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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07
NUMBER 40
SHALL WE SEND
A MAN TO CON-
GRESS BECAUSE
HE WANTS TOGO?

Should we send a man to Con-
gress simply because he wants the
Officer
Should we send a man to Con-
gress simply to enable him TO re-
ceive the salary that goes with the
office?
Should we, under any circum-
stances, send a man to Congress
simply as a personal favor to himY
To each of these emphatic in
quiries, our answer is NO.
In the first place no man should
be considered for this high office on
any other grounds than his fitness
and qualifications for the efficient
discharge Of his duties, which are
not like the official duties Of nearly
all other Offices simply statutory
in which the law plainly sets out
specifically just what the officer is
to do. The duties Of a legislator re-
quire the exercise of a wise discre-
ton, sound judgment, and a clear
discernment Of the effect of ieeisla-
ton upon the public welfare. These
necessary and all important quail
fications of a Congressman are the
growth and outcome of experience
and cannot be acquired in any 9TH
er way.
Mr.. Sims is now serving his
twentieth consecutive year in Con-
gress and no man, since our govern
ment was established, has ever
served that long who was a failure
in that body. 1t is impossible for a
man of mediocre ability to advance
from the lowest to the highest COM
mittee service in the Congress of
the United States. Mr.. Sims has
done this very thing. He started in
a Republican House with an assign
ment to the Committee on Pensions
and now in a Democratic House
he is the ranking member, and ex-
officio chairman of the greatest
committee-Interstate and Foreign
Commerce the House. I'm
doubtedly the people of the Eighth
District take pride in the high rank
and standing of their Representa-
tive in the law-makine body Of this
great Republic. Then why retire
Mr.. Sims in the full vigor and
strenth Of body and mind simply
as a favor to a new, inexperienced
and untried man, who, whatever
his merits may be, cannot for many
years reach the heights Of legisla-
tive service now occupied by our
present member?
At a time like the present, when
the very foundations Of civilization
and social order are disturbed and
all but more than half destroyed
in the civilized world, is It the ex-
ercise Of wisdom and good jude-
ment on the part Of the people to
give up tried and experienced
legislator to make room for an un-
tried and inexperienced man?--Par-
is Post-Intelligenoer.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07

The Importance Of the negro citi-
zen Of the United States was doubt
less added to by the fact that a
few Of his kind, wearing the uni
form Of a soldier, came very near
last week, precipitatine war which
would have cost millions Of money
and perhaps rivers Of blood. The
troopers captured at Carrizal re-
Gently and returned on demand Of
President Wilson, were negroes
but Uncle Sam came to their res
cue Just the same just the same as
il they had been white as snow.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07

The following was the work done
by the July term of the Quarterly
court:
All justices present excep. ]. B.
Jones of the Sixth District.
Appropriations aggregate about
$500.
Ordered purchase Of lhe S. F.
Rossom adding machine for 5000,
for use of county officials.
Court appointe d the following
committees to let contract and
build bridges: Wooden bridge; over
Sandy, at Wildersville. Committee:
S. j. Walker, Sc. Leslie and W. R.
Bolin.
Wooden bridge over Lindsey
creek. between Juno and Poplar
Springs. Committee. C. M. Ver-
non, A. j. Coleman and J. L. Yar-
bro
Wooden bridge over Spring creek,
old Eighth District. Committee:
C. W. Meals, Alex Miller and G. w.
Jordan.
Over Lick creek, on Chesterfield
road, wooden bridge. Committee:
Gene Scates, j. R. McPeake and
Will Walker.
Steel bridge over Browns creek,
on Sulphur Springs road. Commit
mittee: R. E. Owen, A. j. Maness,
and Jimmie Hays, who have been
ordered to purchase and erect
same.
Steel bridge over Browns creek,
on Sulphur Springs road. Commit
tee: Jack Davis, E. M. Evans ann
R. E. Owen, to purchase and erect
same at what is known as Chester
field crossing, near Union church,
Wooden bridge over Cub creek, in
old Eighteenth district, on Shiloh
and Yuma road. Committee: R.
M. Bradfeld, James Pritchard and
A. j. Taylor.
Court ordered appointment of COM
mittee to investigate bottom and
confer with the dredging company
in regard to building levee near
Darden on old Mlddleburg road.
Bridge over Cane creek, on Lex
ton and Decaturville road, in old
Fourteenth district. Same commit
tee also to repair and extend levee
at same place at cost not to exceed
$100. Committee not named by
court.
Dr. Cantwell, Federal stock in
spector' was by the court elected
County Live Stock inspector.
Salary Of County Physician R. H.
Davidson, was raised from 5000 TO
$500 per year, because Of increased
work.
R. A. Lewis was reelected notary
public.
Plan of working roads in Hender-
son county: Roads of the county
to be divided into sections as fol-
lows:
First-The road from Lexington
to Sardis
Second-The road from Lexing
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07
July Term Quarterly Court
Orders Several Bridges Built
And Adopts New Road Plan.

ton via Juno to Madison county
line.
Third The road from Lexington
to the Chester county line via Ar
nold's store.
Fourth-The road from Lexing-
ton to the Carroll county line at the
McHaney Mill, via Bargerton.
Fifth-The road from Lexington
to the Carroll county line via Par
ker's cross roads.
Sixth The road from Lexington
to new Stafford via Hare's Mill.
Seventh-The road from Lexing-
ton to the Decatur county line via
Darden.
Eighth-The road from Lexing-
ton the Decatur county line via
Long or Middlebure.
Ninth The road from Lexington
to SCOTS Hill via Shady Hill.
The workhouse commissioners to
advertise in the two weekly papers
Of Lexington for two weeks. a prop
osition to the people living along
the above named roads, to grade
and make the road as follows:
First-The road that will furnish
the largest amount of voluntary
contributions. in money and labor,
to be worked under the supervision
of the workhouse commission. All
labor contributed must be by par
ties who are able to- make good
their offers or to secure the same;
and money contributions to be like
wise secured or paid. Contributions
of money and labor must be thus
made within the two weeks of the
first publication of notice. AT the
expiration Of the two weeks, the
commission will make a canvass of
such contributions from the people
for each Of the above named roads
and the road receiving the high
est or greatest amount of such
contributions, will be adopted as
the road to be first graded and
made. When this road has been
completed the commission will adopt
likee pin in ascerta.ning what road
or roads will be next worked, and
plan will be pursued until all Of the
roads above named shall have been
worked; and in the working Of such
roads the commission will use the
convict labor of the county and
such contributions as may be made
under the foregoing provision in ac-
cordance with the best judgment Of
the commission, that commission
equipment and convict labor to 60
on the roads except when necessary
for repairs on other roads-all con-
tracts to be payable to and be en-
forced by the commission and fur
ther that if provisions can be made
for fines payable in one to five
years, that the commission be en-
powered to build not to exceed two
miles Of gravel and not exceeding
two miles Of sand-clay roads, as an
experiment for pertinent road
building. Warrants to be issued on
the committees report to the coun-
ty judge divided in five payments.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07
BISHOP E. E. HOSS
OPPOSED TO WO-
MAN SUFFRAGE.

peal Bishop E. E. Hoss, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. South, prom
ises to write weekly letter for that
enterprising paper.
The Bishops first article appear
ed under the caption Women in
Public Life" and was an able ar
gument agaist female suffrage.
In his smooth and persuasive
way, Bishop Hoss has many good
things to say Of and for the women,
for he himself belongs to that class
Of men who are conceded to lead
the world in paying deferedce to
good women-the class of the ma
tive men of the south; but none the
less he hits the nails on the head
as he sees them and drives home
his arguments with the vigor which
has always characterized his man
ner Of handling whatever questions
he may think it good to discuss.
Two paragraphs of the Bishops
article strike us as peculiarly worthy
ofreproduction, the first one Of which
appeals to us as especially true
and a most apt explanation Of the
understanding that morally women
are much better than men. 1t
has been the home life which has
made women morally, infinitely
bettar than men. Let women leave
the home life, let them have to face
the world in struggle for existence
and as the last item in the change
from a homekeeper to a helper in
the building of political machines
and then compare her with the
ideal oldtime women Of the South.
We believe that female suffrage is
coming, but we do not believe that
the voting, office-holding, politics,
manipulating woman is ever going
to come up to the ideal of men who
are old enough to remember those
whose sphere was confined to the
home almost alone and left the
matter of government to their faith
ers, brothers, husbands, sweethearts
and friends. But getting backsto
Bishop Hoss, here are his two para
graphs:
The assertion that women are to
bring new era of moral purity into
public life as is yet wholly un-
proved. Certainly there has been
no demonstration Of it on a scale
sufficiently large to warrant a gen.
eral belief in it. That women as a
class are morally far better than
men is beyond all doubt, but it is
the women Of the home and the
family concerning whom ! make
this concession Whether | should
be ready to make it Of a generation
Of women who lift up their voices
in the clamor of the polling booths
is somewhat doubtful.
The suffrage movement. while it
commands the respect and the sup
port of a great many and very no
BILE women, is sure, if finally sue
cessful, to bring into politics also a
large class Of women, white and
black, whose presence at the polls
would not be a purifying force.
One of the most delicious arguments
in answer to this suggestion is that
the chivalry Of the men will pro-
tect their wives and sisters and
mothers from affront and insult.
Indeed, indeedl And yet these very
men are not chivalrous enough to
take care Of the rights Of women as
things now are.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-07

Denmark is compelled to import
hoops for barrels.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
THE NATION Is SHOCKING
LY UNPREPARED.

1t is apparent that we are
shockingly unprepared. There is
no room for controversy on this
point since the object lesson on
the Mexican border. All our
available regular troops Qess, l
believe, than 100000 are there
or in Mexico, and as these have
been deemed insufficient the en-
tire national guard has been Or
dered out. That is. we are sum-
mOning practically all our mov-
able military forces in order to
prevent bandit incursiOns. In
view of the warnings of the past
three years. it is ineXcusable
that we should find ourselves in
this plight. For our faithful
guardsmen. who with fine pa
triOtism responded to this call
and are bearing this burden. |
have nothing but praise. But I
think it little short of absurd
that we should lie compelled to
call men from their shops. their
factories. their offices and their
professions for such Il purpose.
This. however. is not all. The
units Of the national guard were
at peace strength, which was
only about One-half the required
strength. 1t was necessary to
bring In recruits. for the most
part raw and unframed. Only n
small percentage Of the regiments
recruited up to war strength VIII
have had even years training
In the national guard. which at
the maximum means hun
dred hours of military drill, and.
on the average, means much less.
Men fresh from their peaceful
emplOyments and physically un-
prepared have been hurried to
the border for actual service.
They We're without proper equip
ment, without necessary sup
plies; suitable conditions OF trans
portation were not provided. Men
with dependent families were
sent, and conditions which should
have been we'll known were dis
covered after the event. And
yet the exigency, comparatively
speaking, was not a very grave
one. 1t involved nothing that
could not readily have been fore
seen during the past three years
Of disturbance and required only
a modest talent for organization.
That this administration while
pursuing its course in Mexico
should have permitted such con-
ditions to exist is almost in
credible.-FrOm Mr.. Hughes
Speech Of Acceptance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
casio RIA
Palestine.

Mr.. and Mrs. Groendyke at
tended the funeral Of Mrs. King
at the Brethren church. north
east of town, Sunday morning.
Mrs. Cora Rush of Richmond.
Ind, spent several days at Pal,
estine last week.
Mrs. Alice Thorne, who has
been with Grandma Woods, has
returned to Greenville to serve
as matron at the women's rest
room.
The young people of this VIC
Unity had a jolly time near the
old Indian camping ground, south
of town, Thursday night.
Miss Harriet Croroley has re-
turned home from school at De-
tiance.
O. V. Metzcar and wife re-
turned home from their Michi-
gan trip Saturday.
Mrs. Izetta Simpson visited in
Hollansburg last Sunday.
The annual reunion of the
Sentman family was held at Mrs.
Addie Richards at this place
Saturday.
DR.. Tobin and wife and Her.
man Ross returned from a motor
trip through Union county Sat-
urday.
Aug. z. FROM PALESTINE.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q s z Q RIA
Timely Advice to men.

Timely Advice to Men.
You need not be ashamed of your
follies, but you ought to be ashamed
not to correct them. IF you are not
ready to correct them today you will
be less so tomorrow,
Do it now. This is a motto we see
tackled up in many places and it's a
good text to follow. To avoid delay
in caring for diseases is to avoid dam
age.
If you are not physically sound get
busy with yourself. The debt you owe
to posterity is to permit them to in
herit from you clear mind, good
nerves, pure blood and sound body
You are not what you should be
Come talk it over with DR.. Kutchin,
a careful specialist, who has had 30
years experience, Ifyou are satisfied
you will find my prices easily within
your reach
DIR. Kutchln'snext visit to Green
vile, will be on Thursday, Aug. 27,
at the Hotel James. Call in the fore
noon. ADV
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10

Feature attractions will make
the Great Darke County Fair,
August 21.25, 1916, the greatest
exposition of the kind ever held
ir the middle west. Largely in
creased premiums, all of which
are to be paid in full, will siren
gthen exhibits in every depart
ment. Liberal purses will draw
a long list of entries in all of the
fifteen racing events.
Three special features have
been secured for the free attrac-
tions in front of the amphithea-
tre-The Royals. The Flying Mu-
nichs and Bartelli & Wright. and
will give performances almost
continuously from 1880 a. m.
each day until evening.
Mann's great band of 45 pieces
and chorus will give a daily mus
ical program never before equal
led on the Great Darke County
Fair grounds. CIVIL
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10

There is nothing niggardly in
the support which the Progress
sives of Nebraska are giving to
the Republican cause. Not only
have they substituted the lanes
of the Republican candidates for
those Of their own party on the
state and national ticket, but
their state convention adopted a
platform in which a Wholehearted
and ungrudging measure of CO.
operation was pledged to the uni
ted party ticket. I'VE declare, "
says this sterling document, "Uhe
election of Hughes the vital need
of the hour for reasons of the
truest Americanism, the broadest
nationaIism, the security of our
national dignity and the perpetu-
ity of our governmental ideals,
and we pledge the earnest co op-
Grafton of the Progressives here
assembled and our personal in
fuence among our fellow citizens
to the success of his campaign y
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10

George Eberwine to Joseph Eb-
erwine, quit claim to lot 283 in
Union City, $125.
Joseph R. Turner to Ida Ear
hart, lots 354, 355 ard part lot
356 in Gleenville, $500.
Alva L. Hart to James C. Nit
chell, 40 acres in Allen township,
81.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10

England ana germany got our
citizens in Mexico out of peril.
On the arms and ammunition en-
barge the administration changed
front five times. We advanced
the cause of Villa, then turned
on him and recognized CarranzA
who had refused to attend the
conference called by President
Wilson, and who has never pre-
tended to be able to maintain or
derly government. Am eric a n
citizens have been massacred and
I'American property destroyed.
and there is no redress, notwith-
standing the Democratic platform
declaration of 1912 that the con-
stitutional rights of American
citizens should go with them
throughout the world" What a
sickening chapter.
| In the matter of preparedness,
Mr.. Hughes showed that the ad-
ministration has followed, not
| led. Three times has it changed
front on its own program, and af-
ter three years of warning the
rational guardsmen were called
from their peaceful occupations
and sent to the border without
proper equipment, without nee,
essary supplies, and without suit
able conditions Of transportation.
In his outline for national de-
fense, his proposal for an inter-
national tribunal to settle dis
putes, his demand for the safe
guarding of our economic lnde-
pendence, south, east, north and
west, by means Of a protective
tariff, for the upbuilding of our
merchant marine, and for fiscal
reform, Mr.. Hughes shows COM
prehension of our national needs
and a breadth of craftsmanship
which give the country serene
confidence in his constructive a
bility, and which are in striking
contrast with the makeshift, any.
thing-to- -cqtch-votes, devices now
being put through by the party
in power. He outlines conditions
which are to be met after the
war, and warns us that at pres
ent we are living in a FOOLS par
adise, industrially. He stands
for adequate federal workmen's
compensation laws, and he favors
votes for women. The accept
ance speech was a model of en-
light e nm e mt, straightforward
ness, and outstanding American
ism, and the public had grown
dog-tired Of emasculated utter
ances. Hughes and manhood
will win the day.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
Skidmore-Cole Reunion

The eleventh reunion of the
Skidmore and Cole families will
be held at Forest Park on Thurs
day, August II. 1916. All rela-
tives are cordially invited to come.
Bring your dinner and have a
good, old fashioned visit.
Mary C. Cole. 'sec'y.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
America First and Eff
clent.


administration; a faultless and
dignified presentation of the ar
gumeEt for the prosecution.
Such was the speech of Charles
Evans Hughes in which he for
mally accepted the Republican
presidential nomination. I'VE
come to state in a plain and di-
rect manner our faith, our pur-
pose and our pledge" is Mr..
Hughes opening remark. And
what follows is plain and direct.
No fowery verbosity; no rhetor-
ical curlicues requiring editorial
Interpretation; no weasel
words;;" but facts, plainly put and
striking home. Not only did Mr..
Hughes expose the stick and
straw construction of the Demo-
cratic party, but he presented a
plan for a nObler, more stable
structure, founded on "a domi-
nant sense of national unity"
with the Republican party, "'the
agency of national achievement"
as the master builder, and, we
are confident, with Mr.. Hughes
the guardian of the edifce.
Mr.. Hughes epitomized his de-
sire for American supremacy in
a sentence which will be the
watchword of his party: Amer
lea First and America Efficient. "
He then outlined the duties of the
executive in respect to our for
eign relations and instanced how,
at the very time when most we
needed the services Of trained
and experienced diplomats, they
were recalled and the service de-
moralized by the appointment of
tyros whose sole qualification was
that they were deserving Dem
ocrats."
AS was anticipated, the Mexi-
can policy was Mr.. Hughes chief
point of attack. 1t is the admin |
istration's weakest point. 1t is
the perfect type of a vacillation |
and instability of purpose, ex- |
ceeded never, equalled, perhaps, |
but once in our history. and that
was when the stiffness of JEFF
ferson and of Madison culminat-
ed in the war of 1912. There is
not a red-blooded American who
can read the Hughes indictment
OF the administration in regard
to Mexico without blushing forI
the shame which has been put |
upon this nation. Huerta, rec
ognized by Europe, was denied |
recognition by us, and then an
emissary was sent to treat with |
him. We demanded a salute from |
him while denying his leadership.
and retired without receiving it
leaving nineteen Of our dead in |
Vera Cruz. Denying that we
were at war with Mexico, our
dead soldiers were praised as hav. |
ing died in War of service. Lat
er it was denied that we went af-
ter the salute. 1t was explained |
We went to Mexico to show them
we meant business. We labored
TO get Huerta out of Office while
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
COURT HOUSE NEW ).
PROBATE COURT.

Last will of Charles Pearson
was filed for probate and record.
First account filed in estate of
Robert A. Shuffelton.
Third account filed in guard
ianship of Maud Lock.
Second and final account filed
III estate of Margaret Sullivan,
Edna Ruth Curtis was commit
ted to the Gallipolis hospital.
F. u. Schreel was appointed
administrator of estate of Juliett
Boleps.
F. u. SchreeI was appointed
administrator of estate of Samuel
B. Brown.
V. S. Marker filed application
to be appointed guardian of Rus
sell Nagle and others.
George W. Mannix, Jr., was
appointed guardian of Carrie Ly-
tie; bond 5000.
Last will of Gabriel Reigel was
admitted to probate and record.
H. C. Riegel was appointed ad-
ministrator, with will annexed,
of said estate; bond $50, 600.
Last will of Nancy Reigle was
admitted to probate and record.
Ada Shaner was committed to
the Dayton State Hospital.
First and final account filed in
estate of Amy Lindemuth.
New bond in sum of $40, 900
filed in estate of Enos H. Thomas.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
John K. Long. "a, railway pos
tai clerk, Versailles, son of John
M. Long, and Hazel K. Nease,
25, bookkeerer, Gettysburg, dau-
ghter of John L. Nease.
Otto D. Feree, 20, carpenter,
Piqua, Chic, and Myrtle M. Ehr
hart, 10. Versailles, daughter Of
Carl C. Ehrhart.
John E. Mann, Is, stenogra-
pher, Richmond, Ind, and Sophia
A. Leis, %, Dawn, daughter Of
John G. Leis.