The Dover Weekly Herald from Dover, Kansas • 1

Che Dover Herald Vol. 1, No. 24 DOVER, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912. Published Weekly The Household as strike breakers are jeered and beaten in the average community; a paper which favored the old system of vote-buying, in the interest of the poor man, was known as The Peoples Champion. Grand juries and petit juries were divided on party lines, ane paid no attention to justice.

When the clean-up came, as the result of the work of a reformer who admits that he himself purchased votes for years, the poor men who sold their votes were indicted; the rich men who bought votes, were permitted to become informers. This coursS was decined upon because if there had been any wholesale imprisonment for votebuying, as the law required, the heads of most of the important industries of the county would have landed in jail. This brief reference to the political history of Adams county, Ohio, is not idle gossip. I get it from an article in McClures Magazine for November. And who do you suppose the author is? The judge of the court who convicted 1,679 voters of voteselling at the last term of court, and who calmly says, on page thirty-three: I myself took part in the buying of votes.

7 Vote Buying by Wholesale. Ed. Howes Monthly. The Saturday Evening Post, which is screaming its head off for the humiliation of President Taft, is making a million dollars a year net. Has the publisher of the Post any good reason to complain of his country? You may recall that Mr.

Taft was rammed down our throats by the greatest of Good Gentlemen: T. R. Mr. Taft was all T. R.

said he was: an honest and a man of intelligence. Why is T. R. now insisting upon the humiliation of his former friend? My guess is. Politics.

The great rascal in this country is not Business, but Politics. I know there are dishonest men in business I have been robbed too often not to know it but does anyone pretend that there is not more dishonesty in politics than in business? Business men have finally learned that honesty is the best policy, but no politician ever learned it. Besides, business is the life-blood of our every day life, whereas politics is the real devil of life. It is often said politics are particularly corrupt in our large cities. The worst case of political corruption in the worlds history was found in Adams county, Ohio, a county which has but one railroad, and that across one corner, and this was not built until a few years ago.

There are almost no foreigners in Adams county, Ohio; the people living there are descendants of revolutionary soldiers. And you have, of course, heard how noble revolutionary soldiers were. Yet in this county, more than one-quarter of the qualified voters were lately convicted of selling their votes. In an average election precinct in Adams county, it was found that eighty-nine per cent of the qualified voters had at some time engaged in buying or selling votes. Is this state of affairs due to absence of religious training? I judge not; anyway, one entire church congregation, including the preacher, was lately convicted of selling their votes.

Is the degeneracy of Adams county due to lack of education? Probably not; the school teachers were found to be worse than any other class. The best chance for promotion for young men in Adams county is to become school teachers, and while the county employs but 125 teachers, five hundred teachers have qualified in Adams county for positions in neighboring communities. These six hundred and twenty-five school teachers are in Adams county during the summer vacation, and the people receive the benefit of their refining influence. The granting of certificates to teachers in Adams county is not on merit, but a matter of politics; contests for' teachers certificates have caused much corruption in Adams county, if not most of it. There is a law in Ohio against vote sell- ing, but the politicians found means to outwit the reformers.

A reformer who declared against vote-buying was jeered and beaten in Adams county, Ohio, 1 A Letter from Sidney, Colorado. Editor Dover Herald. We have been receiving the Dover Herald ever since it was first published, and take great interest in reading of the old home farm and about the friends and neighbors, many of whom like us have moved away from Dover. Perhaps a little description of this part of the country will be of interest to some, so I will attempt to describe it. Routt county before it was divided contained 6000 square miles.

To the east of us is the Continental Divide a perfect wall of mountain, also on the north and west; on the sr uth are the Flat Top and the rugged Gore range with only narrow passes to get in or out. The Moffat railroad winds its way through here from Denver. The scenery through which one passes going from Denver to our home is something wonderful. Corona, the highest railway station in the world, is on this line, it being 11000 feet high, the land of perpetual snow. There are five miles of snow sheds on this road and to keep the tracks clear requires the work of two rotary snow plows operated by from two to four 20-wheel Mallet engines.

The descent is as rapid as the raise, every mile of the trip being full of interest. Our nearest shipping point is two miles away, and our post-office and another station are four miles distant. We have had so far 31 snows with a total of 65 inches, though not more than 30 inches are on the ground now. Coal is worth $1.50 per ton within three miles of home. Wages on the farm range from $30 to $35 per month.

Taxes are low here yet but will probably increase as the country gets older. Hay is worth $12 on track, eggs 50c dozen, butter 40c per pound. Horses from $100 to $200 each, good cows from $50 to $75 each, lumber wagons $110, mowing machines $65, lumber $20. Should any of our old friends ever come out to this country they may feel assured of a welcome from us and will find the trip one full of interest to them. I will close with best wishes to all my friends.

Walter Whitecotton. In the death of Mrs. A. W. Carson of Richland the lodge of Odd Fellows at Dover record the first death of the wife of a member of that lodge since its organization here fourteen years ago.

This is something almost remarkable in the history of a lodge of that age with the membership that they have here. The Herald management will greatly appreciate any receipts our readers will send in for the hodsehold column. This is the housekeepers column, and will be mane just as good as the Herald readers make it. Send them to the Herald at Dover. It has not yet been announced whether the Dover telephone company have decided to purchase the Topeka-Dover line or not.

The board of directors of the Dover company have had one meeting about it. Porter S. Cook and his wife spent several days last week with Geo. W. Cook.

Porter is an old Dover resident and manages to take a little run out here once or twice a year, and visit with old friends. Taft and the 1908 Pledges. Excerpts from Ex-Congressman Scotts speech at the Kansas Day Club Banquet. What I want to impress on the Republicans of Kansas is that the record of the last four years is one of which we can be just as proud as that of any that have gone before it. How many of President Tafts enemies have taken the platform of 1908 and the statutes since passed to see how many party pledges have been fulfilled? Look and see what has been done.

In the last three years a monetary commission has been appointed and that pledge fulfilled. A postal savings bank was promised and that promise was kept and millions of dollars conserved to this country that annually went to foreign lands. We promised enforcement of the anti-trust laws. It need not be said here how well that promise has been fulfilled. Wicker-shams appointment was welcomed by Wall street and it was charged that his appointment was made by men who expected to escape the enforcement of law.

In New York today men snub him because he has been as true to his new client as to the old. We promised railway legislation and have now practically settled the great railway question. Tariff revision was promised. The tariff has been revised downward until the rate collected is less than that under any former protective tariff law. New treaties have been enacted whereby our products go into countries never entered before.

Our corporation tax feature has brought into the treasury millions of dollars never before collected. There are no apologies to be made in connection with the 1909 revision and although 53 per cent of the products now come in free it has not called for the closing of one single factory or the decrease of a wage scale. We have practically established a tariff commission and hereafter revsiions will be made on a scientific line one schedule at a time. We promised the people an employers liability act and laws governing safety appliances as affecting interstate commerce, and we have fulfilled these sections completely. We promised a mining bureau and the strengthening of the immigration laws.

This has been done. We promised laws looking to the conservation of national resources, and that law was not overlooked. No other administration in the first three years has come so near writing into law its platform as has William Howard Taft. Have you thought of the platform which will be written in Chicago next, June? Wont it point with pride to the performance of this promise? Think how peculiar, after writing a description of this achievement, we should conclude in another paragraph to resolve that in view of these facts that the man under whose leadership the accomplishments were made, is no longer worthy of confidence. I know of no convention in the history of this country that ever expected to make one man a candidate on the record of another man, and I dont believe the people of this country will do that thing now.

T. V. Shaffer, Lew Bond and J. H. Haskell are laying in a pretty good supply of stove wood from the Tomson timber.

There is nothing more cheerful on the farm than a big fuel pile. God Bless You. I love the words perhaps because When I was leaving mother, Standing at last in solemn pause, We looked at one another; And I I saw in mothers eyes The love she could not tell me A love eternal as the skies, Whatever fate befell me. She put her arms about my neck, And soothed the pain of leaving, And though her heart was like to break, She spoke no word of grieving; She let no tear bedim her eye, For fear that might distress me; But, kissing me, she said good-bye, And asked our God to bless me. Eugene Field.

ANew occasions teach new duties, ime makes ancient good uncouth; ey must Upward still and Onward Who would keep abreast of Truth. Lowell. Count always your Highest Moments your Truest moments. Philip Brooks. Remember that when you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are wrong you cannot afford to lose it.

Every recipe printed in this column has been successfully used by one or more of our subscribers. Contributions are solicited, and should be sent to the Herald at Dover. Ed. Graham Pudding. 1 cup butter, i cup molasses, milk, 1 egg, teaspoon baking powder, li cups Graham flour, i teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup raisins cut in pieces; steam 2 hours.

Sauce: cup sugar, 1 cup boiling water, 1 tablespoon corn starch, 2 tablespoons butter, nutmeg to flavor. Mince Meat Cookies. 1 small cup butter, li cups sugar, 3 eggs, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 package mince meat, 3i cups flour use the i cup for rolling out the cookies; they should be rolled rather thin. Prune Whip. Take 30 prunes after they are cooked tender, and chop fine; beat the whites of six eggs to a very stiff froth; add slowly 1 cup of sugar and beat till well mixed, "then add the chopped prunes; bake about i hour, set the dish in pan of hot water to bake.

To be eaten with whipped cream. c. l. T. Death of Mrs.

George Daily. Tbe news of the death of Mrs. George Daily, which occurred on Friday- evening of last week came as a great surprise to her many friends here at Dover. She has been in poor health for some time, but until the last few days no serious fears were entertained. Mrs.

Daily for many years was a resident of Dover, and has many warm friends who will sincerely mourn her loss. She leaves besides her husband two sons, Thomas and Charles Daily and three daughters, Mrs. Hattie Riley, Mrs. Addie Riley, and Mrs. Mattie McClelland of Maple Hill.

The funeral services were held at the home of the family in Topeka at ten oclock on Monday morning, and the in-' -ment in the Dover cemetery cf Tuesday morning at ten ock. The Evangelistic Meetings. Rev. William Quilliam, who has been conducting evangelistic meetings in Dover for three weeks past, closed his labors here on last Sunday evening. Despite the inclement weather and bad roads he was greeted with good audiences both morning and evening.

The meetings have been in charge of the Christians of the three churches and harmony has prevailed to a wonderful degree. Denominational walls have been broken down and only one desire has been in the minds of the people, that sinners might be converted. Quite a number of conversions were recorded, and Rev. Quilliam goes from Dover with the respect of everybody. The pastors of the Dover churches will continue the meetings during this week.

On to Arkansas. By the time this paper appears Charles Wirth and his wife will have left Dover for their new home at Siloam Springs, Arkansas. They will stop first at Ton-ganoxie and visit some cousins. From there they go to Kansas City to visit with Charlies mother and sister, thence they will go to Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, for a few days before going to their future home at Siloam Springs. We predict that Charlie and his wife will be back in Dover before many years have passed.

Resolutions of Respect. We bow our heads in humble submission to the great and all wise God, He who doeth all things well, who hath seen fit to take from our midst the wife of one of our beloved brothers, A. W. Carson; and we as brothers sympathize with him in this his sad bereavement. By Committee I.

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Harmon. J. W. Winter, W. H.

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