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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
WHY PEOPLES FIGHTT
zoosEveLT BATTLE CRY seems
SOMEWHAT ABSURD.
To the Ordinary Observer, shs oniT
Reason for Third-TerreSs Nourt
nation Would Be HE Wish ~
Return TO the white
houaa.

TITS the peoples fght,- says Me-,
Roosevelt. But the peoples fight for.
what?
No essential changes have been /
been made In the constitution OF the
United States since its adoption. Du-
ring the 129 years that the American
people have lived under this system OF
constitutional representative govern
ment the population of the country
has increased from 1000. 900 to 95YeO0,
900.
The wealth Of the country has In.
creased from relatively Insignificant
sum to s125, 900. 100000. This national
wealth Is more widely and eqnitably
distributed than It WAS when the COZ
stitution was adopted.
Without tampering in any way with
our constitutional form of government
we have grown to be the most power
full and most united of modern ma
tions.
We have established manhood suf
frage, We have destroyed slavery. We
have suppressed accession. We are
rapidly curblng the plutocracy that
grew out of the unparalleled expan-
sion of industry during the last four
decades, Our city governments are
cleaner and better than they have
heen at any period sinre the civil war.
0lr state governments are letter, Our
national government is better. Prob.
ably there has never been another
time In the history OF the United
Statea when there was 30 little politi-
cal corruption or when American goY-
ernment of every sort could 30 wen
endure the searoNlight OF pitiiess paA
licity.
All this progress was made under q
constitutional system which 10 ahapt-
cd TO infinite progress. Yet IN his
reckless ambition for q third teYr Mr..
Roosevelt tells us thatsour democracy
is a sham and the republic Ia lie,
The old institutions are archaic.
We must abandon representative
| HON'ihllShl anu duOph QhuSh bo'VAH
ment, which has been failure since
the dawn OF civilization We must de-
stroy tho checks and balance which
have held republican institutions firm
ly In place. We must obliterate the
safeguards by which the rights Of the
minority have been protected from
the aggressiDns Of the majority. We
must abandon restraints upon popular
passion and prejudice. We must sub
stitute dictatorship, for the presidency.
We must make the constitution the
transltory will Of transitory major.
ity at any election, and turn our backs
on 12S years OF glorious history
'It's tho peoples fight" But what
is It that the people are supposed to
be lighting for under this lhird-tsrm
banner Of Rooseveltism? Are they
fighting for anything mere substantial
than Mr.. Roosevelt's determination ta
return to the white housay-ist. Louis
Republic.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
Courts and Politics.

From Theodore Roosevelt the cqpn'
try naturally expects sane Leadership
1t Is not getting 1t. He breaches popu'
lar rule, but he does not believe In It
He tells his audiences that all" the
people ought to govern, and yet he has
written that government should be
concentrated in the hands Of a very
few men" and that the election should
not come too frequently" This means
dictatorship.
With the courts he has no patience
and for established law he has no use
unless It Is Roosevelt-made law. He
holds only contempt for judges who
stand In his way. Is It at all surpris
ing, then, that he should be found sd
vocating the flinging of the courts into
politicsf That he would make judicia
decisions subject to the decisions o
political parties or Of individual opin
ion at the polls7
Could his plan be put in operation
we should have instead judges swayet
and controlled by the whims Of popu
lar excitement-the most dangeropl
menace to constitutional government
that can be imagined. d.-Philadelphii
Inquirer.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
MOVED BY SELF-iNTEREsT
Only Reason Republican Senators
Have Moved at All In the
Lorlmer Matter.

Lorimer's election to the United
States senate was one Of two things
a great honor worthily bestowed, or q
crime against citizenship. Informed
public opinion has passed upon this
case. Every intelligent man knows
what that Judgment is.
The Republican members OF the
United States senate have never look
ed at this question frankly or honest.
ly. They don't now. With them It is
merely "a matter OF politics" They
consider its solution merely a question
Of party expedioncy. An ambassador
Is said to have been sent to Lorimer's
home bearing party overtures. his In
structions being to ask Lorimer to re-
sign in order that Republican senators
who are candidates for election shall
not be embarrassed. In other words.
Lonmer is being petitioned to relieve
Republican senators from doing their
duty on a question that involves the
good name OF the senate.
The Republican party, as represent
ed in the senate, is not concerned with
the right way out, but only with the
safe way out It's only the uncertain
ty Of their own Jobs that is worrying
them, The facts compel the sinister
inference that II they were only sure
Of reelection the Republican majority
in the senate would have scoffed in de-
rision at the peoples outraged sense
Of decency. and Lorimer, in addition
to being cheek,by-jowl conferee,
would be a senator in official good
standing.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK GOOD
Party In splerdld 0hRpe, While Re-
pVbIIoans Revel In Their Fac
tlonal Disorder.

There is no Republican outlook. In.
trospection III the present order Of
things In the Republican party, Tho
common enemy. the Democracy. Is for
gotten In that clamoring, smashing.
back-bitlng fight that ls reeling back
and forth.
No one knows what the national is
sucs urged By The Republican party
are to be. The sole interest shown
by that party at the present time Is
In the colonel and the president some
bitter andsunexplainable things are be-
Ing said on both sides. Whoever the
nominee may be, he will have a stag
geTing burden to carry.
The Republican party will emerge
from Its convention and enter hard
campaign after factional fight, whose
bitterness Is unequaled in American
political history II has laid no ground
work for tho real battle over national
issues. In the clamorinss between its
factional leaders>that bruised and bat
tered organization IA forgetting that II
will have TO fight for its very exis-
tente In few short weeks.
The Democratic party is fortunate
in this campaign. The struggle for
the presidential nomination has been
digniHed. The national issues are al
ready sharply defined and the machin-
cry of the party Is working smoothly
IN all sections. The Baltimore gather
ing is TO be a nominating convention
and not a slaughter Of hopes such az
impends at Chicago.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23

Inquirer: No. II is not likely that
Secretary Wilson deliberately and con.
sciously wishes to wrong the people
when he places. or allows to be placed.
impediments in the way Of enforcing
the pure food laws. He simply be
longs to the old nonprogressive type
which regards business as a fetich--a
sacred thing not to be interfered with.
Some Of the concerns that Doctor
Wiley wished to prosecute would lose
money IL they could not use adulter
ants. and to the seeretary's kind
OF man to compel manufacturer to
lose money on any account whatever
is wrong. 1T is an unconscious plac
ing OF the dollar above bunan rights
IA proceeding that goes on In many
circles of Official and social iifs;--fn
dianarOlis Star
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23

We have never professed any al
miration for the Psyne.Aidrich tariff.
but as Mr. TAFT is Republican aAd q
professed believer In the theoFE OF
protection we see no season why he
SHOULD have vetoed the bin. though we
should hare admired him greatly q hA
had been able TO rise above sM party
lines and MN the bill In the interest
OF the whole country. As Mr.. Taft
really tried 70 get tariff duties r.
dueed. and Mr. Roosevelt. who Is on
record as an opponent OF Protection.
did not during the seven and hair
years OF his presidency. We cannot see
on what ground he can attack ths
president for signing the act.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
Leader Mus, q. s,ronu M.n.


That the Democrats this year have
good prospects of success has been
evident ever since the passage Of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. and these
prospects have been improved by the
factional strife In the Republican par
ty. But the idea that any Democrat
can be elected. regardless Of his eco,
nomic tendencies or bis record, is a
false one, and the far-seeing members
Of the party, realizing this, are begin.
ming to consider the kind Of campaign
they must make with their chosen
candidate, whoever he may be. The
Republicans. always rer rkable for
their party discipline, have wonder
ful faculty Of getting together after
their bitterest quarrels, as the record
of past elections shows. So II will
not do to assume that because they
are at each others throats now thsg
will not be at Democratic throats
when the actual campaign begins.
And the sooner the Democrats realize
the Importance Of nominating their
strongest man on the strongest plat
form they can construct, the less dan.
ger there will be Of the deterioration
Of their prospects OF success,
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23
According to Teddy.

But, alasi the times change and the
mannera In Teddy's Cabinet-1s12
Knox was q profound iurist. In
Taft's Cabinet-1s12-Knox Is Pen
roses factotum. Under no circum-
stances are we permitted to doubt OF
this shrinkage q the measure Of Phi.
lander Have we not been told BY q
MARYLAND aanesyrist that Teddy is
the greatest human being that ever
trod this earths3 And doesn't bis
tread verify and visualIzs the boast Of
his ideiatorf Knox was. but is nct,-.
Rhilsdslphts Record
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23

1OT OOuSIpSS WllhOut .OPPOoiNNh
Tuesday in the Ninth district.
A child nineteen months old is
said to be the largest one of the
age in Howell county. The boy
weighs seyenty-seven pounds.
A pet bull dog belonging to a
Columbia woman died recently at
the age Of %, which recalls the
old question: "Why is pug,
anyhow"
The Missouri Synod OF the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
will meet at Campbell August
26th. Two hundred delegates
are expected.
Among the importals may be
classed Famous E. Blue, who
was a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for county
treasurer in Gentry county.
Jonathan Edwards graphic
description of he'll and its dis
comforts is reprinted by the Nor
gan County Republican "as a
warning to the Taft crowd"
At last Tuesdays primary the
Republican vote in Jackson coun-
ty did not reach 1900 votes, apd
four years ago there were 5000
Republican votes in that county.
A Kansas City father Weigh
ing 250 pounds chastised his
small son with a monkey wrench.
A Kansas City Judge only warn
cd him to be more careful in the
future.
Chas. Mcdonald, a negro pas
senger who was elected from a
Frisco freight after paying faro
to a brakeman, was awarded ST.
800 damages by the st. Louis
Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Ed. Howard, of jackson,
has brought suit for $40, 900 dam
age against the National Bank
of Commerce, in which her hus-
band was crushed to death in an
elevator last February.
81 wish," remarked Noah
Count Of Ghiggerbite plaintively,
!'that some OF these politicians
who insist that they are willing
to trust the people would open q
grocery in our village"
"John Arthur lost a horse this
week by becoming to hot" cries
the Sni.asbar Voice, and we
would suggest that John read the
grand old proverb about never
letting your angry passions rise.
Rev. Leroy Coate, we'll known
Randolph county minister, is be-
ing sued for 1000 by Mrs. Lizzie
Terry of Moberly for alternating
the affections of her fiance, Law
renee Merritt, a Wabash conduc-
tor.
The Columbia Tribune an
pounces that last Saturday was
the coolest August 3 since 1912.
The mercury At 6 O'Clock last
Saturday morning stood at 55; in
1912 the low record for August
was 40.
Seventy-five chickens were
stolen from q man near Breckens
ridge recently, according to the
Chillicothe Tribune. The doors
Of his hen house we're securely
locked, go the theiyes removed
the roof.
"This is . year" says the Linn
County Budget. "when 1t will be
easy for anyone to become can
didate on the Republican ticket.
The county central committee is
just now looking ground for some
sullibls person "a sacrifice as :
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23

which an i. b. was injured dan
gerously, has oeen fined SO for
disturbing the peace. This, it is
believed, will serve as warning
to the fellow.
Among those who pleaded for
election to the office of county
judge in Nodaway county was
Pleas Schmidt. With such a
courteous cognomen it is hard to
see how the voters could have
withstood Pleas's plea.
The Missouri potato crop for
this year is big one. It is pro-
bable that the yield will be more
than double that of last year,
when the entire state grew but
1888, ,00U bushels, ar an average
of only 33 bushels per acre.
The congregation Of the First
Baptist church at Poplar Bluff
last week awarded the contract
for a new $4,000 edi6ce to A.
W. Green. 1t is said the furnish
ings including a fine pipe organ
will bring the aggregate up to
$4,000.
A statement hss been made on
good authority that Louis Houck,
railroad owner and big property
holder of Cape Girardeau will re-
ceive $4,000 as damages from
the Little River Drainage District,
according to the terms of the re.
cent settlement.
Stanberry boasts of poineer
in the person Of A. j. McHenry,
who is eighty EIGHT years old, in
good health, and never but once
has had the services of physi-
clan. Who knows? Maybe that
10 why he has lived SO long and
had such good health.
The state geoiogist, Col. Beuh-
ler, OF Jefferson City, was in Hop.
kins last week and spoke very
favorably of the deep we'll there.
He thinks if the hole had been
sent Gown 200 feet deeper, the
people would have been very
agreeably surprised at the find
The Brookfield Gazette believes
that the fact that Governor Mar
shall wears silk pajamas and
chews tobacco doesn't necessarily
disqualify him for the vice presi-
dency. The fact that he chews
tobacco will atone for the silk pa
iamas with many o. t. Missouri
ans.
The DeKalb County Herald, OF
which C. L. Ficklin is editor
points out gently to the standpa'
editors who are raving about the
evil effects of the Wilson Tariff
Act OF 1894 that it's kind of hare
to see how the panic Of 1929
could have been caused by tar.
if in 1894.
Boone county has the laziest
man in Missouri. He is George
Hays, a negro, who was taken tc
the state penitentiary at Jefferson
City because he refused to report
to the circuit court of Columbis
and give proof of his good behav.
ior, after having been paroled or
|, charge of forging a check fol
SO.
The auditor has completed hi'
work on the books OF all th'
county officers and his report ha'
been approved by the county
court. 1t shows the officers W
with good records and the county
finances, with q few clerical err
rors of a small kind, In a satisfsc'
tory condition. - New MadriC
Missaurian.
Recently while looking through
some old records in the recorder
Office at Bloomfield, the first deet
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-01

Michigan VS.. South Dakota.
GRAB THE 1913 REMNANT
bunting in 1913 that he is telling
his friends he will work Walter
Johnson. in four games against
the National League champions.
When you consider the situa-
ton, Griffith has every right to
be hopeful, at least. He has a
team of fast, scrappy, cock-sure
youngsters, with a sprinkling of
clever veterans who haven't
reached the stage where they
start slipping; a team of hard
hitters, apt to come.through and
break up a game at any time;
clever felders, good pitchers and
splendid backstopping DEPART
ment.
But more valuable than all else
is GriHith's own ability to handle
his men. The shrewd little man
ager won the admiration of critics
this season by the way he worked
his pitchers.
Griffith has three big reasons
to support his contention that
Washington will divide the
worlds series money in 1913.
First, he has Walter Johnson,
one of the greatest pitchers in
the world.
Second, he has Clyde Milan,
clever fielder, a better than 800
hitter and the best base runner in
the league.
Third, his team will be strong
er next season than it was this
year, 1t will have the benefit of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-01

Would you be surprised if
Washington won the American
League pennant next year?
Stranger things might happen;
St. Louis might follow George
Stovall out of the second division,
for instance,
Because Boston won the flag in
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20
The PRESIDENT SIGNED MOST WILLINGLY


bill the chief plays of his
public
yet good enough Morgan
Now these industry
May unwng and
There had popular demand for additional
their wish that the
The
public The remarkable fact of the Endorsement
suloway bill
astonishing development of depth and wide extended feeling the subject
William H. Taft whose heart appreciated the
service the veterans and who has ever been quickly to the
popular will
discretion
presidential There
that the would effort the president
senate on the pension
required
ccumecon part president his
as the act or May il began to take shape In the senate and months
actually there doubt that the president would
the De finally
a
bill through also
the invalid
house With went most frequently Past Commander In Chief John r.
Godfrey Arizona Commander Granville Fe Com
mnder N ngman South Dakota Commander N Kingsley Pennsy
whom the senators wanted counsel with
the closest friends They confident their
that president bill
doubt
The bill ready his signature he left Princeton
made journey Washington bill reached
White House little before II Saturday May IL affixed his signature
minutes before midnight Washington
day OF these personally
MELRoY
Tribune
I fuly in the
that
evidenced by his hasty Washington for the
R-KING.
Front he ationalT
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20
Saving and Caring For Seed Com


~ CH spring the Michigan Agri-
- cultural college receives many
4 letters asking where good seed
corn may he obtained, but its
willingness to pay good prices does not
make 1t any more possible to supply
the demand Seed corn cannot be
manufactured in the spring, but must
be saved in the fall. and 1t is con-
slant regret that this effort to secure
good seed Is so often too late. This
scarcity can be prevented by selecting
seed when II is most abundant and
when the very best can be obtained
mt ripening time, when 1t has been in
no way reduced In vitality.
The average production of corn TO
the acre In the United States is but
twenty-six bushels, yet in practically
every section four times that quantity
Is frequently produced. Increasing the
quantity of seed is the least expensive
method of increasing the yield per
acre.
Good seed corn must be
First.-Well adapted to seasonal and
soil conditions where it is to be planted
Second.-Grown on productive plants
Of a productive variety.
Third.-Well matured and preserved
from ripening time till planting time.
That will retain its full vigOr.
When corn is ripe and before it is
cut is the proper time to select seed
ears. The only way you can judge an
ear is to see the stalk it grew on, see
where it grew and know how good a
chance it had to grow. AS soon as the
crop ripens go through the fields with
seed picking bags and husk the ears
from the stalks that have produced
the most corn without having any spe-
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20

cial advantages, such as space, mois-
ture and fertility. Avoid the large
ears on stalks standing alone with an
unusual amount of space around them
Preference should be given the plants
that have produced most heavily 10
competition with a full stand of hess
productive plants. Early maturity
should be considered If your locality
is subject to early frosts. Select q
great abundance Of seed to allow for
testing, accidents and for your neigh
Dor who neglected to save enough.
Seed corn should be husked immedt-
ately and placed in dry place where
there is free circulation Of air and in
such manner that the ears do not
touch each other
Many contrivances have been uscd
to hold the ears. Racks on which the
ears can he placed in single layers are
good II mice and rats can he kept out
Of the room. Ears suspended in links
of binder Irvine will keep well and
will be safe from mice. The soft pith
in the butt of the ears make 1t posi-.
BILE for them to be hung on nails which
have had the heads cut off after being
driven into upright posts. An invert-
ed pan will have to be nailed about
the bottom of the post to prevent mice
from reaching the corn.
Above all, the seed corn should he
dried thoroughly and be kept dry
throughout the whole season. After
drying is complete the temperature Of
the room may be allowed to drop even
below freezing, but it should be oll-
served that many of our successful
corn growers never allow the tempera
ture of the seed room to fail far be-
low freezing.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20
Notice Of Special Assessment No 81
For tho Construction of Sewer
on Railroad and Grand Avenue.

To Consumers Power Co. j Cooper estate,
Armstrong, A II Tho mp, on. II g Thomas,
Ellen Sin mir gton, Wayne Williams, II r
Boles estate W Dyer Dum0nd. Mrs En-
ma Fupscb, Mary Needham. L Murphy. w w
Jacobs, w j Nixon, J M Blair. G ID Ocean, J
M Blair, oscar Terril, Free Methodist Church,
JOS Sproul, N Shehee, Fred Smith, Favor
Armstrong Geo Alyer, Frank Mcdaniel, May
Mcdaniel, and to all other persons interested,
take notice,
That the roll of the special assessment here
tofore made by the Board of Assessors for the
purpose OF defrayiDg that part Of the cost
which the Council decided should be paid and
borne by special assessment for the construc-
ton OF q sewer on Railroad and Grand Avenues
Is now on file In my ONCE for public inspec ton.
Notice Is also hereby given that tho Council
and Board OF Assessors will meet at the
Council room in said city on Monoay. Septem.
Der 2srd, A. ID 1912, at 1880 o'clock in the after
noon to review said assessment at which time
and place opportunity will be given all persons
interested to be heard.
Dated September 9Th, 1912.
ARTHUR II. DUMoND, City Clerk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20
Commissioner Notice.

In the matter Of the estate OF Henry O.
McGuipeas deceased.
We the undersigned having been appointed
by the Hon. Matthew Bush, Judge of Probate
10 ana Tor the County OF Shiawassee, State OF
Michigan. Commissioners 10 receive, examine
ana adjust all claims and demands OF all per-
ems against said estate do hereby give notice
mat we Will meet AT the Citizens Savings Bank
ia the CITY OF Owosso in said County on Mon
Gay the 2lst cav or October A. ID. 1912 and
on Monday the ed dav OF December A. ID. 1919
AZ ten O'Clock In the forenoon OF each OF sa,d
days for the purpose OF receiving and adjust.
Ing al claims aRalnSt said estate and that four
months from the ,th day OF Aug. A. ID. 1919 are
allowed TO creditors TO presE their claims to
said commissioners for ADJ Us lment and allow
ance.
Dated the ooh day OF August A d. 1919.
GILBERT L. TAYLOR,
WILLIAM BULLAhD,
Commissioners.