Mountain Advocate from Barbourville, Kentucky • Page 1

THE MOUNTAIN a ADVOCATE Entered no SocoiKlCluss Mnttor Friday Fobtunry 10th HW at tho Postollleo at Hiirltourvlllu Knox County Ky under Act of Congross of March 3rd 1879 MOTTO Iivr Kon Oiii UIFsIJADo TnI GHKATKKT AMOUNT OK noon wr Uv TO TUB IMKOKHT NUMHEU or PKOFIK i Terms i Per Year in Advance BARBOURVILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY APRIL 3 1908 Fifth Year Vol5 No8 IB i COL JOHN MATTHEWS I mgters the Contest for Nomination 1 Tfor Congress From the Old JT Eleventh District I I personal Magnetism Makes Him A Formidable 4 Adversary to HisQpponent Who Seeks iA Third Term MANY PREDICT HIM A WINNER Last Thursday afternoon Col 3bhn Matthews finally yielded ito the wishes of his many friends not only of Knox but of the ad pVjmning counties of the district allow his name to be used as a candidate for the nomination for Peat in the Ust Congress of the feijhlted States While Col tthews may at ir present liea stranger to some parts of the district wo venture time assertion that he will be Ixiiown by almost everyone in the district be fore the Oth day of i rune and his voice will raised in every county in the entire dis trictric trictrieCol Col Matthews comes of a fam jjp ily that has boon connected with fc Knox county from its earlist his JII 7 airy down to the present time jP sand for almost one hundred and twenty years his forefathers havq been connected with the Ksitewhero the city of Burbour 1ille now stands and when Jie was horn and raised and where everyone admires and respects jifJiiin for the opor manly charac I 1ter he possesses Li At the the tender age of twelve years Cut Matthews was left an orphan and without means he had to struggle to make a living and secure an education and in this as in every other thing he fJ11l1s over undertaken he has suc ceeded may After graduating in the study of law his first position was that of City Attorney of Barbourville which position he held for two jjr terms then he was elected Conn i ty Attorney and held that posi i tion two terms and was pronoun tj ced the best official in that cal pacity that the county ever had i at that time and is now recog nizod as one of the leading law 7 iyors of the local bar He has al tV ways boon a public spirited landactive in doing what he 1could to help bail 1 up the Moun It taions and his native county He was instrumental in establishing the First National Bank of this xEcity and was Tecteci as its first President and held that position for years He also took an active part iii the Kn nx county fair as sociation and has served us pres ident of that body Some four Years ago he turned his attention to the coal industry and after overcoming what I seemed to others to be unsur i mountable dilficulties again succeededand has accummula ted an independent living from VWthe output of his mines which he still owns and is in daily op oration ft Cot Matthews received his off ficiai title by appointment on the rstnff of Gov Bradley and in his official capacity participated iVith the Governor in the dedi 1 pv cation of the Kentucky Mon ii fe ment erected at Chickamauga Park to the memory of Ken hin tuqkys sons who fell there in ib Ooh Matthews intl ervhcn ct 7 J1 IowerI a girl attended school at Lower Blue Lick and James A Garfield who afterwards became President of the United States Was a classmate of hers while the teacher was the Hon James Blaine who was afterwards lime Republican nominee for President Col Matthews is a campaigner of the old school and when he started into this contest he start ed with that determination to win if seeing the people and presenting his cause in an honest and concise manner will win hen the people throughout the District regardless of politics were signing the petition asking our Governor to issue a pardon to Caleb Powers that he might return to his home and his friends where he could breathe the pure air of freedom and recuperate his broken and failing health Mr Edwards it is claimed refused to join in the petition thus turning his back upon a man whom every man in the district believes to be innocent of the charges against him and for no other reason save that he feared that the people of the district would nominate and elect Mr Powers as his successor Now Mr Edward comes ask ing for an endorsement of his course and asks that he be per mitted to return again to Congress Col Matthews who has inlays past supported Mr Edwards is now opposing him and is asking the friends of Mr Powers andall other good citizens of the district to join in sending him as the successor to Mr Edwards to represent our interests in the Cist Congress lIe has always been a great friend of Caleb Powers whom he has known all his life and when Mr Powers announced that he would not under any circum stances whatever become a candidate he then yielded to the entreaties of Mr Powers friends to enter the race and was aussur od by them that he should receive their support Never has it been our privilege to know a man who would go further or do more to assist a friend than will Col Matthews and the night is never too dark or the road too long for him to go when he thought he could be of some benefit to a friend in politics as well as in other matters yet he has always been fair and never accused of dealing otherwisojthan on the square with everyone everyonet1lis friends and no man ye has ever receivedsuch majority fvr any office in Knox county as will be polled here for mini on Jude 0 and from the news that has reached us from other counties it scorns to us that has the race practically won now and only has to wait until June tliedate setfor the primary for the pee pie to express their disapproval i i i I Our Next Congressman from the Eleventh District of the snap tactics that were attempted to be worked upon I the Republicans of the district by our present incumbent hoping thereby to perpetuate himself fn office and prevent Mr Powers or any one else from entering I the race in opposition to him Col Matthews looks like a winner He talks like a winner and we predict that he is a win ner by a handome majority MAY REPUDI ATE TAfT The President Angry at the Ohio Grafters Combine Ilmportont Important Developments are Looked For The Toledo Blades Washing I ton letter says that Roosevelt is very angry over the CoxBrown Guilbert combine and their recent actions and that ho insists that the outrage in Ohio be righted The Blade says The presence of Geo Cox the Cincinnati boss and Charles Taft in Washington is responsible for the report that President Roosevelt has decided to de mand a new deal in Ohio That the President is embarrassed by the manner in which Vorys manager of the Taft movement allowed the Ohio bosses to name I the important nominees at the Taft convention is no secret hereThat That with his usual directness and courage the President would take up the Ohio situation has been expected ever since the news of the Republican revolt against the machine candidate on the ticket reached Washing ton Of course Boss Cox insists that he is thereon private business but it is known he held along conference with Frank Hitchcock and expects to see Secretary Taft before he leaves Washington The President is sad to be so indignant at the manipulation of the Taft move ment by Cox for the furtherance of boss rule that he has so far refused to see the Cincinnati dictator torHIt HIt is stated the President believes that he has been imposed upon by the manner in which the Ohio State Convention program was arranged On the platform the President was consulted and he was allowed to name Garfield as temporary chairman This gave the convention the ap pearance of being controlled by the Administration but in mining I the important places onthe ticket the OoxBrownGuilbert combine was allowed to run the convention By the raugcnfeiit the President is made to appear to indorse the program carried out by the machine Naturally the President is protesting and insisting that something be done to put him in the right before the people of the State Just what will be the outcome of the conference i is difficult to pre prej prising if Boss Cox and Charles Taft return to Ohio with a de mand from the President to calla meeting of the Central Com mittee and form a new ticket It is very doubtful whether Cox and his associates will comply with this request as they would prefer to take the chances of defeat at the polls with their own henchmen on the ticket than have candidates they cannot con trot trotTO TO PROTECT BUS INESS INTERESTS Senator Poraker Introduces a Bill of Farreach ing Importance Better Than White House Bill Threre was an expression of grim satisfaction on the face of Senator Foraker when he intro doced in the Senate a bill providing as follows Thatnothing in thjgactto reg ulate commerce approved Feb nary 4 1887or in the act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies approved July 2 1SOO or in the act to reduce taxation to provide revenue for the Government or for other purposes approved August 27 1894 oranything the act amend tory ofor supplemental to any of said act shall hereafter be construed or held to prohibit any contract agreement or com bination that is not in unreasonable restraint of trade of or commerce with foreign nations or among the several State This is practically the same bill the Senator introduced once before but sometime prior to the recommendation which the President I made in a recent message to Congress and repeated today I that the Sherman antitrust law I be amended so as to allow railroads to enter into traffic fILiiI moats and to permit the org ni tions that are not inimical to the public good The Senators bill does not go as far as the Presidents proposition for it does not provide for the system of registration which is outlined in the I Administration bill introduced in the House on Monday by Rep resentative Hepburn of Iowa Mr Foraker finds vary serious objections to the Presidents scheme of registration and predicts that the Hepburn bill in its present form will meet with great opposition but if passed would work great hardship upon the business interests of the countryIt It would make our last estate I worse than than the first Every business corporation in Cineinna ticlues business across the Ohio River in Kentucky as well as in the State Every one of them would therefore have to register and submit to the constant survoillianco of Government officials to entitle it to tlio benefit of the proposed modifica tion of existing law I do not be lieve they would like that i Ao Q41i 1 i yfJi tDt I think the law should be modified because it is working nore evil than good and that Courts should determine all questions of reasonableness as they did for hundreds of years under the common law beforetime Sherman antitrust law was enacted And I further believe that all should have the benefit of such amendment without money and without price and certainly without such bargaining as is involved in the regisra tion scheme which I regard as utterly bad in every sense of the word wordMy My bill if enacted will accomplish this It has another merit It treats labor organiza tions and all other classes of organ i za tiolJ exactly alike It allows all to do whatever may hei reasonable which all should be I allowed to do and prohibits all alike from doing only that which is unreasonable unreasonableI I do not know whether it will be received with favor or not but I know it expresses my own views as to what should be done and that it avoids that which in my opinion should not he done I I hope it may be accepted as a substitute for the House bill itI anything at all is enacted FAVORS GOOD ROADS Commissioner of Agriculture Rankin Issues Address Will Distribute Seeds Frnnkfort Ky March 30Com missioner of Agriculture 0 Ran i kan has issued an address to the farmers of Kentucky in which he takes a dec tied stand for goodroads I I in the State and outlines his plan for Farmers Institutes and education I of the farmers in the best way to get results from the ground The address is as follows liTo the Farmers of Kentucky Having been elected Commissioner of Agriculture by you I shall endeavor I I to give you a nonpartisan administration I and in every way I and mall of my acts I shall strive to eliminate politics and to do everything in my power to further your interests and the interests of the department of Agriculture Kentucky is an agricultural and live stock State It is the desire of your servant the Commissioner of Agriculture to place Kentucky in the front rank of all the States of the Union Nothing so furthers the interests of the farmers and distrib lute the benefits of the expenditures of the money of the State which is your money than the establishment establishmentof Recognizsng this need we have had introduced a bill to establish one subexperiment station in Eastern Kentucky and one in Western Kentucky This bill passed both houses but on account of large appropriations the Governor saw fit to veto the same We believe that we should have as man stations as there are Congressional districts IIIn union there is strength and is and shall be during our administration the battle cry farmers organize and unite We think that if we can organize a farmers club of twenty or more members in every magisterial district in every county in the State we will have accomplished much good Scientific farming has made every farmer who has farmed along scientific lines more money more pounds per acre and a better quality of products than anything that has come to the farmer We must learn to rotate and diversify our crops Study the soil conditions and learn to get more pounds from less acreage III believe in good roads and will do everything in my power to get people to think and act on this mose important subject It will cnhanct the conditions of the farmers We believe in the system of rural engineers being established at our State College and teaching young men how to make roads and roadbnild iug and that they be sent to every county in the State to teach the peo io 4 atl i 4 I pie co make roads and lio to keep I them in repair I also believe in State andmm tional aid in building roads and the day is not far distant when this shall be done I believe in pure seed and think that the farmer has been I imposed upon long enough by buying adulterated and impure seed and worthless fertilizer I want to see the pure seed law enforced I hope to have every Farmers 1 Institute worker and lecturer take a two weeks course at State University so that he might prepare himself to teach andenlighten the people of our State that we may be able to develop our own lecturers without having to send out of the State to employ lecturers We desire every person doing institute work to studyand specialize on the subjects he is interested in and expects to lecture on and have the director experimental stations arrange a series of lectures and demonstratIons in this two weeks course so that every man will be able to have something new and fresh togo before the people and instruct them By this system we hope to develop our own talent I desire to distribute seed in dif feient section of the State that are now growing them and have persons experiment with them and report results to the Agricultural Department so that we can tabulate results and show how the States money has been spent and to encourage experimental work among our farmers I hope to see agricultural and live stock interest organize and form societies such as Kentucky State Dairymens Association Kentucky Beef Cattle Association tile Stock Breeders Association so that at each annual meeting of the State Farmers Institute all would meet together to form closer unions and will join hands in working for one common good I was glad to see the sheep breepers form themselves into an association at this meeting of our State Farmers Institute and at the assembling of our next institute 1 hope to see many more such associations formed United we Stand Divided we Fall has been said and unless we have the hearty cooperations of every farmer in the State of Kentucky all my feeble efforts will avail nothing but if we have hearty support we will make Kentuckya stock State in the United States and in working toward this end will have accomplished much for our individu al selves selvesWe IIWe have had many encouraging offers of support and believe that anew era agriculturally is beginning to dawn upon us and will result in manifold success I Yours very sincerely 11M Rankin Commissioner Dr Cort Gone to Owensboro Dr A Cort left last Saturday after closing a very pleasant stay with the people of our city It is with a feeling of regret that we have to give up such an able conscientious and worthy pastor as was Dr CortOn On Sunday evening before he left by special invitation he preached to a crowded house at the First Methodist Church in this city where his congregation joined with the Methodists in worship Dr Hitchcock introduced him in a tender loving manner and touched upon his high noble Christian spirit In the loss of Dr Cort our churchf has sustained a severe loss but we 1 feel that the people of Owensboro will be the gainers and we doubt 4 not but what they will soon realize the true nobility of the man During his short stay in our midst he made friends among all classes i and denominations and we dare sayi ti he will be missed by not only his own church but by the other church es of the town as well His last service on prayermeetr ing night was largely attended and all expressed deep regret to see him leave and we can truly say that he will be a welome visitor within thei homes of almost any of our people tfl at any time he might wish to return ti itcess cess in his new field and trust that he may be able to win many thati for his hire jtfj.