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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27

largely the product of David A. Gates
known in southern Arkansas and by
his friends all over the state as one
OF the ablest and purest men the state
has ever produced, a man who has
devoted years Of his life to a special
study of the subject of taxation. who
has forgotten more about taratiou
Than Mr.. Robinson euer knew. who.
for 16 years, after his appointment by
Cleveland, continued in the revenue
service of the federal government and
was retained under Republican ad-
mlnistration, because of his thorough
familiarity with the laws of taxation.
The bill was first introduced in the
lower house of the legislature as the
Bradham- Hurst bill. After being re-
ported favorably by the judiciary
committee of the house it passed by a
vote of 70 to z, not speech being
made against it. When it reached
the senate the dogs of war were turn
ed loose upon it, led by Covington and
his gang of boodlers, supported by the
interests that it Affected. TIE peo-
pie had no lobbyists aga nst it, hut
the corporations and the tar-dodgers
did and they defeated it. The legis-
lature was called back, the bill was
introduced in the senate as the Tur-
ner-Jacobson bill and the senate was
told that it had to pass the bill or they
would be kept in session all summer.
The senate yielded, the bill was pass
ed and now the dogs of war who de-
feated it first are behind the candid
acy Of Mr.. Robinson for governor.
Neither Mr.. Robinson nor his friends
can deny this
! The officers, stockholders and others
interested in the Little Rock Electric
and Street Railway Company were
leaders in the fight against the bill.
Their property was assessed at $780,
600 and its estimated value is $4,500,-
600. 1t was therefore assessed at less
than II per cent of its value. The
bill proposed to raise their assessment
and make them pay the same rate
that the man with his little 40 acres
on the hillside pays. OF course, they
opposed it and were willing to spend
thousands of dollars to defeat it. They
are aoilling to spend as many thous-
ands to defeat Donaghey and elect
Robinson.
Mr.. Robinson's groundless objec-
tions to the bill seem ridiculous
enough, but are tame when compared
to the inflated absurd;ty of those who
echo his argument without having
read the bill or otherwise informed
themselves as to it's provisions.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27
TAKEN TO INSANE HOSPITAL

Andrew Bates, who has been a ward
at the county poor farm for some
time, was taken by Deputy Sheriff c.
0. Payne to the state hospital for the
insane at Little Rock today. Bates
was examined by the county court re-
Gently and found to be mentally de-
fective.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27
QUAIL SEASON ENDS.

The open season for shooting quail
in Arkansas ends Thursday, February
20, and local sportsmen are going out
in large numbers to get few more
shots at Bob White" before the closed
season begins.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27

The roof of a cottage on North
Front street, belonging 70 J. D. Col
lier and occupied by o. D. Cliucurn,
caught fire at noon, but was eXtin-
guished without serious damage.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27
MARRIAGE LICENSE.

Lige Golf, 20, and Lillian Drew, 80,
Conway.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27
WEATHER FORECAST.

Tonight and Wednesday, generally
fair and warmer
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-02-27

Old papers for sale at this office.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
IN SHIP DISASTER
80 YEARS Ago

Dr. w. B. Palmore, editor of st.
Louis Christian Advocate, now making
his fifteenth and longest voyage
around the world, had engaged passage
on the Inflated Titanic. Reaching
Paris he suffered a dislocation of his
shoulder and was delayed in conse-
quence. DR.. Palmore was a warm
personal friend of w. T. Stead, the
London journalist, who went down
with the ship. Thirty-one years ago
DR.. Palmore started on his first world
round voyage and when they were off
the Grand Banks, right near the scene
OF the Titanic disaster, his vessel went
down and he escaped in a life boat,
was picken up and brought back to
America.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

publication in which he will tell how
to make digestible piecrust Oet us
hope), and at what time of the moon
to pluck dandelion greens, when to
open sarsaparilla beer, and how to
prepare a lobster salad innocent of
nightmare frenzies. The doctor will
also continue to preach the constant
use of fresh fruit as healthful diet.
No better thing was ever done by DR..
Wiley than to tell the public that it
ought to eat an orange every morning
before breakfast; and if not an orange
then an apple. ut will save doctors
bills said the doctor; but this was
not disloyalty, for he is doctor of
philosophy, not of medicine, neither
of divinity. Hail DIR. Wiley, exponent
of the fruit diet!
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
SPEAKER OF OHIO ASSEMBLY
GUT FOR WOODROW WILSON

branch of the Ohio legislature an
nounced that he wonld take the stump
in Ohio in behalf of Governor Wood
row Wilson's candidacy.
Less than a month ago Mr.. Vining
was made chairman of a committee
of Democratic members of the House
selected to boost" the Harmon can
didacy in Ohio. In announcing his
withdrawal from the Harmon support
to the cause of Governor Wilson, Mr.
Vining said;
THE fight is not one of men, but of
principles, Mr.. Fox and Mr.. Browne
are seeking election as delegates
pledged to the candidacy of Governor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey.
Every Progressive Democrat in the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

exceptionally fine. 1t is that there be
erected to Ida and Isidor Straus a
permanent memorial in the form of a
home for aged couples who might
otherwise have to be parted"
We can conceive of no better way
to honor the dead philanthropist and
his wife. Romance concers itself
chiefly with the love of the young;
but the romantic view of life is not
the deepest or the truest. The love of
age, the love that the years have test
ed and not found wanting-that is
the love which is best to honor and
commemorate. 1t proves more for hui.
manity. 1t is indeed the best of all
proofs that men and women can be
worthy of life and Of love.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

Washington, May 1.-THE candi-
dacy Of Governor Woodrow Wilson
has received two notable accessions
during the past two days. The an
nouncement of former Governor War
field. of Maryland, an ardent support
er of Governor Harmon until few
days ago. that he has now come to
the conclusion that Woodrow Wilson
is the man whom the Democrats can
elect, is followed by announcement
of the conversion of the Speaker of
/ the Ohio House of Representatives, Hon.
Samuel ]. vining, from the Harmon to
the Wilson cause.
In withdrawing his support from
Governor Harmon's Presidential can
didacy, the Speaker of the popular
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

Former Governor Glenn, of North
Carolina, who served four years with
Governor Harmon in the Department
of Justice during the Cleveland admin.
,stration, has gone to California to
speak in behalf of the candidacy OF
Governor Wilson. Before leaving
Washington Governor Glenn express
ed the greatest admiration for the
Ohio executive, but declared that he
is in favor of the New Jersey execu
tive because he believes he can pol
more votes next November than any
other Democrat.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

American railways are safer than
those abroad, according to the annual
report of the bureau of railways news
and statistics which shows that last
year 276 railroad companies operating
9O,742 miles of road, carried 10,1oS,-
100000 passengers one mile without a
single fatality due to train wreck.
The United States has more miles of
doble track than the British railways
have miles of line.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

patent in a hospital. Tho oo,..,
'"'' Is perfect and clear vision >.
o'Olsu' Under local anaesthesia the
oUfnga was completely ezcised, erosnt
O one of an inch, and tb Except yep
NJ nea OF the rabbits eye was cn r4t - co., J
t tne excised area. Stitches ver , 70 t,l TX
t TAX MIN IN the membrane. which un linen
sne globe of the eye with tba a unlteS
and drawn over the graft to I ho,s syelld'
place." Out 70 mold 1t in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

provide methods for apportioning the
ascertained value of railway property
to the different states and lesser tax
ing districts. The idea is to give aid
to the establishment of a uniform,
simple, efficient and equitable system
of railway assessment and taxation
throughout the country.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
DR.. WILEY AN EDITOR.

It has long been suspected that Dr..
Wiley had a laundering to be an editor.
Now he is one, or at least sort Of a
contributing editor for housewives
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

Imperial ses s' ys,ss q saat.ouDs. IN Il.
' @sos ssa'1 N production at ss obstinate 4.
to market. 'nipplng this cro0
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

Fourth who is opposed to the control
of the Democratic party by Wall
street and plutocracy should vote for
Fox and Browne"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

n sais ns r May sna On the Aa arss i.
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
A FIT MEMORIAL.

Among the multitude Of suggestions
evoked BY the loss Of the Titanic one
stands out ps peculiarly appropriate
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
REMARKABLE SURGICAL FEAT.

In the current number of The Jour.
nal of the American Medical Associa.
ton is told how the cornea Of rab.
bits eye was grated on. the eye Of 4
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11
RAILROAD NOTES.
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c. A. Defee is the new general SUI
perintendent and general freight agent
of the Midland.
Today is the date set for the In
terstate Commerce Commission to in
stall rates found reasonable in the
tentative decision of 1910 affecting all
transcontinental railroads operating in
the northwest
The survey for an extension of the
Port Bolivar & Iron Ore from Ore
City north to a connection with the
Santa Fe. In Oklahoma $50 miles is
almost completed. Construction will
Immediately follow as well as exploit
tatioA of the iron ore beds at Ore
City by Charles M. Schawb
From all parts of the country come
complaints of difficulty in getting the
right sort of men for section foremen.
1t is declared that there is a deteriora-
ton in the quality of men for these
positions and of labor, while the cost
Of track maintainence is increasing.
So many foreigners are being employ
ed that in a few years the native fore
man will have disappeared.
Tax officers and attorneys of the 25
roads entering Chicago have organic
ed the Railway Tax Mems Association
for the consideration of taxation prob
lens with view of devising accurate
and adequate methods of determining
the assessable value of railway prop
erty and it's relation to the assess
ment of general property in the states
in which it is located. In the case of
interstate roads the intention is to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-11

c. A. Defee is the new general SUI
perintendent and general freight agent
of the Midland.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
WHY MARYLAND WILL NOT BE STOLEN

Having been squarey and decisivey beaten in
Maryland, Manager Mckinley now proposes to steal
the States delegation for Taft For several reasons,
it will not work.
The contrast between the big, broad, square-deal
policy of Roosevelt in Massachusetts and the petit
larceny program of Mckinley in Maryland would be
too sharp.
There was nothing in the Massachusetts, law to
bind Roosevelt to give up the eight delegatesatarge
that he elected he did il because he believed in COM
mon honesty.
Mckinley proposes to take the eight votes that
Roosevelts square deal gives him in Massachusetts,
and then to grab sixteen more through crooked
deal in Maryland.
1t will not work, of course. Maryland is no
chatte to be pilfered and pawned by the methods
that Mckinley learned from Lorimer in Illinois,
Maryland Republican leaders know that such a pro-
ceedng would ruin them all. Governor Goldsborough
is not the man to consent to such thing, and Bill
Stone will not have the nerve to undertake it.
The effect of stealing Maryland would be alto
geher favorable to Roosevelt, and that is the final
reason why the Taft people will not try the trick In
Massachusetts the preference vote for Taft, but
the Roosevelt delegates-atlarge were elected There
upon Roosevelt announced that he would not accept
the support of those delegates That was complete
acceptance of the spirit and intent of the law. I'm
more concerned to be square than to be nominated,
said Roosevelt
The exact parallel Of this occurred in Maryland;
Roosevelt got the preference expression, Taft has
elected majority of the convention that will name
the delegates. Mckinley proposes to use that power
of delegate control to repudiate the preference vote
and impose a Taft delegation on the State.
more complete expression of the difference
between Roosevelt and Taft ideals could not be
found. Take all you can get" is the Taft motto.
Take what the other fellows squareness gives you
and all your own crookedness will add to it,"
1t isn't the motto of successful ampaign-this
year. 1t represents the methods of political genera
ton that is gone.
Maryland will not be stolen because Maryland
will not consent to be, and also because, stealing it
Taft would have acquired liability instead of ar
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
LOOKING FOR A COMPROMISE.

In the matter of this Republican Presidential
nomination, as in that of the small boys apple,
there amt gon to be" no compromise.
The last two days have been marked by recrude-
scence then subsistence, Of the conversation about
third candidate for the Republican nomination. It's
the verest nonsense.
Do these hopeful representatives of Big Bus-
ness who think they control New York .oeieve that
the people, after making the magnificent fight which
has carried the Roosevelt campaign to victory, are
now going to be deprived of the fruits of their effort?
Talk about compromise candidate is futile and
bootess. The Taft managers may try it; in their
ardor of animosity they may insist on every effort
to wreck the party by robbing it of the leader
ship that means victory. But when they start de-
liver delegates from Taft to some compromise candi-
date, they will discover how hopeless it all is.
The first move, overt and avowed toward deliv-
ering Taft delegates to any outside candidate will
mark the complete crumbling of the Taft organiza-
ton.
Half the people who will sit in the convention
as Taft delegates personally prefer Roosevelt Most
of the other half know that Roosevelt can be nomi-
mated while Taft cannot. The ofhceholding element
North as we'll as South, is concerned to have win.
ner nominated, because the offceholder, whether he
be County Clerk Simpkins of Winneshek county
Iowa, or United States Senator Crane of Massachu
sets, wants to get reelected He needs winner
at the head of the ticket. Clerk Simpkns and Sena
tor Crane are both at work right now to theil
bacon. Even if they have too little patriotism tc
inspire such effort in behalf of their party, they have
profound personal interest in winning
There will be no third candidate Mr. Roosevelt
will be the candidate. \
The Washington times., 1912-05-08

that was intended and expected completely to sub
vert the real primary principle, and to leave the ma
chimes of both parties in easy control.
AS to the Democrats, it worked; as to the Re-
publicans, it failed and the machine was smashed.
Following these various experiences with half
baked primary laws MADE BY THE ENEMIES
OF THE WHOLE PRIMARY SYSTEM we hear
voluble denunciation Of primaries in general. The
entire scheme is declared to have failed.
To whatever extent it has been unsatisfactory,
II has been so BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE HANDS
OF ITS ENEMIES; BECAUSE LAWS WERE
DRAFTED BY THEM, PASSED BY UNWILLING
LEGISLATURES AND ADMINISTERED BY
MEN WHO WANTED THEM TO FAIL.
In the face of all this, the bold fact stands out
that these laws have given the most satisfactory re-
suits the country has The primary States have
been the influential, the deteminative States. They
have put the acid on the candidates, shown exactly
how they stand with the people, and demonstrated
that Mr. Taft who LED THE NATIONWIDE
FIGHT AGAINST POPULAR NOMINATIONS, is
REPUDIATED.
Don't worry about the failure of the primary.
No wonder the tories and the machine managers
regard it as failure. 1t has nowhere failed to
swat them.
As to the minor imperfections Of primary acts,
they will be remeded before they will be used again.
They will be made over BY THEIR FRIENDS, which
that they will be made to do, surely and ef-
fectively, their work of ending machine rule.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Tim Tickle Breaks Into Verse and
Calls 1t The Vail Of the Govern.
ment Clerk.

When am sixty-five. feeble and sere,
Congress thinks may be in the way,
IT'S a cruel thought and yet oft fear
That they'll wish me sleeping under
the clay
They'll think me a useless cipher here,
Because I'm sixty-fiVe, feeble and sere.
When I am sixty-five they'll have me a
chair,
Where I'll sit and think OF my child e
hood fair
And muse and sigh and II ere I cry
They'll think me has been" and wish
Out in the graveyard six feet deep
When I am sixty-hve and this supple
frame
Bends down. meath a burden Of care
And these eyes are dim and these limbs
And lean on a stan for short re-
They'll give me the "ha ha" and gently
Then starvo me to death because am
old.
If at sixty-fve they'll use me so.
If they fail to be kind to my helpless
years,
Long ere such time may come. may go
To a happier home home without
tears.
A home without pains, but with pleas
u-es untold,
Where no congressman are there to say
TIM TICKLE.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
FIFTY YEARS OF BUSINESS.

Commercial agencies say figures show that 90
lper cent of men who enter into business for them
selves fail. That Is, they find it Improbable that
they either break up, sell out, or quit.
Nashville Tenn, has announced a convention to
Ibe held there of Southern men who have been in
business fifty years. That will be wonderful con-
Ivention. Fifty years is long time to be in the
harness and keep the figures the right side of the
ledger.
Fifty years covers many trying periods for busi-
mess men. Within that period we had Black Friday
and many other panics. The period also covers an
Iera of almost incomprehensibe development and
revolution in all business methods. Only last week
the died in Chicago who pulled the throttle on
the first overland train. Electricity has been intro
duced. Legislation affecting business has been
lutionized. The pace has grown little faster each
year.
In addition to all these changes that affected all
the nation the Southern business man went through
the period Of Reconstruction, built up from nothing
within the past fifty years. 1t will be a wonderful
crowd of grand old men who will meet at Nashville
One cannot but speculate how many young men
entering business today will live to see the successful
termination of their hftieth year of continuous work
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Here's Another Plan For the Retire.
ment of the Aged Clerks.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
! have been in four departments OF
the Government. but not on the regular
roll, and I cannot see why the average
Congressman wants to make a fool bill
in relation to the superannuated clerks
that will not pass both branches Of the
legislature. The sixty-five-year-old bill
is a fool bill also that will not pass
either house. Now to get down to a
business transactions: let them make a
bill retiring all Of the mail clerks at
sixty-eig all OF the women clerks at
seventy, and all of the men clerks at
seventy-two, and let the Pension Office
handle the work in their department
is a well-known fact that you can put
at least 5000 young clerks, male and
female, the new blood they now talk
about, from the cards now on file In
the Civil Service Commission within the
from s720 to $500 per annum. feel
fully satisfied that this would be a big
saving the first year to the Govern
ment feel satisfied that such bill
would pass and give general satisfac-
Fnow in office worth from 5000 to 500
and Independent. one poor old clerk
in the Treasury said he could hardly
make II on his salary. It kept him busy,
but his administrators up to date have
found Seo,O in good investment securi-
ties. so let Congress make a fiat rate
pension and retirement bill that VIII
pass both houses and get the dead wood
out and help the young boys and girls
that will be glad to get place" Thai
exhibition at the Civil Service Commits,
sion few days ago is argumen,
enough. 1t shows 5000 out Of work.
am sixty-three years old and just a:
good as ever. j. Z. Z.