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Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
TO the Voters OF Missouri.

1t is being said by some, who are
obviously not informed on the ques-
ton, that the Progreeive party is in
favor Of the single tax. This is an
error, and desire to correct it at
once. There is not one word in the
Progressive platform, either state or
national, which favors the single tax
proposition. AS the candidate of the
Progress party fer governor, | have
taken pains to look into the matter
and know whereof ! speak. The
single tax question was not brought
before the Progressive State Conven-
ton as whole, and did not hear il
mentioned there among the delegates
However, ! am informed tha, some
one representing the single takers
appeared before the Platform Com
mittee of the Progressive convention
and urged that it be endorsed in the
Progressive platform. But the com
mittee declined to do this, and, there
fore, il appears that the Progressive
convention, through its platform com.
mittee, rejected the single tax pro.
position. l am quite sure that nc
considerable number OF Progressives
iavors the single tax, for l have never
heard it mentioned in a Progressive
convention nor in a conference o
Progressive leaders in the state.
Though there may be few individ.
ual members of the Progressive party
who favor it. as there are individua al
members of the Republican, Demo
cratic and Socialist parties favorable
thereto, | know OF no candidate on
the Progressive ticket, from Colone
Roosevelt down, who is in any wist
committed to the single tax. know
too, that the Progressive party as ar
organization in no wise favors or ad
vocates it. Indeed, do not know
as many as one dozen Progressives il
Missouri who are in favor of tn,
single tax. Personally, l am not il
favor Of it and iptend to vote against
it. Very respectfully,
ALBERT d. NORTONI
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
T'R. and Single Tux.

Considering the fact that Theodore
Roosevelt is running on a patchwork
platform that contains every kind Of
queer doctorine imaginable, it is not at
all surprising that he has included the
iniquitors single tax among his fads.-
Kansas City Journal.
The main point in the above item is
the fact that it is a lie out of whole
cloth, but used by nearly all the Taft
sheets in their desperate efforts to de-
feat the Progressives, elect Wilson,
and thus set back all reforms for four
years at least. To follow all the lies
sprung by the TAFT outfit would be an
endless task, fox new one is sprung
almost daily, but they will all be home
to roost by the evening of Nov. 9th.
Vote the Progressive ticket.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
Headwaters Of Bitter Crssh

Editor REPUBLICAN: You know
there is such an expression as "poli-
tics makes strange bedfellows," and
how well that Is exemplifed in the
Republican bosses of Morgan County,
Messrs. H. A. Young, chairman of
the county committee, and A. G..
Baker, Maj. Warmers postmaster,
and alleged editor OF the Taft party
organ. Six years ago MIR. Young was
very indignant over the attempt made
by A. G. Baker to hold up the Re-
publican county committee in the sum
of 5000 for the support of the organ,
Bakers abuse OF the leaders Of the
party, and his ISLANDERS of the busi-
ness men of Versailles. Mr.. Young's
indignation resulted in the location
Of the Morgan County REPUBLICAN,,
so am told, which has been anti
Baker, anti-boodle, anti-graft, anti
saloon--in fact against everything
mean which Baker and the Statesman
stood for. Mr.. Young has been an
insurgent (never a Progressively all
the time. He has bitterly fought the
bosses and leaders OF the Republican
party Of Morgan county, the men who
made Republican success in the
county possible--Mills, Amos Knoop,
E. A. Crewson, Wes Thomas, Geo.
H. Hubbard, et al, so his flop is not
SO very unusual or irregular after all.
Talking OF the county bosses re-
minds me Of the state bosses, always
sore question in Missouri---Chaun-
cey I. Filley, "de Old Man." Tom
Atkins, Dick Kerens, Tom Neidring-
haus- and now, oh Lord, down to
Otto Stifel, ,he millionaire brewer of
St. Louis, and "Liv" Morse, the
dirty, disreputable politician OF Ex-
celsio' Springs. The standpat rem
anant will make bitter fight for the
postoffces, all they have left TO fight
for, but beer and Doodle, all they
have left to hgh. with, won't save
them.
In closing, will advise Chairman
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
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Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17

There are nine constitutional
amendments to be voted ON Now 9TH
Those you want cross out the NO,
those you are against cross out the
YES. We have no advice to give on
any Of them, as they are a mixed 10,
OF minor Importance, and will all be
pretty certainly defeated, as Missouri
ians figure, they now have sufic-
iently conglomorated lot Of laws to
puzzle the most astute Of lawyers.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17

Taft men are disiranChised in CAL
ifornia. More progessiveness, new
style. Globe Democrat.
And the Taft gang is trying to dis
franchise the Progressive voters OF
Missouri. Standpatism, old style;
same as used at Chicago.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17

Young that when he carries ebay" to
the elephant, he better watch 1t, or
Baker will get it.
A PROGRESSIVE.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
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brst insertion, cents per line for each subse
uent insertion.
legal advertising at legal rates.
special rates on page advertisements.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17
Republican Ticke

For Assessor--Howard c. Daugherty
For Treasurer--Orvii New.
For Surveyor--Wm. r. Stephens.
Morgan County republican., 1912-10-17

Old Papers ior sale at this Of
fee. 20c per hundred. ,
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
AN HONORLESS CAUSE.

Yes, | know they call me an ex-
tremist on the likkerN question,
but that don't cool me down nary
DIT. It's doggon hard matter to
be extreme when you are fight
ing likker, for it is the worst en-
e1ny to progress that any nation
ever had to contend with.
am teeth and toe-nails against
hkker, and don't care three
whoops in Hepsidam who knows
It, 1t is an evil entirely uncalled-
Tor, born in the hearts of wicked
men aud nourished on the blood
OF the innocent. It is sold for gain
and drunk for the want of sense,
and the man who sells it is guilty
OF murder.
No fair-minded man can Justly
defend the likker business with
Its record Of shame and crime.
and with absolutely nothing Of
worth to it's credit.
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
MoRAyLAN FALLs, NoRTH CAROLINA, JUNE. 1912

sorry excuse Of a President. I
know Fatty Bill denies being un-
duly partial to the Catholics, but
actions speak a blamed sight
louder than words. Old Fatty is
FISHING for the Catholic vote, and
ne knows that the old gouty pope
can deliver it solid to Whomsoev-
er he chooses. That's why Fatty
Bill prefers a Romish ram to bleat
biasphenny over the blossom end
OF the National Rucus. It's a
plain case of brazen adultery be-
tween Big Smile and the great
ecclesiastical whore that sitteth
upon many waters 2 and reign
eth over the kings Of the cart
(See Revelation 17:1-18.
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
She Took It Off.

A little girl aged three had been
left in the nursery by herself, and
her brother arrived to find the door
closed.
I wants to tum in, Sissie,'' said
Tom.
But you tan't tum in, Tom
But | wants to.
We'll, rs in my nightie-gown,
an nurse says little boys mustn t
see little girls in their nightie-
gowns
After astonished and reflective
silence on Toms side of the door,
the miniature Eve announced tri-
umphantly:: You tan tum in now;
rs tooked it off,
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
VOL. iii.
A MATRIMONIAL AID.

In advertising. for a wife,
l take this simple plan,
Thinking that I will be in time
To reach the reading clan.
She must be six or seventeen,
A brunette or a blonde,
AS sweet as water lilies
That grow upon the pond.
Her height must not be under
Two cubits and a span;
Must have strong inclination
To love an honest man.
/ want her to be handy
At cooking, and such things,
And wear a sweet, melodious
voice
Like bull-frogs when she sings.
Milk, churn and wash the dishes,
Cook pies and biscuit bread;
Clean house up stairs and down,
And not kick much in bed.
She must patch my erals,
And make nice. neat stitches,
And above all, emphasize,
She must not wear the breeches.
LONESOME BACHEL OR.
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
NO. 4.
MY VIEWS ON EATING.
Editor Fool-Killer.

. y =
Dear Sir Without wishing to-
nnd fault with you may suggest that
there is one subject on which Won
nave thus far been silent. That is the
subject of eating, and it is one on
which there is a great difference of
opinion. Will you please say some
thing about it in The Fool-Killer and
thus settle the matter once for all?
Z. W. MOON,
Duluth, MINI.
My dear Brother Moon: Allow
me to say that | heartily believe
IN eating. Homer; Shakespeare,
Milton, Nero, Alexander, Napol-
.eonG Cromwell N ashington, in
coin, Rockefeller, Roosevelt and
all the big lights Of history were
eaters. | myself eat every day.
Could Leander have sWum the
Hellespont or Horatius the Tiber
If they had not been eaters?
Could Webster have written that
great story, The Underbreeches
Dictionary, if he had not been
under the stimulating influence
OF hog and hominy? Could Don
Quixote have written Uncle
Toms Cabin or Plutarch his
Life and Blunders Of President
Taft if they had not been eat
ers?
Yes, indeed, gentlemen, I want
you to get this matter straight.
| want my readers to fully under
stand that am unequivocally in
favor Of food, and | make it a
point to eat something at least
twice a day three times a day
if I can get it.
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
POLITICAL FORNICATION...

These United Trusts of Amer
lea are as full of Protestant
preachers as dog is of feas, but
when it came to selecting a gos-
pei horn to toot holy grace over
the opening of the Republican
National Convention at Chicago,
old Paunchus Bill had to pucker
up his mouth like the nose end Of
a meal sack and recommend the
appointment of an old bald-head-
ed and pot-gutted Roman Catholic
priest wearing a woman's night
gown for breeches and a tWo-story
collar buttoned up the back.
Now what in the devil does that
mean? Of course the drotted old
convention needs praying for if
prayer would do it any good, but
| expect an application of hot
water and soap would be more
effective. But if they were just
dead bent on having somebody to
grab hold of heavens whiskers
and make the pray come, why
must they snub all Protestant
preachers and hand over the
heavenly corkscrew to darned
old Catholic priest? Why show
so internal much partiality toward
a diabolical bastard system that
is busting it's belly-band every
day to take from us what few
liberties we have left? That is
the mission of Romanism in A
merica today, and there is no use
to deny it. Over yonder on his
gilded throne Of superstition and
ignorance reigns the old Pope,
and between grunts of gout and
roars of rheumatism, he is. send
ing out his orders for the capture
of America. His purple-petticoat-
ed boot -lickers over here have
openly boasted that they are near
ly ready to take possession of this
nation in the name Of the Pope.
And sarn-take my skin if they
amt just about got it already.
They've got the Vice President,
the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, a great number Of Sena-
tors and Representatives and
just the same as got our present
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01
A Very Wise Boy.

A small Kansas boy was once
called in to view his new born ba-
by brother. He looked it over with
dissatisfaction, and finally asked:
Mama, where did this thing come
from?' An angel brought it, jim
mie.'' SsWus you awake when be
came?" Certainly, Jimmie. =
Well, then, mama, all that / have
got to say, is that you are dead
easy. I'd like to see any old angel
put off such looking thing on
me. =
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01

~
DR.. Helen Kellogg advises her
sister Wimmen to cultivate big
feet. She points out that a huge
walking apparatus is somehow
connected with a massive intel
lect. But shucks! What does the
average society woman care for
brains or intellect? Shed much
rather hop around in her dainty
number tWos, with her feet pinch
ed up till they look like a cucum-
Der in a bottle and feel like a rat
under a dead fall.
The fool-killer. (Moravian Falls, N.C.) 1910-1917, 1912-06-01

Read this paper and pass it on.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-02-13

"What are the three greatest
calamities that can befall in a
lifetime is a question they're
trying to whet their brains on
down east. ~-...., .
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-02-13

Pittsburgh girl in Berlin his
sprained her shoulders dancing
with a prince, Dad will now
sprain his whole arm writing
checks.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-02-13

Candy is good moneymaker grocery But
grocer would knowingly help send his children the
DOCTOR The Day Book suggests this sign It's cheaper
glucose than sugar candy for # many times sweeer and costs
far less BUT glucose practically dead weight in the stomach
while sugar digess easily and fine food for the body
Delicate havor and pretty coors candy an abomnaon
when produced by drugs arca Lots of candy favored and
coored that way. ..-.
But you might punch child the stomach with your
fist than hand it candy like that.
"What greatest Pittsburgh girl in Berlin
caames that befall spaned her shoulders dancing
lifetime? z" question they're with prince Dad will
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
WAS A SENSITIVE B0ARDER
Landlady's Innocent Remark ls Taken
Seriously by Representative
Young Man.

"When a man is down, he is I'M
duly sensitive. lie takes for slurs
and insults what are really the most
innocent remarks"
The speaker, Henry E. Dizey, was
commissioning with a New York
playwright who had just had an
other failure.
"Cheer up, my boy said Mr..
Dixie. "You're as representative as
the boarler who cut his throat with
the bread knife.
"This boarder, finding the coffee
rather muddy one morning, said to
his landlady:
"'What is the matter with the cof-
fee, madam
"The landlady looked at him and
in perfect innocence replied:
"'It is very slow in setting.'
"Then the boarder, whose bill was
seventeen weeks behind, slew himself
with the bread knife"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
SOME MIXER OF METAPHORS
Late Joseph Enrlght, Noted Lawyer Of
Vermont, Took Palm for rho
toFical Blunders,

The late Joseph Enright was
noted throughout Vermont for his
success with %juries, and also for his
amusing rhetoric blunders. AT one
time he was conducting a case at
Newfane for a woman from whom
some cattle had been taken by
fraudulent means, In describing
the acts Of the defendant to the jury,
Mr.. Enright said;
"And he came with lying foot
steps, and the cloak of hypocrisy was
in his mouth, and he put his hand
into the pocket of my defenseless
client, and took therefrom a pair Of
steers and q yoke Of oxen"
At another time Mr.. Enright was
examining a veterinary, who was te8-
tifying as an expert, in a case where
in it was alleged that a horse had
been treated improperly for lockjaw.
Enright asked the following hypo-
thetical question Of the witness:
'Tf a veterinary goes to see 3
horse, and he is examined by the
veterinary, and he puts his hand
down his throat-the veterinary
opens his mouth and shoves his hand
down his throat-that is, the veterh
mary does that when he is suffering
from lockjaw-what do you say as to
that being a proper method Of treat
ment in a case Of lockjaw?"
There have been longer "hypo-
theticals," but few more difficult tx
unrayel.-Youth's Companion.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
ENGLAND'S DECLINE.

Doctor Inge, the new dean of st.
Paul's cathedral, London, paints a
rather dark future for England, He
says; l.~
During the nineteenth century the
United Kingdom collected a popu-
lation Of 46,000,000 people on two
small islands. That was done while
Englishmen were making England
the workshop Of the world. But
IEngland's coal supply is being ex-
hausted with criminal reckessness ;
labor is no longer very good and is
becoming extremely dear. The TWEEN
tieth century is spendthrift heir to
the nineteenth. When E~nglishmen
cease to outwork and outsell other
nations they must emigrate or starye,
America in the future will be the
center Of the worlds commerce.
When the British feet ceases to pa
troll the sea about Australia and New
Zealand the yellow man, who is sat
isfed with a third Of an English
mans wages, will make short work
of the trades unionists.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
THOUGHT n PART OF LESSON
Frenchman Learning Of oIoHes Of
George Washington Punetuates
With Dancing steps.

NJ. de PEspigarie T'essan, a cousin
Of the Count de Chambrun and on
tributor to several French newspa-
pers. arrived in New York on the
French liner La Touraine for d visit
of one year to this country, During
the voyage he met Hugh A. Bayne,
a law partner Of Henry W. Taft, and
several other Americans, with whom
he became friendly. The young man
explained that as he would be here
for a year he wanted some coaching
on how to act among Americans,
He was told by his travelling COM
panions that Americans were eycep-
tionally keen on paying homage to
the memory of George Washington
and that a knowledge of the first
president would help him greatly.
One of the party, with a suppressed
smile, repeated several times to the
journalist: George Washington /;
first in war, first in peace and first
in the hearts of his countrymen."
Mr.. Tcssan. when asked to re-
hearse his little piece, repeated the
words Of his coach and punctuated
it with a bit of buck and wing dance.
The crowd roared and told the
Frenchman that he must not dance
when quoting such a solemn express
sion. He replied that his coach
danced at the end Of the sentence
and he thought it was part of the
instruction.
Thereafter the passengers on meet
ing in the deck promenade greeted
one another with the question: "Who
was the father of his country?''
When the words George Washing
ton" were repeated everybody danced.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
EMBARRASSING MOMENT.

There is one young fellow in this
city who will be careful about his ac-
tons in the future. A few nights
ago, while hilarious and indiscreet
from the effects Of too close an ac-
%quaintanee with the flowing bowl, he
stepped in an elevator of a down
town building, Two young ladies
there attracted his attention, and he
managed to murmur:
ooh, you big blue eyes. l do like
blue eyes"
The young ladies ignored him, A
few minutes later he was talking to
a friend in an office upstairs.
"You've got to excuse me this
time" his friend said. "My wife is
waiting for me down stairs"
"Huh? Your wife? Say, you
don't mean to tell me one of those
ladies down there is your wife,"
There was a painful pause, fol.
lowed by hasty and voluble explana-
tons and apologies.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
HE COULD OUTRUN HORSE
Kruger, Late Boer President, When a
Young Man Was Considerably
swift of Foot.

Massive oval chin, large fiat ears
and strong nose were notable in kru-
ger. His head, however, was small
in proportion-neither deep nor
high. His shoulders were rather
high, his chest broad and deep; he
stood full six feet and had long legs
which helped to make us believe the
marvels told Of his running powers.
For instance, here is the story l
have from an eye witness, just as he
told it: ut is also a fact that the
president could run as fast US a
horse. l remember once that he had
a dispute with his friend Jacobs, ow-
ing to the president stating that he
could run as fast as a horse. The
result was that the president ran
against a horse, with a rider on it,
for a length of seven or eight hum
dred yards and actually outran the
horse" This would seem incredible
had l not heard it confirmed by Kru-
ger himself, who was most reluctant
to speak of his own doings. He must
have been about eighteen years old
at that time-Poultney Bigelow
"White Man'p Africa"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
BARRED.

She was not in the least pretty,
but of course hat counted for moth
ing against her.
Likewi& the fact that she could
not dance or sing or crack jokes.
What stood definitely in the way
of her success was the political stu
alton in Europe.
with not a monarchy left which
a girl can hope to be instrumental in
o~verthrowing, where is the necessary
advertising to come FROM" she rea-
Soned. Saving which, with a gush
of bitter tears, she abandoned the no
ton of getting into vaudeville in
America.-Puck.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
RUBBING IT IN.

Husbands" said Wilton Lackaye,
disgustedly, certainly are fussy.
"My best friend won't speak to me
and Pm sure l don't know what is
the matter, We met on the street
and we were talking just as friendly
as could be when all of a sudden he
fared up and tried to lick me-"
"And what were you talking
about ?" asked an interested listener.
ooh, just ordinary talk. l remem-
Der he said, 4 always kiss my wife
three or four times every day."
"And what did you say"'
II said, 4 know at least a dozen
men who do the same,' and then he
had a fit"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-02
THIEF GIVEN LESSON.

early yesterday morning the po-
lice made a rather startling discov-
cry in the extension of the French
concession, coming upon a Chinese
trussed up to a tree by the cue" says
the North China Daily News. "The
man hung from a branch, his feet
some distance from the ground,
and as his hands were bound to his
sides he was unable to struggle. His
cries, however, attracted notice, and
he was promptly cut down. 1t IS
supposed that he had been out dur
ing the night for the purpose of
stealing vegetables, and the farmers,
having caught him, determined to
teach him a salutary lesson by string
ing him up"