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PITTSBURG DEMOCRAT, I 1 Continuation of the Girard Times. VOL. XXXII, NO. '34. PITTSBURG, KANSAS, AUGUST 21, 1913.

WHOLE NO, 1014. GET TOGETHER Special Letter. Topeka, Aug. 18. The Hodges administration When Old Friends Meet.

Carl J. Peterson, one of the Prominent Democrats of the Pittsburg Cor el's. W. MikV io the citv from the county su I 1 Democrats Should Unite For the Common Good The Porters Returned. Senator Porter, wife and son, Harold, and Miss Wethers returned Sunday night from their extended auto trip.

They went from here to Atchison, thence a-cross the corner of Missouri and north to the Iowa lakes. Prom here they went to the lakes a-bout Minneapolis. Then they went to Wisconsin visited. Madison and Oskkosk and motored to Chicago. They motored across Illinois and Northern Missouri to Kansas City and then home.

The trip covered a little more than 2,000 miles, all of which was made without any serious mishap. STAND BY WILSON AND BRYAN The Democratic Democrats Will Support Wilson's Administration Regardless of Postmasterships ALL CAN'T GET OFFICE It is but natural that a Democrat who has followed the flag to defeat after defeat should expect victory comes. Desire for public But no Democrat should become portance as to imagine that the ain falls, the birds sing and postoflices are maintained for him alone. It is because of this ambition, a pursuit that is truly laud able, that Democratic differences have come in this county. Several Democrats have not received what they sought for.

Not hav ing the indorsement of the county overthrow the organization. At a meeting illegally held 11 voted on the proposition and the a vote of 14 to 13. I was at that the vott was 14 to 13 the other way, 3 committeemen voted to fire the chairman and eight against it. Two of the three have since seen their mistake and voted to The trouble started with Dr, Twenty-seventh Kansas, and his way, erstwhile leaders of the Billard campaign. When they failed to land a cozy position at the pie cougter the proceeded to attempt to disrupt and overthrow the organization.

Life is too short and space too of Cushenberry, Cailen and Ryan. concern as were the movements of jskue, was in the city Saturday availing. Carl is in the bank commissioner's office at Topeka, and is making good. While in the city he paid a pleasant visit to the office of Attorney E. W.

Cantrell, whom he knew of old in Iola, in the days when "Comrade" Cantrell was a Democrat. When Mr. Peterson successfully made the race for county attorney of Allen county several years ago, Cantrell was one of his chief supporters. It is rumored that they contemplate the composition of a pathetic retrospective melody entitled 'When We Were Democrats Together." When suffering earth refuses to endure my nonsense any longer, and my soul is wafted to empyreal meadows, I would have the following epitaph inscribed upon my tombstone: "Gone, but too damned peculiar to ever be forgotten." Edwinius Plaplo. The 33-year-old bride of the 63-year-old Ulysses S.

Grant, evidently proceeds on the hypothesis that husbands improve with age. Jones' Version. Tommy Jones and Joe Nichol son, or liirara, visited tne and sumptuously appointed office of The Democrat Saturday, and discussed old and new times with the staff dagonet. Tommy and Joe, if orr memory be a faithful witness, are the chief characters in Bill Shake speare's celebrated play, "Two Gentleman of Girard." The principal motive, howev er, which prompted tnis wei come call was Tommy's desire to inform the dagonet aforesaid that he was a liar every way from Halifax and wouldn't know the truth if he met it in Radley which he did in English, Ger man, Latin, Hebrew, and several new and torcibie languages oi his own individual invention. Lighting a cigarette to steady our fluttering nerves, weventur ed a mud protest not every man enjoys being called a liar and inquired the wherefore of his heated feelings.

Whereupon he replied that the account of the Gardner-Jones pugilistic set-to which appeared in these columns last week, was flagrant ly in error, inasmuch as he land ed Gardner out in the first round and was easily his super ior throughout the entire fight. He further stated that Gardner fouled him repeatedly during the match. As we were not a personal witness of the affair, and receiv ed our information from friends who were present, we cheerfully furnish the public with Jones version. O. D.

McParlin, of 406 S. Elm, is getting industrious since his wife left him and is cleaning tilings up about the premises as if he expected her to return shortly. Perhaps Mrs. A. Painter, his next door neighbor.

set the example. Rev. L. M. Potts and family re turned from Colorado Tuesday and Rev.

Potts is again at his post of duty as pastor of the Methodist church. His people here all bid him a cordial wei come. Matthew Pox, of Girard, was in tVe city Tuesday. day evening, helping boo for the county high school. Gus Sylvester and A.

J. Flet cher were here from Frontenac Tuesday evening. Postmaster Prank Orr was here from Arma Monday morning. M. G.

Slawson the Girard coal operator, was in the city Saturday. Uncle Tom Gregg was a Pittsburg visitor from Girard Tuesday. Ptople don't have much luck guessing Uncle Tom's age not nearly soyouny as he looks. Thos. Evans, editor of The Crawford County Eenterprise, was in the city from Girard on business Monday.

Roscoe Lashley was here from Girard Sunday. Arthur Gardner was a Pittsburg visitor from the county seat Tuesday. E. H. Rice was in the city from Girard Sunday.

Jon G. Way land was a Pittsburg visitor from Girard Saturday. G. Adelbert Mills, of Girard. was seen on our streets Saturday evening.

W. L. Ringo, senior and junior, were Pittsburg visitors from the county seat Tuesday evening. Mr. Ringo is an old Kentucky Democrat and vice chairman of the county committee! Jim Pyle was here from Sherman township Tuesday afternoon.

I. N. Lynch was in the city from the county seat yesterday morning. Rev. C.

E. West and wife were in town Monday, en route from Arcadia to Richmond. Bro. West has been transferred from Richmond to Edna and will at once take charge. Prom his report the change comes as a raise rather than a call.

Ed Swigart, the Socialist deputy sheriff, was here from the county seat Tuesday. J. L. Warner, the Girard musician, was a Pittsburg visitor yesterday. James Morgan, the police judge at Girard, was in the city yesterday.

Wm. Nesbit, the coal man, was here from Mulberry Tuesday. Mr. Nesb't's daughter, Miss Winona, aged 19, died of tuberculosis Sunday. The interment is at Mt.

Olive cemetery, Pittsburg, today. C. H. Carpenter was in town from Minden yesterday. They all come to Pittsburg.

Attorney D. H. Woolley was in the city from the county seat yesterday. Probate Judge Dowd was Pittsburg visitor from the county seat Sunday. l.

jj. vvaisn, oi liirard, was in the city yesterday. T. C. Dinneen was a Pittsburg visitor from Arma yesterday.

M. P. Berry, the Mulberry merchant, was in the city yes terday. Proctor Arnold, the Radley soda jerker, was in the city the first of, the week. Prank Davidson, the Girard news stand man, came to the city Friday and took in the big circus.

Rolla Houghton and Miss Mae David came over from the county seat Friday to hear the lion roar and see the elephant do the dog has no apology whatever to offer for the appropriations made by the legislature of 1913. and, as the press bureau understands it, no apology is needed. The Republican-Bull Moose attitude on the subject is simply a choice bit of political bunc. They say "We admit that the appropriations made were proper and right and not larger than were necessary to properly conduct the business of a great, progressive state for the next two years, but you Democrats asserted on the stump last fall that the Republican appropriations had been extravagant and made the people believe it, and when you got in office vou found that the appropriations could mot be reduced and therefore we are exceedingly sore at you, not because you appropriated too much money, but because of the method you used to secure the offices." This is certainly a most wonderful piece of political dope. The matter of Republican extravagance was discussed in this state through two campaigns.

Our Republican-Bull Moose friends had their day in court, and lost. The people heard the charges, listened to the evidence and the arguments on both sides ahd decided against them. No unfair advantage was taken. Our Republican-Bull Mnnsp friends are simply doing the booby act, The Republican-Bull Moose statement of the case is not cor rect. What the Democrats complained about on the stump was the extravagant use of contingent funds and Uie extrava- grant expense of the operative departments of the state gov ernment, and, when they got in office, the Democrats found that their charges in that respect were true and a summary of the appropriations will show that they proceeded to reduce the expense account of the Executive, Judicial, Penal and Charitable wu.

uvj unci CAliBUU UI a quarter of a million dollars. If one wants to know how the large contingent funds of the Stubbs administration were lad led out, get a copy of the report of the senate committee which investigated them. This report contains abundant evidence of the truth of what the Democrats charged on the subject of extravagance during the campaign last year. The Blue Sky law has been declared constitutional. A receiver has been appointed to take charge of the funds which Moun Day and the companies in whose names he did business, have extracted from the people of the state.

The next inning will be in the federal court where Moun Day and his wife are charged with having used the United States mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. So far, Attorney General Dawson aud the attorneys employed by Gover-ner Hodges have defended the Blue Sky law in the state courts without any assistance from Mr. Dolley or his attorneys. Mr. Dolley's activity in defending the Blue Sky law has not gotten beyond the newspaper stage, and his efforts to get some notoriety in connection with the Blue Sky litigation are quite as amusing as the antics of the clown at the old time circus.

Dolley has not yet explained why he did not get into the game while he was still Bank Com mis-(Concluded on Last Page.) render at Yorktown. Ryan's open repudiation of Hodges three years ago not been forgotten, entitled to no more consideration publican. I am not sure that he didn't vote for Roosevelt, anyway, as he threatened to do in case of Clark's nomination. The idea of Tammany prosecuting an official for the misappropriation of funds. Sulzer's weakness is that his past history is somewhat shady.

It is planned to have 100,000 Bull Moosers at Chicago this month to celebrate tne first anniversary of the death of the Re publican party. Teddy will be there in all his glory. President Hueroa, of Mexico, did consent to meet John Lind and talk matters over. Even Huerta knows that it is danger ous to monkey with a buzz saw. Mexico had one war with the United States and got licked in every battle.

She doesn't want another. Rather Bewildering. "Where's the boss?" inquired the unliterary foreman. "In the tonsorial dump here unto adjacent getting his hir suteness amputated," responded the star reporter. The unliterary foreman turn ed away a sadder, but scarcely a wiser, man.

Rev. Sylvester Wright, al though in the latter half of his 85th year, preached a very logical and helpful sermon at the Methodist church Sunday morn ing and received the very closest attention. It is not given to many men in any community to be as highly esteemed as is Father Wright. Now that his race is nearly over, after all, busiest he lived the only life that counts. When it comes to a controversy with a foreign nation the A-merican people lay aside politics and support the administration.

The Republican leaders at Wash ington are standing by Wilson and Bryan in their efforts to bring peace to Mexico. Grubbs Again Take Charge. After a month's needed vaca tion, W. B. irubb and wife have again taken charge of the Home Restaurant, and are serving the old customers once more.

They are all delighted to get 'another taste of Mrs. Grubb's excellent cooking. J. F. Miller, mayor' of Walnut and prominent candidate for postmaster, is in the city taking treatment for his health.

They all come to Pittsburg. Dr. J. H. Cushenberry was in the city from the county seat yesterday.

O. D. McFarlin made a business trip to Girard yesterday. I John Haderlein was a Pitts burg visitor rom Fronteuac yes. terday.

Cushenberry's vote at Girard a substantial reward when the ervics is not necessarily selfish. so convinced of his own self im sun shines, the brooks run, the organization they proceeded to committeemen and 16 proxies chairman was declared ousted by meeting and know personally that sustain the organization. i Cushenberry, the hero of the compatriot on Eighth and Broad- valuable to waste on the doings Their actions now are of little Benedict Arnold after the sur and his advice to Democrats is than the advice of any other Re in the primary shows that his years ago I was warned against Judge Jackson would say, I myself. are legardedashuge jokes over 'only Democratic newspaper in unanimously repudiated by the unworthy of credence or sup lamented Cliggitt of violating hi of running a saloon, and associ retain its self respect. directed against me it matters with Uod help, and spite of dollar I owe will be paid.

home people regard him today pretty much as did Justice Brewer when he wrote a certain opinion for the Twenty-seventh Kansas thirty years ago. When I moved to Girard four Cushenberry. Some of my friends feared he would dictate the policy of the paper. They don't think that now. And in the same way disappointment will come to those who pretend to believe that I am here to do Cumiskey's bidding.

I am willing to iisten to the advice of Prank Cumiskey, Norman Baxter or any other Demo crat, but "in the final analysis," am compelled to think and act for As to Oallen, he and his sheet the state Claiming to be the Crawford county," it has been regular organization and is utterly port. A man who accused the oath of office and Rev. Durboraw as ates himself with those who violate the law is not the man for whom any party can stand and So far as his charges may be little, for man's character is judged by the enemies he has made no less than by the company he keeps. I court the enmity of no man, but I have long since learned that the farther one is removed from some animals the better he is off. There is one charge that my political enemies can bring against me I am.

in debt. II I should part with what little' property I possess and turn my wife and children into the street to starvo, some people are cruel enough to be well pleased. But I am not soinir to do this. I came to Pittsburs to a larirer and wider field to regain what lost at Girard. Cailen, I will succeed; and every.