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..on Society canto isvv,vr Columbia Uo 40TH YEAR. OREGON, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1904. NUMBER 10 Mi SMTWT P S I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 IO II 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Arrival and Departure of Mails at the Post office, Oregon, Mo. MAILS DEPART : For Omaha an- intermediate points, and all points north, east and west. For all points north, south, east and west, except Tarkio -and Viilisca branches. For St. Joseph and intermediate points. For New Point only. Helwis: supplied by Rural Car rier, Route No. 2. For Viilisca. north, mail to all points north, east, south and west., except intermediate be tween Forest ity and St. Joseph. For-all points north, south, east 7:20 a. m. 12:10 p. ra. 8 :45 a. in. 3:30 p. m. 10:oo a. m. 4:25 p. m. 12:45 a. m. and west. Mail made up at 8:00 p. m. MAILS ARRIVE. 8:50 a.m. Omaha Mails from all points, north, east, south and west. 10:20 a. m. Viilisca and Tarkio Valley branches. Mails from north east, south and west. From New Point only. 1 1 :30 a. m. 3:15 p. m. Main line K. C, St. Joe. & C. Ii. Mails from all points, north, south, e;ist and west. From St. Joseph. 6:00 p. m. io:oo a. m. Rural Route No. 2, leaves. Re trrns at 4:00 p. m. Rural Route, No. 1, leaves. Re turns. 4:00 p. m. Rural Route, No. 3, leaves. Re turns at 4:00 p. m. Main line, K. C.St. Joe & C. B. o:oo a. m. 9:45 a. m. 2:30 a. m. Mail from all points. Mails are made up promptly 15 minutes be fore departing time. New Point mail arrives and departs daily except Sunday. Mail to Fortescue, Rulo and points on the B & M. in Nebraska within 100 miles of this office, should be mailed before S:45 a. m. in order to reach its destination the same day. Mails for main line of K. 0., St. Joe. & C. B. north and south, are made up and depart at the same time, for day train, 12:10 p. m. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Circuit Court. Convenes first Monday in January; fourth Mondays in April and August. Gallatin Craig, circuit judge. Frank Petree, prosecuting attorney. George W. Ho?refe, circuit clerk. James A. Williams, sheriff. Harry M. Irwin, stenographer. Probate Court. Convenes second Mondays in February, May August and November. Henry T. Alkire, probate judge. County Court. Regular Terms :n First Mondays in Febru ary May, August and November. Jacob Wehrli, presiding judge. G. W. Pullen, judge 1st district. Wm. H. Allen, judge of 2d district. Enoch A. Welty, clerk of county clerk. F L. Zeller, deputy county clerk. County Board of Health. Jacob Wehrli, president. G. W. Pullen, vice-president. W. O. Proud, county physician. Enoch A Welty, secretary. County Board of Education. A. R. Coburn,, Oregon. W. W. Gallaher, Mound City. Alberta C. Green, Craig. Collector of Revenue, Nicholas Stock. County Treasurer, Lewis I. Moore. Recorder of Deeds, Robert Callow. Commissioner of Schools, A. R. Coburn. Public Administrator, M.D . Walker. Superintendent of Poor, Abner Carson. Surveyor, C. M. Armst rong. Asssessor, W. II. Weightman. Theodore Roosevelt is said to have framed the Republican platform. It looks as if he framed the Democratic platform also. New York World (Dem.) REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. To the Republican Electors of Missouri: Holt County, A call is hereby issued to the Republican voters of Holt County to meet in their re spective townships, on Saturday. July 30, at 2 j). m., to select delegates to a convention wjiicii is called to meet at Maitlanii, Mo., on Monday, August 1, 1904, at 11 a. m., for the purpose of nomi natui candidates tor the various county offices, to be voted for at the coming election, to be held on the sth dav of November, 1904. The basis of representation will be one delegate for each twenty-five votes or a fraction thereof cast for Higbee for supreme judge m line: also to select three township committeemen, the chairman to be a member of county committee. The allotment of delegates for the yarious townships will he as follows: Votes. Del. Votes. Del Benton 311 13 Liberty 12t 15 Bigelow tV 3 Lincoln IV 3 Clay 20; 9 Lewis 370 l. Forest 14t ti Minton 57 3 rorbes hii odaway...l3i t Hickory 133 t Union 1IC S Done bv order of Count' Committee this 17th davbf May, liHM. T. C. DFNGAN. Chairman. NEVTLLE DICKSON, Secretary. ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS. To the Republican Voters of Lewis Town s', lip: ou are hereby notified that a primary convention win oe held at the Court House, j Oregon. Mo.. Saturday, July BO, 1904, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting fifteen delegates to the County Nominating Convention, called to meet at Maitland, Mo., .Monday, August 1, 1904, at 11 o'clock a. in., for the purposes of nomi nating candidates for the various county of ficers to be voted for at the coming November election. T. (J. DUNGAN, Chairman. Attend to Business. There is but one way to get good men in office. That is to put them on a ticket and then cast enough votes for them to elect them. It is the duty of every citi zen to try to have good officials and the i first step to accomplish this must be taken at the primaries . The Republicans are looked to to place good men in the field and in doing this they must go to their township pri maries and therefvote for men as dele gates who will do all in their power to name a set of candidates that; will com mand the united support cf the party. The primaries are to be held at the var iops townships on Saturday afternoon of next week, July 30, 1904. The county ticket will be nominated at a convention to be held at Maitland, the following Monday, August 1, 1904, and that con vention must be composed of men who can be relied upon to nominate good men. No Republican should fail to do his duty. They should go to their primary, Saturday, 30th inst., and vote. They should leave nothing to chance or to the possibility of other men doing the work. Make known your individual wishes for delegates through your ballot and then you will have done your full duty and cannot be held responsible for ill-advised nominations. "In the first year of the Dingley tar iff," says a Democratic paper, " there was a deficit of 538,047,247; in the second year of 889,998,857." But why not add, if the desire is to enlighten readers, that those were the years of the war with Spain. The whole period of the Dingley law shows a surplus of $125,000,000, even when the Isthmian canal payment of 850,000,000 is reckoned in with the expenditures. Judge Parker's Action. The earlier reports from St. Louis about Judge Parkers's declaratory tele gram on the financial question, of which several versions were sent out, seemed to endow his action with a somewhat finer quality than on careful exarnina tion it is found to possess. He did not, as at one time appeared, demand that the convention should either insert an acceptable money plank in the plutform or take him off the ticket, but informed the convention that he regarded the gold standard as firmly and finally es tablished, announced that he should act accordingly if elected, and requested Mr. Sheehan to decline the nomination for him if that attitude was proved to be unsatisfactory. The course which Judge Parker thus took at the last mo ment was much more creditable than prolongation of his strange silence would have been, and was sure, while it re mained imperfectly understood, to excite the admiration of men of all parties who respect moral courage. But we cannot doubt that on deliberate reflection they feel that an earlier defination of his views would have furnished a more sig nal proof of courage and good faith. The fact is that Mr. Bryan told the exact truth when in the course of his remarkable speech which in defiance of his doctors, he left his sick bed to de liver, he said: i inmK iz is a manly tnmg tor a man to express his opinion before the con vention adjourns. It would have been manlier to have expressed it before the convention met. It is a manly thine: to express his opinion before the delegates act finally upon his position, but it would have been a manlier thing had he expressed his opinion before the voters throughout this countrj' went to their caucuses and their primaries and sent instructed delegates here. Unless Judge Parker was mysteriously ignorant of what everybody else knew, he must have been aware on Friday of the convention that Mr. Hill was ex pnciuy quoting mm to anxious mqjir- ers as saying that he was entirely will ing to leave the platform to the wisdom oi me democratic Dartv. There was a.1 r-v . m. time enough after that to enable the delegates to choose a candidate with their eyes open. The situation which confronted Judge Parker on Saturday was this: He had been nominated on a platform which, with a cowardly folly characteristic of the party in general and Hill in particu lar, made no allusion whatsoever to the financial question, and therefore left un recanted the fatal heresy of 1896 and 1900. He knew that unless he did something to offset that omission the indispensable electoral votes of New York were lost in advance. If he took the bold step of declaring his personal adherence to the gold standard, there was a strong probability that a dis tracted and exhausted convention would consent to keep him as its candidate and let him convert a certainty of de feat into a remote possibility of victory. If, on the other hand, his opponents, in their resentment, should persuade the convention to drop him and make another nomination, be would escape all the burdens of a hopeless campaign and remain Judge of the Court of Appeals. It seems to be necessary to say, as re spectfully as may be, that Judge Parker played a shrewd game of politics, for he knew the nomination once made, it would not be reconsidered. By main taining his own silence and permitting his accredited agents to create an er roneous impression of perfect docility on his part, he secured an otherwise im probable, if not impossible, nomination, then made a spirited offer of withdraw al, which was virtually certain to be de clined, and thus gained for himself an advantage of position which he could not do without, but which the conven tion never intended him to have. We do not say that Judge Parker has dishonored himself by such tactics, but we cannot concede that the final dra matic act in a skillful performance en titles him to be acclaimed as a man of heroic mould. Yet, from a wretched conflict of base motives and disgraceful passions he emerges creditably in com parison with the men to whom he in trusted his interests in a convention whose most respectable figure, we are tempted to say, as we view the scenes enacted in St. Louis, was William Jen nings Br an, who stood by his colors and woe several victories which left his final overthrow incomplete. In nominating ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, for vice-presi dent, in his 81st year, the convention made a choice which we hesitate to term pathetic. He has great possessions and identified with the powerful coal trust Happily there is no prospect of his be- ng called on, at the end of his long life, to" preside over the senate and hold him self in readiness to assume responsibil ities which would overwhelm him in an instant. 11 over Missouri can be read the signs of an uprising of voters to secure better government for the state. Current Comment. The best friends of the credit of Mis souri are those who propose a change to honest and truthful government of the state. Oom Paul Kruger, former president of the Transvaal republic, died at Clarenz. Switzerland, July 14, 1904. Death was due to heart weakness, resulting from an attack of pneumonia. Prom the spirit shown toward Mr. Akins, our national committeeman, Col. Ed. Butler has evidently got in his work on the Missouri State Republican and the Globe-Democrat. Edward is a sly duck. Bourke Cochran's comment on the Democratic platform, "They have stran gled the party to save the organization," is epigrammatic, and might well serve for the epitaph which will be needed later on. How much do you suppose Postmaster Harris knows or cares about the issues on which the Republican party must rely to carry Missouri next November? Mis souri State Republican. Oh, about as much as the Republican does, we guess. When Missouri receives from the United States goverment the 835,905 re cently apportioned for the state militia, the financiers at Jefferson City should refrain from spending the nionpy for state debts and issuing a certificate of indebtedness to the militia to be sup ported by perpetual taxation. That is precisely what has been done with the large cash gifts of the national govern ment to the schools and seminaries of Missouri, The "Safe and Sure" Democracy is again in the saddle. Bryan can hardly muster a corporal's guard. Altgeld is physically dead and the other leaders of 1896 and 1900, Stone, Jones and the rest, are practically defunct. Repudiation is repudiated. The gold standard is ac cepted. The dollar is placed above the man. Plutocracy is in the saddle. The standard oil and coal combines dictate the standard bearers of the "party of the people." The right of injunction is still to stand. It looks now as if the year 1904 would hold the record as the most disastrous in the way of accidents that has passed for a century. Three appalling disasters, oce on land, the burning of the Iroquois theatre, and two at sea, the burning of the General Slocum in New York bay and the sinking of the steamer Norge in the North Atlantic, are almost without rivals in their class. In. addition to these, there has been a succession of railroad disasters, mine disasters, and loss of life from collapsing buildings, which would have seemed like disasters of great magnitude if they were not made comparatively insignificant by the three great disasters mentioned above. If the Republican party has permitted federal office-holders to manage party affairs in other states, it has seen that men fit to discbarge the duties of impor tant and responsible party positions were selected. Missouri State Republican. Thirty out of the thirty-six delegates to the national con vention voted for Mr. Akins as national committeeman. They evidently thought him competent. There was but one federal office holder in the entire delegation. The delegation from Mis souri was composed of creditable busi ness men representing the state and their respective districts. It is a pity the delegation did not consult the Re publican. It should have known better to go so far away from home without having Brockmeyer to stand as its guardian. The Sentinel stands by the action of its delegation to the national convention in its every action, and it is the duty of every loyal Republican in the state to .do the same. "What preparation has Mr. Akins made for the campaign now on? Oh, about as much we guess as the national committee had done up to the nomina tion of Mr. Roosevelt. Our young friend, Brockmeyer.is one of the most impracti cal politicians in the state, and growls, and growls as if he had the liver com plaint. There is no state campaign yet on, and will not be until the state ticket is in the field. None of the congressional committees have done anything and are inactive until their candidates are in the field. The county committees do noth ing until their respective county com mittees are in the field. Ice freezes mighty thick in August when the Re publican can't find something to growl about and some conspicuous leaders of the Republican party to kick at. The national congressional committee has been only organized within the past thir ty days. The new state chairman, who ever he may be, will doubtless take hold of the state campaign as soon as he is elected, and will look after matters, but we have no idea that his efforts will at all be satisfactory to the Republican, unless its suggestions are Etrictly ad hered to by him. Putting in nomination Judge Parker Orator Littleton remarked, perhaps more wisely than he knew, '-No man is greater than his party, and no party is greater than its principles." That will be a sen tence to remember when Judge Parker goes before the pecple on a platform si lent on one of the great issues on which the last two presidential campaigns was fought. The party was too cowardly to make a declaration on the money ques tion, and "no party is greater than its principles." "On his record and that is the thing that counts Bert D. Nortoni, at present assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Missouri, is pre-emi nently the man for the Republicans to nominate for attorney general." St. Jo seph Gazette. When Captain Houser, of the Globe -Democrat, reads the above item, we opine it will take a ton of ice to get him cooled down. No matter what the Gazette may think of tha availibility of Mr. Notoni, he is a federal office hold er, and the Globe-Democrat and Mis souri State Republican seem to think this ought to knock him out of the nomi nation. The Gazette had better refer this matter to these papers for their ap pr jval. After all the heated atmosphere to which we have been treated by the Democratic press regarding the evils of the money power, their two chosen stan aara oearers are Dotn men or immense wealth their vice-president is reliably quoted at 812,000,000 gold standard men, pure and simple, and the Dower behind the nominations has been Wall street, the sugar, standard oil, coal and steel trusts. The trusts fear a curbing of their power at the'hands of the Repub lican administration. If this is not a complete reversal of the traditional poli cy of the Democratic party, what is it? Its policy of vaccillation and expediency does not stand comparison with the con sistent policy of the Republican party made up of the great middle class of the nation, in whom, on the last analysis, lies the nation's strength. Grandpa Davis, of West Virginia, the Democratic nominee for vice-president, is in his 81st year, and is the oldest by nearly a full score of years. Elbridge Gerry, of Madison's time and his run ning mate, was 69 when he took his seat as president of the senate. Wm. R. King was 67; he was elected with Franklin Pierce; George Clinton, who was elected under Jefferson, and Thomas A. Hen drix, chosen with Mr. Cleveland, were each 66. Levi P. Morton, under Harri son, was 65 and Henry Wilson, vice-presi dent under Grant, was 61. There is dan ger in electing men to the presidency and vice presidency who have the age of 60. Harrison and Taylor died in office, and the six vice-presidents who passed that age died in office, King, Hendricks and Wi'son died in office. Mr. Davis is one of the great coal barons of the coun try, and his mines are in the great coal trust of the East. The Republicans of this county should attend the township meetings which will be held in the several town ships on Saturday afternoon of next week, July 30, 1904, to select delegates to the Republican County convention, which meets in Maitland, Monday, Aug ust 1, 1904. Let every Republican at tend and assist in the election of repre sentative men as delegates. It should be remembered also, that at the town ship meetings a new township commit tee, consisting of three members, is also to be chosen, and the chairman thereof is to be a member of the county cen tral committee, and care should be exer cised in the selection of these commit teemen. It is a presidential election, snd strong, capable men ehould be chos en, those who can and will attend to the duties of the position. Let every Re publican voter go to the primaries, Sat urday, July 30, 1904. The rapid increase in the use of commercial fertilizers in Missouri has brought into the state as skillful a lot of swindlers as ever operated the "gold brick" upon the unsuspecting farmers. Ashes and other cheap substances are mixed together, nicely sacked and la beled and sold to the farmers as high grade fertilizers. So common has this practice become that the Agricnltural department of the University of Missou ri is preparing a vigorous campaign against the manufacturers and distri butors of this spurious article who place their goods for sale on the Missouri mar ket. A new officer known as the ferti lizer inspector has been appointed and it will be his duty to travel over the state and inspect the fertilizers offered for sale and properly label those found of good quality. Wherever distributors or manufacturers are round defrauding the farmers, the evidence secured by the University will be placed in the hands of the prosecuting attorney in whose county the sale was made and he will be assisted in prosecuting the swindlers. There will be a union Sunday school festival, held on the lawn at James Tay lor's residence, near Helwig, (Richviile,) Saturday evening, July 23. Ice cream, cake, lemonade, etc., will be served. Ail are cordially invited to attend. Rev. C. F. Erffmeyer will preach Friday night, July 22, at the Jbvangehca. church in Oregon. Everybody welcomel Come. They Never Learn. A few weeks ago a wealthy retired farmer of Nebraska was taken in by a coupfe of confidence men and induced to pay 810,000 of his money for an al leged gold brick represented to be worth 821,000. Of course the brick was worth probably 15 cents. Now, we have never wondered that people are taken in on one 6'cheme and another by smooth talkers, who induce them to invest their money in worthless stocks or in property that is not worth half the money paid by the investor, but how a man who bad sense enough to accumulate 810,000 could be taken in on a gold brick scheme is something we never could understand. Gold is the one thing that is worth as much in the shape of a brick as it would be if made up into coin, for the reason that the government coins it free of charge. The owner of a brick of real gold, could in five minutes' time, go to a bank and after having the brick tested to show- that it was the genuine article, get what it would be worth if it were coined into 820 gold pieces. There could be no pos sible reason for a man selling a brick of gold worth 821,000 or. $14,000 as the case might be for 810,000, because he could get what it was actually worth within 30 minutes in any town the size of Ore gon. As we have said, we cannot un derstand how any man who has sense enough to accumulate 810,000 could be chump enough to believe that another man would sell him $21,000 worth of gold for $10,000. It would be just as reasonable to suppose that the man would hand him five genuine 820 gold pieces for $50. But the fact is that it is impossible to give any good reason for a man being a 24 caret chump except that he is just a chump and can't help it. The Unterrified. The Democratic nominating conven tion began its work at Jefferson City Tuesday of this week shortly after tha noon hour. The state chairman, Mr. Rothwell, called the convention to order, and announced the temporary officers: Temporary chairman, Congressman W. D. Vandiver; Secretary .John Byrne. At once the trouble began. A motion was made to substitute the name of James Nolan, a Folk man, for that of Byrne, as temporary secretary. Byrne was an In dian, and lives on one of Butler's farms in Jefferson county. The motion was carried, 401 for Nolan and 290 for Byrne. This was the first test of the Folk strength, and Byrne's was the first In dian scalp to be hung from Folk's belt. The wildest disorder was the one charac teristic of the first session. During the course of his remarks, Mr. Vandiver aroused much enthusiasm by saying Missouri proposes to do a nice job of house-cleaning. "It is time," he said, "that politicians find that the people rule." His remarks evidently were to apply to state affairs, and not national, where the Yankee politicians ruled with an iron will. A mention of Bryan's name, Vandiver pronouncing him the greatest statesman in America, set the convention wild. J udge Walter Graves, of Bates county, was made the permanent chairman. Judge Graves presided at Fulton, in the trial of Edward Butler. Judee Evans will be the new chairman of the stat committee. The committee on credentials had an all night and all-day session ; the plat form committee were ready to report. but did not on account of the delay on the part of the credential committee. The platform ratifies the national platform as adopted at St. Louie; de clares that the eradication of bribery is the paramount issue; favors the recov ery of the franchises obtained by brib ery; favors the initiative and referen dum. As we go to press, the credential com mittee had reported, and it is reported that Mr. Folk had been nominated for governor on the first ballot; that Mr. Cook's nomination for secretary of state, and that of Mr. Allen for state auditor. was conceded by the anti-machine ele ment of the party. Letter List. The following letters remain uncalled for in the postoffice at Oregon, Mo., for the week ending July 22, 1904: James Flint; John My rick. When calling for any of the above letters or cards, please say "advertised." Tom Curry, P. M. Mrs. Ida Curry, of Omaha, Neb., is here on a visit. George Kunz is visiting relatives and attending the St. Louis fair. Mrs. Kramer, mother of Mrs. Geil, is attending the St. Louis fair. John L. Elder had a stroke of par alysis, last Wednesday, July 20, his left side being affected. He is now imorov- ng some. -The following came from abroad to attend the funeral services of little Leo- na Evans: J. C. Evans and wife, of Val ley Falls, Kan.; W. C.'and E. E. Evans. of Kansas City, Mo.: Mrs. J. C. Phil- brick, son and daughter, " Addie, Curt Kennedy and wife, and B. V. Harding, wife pnd baby, of St. Joseph. x