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THURSDAY. JULY ag, 1909.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
To THE VOTEKS OF BOX BUTTE
County, I hereby respectfully an
nounce myself a candidate for the
nomination for Sheriff of Box Butte
County upon tho Democratic and Peo
ples Party tickets Subject to the pri
mary to bo held August 17th, 1909.
Your support appreciated,
Thomas B. Shrewsbury.
For County Judge
I, L. A. Berry, affiliating with Demo
cratic and Peoples' Independent par
tics, hereby announce myself a candi
date for the ofllco of County Judge of
Box Butto county for tho next ensuing
term, subject to the decision of quali
fied electors of said county, at a Pri
mary election to be held in said county
August 17th, 1909, and I pledge myself
If elected to qualify and servo as such
officer.
Dated July 14th, 1909.
L. A. Bekry.
For Treasurer
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election to the offico ot
Treasurer of Box Butto county, sub
ject to the will of the Democratic and
Peoples' Independent voters at the
primary election to be held Tuesday,
Aug. 17, 1909. Fred H. Mollrino
For Sheriff
To tub Voters of Box Butte
County, As a candidate for Sheriff
ot Box Butte county subject to tho
republican primaries to bo held August
17th, 1909, believing an officer is elect
ed by the people and is a servant
of the people, I stand for a square
deal to the u ,mycr. Al. Wiker.
For Sheriff
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for tho office of Sheriff of Box
Butto county, Bubject to the will of the
Democratic and Peoples' Independent
voters at the primary election to bo
held Tuesday, Aug. 17, 1909.
Calvin M. Cox.
- For County Treasurer
To the Voters of Box Butte
County, I respectfully announce my
self as a candidate for County Treas
urer of Box Butte county on the Re
publican party ticket to tho decision of
the Primary to beheld in August, 1909.
John Pilkinrton.
For Co. Supt. of Public Instruction
I hereby announce my candidacy
for re-election to the office of County
Superintendent of Public Instruction
of Box Butto county, subject to the
decision of republican voters at the
primary election to be held Aug. 17,
-1909. Oka E. Phillips.
In Dawes county there arc nine can
didates for the nomination for sheriff,
four democrats and five republicans.
Vermont objects to a regiment of
colored troops. Tho color line is not
drawn solely below Mason and Dixon's
line.
Mr- Rockefeller may not know much
about poker but according to popular
belief he has had a hand in more than
one game of freeze-out.
The-Iaw of compensation generally
manages to even things in one way or
another. President Taft has had the
money provided for him to take a vaca
tion but hasn't the opportunity. Most
of us could find the opportunity if
someone would furnish the money.
Supreme Court Justice Brewer is
quoted as declaring in a recent address
that "if this power to tax all incomes
is given the government we will see the
states taxed, not out of their existence,
but out of their vitality." If Justice
Brewer is correctly quoted it is evident
that he was unmindful of the long
standing rule of judicial otiquetto which
decrees that judges should not make
declarations concerning matters that
may come before 'them for adjudioa.
tton. As to the judicial gentleman's
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declaration upon the effect of an in
come tax on tho states, we think ho is
unnecessarily alarmed. Did the in
come tax of tho Cos and 70s declared
constitutional by an almost unanimous
decision of tho Btiprcme court tax the
states out of their vitality? As a mat
ter of fact, have not the states suffered
immeasurably more than they could
possibly suffer by reason of an income
tax, from the judicial theory, of which
Justice Brewer himself is the author,
that state regulation of intranstate
commerce is not valid until it receives
the sanction of the United States
courts?
The leading editorial last week in
the local paper of a neighboring town
was on the subject of the new state
normal school, and urged tho people
of that community to make a strenu
ous effort to secure tho school. In the
adjoining column the editor, writing on
another subject, said: "There had
ought to bo some legislating done."
Seems to us that what that town needs
is a kindergarten or primary school,
not a normal.
Newspaper readers have been regaled
with thrilling accounts of Bwano Turn
bo's narrow escape from death in a hip
popotamus hunt, only his rare courage
and unerring aim averting a tragedy.
According to tho reports, tho event
was witnessed by only three persons,
Bwano Tumbo and two natives, who
were speechless with terror and don't
speak our language anyhow. Of course
Bwano Tumbo would scorn to notice
any act of bravery on his own part,
and tho mystery of the occurrence is
who furnished tho story to tho press.
Mr. Taft's guests at tho white house
love feast the other day comprised
these eminent tariff reformers: Aldrich,
Hale, Burrows, Penrose, Payne, Dal
zcll, McCall, Boutcllc, Calderhead and
Fordncy. Such horrid standpatters
as LaFollettc, Cummins, Beveridge,
Bristow, Dollivcr and Nelson were not
invited. It was a brilliant com
pany and wonderfully select. The
sort of "compromise" in the interest of
tho consumers that such a 'gathering
would agree upon can as readily be
imagined as described. This is not a
good year for consumers.
It is quit? a shock to learn that the
prosecuters of grafters themselves do a
little grafting on tho side. Chairman
Tawney, of tho house committee on
appropriations, admits that Francis J.
Hcney, the San Francisco graft prose
cutor, during the last fiscal year has
drawn from tho Federal treasury $23,
000 for which he rendered no service.
Mr. Heney has done some excellent
work for tho government, and it does
not detract in the least from the com
mendation which is due him to remark
that it is a pity he has furnished his
enemies with an effective weapon to
use against him. The spectacle of a
graft prosecutor with greedy bauds in
the treasury is one to delight the cyni
cal. Tho theft of Mr. Bryan's political
clothes goes merrily on. President
Roosevelt long ago stole Bryan's rail
road regulation garment, though he did
not put it to much good use. There
has followed the appropriation by Re
publican statesmen of the issues of
federal licenses for corporations, of
postal savings banks, and of au income
tax. Tho republican party is gradu
ally being forced to acknowledge that
tho politics of the democratic party are
founded on justice, and in so doing
they admit that the chief advocate of
those policies for the past thirteen
years is not the "unsound dreamer"
and "reckless agitator" they once loved
to pronounce him.
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T Flies are responsible for the
X spread of contagious and infec-
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X window panes, dishes and other
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X of minute globules of oil, and
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X GEltM I.ADEN. Files should
be excluded from sickrooms.
They carry tilth germs In, and
they carry disease germs out.
Food (supplies should be particu
larly guarded. The same tiles
that are uttracted to tho food on
the table and are so especially y
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Six 4 Five at Bogue's, Saturday.
Let the People Rule
"Vote for the man and not party
lablc" is the democratic slogan as
sounded by flic state convention at
Lincoln on Tuesday of this week. The
committee on resolutions, consisting of
R. L. Metcalfe of Lincoln, H. E. New
branch of Omaha, Edgar Howard of
Columbus, N. J. Lidi of Wahoo, C C.
Giltan of Lexington, Judge Cowan of
Stanton and W. II. Thompson of
Grand Island, reported the following
platform, which was adopted by unani
mous vote of tho convention.
We, the democrats of Nebraska, In state
convention assembled, reaffirm our faith
in, and pledge our loyalty to, tho princi
ples of our party as set forth in the plat
form adopted by tho democratic conven
tion of 1908.
We denounce the republican tariff bill a
shameless consummation of the fraud de
liberately planned by the republican lead
ers when they promised revision instead
of reduction; and we call attention to the
fact that it confesses the truth of all that
tho democrats have charged as to the ini
quities of tho high tariff system.
We call special attention to tho fact
that one plank contained in both the dem
ocratic state and national platforms for
190S, namely, the plank demanding a con
stitutional amendment specifically indors
ing the income tax, has since been ac
cepted by a republican president, senate
and house of representatives, and that
such amendment has been submitted to
the states for ratification.
We pledge the democratic party in Ne
braska to assist in securing ratification
of that amendment and to that end we
ask Governor Shallenberger to call a spe
cial session of the legislature at an early
day, that Nebraska, a pioneer in the ad
vocacy of an income tax, may have the
honor of being the first state to ratify the
amendment.
We particularly indorse the proposition
that the United States senators be elected
by popular vote.
Present day conditions in the senate
emphasize the importance of this reform,
Believing that the people have a right
to havo what they want in government,
we favor the submission at tho next ses
sion of the legislature of a constitutional
amendment providing for the initiative
and referendum.
Reasserting our purpose to give the peo
ple of the state of Nebraska guaranty of
bank deposits law we call attention to the
fact that the suspension of that law by
the federal court emphasizes the position
taken by the democratic party of Nebras
ka in its 1908 platform, when it favored
the enactment of such laws as may be
necessary to compel corporations to sub
mit their legal disputes to the courts of
the states in which they do business be
fore taking 'an appeal to the United States
courts.
We endorse the successful business ad
ministration of a democratic governor and
commend the governor and a democratic
legislature for the enactment of specific
democratic platform pledges into law.
The democrats of Nebraska, however,
deserve the attention of all good citizens
to the fact that the state election to be
held this fall is for the purpose of choos
ing three judges of the supreme court and
three regents of the university. No other
offices are involved.
The democratic party, through its legis
lature and governor, sought to lift these
positions of great trust and dignity out of
the embroilment of partisan politics, to
take them out of the bands of professional
politicians, to raise them above the reach
of the interests such politicians serve, and
place them permanently and securely on a
non-partisan basis, But the republican
party hold otherwise.
Through its leaders and its press it
assailed the non-partisan judiciary law.
Through its state organization it ar
ranged surreptitiously insincere but suc
cessful attack upon it.
We submit that this presents an issue
of great and far reaching importance. We
are coming to be more and more a people
governed by our courts. The courts are
the bulwarks of our liberties as well as the
harbor to which special privilege flees in
every storm, and the instrumentalities
through which it asserts, with growing
arrogance, its power to defy the people's
legislature and the people's executives.
There never was a time when the neces
sity for keeping courts, invested with or
asserting extraordinary powers, on a plan
above suspicion of reproach, presented
itself more forcibly than it does now.
We urge the people of this common
wealth to take this question home with
them. We urge upon them that the issue
in this state election is one, not of party
or platform, but of men.
We urge all Nebraskans in voting for
supreme judges and for regents, to lay
aside party prejudice and ties. We hope
no democrat will vote for a candidate for
either of these offices merely because the
candidate is a democrat, and that no re
publican will vote for such a candidate
because he is a republican.
We urge each and every voter of all
parties to vote for the man when he goes
to a box this fall, and not for the party
label.
Resolved, that we urge the democratic
members of congress, and those from Ne
braska especially, to use their best efforts
to secure as speedy a completion as possi
ble of the government ditch project now
but partly completed in western Nebraska,
assuring those settlers, who have home-
steaded lands under said project, that tho
government will keep good faith with
them, and that right soon.
W. C. T. U. Notes
The Alliance union will meet tho
second Tuesday in August with Mrs.
R. C. Strong at 2:30 p.m. instead of
at the usual hour, on .account of tho
election of officers.
Abolition of tho Rum Power.
A series of heart-to-heart talks on the
above named subject by Prof. J. L. Mc
Brien, ex-state superintendent of public
instruction of Nebraska:
, TALK TWO
It is safe to assume that the saloon
could be abolished by county option in at
least seventy-five of the ninety-one coun
ties of the state within the next two years;
and this would place it where the people
of the state shall rest in the belief that it
is in the course of absolute extinction by
ultimate state-wide prohibition; county
option then in 191 1 under a law passed by
the legislature elected in 1910, and thus
make it possible for state-wide prohibition
in 1913. This is as fast as we can move
under the mechanics of our government
without any opposition. How can we
hope to move faster with the determined
and united opposition of the liquor forces?
A great many earnest, temperance
workers do not seem to realize the danger
in submitting a prohibitory amendment to
the constitution under the existing pro
visions of that instrument. Until we have
gained by a county option more dry terri
tory than we now possess, it would hard
ly bo possible to carry a prohibitory
amendment at a special or general elec
tion. Our supreme court has repeatedly
held that it takes a majority of the votes
cast at any election to carry a prohibitory
amendment. Experience shows that at
least twenty-five per cent, of the voters
always fall to express their opinion on a
constitutional amendment, but those who
thus fail to vote on the amendment propo
sition are counted against it. And with
all the interest that the temperance forces
can arouse among the temperance people,
at least four-fifths of those who would fail
to express themselves on a prohibitory
amendment would be temperance voters.
It is a painful truth that the enemies of
temperance are more successful in getting
out their votes as well as getting expres
sion from those who do vote on any ques
tion at any election, than are the temper
ance forces. For example, at the last city
election in Lincoln there were at least
1,500 temperance voters who did'not come
to the polls. It is doubtful if more than
100 voters, who were for the saloons, stay
ed at home, and practically all of those
who were for the saloons and voted at the
last city election, voted for tho saloons.
The amendments to the state constitu
tion providing for the investment of the
public school funds, increasing the num
ber of supreme judges, and the railway
commission, were adopted by the fact that
all the leading political part'es endorsed
these measures in their respective plat
forms, and under a ruling of the supreme
court, which holds that all straight tickets
of any particular party are in favor of any
constitutional amendment endorsed by the
platform of that party, though the voter
failed to express his opinion on any
amendment so endorsed. It is impossible
to secure an amendment to our present
constitution without its endorsement in
the party platforms by both democrats and
republicans, and everyone who is posted
on the political situation in Nebraska at
this time knows that it is impossible to se
cure an endorsement of a prohibitory
amendment in both the democratic and
republican platforms. Therefore, it is the
part of good common sense and practical
politics to work first for county option,
and this step to be followed by state-wide
prohibition. It makes state-wide prohibi
tion inevitable within the next few years,
and at the same time gives us prohibition
in at least four-fifths of the territory of the
state within the next two years. But if
we take the position of state-wide prohibi
tion or nothing in the campaign the chances
for victory are greatly against us for the
reasons already pointed out; and were we
to fail in carrying such a proposition, it
would retard the temperance cause and
postpone state-wide prohibition at least
twenty-five years. United we stand, di
vided we fall.
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WHY PIRATES LEAD,
Seven Reasons Given For Splen
did Showing of Pittsburgs.
GREAT CREDIT DUE CLARKE.
Manager of the Buccaneers One of the
Headiest Players In Game Today.
Wagner and Leach Two Pillars of
the Team.
To one who thinks tho problem
"Why docs the Pittsburg club con
tinue to lend tho Nntlonnl, league?"
duds an easy solution. To the un
thinking fan who cannot conceive of
any other form of comparing the rela
tive merits of the teams contending
for tho pennunt than past perform
ances the Pirates' triumphal stand at
the top of the list is uiiexplaluablo.
Bascbnll statistics unfortunately can
not portray many of tho salient tea
sous why a certain team continues to
make a better showing than 11 not her.
Hardworking statisticians have yet to
evolve a system whereby every point
nnd play that spells success In base
ball can be served up In figure form
for the questioning fans. Records can
be and are compiled showing the com
parative strength In batting, fielding,
base running aud pitching, but the
many unknown nnd oftentimes misun
derstood inside plays of baseball re
main a scnlcd book as far as statistics
and records go.
The Pirates lead the National league
because of seven things. Six of these
cnu bo found by n careful perusal of
tho weekly records. The other must
be classed under one head Inside base
ball. This latter covers a multitude
of virtues. To Fred Clarke. ..muager
of tho Pirates, must bo given the
credit for tho successful operation of
this essential part of the baseball ma
chinery which keeps the Pirates on
top. It Is bis originality which con
ceived tho plays, it is be who has out
guessed the opposing players, and it
is he who continues to keep the Pirates
ahead by a never falling prodding of
his players In order that they may
continue to display tho aggressiveness,
fighting spirit nnd kcadwork which are
essential to n successful manipulation
of his system.
In a statistical way tho Pirates al
most have a monopoly on the good
things therein. Here can be fouud the
six other reasons why the Pirates ar
m tho load. To begin with, the Pirates
lead In club batting with an average
of .203. Again, the Pirates are su-
PIIED CLARKE, CLEVER MANAGER OP PITTS
nURQ NATIONALS.
promo in club Holding with a grand
uverago of .005. Again, the Pirates are
far in tho lead in long hits by clubs,
being nearly forty points ahead of
Cincinnati, their nearest competitor.
With the team as a whole In the
lead in these three departments, turn
ing to tho individuals It is found that
they are also supremo. Hans Wag
nor Is the peer of them nil in batting.
He leads tho players with an average
of .400. Wagner also tops tho ten lead
ing sluggers with a grand uverago of
.520, sixty-two points ahead of Jor
dan. Clarke and Leach nlso appeal
In this list of ten sluggers.
Then there Is the pitching depart
ment, where Pirates also excel. Cam
nltz, Frock, Willis, Leever, Phllllppl,
Lloflcld and Mnddox aro among tho
leading fifteen twlrlors In tho National
league.
It is" true that "Jap" Rarbeau at third
nnd Miller at secoud have been of
much assistance to the Pittsburg club
this year, but when tho real secret of
the success of the organization Is
traced the fine work of Clarke, Wag
nor aud Leach seems to bo more thau
two-thirds responsible for it.
Frisco Plana Bio Auto Race.
San Francisco automobile enthusiasts
have tnkon up the cpiestlon of holding
a big road race uoxt Soptombor. Al
ready the preliminary arrangements
mid plans for tho race aro bolng per-focted.
KRAUSE, PITCHING SENSATION
Philadelphia Young Southpaw Now f
Loading Twtrler In American League.
.Another picture bangs In the hull of
baseball funic. Hnrry Kntuse has won
undying fame In the grout pastime of
a great nation. From dull obscurity to
the highest pinnacle of public admira
tion has he carved a path, nil within
the short period of a twelvemonth.
Of his future time alone holds the
key. Of his grnnd achievement not
even time can rob him. He has won
his spurs. Should his deterioration
even prove as meteoric as bis rise to
fame he would yet stand boldly out
as oue of the greatest diamond sensa
tions of history.
Krnuse won ten consecutive victories
as n big league pitcher this year. The
virtue of the accomplishment, which
HAnnT KRAUSE.
AMERICANS CLEVER TWIJ LKR.
has been seldom bettered in bnseball
history, lives chiefly In the fact that the
record has been set on tho youngster's
first appearance in fast company. Fur
thermore, Krnuse Is a left , handed
pitcher. His victorious debut explodes
the time honored fallacy that south
paws nre of necessity strictly In and
outers.
Krause himself lays his success to
the coaching of Connie Mack and Ed
die Plank, almost perfect control and
lnrgo slathers of luck. But ho is mod
est. It Is true that he appears to havo
very little on the bnll, but somehow
or other he Is seldom hit safely, and
his record of bases on balls compares
favorably with that of any other pitch
er in cither of tho big leagues.
In a way Krauso was lucky even to
join tho Athletics. Connie Mack lo
cated him out on the Pacific coast late
in tho 1007 campaign. Mack had made
a few derogatory remarks about Silk
O'Loughllu's ability as an umpire aft
er that famous 9 to 9 tie between the
Athletics nnd the Tigers and, rather
than take n call from tho powers that
bo at the winter meeting, decided to
take a trip to California.
While there he was tipped off nbout
Krnuse. He saw him work and signed
him, with orders to report In time to
take the 1008 training trip. lie caught
on nnd was taken on the first western
trip. Ills llrst chance came at St.
Louis. He started fairly well, but
was. nervous, and the Browns batted
him out of the box.
Mack still had all kinds of faith in
him. but saw he needed more season
ing and shipped him to Harrlsburg. of
the Trl-state league. There he won
seventeen out of twenty-one games
and was yanked back to Philadelphia.
JOSS HAS NEW CURVE.
Cleveland's Crack Twirler's "False
Risn" May Prove a Puzzler.
A new curve has come to light. It
Is called the "false rise ball." and Its
owner is Eddie Joss of the Cleveland
Americans. Joss delivers the ball with
his arm at full length. Just before the
sphere reaches the batter Its down
ward progress Is suddenly arrested
and it shoots horizontally across tho
plate. The latter, as a rule, strikes
intier the ball and ennnot very easily
Iistlngnlsh It from a drop, as its
course Is somewhat slmllnr to a down
twist until It reaches the plate.
Pitcher Hart's Long Career.
Hart, who Is pitching for Little Rock
of the Southern league. Is In his twenty-fourth
year of .professional base
ball. He Is the leading pitcher In the
league, with eight victories out of ten
games.
Parent Still a Speedy Baso Runner.
Freddy Parent, the Chicago Ameri
can shortstop, is surprising the oldest
Inhnbltanfby his base running.
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BASEBALL POINTERS
Cincinnati's now pitcher. Lauder
milk, Is evon tnller thnn big Larry Me
Lean. Third Basemnn Purtell of the Chi
cago Americans Is a terror in killing
buut hits.
Manager Cantlllon of Washington
seems to hnvo picked up a likely bit
ter In Lellvelt.
Pltchor Arollanes of the Boston
Amorlcans Is not only a willing work
cr. but 11 great bnll player.
Elmer Flick has braced up the Cleve
lauds wonderfully. Sluco the dandy
line outfielder has returned to tho
game the Somors entry has been com
lug rapidly.
"If war Is what Goueral Sherman
said it was." observed Manager Mur
ray of tho Phillies the other day,
"heaven only knows what mouaglng a
losing team is."
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