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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-03-19
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

OUR Mexican policy consists chiefly in making
" damands to which not the slightest atten-
ton is paid.
WHEN the right of petition denied is the Peo-
w pie of county, hasn't the Constitution
been violated?
ITO THE Democrats in the next Congress, Un-
L Gle JoE CANNON will be about as welcome
as the smallpox.
DY ANOTHER year, the Administration will
ID not realize enough out of the income tax
to buy dill pickle.
LAS Tennessee a Constitution, and have the
IL people any rights that the Democratic
party is bound to respect?
WE never very firmly believed in the secret
w ballot man who is afraid to vote his
ticket openly hasn't much stamina
ccTHE Church has done great deal for me"
L saws Mr. BRYAN Was he doing anything
for that institution in the last campaign?
T,VEN the heathen will Join in the movement,
IL next wear. to rid the country of that en-
cumbrance known as the Democratic party
WE LEARN that Nine. SARAH BERNHARDT IS :.
- to tour THIS country Will dl al iOS'1f
She now has something to match her complex !.
ion.
AS A good union printer, we have always ad-
n Hon. ALBERT O. HILL, but we think ne has
prostituted himself by accepting favors at the
hands of LUKE LEA.
THE statement that the new County Court will
be composed of five Republicans and five
Democrats sounds like Supreme Court de-
cision we have heard Of
CINCE Hon. H.. CLAY EVANS was counted out
~ in 1894, it has been matter OF pride with
the Democratic party in Tennessee as to how lar
it could go in the matter of stealing elections
THE business interests put W. J. BRYAN on the
blink in 1896 because he was menace to
prosperity. The same interests will retire the
present President for precisely the same reason.
HAPPILY, the Republicans will be able to
III nominate winning candidate for Presl-
dent without the seemingly disinterested help
from Democratic papers There Can be no repe-
tition of the 1912 campaign.
TIP In Indiana, when the Democrats can not
y control an election commissioner, they
have convenient way of locking him up until
the election is over They dont't seem to have
anv such trouble in Tennessee--at least we
haven't heard of any of them being locked up.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
DYER, TENN, MAN SUF-
FERED 40 YEARS.
]. t. Castleman Finds Hope
Fulfilled After Passing
ThreesCore Years.

j. T. Castlrman, of Dyer,
Tenn, suffered from stomach
arrangements for forty years,
taking all sorts of medicine,
following all kinds of medical
advice.
In all the forty years, he said
he never had real good day
until he tried Mayr's Wonder
full Remedy. Then he discover
ed something. Let his letter
tell about it:
"l'he first dose of Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy caused gall
stones to pass from me. am
feeling much better than | have
ever before. am 81 years old
and ! had never before enjoyed
one whole good day.
81 would not give the one
bottle you sent me for all the
drugs and doctors medicine
that is made"
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
gives permanent results for
stomach, liver and intestinal
ailments. Eat as much and
whatever You like. No more
distress after eating. pressure
of gas in the stomach and
around the heart. Get one bot.
tie of your druggist now and
try 1t on an absolute guarantee
If not satisfactory money will
he returned.-ad
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Constitutional Amendment to
be submitted to the people, and
at this its very first appearance,
lacked but two votes of recciv-
ing majority of the votes
cast. In fact it received IA clear
majority of all the Democratic
Senators voting, received the
only Republican vote from that
half Of the State containing the
principal part of the negro pop
ulation, and from all that half
OF the State east of Greensboro,
where the people really know
the conditions, only four votes
were cast against it.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
GAME HERE TODAY.

y large crowd is expected
here today To witness the ball
game between Dante and the
home team. Dante is still lead
ing the league with no defeats
while Big Stone Gap is a close
second, having lost only one
game, and it is safe to say the
locals are going TO strive hard
to administer the first defeat to
Dante
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
AXE a
Take a
ReMa99 9tde1QieA
Tonight
|, will act as a laxative in tho
morning
Kelly Drug Co.
Race Problems in the Rural
South.

Census statistics proving that
the rural South is growing
blacker instead of winter fca
turcd the address of Editor
Clarence Poe of the Progressive
Farmer, delivered al Charlottcs
Vile, Va. April l6, In the
South Atlantic States III the
last Census decade, he said,
white farmers increased onl,
- per cent. negro farmers ~
per cent.-nearly twice as fast
In the South Central States
white farmers increasd - per
cont. and the negroes 81 per
cent. nearly twice ms fast. He
also pointed out that negroes
are gaining fastest in farm
ownership, while it is the
whites who are fastest bccum-
ing tenant class, there being
lSS,00O increase III number of
white tenant farmers i the
last decade, or - per cent,
against only lls,O00 incIease in
negro tenant farmers, or 81
per cent.
DIR. Poe declared that these
results We're due not to she SUI
periority of the negro but to
two unfair advantages:
First, an unfair economic adj
vantage in that the negroes are
able TO buy land and make
crops on scale of living,
clothing and housing that the
respectable white farmer and
his family doing the same char
acter Of work cannot meet.
"Second, social advantage
in that when negroes move into
a white neighborhoo3, or begin
to outnumber the whites in IA
neighborhood, or become of bad
character, the whites may be
forced to move away because
there is no longer adequate
social life, adequately support
ed white schools aud churches,
or else for the greater security
of the white farmers wife and
daughters
BY way of otrsetting these
advantages, "as matter OF
justice 10 the white man and
not of injustice to the negro, :
he declar, d, he advocated the
plan for allowing white neigh
borhood that wish to do so to
limit future land sales to white
people On this point he said
Sin North Carolina such o
plan for race segregation in
Hand ownership is now definite
ily before the people and it is
fast becoming an issue in other
States. After heing twice over
whelmingly endorsed by the
State Farmers Union, tn @
measure came before the Sen
ate of North Carolina at it's re-
cent session, i'm the form of =
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

lieve Uncle John Goodloe will
fight for it if elected. Nearly
every dollar spent in Big Stone
Gap has TO be made outside of
town. If we had factories and
wholesale houses it would
change this and give the farm
crs n market for their products.
w. j.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

B. f. Buchanan, Of Marion.
Virginia, member of the Vir-
gina senate, has been appoint
ed by the treasury department
as counsel for receivers OF all
insolvent natl onal banks
Throughout, the country, and he
viii have supervision an d
charge over all litigation relat
ing to the affairs OF such banks
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

We are glad to learn tho rail
road officials have decided TO
continue the service of the
Bristol to Louisville Pullman.
This service ia of great conven-
iencc to the travelling public,
who viii be greatly III ns,d 10
learn it will he continued.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

President Wilson in an nd
dress at a meeting at Washing
ton of the Potomac Presbytery
of the Presbyterian Church pic
tured u vision of China nwak-
oning by the voice of Christ
and furnishing n great momen.
tum in future to the moral
forces Of the world.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
SALESMAN WANTED.

For Washington, Scott and
Lee Counties, Virginia, who is
acquainted with the general
store trade in This territory
Apply at once. a. w. DoRsCn,
Manager, S. H. Bowscr a. CO.,
Inc, 2o7 Evans Bldg, Wash
ing, ID. G. lS-19-2O
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

In The location of Newcastle,
England, there is said To be
coal enough TO last the world
500 years--that is, 100000, 900
tons.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Secretary Redheld's estimate
that American export trade for
the current fiscal year will
amount to $2.75O, 600, 600 gives a
fair indication of the manner in
which the prosperity of the
United States was assisted by
the European War.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Now is the time the gardener
wishes that chickens would not
only go home to roost but stay
there and feed.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Anything which is barely
good enough is not good
enough.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

What this world needs in
more freehearted laughter. It's
almost IA good as raise in
salary.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Lighting cigarette in Lon
don after shutdown comprises
oil the evidence necessary that
the offender is n German spy.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

~ machine haze been devised
for initiating the noise of an
aeroplone engine with the OBJ
ject of alarming hostile troops.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

This is no time for any body
to throw a monkey wrench into
the newly started prosperity
machinery.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
Elisha Link
Gap.

''u' NV WI h'i VA iSNNs ''NFN'
aud Wise counties. To the
south there is a vast forest OF
many thousand acres ON head
waters of Stock and Stony
Greeks. Wild Cat Valley To the
north is one of our most ,mpor-
tnnt gatewuys to Big Stouc
Gap. The supervisors of Wise
county are grading this road,
which is an outlet for the rich
farming sections of North Fork
aud Wallcns Creek. This is
the natural route for an auto
mobile road to Bristol, via
Dunield, Natural Tunnel aud
Gate City.
noticed not long ago in
your valuable paper that some
one suggested planting fruit
trees in the court house yard
ut Wise, and reference TO the
fact that apple seed Johnny
many years ago planted fruit
seed in the wild west, and thnt
some OF the old countries plant
ed fuit trees along the public
roads The seed planted by
johnny produced inferior APP
pies, which may have been left
on trees like the oranges ON
streets of New Orleans, too
sour for boys and men to de-
stroy. The law of atavism
rules in fruit seed, as Virgil
stated in his treatise ON farm
ing several thousand years ago.
Modern trees for good fruit are
produced by grating or bud
ding aud are more expensive
than the sour apples produced
from seed Sc ding frnit is
often like The dead sea fruit,
pleasing to the eye but better
to taste.
The best plan would be to
protect the owner of n good
fruit tree and punish those who
take his fruit the sumo as for
taking his corn and other pro
ducts. The fruit hanging over
the fence or road legally be-
longs 10 the ow ner of the tree.
The fruit grower will never re-
fuse TO give truit to the travel
Ter but thinks il an unpnrdona
Bile ain TO steal his apples and
damage his trees.
In France fruit is planted
along the road but it is in care
of the road hinder and unlnw
ful TO modest it without his
consent. 1t would he great
thing to have fruit trees all
along our roads and public
places, but we must first learn
how to care for it and respect
the rights Of others.
The new roads will be OF
great advantage to Big Stone
Gap and we ought to become a
great manufacturing center,
but this will never be done nm
til we get better freight rates.
We will not get these freight
rates until we get Il union depot
i'll town. We can get this union
depot and freight rates if we
make an effort. The writer
came near getting it single
handed II few years ago when
Governor Stuart was a member
OF the Corporation Committee.
He came here and favored it.
Judge wm. Rhea, the greatest
fighter for the peoples rights
we ever had in Southwest Vir-
ginia, ia member of the Cor
poration Commission, md if
the matter il properly present
ed 30 him we can get our prop
or dues.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Get ready for July 4th; but
we will celebrate on the 3rd-as
the 18th comes on Sunday.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12

Miss Wiufrev. n tenchcr in
the East Stone Gap high school,
was the guest OF Miss Xollic
Palmer Friday.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-05-12
Cut This Out
1t Is Worth Money

Cut out this advertisement. enclose
. cents TO Foley * Co. 2S35 Shcifcid
Ave, Chicago. M. writing your name
and address clearly. You viii re-
ceive IN return trial package con.
% Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound, the standard family remedy
for coughs. colds. Group. whooping
cough, ightness and soreness In
chest. grippe ana bronchial coughs.
co Foley Kidney pills. for over
worked and disordered Kidneys and
bladder ailments, pain in sides and
back due 10 Kidney Trouble, sore
muscles, stin joints, backnche and
rheumatism.
(3) Foley Cathartic Tablets. n
wholesome and thoroughly cleansing
cathartic. Especially comforting to
stout persons, aud n purEative needed
by everybody with sluggish bowels
and torpid liver You can try these
three family remedies Tor only SC.
Mutual Drug Company
Big Stone Gap. Va.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28
REHABILITATION

Number Of acres IN Drainage District Isl5I.
Value OF all lands IN dist without drainage 3666To.
Value OF Rightof.way allowed for ditch $3.50.
Value OF net benefits assessed on all lands $3.50.
Value Of all lands after drainage 44oo5o.
Value Of railroads IN district before drain, $4,000.
Value allowed for Right. of way for ditch
and for rebuilding track 300.
Value of net benefits assessed 5000.
Value of railroad after drainage 265oo.
Value of net benefit to all public roads in
district 2bo.
Total increased value of all property
assessed in district G97so.
We, Tobe Chastain, John L. Fry and John A.
Ford do hereby certify that we have IN body gone
over and carefully inspected the lands lots and ral
roads together with the Public Roads IN Little Run.
ring Water Drainage District and IN the above tab
uated statement have entered the names of the own
ers ol the real estate as shown by last county tax
books and the subdivision and have placed the val
uation without drainage and also valuation with
drainage, and also made assessment of railroads
without drainage and with drainage. Also have
assessed the net benefits Of drainage TO the public
roads in SAID district
We further certify that We are residents and
land owners of Randolph county, but not residents
or land owners in said district.
we further state that there are no tram roads
IN drainage district. And we further certify that
we have assessed the damage that will accrue to any
owner of real estate rail roads by reason of the
proposed Improvement including ali injury to lands
or rail roads taken or damaged and have entered
SAID damages IN the columns headed ANTS. Damape
Allowed for Right-of.way.
Respectfully submitted this May 9th 1915.
Tobe Chastain,
John l.. Fry,
John A. Ford.
Board OF assessors for Little Running Water
drainage District. Subscribed and sworn TO before
me this 9Th day of May, 1915.
e. T. Harrison, Co. Clerk.
Fiied IN my office at II O'Clock, a. m.
4""y o'D' IoI5' f. 7. Harrison, Co Clerk.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

In answer TO a question by one
Of the Memphis papers as to the
position Of German.Ameuoans in
case Of war between this country
and Germany, a German by birth
answered Germany Is my moth
er, America Is my wife. II my
mother mistreats my wife, ! will do
my sworn duty to protect her."
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

President Wilson reviewed the
Atlantic feet IN the Hudson river
last week, and pronounced il the
greatest in the world. There Is
one thing about Uncle Sans navy;
when one OF our gunners get a shot
at an enemy ship there is nothing
left but a greasy spot on the water.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

Since Italy has entered the war,
some fellow remarks that the
United States now Is about the on-
ly civilized nation not engaged in
war. Leave the last four words OF
and you have IL more correctly.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

While the other nations are en-.
gagged IN the greatest war the world
has ever known, the United States
is pulling of a Worlds FAIR at San
Francisco, all by her lonesome.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

II Italy has any earthly excuse
for jumping into the present war
we would like TO have some one
tell US what IL IL.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

Uncle Sam TO the postman;
"Any mail from KAISER Bill to-
day "Nope, nothln' doin', the
Allies are trying out their new
pitcher, Italy, this week"
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28

When Uncle Sam declares war
on foreign nation it Is then time
in America to swat the hyphen.
Pocahontas star herald., 1915-05-28
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
rnR rRRAsuRER

WIN 5. White Of James Greek township au.
thoTinos Us 20 announce him a. candidate
for Treasurer OF Randolph county. subject
10 the Democratic primary march
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-09
BRYAN AS SECRETARY
 SET AGAINST WAR

In a speech on May 12, 1913, to visiting British, Canadian, and Australian delegates on the Treaty of Ghent celebration, MT. Bryan told the diners that tItere would be no war while he was Secretary of State, and that Il6 would never have accepted the portfolio of the Premiership if hs. had thought for one moment thar there would be war dnriag his incumbency of the office.
 In his speech Mir. Bryan said:
 sI made up my mind before I accepted the offer of the Score taryship of State that I would not take the office if tIlought there was to be war during my tenure.
 1sWhen I say this I am conf dent that I shall have no cause to change my view. for we know no cause to-day that Gannot be set tied better by reason than by war.
 ssI believe there will be no war while ann Secretary of State, and I believe there will be no war SO long as I live. I hope we have seen the last great war;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-09
LANSING HAS HAD
 WIDE EXPERIENCE

Washington, June 9-Robert Lam sing. Counselor of the State Depart ment and now Acting Secretary of State became Counselor of the State Department April 1, 1914, following the retirement of Dr. John Bassett Moore, who had resigned several weeks be- fore because as it was understood, of his disagreement with MT. Bryan's Mexican policy.
 MT. Lansing was known locally as a. son-in-1aw of General John w. Eos ter, former minister to Mexico, Rus sia and Spain and secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Harrison and as the counsel and agent of the American and British Claims Com mission which had for many years been prosecuting claims in connection with the seal fisheries in the Behring Sea
 He was born at watertown, N. r., Oct. IT, 1864. He entered Amherst Col llege in 1882 and graduated with the class of s86: Studying law for three years at Watertown, he began prac- tice there with a cousin, forming the firm of Lansing & Lansing in 1889, and continuing as a member of the
 married Miss Eleanor Foster, the only daughter of General Foster, who when secretary of state in 1892 appointed him an associate counsel for the Unit ed States in the Behring Sea arbitra- ton.
 He was counsel forGthe United States before the Behring Sea Claims Com
 mission in 1893 and 1897 and later in 1903 was associated with E1ihu Root, then Secretary of War, as counsel be- fore the Alaskan Boundary Comnnis- sion in London For several years he was counsel in the North Atlantic Fisheries cases and in arbitration cases at The Hague.
 As a State Department official Mir Lansing has developed a direct, de- cisive manner of dealing with public questions. MT. Brya1l's many ab- sences from Washington have given him opportunities before this to show his ability as acting secretary. His first duties were eonnected with the shaping of diplomatic policies arising from the revolution in Mexico. With the outbreak of the war in Flu rope the position which MT. Lansing [ had taken became one of high impor- tanee in the conduct of foreign polf- cies. With his aid a. complete reorgan- ization of the State Department was promptly undertaken for the consider ation of the problems that arose from the peculiar conditions of the greatest war in history.
 Tn the earlier stages of the war the preparation of American notes. was confided to MT Lansing, and the Presidents part in them was simply one of revision and general direction. Lately, the President has written his own notes, but they have been referred for technical corrections to Mir. Lan- sing rather than to MT. Bryan Pres ident Wilson has looked to him off, cially and privately for help contin- ually- Night and day he has been at the Presidents call over the telephone to render advice and take directions Of the 1nnunaerable details of problems arising almost every hour.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-09
OF RESIGNATION ON GERMANY'S ATTITUDE
 CAUSE OF SPECULATION
Firm Advocacy of Peace Had Caused Belief Abroad That Peaceful Measures Would Always Be Sought By U. s-Profound Impression in Berlin is Expected Because of Sudden and Drastic Action of MT. Bryan

Washington, June 9.-After two years and three months as secretary of state, or little more than half the Wilson administration, William Jen- nings Bryan to-day returned to pri- vate life His departure from the cabinet under sensational ctrcun- stances because he could not join in the approval in the note to Germany TO reconcile it's prin ciples to the cause which he declared to be nearest his heart-''The prevention of var developed to-day not only most un- usual situation in the domestic pol itics of the United States but a grave turn in it's foreign policy.
 Staunch in his advocacy of peace and firmly set against any communi- cation to Germany which might in voIve the United States in war, MT. Bryan found himself opposed not on 1y by the President but by a, major ity of the members of the cabinet in the methods of dealing with the sit uation. The President, in his letter expressing regret over MT. Bryan's resignation said he was not separat- ing himself from MT. Bryan in the objects sought in the present crisis but only in the method by which they were to be accomplished.
 The outstanding feature of the sit uation was the effect of MT. Bryan's resignation on the situation between the United states and Germany. Heretofore there have been many in timations from official sources in Berlin that the viewpoint of the United States as expressed in the notes sent could not be taken serious ly because of the knowledge that Sec retary Bryan was committed against drastic measures. In one of his speeches MT. Bryan had said that while he was secretary of state there never would be war. His withdraw al at a critical moment over the very question of adopting a firm and wig orous policy was regarded in official and diplomatic quarters here as like 1y to produce profound impression on the German government
 The note to Germany on which the President has been working for several days and which had the ap- prova1 of the cabinet with the ex- ception of MT. Bryan, was expected to go forward to-day. It should, there fore, reach Ambassador Gerard about Thursday of this week for presenta- ton to the German foreign office. While no arrangements have been made as yet concerning pub1ica ton, it probably will be made public on Thursday. An answer is not expect ed from the German foreign office