, were
drowned when they skated through
hole In the Ice in the Cove" at
Wethersfield, Conn. There we're about
100 other skaters near by at the time.
but they could not reach the couple
In time to save them. The bodies
were recovered before daybreak after
a long search.
The sinking in the harbor of Kiel.
Germany, of the "U-3," the German
navy's first submarine accident. cost
three lives. The dead are the captain
of the submarine and Lieutenants
Fisher and Kobe. the latter the
helmsman. Fisher was married q
week ago.
Following a quarrel, Matte Hand
las was shot and killed on the side
walk at Gay and Exeter street, Baiti-
more, by Herman Ensor. who then
committed suicide. The couple were
about thirty years old
Mrs. Francesca de Chilla, and Ital-
ian woman of sixty, living with her
two sons In New York, was shot and
killed by supposed Black Handlers.
A mutilated body OF q man whose
Identity is unknown to the police was
found In an alley In the rear of 102i
South Paulina street, Chicago.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
new GIFT BY CARNEGIE
Research insiitutIonin Washing
ton Given $4,000, 900.

Andrew Carnegie has just announced
another gift of s10.00o,00O to
the endowment fund of the Carnegie
Institute OF Research in Washington.
This brought his endowment of the
institution to a total OF s25, 100000.
The institution was founded by Mr.
Carnegie in 1902 with an endowment
of s1o.000,000. Since thin ten ande-
pendent departments Of research. each
with its stan of investigators and as
sistants, have been established.
In addition to these larger depart
ments, organized by the institution IL
self, numerous special researches car.
ried on by individuals have been sub.
sidixed. Six laboratories for as many
different fields of investigation. and In
widely separated localities. have been
constructed and equipped.
The -jimswinger" Is the new west
ern name for a long tailed coat. In
the south they formerly called them
shsslzallz<=s
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
FIVE PERISH IN FIRE
Mother, Three Children and a
Maid Are Victims.

Five persons were burned to death
in Toronto, Canada, In fire
which destroyed the residence of Per-
cy C. Brooks, manager and treasurer
OF the Canadian Fairbanks company
and the Morse Canadian Manufactur.
ing company The house was at ABS
Indian road, in the western part of the
city, In fashionable home district.
The dead are Mrs. Brooks, her three
children-Percy Jr., seven years old;
George. four years old, and Wendell,
three years old--and a maid, whose
name Is not known.
The BODIES were recovered after the
fire had burned itself out. The hus-
band and father is in Chicago ON bus
iness.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
PAUL MORTON DIES
IN new YORK HOTEL
President Equitable Society Sue
cumbs Suddenly.

Paul Morton, president of the Equi-
table Life Assurance society, was
stricken by apoplexy in New York just
after he had gone to the Hotel sey.
mour on West Forty-Fffth street, for
the purpose, his friends say, Of keep
ing an appointment with Paul L. Kier.
nan. the lawyer. He died an hour and
q half later in an apartment Just va
Gated by Mr.. Kiernan earlier in the
day and Just a few minutes before his
wife and brother, Joy Morton, Of Chi
cago, reached the house.
Coroner Feinberg, who Is ply
sician, and Coroner's Physician
O'Hanlon agreed after they had exam
ined Mr.. Morton's body and had talked
with Joy Morton concerning his broth
er's condition, that death was caused
by apoplexy due to rupture Of a
blood vessel in the brain, which re-
suited from aeterio-sclerosis, from
which Mr.. Morton was found to be
suffering within the past months.
Mr.. Morton was born in Detroit, In
1857, son Of ]. Sterling Morton, who
was secretary of the interior under
President Cleveland. His only educa'
tion was In the common schools and
that only lasted until he was Is years
old. He then went to work as a clerk
in a railroad freight Office and kept
plodding along for years with only an
occasional promotion until 1890, when
he became general freight agent Of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Two
years later he left the Burlington Il
become vice president of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company. In 1896 ht
left that company to take the Office
OF vice president of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroad In charge
Of traffic.
Mr.. Roosevelt, when be became
president, offered Mr.. Morton appoint
ment to the f1rst cabinet position tina
became vacant. The place was sec
retary of commerce and labor. MIR
Morton did not feel able to throw vi
place on the Atchison paying hin
$4,000 a year and declined, but In {
short time requested again to entel
the cabinet, became secretary of the
navy. His term as secretary Of ths
navy began July l, 1904, and endet
exactly year later. When the lif'
insurance scandal had been aired
there was need of a man Of high char
acter and executive ability to TAXI
charge of the Equitable Life Assur
ance society. Mr.. Morton assumed thu
presidency at meeting at which
there we're rendered the resignation
of President ]. w. Alexander, Vic'
President ]. H. Hyde, Second Vic'
President G. e. Tarbell, and Thir,
Vice President G. T. Wilson.
When young man Mr.. Mortol
married Charlotte Goodrich, OF Chi
cago, who survives. He also leave
two daughters, Mrs. Caroline M. Poi
ter and Mrs. Pauline M. Smith.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
ERRsTEIN ACQUITTED
Chicago Lawyer Freed by Jury on
Juror 6rIhlng Charge.

Attorney Charles e. Erhstein, OF
Chicago, who has been on trial
charged with bribing Juror McCutch-
con in the trial of Lee o'Neill Brown,
the latter being charged with bribery
In the election of United States Sena-
tor William E. Lorimer, was acquitted
by a jury after an hours dellberation.
There was wild demonstration In
the court room when the clerk read
the verdict of mot guilty" Erbstein,
who was standing with arms folded,
gave a cheer when he heard II and
his friends yelled with joy until the
bailiffs stopped the demonstration.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
BABES SLAYERs SENTENCED
Mother and Daughter Convicted and
Given Fourteen Years Each.

At Granite City. ILL.,, Mrs, Yer
onica Rebstock, forty five years old,
and her daughter, Anna. twenty-five
years old, were convicted by Jury
In the Granite City court and SEN
fenced to fourteen years each In the
penitentiary for the death Of the
daughters infant.
The child was born Thanksgiving
day. On Dec. 13 the bahy's body was
found In q brush heap by school child
rem. Death was caused by strangn-
lation
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
$4,000 GEN RosBERY
Diamonds Are Stolen from Lansing
W. Wallace In Chicago.

At Chicago diamonds and other
iewelry valued at $4,000 we're myster-
iously stolen from the apartments Of
Lansing W. Wallace. 54s7 Michigan
avenue Mr. Wallace. who ID sapi-
talist. reported the theft to the police
and a dozen detectives were detailed
on the case.
The police force 10 lns' sator P. D.
o'pssen's division were stirred TO 81
ton By the magnitude of The robbery
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
DlAz's TROOPS DEFEATED
More Than One Hundred Killed In Bat
sle Lasting Three Days.

More than one hundred and fifty
soldiers were killed in q three
day battle between the Mexican fed
ersl troops and insurrectos in the
mountains between oiinaga and cuch-
lilo Parade.
The government troops we're caught
In trap and were literally moved
down by the storm of bullets which
swept their ranks from three direc-
tons OF the two hundred men who
went into the pass. only forty escap-
ed. 30 Ter as known.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27
'ROUNDABOUTTHES STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges--Made by the Shears
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal, Some Credited. and Some Stolen,
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.


climate was thoroughly tested
when Gait man put up ice in
the morning and plowed his gar
den in the afternoon.
A Central Missouri paper says
"some days ago Shores Hunter
had fine mule to die." Oblig-
ing of the mule, but very inhu-
man Of Shores.
The Christian church at Mary
willie has a membership of be-
tween 100 and 1900, 1877 of which
was added last year. During 1910,
SO, 900 wac raised for all purposes.
The lateness of a train at Shsr-
idan drove man to drink. When
he bought his ticket he was So
Der, but by the time the train ar
rived he had contracted good
jag.
AS a result OF the feud that has
long existed between William
Weaver and the Hezekiah Smith
family at Whites Island near
Waverly, Weaver is dead, Mrs.
Smith shot in the arm, and Smith
has q bullet wound in his hand,
while both, with their son, are in
Jail at Marshall charged with
murder.
At the Missouri state peniten-
tiary there is a st. Louis negro
who has served almost 15 years
of his sentence. Governor Had
ley sent him word last week that
he would be paroled il he would
sign a pledge not to drink for one
year. The negro refused to sign
the pledge, preferring to remain
in the penitentiary.
The Kansas court of appeals
reversed a decision Monday in
favor of DR.. Kuhn, formerly sup
erintendent of Asylum No. 2 at
st. Joseph. A Republican board
was appointed by Gov. Hadley,
which removed the doctor with
out paying his salary. The de-
cision gives the doctor $3.50 and
expenses of family.
Unionville was the scene of q
bad accident few days ago, in
which two were killed and four
were badly injured on the rail-
road bridge. The men were men,
bers of a bridge gang and while
riding on the fiat car were pass
ing over bridge which was in
repair when heavy timber from
above fell upon them, with the
fatal results above stated.
Miss Hazel King, IA years old
daughter of Mrs. Bessie King oi
Hannibal, accidently shot ant
probably fatally wounded Miss
Goldie Dixon, Thursday night
According TO the story told by
Miss King, che took q revolver
from a side board drawer to show
her friend its mechanism. ant
pulled the trigger, thinking it no
loaded. An explosion followed
and the bullet entered Miss Dix
on's side. She was taken to th.
hospital in q serious condition.
Croquet players will be inter
ested in this; "About a year ant
d half ago. says the Excelsior
Springs Journal. IL. E. Dun
ham Of Kansas City secured iudg'
ment in the Clay county ciroui
court against Henry Ettenson fol
s1,100 damages for the slleget
spelling Of q croqust grounds
that Dunham had made in th'
Regent Park. Judge Fowler. on
CT the attorneys for the Ettensor
aide Of the case, received . tele'
gram today from Kansas Cit,
stating that the case had been re
versed and remandsd for > nes
trial. 2
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-01-27

Wood has just been filed for pro-
bate in Montgomery county. A
unique feature 10 this: 81 have
tried as best could to raise my
boy, Byron D. Wood, as it is
Gods will a boy should be raised
and have the following to say
to him: "Be honest and square
at all times in everything. Keep
every promise you make-busi-
ness, social or political--no mat
ter how much it hurts. Don't
enter into any deal that has the
semblance of dishonesty or crook
edness. If you have an oppor-
tunity at any time to aid some
poor and needy person | trust
you will never fail. Try as best
you can to blot out that express
sion, "Man's inhumanity to man
m axes countless thousands
mourn" AT all times think Of
your. mother and ask her advice,
and see that che does not want
for anything if it is in your power
to prevent it. Work increasingly
to gain the love and good will OF
your neighbors. Stick to your
friends always. May you always
be an honor to them and to your
country. You were my compar-
ion and my chum. want you
to be more than that to your
mother. Have her for your
sweetheart always"
Unless the lists in the Meanest
Man contest are closed, the In
dependence Examiner would like
to present this: "If the story
that is told on a certain man
here is true, he is certainly entit-
led to the distinction OF being the
"meanest man." His wife takes
in washing and uses her earnings
to support the family. She man.
aged to put some of her scanty
savings into canned goods, which
were set away on shelves for use
this winter. She went away from
home q few days ago. When she
returned the canned goods were
gone. She learned through OF
her sources Of information than
her husband that he had taken it
and sold it."
The report Of Benton Gabbert,
president of the Western Tobacco
Growers Association, shows that
in the vicinity of Dearborn 239
acres were planted to tobacco in
1910, yielding 4O3, ,053 pounds.
The total value was s55,964 Oh
s240.19 per acre. There were
twenty.nine individual growers.
Truman Barton was burned to
death and Oral Hamilton badly
injured by the explosion Of a gas
oline lighting plant in Fred Bar
toms store at Amoret Thursday
The victims OF the explosion were
repairing the plant when the ac.
cident occurred. Little damage
was done to the building.
| One of the counties that has Q
new, modern equipped lnfrmary
for the poor-not spoor farm
lis Marion. II has been in us'
about a year. Recently twenty
lof the county's inmates at th'
hospital for the insane at Fultor
were removed to the infirmar,
lnear Palmyra.
You cant fool the Kirksvill'
town marshal. 1t puzzled th'
town when a man arrested saic
be was Q clerk in Q saloon, bu
the marshal came forward promp'
lily and announced that . "clsrk'
must be bartender.
Diplomas granted pharmacist
at jefferson City this week carr,
the incidental right 10 act as''sod'
squirtsi during the summer sea
taou.