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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Btanford.Ky., September 23. 1892
W. P. WALTON.
SIX : PAGES.
EVEK."3T FBIDAY.
As hb was going home from his office
Monday night, Joseph B. Rucker, editor
of the Somerset Reporter, was fired at by
a cowardly assassin hid in the darkness
and two of the three shots struck him in
the back. Ho fell, apparently dead,
and was taken by friends to the nearest
drug store, when he gave signs of life.
He was then removed to his home,
where he died a little past midnight, af
ter recovering consciousness enough to
say ho did not see who shot him. Mr.
Rucker has been very outspoken in his
denunciation of crime and criminals and
it is thought that one of the many who
have felt the deserved lash of his pen,
committed the foulest deed known to
the law an assassination. It has not
been very long since the same gentleman
was clubbed from behind by a man
who was smarting under tho showing
up of his deeds by the editor, and the
fact that he has so far gone unwhipped
of justice no doubt emboldered the cowardly
Bcoundrel to do his infamous work.
The citizens aro thoroughly aroused and
if the assassin is caught tbey will deal
summarily with him. It is the kind of
case that needs no judge aud jury and
calls aloud for lynch law. Mr. Rucker
was a peacable, kind-hearted man, but
could not countenance crime in any
Bhape and he has made his paper of late
a terror to evil doers, as every editor
should feel it his duty to do. He leaves
a wife and three children, all of them
grown, who have the consolation that he
died a victim of what seemed to bo to
him his duty. We sympathize sincerely
with them and execrate the miserable
fiend, who has deprived them of a husband's
and father's love and protection.
May the crime be wiped out in short order
so far as the life of the assassin isable
to do it. , , , ,, . ,
The assassin is thought to be Ex-Chief
of Police Anderson, for whose willful
neglect of duty he was frequently scored
by Editor Rucker. Ho finally resigned
and went into the saloon business, going
from bad to worse. The county has
offered $1,000 reward for his capture, tho
State S500 and a brother-in-law of the
deceased $500. Strong eflortB aro being
made to apprehend him when we hope
he will not be allowed long to cumber
the earth. ,
A part of our last edition contained a
dispatch of the nomination of Gov. J. R.
Hindman, of Aduir, for Cougress, by
the convention at London. Mr. S. O.
Hardin, of Clinton, withdrew and the
nomination was made unanimously and
enthusiastically. We are not so credulous
to believe that tho governor will bo
able to overcome the 10,000 republican
majority of the 11th district, but there
ia not another democrat in the district
who can give Col. Adams as close a race
Mbo can. He is a very captivating
stump speaker and is as popular as he is
clever and handsome. In a word he ia
just the man to win votes from tho republicans,
while carrying his own party's
strength solidly.
Tuk democratic nominee for Congress
in a Texas district, has a moustache 110
nches from "eend to eond." It is to be
hoped that that is not bia only claim to
distinction.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
a condensed statoment of the manner of
voting under tho now law, prepared, as
it requires, by the county clerk and tho
county attorney. A perusal of this statement
clearly shows tbat the privilege
of exercising one's suffrage under the
new order of thiugs is not, by far, so
difficult a matter as is generally believed;
and wo feel assured that no democrat
worthy of the namo will at this time
allow so trivial an objection to deter
him from casting his vote. The provis
ions of the law, in a nut-shell, aro that
the candidates of every party shall be
printed on each ballot, each set being
placed in separate rows under some emblem
or device by which the party is
designated. The emblem is placed in
an inch square, and a small square is also
placed after the name of each candidate.
Each voter is given ono ballot
and is required to retire to a covered
booth for its preparation. If he desires
to vote for all the nominees of any party,
he has only to make a cross mark in
the square containing that party's emblem;
if ho desires to "scratch" his ticket,
he has only to make cross marks
ter the names of those for whom he do-1
sires to vote, after which the ballot is
folded and deposited in tho ballot box.
To illustrate, suppope the time-honored
rooster is selected as the emblem of democracy;
a coon for that of republicanism;
a jug for the prohibitionists and a
spade for tho labor or people's party,
likenesses of these various emblems will
be placed at tho head of the various
parties' lists of candidates, and an elector
desiring to vote any of the tickets
"straight" need only place a cross mark
in the square containing the proper emblem.
Surely there is nothiDg complicated
about this, and it only requires
sufficient knowledge upon the part of
the elector to know for whom ho desires
to vote. The new law is substantially a
reproduction of tho "Australian Ballot
System" and is the creaturo of that most
progressive people whose name it bears,
having first been put in operation, wo
believe, in New South Wales. It was
first introduced in the United States in
1SSS, when it was adopted by the legis
latureof Maasachusets for the .entire
State and by the legislature of Kentucky
for the municipal elections of the city of
Louisville, being known there as the
"Wallace law." It was adopted by the
legislatures of nine States in 1889 and by
Bixteen in 1891. Since then a number of
other States have adopted it, Kentucky
being among the last to fall into line. It
is a duty of tho democracy of Lincoln
county to aid materially in wresting this
judicial district from the rule of republi.
canism and likewise the presidency from
tho same unworthy hands. Our friends,
the enemy, have ten times more igno
ranee to contend with than we have, yet
wo daresay that every mother's bou of
them will not only know how to vote,
but will act on that knowledge. Then
let the democracy imitate its ancient enemy
in this ono particular only. Open
political kindergartens at once and seo
that the ignorant are instructed. Let
thoro be a meeting of tho county committee
and let each member be thoroughly
informed as to tho new method,
then let each member see that every
democratic voter of his precinct is also
thoroughly informed. And when November
comes we can show the world,
whether tho election be by ballot or viva
voce, that Kentucky can bo depended
upon for its old-time majority for the
party of the people.
With 1,112 patont sure cures for cholera
in the list ol tho V, S. patent office,
it doesn't seem that tho diseases ought to
get a foothold in this country.
A contemporary calls attention to the
fact that there is now but ono survivor
of President Davis' cabinet, Postmaster
General John II. Reagan, of Texas, now
railroad commissioner of the State, after
having been congressman nnd U. S.
Senator. This is recalled by tho death
of Gov. Wats, the other day, who was
attorney general in the samo cabinet. It
is also a reminder of how fast those who
played prominent parts in that great
conflict are passing away. Not ono of
the leading generals aro living and Boon
there will be left none to tell tho tale of
our civil war. The youngest of tho Confederate
Boldiere aro now 50 or past and
the buoyancy of youth has given way to
gray hairs and stooping form?, which
must soon moulder into clay.
Pulaski county and Somerset are getting
up a deserved reputation as being
the rottenest section in the State as to
1 iwleasness. The cowardly murdereis
there do not give their victims any show,
lint fihoot them down in darkness and
through tho back. The assassination of
Editor Rucker is followed by that of
Daniel Norllect, who was waylaid and
shot by Milt Britton. He has been arrested
andif tho facta are as given, he
ought to be hung without tho usual formalities.
Tom Scott, a very degenerate
Bon of a worthy sire, is also in jail for
furnishing tho gun to do the killing. It
would take all tho hemp raised in Fayette
county to bang all in Pulaski county
who deserve to have their necks
stretched.
It ia little wonder that murder and
other lawlessness hold high carnival in
Kentucky, when a life sentence is given
for a crime for which the death penalty
would poorly atone. Brookshire, the
horse thief, who killed tho jailer and
constable who tried to arrest bim, was
tried at Frenchburg Monday and given
the former sentence. The people were
bo outraged that they would have quick
y put an end to tho wretch's life, but
tho officers spirited him away and by a
circuitous route landed him at Frankfort.
With tender-hearted juries and
weak judges, lynch law will continue to
be resorted to and in such a case as this
it will bo justifiable.
Gov. Hill has proved that he is not
only a democrat, but a man every inch of
him. His speech at Brooklyn in advocacy
of democratic doctrines and tho election
of Cleveland and Stevenson, is full of
wisdem and e'oquence ard contains
enough key notes for the whole
His utterances on the tariff and
other issues are clearer than the cleaicst
and tho whole Bpeech demonstrates that
if he had any bitterness, he bus been
able to put it away moat heroically. Let
every disappointed democrat say with
him: "Loyalty to cardinal democratic
principles nnd to regularly nominated
candidates is the supreme duty of tho
hour."
A preacuku at Jennings, La., tried to
ape Sam Jones' style of pulpit oratory.
He charged that all the men af the town
were fornicators and adulterers and that
more than half of the women were unchaste.
A doctor who was in the audience
aroso and, asked the ladies to retire.
They did so, when be walked
down to the pulpit and asked the preacher
if ho had been correctly understood.
He repeated tho charge whereupon the
doctor drew a cowhide and literally
wore him out. And moat people will bay
he deserved all he got.
Tho Satellites of Mercury have ar-ranged
for a grand ball and spectacular
display at tho Louisville Auditorium,
Nov. 18.
Gov McCrkaky made a rattling fine
speech nt Lawrencehurg Monday on tho
tariff and force bills. It is said that lo
converted a number of republicans, who
will vote for him. It is learned from
good authority that tho republicans will
make no nomination against the governor,
catistled that a candidate Mould
have his labor for his pains and lose his
time and expenses besides.
The G. A. Re.' pirude at Washington
was tho largest the organization has ever
had. Over 70,000 old soldiers and so-called
soldiers were in line and tho battle
cry was "More Pensions." Wo would
suggest that while they aro at tho Capi
tal they loot tho treasury and be done
with it.
MATRIMONIAL MATTERS.
Jamea Farmer, 50 years old
widower, and Mis. Pollie Gill, a
and a
widow
of 152, were married yesterday.
James M. Griffith, a widower of 3S,
and Miss Nannie J. Powers, just 18,
were married Wednesday at tho home
of tho bridn's father, O. M. Towers.
"On tho loth of September, 1692, at
Do Lansey Place, Philadelphia, Penn.,
by Rector Samuel E Appleton, Mim
Mary Morton Poteet, only daughter of
W. J. Poteet, of Harrodaburg, was united
in marriage to Mr. William Hewitt
Wilson, of Lancaster, Penn. Tho marriage
was a quiet ono, only a few friends
being present." The above, which was
sent us by a relative at Harrodsburg,
will Burprieo tho lady's friends very
much. She had been in Philadelphia
since last May for treatment for nervous
prostration and had fully recovered.
May her now relation bring happiness
and comfort to a ripe old age.
CHURCH AFFAIRS.
Rev. A. V. Sizemoro will preach at
lagans Creek church at 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon.
The people aro very much pleased
with tho preaching of Rev. J. J. Rust,
who is a very accomplished gentleman,
being a graduate of tho University of
Virginia and tho Theological Seminary
of Louisville, und his meeting hero promises
much .good. It will continue
twice daily until further notice.
Clean Ui It is ordered that each
and every citizen in tho city of Stanford
clean up their premises and cleanse their
water closets thoroughly, as the board of
health for thu couuty and State will'
with the marshal, visit your premises
aud inspect them in a Jew days. Done
by order of the city council. D. W. Vau-
deveer, Mayor.
NEWSY NOTES.
There are o0 towns called "Washing,
ton" in the United States.
Fifteen hundred furniture workers
went out on a strike in Cincinnati.
There have been aoveral deaths on
either side growing out of a race war
between whites aud blackH in Calhoun
county, Arkansas.
A passenuer train oa tho Tort
Wayne ran into a freignt at Shrevu, O.
and Rl persons were killed instantly
or burned to death in the wreck.
Spaningei, the lady charmer, and
Mrs. Cole, accused of the poisoning of
the women in the Louisville assignation
house, wero discharged on examining
trial.
Tho Montgomery county fair will be
held Sept. 27 to Oct. 1. In addition to
the fine exhibits and trots there is offered
largo prizes in bicycle races each day;
also as ono of the features is a five days
shoooting tournament, prizes aggregating
over 11,000.
Train robbers wrecked a train on
the Santa Fe, near Osago City, Kas., by
removing a rail. Four persons wero
killed outright and 35 seriously wounded.
The train was carrying a million
dollars to Mexico, but tho fiends do not
seem to hnvo gotten it.
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