The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-03-22
Chatter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(Contributcd.)

What a pity it is that our country de-
batting societies. school improvement lea.
CUES, and American societies of Equity
do not undertake to study and discuss
such vitality important subjects as the
Recall, the Initiative. or cnacting Of
laws by the people as Local option is
enacted, and that is all the Initiative
means-and the Referendum, or right to
veto a law when majority of the people
desire to annul it. These are not party
questions, but they are questions big
with good or evil for every man, wo-
man and child in this land. We can not
escape the decision of these matters.
and we ought not to think the respon-
siblity of frankly inquirng into these
revolutionary means of correcting en-
IRENE evils.
What debating society or kindred or
ganization will be the first to take up
this line of discussion? The writer would
like to attend such meeting and show
it would do much good and prove equal
ly as entertaining as a discussion of the
age old controversy between the sword
and the pen.
Conceding that President Taft is both
honest and able along most lines, the
fact remains he is a failure as an exec
utive. A President who clings to Ball
tains Jas. Wilson. Secretary of Agricul-
ture, and spokesman for the Brewers
Association. at the price of discharging
from the public service DR.. Wiley-and the
discharge was none less realbecause in
Directs not the sort of President to
command the respect of the people.
1t is no answer to say he is a good
man. George the Third was a good hus-
band and father, yet he made British
rule intolerable.
If You do not attend the county Mass
Convention at Hartford on April 9Th you
voluntarily disfranchise yourself. Wheth-
err you be for Taft or for Roosevelt you
owe it to yourself to come and make
your choice known.
"Of all sad words Of Tongue or Pen,
the saddest are these: Beaver Dam
won again.
Why can't Ohio county get up a road
building contest? II all the farmers in
terested along the Hartford and Sulphur
Springs road would guarantee one weeks
work with wagon and team in hauling
the rock and grading the road bed we
believe the county would furnish the
rock. Once the rock is down the county
takes care of 1t. Why not begin getting
pledges now while the miserable roads
argue for the proposition?
Speaking once with the engineer or
fireman of a county saw mill he re-
marked that every engine had her own
peculiarities, like human beings. Some
of them worked all right when the work
was constant, but were difficult to get
started going right; while others could
be depended upon to finish small
job In style. but would balk at long or
severe service, and had to be humored
and COOLED to be kept running. To the
observing mind every aga, every individual,
every season bears the mark of it's own
individuality. Even the months reveal
themselves without searching thru the
calendar, and even now March, Natures
maid of all work. is sweeping the earth
with her winds. and alternately washing
with floods and cleansing with sun
shine, shaking every loose window and
slamming every open door with a noisy
announcement of her presence and a
warning that her annual house cleaning
is on, and shat mere men and women
must take note thereof and govern them
selves accordingly.
Ohio county lost two of her best citi-
zens in the death of Seth T. Hunter and
Dudley Ford. OF each 1t might be truth.
fully said the:
elements were SO mixed in him
That Nature might stand up and say,
To all the world. Behold a MANI!
After iife's fitful fever. they too,
Sleep"
The Court of Appeals on last Satur-
day affirmed two Of the largest verdicts
for damages by water ever given by
Ohio county juries. Jno. NJ. Graham
was given 100000 and Mcdowell and
Petty $4,000. Both were against the l..
& N. ...,..
On the come day the Court finally decid
ed the soldiers back pay case In which
officers Of Co. II. were interested. In ia |
'0r Of such officers.