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1 V , . LIGEING 4 W.ilRY COURIER, VOLUME 3. NO. 22. WEST LIBERTY, MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1912. WHOLE NUMBER 126 X. ' ' rapiinn m h mas - ihudiw ItratfrtMl Hi SI Hud -UMr -iiisy mm m . mm The people have spoken! The result is significant. The prin ciples of Democracy have been endorsed by an unprecedented majority. At the hour of going to press' we can give only gener al results, and the summary is given in our headlines. We can not learn in time for this issue a detailed account of the vote, but the above is believed to be correct. , . ' s , . Morgan county gave the-dem-r ccratic ticket 928 majority. In next issue we will give com plete returns from all over the nation. ' , Local and Personal. Lack of time and pace forbid the men lion of ea'li of our fricipts and patrons who visited us last Saturday TI.e editor ibcing owav and the foremen not being ac iuuintcd with or knowing the names of n 'great nnny of them, could not have 'doneo even if we had had the space. Ceme again, caoh and every ons of jou, you arc always we'coir.e. wilmore Williams, of Dingus, wis hero on business Monday. Miss Nancy Holmes, of Perry ojnty, is visiting Miss Sylvane Co;nbs. Stau'ey Dennis, of F.zul, visited his uncle Dr. 1 1. V. i'ie!ell, last v. cck. Coon Allen, of White Oak, was a busi ness visitor in town Mond ly. Frank Kcnnaird, of I.ogvillc, came in to see us while in town last week. Henry Lewis, of near town, paid us n pleasant ca'l one dy last wee!r. T. II. Johnston, one of our tutacribrrs, id Forest was in to ae is Inst week. J. D. Lykins was able to be wheeled li the polls lo vote for Wilson Tuesday. Sam H, Lykins, Deputy Shiriff, ofCnney, was a business Ciller at our office Tuesday. Jas. Wilson of Canncl Citv, was in to see the Courier crew while in town Satuiduy. Will McClurc and Andy A-nv, of De IHart, were weli-onii visitors nt our uflio l last week. Ask any of tin; patrons of our job ofTice :About our job woik. Our patrens are our IbeOt boosters. Ctnn Coi per and bright li I tie sin Mager, j( Canncl Cily were welcome visitorsatour . toflice Saturday. " S 1) Hamilton, prominent merchant and ftradesjnan, of L.ogvi :!, was a business cull er at our olTicc lust week. . , In this issue you will Cnd the ad of Dr. J. II, Stamper, eye specialist, who will be litre the lillh. Head it. Andy Johnston, of uear, town, conio in recently and lnudi-d us the oiii for a six .months renewal t his county p iper. - ' . " " - 'O. IV Ferguson, of l'lorrcs', was in town 'Saturdaynnd railed ia nn hid hi name enrolled upon our subscription Hit. "Willie Sebastain left Monday for his hone vt IMoomington in order to bo early on the scene when ths palls op:ncd Tuesday m jin ing , Jas. M. MtClain, formerly of this county but who now lives in Nicholas county, wjs r welcome visitor ut the Courier ollicc and Mis. W. A. Duncan and Mrs. S. -lier left yesterday for Cincinnati, O. Turner and Kirk Both Claim In Seventh Appellate . Congress Overwhelmingly DemocraticI j Wilson Gets 427 Electoral VoteW ; Roosevelt 87 and Taft 16. I : . . . : - -j. - I .... i Illy i a Ml f f 1i 1 will ' ! wimi' ' , in w - "".i' - ' ' f . iugn I Woodrow Wilson, Scholar and Statesman, Dtmocrfttfc and other point! on business and pleasure combined, Addie Eve1ya,infant daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Jas. Dyer, died of whooping cough last Friday and wai buried Saturday at the Salyer grave yard. . . - M'im Scott and guest, Miss Myrtle Fergu son and U. O. McDjnie were iulunington Sjiulay nnd look dinner at he Tiodcrick. Ashland DailyYndependi-nt ' ' ' Kllit Ciskey, ot Lenox, wn4 in town on business ona-Jay last week arid while hers . 0 Candidate For President, had ut to make a nice lot of stationery for the firm of Ellis Caskey & Son. S. M. I.ykins, of Frankfort, was greeting old friends rn town Sunday.: Sim says no matter where lie goes he .will always call Morgan bit home and that lis will be found at jCaney on election day. , The following ladies graced the Courier office with tho'rl'icseuceon press night lust week: Mrs. John D. Phipps, Misses Fleta and Mary Hovermale, Delia Casily, Sylvane Combs, Nancy Holmes and Kathleen Phipps 1 to be Elected Distict. ; i .,...,. . . . . , . i their JuBt proportion of taxes. The ballot printing was a big job, but j u ,g vory evl(1()nt tlmt ,n Ren. llje Courier force handled it without ad-. tucky, as lu other States, big corpora ditional help, and kept the other work up, ' tlons will never pay a cent more of too. We enjoy being kept busy, so don't J hesitate about bringing in that job. We print anything with type on paper. I I Don't waste your money baying strength- cuing plasters Chamberlain's Liniment is cheaper and better. Qampen a piece cf flannel with it and biad it over the affected parts and it will relieve the pain and sore- new. rer tale by all deafen, MILUONS Can Be Saved T o Kentucky By The Appoint ment Of Adequate Counsel Justus Goebel Makes Strong Appeal for Pro - tection To People's In terests In Open Letter He Asks That Lawyers Known To Be Loyal To the Cause Of the People and Free From Cor poration Taint be Employed In the Suits Against Tax Dodging Corporations ft.. . - . OPEN LETTER. Frankfort and Covington, Ky., October 31st, 1912. To Ills Excellency, Governor James B. McCreary; to all Administrative and Legislative officers of the State and to all citizens of the Commonwealth who are Interested in equal and uni form taxation: "Tell my friend3 to be brave and fearless and loyal to the great com mon people." These last words of my assassinated brother, William Goebel, have a sacred significance (o ir.e and when in Sep tember, 1909, I again commenced to take an active inteiest in our State's; affalrn .it was not to. gain political fa vor, lor there la no . office I would havo; 'but It was with hope and con fidence that my work would, during the administration of the present state officers, open up an opportunity for Kentucky to tako up William Goebel's work where the assassin's bullet had Interrupted it, and In that event every department of our government would give thereto by voice and action most positive, vigorous and loyal support Relief Must Come. Necessity for action in the Interest of the people bus grown as years have passed until It hos dovelopcd into what Is to-day a crying shame and from which relief must come. Too long, altogether too long, has there bien unjust discrimination against tho people, unjust and burden some taxation upon the people,- as compared with what has been required to be paid by the big corporations ct our State. Corporation lawyers have boastlngly said tho death of WP.Ilarj Goebel was a benefit to tho corpora tions. If this was true, tho question Is, how much longer shall the icoplo be .held In ,bondago because ct death? hla God knows tho corporations now suing the State have been able to pro cure (and the word procure Is used Advisedly) Immunity long enough from paying their Just share of the taxes.' A hundred million dollar increase In tho value of corporation property tor taxation opens a new era in the State's affairs, and nas awakened' "the people, and brought them to a realiza tion of what has been done to them, and there will be , a further awaken ing, which will correct abuses equally as great as unequal taxation. A truo awakening ot the people has come, and henceforth every man who would hold office must be a progressive, and no Imitation will satisfy them; they will sweep aside and Into oblivion as old chuff any man who hesitates or dares stand In -tho way of betterment ot conditions nnd Improvement la ev ery way for the whole people. . Grots Undervaluation-. No one doubts, had William' Goe bel been permitted to live, that which was done last month by the Board of Valuation aud AseBsment would have been done more than a docade ago, and to-day, Instead ot the large cor porations fighting in the courts and by sinister methods, endeavoring to perpetuate unjust and unequal taxa tion, to throttle the action ot this State Taxine Board, the first to act ful ly In the interest of the people, tbey would long ago have been paying Into the State, county and city treasuries taxi's iniiii iney are mane to pay. Take the case of the C. & O. U. R. In 1911 this road, on Its entire sys tem in Kentucky, paid taxes on a to tal valuation of only $9,313,270, where as the street railway company of tho city ot Louisville was made to pay on a valuation of $10,800,000. The C. & n n n in mm m.ia chlee valuation ot only $2,171,189, nnd 4a 1911 on a valuation of only $2,743,- I . 350, whereas the Board found their 1912 assessment should be $1.8,798,030 The C, N. O. & T. P. R. It. in 1901 i paid taxes on a franchise valuation of only $3,110,197, and In 1911 on a valuation of only $3,559,320, whereas the Board found their 1912 assessment should be $10,674,200. The I. C. In 1901 paid taxes on a franchise valua tion of only $1,989,870, and in 1911 on a valuation of only $4,510,320, where as the .Board found their 1912 assess ment should be $14,746,857. The L. & N. R. R. in 1901 paid taxes on a fran chise valuation of only $6,504,879, and in 1911 on a valuation of only $11, 899,200, whereas , the Board found their 1912 assessment should be $45,-) 428,074. j The Covington companies in the past paid as little, proportionately, as ; did most of the above mentioned com- j panles, and without exception all these companies and the two others suing wanted the same assessments for 1912 that they had in 1911. The Board of Valuation and Assessment based their 1912 assessments on con vincing proof of values placed before them, and the assessments are uni formly just and fair, and of the more than four hundred - corporations as sessed, only seven have protested in the courts, and these are among those that have always proportionately paid the least. In the last twelve. years the State, counties and cities have been robbed, and the word robbed Is the only word that fits the case, of more than ten mil lion dollars in taxes. In the years from 1902 to 1911, in clusive, a period of ten years, there has been an average increase in the franchise assessments of the four larg est railroads of the State of only 1 V4 per cent yearly, and this almost un believable record of astonishingly mall Increases was made in the ten best years for earnings that the rail roads of this country ever saw. The picture here presented of the previous Inadequate franchise assess Yments is astounding, but when one ex amines into the situation regarding the tangible assessments made by Rail- road Commissions of the properties of ' six of the corporations now suing the State, the word "astounding" is Inade quate and must be here supplanted by th8 word .dumfoundlng to state more correctly what .the tanlgble assess ment picture actually presents. Work Is Delayed a Decade. Take the case of the C. & O. R. R. and the records show that the tangible j property ot this company In 1892, twenty years ago, was assessed at ! $8,0I9,577. Iff- 1911 notwithstanding j' the extensions made in mileage ol ' road, double tracking of a vast system, ' acquiring much new real estate and probably more than . doubling thoir ; equipment of engines and cars tliL 1 company's tangible property "was aV ' sessedVat only $6,270,270, or 21 per cent less than. In 1892, twenty years ' ago. In 1892 the market price of C. & O. stock was around 11 cents, and to-day , the stock of this company Is selllnr at 81.5 cents, and the capital stock has been Increased to one hundred ' million dollars. Further comment tc show that our state has beep, lobbed j 1 unnecssary. The tan gib I j property J of the C. N. O. & T. P. R. R. was r.s I sessed In 1911 for less than it was as-1 sessed in 1900, and but little more than1 in 1890, notwithstanding the great lm-' provementB made by tho company. ; The other railroads have been similar- lv Inadeauatelv assessed on their tane! Die uruperiy mr iiiuujr yeuiB. In May, 1910, a prominent official ol oneot the companies suing, stated that the special Interests had in years past i controlled the state's taxing boards and the , records apparently prove he told the truth In that Instance. He also stated that be would control the present Board of Valuation and As sessment, but In this he has proven au ignominious failure. i ' Board Acta For People, . To date the people have wffn, and thf Board of Valuation' and Assessment consisting of Henry M. Bosworth j chairman; - Tom S. Rhea and C. F Crecellus, has finished Its work foi 19.12, and, thank God, tor once it hai acted In the interest ot the people. Until this year Jthe Board ot Valua tion and Assessment has been con trolled in the Interest of the big cor poratlons by some hook or crook, elth er friendship, political favor Tenderer! or to be rendered, bribery or intimi dation, but never before has the state, county or city been given what it wp.3 rightfully entitled to. The eight suits that have been brought against .the state must be fought through all federal and state courts, and are of vital Importance to our people. They involve for the state $383,389, and for the county and city taxing districts $823,396, or a total, annually, of $1,206,785, The railroad companies, realizing the magnitude of this fight and anx ious to win out, not alone from a flnnn clal standpoint, but to prevent the si iiuoiio denouncement mai is c.., ri,,i -ni.., "m bound to come in the wake of a vie- " l0l u . , tory for the state, are calling up the I There were eifthty-seven child- wonderful array ot legal talent that is ' ren in the institution and only !nn,J!.rl?rou"h VVT'WisknoVn to have perished. and Influence that conies ot the tre- . . 1 , mendous amount ot money represented lherc Were nine nuns in the in-- In their combined capitalization of op- stitlltion and only three of them proximately one billion dollars. escapoa. No more striking 'ex- Master Lsgai Minds. ' ; ample of heroic self-sacrifice was Among the master legal minds that ever recorded than that of the are already engagod In preparing the defense ot the suing corporations are Trnbuo, Dolan & Cox, ot Louisville, for , uio Illinois central Kallroad Comuanv: 0ulvln & Galv'n, of Cincinnati, for the Qinclonn.tl New Orleans ft. Texas Pu t clfic I'ailroad Company;" John T.'Sfie! by & Son, of Lexington, f6r the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad Company; Col -Henry L. Stone,' Helm Bruce, C. Moot man, R. A. Colston, of Louisville, mid Itrowder & Browder, of Russelb villo, for tho Louisville & Nashvilla Railroad Compaq Beckham & Mo Quov.n, of I'rankfort, and Ernst, Cas satt & Cottln, of Cincinnati, for. the South Covington & Cincinnati' Street Railway ' Company and the Union Light, Heat nd Power Company; Max well, Ranihty & Graydon, of Cincinnati, for the Adams Express Company and for the Southern Kxpress Company, In addition to this galaxy of legal talent, the suing corporations have a vast army of-busy workers' who never, appear In the limelight or in the courU room, and they may be described as research lawyers, accountants and statisticians, who are a mighty sup portive element to the men who will present the cases and make the pleai and arguments. Without detracting one iota from' the splf.ndid ability and known loyalty . to the state s Interasts possessed by the attorney general, James Garnetti and his three assistants, the common wealth's legal force, as compared with that of the corporations, must seem Inadequate, indeed; and when It Is taken into consideration that the at torney general's office has a multi plicity of cases .and matters -of stats to fully employ" their attention, and that the present situation comes In the nature of an emergency unfore seen end unprecedented in the state's hlBtory, the urgent necessity for the employment of other able lawyers as a supportive force to the attorney gen eral becomes quite apparent. Ability, known loyalty to the cause, and asr.urcd freedom from corporation taint Hhould be the gauge to govern in the selection of attorneys to assist in. the defense of the state's interests, Vluntus Goebel's Interest My Interest In the work Just com pleted by the board was, and Is, dif ferent from, and greater than, that ol any ma-1 la Kentucky or elsewhere oven ttiou.mi lie may have been con nected with the work. Love of my btnto and love for and memory of inj assassinated brother, whose brain work eonntructed nnd whose blood stained the statutes which made II possiblejo do what the Board of Valu ation ail Assessment has just com pleted, uave compelled of me the serv Ice I havo rendered in the matter,, and", ' without ofllclal duty resting on Tne 1 havo given untiringly and almost cou- ; stanpy more, than five month of .Urn .. . energy and study to .these assessmeoti in the interest of the state and its pso pie, to tho exclusion of every stbar i Interests-business and personal.. Therefore, with such an Interest and with the knowledge that I hive gain ed through my labors, I feel that I air qualified, amply qualified, to make ar appeal, In the name of the 403,000 tax payers ot the state who furnish seven eights of the revenue for the state'r government, and who for many yc'an have withstood the burden ot unequal taxation, to the administrative and legislative oflicers of the state to sup rri t'ao gove-tior with unlimited c"'callr' !:' lho, l";''' 1 111 1V ; P'-"c?s 1 '; lol; ,y ' f 'r c;; '' Ea" "'J c ''lc 1' i Ho roccssary defense ot Litfrfiit and cases. io ;s i who have said in i.l:'. the employment of At i,. :'::'. the state had gone i u' to such men I would .'; ct;iy Interest the welfare ov:.i have you provea i-j i.o oi'.ier interest that is lib yea ihau the people' lv thrf u.l teicili" HvL-iy Cilircn Interested- We havo Icon, t-nd are, dealing In thi.H w'.:"i a a-aticr which Is vital to, end af,' e:j the comforts of ecry he:: e, no miier how humble, and the' peekell.G1.;. of every taxpayer In th commonwealth, bo he laborer, me char.ic, fanner, merchant or p any oilier ran': r station. All have their Interest In what we have been flgh' itig for men' nearly equal taxation nnd relief ficu:i corporation oppressioq. The question Is, shall the cause of our taxpayers bo defended at the bar ot Justice by an array of counsel ot tho correct standard and In keopt.ig with the greatness and Importance of theso eases, which Involve, not, onl $1,205,783 this year, but millions upin millions in years to come, and if the assessments are upheld, mean to tH's generation and generations yet unbjrn in KeiUuelv, lesser tax to pay, and to the stato adequate revenue for every purposo of government, economically conducted. "Most respectfully yours, "JUSTUS GOEBEL" Nuns Perish in Flames, Six nuns lost their lives in an attempt to save the lives of the 1 orphans in their charge when St. Joseph's Orphanage at San An- tonio, Texas, was destroyed by six nuns who laid down their lives in order that the innocents under their care might live. Keelon has jusi received a new supply of Stationery and School Supplies, - .r J-l U if-