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THE POLK COUNTY REPUBLICAN
VOLUME II. DUCKTOWN, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915. No. 16.
DBETTAKV. SGTOM MA
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS
A PROPHET is not withour honor, save in his
own country, and Ham Patterson illus
trates this point exactly.
A FTER killing everything and everyhody they
had ammunition for the' various factions in
Mexico now favor peace.
INDICATIONS are that Governor Rye is not in
high favor with the rest of the Parisites that
dwell in the county of Henry.
SLOWLY, but surely, New York is becoming
the financial center of the world and most
of the countries are realizing it.
SAYS the Globe-Democrat: "Columbus 'saw
America first,' but didn't get as much of it
as John D., who saw it much later."
THE laboring man, when he hears of the won
derful prosperity this country is enjoying,
can not help wondering why it hasn't reached
him.
TJASN'T the limit of extravagance and snob
bery been reached by the statement that a
3-year-old boy can not live on an income of
$20,000 a year?
WHEN the Knoxville Journal and Tribune says
that 160 years ago Nathan Hale was exe
cuted as a spy, it had better take another squint
at American history.
THAT is a fine galaxy of Democratic election
thieves down in Texas, composed of white
men, niggers and Mexicans. What has become
of the white man's party?
TALKING of joy rides, we heard of one who
came home with the extra tire around his
waist as a life preserver, saying he had been on
the Lusitania when she blew up.
THE change of the song "Tipperary" to that
of "Onward, Christian Soldiers!" indicates
that, English soldiers are taking a more serious
view of the war than at its beginning.
WITH an ex-Governor and three Congressman
ready to contest Senator Lea's divine
right to be United States Senator, there are
some lively times ahead for Democracy.
A DECREASE of $11,702,796 in the operat
ing expenses of the 153 railroads of this
country shows the reason why railroad men are
feeling the effects of these good Democratic
times. And of course they will all vote to con
tinue them !
WITH the President in trim for sending sharp
notes, no doubt he would like send one
to the prospective Republican candidate for the
presidency, warning him to keep off the grass.
As his notes have attracted little attention in
other quarters, no great amount could be ex
pected of such a one.
DOES the garden party recently given to the
those Chinese by Secretary Bryan indicate
that he is catering to that vote?
TORTY-TWO persons in Texas have been in-
dieted for conspiracy to corrupt an elec
tion. Tennessee's time will come.
GERMANY has offered to pay all damages for
tbe Gulflight. Her eyesight has improved
wonderfully in the past few weeks.
WITH the only Democratic organ at the capi
tal, Luke can afford to laugh at the ef
forts of his "friends" to dislodge him.
NOTE sent the United States by Germany and
signed by Hon Herr Jagow sounds very
much like it was written by a man with a jag on.
WHEN your Uncle Joe Cannon said "there
had been two d n many notes written," he
voiced the sentiments of a multitude of people.
TT IS said in Nashville that Luke Lea is help-
ing Governor Rye make up his mind as to
an extra session.
T BEGINS to look like that State-wide demand
for an extraordinary session of the Legisla
ture has punctured a tire.
TF LUKE LEA is not re-elected, next year, will
Polk County be redistricted again, and be
cause the "goods" were not delivered?
N HOLDING Germany to a strict accountabil
ity in certain matters, it can not be said that
the President has obtained a strangle hold.
THE way the President is talking to Mexico
indicates that he is not overly-confident
that any attention will be paid to what he says.
V"OU can come as near making a silk purse
1 out of a sow's ear as you can to putting
Polk County in the Democratic column, next
year.
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U lican candidate for the presidency that they AM not a financier, says Secretary Bryan,
their own anatomv to an awful iolt. 1 "but I have some very decided ideas con-
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'T'HOSE cowboys who went over into Mexico
and rescued two kidnaped American lads
didn't ask whether or not they were violating
international law.
ON THE basis of the gubernatorial vote in
1914, Shelby County will have about 150
delegates in the next Senatorial convention.
Has Luke "seen" Ed?
THOSE who are predicting a split in the Na
tional Republican convention in 1916 will
have their mouths filled with bitterness and their
bowels with east wind.
IF THE President is renominated, would the
Democrats of the South who profess to be
for nation-wide prohibition, vote for a Repub
lican who favored such a law?
RE Democrats so afraid of Hon. James R.
Mann that thev find is necessary to circu
late the report that he will be the Republican
candidate for President in the interest of whisky?
THE Memphis News-Scimitar says that the
boarding house missus of Nashville are
the only ones who want an extra session. Here
is insult added to injury by ignoring Luke's
wishes in the matter.
LADY in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing has handled $100,000,000,000 in clean
cash in fifty years. No country editor would
object to handling that amount of cash, even if
it were slightly soiled.
CHICAGO is to have a "prosperity exposition"
in September. Of course a Republican
mayor is some exhibit, but by putting it off un
til 1917 a Republican President will add much
to the gayety of the occasion.
A
cerning finance." And he is decidedly alone in
the matter.
THE requirement that a man sign an agreement
to vote the Democratic ticket, next year, in
order to get a political job in Polk County is
not meeting the success anticipated.
THOSE who are insinuating that "parsnip
wine" is a product of Tennessee can be
sure that it is not a product of the mountain
section at least we don't call it that.
THE President says that Mexico must establish
a government that will deal with revolu
tions as a business and not as a platform. Does
he mean the Baltimore platform, for instance?
THE unanimity with which the Administration
is trying to get rid of Jlon. T. F. Peck
leads the Nashville Banner to say that the selec
tion of a Commissioner of Agriculture is like
ly to be made most any midnight.
A TARIFF law for revenue only is a law to
close American factories, turning their em
ployees into the street and substitute foreign
products for domestic. Have these not been
the effects of the Underwood tariff law?
THE proposal that the teachers oL the State
grade school papers for nothing while a
bunch of "rough-necked" politicians draw a
salary for doing nothing is an inspiration in
keeping with the Democratic idea of economy.
SECRETARY BR Y N has resigned! Fear
that the last note to Germany might involve
us in war led to the action. While saying that
he regretted it, the haste of the President in ac
cepting the resignation leads to the belief that
it is otherwise.
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