THE INDEPENDENT
[ PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
For Circuit Clerk—
C. E. SMITH 3
For County Clerk—
G. L. ROBINSON
For Treasurer—
J. H. CAMP
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS
For Coroner—
W. H. NOLEN
For School Superintendent—
E. H. BOWMAN
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L. B. HARRIS
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TERRY GUIN
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W. F. HURLEY
I
us, now lie in the Moscow ceme
tery, The cells were always full,
for we were sent there on the
slightest pretext. Floggings
were of daily occurrence, and
we were flogged singly, in cou
iples or in batches. On one oc
casion all the occupants of our
cell, then numbering 24, were
| flogged in the course of a sin
| gle day- The Assistant Govern
or of the prison used to witness
the corporal punishment, urge
|the executioner to lay on un
| mercifully —and afterwards
compel the victims to thank
him. Sometimes the’ poor suf
ferer, dazed by the agony he had
undergone, wouldn’t unedrstand
the command to ‘say thank you’
son of a dog’ and so remained si
lent. Then cursing violently, the
Assistant Governor would order
the torn and and bleeding body
to be flung back upon the pun
ishment bench and flogged a
fresh. After that the culprit
was clapped in a cold, damp cell
to recover the best he might.
Terrible Sufferings In Russian
Prisons Described.
United Press Dispatch.
| St. Petersburg, June 19,— A
mong the terrible human docu
ments offered in evidence be
fore the Imtperial Commission
now investigating the prison
system of Russia is a personal
letter from a political exile
named Jadoff, who recently es
caped from Siberia and who be
]r
fore being sent there was con
fined in the Boutyrski prison at
Moscow for; several year
“I quickly learned the truth of
the words spoken by M Scheg
’ lovitcoff, minister to justice,
4 We punish, but we do not cor
rect.’ ’’writes the exilt. “To
cause its 200,000 prisoners a
maximum of suffering, is the
§H one aim of Russia’s prison sys
ill
tem, and the jailers are willing
instruments of vengeance. They
addresstd us invariably with
some epithet as ‘dog’, or ‘carri
on’. We were forbidden to move
about in our room, owing to
the noise our irons made. Our
daily promenade in the prison
yard lasted ten minutes, and
we had to march two by two, in
strictest silence, with our arms
held in a vertical position, and
looking neither to the right nor
to the left. This was all the ex
ercise we had in 24 hours.
“Protests of any kind were
useless, the only result being a
flogging or confinement in dark
underground cells or dungeons,
on a diet of bread and water,
and all my comrades who were
daring enough to complain of
the ill treatment meted out to
“There was a prisoner named
| Va ter loos who declined to give
the customary salutation to our
overseers. For two years he
spent half the time in an under
ground cell, and the other half
in the hospital, and finally he
died of consumption. Then
there was George Machviladze,
the Socialist leader. In the
depths of winter he and I spent
three weeks together in a dark
cell, obliged to sleep on the stone
floor. One day he was being
conducted to the prison office,
and in the courtyard unexpected
ly met his wife, who was under
going a term of hard labor. He
saluted her, and for that offense
he was sent to the punishment
cell. Three days later he was
dead. 1
“One of our number was clean
ing out our prison room when he
broke a corner of the frame con
taining the prison regulations
He immediately called a guard
and reported himself for com
mitting the ‘misdemeanor’, but
that did not prevent the whole
company from being condemned
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; to the cells for seven days on
'bread and water. The political
I prisoners were always herded
with common law criminals, but
! the latter were the favored ones,
being far more frequently par
doned and enjoying little favors >
j withheld from the politicals.
When I was sent to Siberia I
found that one had to choose be
tween dying of hunger or es-!
caping. The latter means three
or four years of hard labor if
one is caught, but it also means
that one becomes a common
criminal, and, as such enjoys
certain privileges denied to po
litical prisoners. The common
| criminal eventually receives a
passport and has the right of
residing where he likes within
his district. Also he is free to
work and earn his livlihood un
disturbed, while the political ex
iles remain pariahs and outcasts
; to the end.”
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Will Be Hot and Dry.
Washington, D. C., June 21.—
Unsettled, showery weather will
prevail Monday over the north
ern districts east of the Rocky
! Mountains, the Weather Bureau
| predicted tonight, probably con
tinuing Tuesday in the middle
Atlantic states and New Eng
land, with generally fair weath
!er following the remainder of
the week
“Over the southern half of the
country,” the bulletin continued,
“generally fair weather will pre
vail throughout the week, ex
cept in Florida, where occasional
thunderstorms are probable. It
will be warmer early in the week
in the East, but unusually high
temperatures are not expected
and moderate temperatures will
i prevail during most of the week
over the northern districts east
of the Rocky Mountains.
“In the South and Southwest
temperatures will be rather
high. West of the Rocky
Mountains fair weather will pre
vail with moderate tempera
tures.”
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