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SECTION QUE COUNTY volume xxxi. GREAT BEND, KANSAS, FBIDAI, JULY 24 1014, NUMBE3 20 Make'-Your Dollars Do Double Duty By Buying At The Big Stock Moving Sale Now On At Hooper's. .Sixteen Pageo In Two Gcctiono BARTON BEMQOMM A SUDDEN DEATH. What was looked forward to as a happy visit was suddenly turned into a time of sorrow tat the liome of Mrs. Meek'on Wed Iay of this week, when her sis ter, Miss Laura V. Plowman, of Nevada, Mo passed away after an illness of only a few hours. Miss Plowman, who had not seen Mrs. Meek for twenty-three years, arrived on Tuesday evening ap ' parently in the best of health. She njoyed a good night's rest, but complained of feeling badly while eating breakfast. Soon after she attempted to pass from one room to another, when she fell in an unconscious condition, and died in a few hours. Death was no doubt due to an attack of apop lexy. Miss Plowman was fifty-two . years old. She has as relatives two sisters only, Mrs. Meek, of this city, and Mrs. Wm. Henry, who lives in Pennsylvania. At the time of going to press, defi nite arrangements for the funeral ' had not been made, awaiting ad vices from the sister in the east. When held, the funeral will be at the home of Lester Cox. . It is indeed one of the tragedies of life, when a pleasant and hap py time had been planned by those who have not been together for so long a lime, to have the nana 01 ueam so suddenly seize " one of the parties interested, and the sympathy of the many friends of Mrs. Meek goes out to her and her family on this occasion. Bert Barnd was over from Hoisington Sunday to spend the day with relatives and friends and to take in the polo game.. Dr. Homer Robison and wife were here from EUinwood Sun day evening for a short visit with relatives and friends. Wm. Tinncmeyer, of northeast . of town, was quite seriously in- i'ured Sunday evening by being Jcked by a horse. He had gone mu me Man ueMiie ine norse ana the animal became startled and started to kick, and in the mix-up Mr. Tinnemeyer sustained three broken ribs and a number of bad bruises which will keep him con fined to his bed for some time. He is. getting along nicely and his many friends hope that he will continue to improve. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Kern Were in from the west side Tues day morning' on a little shopping trip and visit. Lambert finished threshing some time ago and had an' agreeable surprise in that his wheat turned out much better than he expected, one field mak ing better than 30 bushels per acre. He is busy getting his ground plowed for another crop , but says it is pretty dry out that .way and that they will have to .stop plowing unless a good rain comes soon. Cypyr.lit FOR SECRETARY OF STATE There are some things that a person cannot do.-, For instance, if petitions are signed and filed naming candidate for office the nomination of which is made by primary election, the candidate cannot withdraw, as there is no provision in the law. His name has to go on the ballot and be voted on. This is the fix that Burt Brown, of Lawrence, finds himself in. Now, the facts are that Brown would like to be Sec retary of State, and there is no reason why he should not be. He was the candidate two years ao, and made a fine campaign, but iiite all the other Democrats on the slate ticket except Governor and Senator, he did not get enough votes. Notwithstanding the great popularity of his opponent, Chas. Sessions, he made a fine showing Brown's name appears on the ballot for the nomination. Real izing the expense incident to con juumg an aggressive campaign ior the nomination, and it suc cessful in the primary lor the election, Brown asked to . have his name taken off the ballot, as he is not financially able to mate j daughter, Mrs. Charles Jones, the campaign that seems neces- near Heizer, veslehlav morning sary, but he could not have .it so. j about 11 o'clock, and at the time Brown should be nominated. He j 0f going to press no arrange has been a consistent and work-)menls had been made for the fil ing Democrat for years. Hewasjneral, Mr. Howell was one of unsuccessful in getting recogni- the old and hinhlv resnerted cit- iion irom euner me stale or na lional administration because Ihere were not places enough to go around. He should be nomi-, naled without opposition, but that is out of the question. His, John Laus Waiter Stiiu opponent is J. W. Schlisher, of;macIr were over from ClaMin Sheridan county. Mr. Schlicher I on a business trip yesterday. has served for four years in the i Clinton, the four year old son legislature, is a man of someof Mr. and Mrs. Shelby DuBois, mpiins. nnd is at nrrsonf one nf . underwent an operation at the the deputies in the live slock payment. He is a good man, but Porls are that me little lellowis we believe he should stand aside : SellinS aontf in fine shape, in favor of Brown, whose nomi-j Mr. and Mrs. George Schu nation we ask our friends to as-; macher were up from Radium sist in making. ' I Sunday for a visit with relatives : . - and friends. Mr. and Mrs! Wal- Mrs. Louise Urewer came up .ter Schumacher were also here from EUinwood Tuesday morning ; roni Claflin that dav for a visit, for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. j Charley Kyle, one of the real Clarence O'Neal. j estate and good boosters of La- Miss Ella McMullen left yes-: Crosse, was in the citv Mondav ! terday morning for a few months visit with relatives ana mends trip to Hutchinson. Mr. Kyle is at the old home of the family i one of the active Democrats of n.r Piltsburgh, Pa., and other Rush county and says that Neeley points in that vicinity. She will is going to get more votes up in stop1 enroute for a visit of a few his county in the race for the days with her niece Mrs. Geo. E. Democratic nomination for Unit Lee, at Watega, Ills. ed States Senator than all of the Robert Bean, of this city, re- ceived a message yesterday morn ing from his sister, who lives near Parsons, in Cherokee county, in forming him of the death of her husband which had occurred the day previous, but on account of the condition of his health Mr. big help to Governor Hodges up Bean was unable to leave to at- that way as he wil get many votes tend the funeral, which was held that would otherwise go to Cap on Thursday. per. DISCOVERED! Iftaffcr iv ahem!.1 ' . : .. .', ' .) i . :...' f i ' '' ;.!'.' , i For U. S. Senator HON. GEO. A. NEELEY He Has Made Good DAVID HOWELL DEAD David Howell, who has been in very poor health for some months nassed awav at the home of his j izens of the county, and his many friends will sincerely grieve to hear of his death. A complete obituarv will amiear later.T : de-;hosPilal lasl Monday, and the re on his way home after a business other candidates combined, and that Senator Shouse is going to receive a very large per cent of the vote for the nomination for Congressman. He is of the opin ion that if Billard becomes a can didate ior governor it win De a ROTTEN DEMOCRACY. If there is anything that is dis gusting, it is to see a publication that pretends to stand for the principals of any certain politi cal party, and then to all the time be quietly slipping the stiletto under the ribs of that party. From a reading of the Hutchinson Ga zette we believe that it is one of that kind of publications. The Gazette has been boosted by west ern Kansas' Democrats in every conceivable manner that it could be boosted ever since it has been running as a Democratic paper. A number of prominent men have at various times gone down into their pockets to make up a finan cial deficiency and keep the pub lication going, and nowthey are being rewarded by. seeing the Gazette, under its present manage ment, assuming a hostile altitude toward the state administration, and toward the men who made it possible for the present manage ment to have a good plant and business to begin with when he assumed charge. Not only that, but it is not toting fair by its own people. Tor instance, they are making an unwarranted fight on George Neeley, living right in their own city, in his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U. S. senator, and are boosting a man who, while he is a good Democrat, but whose nomination would not be Ihe best that could be made, and in many other ways are snowing mat mey are noi m-;uiv as goou uemuiiuis us nicy would have their readers believe. And through a series of political letters wr'.den by a disgruntled .iiuividuai in Topeka, is giving a resume of Vhe equations in the svjl'.i: relink; io the Democratic ; a; iy ti.at are absurd, and that a.c written merely as a means of raising a little coin. Of course, le iiazcue can an l wm do as it pleases. II cun take Hie Capper P'jbli 'aticrte' storiis of the Hod yes administration for truth if it vanls to, but that is net our idea or the game. The Gazette should either be for Ihe administration or else it should stop posing as a Democratic sheet soliciting Dem ocratic support. We do not insist on party regularity if there is a just and reasonable cause for do ing the other thing, but in this in stance there is not such a condi tion, and cannot be. If the Ga zette is out for the coin, then let the Democrats so consider it, and its readers will not be misled. We shall expect some of the Repub lican papers to take a shot at Democratic harmony after read ing this article, but if so it is only for the purpose of relieving their overburdened feelings on the un- harmonius condition of their own party. What we would like to see is the Gazette assume the po sition in this campaign that it should take, or else come out open and above board against the administration. It has no right to demand Democratic sup port and patronage and help, and then use the knife to stab its par ty in the back like a hired assas sin gets its victim. Cliff Gardner was down from Albert Tuesday on a business trip and for a visit with his many Great Bend friends. Roscoe Ekert, of Kiowa, Kan sas, has accepted a position with the Hooper Drug Co. and has taken charge of the soda foun tain. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Savage came up from Hutcmnson Monday morning for a visit with their many Great Bend friends and to look after their business inter ests here. Mr. Savage, who is now personally conducting his two motion picture snows in Hutchinson, reports that the peo ple of that city have been very liberal in their patronage and that both places of business are doing well. Bal Groseclose, for many years a resident of this city, being in the employ of G. H. Hulme in his mercantile business, came in from the east Sunday and will probably remain here for some time. Bal has been visiting at the old home in Virginia for sev eral months past and looks as though the world had been agree ing with him down on the old plantation for he is considerable heavier than when he left Great Bend about a year ago. HODGES AFTER CAPPER AGAIN. Governor Hodges has written another letter to Arthur Capper. The Republican State Central Committee tried to three-card-monte the Governor into a debate, which had the effect of his an swering by issuing a challenge in his speech at Beloit to Mr. Cap per or any one else. This was not accepted, so the Governor is sued a challenge to Mr. Capper direct, which Mr. Capper has side stepped, but makes a feint at wanting to give space in his pa per to anyone who feels himself aggrieved, hence the Governor has now written a challenge to Mr. Capper for a joint newspap er discussion, to be carried on through the Capper publications. Wonder if Capper will accept. We are betting he won't. The Governor's letter is as follows: Topeka, Kas., July 1G, 1914. Mr. Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kansas, Dear Sir: My attention has been directed to a news-paper statement made by yr.u, in reply to my recent let ter challenging you to meet me in a scries of joint debates, in which debates I proposed that you be at liberty to attack the present state administration from any angle you sec fit. As I under stand your reply, you have de clined to engage in the proposed debates for the reason that you are not a public speaker. I do not care to take advan tage of you, Mr. Capper. Instead, I seek only to acquaint as many of the voters as may be possible administration of the stale's busi ness affairs during the official term of the present executive. You say that you are not equip ped to discuss these things from the platform. You may not be a public speaker, but in view of your newspaper training, you can hardly plead that you are not a writer. Joint newspaper discus? sions, under rules by which the parties thereto are given equal space and opportunity, are not a new thing. It should therefor be easy for us to arrange terms for such discussions through the col umns of your own publications. I will be glad to engage in such discussions with you, the condi tions to be arranged by a commit tee of three, one member to be se lected by you, one by the writer, and the third by the two we have selected. You say that you are not equip ped to engage in a joint debate. You have also said that the col lumns of your publications are open to those concerning whom mis-statements have been nub- lished. However, I have not been able to secure correction of many mis-ieaoing ana laise statements that have been published in your those acting for you, have syste- state administration, lou, and columns concerning the present Do It Eledncdlly If you are a resident of Great Bend or Hoisington you should take advantage of the Low Electric t When your house is wired you can then use ELECTK1U IKONS, FANS, WASHING MACH INES, VACUUM CLEANERS, ETC. Call the ELECTRIC OFFICE for full partic-, ulanj. LAST OF THE SEASON. 1 m The patrons of the Ear- Stale League in this vicinity have the opportunity to witness but a few more games this seasca as the team is now home for U& last time before the close of th season. A three game serfes ws opened with Hutchinson yester day, after which Empoia comes, for three games and then Salina for a like number, and the sea-t son will be over as far as Great' Bend is concerned for this year, and probably also for some years to come, as the chances are that the town will have no salaried learn next year, as the sport is considered by many to, be more ' of a luxury than the town can, well afford. A double header is to be play ed today, Ihe first game starting at 2:15 and there will also be double headers Sunday and Mon day. Tlfc games, except on the days of the double headers, will be called at 3:3'J. The Great Bend team seem to have m the cellar championship cinched, but at that they arc playing good ball, and the patrons of Ihe game will ' soe some fine exhibitions. You'll miss the old ball team when Ihey are gone, and you had better take m as many of these games as you can. Give the team a good boost by attending and try and" help them crawl out of last place. malically, falsely, and unfairly criticised the administration to , a newspaper audience to whicv I have not had Ihe ounorlunitv to make direct reply. In propos- ing a scries of joint debates, I sought only to meet you .on ab st.lutcly even terms before audi ences of voters. In the proposal I now make, I only seek' to meet you on even terms" before the reading public. Ii your statement that your col umns are open to those who have been misrepresented in your pub UcrlLns v.s cl.j: j;ood 1 it seems to me that you should accept this proposal. If you decline to accept the pro posal, it seems to me fair to con clude that you, a candidate for Governor, consider it the prive Iege of a publisher to withhold' from your readers, information, that does not serve your own" purposes. . In conclusion, let me assure you, as was done in the. letter challenging you in a joint debate, that if you accept the proposal herein made, it will not be the policy of the writer to quibble concerning either appropriations or expenditures. For the purpos-: es of these discussions the state ments of the state auditor and state treasurer, both Republicans, will be accepted as to what their books show, when properly veri fied under oath. Yours very truly, ' ' " GEORGE H. HEDGES. Light Rates