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DAILY INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
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On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FORTREPRESENTATIVE.
Wc are authorized to .announce T. T. Ward us a
candidate for the office of representative of duck
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
FUK SHERIFF.
To the voters of Jackson county.
I am a candidate for re-election to the office of
sheriff of Jackson county, subject to a Demo
cratic primary, if one' is held. Feeling that I
have discharged the duties of that office in such
a manner ns to merit your confidence, and thank
ing you for your support in the past and asking
vour help in the future. If elected I will do my
duty. Your fellow citizen. It. W. BANDY.
We are authorized to announce Snell Simmons
as a candidate for election to the office of Sheriff
of Jackson county, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce E. L. Boyce as a
candidate for the office of county and probate i
judge of Jackson county, subject to the Demo- j
era tic primary election.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK.
We are authorized to announce John 1). Neal as ■
a candidate for the office of circuit clerk of Jack- I
son county, subject to the Democratic primary i
election. —
We are authorized to announce James S. Jones
as a candidate for re-election to the office of cir- |
cuit clerk of Jackson county, subject to the Dem- j
ocratic primary election.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce Dr. F. G. Smith
as a caadidiit • for Iht* office of trea ;uror of Jack
son county, subject to the Demoeaatic primary
election.
THE SAME ISSUE.
In Monroe county a few of the
prohibitionists are seeking to
take advantage of the same tech
nicality in law by which the sa
loons of Newport have been shut
out of the First ward, and
would defeat the will of the peo
pie at Brinkley as expressed
overwhelmingly at the polls by
knocking out the saloons at that
place on the technicality that as
a city of the second class a vote
upon the question of license
should have been taken by wards.
In the last election the city of
Brinkley had but one voting pre
cinct and the vote for license
was 217, against 121 opposed, or
nearly two to one. cut, to de
feat this expressed verdict of the
people, a small faction seek to
annul the returns of an honest
and fair election, so acknowl
edged by the prohibitionists
themselves.
The editor of the Brinkley Ar
gus, who has ever been a loyal
and fearless exponent of prohi
bition, refuses to sacrifice his
ideas of what is right and honor
able to gain a temporary advan
tage and boldly challenges the
justice of such a course in the
following words:
“The writer is heart and soul
against the saloon and whisky in
any form and this is a well known j
fact to nearly every man, woman j
and child in Monroe county. It!
is a matter of consciencious con
viction of the writer and all the
whisky people may understand
that he is ready at any time to
take advantage of any fair, hon
est and lawful means to put the
open saloons out of business, but
this technical trick point now
raised and held for decision by
Judge Chapline is not fair and
we do not endorse it in any
sense.”
In the dark ages, wrhen even
the church had felt the blight of
licentiousness and depravity, it
came to be a principle with sev
eral monastic and other religious
orders as w ell, that the end often
justified the means. Hence to
further a good cause question
able practices were resorted to.
But a better civilization has
>
brought us form from such rea
soning to spurn a method that is
not in harmony with the princi
ple at stake. \
Would it be right, had the peo
ple of a city expressed them
selves, either by petition or by
ballot as the law specifies, against
license, to legalize saloons on a
technicality that did not involve
the fairness of the election‘t
There are no prohis w)io would
not answer “never.”
In the case of Newport the
condition is even worse, for the
technicality can be applied to the
election in but one ward. Thus
we have the will of the people
observed in the west half erf the
city, while that portion which
gave the most positive and pro
nounced majority has a contrary
condition thrust upon it through
a legal technicality made effect
ive at the behest of a small
minority.
The writer has talked to a
number of prohibitionists, some of
them whose names appear upon
the court petitions of the prohi
attorneys, who think the reform
accomplished by bunching the
saloons in one ward is nothing
more than a miserable farce.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Mr. Editor: If you will allow
I should like to say a word or so
regarding what appeared in your
paper several days since criticiz
ing the prohis, charging the re
duction of saloon license by the
city council to the “misdirected
energies of the prohis,” which
you say has “cost the city $4,500
without securing any reform.”
In another squib you excuse
the council for lowering the
license on the ground that all the
saloons being in one ward will
lessen their business. Now it
seems to me very clear that some
reform has been wrought, if the
saloons must do less business, so
either your charge of no ‘ ‘re
form” is incorrect or else your
charge upon the prohis of losing
$4,500 for the city is “misdirect
ed” and should have been hurled
at the city council for lowering
the license. Can you name a
man who, wanting a drink, would
not walk one block to the other
ward? Why, then, reduce the
license?
It must be either to spite the
prohis and insult their decent,
law-abiding constituency, or else
an inordinate love for the saloons
that have manifestly been run
ning in open violation of the law
throughout the year.
Everyone knows that the coun
cil alone, with their whisky ten
dencies, are responsible for the
reductionof license which the
status of affairs in no wise jus
unes, ana mat me pruins art; in
no possible way responsible for
said reduction, unless it be upon
the old adage of “Whom the gods
would destroy they first make
mad.”
If the Independent will lay the
blame of the “misdirected ener
gies” of the council, where it
properly belongs, it will be sup
ported by the best law-abiding
citizenship of the community.
One thing more, the prohis
have had the law on their side,
and so far have now. Is it
proper to speak of those who op
pose the notation of law as
“misdirecting their energies”
when their opposition is by and
in keeping with law? The pro
his, whose members are increas
ing daily, even here in Newport,
think not. And if there were but
one of them only he would be en
titled to fairness from any public
enterprise—as is the Independ
ent.
These editorials referred to ap
peared during the absence of the
editor and his prohi friends thin!
some one took advantage of his
absence to make\these unjust
flings at some of at 'least as gooc
and respectable citizens as the
I city can boast.
Very respectfully,
A Prohi.
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Independent.
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SUPREME COURT
HEARS LIQUOR CASE.
The supreme court on Satur
day at Little Rock heard the ar
guments of the attorneys in the
Newport liquor cases, affirming
the ruling of the circuit court in
the case of J. P. Bach versus R.
W. Anderson et al., in which the
court had found the Jacksonport
district to have a majority against
! license.
A cross appeal was granted in
| the case of the state ex rel versus
J. M. Jones and the case taken
I under advisement Vntil next Sat
j urday, when the injunction
granted by Judge Fulkerson
against the issuance of license
in the First ward, will either be
sustained or overruled.
CALLED TO COURT.
Rev. Mr. Strawn of Clinton,
! Kentucky, occupied the pulpit at
| the Christian church Sunday, and
I was so well received by the con
1 gregation of that church, that
he has been called to the pastor
ate to succeed Rev. C. C. Cline,
who has resigned. The official
board of the church took this ac
tion at a meeting held Sunday
afternoon, and Elder Strawn will
receive a warm welcome to his
new charge.
BIT OF ITALIAN FARMING.
Scene In Connecticut Which Added
Flavor to Radishes for the
Ileli older.
“These radishes,” said the speaker,
picking up one from a dish of the little
pink bulbs that stood on the table be
fore him, “remind me of some that I
saw on a very different table, and in
the midst of very different surround
ings, on a canoe trip that a friend of
mine and myself made in vacation
time last summer.
“Striking in from Long Island sound*
up a little river that comes in on the
Connecticut shore, we found it to be a
picturesque stream enough. In some
places along it there were little bluffs,
| ten or 12 feet high, and at some places
trees, and along some stretches of It
j there were grassy slopes coming down
! to the water’s edge.
“It was a pretty stream, running
through a pleasant country. And
paddling on we came, at half a dozen
[ miles or so above its mouth, to more of
j those little ten or 12 foot bluffs, quite
; appropriate to the size of the river, and
over back of these bluffs we saw two
! or three .farmhouses.
“It was noon then, and the day was
hot and we wanted a drink. So we tied
up the canoe and climbed the bank,
! coming out at the top upon a little ele
vated plateau laid out as a truck gar
i den.
“Every inch of it was cultivated, but
the ground had not been plowed
throughout in uniform straight fur
rows, as in one great field. It was laid
out in patches, in which the furrows
ran in various ways, giving variety to
the appearance of the whole; but in
every patch every inch was cultivated.
And over at the other side of this con
siderable garden farm were the houses,
with barns and trees and the well.
“While everything about the place
gave evidence of constant care, there
was, when we started across for that
well, nobody In sight anywhere; but
when we had come to an old-fashioned
grape arbor that stood near one of the
houses, and had looked into that, the
,, 1.,,,, nannlo from thp fields was
instantly accounted for. For sitting
under this arbor there were 20 or more
persons, men, women and children,
evidently all the people on the plaeS,
eating their dinner comfortably in its
shade.
“This was apparently their regular
custom. Running down the middle un
der this arbor there was a long fixed
table upon which the food was placed,
| the people sitting along the arbor
benches on each side, and the dinner
that they were eating here in this cool
and leafy dining room, which the com
pany pretty nearly filled, consisted
wholly of bread and radishes—black
bread and radishes.
“There were quantities of the rad
ishes, which were contained in two
or three big wooden bowls, like chop
ping bowls, placed at intervals alon?
the table, and there was plenty oi
black bread; and of this simple bui
abundant meal they were all eating
with every indication of wholesome
and hearty enjoyment.
"They were Italians, and good-look
ing and healthy looking people, all;
two or three families of them, appar
ently, that had joined forces and set
tled down here in this rather out of the
way place to make their fortunes, anc
living here in their accustomed man
ner.
“And to come upon them thus, anc
all so unexpectedly, was runninj
across, in Connecticut, a little bit o;
| Italy; and,” the speaker, relates the
, New York Sun. concluded, as he helpei
himself to another from the dish
“radishes have always had an addec
flavor for me since.”
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I New Year’
To the many Friends and Patrons of Our Store, we
extend greetings for the New Year which we would
hope may be a happy one to each. The year jus
dosing has been a very satisfactory one to us in the
increased volume of our business and to the Iriends re
sponsible for this good showing, wc would o.fer our
thanks. We hope that our methods of doing business
may continue in effect these pleasant relations.
(Newport Builders l
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