The Weekly Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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TELEPHONES:
iweetem, 350 Independent 40-B
from the Winchester
1 "Total output of' artillery cartridgr-
’cases of the fhidfi Metallic Cartridge
company.-' y>*\ - ^ V
( "Four million pounds of powder
from the DuPont Powder company.
! "Fifteen hundred machine gins
from the Colt Work*. (Larger off!
------ era pending).
Manager "Fifty thousand revolvers from the
~~-Colt Works. * *
“Two hundred armored motor cars,
with machine guns, from the Autocar
are to be made. It
Is said more than 125 persons were
named in the indictments.
ocnfWnx-fm’rtF TFTiS IS GREAT Ma-vor Roberts, who is implied to be
-GOITER^OR OF TEXAS © GREAT ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^y
I to corrupt the Terre Haute election, -
BIG JOKE,” SECRETARY TC.
MULTI SAYS.
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IURSDYT, DECEMBER 81,
tfll. company.
"Five hundred thousand rifles, cali-
GOVERNOR COLQUITTS LAST
ATTACK OX THE FRESIDEXT.
for drlllifag
Winchester Arms
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her .22, and ammunition
purposes from the
company* s? ,
“Nine hundred 6-inch howitzers, de-
Hearst Publications Rake Mach
Article, Which is Relieved Part
of Organised Plan.
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• „ . , , .. .’ “Shell cases for the howitzers from
Ompetent always incurs the envious! .
. . .. . . . ,the same company.
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T1““ , Wl,“ I f,„m tie DuPont Powder company,
the fourth revised edition of Gow : - . . i . „_.__
aor Oblquitt’s tirade against thfe
dent will be less able ^to appre-
the point of this observation
ban those of us in Texas. For out-
ide of Texas there are few—and it is
0)ie hundred thousand Refiington
rifles, caliber
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7 mm., and 13,000,000
cartridges. ^ ' *w“
“About 3,000,000 cartridges per week
are being shipped from the United
„ . , .. , , ,, .. States to France.
pUy.so-who know ^.o|■ Wtr Urge guns; ^ inch
from the Bethlehem Stehl
company.
) “Two thousand tons of powder for
artillery and infantry cartridges from
the DuPont Powder company.
“One hundred thousand carbines,
ministration. It would hardly exag-; c&,lber ^ from ^ Wlnchester
to!!?: ! Repeating Arms company.
‘One hundred million cartridges for
(Mark L, Goodwin in Dallas News.)
Washington, Dec. 28.—A statement ;
of Governor O. B. Colquitt of Texas
attacking the Wilson administration
for its policy toward the cotton pro - ■
ducer, the tarifT, the new currency-
system, repeal of free canal tolls and
the Mexican situation was generally-
printed throughout this portion of the
East, it was
is charged with many overt acts in
the indictment. He is accused of levy-
ing assessments against proprietors of
saloons, dance halls, gambling houses
and resorts to be used for the regis-
tration of voters; of hiring men W
transport repeaters from one precinct
to another; of conspiring to place only
men his money could Influence on cer-
tain election boards: of ordering the
arrest of certain men to prevent their
voting and of directing the making of
false registration cards.
Similar overt acts are named
against all those who have been ar-
rested, and some also are charged
with strong-arm tactics in order to
intimidate the electorate. It is also
governors this state has had in rec*!cajjber
•at years, Governor Colquitt has prov-1
•d himself pre-eminently the unflttest.,
iPhe affairs of Texas were never so
grossly mismanaged as they have
been during the four years of his adi j
featured by the Hearst charged ^ the poStal laws were v,°'
publications and the leading Republi-,,ated * ** alleged «Wac>'
. , , ... , was furthered through the mails. The
can newspapers, but not so in those of,, . , , ,
,, __.. ..___ federal authorities contend that, in-
Democratic adherence. Manifold cop- > . - .
. . . . ,, . asmuch as a United States senator and
ies were sent here early In the week
for release. The press associations , * voted upon, the
were provided with copies, it develops.f*deral 8°Vernm6n* ha8 Urisdiction in
but did not use them. j *
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Colquitt to the governorship of this
Btate has shaken the faith of thous-
ands in the ability of the people to
Ohoose their servants wisely. Indeed,
If one were to rank the misfortunes
whleh Governor Colquitt's administra-
tion has brought on Texas, it is prob- |
able that the weakened faith in the i
feasibility of democracy, resulting
from his Ineptitudes, his Intellectual1
limitations and hlB Infatuation of him-1
■elf, would be counted a graver and 1
more condign consequence than even !
lyi
the above carbines.
“Aeroplanes from various firms.
“Four million aerial arrows.
“Artillery ammunition, estimated
value $12,000,000, from the Crucible
Steel company.
“Commenting on these figures, Mr.
Viereck discovers in the very size of
the allies’ contracts with us proof that
they are ‘without the facilities for
carrying on a contest on such a large
scale’ as the present war. France, he
No answer to the attack was made
at the White House, and, it was Inti-
mated, none would be. It was point-
ed out, however, that Governor Col-
quitt’s indictment of the administra-
tion on the eve of his retirement from
the Texas executive office was in spir-
it and in line with the apparently well
organized attack.to discredit the Dem-
ocratic administration ttyat has been
In progress Blnce the November elec-
tion. There has been no harmony be-
tween the Texas governor and the
Washington administration over the
policy being followed toward Mexico ion of Texas, today gave out the fol-
and the administration’s efforts to lowing statement:
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The Dairy Cow is Yoar
Friend—
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Diversify your crops, but do not teglect youi|
cows. Take care of your milch cows and they ‘will
bring you a check every week in the year.
Nearly a thousand customers no won out books,
but we are iu the market foj an (unlimited amount
of good cream all the time. If you have uever
tried saving yonr butter fat. begin at once. Mike
your cows make your living.
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PEERLESS CREAMERY
D. M. Mebane, Manager
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North Main Street
'Weatherford,' Texas
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WHAT RATE OF INTEREST WOULD
INSURANCE PEOPLE CHARGE
FARMERS.
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 29.—W. D.
Lewis, president of the Farmers’ Un-
the plight Into which he has brought admUs ha8 enough arm8 and ammu.
our governmental affairs.
If It may not be said that the Pres-
nition plants of her own to enable her
to continue the war even if the Amer-
keep this, country at peace. It is well
known that last spring and summer
when Governor Colquitt mobilized the
Texas National Guard on the border
grave fears were entertained here that!
“I understand that the next legis-
lature will be called upon to amend
the Robertson law so that the foreign
life insurance companies may be per-
mitted to lend money In Texas with-
Ment is fortunate In having Incurred ican 8uppUeg were cut otr> but .^g.
the political enmity of Governor Col- land find8 her8elf ln a dlfflcult
quitt, It k. solely because it is only Uon and could not ^ on enlarging
Texas people who are in a position to her force8 on the pre8ent BCale wlth.
know how Infinitely preferable to his out the hundreds of thousands of
approval is his disapproval. The coun- !rifle8 and mlllkm, of round8 of ammu.
try seems to have been pretty thor- n,0on belflg shjpped to her from the
oughly ’’circularized’’ with Governor Un,ted StateB/ And <as for Ru88ia(
Colquitt’s opinion of the President. Bhe wou]d ^ lmmediatey at the end
The press bureaus and Republican; of her resourceB were the American
papers have attended to that. That ciosed.’ This German-Ameri-
fact offers the Democrats an opportu-1^ edltor goe8 on t0
ttlty. They have only to give equal, ,.l8 the Unlted 8tates> through the
CtreulaUon to a political biography of ■ furalihtog of gun8, ammunition and
Governor Colquitt to make certain poWderi prolonging the war? And is
that the country s admiration of the beneflt derived by a few families
President will be raised and Intensi- trom these war-material orders an
fled.—Dallas News. ! equivalent to the losses caused to
we probably could not do any ,rn(tP jn general by the prolongation
an overt act would be committed and I out suffering the pains and penalties
cause the United States serious
barrassment.
Coming from the executive of the
most important Democratic state in
the Union, Governor Colquitt’B state-
ment caused nothing short of a sen-
sation in political circles, where it was
liberally discussed.
“The governor of Texas is a great
big joke,’’ was the only comment Sec-
retary Tumulty of the White House
would make when asked for a state-
ment.
better-than Mr. Wasson has done, in1 of the war? And at the end of
the
handling Texas’ great big Joke ’ we war wm tbe United States be in a po-
reproduce the comment by that gen- ,8ltlon to take the role of an arblt6r?
tleman on the present four-year vac- not the German people, as well
they In the governor’s chair. Talk
about people putting on sack cloth
and ashes ln remorse for their sins,
that is what Is qonrio|p)x> every resi-
dent o# Texas* fflr; Jbe.iipeticulous far-
rago misnamed a.governor that has
presided in the state borne at Austin.
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HOW UNDER
,• j j * rttihyy o» ,
. (Senator Hiflchoook Wh Nebraska has
thrown an interrogation lito 'the oen-
gress tn the for nr of his bRk to stop
th» exportation of*arms <uwi other war
munitions to the belligerent powers in
Europe. The Introduction-of this bill
as other neutrals, whose trade has
suffered through the prolongation of
the war, righteously object?”
“Mr. Vlereck’s recipe for ending the
war in sixty days, retorts Horace
White in a letter to the New York
Evening Post, evidently involves the
triumph of Germany. We read:
“Germany, having made war, and
preparations for war, the chief con-
cern of human existence, is presum-
ably well supplied with guns and am-
munition and manufactories thereof.
She has the great Krupp works with
90,000 men working night and day and
she has taken the Belgian arms-fac-
WUson May Reply to Attacks.
Washington, Dec. 28.—President
Wilson, It became known, plans to
speak In a number of cities on his re-
turn trip from the San Francisco ex-
position next spring, and his friends
expect him to reply to recent attacks
on his Mexican policy and other ad-
ministration policies. It will be the
first trip across the continent Mr. Wil-
son has made since becoming Presi-
dent.
XINETY-THREE PERSONS IX CIS-
TODY AS RESULT OF ELECTION
CONSPIRACY CHARGES.
Of the Nebraskan has brought forth • tory at Liege and turned it to her own
•Q unusual volume of comment, both 8erviCe against Belgium. Now if she
can prevent France from getting arms
from this -side of the water, she can
conquer her enemies in sixty days or
less. That Is what Mr. Viereck means
by bringing the war to an end. He
It successfully to the
for sod against In the-current num-
ber of the Litrary Digest two1 pages!
are devoted to this discussion, com- i
prising mainly the arguments from!
editors of various publications. The
discussion is throwing some highly mean8 ending
interesting side llghtb the war
It affects thfir coufitry
borrowed lycflp the Lit
given herewith:
“While our artas-manufacturers are j‘TBut whftt then? CHirtniUly would
rwdy to sell to all, Germany can not ievy contributions ln cash and terrl-
tay, because her eeemles control the tory to suit hereelf, and, havtflg thus
was, and the allies, according planted the seeds for future
to tome authorities, have placed ohl-
wars,
| would begin to prepare for them, and
era with our arms and ammunition (would ftJU call them defensive wars,
factories that will keep them busy for j) j8 needless to say that the people of
the next two and one-half years. So the Am#rlcan hemisphere do not want
PtyOL In fact, is the dependence of the tb|8 war t0 end mere]y a8 ^ anni8.
iUlee upon American monitions of tlCe, to break out again as soon as the
war, if we are to accept the statement chlef beiugerent can get his second
of George Sylvester Viereck, editor of wind.”
Fatherland, that ‘were the war! ___
I from the United States with- MANY DISORDERS COME
the war would come to an end, * FROM THE LITER
ixty day* or less.’ In a statement J . —:—
■e our State Department by,Ar* ** Odds With Yourself 1
m ambassador Count Von . Do To° R^falate Llvligt
- Are you wroeGmw at odds with
■» *°me of “* or,lors for war yourself and with the world? Do you
in thlqj gouniry by wonder what alls you? True you mav
.. t -----rflg,j|ar^ ^ Bieenlttg well
cthlng is ths matter' Consti-
■PJBIWIT headache, nervousness and
Arms.bilious spells indicate A sluggish liv-
j»r. The tried remedy is Dr.
New Life Pills. Only 25c at your drui-
gist Bucklen’s Arnica Ralve^gflb
By the Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Ind„ Dec. 28.—Practi-
cally every member of the city admin-
istration of Terre Haute is in the
hands of United States authorities as
a result of the wholesale arrests made
there qn indictments charging con-
spiracy to corrupt the election of Nov.
last.
Ninety-three persons, including
Mayor I)on M. Roberts, who is a can-
didate for the Democratic nomination
for governor in 1916, Dennis Shea,
sheriff of Vico county; Circuit Judge
Ell H. Redman, C}ty Judge Thomas
Spilth and other leading Terre Haute
politicians were taken ln custody.
Upable to furnish bond, of $10,000,
Mayor 'Roberts was Included ln a par-
ty of twenty-two of the prisoners who
had failed to provide bond, and was
being brought to this city to be plac-
in jail. The others had been re-
leased on bonds ranging from $2,500
to $10,000 each. 8herlff Rea and Judge
Redman were given their freedom on
bondB of $10,000 each.
Almost the only Important official
of Terre Haute that has not been ar-
rested by federal authorises, is Eld-
ward Holler, chief of pqllpe. Chief
Holler Is now serving a aestence in
the Yiga county Jail for. contempt of
em- of that law.
“Tile Fanners’ Union favors the>
free and unlimited lending of money,
and every farmer whoever rode a
bale of cotton to market knows that
the volume of a product offered has
largely to do with controlling the
price, but If not asking too much, we
would like for the foreign life Insur-
ance companies that are knocking at
our door to take the stand and say
whether or not they will lend money
on farm property; what amount Is
available and at what rate of Inter-
est? Perhaps the latter is a hypo-
thetical question, but they can at least
give the present rate of Interest they
are asking on farm loans.
“While the subject of life insurance
loans Is up for discussion, I would like
to ask the Home Life Insurance com-
panies what per cent of their loans Is
on farm property and what rate of In-
terest the farmer pays for the use of
It? Let those who seek to reply to the
Inquiry observe that I have asked
what the farmer pays—not what the
Insurance company gets for the mon-
ey. All this talk about six per cent
money sounds like a fairy tale. By
the time the money Is loaned to the
banker, to lend to the broker, to lend
to the real estate agent, to lend to
the farmer, the transaction looks like
"the house that Jack built” and does
the farmer about as much good. We
have all the 10 and 15 per cent money
in Texas we need.
"We only ask for Information. But
when the Robertson law is up before
the legislature for discussion, the
Farmers’ Union will be heard from
and will see to It that tho farmers’
Interests are protected.” j . i
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URGE HOPKINS FOR PRESI-
1 DENT STATE UNIVERSITY.
Austin, Texas, Dec. 24.—John W.
Hopkins, superintendent of Galveston
sohoolos, Is being favorably mentioned
heie in connection with the presidency
of'the University of Texas, and a re-
port in circulation was that he prob-
ably would bo selected to succeed Dr.
Mezes aa head of the state’s largest
Institution of learning.
It has been known for some time
that his friends have been trying to
sefcure the place for him, and that he
wks earnestly considered by the board
of regents when Dr. Battle waschosen
temporary president. Dr. JHopkins
was connected with thd university
several years agd as a visitor of
schools, and is not only well known,
but understands the needs of the uni
versity. Soon after he gave up this,
position to accept the superintendency
of the Galveston schools he was prom-
inently discussed as a possible presi-
dent when Dr. Mezes was selected for
the place. Dr. Hopkins is (me of the
best known educators in the South.
Members of the faculty, when ques-
tioned about the selection of Dr. Hop-
kins as the new University head, ad-
mitted that he had been under con
slderation, but knew nothing of the
action of the board.
Information About Warehouses.
By the Associated Press.
Austin, Texas, Dec, 29.—The board
of warehouse supervisors has inaugu-
rated a campaign to aid Texas farm-
ers in the proper handling and distri-
bution of their cotton and other crops.
The first step taken was the supply-
ing of information along this line to
the producers. “Information is abso
lutely essential ln order to develop a
means of successful distribution,”
says the board. “There must be an
agency of some kind that will keep
constantly in touch with the people of
different sections ln order to assist
them ln distributing thelir products
where they are needed and where fair
prices can be obtained. This depart-
ment will undertake to furnish the
Information If the .people desire It,
and will co-operate with 1t through lo-
cal organizations of some kind.”
To Collect Telephone Tax.
Austin, Texas, Dec. 26.—In spite of
the fact that telephone companies are
required, under the war revenue act
to add one cent to. all charges for long
distance calls when there is more than
fifteen cents charges, the average tax
upon users of telephone lines wilt he
less than the cost of postage for oat
letter, according • to aneouncemeit W
telephone company managers heifcl
There are about 700 telephone compdfc
nles in Texas, with approximated
880,000 telephones oVer which, >lt It
stated, originate about 500,000 lodg
distance calls every month; the aver-
ages number of long distance calls p*t
telephone <tn thfe state IS less tbafi t«*
In each month, < Under thfe revenui
law telephone companies act as aft
ents of the governntdnt In colIectMf
the tax. I » » •■it- i.- ’JjrfttAtfryW
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Wants Taxation System Overhauled,
Austin, Texas, Pec. 29.—A.^ L. Love,
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tax commissioner, will ask
lature when It convenes ln January,
to overhaul the system of taxation
thoroughly. He says three-fifths of
the counties of the state bear'the bur-
den of taxation for all the other .coun-
ties; further, there are 100 counties
which reecive more money from the
state for school purposes than they
pay to the state for all kinds of taxa-
ln support of the state govern-
tion
ment.
Try This for Neuralgia.
Thousands ot people keep on
ferlng with neuralgia because they
not know what to do for It Neufat
gla is a pain ln the nerves. What yc
want to do is to soothe the nerve It-
self. Apply Sloan’s Liniment to the
surface over the painful part—do not
rub it in. Sloan’s Liniment pene-
trates very quickly to the sore, lrrl-.
tion. Get a bottle of Sloan’s Ltnltoent
tated nerve and allays the inflamma-
for 25 cents of any druggist and have
It ln the house—against colds, sore
and swollen joints, lumbago, sciaUca
and like ailments. Your money back
if not satisfied, but it does give al“ -
instant relief. Adv.
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LOST—On Weatherford and Sabath-
any road, April 4, 1914, one Deary
Distin hand saw. Finder will be poM
to leave same at Herald office.
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