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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

Henry Ruder, " 90
Fred N. Dreiling, drayage and
freight paid LAT 80
Geo. H. Brown, part salary as
county assessor $50 90
On motion of Com. Cole the Board
adjourned until 1.30 p. m.
Hays, Kansas, March 6, 1916, 1:3O
P. M.
The Board of County Commissioners
met as per adjournment.
The following bills against the Coun-
ty were examined and allowed, viz:
Mike Bell, To balance due acct
an error on his bill of the
November meeting 1915 3 90
Leo Jantzen, assisting county
assessor 40 90
Alex Meier, examining teachers q 90
Adam BAIL, supplies for pauper
Sheck 6 20
Scott Grippen, labor on Atwood
road rs 85
Standard Oil Co., oils and sup
plies for road engine "a 90
NJ. M. Zeigler, supplies for pau
per Hedgepath q 10
g g g supplies for Graft
family 26 30
&c '' supplies for Messer
aud family Is 65
g 90 &c supplies for Sheck
and family As 80
Go q" supplies for pauper
John Fox IL 95
g :" supplies for county
road engine Sc
| st. Anthony's Hospital, case
of Simon Kucharet Ellis Ks, q 90
q g lease of Peter
Leiker 80 90
=" lease of Mrs.
Peter REIN IL 90
Isaac Zeigler, salary viewing
roads and expenses 40 90
Jacob Grippin, labor on Atwood
road and G. B. road 26 80
Fred Grippin, q q q SO Is
James Gripbin, labor on G. B
road 21 50
/ Frank Carmen, chain man on
Kerfas and Ubert roads 90
c. S. Loreditsch, surveyors fees
and auto hire II 50
Frank Loreditsch, chain man
on the Zerfas road 2 90
Harry Nelson, chain man on
Ubert road 2 OC
F. B. Miller, chain carrier 2 OC
Leiker and Schueler, road machinery
Hill -.,,. 1o:I o,-o- ,7n+5T z,ox-+ r,ao+=1o-
A. n. St. Johns bin for labor on the
Madsen bridge was laid over until next
meeting.
The bill of Crane and Company was
also laid over until next meeting.
On motion of Mr.. Zeigler the County
Treasure was instructed to assign to J.
C. Kippes the following described pro
perty, TO wit: Lots 1-2-3 In Section
Township II, Range 16, west, and lots
1884 in section 80, Township IL
Range Is, west.
The road petition of Frank Jacob:
and others of Big Creek Twp. was pre-
sented found legal and proper, prayer
for view granted and Isaac ZeigIer,
William Grabbe and Eli Cole were ap
pointed as viewers.
Final order was made in the Johr
Engle road.
Final order was made in the Antor
Younker road.
Final order was made in the william
Spreea road.
An further road matters, and claims
fer damages on account OF roads werl
laid over until the April msesiag Of tn,
Commissioners.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

All mortgages are written in our
Office at Hays. Kansas We pay
Out as soon as papers are signed.
Plenty money on hand for this pur-
pose. No delay. J. M. Schaefer.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Notice.

The Registration books are now open
for the spring election at the office of
the City Clerk, in the Oshant building
Frank Loreditsch,
CityClerk
Evening journal., 1916-09-09

slightest said Mr.. Jones' at the Raleigh West Vir-
eana is essentially a manufacturing and railway
STATE dependent upon the railways and the passage
OF the EghtHour bill has aligned all the great
terests against the President the party he heads
me Democrats profess TO believe that il will win for
the PRESIDENT the votes OF the working classes but
90 NOT take this view. The laboring classes may be
loyal but in my experience a Democrat I have not
found them 10 viii be remembered that I'm 1861
think II was-the head of the labor organizations
tried to get the Republican party to adopt labor
embraced the offer with open arms and everybody
knows the result
"'In West Virginia Democratic business men who
were for the reelection OF the President a few weeks
ago now are openly opposing him, and their opposi-
tion is based without concealment on the action OF
the administration in Welding TO the demands OF the
railroad trainmen Very few Democratic business
men IN the United States in NY Judgment will vote
business men cuts little figure he has an erroneous
impression II is very likely that in West Virginia
the Democratic candidate for Governor, John Corn.
well, will be elected but he will be the only one
saved from the wreck"
We imagine that President Wilson will discover
that his action in forcing through such legislation
without waiting to ascertain whether conditions justi-
fed 1t has injured him with business men and ship
pers everywhere
Under orderly legislative procedure II is Gus
tomary to ascertain whether legislation is warranted
along certain lines and to accordingly President
Wilson and subservient Democratic Congress have
reversed that practice. They have enacted the legis
lation and left IL to commission 10 ascertain. in
weeks to come whether the administrations action
wise and warranted foolish and unwarranted
Meanwhile with that question still hanging in the
balance in official sense. the national election will
be held. Everything indicates that the public will
decide il in November long before the commission is
ready to make its report
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
HARDWICK HARD HIT

q ENATOR HARDwfCR of Georgia Is aggrieved be-
~ Mr. Hughes called the countrys attention to
the fact that. under Democratic administration the
South dominates legislation through its control OF the
chairnanships OF the important committees in Con-
gress Mr.. Hardwck calls this a new waving OF the
bloody shirt says he thought the day for that had
passed and shows much peevshness because Mr.
Hughes has seen At to discuss the fact.
The truth is that the North has no desire to revive
the bitter Of the war or OF reconstruction
days. Whenever the subject is raised by a Northern
speaker or Northern newspaper It is because the
South itself has compelled attention to the fact. No
would criticse the South for the position OF
power which It holds in the Democratic party II the
South had come TO that position honestly But the
fact is that, through laws which deny the right of
suffrage TO the oolored the Democrats OF the
South have put themselves. in place OF political
power which unjust and which Is subversive OF the
fundamental principles upon which this Republic is
founded and TO maintain which the South worsted
during the War OF the Rebellion.
Accordingly It happens that the Democratic
party by means of the Ubiquitous election laws which
operative in the Southern States, enters every
campaign with enormous initial advantage. Twen-
ty-two United States Senators. more than hundred
Representatives in Congress, and LAG votes in the
electoral college are at the disposal of the Demo-
cratic party without the formality of contest
The only controversy which arises is TO which
Democratic faction in any OF the eleven States
which constitute the Solid South shall control the Of
fees.
Naturally, the North chafes under this sort Of thing
though the North would probably grin and bear it
II the South showed less OF disposition to rub it
in" to the North whenever Democratic admnistra-
ton is in power. The South taxes the North and
takes the money for itself The South resists every
attempt equalize either the burdens OF taxation
the conditions or doing business The income and
the child labor law are recent example in proof Of
All. nflod
child II anyone in the North calls attention to the
plain facts Senator Hardwick shows that he has
been hard hit by Hughes-but there harder blows
yet to come hope
Evening journal., 1916-09-09

With that fine and now we'll known
air Of personal detachment from all
common and base and vulgar things and
with the also familiar staccato uttcrance
denoting careful consideration in the
choice of words and great sense of re-
sponsibifty for the thoughts behind
them, the candidate said, at half past
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, gaz-
ing over the heads Of those assembled
on the Lawn;
"l have no disposition to boast OF
what the Democratic party has accom-
plished. 1t has merely done its duty
II has merely fulhlled its explicit prom
ises."
After a few minutes devoted 10 the
enunciation Of elegant periods previ-
ously fabricated. the candidate at quar-
ter before five O'Clock returned TO the
subject OF Promises honorably redeemed:
81 have not spoken explicitly, gentle
mon, of the platform adopted at st.
Louis: but Il has been implicit in all
have said. The people of the United
States do not need TO be assured now
that that platform is a definite pledge,
a practical program. We have proved to
them that our promises are made to be
kept"
Made to be Keptl
At this point there was a disturbance
on the Lawn. An angry Shadow pushed
his way 60 the front and shook his fist
directly beneath the Hon. Woodrow
Wilson's smuglv smiling countenance.
Il am Baltimore Promise Number
One!" shouted the angry Shadow. 81
am the Single Term Promise made in
your behalf and by You accepted and
utilized to your profit to the extent of
election for four years at a salary Of
$4,000 and emoluments / demand to-
know If I was kept / demand to be
told. not in weasel words but I'M
straightforward English, why. when
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
kENTs UNANIMOUS RATIFICATION.

FURTHER evidence Of the widespread popularity
among Republicans Of the Republican State ticket
that is headed by Senator Henry A. DUPONT is found
in the fact that the Kent County Republican Commit
tee in formal meeting and by unanimous vote, has
endorsed that ticket in its entirety.
The Sussex County Republican Committee pre-
yiously had taken like action while the New Castle
County Republican Committee had endorsed the ticket
by vote of 81 TO p the men who voted aeainst rat
hcation being BENJAMIN A. Groves and william rims
man, the unworthiness Of whose motives was clearly
understood by everyone
Seldom has any party put in the field in Delaware
stronger or more popular State ticket than the
one that the Republican party has nominated this
year. Advioes that come from all sections of our
State Indicate clearly that its worth is recognized
by Republican and independent voters
The Democratic State ticket is weak in many es-
sentia particulars II is the ticket of the Demo
cratic party but ticket Of the wolcott faction In the
Democratic party that has been rammed down the
throat Of the steam-rollered Salisbury faction which
obtained but representative the ticket
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
nFMnrRATs Am HANNA.

r IMPORTERS OF mama are complaining because OF
the refusal OF Democratic customs authorities at
the port OF New York permit the entry of
the ground that Il is unfit for human consumption.
We can wen believe that portion OF mama would
create in the digestive apparatus OF deserving Dem
ocratr arrangement which would prove fatal. but
the good Lord. on than occasion. sent
from Heaven to his chosen people. and Americans
who have been cast out because OF our adherence
TO Democratic heresies and who believe ourselves the
chosen people Of the twentieth century should insist
that the entry OF this mama be facilitated, espec-
tally as it is not American product
Moreover n we should be in for four more years
Of free trade Christening. a little mama. from what
ever source would he mighty acceptable in the post
war days to be soaked in the free which will be
dispensed to people at time when every nation
on earth is unloading its product market.
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
4 TwO BnLTON DOLLAR CONCRTss.

WITH the unenvabe record OF having spent $1,000
w 100000 and passed 500 bills of them OF an
exceedingly Objectionable nature, the first session Of
the Democratic sixy-fourth Congress has adjourned
The American public is well pleased to be rid OF
legislative institution which, although pledged TO
economy has spent an average Of sS1500OO since il
convened on December G. 1915.
Never in the history OF the United States has there
been Congress- Republican or Democratic that
promised so much and did little or spent so much
and gave to tho public such scant return of a bene-
fetal nature
When Republican Congress- years ago spent
Sloo0O0O000, it was denounced by the Democrats and
named by them the Billion Dollar Congress And
now those critics of a Republican Eillion Dollar Con-
gress come to The front with Two Billion Dollar
Congress and look TO the American public to laud the
Democratic Congressman for the spending record they
nave made. II is safe TO assume that when that pub
lie passes judgment upon that Congress in a few
the verdict rendered at the polls will be one
far from Democratic liking
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
FRCIT CROWERS' association.

fhllI NhUh EhS' AooUNlAllONs
From the Dover State News.
The Fruit Growers Association OF
Delaware, which was organized at a
meeting of fruit growers held in
Dover, last week for the purpose Of
advertising and standardizing Della
ware products, should prove a valua-
BILE medium for the agricultural de-
velopment Of this State, and should
serve particularly to benefit and adj
vance the apple growing industry,
which is rapidly becoming one OF
Delaware's most valuable assets. 1t
is pointed out that there are more
han a million apple trees in Della
ware at the present time. with addi-
tional trees coming into bearing every
year, and figures showing the number
of apples shipped over the Delaware
Railroad during the past eight years
show that the products Of Delaware
apple orchards are steadily increasing
each year.
It has long been admitted by lead
ing fruit experts in the country that
Delaware can produce as fine apples
as can be grown in any State in the
Union. Unfortunately, however. these
apples have not always found the best
markets, due to the fact that they
were not properly packed and ship
ped. II is the purpose Of the new as
ISOLATION. the membership OF which
comprises some Of the best known ap-
pie growers in the State. to see that
fancy Delaware apples are properly
graded packed and shipped. and
with all the leading growers working
together with that end in view there
is no reason why Delaware should not
soon achieve a position in the fore
most ranks of apple-growing States.
It is to be hoped that all apple
growers in Delaware will cooperate
in the movement to improve the apple
industry. and even if they do not care
to join the organization. they should
endeavor to do everything in their
power to advance the cause The
new association stands for an excel
lent purpose. and il cannot receive
too much help and encouragement
from those it aims to benefit.
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
With The Photographers

Such is human nature that next 70 meeting
person who admires some that admire.
all very fond Of meeting person who dslikes
some one we diske-Orlando fla Sentinel
The newest thing in Diseases according to a San
Francisco doctor is golf foot" We presume il stymes
and fuzzles and and does all the other stunts TO
an exaggerated extent,-Memphis Commercial Appeal.
She passed st. Peter in triumph while the door
keeper bowed low. II not upon her prayerfuness
her meeness in her home yet that she kept her
husbands button sewed on that she gave her
money to missions. The thing that opened the peary
gates TO their widest the announcement of the re-
all the church suppers held in her town!"-Fareo N
ID Courier News.
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
COMaENDABLE PROBATION.

VTTE congratulate the management Of the Friends
w School in this city upon the precautionary wis
dom that underles its decision TO open that insti
tuition until October With the infantile paralysis
menace st lowering over our community il is not
surprising that man like Professor Herschel A. Nor
s A. NJ the principal OF the school, has decided that
is far better to be late and glad than to be early
and sorry. He has devised plan whereby the delay
in the opening will not deprive any of the PUPILS OF
any OF the educational advantages they would enjoy
under normal conditions.
Would It not be well for our public school officials
who, for obvious reasons confronted by an even
serious nfantie paralysis situation to emulate
him in the matter Of administrative discretion and
avoid the deadly risks which would attend the pre-
mature opening Of the schools under their control!
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
The Maine CAMPAIGN
From the New York SUM

Three days Of campaigning. nv
Charles Evans Hughes ought In nut
Maine securely in the Republican col
umn. He will close for the .Republi-
cans at Rockland on Saturday night.
invading Democratic stronghold.
Maine renders her decisions on Mon
day. voting for Governor. for one
United States Senator and for Repre-
sentatives in Congress. four of them,
all told.
Maine is an American community,
in the sense that the old stock is
dominant. The percentage of the for
eign born in Maine is not very large.
Her people are less attracted to the
West than the people of any other
State in New England Her farmers.
lumbermen and fishermen are Ameri-
cans to the backbone, and the flag is
more than a symbol to them. The
support they gave Mr. Roosevelt in
1912 was largely due to their recog-
milton Of him as a representative and
aggressive American. Two years la
ter in a guhernatorial campaign the
Progressive vote in the State fell off
almost two-thirds
On the last day OF August Colonel
Roosevelt at a great rally in Lewis
ton told the men of Maine what he
thought OF Mr.. Wilson's Mexican
policy, and IL struck a responsive
chord. Maine men are unable 70
understand how any President can he
too proud to fight" for American
lives and American rights Mr..
ss, Ia
Maine will tell them what he thinks
of Mr.. Wilson and his Administra-
ton The Republican candidate for
President is the kind of man to whom
Maine warns. for his logic is unan-
swerable and his Americanism is stall
wart and rings true He will give
them the plain facts about the blum
ders. evasions. vacillatiOns and insin-
cerities of Mr.. Wilson and he will
turn the searchlight on the dishonest
and wasteful legislation of the Demo-
cratic Congress as no other man in
public life can do it.
Maine is only temporarily in the
Democratic column, and it's voters,
unless they have changed, want to
see a Republican President in the
White House and a Republican ma
jority in Congress. Unless they have
become Indifferent to their own in
terests they cannot be satisfied with
the tariff law the Democrats have
put on the statute book. Mr., VIII
sons Mexican policy and his weasel
Americanism must try them sorely.
They have listened to Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet Help" and to a mob Of Dem
ocratic spellbinders who loye the Of
fees more than they love Mr.. Wilson.
and when the polls open the men Of
Maine will have heard the other side
presented by Colonel Roosevelt Mr..
Hughes, Mr. Fairbanks. Senator
Lodge and other Republicans.
Not in years has Maine seen such
a hard fought political battle as will
end on Saturday night The Demo-
cratic Administration believes that il
il can break even with the Republic
cans by electing a Senator or the
Governor, which can be done only by
attracting Progressive votes. the re-
suit will be to its advantage. A clean
sweep by the Republicans with old
fashioned majorities has seemed to
impartial observers improbable on ac-
count OF local issues and conditions.
Evening journal., 1916-09-09

Extract from a Baccalaurate- Ser
mon Of June 10, 1909, by Professor
Woodrow Wilson:
"You know what the usual standard
of the employe is in our day. It is to
give as little as he may for his wages.
Labor is standardized by the trade
union. and this is the standard 70
which II is meant TO conform. No
one is suffered to do more than the
average workman can do. In some
trades and handicrafts no one is suf-
fered to do more that the least skill
ful Of his fellows can do within the
hours allotted to a days labor and
no one can work out Of hours at all
or volunteer anything beyond the
minimum.
IT need not point out how econom-
ically disastrous such a regulation of
labc7 is. Il is so improbable to the
employer that in some trades il will
presently not be worth his while to
attempt anything at all He had bet
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
SHADOW SHAPES AT SHADOW LAWN
From the New York SUM-

there was a feeble attempt in Congress
TO start an amendment to the Constitu-
tion making the President of the United
States States ineligible for reelection
you privately and personally interposed
your political influence to block it."
But before Tumulty could call the
detectives another Shadow was mem
acing the Candidates nose. II am
Baltimore Promise Number Twol' he
reared Il am the Promise to Return
to the Simplicity and Economy which
Belts a Democratic Government.
want TO know II / have been kept
7 want to know what this wielder of
words has to say to the unprecedent-
ed total Of lavish appropriations by
Congress during his Administration,
the profgate waste Of money wrung
from the people by taxation, the utter
abandonment Of even pretence Of
fulfilling the Baltimore pledge"
And the Shadows of the broken
promises made at Baltimore came
crowding up TO the speakers stand
tumbling over one anOther's heels in
their eagerness to give the lie to the
Candidates impudent declaration that
he and his party had proved that their
pledges were made to be kept"
The Shadow of the Promise to re-
duce the high cost OF living; the
Shadow of the promise Of tariff for
revenue only; the Shadow of the
promise TO maintain the integrity OF
the coordinate branches Of the Fed
eral Government and not to allow the
Ervpcuffvp IN pnproaph IN the inst
powers OF the others; the Shadow Of
the promise to restore the merchant
marine without bounties or subsidies;
the Shadow of the promise to exempt
from tolls at the Panama Canal Amer
lean ships engaged in the coastwise
trade; the Shadow of the promise TO
enforce honestly and rigidly the civil
service standards of merit and ability
Evening journal., 1916-09-09


rather than political service rendered
the party-in angry procession the
Shadows OF the broken promises OF
Baltimore surged into the presence
Of the Candidate in a demonstration
amounting almost to a riot.
And last Of all came the youngest
and blacklist OF the gathering Shad-
ows, the Shadow of the Baltimore
promise of a return to the rule of the
people,; protection from the misuse
of delegated power and the usurpa-
ton of governmental instrumental
ties by special interests
you dare to say you have kept
your prOmises?" shrieked this Shad-
ow, "and you dare to say it at the
very moment when you are forcing a
reluctant Congress to misuse its dele
gated powers at your selfish dictation,
to permit the usurpatiOn of govern
mental instrumentalities by a special
interest represented by the four
brotherhoods?"
1.-THE highwayman. continued the
excited Shadow. sometimes obtains
that which he demands at the pistols
point. Sometimes. later, he gets
hdhBeu diohs WIN any dulnS ana
abetting criminal. whether in police
mans uniform or not If my super
natural vision does not deceive me.
public opinion in America is already
preparing the gallows platform upon
which another sort of a notification
speech will be addressed to you. Mr..
Woodrow Wilson!"
Thus it happened that the notifica-
ton ceremony, Notwithstanding the
high expectations of the person
chiefly concerned. was not much OF a
success.
This is what comes" remarked the
eldest and wisest of the mutinous
Shadows on Shadow Lawn. "of en-
trusting political power TO Intelli-
gence without Character"
Evening journal., 1916-09-09
MILsoN ANp HIn rIeHr NOM lam.

III Thousands of Democrats in this country believe
that President Wilson has injured himself ire
trevaby by the surrender he made organized labor
when he forced through Congress the Eght-Hour Day
bill against which the railroads others protested
vehemenently.
In the Washington Post, pro-Wilson newspaper,
we find the following interview with Thomas Jones'
Democrat and lawyer who has offices in New York
and in West Virginia:
Until the President jammed through the Eight
Hour bill believed there a good chance 10
a@1ry West Virginia. but now think there not the