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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

the taxes on the poor man and the
small home-owner and land holder, and
increase the taxes on others-princi-
pally by levying heavy graduated tax
es on inheritances Of $1,000 or over
and q graduated tax on the unearned
increment in urban or rural land val
ues, after the English policy, but ex-
empting from the latter provision all
who own less than $1,000 or $4,000
worth Of land. We must tax small
holdings less, great holdings more, the
gains Of thrift and industry less. the
gains Of chance or inheritance more.
Into our state laws here in the south
as in our national laws at Washington,
we must write the determination Of the
people that the birth-right Of every
man to the liberty and happiness of
home-owning shall he properly safe
guarded, and that the weak shall not
be forced to bear the burdens Of the
strong, or the many impoverished that
a few may be enriched. A great dem
ocracy Of thrifty, prosperous, home
owning small farmers is the hope Of the
south and should be the goal Of all our
striving. Vast areas held for specula-
tive purposes or bought by corpora
tions merely for financial profit and
cultivated by men who are nothing
more than factory machines to their
owners-all such holdings are a men,
ace to progress and prosperity In the
south, as indeed are all great planta-
tions where a backward tenantry Is
exploited when by cutting them up,
thrifty and progressive farmers and
home owners would come in and give
strength and power to the state.
Then too, we need to encourage the
coming of thrifty northern and western
small farmers into our southern coun-
try. We need them to reduce our too
burdensome proportion Of negro popu-
lation. have no ill-will against our
negroes, but they themselves will be
helped by increasing the percentage of
our white population. Moreover, ev-
erybody knows that the great draw
back to rural life is its isolation. II
the south were a great democracy of
home owning, eighty -acre farmers, and
our number of negroes not increased,
the problem Of social life on the farm
would be solved, the proportion Of ne
groes would be too small to be serious;
our larger population would support the
finest school system in the world; our
greater number Of Taxpayers would
enable us to have magnificent roads,
good all the year round; the larger
population would provide adequate
support for the best doctors and
preachers and professional men; rural
telephones, the transportation Of school
children, the development Of social
centers follow as naturally as the day
the night; the prosperity Of our towns,
and of every other industry would be
doubled, and new spirit and vastly In
creased vigor would be found for every
manufacturing and commercial enter
prise known to our people.
"This Is the great task ahead of us.
1t is the problem Of our statesmen, our
editors, our agricultural leaders, our
men Of vision in every profession and
calling. - ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16
Miseellaneu,ls Rsaaina.
DEFlES THE COURT.
Greenwood Woman Goes to Jail for
Contempt.

Greenwood Woman Goes to Jail for
Contempt.
Greenwood, April 10.-A most un-
usual event in South Carolina court
happenings was the commitment to
jail here this morning Of Miss Belle
Yoe by order Of Judge Sease for con-
tempt of court because she had re-
fused to vacate certain lands con-
demned by the town Of Greenwood
such condemnation being recently af-
firmed by the supreme court.
Judge Sease issued a rule yesterday
for Miss Yoe to show cause why she
should not be adjudged in contempt
of court. In answer to the rule Miss
Yoe appeared in court this morning
and when questioned by his honor
stated that she had not been con-
temptuous but always very respectful
to the court Judge Sease then recited
the case to her and the affirmation
Of the verdict of the circuit court by
the state supreme court and asked
her why she did not obey the order
of the court and move off the con-
demned lands. Miss Yoe answered
that it was her home. left her by her
parents. Judge Sease ordered the
sheriff to take charge Of her and COM
NIT her to Jail for a period Of thirty
days for contempt Of court, but add
ed that IL she decided to obey the
courts order to vacate that she should
be liberated.
Miss Yoe readily accompanied the
deputy sheriff, D. T. Major, to the pail,
where she now is. Coming into court
she brought with her a large bouquet
of flowers. She laid these on the out
side before going in, but when she
came out she picked them up and car
ried them to Jail with her. On the
way she asked what would be the out
come at the end of thirty days.
Whether this is an indication that she
means to remain the thirty days is not
known.
To insist upon occupying the prem
ises on her release would doubtless
mean constant arrest and imprison-
ment, since the court has adjudged
her in contempt The land in ques-
ton is about seventy acres, and ad-
Joins the present tract owned by the
town of Greenwood and used by the
water and light plant. The land was
condemned under statutory proceed
ings to protect the watershed of the
water supply of the town.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

What Would tho Lawyer Do2-The
damage suit was on, says Harper's
Weekly, and Bildad's chauffeur was
testifying for the plaintiff.
Now, you say" said the pompous
lawyer for the defendant, that at this
point the two cars travelling at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour came to-
gether head-on. Then what did you
do?"
The witness gazed wearily at his
questioner.
why" he said. "I turned to my
wife, who was brushing the baby's
hair in the tonneau, and I said that /
thought the dumplings must be done
by this time"-
Bang" interrupted the judges
gavel. "Stenographer," said his hon.
or, strike that fool answer from the
record"
"And doesn't the question go with
it, judge?" asked the witness meek
ly.
"Sure!" said his honor, forgetting
the dignity of his calling for the mo-
ment.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

Betrayed by "Betsy."-"It Is curl
GUS fact" said the old railroad engi-
neer to the patient walters in the vii
lage barber shop, that man, after he
| has run an engine long time, comes
to regard 1t as human and to expect OF
1t rational and even highly moral be-
havior.
"'She's a little mite cranky now and
then,' you'll hear a man say tolerantly
and have to coax her up bit, but
here he always begins to swell with
pride there's nothing mean about her
can trust her!'"
That's true, every word" listener
burst out, eagerly, land when he finds
she's gone back on him he doesn't know
what to make Of it. He's hurt and
mortified clean through. There was
old Davis. who ran on the East Bridge
water branch of the Old Colony. You
knew Davis?"
The engineer nodded, declares the
Youths Companion. For fifty-five
years." he said.
Then you know the story better than
1 do. You tell It," urged the listener
THE details don't matter" the engi-
neer responded, readily enough, but
one day the old mans hand was crush
ed-by his own engine, one that he had
handled without accident for years
We fixed him up the best we could, and
he bore all our fumbling without a
whimper: in fact he didn't seem to
feel it, although it was plain enough
that he was pretty well broke up. But
when we started him off home he turn
ed to us with tears in his eyes.
Boys he said, and it was the first
word he'd spoken. boys, l wouldn't
have believed it of Betsy! 1 wouldn't
have believed it Of the old girl!"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

"A stowaway, did you say, Mr.. Jen-
kins? Send him aft, sir, send him aft.
He must be pretty we'll used up. We
are two days out, and with a berth in
the fore peak, with nothing to eat or
drink, he must be nearly starved
Bluff Captain Bell thrust his hands
deep into the pockets of his monkey
Jacket, glancing with a satisfied air
aloft, where every stitch of canvas was
performing it's duty before the favoring
gafe.
He was aroused from his pleasant
reveries by the hearty tones of the
mate announcing the presence of the
stowaway, and Captain Bell took in at
a glance the wretched figure before
him, who with both hands was clinging
feebly to the fife-rail of the mizzen-
mast, swaying backwards and forwards
with every motion Of the ship. 1t was
the figure of a boy, weak from eXhaus-
ton, sea-sickness, and privation. A
tangled mass Of dark-brown hair sur
mounted features CHASTITY pale, lips
trembling, and tears rolling down his
dirt -begrimed cheeks, and viewed as
a whole, Captain Bell thought that in
all his experience he had never seen a
more woe-begone wretch.
In a few sharp questions the captain
ascertained that the boy had run away
and that his name was Richard Gran
Ind a
seaman told the lad that he did not like
the manner in which he had come on
board. But" he continued, Il shall
not abuse simply because l have the
mower to do so. Do the best you can
and YOU will find, after all, my lad
that there is many worse home float
ing about than that offered by the ole
Aurora"
So the boy was launched in his new
profession. A new world was openeo
before him that went far to change the
current of his thoughts, while the rou-
tine duty left but little leisure for Dick
Granger to indulge in repining and
gloomy forebodings.
Captain Bell kept his word with the
friendless stOwaway, and on the Auro-
ra Dick visited every quarter of the
globe, until at the age of % he walked
the quarter deck as chief mate. A
good sailor and skilful navigator, his
patron viewed him with pride and sat-
isfaction. But there was some mystery
about the young mate, and honest ole
Captain Bell could not fathom it. II
troubled and worried him, for he hated
concealment in every form.
Never for a moment had Dick been
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

He Had His Suspieion.-One day a
farmer member of the Ohio house dis
played inadvertently. a large roll OF
bills in the Neil house lobby. fell
low member gazed in awe at the show
Of wealth.
Il just sold a drove of hogs" eX-
planned the farmer member rather
hastily and confusedly.
The observing one was thoughtful.
He did not reply for the half-minute
usually essential to the full-measured
beat of his mental process. And then
"Yaas," he drawled, land I'll bet I'm
one O. them hawgs."-Success.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16
RooSEvELTS WORK.
New York World Admits That Will Be
of Practical Benefit.

OF practical benent.
Mr.. Roosevelt Is beaten for the
nomination for president, but the
World hopes that he will continue his
campaign until the national conven-
ton meets, as the Illinois result will
dispose Of him.. too.
His nomination for president would
be great calamity, but his campaign
for the nomination Is a great public
benefit. He Is shaking up the dry
bohes of fossilized respectability. He
Is soaring the Republican party out
of it's SNUG self-complacency. He Is
driving it down the road Of political
progress in spite Of itself, and the fur
ther he drives 1t the better.
The Republican party can no longer
stand pat. It Is obliged to move with
the procession and 'pander to the
moral sentiment of the community" as
Fernando Wood used to say. The Roch-
ester convention furnishes only one IL
lustration out of many Of the excellent
results of Mr.. Roosevelt's dash for the
White House.
It Is a far more representative con-
vention than would have been held had
not Mr.. Roosevelt tried to seize third
term. 1t is a far more progressive
convention. 1t will come closer to
meeting the real issues Of American
politics. 1t is thinking much more
about the American people and much
less about the Wall street contributors
to the campaign fund than 1t would
have done had not Mr.. Roosevelt's can
didacy threatened the country with po-
litical disaster.
What Is true at Rochester will be
true at Chicago. The national plat
form will be a better platform than 1t
would have been If Mr.. Roosevelt had
kept out Of the contest. A better plat
form at Chicago will force a better
platform at Baltimore. The Democrat
ic party will have to keep up with the
procession IL it wants to win.
President Butler Of Columbia, in his
speech as temporary chairman Of the
Rochester convention yesterday, defin-
ed the supreme issue Of 1912" as the
maintenance Of our republican form OF
government" This Is incorrect. The
battle for the maintenance Of our re-
publican form of government has been
fought and won. Mr.. Roosevelt's third
term candidacy has collapsed. His
patent medicine remedies have been
repudiated by the common sense of the
American people; but the real issues
remain.
Popular discomfort does not end with
the downfall of Roosevelt's ambition or
with the reputation of his spurious
nostrums Tariff abuses, corporation
abuses, financial abuses, court abuses,
boss rule and privilege entrenched be-
hind the law-these are all vital ques-
tions grounded in real public wrongs.
Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign has shown
even the Bourbons of American poll
tics that these issues can no longer be
ignored. They must be dealt with, or
this country will get Roosevelt or
worse than Roosevelt Let there be no
illusions about that.-New York World.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-16

"a Waiter" said the absent-mnded
professor. Yes, sir?" IF l have
dined bring me the bill. If haven't,
bring me steak and mushrooms."-Tit-
Bits.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04
THOMSON, GA, july 4, 1912.
Notice TO jeff Subscribers.

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copy.
Nearly all have advanced their price to
fifteen.
Watsons Magazine will not be advanced,
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The Weekly will still be one dollar per
year, but, we will not be able to send both the
publications for one fifty, as has been done.
Everything in connection with the printing
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Wages, material, supplies, all have steadily
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Hereafter, subscriptions to both Jetfs, to the
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of $3.50.
For the three publications, the Watson
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04
He'll Broke Loose i'm Baltimore.

4 [ this writing, July 2nd, the prayers of
the chaplain are followed, very soon, by
a series of fst-and-skull fights, which keep
the Convention in turmoil and require the
energetic attention of the police.
Champ Clark and Underwood rejected my
advice to abolish the absurd two-thirds rule,
and thus they have played into the hands of
Bryan.
Clark and Underwood could easily have
had the majority rule adopted, and if they
had done SO, one of the two would now be
the nominee.
AS it is, the Convention is dead-locked.
Bryan is revealing the profound selfish
ness of his character, and is rapidly becom-
ing the object of general execration.
His malicious and INSCRIPTIONS efforts to
defeat the will of the people and to deny the
right of the majority to rule, are we'll under
stood.
He wants the nomination again.
Why?
Mainly because of the money and the lime
light.
He knows as we'll as any one does that he
cannot be elected.
The Roman Catholics have tried very hard to
suppress Maria Monks story of her life in a
vent. Read it and you will know why. Price
6Oc Postpaid The Jeffersonian Publishing Co.,
Thomson Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04

vote against granting the petition of the
Atlanta hardware merchants"
Commissioner Warner Hill said, in the
course of his. decision:
"zo grant comapzaire0r,ts prayer
qoouzd IN nay Judgment be to discriminate IN
fauor of AtJ1qoto as AGAINST OTHER
GEORGIA CITIES."
Commissioner Hill further said
"It is we'll known that this Commission,
just few years ago made reduction Of 10
per cent on certain commodities of the Com
mission Standard Tariff"
Those rates had been enioined by Judge
Newman Of the Federal court; but at the time
Gov Smith laid this petition before the Com
mission, The Supreme Court of the y. s. had
decided IN the States favor, THE PRINCZ-
PIE la0volued IN the anje0cti0n case.
Therefore, Gov. Smith could have done
mat Gov. Conner of Alabama had done in a
case exactly similar.
lie could haze sent Judge Hart and Judge
Hines TO Neeo Orleans, had the srjunction
dissozved, AND PUT THE REDUCED
FREIGHT RATES IN FORCE.
Fellow Georgians! / have given you facts
as they appear of record.
McLendon decided this case in accordance
to two prior decisions which the Commission
had made.
McLendon was cruelty punished for doing.
his duty
He protected "all the balance Of the State"
from the selfish demands of few Atlanta
Jobbers.
If McLendon did wrong Warner Hill did
too; get Smith elevated Hall to seat on the
highest court en- Georgia.
Friends, don't we owe it to ourselves to put
McLendon back in the office from which
Smith unjustly removed him?
Our honor is at stake.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04
THE JEFFERGONIAN
The State of Georgia Owes III 10
Herself 10 Reinstate Guyt.
McLendOn.

MCAGWUOms
no the honest, fairminded people of Geor-
gia wish to become a party to a wrong!
cannot believe it.
Will not our people gladly avail themselves
of the opportunity to right wrong?
believe they will.
Now listen:
In 1906, Smith was made Governor, for two
reasons:
(D He pledged himself to disfranchise
the negro.
(2) He pledged himself to reduce freight
rates especially those from the sea-ports of
Savannah and Brunswick
He pledged himself to have a valuation
made of the roads, so that freights could b.
lowered to a reasonable profit on the actual
investment.
That is true, isn't it?
Well, Smith was inaugurated and his mes
sage was full Of fine promises.
He worked hard to pass registration law.
By accident or design, that lam has disfrGqa-
ohised about half the a0hdte vOters.
Gov. Smith made no effort whatever to
have the railroads valued or freights reduced.
When his term had almost expired, the
Atlanta Constitution twitted him with his
failure to make an effort to keep his pledge.
ne Cuou 1dlu UOIOI0 Clo hd1lIOdO OON1L1lS-
sion certain petition.
What was that petition?
Smith and his Journal contended that it
an attempt to carry out the pledges made
in Smiths speeches, and in lis Macon plat
form
Smith and his Journal claimed that the
petition sought to reduce sport rates. that
is, all rates on all commodities going to, and
coming from Savannah and Brunswick.
Isn't that so?
Isn't it fact that Smith and his Journal
made the legislature and the people believe
that Governor Smith was endeavoring to
have the Railroad Commission to order u
general reduction of sport rates?"
Isn't it also true that Governor Smith and
the Journal made the legislature and the peo-
pie believe that Commissioners McLendon,
Stevens and Hill baked his patriotic efforts?
And isn't it likewise fact that the whole
blame was laid on McLendon?
It certainly is
Now then
Suppose the people can be shown that Nc
Tendon was. craftily chosen for a scape goat
and that the case which was laid before the
Commission was entirely different from what
Smith and the Journal represented what
then?
Suppose that 1t was more of an outrage for
Smith to Gust McLendon than it was for him
to GUST Joe Brown-what then?
Suppose that it can be shown that Cover
nor Smith had full power to put lower
freights into operation-what then?
The official record of the Railway Commits
sion shows:
CD That green coffee and special iron
goods were the only articles that were men
toned in the famous petition
(2) The petition was in behalf of less than
q IO7or A t1orto yoorobon+c
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04

The latest of the Watson books, is the
volume of Prose Miscellanies. This is a col
lection Of the very best of Mr.. Watsons
shorter prose writings, and is beautiful
volume, richly illustrated, and containing the
better known essays such as "The Wine Cup"
"a Tragedy In Tree Top" "Glimpses
Behind the Curtain" "a Talk on Literary
Topics" and others. The book is now ready
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04
Bryan and Murphy Four Years
Ago.

RECAUOE Charles Murphy and the New
- York delegation cast vote for Champ
Clark, Bryan denounced Clark in the bitter
est terms although Bryan is an instructed
Clark delegate.
In the Denver convention of 1908, the same
Murphy and the New York delegation voted
unanimously for Bryan.
Nevertheless, Champ Clark, Underwood
and the other Democratic leaders continued
to support Bryan.
When the Denver convention adjourned
and the delegates were on their way home,
Murphy passed through Lincoln, Nebraska.
Bryan asked Murphy to shake hands with
him, and Murphy did SO.
In that attitude they were photographed.
Has Murphy or Tammany changed since
Has Champ Clark changed!
No.
Has Bryan changed?
No.
Same old Bryan-chock full of conceit, Of
deceit, of avarice, of selfish and crafty ambi-
ton.
If Bryan captures the nomination, he will
again ask Murphy to shake hands with hims
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-11-30

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one then counted up and the one that makes III most valuable crop wine Coun
hushc. wheatS 81 IS per bushe: alfalfa 8 SO per ae. corn S5 90 pT bad. se
cotton $500 per bale
Arizona republican., 1912-05-03
TOMBSTONE PEOPLE
 GROW INDIGNANT l
Declare That Change in County Seat Location Woulc; be Nothing
 Short of Outrage.

Following the introduction in the house recently Of bill making pos sible the removal of the Cochise county court house from Tombstone the people of that town held an in- dignation meeting at which the fol- lowing resolutions were adopted.
 Whereas, Tombstone as q county seat has served Cochise county for more than 30 years, and the tax payers suffer no more inconvenience now than in the past, but rather less. owing to railroad and autOmo- bile service now in operation. and,
 Whereas, the agitation of county seat removal as We believe, is not actuated by any genuine purpose of conserving the interests and con- venience of the taxpayers and cit izens of the county at large, but solely for the purpose of serving selfish interests at the expense of taxpayers. by taking advantage of an unfortunate industrial situation now existing in Tombstone. which we believe is only temporary, and. Whereas, the industrial conditions of a county seat do not affect either favorably or unfavorably the inter- ests of taxpayers as respects their purely county business, and, Whereas owing to the installation of state government, the salaries of state officers already installed amount to $45.000.00 per annum; the cost of the present session of the legislature is S50,000.0O; and the en- tire cost of our supreme and superior courts is now borne bN the people, not to mention many other new eX- penses which must be borne by tax payers, and,
 Whereas, the cost of an election to remove the county seat will be great
 to both the county. and to business in general,
 Therefore, be it resolvedby the citizens and taxpayers of Tombstone and vicinity that it is unWise and uncalled for to agitate the removal of the county seat of Cochise county,
 and we most respectfully protest against the passage of a bill looking to county seat removal. at this time. r. N. WOLCOTT, l VIM HATTICH, Chairman Secretary