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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
CARDUI HELPED
REGAIN STRENGTH
Alabama Lady Was Sick For Three
Years, Suffering Pain, Nervous
and Depressed-Read Her
Own Story Of Recovery.

Paint Rock, Ala,-Mrs. G. NJ. stegall.
Of near here. recently related the fol.
lowing interesting account of her re-
covery: II was In a weakened con.
dition. I was sick three years In bed.
suffering a great deal o. pain, weak,
nervous, depressed. was SO weak.
couldn't walk across the floor; Just
had to lay and my little ones do the
work. was almost dead. tried
every thing heard of, and number of
doctors. Still / didn't get any relief.
couldn't eat, and slept poorly. I
believe If hadn't heard of and taken
Cardui / would have died. l bought
six bottles, after a neighbor told me
what 1t did for her.
II began to eat and sleep, began e
gain my strength and am now wa
and strong. l haven't had any troIS
BILE since .. sure can testify to the
good that Cardui did me. / don't
think there is a better tonic made
and believe it saved my life."
For over 40 years, thousands of wo-
men have used Cardui successfully,
in the treatment of many womanly
ailments.
II you suffer as these women did,
take Cardui. 1t may help you, too.
At all druggista q IS
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
REFERENDUM PETITIONS O. X


Jefferson City, April 3.--Governor
Hyde has given up his fight on the ref
erendum petitions which were filed
last summer by the Democratic State
Committee against the Governors
"job" bills. The action was decided
upon by the Governors advisors when
an investigation failed to disclose any
irregularities in the petitions from
the Eleventh and Twelfth Congress
sional Districts of st. Louis. Thomas
H. Fisher, secretary of the Democratic
State Committee, said his organiza-
ton had no fear of the investigation
conducted by the Governor and pre-
dicted that the voters would repudiate
the "joP" bills an Overwhelming vote
in the November election.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07

civil service positions. The result was,
ferences with the Postmaster General
and others, and settlement was said
to have been entered into in some
way by Mr.. Overall that hereafter he
was not to have the influence that he
had formerly enjoyed in the distribu-
| ton of patronage. / was very glad
to hear that. A man like Mr.. Overall,
who sells his influence, and especially
for civil service appointments, ought
not to have any influence with any adj
ministration.
II filed these same charges with
the Civil Service Commission, but that
commission took no action in regard
to them. ! naturally would not ex-
pect them to, because they are COM
posed entirely of Republicans and any
one can understand that they would
not care whether civil service posi-
tions were bought or sold under them
or not if their Republican friends were
interested. At all events, whether
they did care or not, the proof was
clear as to the purchase of civil SER
vice positions aud they paid no atten-
ton to it. Failing to get hearing
before the Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads, and failing to get any
action from the Civil Service Com
mission, and there having been APP
pointed by the Vice President under
resolution passed by the Senate a
special committee to look into civil
service, then brought the matter up
before that committee and it has been,
buried there, too. So / am unable to
get a hearing on my charges at all.
They have not been considered. Their
Republican friends will not investi-
gate, though the charges are specific
and the proof is clear. The only
thing in the world that was done was
to permit these charges to be filed
before the special committee. l be-
lieve the special committee is now no
longer having any hearings. Appar-
emily it is one of the things of the
past"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07

and q shameful discredit to Congress
and the nation"
The attitude of the minority mem
bers in the matter of providing funds
to pay a bonus is expressed in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
eve favor and insist that what
ever kind or sort of bonus or adjust
ed compensation Congress shall deem
justly due the world-war veterans
should be paid out of the taxes spe-
cifically levied for such purpose upon
the big incomes of the millionaires
and multimillionaires whose number
has more than trebled and whose
wealth has increased to the extent of
many billions of dollars since the be-
ginning of the war, and upon the con-
scienceless, excessive profits of the
big monopolistic corporations who
have plundered and profiteered upon
the people and the government since
January /, 1916, to the extent of ov-
er $4,000, 100000 of net profits and
who persist in continuing their prof
iteering. These millionaires and null
ti-millionaires and corporations were
the real financial beneficiaries of the
war. Why should they not now be
made to pay this additional expense of
the war;"
The minority report favors the re-
enactment Of the surtax on large in
comes and the re-enactment of the ex-
cess profit tax.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
THE PROTECTIVE
TARIFF is PASSING

There has been widespread com
ment upon the delay of the Fordney
Tariff Bill in the Senate Committee on
Finance. The Harding Administra-
ton began its work with the announce
ment that the Underwood Bill, passed
in 1913. would be revised upward, up
on protective basis consistent with
the traditional policies of the Repub-
lican Party. Committee hearings
We're begun, schedules were planned,
and all of the machinery Of Congress
set about the work of Tariff Revision.
Complaint began Immediately, but the
House Of representatives, in obedi-
fence to the party caucus, passed the
bill and its pOnderous volume fell into
the hopper of the Senate. Since then
there has been profund silence.
There is food for considerable
thought in all this, for the procedure
marks a strange disposition on the
part of National Republican leaders.
Never before has there been hesitation
and misgiving among Republican
leaders as to the passage Of a tariff
bill. Hitherto they have proceeded
upon the theory that the sky is the
limit. Why the delay? Why the ex-
IRENE caution of the Republican Fin
ance Committee in handling this simon
pure Republican piece of legislation.
There can be but one answer and
that is that Republican leaders are
doubtful as to their ground. They are
not sure that public thought would ap-
prove an old time Republican tariff.
Therefore an intimation that Republi-
can leaders, with their ears to the
ground, have come to realize that the
people have learned the cost of pro-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Democratic Minority Report Favors
Taxing Wealth for Bonus.

The minority report on the Soldiers
Bonus bill signed by five of the eight
Democratic members of the Ways and
Means Committee, favored reporting
the bill fayorably but does not APP
prove of many of its provisions. The
five members, Floor Leader Claude
Kitchen and Representatives Oldfeld,
Crisp, Carew and Tague, called at
tention to the fact that no Democratic
member of the Committee was per-
mitted to participate at any meeting
either in the discussion or the prepa-
ration of the bill--,that the bill is ex-
.clusively barred-door Republican
product. The bill is denounced as a
"due bill" and a rain check, and as
san insult to every world-war veteran
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
The Young Mothers
Health is Most Vital
Hear What This Woman Says
About II

st. Louis. Mo.-"Durine my early
married life found Favorite Prescrip-
ton a wonderful help to me. About
the time my third child came / was in
very poor health and became nervous
and irritable. | took DIR. Piercc's
Favorite Prescription md it was not
long until ! was n well woman.
certainly feelvery grateful for what this
medicine did for me, Mrs. Walter
Naumann, 4053 Taft Ave.
You should obtain.this famous Pre-
scription no,o at your nearest drug
store in tablets or liquid, or write Dr..
Pierce, president Inyalids' Hotel in
Buffalo, n. Y, for free medical advice.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Republicans Explaining" Maine
Losses.

Third Congressional District OF
Maine: November, 1920, Republican
majority, 10000; March, 1922, Repub-
lican majority, 5000.
AS Chairman Cordell Hull Of the
Democratic National Committee says;
Results speak for themselves. Re-
publicans, of course, will now proceed
to do the explaining"
Before the election in the Third
District of Maine. Republicans de-
clared that the election would be a
test of President Harding's admins
tration. The Democrats are willing
to let it go at that.
Those Republican managers and
leaders who are pretending that the
results in the Third Mcine District
are an enthusiastic endorsement of
the administration should read this
fair opinion of the New York Herald,
Republican paper, which isn't led
by the nose and does its own think
ing:
1.-THE triumph of the Republican
candidate for Congress, John E. Mel
son, in the Third Maine District Mon
day over Ernest L. Mclean, the DEM
ocratic candidate, is not thing to
make Republicans throughout the
country feel that they have a walk
over in the congress elections this
fall. Considered all in all, the result
of this Maine election is not a safe
indication of what will happen this fall
in the Congress elections"
That great Independent newspaper,
the New York Times, points out that
the Maine Republicans were not very
enthusiastic about endorsing the adj
ministration. 1t says:
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
CANNOT PAY BLIND.

Jefferson City, April although
sufficient money has been collected by
the State, pensions for the deserving
blind cannot be paid this quarter be-
cause Governor Hyde vetoed the adj
ditional appropriation last summer. In
vetoing the appropriation the Govern
or ignored the pleas of the blind peo-
pie of the State. The original appro-
priation for the blind was exhausted
during the first quarter of this year.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
USE BLANK ET BALLOT

Jefferson City, April 3.-The blan-
ket ballot was used for the first time
under the new law in municipal cleo
lions this week. Assistant Attorney
General Robert Otto in an opinion to
Secretary Of State Becker held that
the blanket ballot must be used in the
municipal elections, including those in
third class cities,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Alleged Bootlegger Gets Federal
Appointment.

1t now develops, according to Sen
ator Mcclellan, that a nephew of Ov-
erall, at Liberty, Tenn, by the name
of Whaley, has just been appointed to
office, and who, according to the SEN
ator, "enjoys the proud distinction of
having been indicted a short while
ago for bootlegging, and numerous
other charges have been filed against
him."
After calling attention to discrimi-
nations against ex-service men in the
matter of post office appointments in
the designation of civilians over vet
Grams with a higher rating, Senator
Mcclellan cited another case to show
what happens when no civilians take
the examination. He said:
"a remarkable thing happened at
Mckenzie, Tenn; three Democratic
ex-service men were on the eligible
list. That presented problem in
deed to our Republican Civil Service
Commission and to our Republican ad-
ministration. Thercupon somebody
asked for a rehearing, and the Civil
Service Commission set aside the ex-
animation, which they themselves had
held, and set aside the eligible list,
and now they are going to have an
other examination.
"This is one effect the Presidents
order has had. 1t is fake order so
far as civil service is concerned. So
far as the ex-service man is con-
cerned it is complete hoax"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Presidents Vacation Delays Veterans
Pay Checks.

Returning from his initial trip in
the 1922 vacation series, which open
ed in Florida, President Harding
found more than 100, 900 disabled vet
Grams in vocational training waiting
for their semi-monthly pay checks due
since the 18TH of March, but which
could not be issued until the President
had signed the second deficiency APP
preparation bill which was passed on
March 10 and ready for his signature
on March Is, the day the money was
due.
at doubtless would have been sign
ed if the President had not been on his
iaunt in Florida, said Representative
Byrns Dem, Fla.).
A Washington news dispatch to the
New York World of March 10, says:
"Reports indicate that many veterans
felt keenly the need of their money,
averaging from 500 to $125 for each
man, paid by the Government to help
fit him for a livelihood. Many needed
it for food and other necessities, and
some actually suffered"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, April 3.--H there is
any sentiment left in this country in
favor of the civil service method of
selecting Federal employees, it is high
time that it were manifested to pre-
vent, if possible a return to the old
spoils system with all Of its attend
ant evils of barter and sale and polit-
ical corruption, is the opinion here on
the part of many who have supported
the principle of cicil service in order
to obtain efficiency in government and
cleaner politics.
The charge has been made and
there is ample evidence to sustain it
that offices have been bartered and
sold by so-called Federal referees.
1t is notorious that appointees for
postmasterships are selected upon the
recommendations of political leaders
and not upon their civil service rec
ords.
By executive orders President
Harding has nullified the civil service
in the matter of post office appoint
ments, and has not only permitted the
least capable candidate to be named
by political influence but he has him
self trampled the civil service regula-
tions under foot by the personal ap-
pointment of a personal friend in the
post office at Marion, o.
Both political parties in their cam
paigns have for years declared in ia
vor of civil service. They have de-
clared that they believed in the eff
ficient enforcement of the civil SER
vice law, and their candidates have
promised to enforce it. Democrats
have not forgotten the successful
campaigns of Grover Cleveland in be-
half of civil service reform. Until
this administration the enforcement
Of the civil service law was fairly sat
isfactory, but now apparently it is
held in contempt by Republican poll
ticians from the President down.
There are exceptions, however, as
shown by recent statement of Sena-
tor Norris (Rep., Neb.) in discussing
President Harding's appointment Of a
postmaster at Marion. He said:
81 do not believe President Harding
is justified in setting it 1.-THE civil SER
vice law aside for the appointment
of a postmaster at Marion, o. The
post office at Marion, o., is not any
different from the post office at any
other place. Because President Hard
ing happened to live in Marion, be-
cause that was his home, does not
give him any greater moral right to
set aside the law or the rules that
provide for the non-partisan selection
of postmaster in Marion. 1t gives
him no more right than it would to set
it aside in Philadelphia, New York, or
in the city of Washington. do not
think he was justified in doing it, and
| would like to see in writing the rea
sons he could give for doing it. The
appointment of a postmaster to that
office is not his private business"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Senator Mcclellan Tells of Refusal of
Republicans to Investigate.


Ever since it came to light that
there was traffic in office and a gen.
eral disregard of the civil service reg
ulations, Senator Mcclellan Dem,
TENN has been attempting to have
the whole matter investigated by the
Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads. 1t was he who made the
charges and first exposed the traffic
ing in offices. In commenting on his
inability to obtain an investigation,
Senator Mcclellan said:
"The facts about that particular
matter are that the Republican Ma
tional Committeeman Of Tennessee is
named John D. Overall He was the
Republican referee and official dis
penser of patronage in Tennessee.
Through letters and checks and other
documentary evidence it was found
that Mr.. Overall was selling his in
Guence in the selection Of postmasters
and other civil service employees
From one man he would COLLEGE $40
and from another $25, and the checks
were presented as proof, showing
where he had received the money. He
made an explanation of it in which he
admitted he had received the money,
cut that he had contributed it to the
Republican campaign fund.
u sought to get hearing before
The Post Office Committee. The
committee did not grant hearing on
The matter. / thought it was a mat
Ter that ne Committee on Post Of
ices and Post Roads ought to look in
% and ought to examine into. made
pecific charges, setting them cut in
letail, signed my name to them. SUBJ
nitted copies of the cancelled checks
moving Mr.. Overall's name on the
rack of them, and submitted his ad-
mission that he had received the mon
tay for his influence in bartering those
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Norris Arraigns Republican Spells

Referring to the announced inten-
ton of Senator Harrison (Dem.i
Miss.) to have this matter investi-
gated, Senator Norris said:
81 want to say to those Republicans
who are clamoring only for the spoils
of office for somebody, who are ask
ing the taxpayers of the country to
foot the bills while they pay their per-
sonal debts and obligations with Of
flee, that they are not as good Repub-
licans as / am. / want to keep the
pledge that we made. They are going
to violate it. | believe after election
in enforcing the civil service law just
as we said before election we would.
l want to say to those who are now
asking that the civil service rules be
set aside, or who are defending, with
out reason and without cause, the
President, even though he be our can
didate, for setting them aside and put
ting the offices on the political pie
counter, that ! do not believe they are
good Republicans. They are violating
the Republican pledge. In my judg-
ment no man can do better service,
even to his party, than to expose it
when he thinks it is wrong, when it's
officials have violated the law, and
to assist in bringing about an invest
igation to let the people of the Unit
ed States know it all in detail.
$50 l repeat that neither the Sena-
tor from Mississippi nor any other
Senator can embarrass me by saying
he is going to ask for an investiga-
ton or other reasons. am glad he
is going to ask for them. He is just
flied in asking for them. The Presi-
dent of the United States ought to be
required to state his reasons when he
sets aside the law just the same as l
ought to be required to do so if | set
it aside or asked that it be set aside"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Former Gov. Lowden FavOrs League
of Nations.

An interview given out at Naples,
Italy, by former Gov. Frank 0. Low
den of Illinois would indicate that he
is preparing to contest for the next
Republican presidential nomination
with President Harding. He has been
making a study at first hand Of condi-
tions in several European countries,
and his conclusions are in direct con-
fiict with the policies of this admins
tration. He says:
"Many of our problems would be
more easily solved if we were mem
Der of the League of Nations. Re-
construction is world problem. E.
With regard to the Genoa conference,
| consider that the United States is
making a big mistake by not taking
part in it,"
When Senator Robinson (Dem.,
Ark had former Gov. Lowden's in
terview read into the Record, the
former Illinois executive was handled
rather unkindly by Senators Borah
(Rep., Idaho.) and Norris (Rep.,
Neb,), the former declaring that the
Republican convention made no mis-
take when it refused to nominate Gov.
Lowden for President, and the latter
intimating that Gov. Lowden had
been Harveyizing when he gave out
the interview. Senator Norris said:
"There is a. great difference be-
tween giving an interview over in
Italy and giving one at home. The
Senator must not forget that we have
the prohibition laws in force here, and
they do not over there; and that very
often adds a great deal to an after
dinner speech, have been told"
The fact that former Gov. Lowden
holds the views expressed in his in
terview is sure to have it's effect in
the Middle West, where his influence
is still very great in his own party.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07

"The Republicans are sorely in need
of cheering omens and little en-
couragement. Here was their chance.
They didn't take it. The Republican
voters of the five counties that COM
pose the Third District were singu-
larly 'apathetic', to say the least.
Many a Republican district will be
carried by the wicked Democrats next
fall if Republican majorities and plu-
ralities of 1920 are to be cut after the
manner of the Third Maine District. F"
The Republicans profess to be
pleased with the result, but it is the
Republicans who are doing the ex-
planning.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-03-23
CORONER'S JURY LOOKS
into DEATH OF JONES
Brings In Verdict That He Came 10
His Death From Poisoning Btl;
Does Not Know just What The
Poison Was.

An inuuest was held yesterday at
tcrnoon over the remains OF PROCTOR
Jones, colored, who died at the cam
bridge Maryland Hospital, TUESDAY
night as the result of drinking boot
leg liquor. A coroner's Jury was
empaneled with justice of the peace
j. R. D. Collins as foreman. Inc
members went to the undertaking es-
tablishment of Lewis Baynem, color
ed. where the body is being held
prior to the burial. After Viewing
the body they were brought to the
office of Police Justice V. Murray
Sulivane where the witnesses were
examined by States Attorney Marine.
DR.. Thos L. Coll was the first wit
ness called to the stand. He stated
that when he reached Jones ne was
living on his back and was uncon-
scious. He administered an emetlc
but with no result. He then rusheo
him to the hospital and applied the
stomach pump, getting from his
stomach an odorless liquor. After
doing this DR.. Coll said that the man
had been turned over to Dir. B. w.
Goldsborough who is the marine
doctor for this port. DR.. Goldsbor-
ough was called to the stand ana
bore out all of DR.. Coils statements
saying that he had never had Wooo-
alcohol case and therefore could not
swear that Jones died from wood
alcohol poisoning but after reading
the literature on this said that the
SYMPTOMS were identical.
Curtis johnson, colored, was next
put on the stand and said that ne
and six other people. all colored, hau
been with Jones on Sunday night and
had bought the stuff with which the
party was being dampened. He also
divulged the name of the bootlegger
from whom they had procured the
stuff.
After hearing all the witnesses
and the evidence bearing on the case
the jury brought in the verdict OF
death due to poison that was I'M
known to the jury.