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"Z ' - - - (' riiimnii nrnr, stum ini'i n rinV nn ifii-firarn '"Tin ,-, .---T ,. -- awr.1 rt.-arw.r-t jr- C i .gOtt SSSS2S2X2 ! ifrfrfr4ifrfriieHtas swifigigHa-yaByigyggig.gaaM'aag'gajt lfctf5tH6K-&WrHfftaAHA g)Ka-g-x:g;ra3g3,jwjagx;gmg.irf y - I am after your Spring Clothing Business with the best line of PURE WOOL SUITS ever brought to Lancaster at w a a K r X sio.oa 325.00 i j.- t " 15.00 AND I believe in the All Wool Way for the Clothing Business and am PARTICULAR to see that my custom ers get Pure Wool Cloth in their Clothing. Try me for your Spring Suit. ! JAS 0&$O54HMHM3S58OsaO The Central Record incorporated. Issued Weekly. $1.00 a year. J. E. ROBINSON. Editor. R. L. ELKIN, Business Manager. Entered at the Post Office in Lancaster, Ky., as Second-Class Mull Matter. Member Kentucky Press Association and Eighth District Publishers league. Lancaster, Ky., February 21, 1913. Rates For Political Announcements For Precinct and Citv Offices . . .S 5.00 por County Offices 10.00 For State and District Offices 15.00 For Calls, per line 10 For Cards, per line 10 For all publications in the inter est of individuals or expres sion of individual views, per line Obituaries, per line .10 .05 We are authorized to announce the louowwg candidates tor democratic Nominations. For State Senator. CLIFTON RODES ANDERSON. Of Boyle County. For Representative. JOHN M. FARRA. J. R. MOUNT. For County Judge. CLAYTON A. ARNOLD. JAMES A. BEAZLEY. For Sheriff. C. A. ROBINSON. ASHBY ARNOLD. W. L. LAWSON. W. S. CARRIER. For County Attorney. G. B. SWINEBROAD. GREEN CLAY WALKER. For Jailer. JACK ADAMS. DAVE ROSS. For Assessor. DAVE C. SANDERS. E. B. RAY. J. B. COLLIER. W. L. HUFFMAN. For School Superintendant. MISS JENNIE HIGGINS. For Magistrate. 1st District. JOHN N. WHITE. WALTON E. MOSS. SHIPTONH. ESTES. DAVIS SUTTON. 2nd District. CHARLES C. BECKER. TAYLOR T. BURDETT. LOGAN ISON. The Paraaoant Issne. The August Primary is now less than six months ahead. Any person who has an ambition to serve the people and possesses the legal qualification may be a candidate in this election, free of all cost. As it is "a free for all," candidates will be numerous in this as well as most every county throughout the state. The new law places the election in the hands of the people. The results justify the deep est interest, for who will be the public servants of your county for the next four years will be selected on this day. Oar readers have doubtless noticed that those candidates who have taken - the people into their confidence through ' the columns of the Record have given ' much more space to the policies that will govern them if elected than, to any Dersoniu iimuuutuuju mu mw w, -. l !iMi4i.!itii HPl.ii, mam.o tn us' more efficient county officers and better county government We be- of lieve tnai IDIB will oe u cauiiMigti m jssues rather than of personalities. A w WEWSK9SWK2VS9H5rgl3 candidate who would get office upon personality alone has little to recom mend him to a thoughtful people. In several preceeding county elec tions, the most prominent issue in the minds of the people has been the en forcement of the criminal laws. Local issues will differ in different counties. This sentiment for the enforcement of the laws has been so well molded in the minds of the people that all candi dates are fully aware that the people demand a peacpable and orderly county here, and that a rigid and impartial enforcement of the law is the only way to insure such a condition. But since our community is in such a state we do not expect to hear so much about this in the progress of the campaign. There has been such an increase in the amount of tax funds required in the last ten or fifteen years and in view of the fact that there has been so little said about this feature of county government since the increased amount of tax collected it would be quite nat- Jural that the people should be making some inquiry along this line. With this view of the situation we believe that the PARAMOUNT ISSUE IN THE COUNTY ELECTION WILL BE .THE QUESTION OF TAXATION. People generally think that taxes are hteh. but we know that we pav large taxes. In this city and county the rate has reached the limit fixed in the con stitution, and the amount is not suf ficient to meet the public demand and a raise in the assessment value of property is constantly made, in order to meet the expenses. The people will not stand burdensome taxation without complaint unless the purposes for which the funds are used appears beneficial in proportion to the sums collected. While the duties of some officials to be elected deals direct ly with the levy, collection and dis tribution of the tax fund, we shall not discuss the personality of any such candidate for a county office to the detriment of an opponent, but we do deem it to the interest of our readers and justice to ourselves to analyze the issues that are and should be raised and leave it to the judgment of the voters to select the candidate he pre fers to carry out the principle. In complying with the public demand, we expect the candidates to give the peo ple their views and we will see the voters better acquainted with public affairs when this campaign is ended than any previous time. The Record has ever been a staunch advocate of the temperance cause, and has welcomed any prohibition law what might be enacted, but we are free to (confess that we are a little disappoint ed in the Webb substitute for the IShepherd-Kenyon bill, which passed both houses of the National Congress last week and is now up to the Presi dent for his signature. It is .not so far reaching as we had imagined, and does not as fully cover the ground as we had hoped. However, half a loaf is better than none, and while the meas ure will not prove of material assis tance locally, we are inclined to the belief that it will prove of vast benefit in other localities, and for which we think it was intended. Take for in stance Memphis, we know that it was the custom of dealers in that city to buy whiskey, case goods, in car load lots, under the Webb Act it will be im possible for them to obtain it in this manner, or with their reputation es tablished as illegal purveyors, it will be impossible for them to secure interstate shipments. We have not been able to secure a copy of the measure as yet, but the following extract from an interview with Rep. Webb of North Carolina, who is the author of the bill:- "Under n.y bill, if a person living in a 'dry' State desires to have liquor shipped to him for personal, or family, use, he may do so, and it cannot be stop ped. But if the operator of a blind tiger seeks to get whisky for illegal sale he is estopped from this. In giving full effect to the State law, it provides that liquor sent into a 'dry' State1 for illegal purposes may be seized anjl confiscated. "No one who does not want liquor sent to a 'dry' State in violation of lo-. , cal State law can objectto my measure. In preserving the integrity of the State J laws and giving them effect I believe I , ubo uiu (iiiuj uitm sua. i wueic am offering a measure which is con-' SMITH, House stitutional, and will be found so. At least, I can see no harm in taking a chance. There have been many mis leading statements made, and publish ed, with reference to the bill which I sought for so long to get out of com mittee. JUSTICE TO THE STATES. Some people may be sincere in be lieving the bill goes so far as to inter fere with the so-called personal priv ilege but they are simply mistaken. If the various States are to be permitted to make laws which shall be effective as to the confines of these States there can be no harm in providing a Federal law which will prevent some one out side these States violating them with impunity. It is a matter of simple justice to the commonwealths having local option statutes." The limitations of the bill will be a disappointment to many of its advo cates who had hoped that it would go further and prohibit the- shipment of liquor into dry territory for any pur pose. As far as we are locally concerned the limitation of the measure will con siderably lessen its usefulness. Every person who receives a shipment of li quor will as a matter of course get it "for his personal use", and the burden will be upon the local authorities to show that the person receiving the shipment is NOT getting it for his per sonal use. Of course it will cut off the "blind tiger" operators, such people as arc known to engage in this traffic, but as has been the case in the past, new ones will spring into existence ; who have not heretofore dabbled in the traffic, and this will be a source of continuous annoyance to the officers. Within the last few years all of these offenders have become known to the officers and have been so closely watch ed that their operations were reduced to the minimum, and with this class the new law will prove a help, but further than this we fail to see where it will be of material benefit to this im mediate community. We think of Russel Sage thriftily and savingly increasing his hoard for eighty years to eight million dollars, and also hoarding in his silent soul the thought that all that wealth should go, after his death, to noble causes which he had not the time or ability to execute. but which after his genius had amassed the millions, his widow and her ad visors would be able to select so that then his bud of possibility should blos som out into grand achievment of blessings to the world. His way was not bad for him; better is the way of those who in their lifetime can take comfort in seeing the blossoms and fruit of their benefaction. A better way it would be for the world if all the generous donors were first just, Dr. Anna Shaw, the noted suffragette leader in a recent lecture said, "all the sins of of the Standard Oil should be forgiven for the work that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., "is doing against the white slave traffic. "Does she stop to think that there would be less of this traffic to relieve if gener ous donors had first been just, that much of this wealth accumulated by the multi-millionaire has come not only from a violation of theJGolden Rule, but from the principals of morality. No, a thousand times no, we do not think a son can wipe out the sins of a father with a few paltry dollars. We do not believe in the theory of "tainted money" not being usea for a good pur pose, ms way is good ior mm and we should be grateful for his generosity, but justice shown the father would have been far better than generosity shown by the son. in the golden age we sometimes dream of, "when all men', good shall be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land", then no man will be so wealthy that he will oppress his fellowman and no man so weak that he will need the kind of donations this young man is giving. Tomorrow is George Washington's Birthday, and so much has been said and written on the subject that the reader nas grown tired of hearing of it, but nevertheless it is one that should not be neglected, for with the lapse or time we come more and more to recog- nize what a good and great man, the'2t ?i3S333xs8$o0$-o;efcS Father of Our Country" was, and each succeeding anniversary should be treated with more and more reverence. Since the days of Washington his offspring has grown into quite a lusty infant, and when we look at this great, thrifty and populous country for which he with his hardy followers underwent so many hardships, we should feel all the more like reverencing his memory. We have known many illustrious men, men who have immortalized themselves in the eyes of their country-men, as great general in time of war and as great statesmen in time of peace, but there has never been and never can be but one Washington. He released from the yoke of English thralldom this great country, made it free, made it possible to become one of the sovereign natiuns of the earth, paved the way that other men might become great and his memory should occupy the leading place in the heart and mind of every true American citizen. Elsewhere in this issue of the Re cord will be found a communication from a representative of the U. S. Government asking an expression from the people as to the best method of handling a government apportionment for the building or upkeep of roads. It is only a matter of time when we shall have the assistance of the National Government in the construction and maintenance of our roads, and it is de sired to get together all the necessary facts, and the consensus of the opinion of the people interested as to the best method of handling the matter, in an ticipation of the actual appropriation. If you have given the matter of our road3 any thought, let us have an ex pression of your views on the subject. Just write a letter to the Record giv ing expression to your views as to the best manner of handling the road ques tion, and send it in not later than March 1st. The letters are not for publication, but will be mailed to Mr, Bourne in accordance with the request contained in his letter. We have received a copy of Mr. Rich mond Pearson Hobson's speech entitled "The Great Destroyer" which was de livered in the Sixty-Second Congress. The speech deals with the liquor traffic, and although largely statistical, is ex tremely interesting. He has gathered statistics showing that 2,000,000,000 gallons of alcoholic beverages were consumed in the United States in the past year, at a cost of about $16,000, 000,000. The efforts of "the Hero of the Merrimac" have always been given to the working out of great national problems, and it is largely through his efforts that the "Larger Navy" idea is at last becoming a fact. A copy of "The Great Destroyer" has been sent to the students of every college and University in the United States, and if space permits, we will endeavor to print it in full sometime in the future. It is said President-elect Wilson will announce his cabinet not sooner than March 4. The "know alls", however, say William J. Bryan will be secretary of state, Congressman Henry of Texas will be attorney general, A. Wilson Palmer of Penn. will be secetary of treasury, Josephus Daniels of North Carolina will be postmastergeneral. It is beyond the ken of mortal mind to say who gets "Wince" Wisemans place. Even manageries are feeling the effect of high cost of living, says the keeper of a Chicago Zoo. Elephants have gone up. a first clas3 one costing about $5,000 and a rhinoceros costs $7,000 and a giraffe costs twice as much as last year. Just our luck, but the ouncumen may buy them tor us any way. , Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Roosevelt have made known engagement of .their daughter, Ethel, to Dr. Richard -Derby of Mrs. the Miss New York and from Washington comes the rumor that Miss Helen Taft maybe the thirteenth White House bride. The land of bull fights, of hottomolle and chile con came is having a hot time in the old town. Salesmen wanted to look after our interest in Garrard and adjacent coun- ties. Salary or commission. Address The Harvard Oil Co. Cleveland. Ohio, - pd. osssijooa4isis5ss . The Water tower stands 178 feet from . the ground to the toy of the ball which crowns the cover. The next Street Fair which comes around and carries a "High Diver" will not find itnecessary to rig a ladder for the jump. A workman on the watertower looked down on the quiet town below, and wa3 heard to exclaim: "In the midst of peace we are in danger". Just wait until we get our tobacco warehouse, Mr Workman, and we will show you a hustling town. More Fine Fowls. Garrard county people are rapidly turning their attention to the raising of fine fowls. Judge A. D. Ford is the latest devoter, his fancy running to the White Orpinjjton strain. He recently purchased from the Lewis Haggin farm in Lexington two fancy cockerels, also two of the Kellerstrass strain from a Kaisas City party and one from Rich mond. The five handsome birds which he has added to his pens cost him a neat sum, the fggregate of which goes so high the Judge is unwilling to men tion it. He has also purchased one of the latest model 400 egg incubators and expects to engage extensively in poultry raising. West. Mr. John K West is dead. The news came as a shock, notwithstanding the fact he has been known to be criti cally ill for several days. He passed quietly to rest at his home on Rich mond street in this city at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, peacefully, quiet ly, as he had lived, surrounded by those who were nearest and dearest to him. Mr. West had been in feeble health for the last two years, but only last week was he compelled to take his bed. He had been subject to severe attacks of stomach trouble for some time, and as the Record went to press last week he was thought to be recovering from one but he took a turn for the worse and for the past week his life has been practically despaired of. Mr. West was 89 years of age last September. He wa3 born and reared in Garrard county, and perhaps enjoy- e'd aa wide acquaintance as anv man in the county, and to say that one was acquainted with him was to say that you were his friend, for he made friends of all with whom he came in contact. A more kindly hearted man, a man more considerate of the welfare of his fellow man, never existed than Mr. John K. West; rich and poor, high and low, black and white, from the small est infant in arms to those his equal in years came in for a kind word and a hearty hand shake whenever they chanced to meet him. This kindly habit, and his lovab'.e and benevolent disposition had endeared him to all, and many will be the tear that will be shed at the news of his death. Mr. West wa3 a splendid citizen, al ways active for the uplift of the com munity, especially so in educational af fairs. He served as County Superin tendent of Schools of the county for 25 years. He had been a member of the Baptist church for 75 years, and dur ing all that time there had never been any step taken for the promotion of the welfare of the church, or for the moral uplift of the community, but that he was found taking an active part. Mr. West married Miss Mary A. Middleton on Nov. 28th, 1854, and it has been but a few years since she preceded him to the Great Beyond. He is survived by four children, Mrs. Jeff Dunn of Lexington Ky., Mrs. T. H. Campbell of Tazewell Va. and Misses Bane and Lucy West of this place. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church, the church he loved so well; and of which he had so long been a member, at 2:30 o'clock Thurs day afternoon, .by Rev. O. P. Bush. assisted by Rev. S. H. Pollitt and Eld, t . M. Tinder, alter which the remains were followed by a vast concourse of sorrowing friends to the Lancaster cemetery, where they were placed at rest beside 'his loving helpmeet, who had preceded him, there to await the coming of the Resurrection Morn. There has perhaps never occured a death in Lancaster that has been the occasion of more general regret than that of Mr. West, and all classes join in the deepest condolence to the be- reaved family. Of Quality wxgggms3S&&2si& Loose Leaf Tobacco Market In Lancaster Assumes Tangtble Shape, And Its Construction Before The Mar keting Of Another Crop Is Almost As sured. The building of a loose leaf tobacco warehouse in Lancaster id rapidly re - solving itself into a bu3inss3 proposition and is assuming tangible shape, and tha prospects of its erection becomes brighter every day. Last week a committee composed of Messrs Ale-. Walker, L. G. Davidson and Rev. F. M. Tinder, went to Carlis le to inspect the houses at that place and to gather what information they might in order that they might work in an intelligent manner toward the con struction of the home plant. The peo ple of Carlisle gave them a cordial re ception and furnished them every avail able information that could be desired, and the committee came home, not only with a valuable information in regard to the construction of a loose market, but very favorably impressed with the advantages to be received therefrom. The farmers and growers of the county who are interested in this move ment and who are desirous of taking stock in the proposed warehouse, are urgently requested to come in and give in their subscription, as it is not desir ed to exclude any farmer who i3 inter ested. It is but natural that neighbor ing towns that have loose leaf markets, and who are fully cognizant of the enormous value of the Garrard county crop, and the immense value to their towns of it being marketed with them, would be averse to the erection of a market in Lancaster, and would throw cold water on th"e scheme at every op portunity and wonld place every obstac le in the way of its erection. There is a report in circulation along this line which we are loath to believe, we are not in clined to believe that they would go that far in order to deprive Garrard county of that which she so badly need3, and what she IS GOING TO Kumor has It that a certain w HAVE. ' Rumor has It that a certain well known 0arrard county citizen was approached Dv a representative of a warehouse in an adjoining town and tendered stock in that institution to the amount of one thousand dollars if he would abandon efforts in behalf of the Lancaster mar ket. Of course the proposition was indignantly refused, and the gentleman is more enthusiastic in behalf of the home market than ever. No Garrard county man who has a spark of county pride, who has the interest of his home county at heart, and who believes in safeguarding his own interest and that of his neighbor,- would ever think of being induced by a monetary considera tion to abandon any scheme that was calculated to promote the welfare of his own country, if he did, and thereby proves a traitor to his home county.his home people and to himself, he had better sell his interests here, pack up bag and baggage and move to to the county who encompassed his disgrace. Legitimate opposition upon the part of our neighbors we expect and wel come, it is self preservation upon their part, but it cannot be successfully pit ted against the great home interest to which our people are becoming awaken ed, and the warehouse in Lancaster is going to be built, despite the efforts to the centrary of any man or set of men, either at home or abroad. There is not a man in Garrard county that can successfully combat the state ment and the fact that Garrard county needs a loose leaf warehouse. There may be some that would make such a statement, though we doubtit, but they cannot maintain that position, the facts are too strongly against them. One crying fact, one that cannot be disput ed, is this, that within the last five years, during the prevalence of the good prices for tobacco, there has been enough money spent away from home by farmers who have hauled their to bacco away for want of a home market, to erect a warehouse in Lancaster sec- oad to none in the state. The farmers of the county, the very bone and sinew of the county, are clam oring for a home market, and their cry will be heard, and before the coming of the first day of next October, we verily I believe you will see a handsome andjtions. 7 t sws9S'?K9S9n9sn5:w::';i:uHcK - p commodious Loose Leaf Tobacco Ware house somewhere within the confines of the. city of Lancaster. Do YOU want to h Ip in this enter prise? You may. they need you, cowe in and subscribe for stock. Attractive Window To A Mere Man. One of the most attractive windows I we have seen for sometime is the one in i at Davidsons tnd Doty "a. We don't 1 know what the ladies think about it. but j when a man is tired and hungry it is i irresistible. Large roasts, small roast. j roasts of every kind, and then big thkK juicy beefsteaks that are uithin tie poor mans means but look like they were intended for the rich mans take. Mr R. B. Wilkerson handles a btiteh-r cleaver with the same ease and grao a fairy does a wand and whenever you a A for it he can hand jou out a steak that will melt in your mouth. He says it pays to advertise and then come across with the goods. The Beach Trial. When only two or three percent of murderers, with every evidence against them, are not convicted in this country, how could a prosecuter have hoped to convict a man of cutting his wife's throat when the wife sat beside him in loving attitude to say he did not. The Beach case attracted attention not only because of the wealth and prominence of the parties but to see how a trial would be conducted when the star witness for the prosecution st by the side of the defendent and held his hand and swore that an unknown negro came out of the darkness and slashed her throat. What could a jury do with such a case but what they dki? Next to "all the world loving a lover", they love a married couple who have kissed and made up. On To His Job. This vear was no exception to the rule of Saint Valentine being on to his job. From the number of boxes of candy and flowers we saw going the rounds Friday, to say nothing of lace trimmed love missives, we could see the young people were not bothered about such weighty questions as wheth er the Governor would throw bis hat in the ring or not, who would be in tha Presidents cabinet, or whether Castro of Venezuela was on or off Ellis Island. It didn't even make any difference to them if the mercury did drop into the subcellar or if the Atlantic ocean did sprinkle the east coast. We enjoyed seeing it all because we can remember when we mailed Ircv paper missives to some one-orsome two or three- and we pity the man or wom an that does not remember, but having forgotten now calls such things "silly". Jndge Hardin Delivers Elaborate Charge To Grand Jury At Opening Of Stanford Court. Judge Hardin in his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the Lin coln Circuit Court on last Monday, add ed another feature to the splendid charge which he has been accustomed of late to give to his grand juries The late instruction, and to our minds one of the best he has ever given, relates to the common law offense of "obstruct ing justice", an offense which has been allowed in a measure to go Unheeded heretofore, but under the rigid instruct ions of Judge Hardin will now come in for considerable attention. The offense referred to consists in outsiders doing certain things, such for instance as get ting witnesses out of the way of the grand jury, seeking to get other wit nesses before that body that their evi dence might counteract the probability of indictments being fcund in certain instances, and doing divers and various things intended to place obstacles in the way of the finding of indictments and thwarting justice. Those who have been accustomed to do these things had best cease their efforts in that direct ion lest they themselves fall under the ban of the law. Judge Hardin also instructed the grand jury to give an account of the conditions of the various county institu tions, the county offices etc. and to make written reports to him of what they accomplished during their delibera J - '-31. V- v. . -