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i Terms i Per Year in Advance BARBOURVILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY APRIL 3 1908 Fifth Year Vol5 No8 <

IBi COL JOHN G MATTHEWS

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Inters the Contest for Nomination4forCongress From the OldJT Eleventh District

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personal Magnetism Makes Him A Formidable

iAAdversary to HisQpponent Who SeeksThird Term

MANY PREDICT HIM A WINNERr

Last Thursday afternoon Col3bhn G Matthews finally yielded

ito the wishes of his many friendsq not only of Knox but of the adjoining counties of the district

L t allow his name to be used as acandidate for the nomination for

Peat in the Ust Congress of thefeijhlted StatesJ While Col > tthews may at

pesent6e a stranger to someparts of the district wo venturetime assertion that he will beIxiiown by almost everyone in the

h district be fore the Oth day ofi Tune and his voice will raised

v in every county in the entire disL trictric

s Col Matthews cones of a famjjp ily that has boon connected with

fc Knox county from its earlist hisairy down to the present time-

jP sand for almost one hundred andtwenty years his forefathers

rflvfj been connected with theKsitewhero the city of Burbour1illenow stands and where Jie-l jwas horn and raised and where

everyone admires and respectsr him for the opor manly charac

1ter he possessesLi At the the tender ago of twelve

v years Cut Matthews was left anorphan and without means he

< had to struggle to make a livingand secure an education and in

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this as in every other thing hefJ11l1s over undertaken he has sucr ceededstudywthatSwhich position he held for two

= terms then he was elected Connjjr

i ty Attorney and held that posii tion two terms and was pronountj ced the best official in that ca-

lv y pacity that the county ever had

i at that time and is now recogt nizod as one of the leading lawy 7 iyors of the local bar He Ins ali1ways boon a public spiritedrfSand active in doing what h-e4Lculd to help bail 1 up the Moun

ItT taions and his native county Hef was instrumental in establishing

f rthe First National Bank of thisxEcity and was Tecteci as its firstf President and held that position

for years He also took an activepart iii the Kn nx county fair association and has served us pres

f ident of that bodySome four Years ago he turned

r his attention to the coal industry and after overcoming what

I seemed to others to be unsuri mountable dilficulties w again

nccumml1lnttVWthe output of his mines which

he still owns and is in daily oporation

ft Cot Matthews received his of-

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ficiai title by appointment on thek staff of Gov Bradley and in hist official capacity participated

iVith the Governor in the dedi1 pv cation of the Kentucky Mon ii

fe ment erected at Chickamaugav > Park to the memory of Ken

hin tuqkys sons who fell there inib J v

Ooh Matthews intl ervhcnI >

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ra girl attended school at LowerBlue Lick and James A Gar-

field who afterwards becamePresident of the United StatesWas a classmate of hers whilethe teacher was the lIon JamesG Blaine who was afterwardslime Republican nominee fur

PresidentColis a campaigner

of the old school and when hestarted into this contest he start ¬

ed with that determination towin if seeing the people and pre-

senting his cause in an honestandconcise manner will win

When the people throughoutthe District regardless of politicswere signing the petition askingour Governor to issue a pardonto Caleb Powers that he mightreturn to his home and his friendswhere he could breathe the pureair of freedom and recuperatehis broken and failing healthMr Edwards it is claimed re ¬

fused to join in the petitionthus turning his back upon a manwhom every man in time districtbelieves to be innocent of thecharges against him and for noother reason save that he fearedthat the people of the districtwould nominate and elect MrPowers as his successor

Now Mr Edwards comes ask ¬

ing for an endorsement of hiscourse and asks that he be per ¬

mitted to return again to Congross

Col Matthews who has inlays past supported Mr Ed ¬

wards is now opposing him andis asking the friends of Mr Pow ¬

ers andall other good citizensof the district to join in sendinghim as the successor to Mr Ed-

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to represent our interestsin the Cist Congress

lIe has always been a greatfriend of Caleb Powers whom hehas known all his life and whenMr Powers announced that hewould not under any circum ¬

stances whatever become a can-

didate he then yielded to theentreaties of Mr Powers friendsto enter the race and was aussurod by them that he should re ¬

ceive theitsupportNever has it been our privilege

to know a man who would go fur¬

ther or do more to assist a friendthan will Col Matthews and thenight is never too dark or theroad too long for him to go whenhe thought he could be of somebenefit to a friend in politics aswell as in other matters yet hehas always been fair and neveraccused of dealing otherwisojthanon the square witheveryonethis has won for him hosts offriends and no man ye line everreceivedsuch majority fvr anyoffice in Knox county as will bepolled here for mini on Jude 0and from the news that has reach ¬

ed us from other counties itscorns to us that has the raceonlylnassetfor the primary for the peepie to express their disapproval

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fromIof the snap tactics thatattempted to be worked wereIthe Republicans of theby our present incumbent hop-

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thereby to perpetuate him-

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fn office and prevent MrPowers or any one else from en-

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the race in opposition tohim

Col Matthews looks like a win ¬

ner He talks like a winnerand we predict that he is a win ¬

ner by a handome majority

MAY REPUDI ¬

ATE TAfTThe President Angry at

the Ohio GraftersCombine

Important Developments areLooked For

The Toledo Blades Washing ¬

ton letter says that Roosevelt isvery angry over the CoxBrownGuilbert combine and their re ¬

cent actions and that ho insiststhat the outrage in Ohio be right ¬

ed The Blade saysThe presence of Geo B Cox

the Cincinnati boss and CharlesTaft in Washington is responsi ¬

ble for the report that PresidentRoosevelt has decided to de ¬

mand a new deal in Ohio Thatthe President is embarrassed bytime manner in which Vorysmanager of the Taft movementallowed the Ohio bosses to name I

the important nominees at theTaft convention is no secret

hereThatwith his usual directness

and courage the President wouldtake up the Ohio situation hasbeen expected ever since thenews of the Repu blican revoltagainst the machine candidateon the ticket reached Washing¬

ton Of course Boss Cox insiststhat he is thereon private busi ¬

ness but it is known he held along conference with Frank BHitchcock and expects to seeSecretary Taft before he leavesWashington The President issad to be so indignant at themanipulation of the Taft move ¬

ment by Cox for the furtheranceof boss rule that he has so far re ¬

fused to see the Cincinnati dicta-tor

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HIt is stated the President be ¬

lieves that he has been imposedupon by the manner in whichtime Ohio State Convention pro ¬

gram was arranged On the plat ¬

form the President was consult-ed

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and he was allowed to nameGarfield as temporary chairmanThis gave the convention the ap ¬

pearance of being controlled bythe Administration but in min ¬

ing time important places ontheticket the OoxBrownGuilbertcombine was allowed to run theconvention

By time raugcnfeiit the

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President is made to appear toindorse the program carried outby the machine Naturally thePresident is protesting and in-

sisting that something be doneto put him in the right before thepeople of the State Just whatwill be the outcome of the con ¬prej ¬

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Taft return to Ohio with a de ¬

mand from the President to calla meeting of the Central Com ¬

mittee and form a new ticket Itis very doubtful whether Coxand his associates will complywith this request as they wouldprefer to take the chances of de ¬

feat at the polls with their ownhenchmen on time ticket thanhave candidates they cannot con ¬

trot

TO PROTECT BUS =

INESS INTERESTS

Senator Poraker Introdu ¬

ces a Bill of Farreach¬

ing Importance

Better Than White HouseBill

Threre was an expression ofgrim satisfaction on the face ofSenator Foraker when he introdoced in the Senate a bill providing as follow-

suThntnothiug in thjgactto reg ¬

ulate commerce approved Febnary 4 1887or in the act toprotect trade and commerceagainst unlawful restraints andmonopolies approved July 21SOO or in the act to reduce tax ¬

ation to provide revenue for theGovernment or for other purposes approved August 27 1894oranything the act amendtory ofor supplemental to anyof said act shall hereafter beconstrued or held to prohibitany contract agreement or con ¬

bination that is not in unreason ¬

able restraint of trade of or com ¬

merce with foreign nations oramong the several State

This is practically the samebill the Senator introduced oncebefore but sometime prior to the

ProsIientto Congress and repeated todaythat the Sherman antitrust law

fILiiIroadstions that are not inimical to thepublic good Time Senators billdoes not go as far as the Pres-idents

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proposition for it doesnot provide for the system of reg-

istration which is outlined in theAdministration bill introducedin the House on Monday by Rep ¬

resentative Hepburn of IowaMr Foraker finds vary serious

objections to the Presidentsscheme of registration and pre-dicts

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that the Hepburn bill in itspresent form will meet withgreat opposition but if passedwould work great hardship uponthe business interests of time

countryItsnake our last estate

worse than than the first Everybusiness corporation in Cineinna-ti

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does business across theOhio River in Kentucky as wellas in the State Every one oftoIreg and submit to the con ¬

stant survoillianco of Govern-ment

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officials to entitle it to tliobenefit of the proposed modifica ¬

tion of existing law I do not be ¬

lieve they would like thatw

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I think the law should bemodified because it is workingnore evil than good and thatCourts should determine allquestions of reasonableness asthey did for hundreds of yearsunder the common law beforethe Sherman antitrust law wasenacted And I further believethat all should have the benefitof such amendment withoutmoney and without price andcertainly without such bargain ¬

ing as is involved in the regisration scheme which I regard asutterly bad in every sense of the

wordMybill if enacted will ac ¬

complish this It has anothermerit It treats labor organiza ¬

tions and all other classes oforgan i za tiolJ exactly alike It al ¬

lows nil to do whatever may heireasonable which all should beallowed to do and prohibits allalike from doing only that whichis unreasonable

I do not know whether it willbe received with favor or notbut I know it expresses my ownviews as to what should be doneand that it avoids that which inmy opinion should not he done

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I hope it may be accepted as asubstitute for the House bill itIanything at all is enacted

FAVORS GOOD ROADS

Commissioner of Agri ¬

culture Rankin Is ¬

sues Address

Will Distribute Seeds

Frnnkfort Ky March 30Com ¬

missioner of Agriculture M 0 Rankan has issued an address to the far-

mers of Kentucky in which he takesa dec tied stand for goodroadsin the State and outlines his planfor Farmers Institutes and education of the farmers in the best wayto get results from the ground Theaddress is as follows

liTo the Farmers of KentuckyHaving been electedof Agriculture by youCommissionerIdeavor to give you aadministration and every wayand mall of my acts I shall strive toeliminate politics and to do every-thing in my power to further yourinterests and the interests of the de ¬

partment of AgricultureKentucky is an agricultural and

live stock State It is the desire ofyour servant the Commissioner ofAgriculture to place Kentucky inthe front rank of all the States ofthe Union Nothing so furthers the

distriblute ¬

money which is

establishmentofRecognizsng this need we have

had introduced a bill to establishone subexperiment station in Eas ¬

tern Kentucky and one in WesternKentucky This bill passed bothhouses but on account of large ap ¬

propriations the Governor saw fitto veto the same We believe thatwe should have as man stationsas there are Congressional districts

IIIn union there is strengthandis and shall be during our adminis ¬

tration the battle cry farmers or¬

ganize and unite We think that ifwe can organize a farmers club oftwenty or more members in everycountyined much good Scientific farminghas made every farmer who hasfarmed along scientific lines moremoney more pounds per acre anda better quality of products thouanything that has come to the far¬

mer We must learn to rotate anddiversify our crops Study the soilconditions and learn to get morepounds from less acreag-

eI believe in good roads and willdo everything in my power to getpeople to think and act on this moseimportant subject It will cnhanctthe conditions of the farmers Webelieve in the system of rural engi-neers

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being established at our StateCollege and teaching young menhow to make roads and roadbnildiug and that they be sent to everycounty in the State to teach the peo

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I pie co mule roads and lio v to keepthen in repair-

I also believe in State and na ¬

tional aid in building roads andthe day is not far distant when thisshall be done I believe in pure seedand think that the farmer has been

I imposed upon long enough by buy-ing

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adulterated and impure seedand worthless fertilizer I want tosee the pure seed law enforced f

I hope to have every Farmers 1

Institute worker and lecturer takea two weeks course at State Univer-sity

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so that he might prepare him ¬

self to teach andenlighten the peo ¬

ple of our State that we may beable to develop our own lecturerswithout having to send out of theState to employ lecturers

We desire every person doing in-

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work to studyand special ¬

ize on the subjects he is interested inand expects to lecture on and havethe director experimental stationsarrange a series of lectures and dem ¬

onstrations in this two weeks courseso that everv man will be able tohave something new and fresh togo before the people and instructthem By this system we hope todevelop our own talent

I desire to distribute seed in diffeient section of the State that arenow growing them and have per ¬

sons experiment with them andre ¬

port results to the Agricultural De ¬

partment so that we can tabulateresults and show how the Statesmoney has been spent and to en ¬

courage experimental work amongour farmers-

I hope to see agricultural andlive stock interest organize and formsocieties such as Kentucky StateDairymens Association KentuckyBeef Cattle Association tile StockBreeders Association so that ateach annual meeting of the StateFarmers Institute all would meettogether to form closer unions andwill join hands in working for onecommon good-

I was glad to see the sheepbreepers form themselves into anassociation at this meeting of ourState Farmers Institute and at theassembling of our next institute 1

hope to see many more such associations formed

United we Stand Divided weFall has been said and unless wehave the hearty cooperations of ev-

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farmer in the State of Kentuckyall my feeble efforts will avail noth-ing

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but if we have hearty supportwe will make Kentuckya stockState in the United States and inworking toward this end will haveaccomplished much for our individual selves

IIWe have had manyencouragingoffers of support and believe that anew era agriculturally is beginningto dawn upon us and will result inmanifold success

Yours very sincerely-M C Rankin Commissioner

Dr Cort Gone to OwensboroDr A B Cort left last Saturday

after closing a very pleasant staywith the people of our city It iswith a feeling of regret that we haveto give up such an able conscienti ¬

ous and worthy pastor as was Dr

CortOnSunday evening before he left

by special invitation he preached toa crowded house at the First Meth-

odist¬

Church in this city where hiscongregation joined with the Meth ¬

odists in worship Dr J D Hitch¬

cock introduced him in a tender lov¬

ing manner and touched upon hishigh noble Christian spirit

In the loss of Dr Cort our churchfhas sustained a severe loss but we 1<

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feel that the people of Owensborowill be the gainers and we doubt

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not but what they will soon realizetime true nobility of the man

During his short stay in our midsthe made friends among all classes iand denominations and we dare sayi ti

he will be missed by not only hisown church but by the other churches of the town as well u

His last service on prayermeetring night was largely attended andall expressed deep regret to see himleave and we can truly say thatwill be a welome visitor within theihomes of almost any of our people tflat any time he might wish to re >turnitcesshe may be able to win many souls ifor his hirejtfj