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IgE BLUFF RoGRES1
 n0sPEn1TY
REAPING HIS CROP

When c. Hunter Raine, sitting in a jail cell at Memphis read in the papers how crowds of the curious and those who came to buy, throngetl his palatial home to bid on the fine household goods art collection, bric- a-brac and things of value such as come to those of much wealth, he had just commenced to reap his ill gained crop. Possibly for the first time there came to him a full realization of the 0tt6f~ folly and disgrace of the wild sreculations which caused him to rob confiding public of a million dollars. .s,s
 Like those who follow suchT~a course as he pursued, he will be gradually striped of his wealth, pris- on bars will stare him in the face and by the time the courts have done with hinle, more than likely he will go to serve his term broken in spirit, poor man, but burdened with an awful load of disgrace.
 It is hard to realize how man such as Raine, could stoop to such acts, unless it came about through pure money madness. He was the president of big financia insti- tutlon he had social position, he had wealth, all that money could mean to a man was at his command, he possessed powerful friendsh!ps-ail that man could well dream of at- taining so far as worldly position goes, was his. Before his arrest he was regarded as one of the big men of the city; after the news had been flashed to thousands,' there has prob- ably never been a man in Memphis who was more roundly abused.
 If taking money which does not be. long to us is right or a privilege. Hunter Raine had much less right than the masses of people. There is course no such right, for rich or poor. And while there is no lessen ing of the censure of the man for his isleeds, his downfall is but another severe arraingnment of speculatlon-| gambling, in the majority of in stance. The insidious fever e. gain ing great returns, the mania for talk ing risk, so steeped him that he lost sight of his moral obligation 70 his fellow men. Confidence, integrity, freedom, honor, greater activities along right lines. all were placed by Raine on the altar of chance, a sac- rifice to the illgotten gain gods de- mand for more and greater victims. Doubtless he thought in his mind 70 repav and replace the enormous amount of money he had taken, yet that isnot a palliation for the of fense.
 AZ old time gambler once said Ina. once a man stAf4s to losing, he will go through everything he has in an effort to get even, and those who have ever gotten even with any strong odd game of chance, will no. make corporal's guard compared to the vast army of failures in this ef-
 fort ~ There is nothing to be gained inI viilifying Raines All the denuncia-
 tion and abuse which one could heap on him would not change the result or the situation. Such offenses as his are being committed all over tho
 country at intervals. It was simply
 the magnitude of Raine's operations
 which forced q country wide atten-
 tiQn. And human like. we go along.
 elrArjely until such an affair occurs
 e we take remedial steps.
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Just a suaoestlon.

Neighbor-"Every time you feed your dog, he brings the bones over and gnaws them on our premises. Isn't there some way to stop tt?" Owner-"Suppose you feed him here after; than he'll probably bring them over and gnaw them on my premises" Puck.
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v Between a clamor for higher gas pressure and also one against raise in the telephone rate, Little Rock is certainly having a time with it's pub- lie utilities these days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-28

Must Prove Their Worth. No matter how many good i'd. you have, your worth is measured those you carry out.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-28

President Wilson says that he still believes in the "watchful waiting policy. As he supposedly ought to know what is best, the public will have to be patient with the waiting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-28

The return to the Tombs, prison though it be, must have been ra thar a happy event for Becker, consider ing that he remained in the Sing Sing death house for over year. Any thing is preferable to that.
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Time to Go.

Time to Go.
 If man you call on squirms and viggles and looks troubled he's busy md wants you to go.-Atchison Globe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Scathing Denunciatlon.

With keen shafts and rapier thrusts
Mt Stanley went after his opponent.
Gov. J. c. w. Beckham and his aides,
Percy Haly and Sam ]. Shackelford,
but he reached the climax in his de-
nunciation of Richard w. Knott, editor
of the Louisville Evening Post, as po-
1itieal renegade and harlot, who exert
sd a communicating influence political
1y, socially and morally, and whose
relentless hate | wear as a badge OF
honor" For scathing denunciation
nothing like it was ever heard in Lou
vile and the vast crowd roared It's
proval as he fired every shaft home.
Mr.. Stanley pilloried Beckham for
alliance with Knot, whom he char
uacterized as having condoned the as
sassination of Gov. William Goebel and
had venomously assailed Democratic
nominees. This is the vile sheet"
said he, that has the insufferable i'm
pudence to dictate to the Democrats OF
Kentucky whom they shall choose as
Aheir Senator"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Defense of Business.

an the words of Woodrow Wilson, |
stand for setting the business and the
government of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky free, free from the machina-
lions and the control of a coterie of
lobbyists and corruptionists who at
this hour unblushingly attempt to take
both by the throat.
THE supreme power of the State and
the nation is lodged in It's legislative
Assembly. Who is it in Kentucky with
power enough TO step between the peo-
pie and their duly-elected servants and
to boast that they can organize and
dominate law-making bodies even?
Does any man believe that a private
citizen, a modest lawyer, devoting the
major portion of his time to the bust
ness of a couple of public service cor
porations, which, according to his own
statement, paid him a little over dol.
lar day apiece-has he this tremend-
Gus authority? This is a task never
attempted before except by powerful
interests operating through cunning
and expert emissaries. Was II claimed
that Mr.. Beckham did this work? Nay,
not so. He is but stately mask, a
painted shield, behind which Richard
w. Knott. Percy Haly and Sam Shack
elford ply their nefarious calling. 1t
is through him that they hope to get
their long and cadaverous fingers upon
the throat of PROSTATE Democracy
and the purse of helpless people.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
"A little while ago when Mr.. Beck
ham, then a candidate for the Senate
against Gov. McCreary, denounced this
man, Shackelford, as the plunderer of
his own party, as a sand-bagger of cor
porations, he told you that you dare
not entrust any man in the Senate who
was actively supported by the known
representative of the Standard Oil Co.,
the Tobacco Trust and the Southern
Pacific railroad. These men were hard
ly on speaking terms at the close OF
that campaign
In the course Of time II became my
duty, as chairman of the committee
which investigated the affairs of the
United States Steel Corporation. 10 ex-
pose the methods of John ID. Rockefel-
Ter In securing control of the most pre-
cious ore deposits in America. Three
times in one day was ! denounced by
John ID. Rockefeller, by his almoner,
Frederick w. Gates, and by the cor
poration itself. | secured and produced
the eliminating evidence which led
first 10 a petition for the dissolution
OF the American Tobacco Company,
and finally TO the separation of that
great combination into four more or
less Independent and competing con.
Germs. AS result OF the fearless dis
charge OF my duties as a public serv.
ant Sam Shackelford is muzzied and
collared and delivered. surly but ODE
dent, 10 the hand that smote him, aud
to-day he is yokemate with Percy Haly
In the organization OF legislative boil.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
REMARKABLE MEETING 4
GIVES AN IMPETUS TO
STANLEYS CAMPAIGN
Second District Congressman
Addresses Vast Crowd of
Supporters That Throngs
= National Theater

ling down from the fetid steps of a
throne upon a suppliant people below.
1t remained to the greatest mere man
that was born of woman to turn his
back upon the fallacles of the dead
past and his face toward the future,
and, with the audacity of genius, to de-
clare that all men were created free
and equal, with an equal right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
He took mere man, because he was
a man, just as God made him, with
out regard to his worth, his learning or
his lineage. and made him the source
of all power and all authority, clothed
him with sacred and inalienable rights,
armed him with a ballot and made him
an uncrowned king, and before this
towering creation of the mighty Amer
lean the thrones of the world did trem-
Bile. | reverently thank God tonight
that He who made US sovereigns all
was the author of the Declaration Of
Independence, Thomas Jefferson.
"All that Jefferson and all that the
wisdom and the courage of the fathers
could do was to invest US with this SUI
preme power. 1t remains for the peo-
pie, and the people alone, to exercise
it. Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty. No constitution, however per-
feet, no government, however fawless,
can ever, or will ever, protect and pre-
serve the liberties of people who are
not ceaselessly vigilant in the exer-
else OF the power inherent in them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18

"Wili the Democratic party In Ken
lucky permit Sam Shackelford and
Percy Haly to name an ambassador
from a free and sovereign state2 Do
the people Of Kentucky wish to reach
the ear or secure the favor of SEN
ator by paying obeisance to a Haly
party owes It's birth, it's life and its
death to special and privileged inter-
ests. Hays and Shackelfords we're an
essential part Of its organization and
Its being. For that reason the Repub-
lican press OF Kentucky has already
nominated Mr.. Beckham and accepted
the lobbyist and trickster as the essen.
tial and necessary parts OF the pro-
gramme.
Every wash day you read in the
columns of the Lexington Leader that
am about to retire from this race,
that have mistreated and deceived
Gov. McCreary, that Ollie James has
organized a Federal machine for the
purpose OF riding me into place and
power. Why do the Lexington Leader,
the Louisville Herald and the Evening
Post seek Mr.. Beckhams nomination
and my defeat? Either because they
feel assured that II nominated he will
be defeated. or because they find in
him and his associates the ugly attri-
butes OF Republicanism under the con.
venient mask Of Democracy. Who to.
day stands as political godfather, phil
osopher, guide and friend, self-consti.
tuted apologist and panegyrist for this
political triumvirate? Richard w.
Knott and the Evening Post. And when
and where was Dick Knott ever re-
ceived into Democratic fellowship or
commissioned to outline the policies
for the party of Jefferson and Jackson,
OF Bryan and Woodrow Wilson?
Were | to ask tonight who in all
Kentucky has been the most inveter.
ate, the most cruel, the most false and
perfdious foe that Democracy ever
had, the answer would come sponta-
neously from every Democratic heart
Dick Knott, of the Louisville Eve
ming Post. No man can oppose any
form of corporate or political iniquity
without arousing the wrath of Richard
w. Knott.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18

Louisville. KY, July s, 1914.-What
was without a doubt one OF the most
femarkable political meetings ever
held in Louisville was that last night
when Congressman A. o. Stanley, of
che Second district, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United
States Senator, presented his claims
60 the voters of the Fifth district at
Che National Theater.
The meeting was remarkable in that
st was a distinct innovation, being
probably the first time in the history
of Louisville that a candidate for
Democratic Statewide nomination ad-
dressed mass meeting of voters here,
and, secondly, it was remarkable for
The crowd which packed the theater
auditorium, boxes, stage and a large
part of the galleries The crowd,
which was estimated at $500, was
concededly one of the most represent
alive assemblages that ever faced a
speaker in Louisville, and not fifty
persons left the theater from the time
Mr.. Stanley began until he closed his
speech, which required an hour and
q half to deliver. Many women graced
the boxes, and they showed the Keen
est interest in what the speaker had
60 say.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18

and voracious triumvirate who hope
shortly to prey upon a deluded party
and PROSTATE people
When Mr.. Beckham expresses an
opinion upon any public question or
announces his candidacy for Office, II
must emanate frst from the Evening
Post In this fight his colors fly from
a fortress reeking with corruption and
dripping with the blood OF murdered
Governor
II had right TO expect that this
battle would be fought upon a Demo
cratic field; that my opponent would
meet me upon Democratic ground.
challenge his right to fire his guns
from that black and forbidding
fortress. or to stab fellow-Democrat
with knife sharpened upon the flint
heart of Richard w. Knott and drip
ping with the gore Of butchered Demo
Gratis. II would be bad enough did
this ugly emissary of all that is evil
in Republicanism confine himself to
the truth. His paper reeks with every
form of transparent and deliberate
falsehood. Its news columns are as
false and as fabricated as its editorials.
Reports purporting to come from one
section are deliberately concocted in
another.
you are told that Mr.. Beckham Is
met by vast and cheering throngs.
Long before his arrival at the place Of
speaking, hours before he ever opens
his mouth, you are told exactly what
he said. The first edition of the Lou
isville Evening Post goes to PRESS at
1880. The other day Mr.. Beckham
spoke at West Liberty at 1: 80, and yet
two hours prior to that meeting the
paper stated the building was packed
to the doors and that a large crowd
congregated on the outside.
AT Lebanon a gentleman closely
identified with his campaign telephon-
ed to this same Evening Post detail
ed description of the number Of per-
sons who sat in rapt and motionless
silence, and burst into thunderous APP
plause, before the Court House doors
we're ever opened or a single man in
attendance.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
introduced BY Judge Edwards.

The meeting was presided over by
Judge James p. Edwards, who intro
duced Mr.. Stanley. This splendid
audience shows the handwriting on the
wall" was Judge Edwards opening
sentence. He congratulated the Dem
foeratic party on it's splendid admins
ftratioD Of national and State affairs,
and its ability to do things under the
matchless leadership OF a Woodrow
Wilson. He congratulated the Demo
Gratis Of Kentucky on having such a
candidate for United States Senator
as Augustus Owsley Stanley, who
stands for every principle advocated
by President Wilson and the National
Democratic platform. Judge Edwards
referred 10 the era OF machine rule"
that was the chief charac teristic OF
the "Beckham regime" and he paid
his respects to Beckham, whose chief
ynouthpiece now was the "traitorous
LouisYille Post"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Greedy and Voraelous.

"When neither insult to the Legis.
lature nor outrage TO the courts aid
deter the dauntless man who went Sc.
renely on his way, without fear or re-
proach. who was II that reveled in
every form OF cruel, false and ma
licious SANDER. who fred the black
and pitiless heart OF murder, until the
dastardly deed was done, and with a
steel bullet crashing through his
yitals William Goebel fell bleeding In
front Of the State House? Richard w.
Knott and the Louisville Evening
Post. AS he lay there like the muir.
dered Duncan. his silver body laced
with his golden blood and all his yir-
tues crying out like angels trumpet
tones against the deep damnation of
his taking on what ghoul, what hui
man hyena mangled that piece OF
bleeding earth and then blackened the
memory of our mighty dead? Richard
w. Knott and the Louisville Evening
Post.
"Yet Mr.. Beckham has deliberately
selected and commissioned this crea-
ture as the head and front OF a greedy
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Outside Interference.

Here In Kentucky is the law writ.
ten in obedience TO your will, by men
responsive TO you alone For weeks
before the last Legislature assembled
II was boldly proclaimed that private
citizens, having no official relation to
the Kentucky Legislature whatever.
not members OF that body, or intrusted
by the law with the power to interfere
with its deliberations-that a few
private citizens would organize and
control II, would suggest the men
whom that body should elect as pre-
siding officers, command 1t to the min
utest detail. even to the selection OF
pages and cloakroom keepers; would
sit In its secret caucuses and deter.
mine the policies OF the party and the
conduct OF the lawmakers OF a free
people.
'@rhe Governor OF the State, upon
whom the Constitution imposes the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Support and Abuse.

"He supported Mckinley. Taft and
Roosevelt He fought Bryan and he
fought Parker. He supported Bradley
and Bill Taylor, Yerkes and Belknap
and Augustus e. Wilson. He fought
Goebel and he fought Beckham when
Beckham was at outs with Shackel-
ford, the Tobacco Trust and the Stand
ard Oil Company. He fought Hager.
Why this man who canonized Caleb
Powers and wept on the shoulders OF
Bill Taylor when an outraged Democ-
racy had made an outcast of that
usurper, should suddenly find in Mr..
Beckham all the beatitudes of his an
Gent Republican allies. is beyond my
ken.
Il do not complain of his wanton and
cruel assaults upon me. l do not be-
lieve that the Democracy of Kentucky
will be moved by the coarse and WI.
gar abuse with which the filthy col
umps of this Republican sheet reek
from day to day. They will remem Der
that no Democrat In public life is 50
upright or pure or blameless as to
escape the envenomed pen of this
servile and corrupt enemy to decency
and Democracy.
When William Goebel made the re-
form of corporate abuses the keynote
of his campaign Dick Knott, then an
alleged Democrat, in obedience to the
interests which he served then and is
serving now, instantly became a
vicious and rantankerous Republican.
William Goebel was denounced as
an assassin, a fiannel-mouthed incen-
diary, designing demagogue, and
when traduction, SANDER, misrepre-
sentation and falsehood all combined
did not avail to shake the faith of the
people in their valiant champion, this
same Louisville Post became the intel
heencer and the herald by which arm
ed assassins were notified that their
pI essence was needed in the peaceful
cal ital of the Commonwealth.
"Dick Knots paper was the bugle
call that rang through hill and dale
and assembled those turbulent spirits
who were shortly to make the seat of
government a scene of chaos and dis
order and at last of murder, and when
they were encamped around and about
the capital of the State and courts and
General Assembly were menaced by
their sinister presence, who defended
the assembling OF this so-called peace
full armyT Richard W. Knott and the
Louisville Evening Post.
when the General Assembly were
driven in terror through the capital,
chased with naked bayonets through
the streets of Frankfort, who con-
doned the monstrous outrage? Rich
ard w. Knott and the Louisville Eve
ming Post
when for the first time In the his
tory OF civilized government ruffians
invaded the sacred temples of justice
and reverend judges, the ermine upon
their shoulders, were forced to fee for
their lives and leave precious records
OF the Commonwealth for sack and pill
lage by ruthless and brutal savages.
who danced with fendlsh glee while
the damnable work was done? Rich
ard w. Knott and the Louisville Eve
ming Post.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
No Self-Solicitude.

II do not complain that the columns
of this sheet reek with every form of
denunciation of me. | do not complain
that | am subjected by it to every form
of traduction and abuse as an official
and as a man. am painted as a sot,
a demagogue and a faker, the super
serviceable tool of the liquor interests.
| seek neltner commentator nor the
support OF the panderer to corruption
and an apologist for murder. | wear
his relentless hate as a badge OF hon
or This facetious viper, whose ven
omed tooth, but lately ranked in the
lion heart of William Goebel is coiled,
now ready to strike at any breast
barred in the defense of popular gov
eminent and the peoples rights.
How this Republican sheet must
edify the amazed Democracy Of Ken
lucky with the information that while
| am bold, bad man, Mr.. Beckham is
sweet and neat, with pretty little
feet, and that he has never been kiss.
ed in his life,' and that he is merely
as sane and safe as Knott's once beau
ideal, William Howard Taft, that he is
as coy and modest and retiring as that
gentle and dove-like statesman, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and that he is nearly
as careful of human life as Powers or
Howard or Youtsey.
Were the only Democrat who had
deserved by honest and faithful serv-
ice the implacable hostility of Mr..
Knott, were | the only Democrat who
had fallen the victim of his deliberate
perversion of the truth, there might
be found somewhere a member of my
own party who might come under the
influence of his wiles.
Il am the last, not the first, to be
honored by his opposition.
THE Fifth district has been repre-
scented for six successive terms by
man of superb ability; a clearheaded,
clean and capable public servant. He
has earned and he has received the
continued commentator and support
of a splendid constituency, l hope
soon to see him the chairman of the
great Committee on Appropriations
1t is a fitting reward for faithful serv-
ice and will redouRd to the honor and
the material good of great city and
a great Commonwealth. Yet Richard
w. Knott did not hesitate to blast and
to blacken his name. and to distort
the motives and belittle the services
of your chosen Representative, Mr.
Sherley.