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OCTOBER 21, 1909
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Who wants the new office of county
clairvoyant?
And now the Kearney Hub intimates
that the Omuh World-Herald is a prevaricator.
Columbus people feel badly becaUHe
they did not get the Smith factory and
are now throwing mud at the company
claiming that they were unreasonable
in their demands. Nothing unreasonable
about it, as between Columbus and
Plattsmouth it was perfectly natural
that they should chose the best town
and select Plattsmouth.
The members of the editorial profes
sion who are running democratic papers
of the non-partisan brand, delight in
quoting from the Lincoln Evening
News, emphasizing the quotation by
saying that it comes from a republican
paper. The Lincoln Evening News is
not a republican paper and.Jnever pre
tended to be. It is an independent
paper and has been for years.
The Lincoln Evening News thinks
that the Federal courts cannot be
trusted to give right kind of decisions
as long as the judges are appointed the
way they are. It thinks however that
the United States Supreme court is all
right. Both courts are appointed by
the same authority, and we fail to see
the point made by the News. It maybe
however that if the United States Su
preme court should declare the bank
guarantee law unconstitutional, the
latter court would also get in bad repute
with the editor of the Lincoln News.
Plattsmouth should be proud of her
Commercial club. It has accomplished
in the week Jpast what will mean a
great deal for this city in the future.
The securing of the M. E. Smith & Co.,
factory for Plattsmouth is but the be
ginning of what will in the future
mean a great deal. With its natural
location and with the conditions sur
rounding it this city should be scene of
great industry. The Commercial club
has placed Plattsmouth on the map
again, and with a proper "pull all to
gether" we can make the city an im
portant one. It is but a question of
time when the hum of the factory and
the work shop should be heard on every
hand.
If the democratic candidates for su
preme judge are in earnest about the
Bupreme court being a non-partisan
court and that partisan matters should
not enter into the campaign, why are
these same judges contributing to the
democratic campaign fund and not do
nating anything for any other campaign
fund. If their offices are of a non-political
nature why show partiality to
ward one party and donate funds to as
sist in defeating other parties to which
they do not belong but which they claim
should assist in electing them. It is
about time this non-partisan idea was
exploded. It is nothing more or less
than a democratic scheme to elect
democratic candidates and many re
publicans are so taken up with the bait
that they cannot see the hook concealed
anderneath.
VERY COMPLIMENTARY.
We have received a great many very
complimentary notices from the press
and several congratulatory personal
letters from olhers not in the news
paper business which we appreciate
very much, but the following from the
Ashland Gazette and the. pen of nn en
tire stranger, we appreciate im
mensely :
The Daily News of Plattsmouth has
been revived by the present manage
ment of the News-Herald, which has
uen issued as a semi-weekly, and
Plattsmouth is to have what it needs
and has room for, a live, clean, up-to-
date republican paper. We are glad to
note that the News is of the straight
republican variety and not of the
namby pamby, demo-pop kind, such as
wo get from Lincoln. Editor Barrows
is a vigorous writer, and he gets out a
paper as bright and clean as a new
silver dollar. He has a good field,
which ho shows capabilities to fill, and
we both predict and wish for him un
bounded success.
Two weeks more and the great ques
tions before the people will have been
Bettled by the people themselves, at
least for a year. The campaign so far
has been a peculiar one in many re
spects. Generally a party makes its
campaign on its record, but this year
the democratic party has not referred
to its record, but has attempted to
make its campaign on such peculiar
issues that when one looks at it closely
he is Btruck with its humorous points
more than anything else. That of the
"non-partisan" idea is about the most
peculiar of all. How people can be
worked into embracing it is more than
we can understand, yet there are peo
ple who have never had any use for the
democratic party who are shouting
themselves hoarse over it. The demo
cratic party is urging republicans to
vote for a mixed or non-partisan court,
and at the some time are asking their
own party members to vote the straight
party candidates for the court. If they
are Binccre why do they not vote for at
least one of the republican candidates.
It is all a game, and it is strange that
some republican editors cannot see the
point.
We feel very sorry that the editor of
the Evening Journal should have taken
so much at heart the political discussion
latoly indulged in between that paper
and the Daily News, as to with one fell
swoop erase this paper from his ex
change list and sever business relations
between the two papers. Outside of
its political columns the Journal is a
good paper and we enjoyed very much
after the toil of the day was over, to
pick up the Evening Journal, seat our
selves in our luxurious boudoir and
peruse its valuable columns, and it
pained us greatly at the thought of
having to forego that pleasure and con
fine ourselves to the common papers
which come to our exchange table.
However we are feeling some better at
this writing for we found that the feel
ings of the Journal was not so greatly
damaged but that forty cents in ad
vance put us in shape to receive the
Journal as a common every day sub
scriber, and life is now worth living
again. However wc would urge the
Journal editor not to indulge in political
discussions any more unless he can hold
up his end of the controversy with un
ruffled feelings.
COLUMBUS FEELS BAD.
Columbus wanted the M. E. Smith &
Co. shirt factory which" was landed by
the Commercial club of Plattsmouth,
but the Commercial club of that city
was not composed of the rustling quali
ties which have made the club here so
potent a factor in securing the new
factory, and this is how the Clumbus
Telegram feels over the matter:
"That overall factory which was
promised by the Omaha house of M. P.
Smith & Co. is not going to come to
Columbus just now. At first the Tele
gram was authorized to say to the peo
ple of Columbus that the Smith people
would locate the factory here, asking
no bonus whatever, their only demand
being an effort on part of our citizen
to secure enough laborers for the fac
tory. Then the Smith people came out
and looked the eity over. They met
our citizens, and found everybody ready
to welcome them to this good town.
Then they went back home and wrote
a letter to the commercial club. In
that letter they BBked the citizens of
Columbus to guarantee them every
thing, almost asking for a guarantee as
to dividends on their investment. They
wanted free rent, and designated the
number of windows and water closets
which they wanted Columbus to put in
the building which they would use for
a factory. They did not ask for a
white bull dog to guard the entrance to
their factory, but that was probably an
oversight on part of the Smith man
who wrote the letter to the Commer
cial club. And this is the end of the
overall factory. Next time the Tele
gram announces that the Omaha Smith
people are going to build an overall
factory in Columbus or in any other
town well, there will not be any next
time about it.
P, S. We are hourly anticipating
from the Smiths a letter in which they
may ask Columbus to refund the money
they paid in traveling from Omaha,
and we shall not be surprised if they
shall ask us to refund the postage
stamps they have expended in their
correspondence with the Commercial
club."
FOREIGNERS NEED NOT APPLY.
In its issue of yesterday the Platts
mouth Evening Journal In an article
headed "Native Born Candidates,"
takes occasion to "point with pride" to
the fact that the democratic county
ticket is composed almost wholly of
native born Cass county citizens. The
Journal may feel proud of this fact,
but the Daily News feels more proud
of the fact that the republican party,
while recognizing native born citizens,
feels that the foreign born citizen who
comes to Cass county is just as good a
citizen as any in Cass county and that
when qualified to fill an office is not
ashamed or afraid to give them every
right that they are entitled to as citi
zens of the United States, whether born
in this country or across the water.
The republican party is proud of the
fact that it has placed upon its ' county
ticket representatives of that class of
sturdy and honest foreigners who came
to the shores of America with the de
termination to become citizens under
the Btars and stripes and who appreciat
ing the great blessing which comes to
every American citizen, are in fact in
every way just as worthy, just as able,
just as honest, just a3 honorable and
just as good good citizens as those who
were born on American soil and have
enjoyed the distinction of being native
born Americans.
We defy the Journal to produce a
better type of American citizenship
than that of George Lushinsky, repub
lican candidate for county clerk, or of
Martin Freidrich, republican candidate
for county commissioner. Both were
born on foreign shores, and both came
from that good Old Germany that has
Bent so many honest and good men to
America. The Journal should remem
ber that the type of American citizen
ship which come to America and affilia
tes with the republican party is capable
of holding better positions than that
of members of the police force . in the
cities of Chicago and New York.
There are some things that have been
injected into the campaign this fall in
Cass couty by the Journal that ought
to have been kept out, but this feeling
proud of the fact that there are few
foreign born citizens on the democratic
ticket, is just about the limit and
should be lesented by every foreign
born citizen in Cass county.
What little hope was left for the
democrats to cling to regarding laws
passed by the legislature last winter,
was broken Tuesday when the Lincoln
Evening News published a sensational
article showing that the democratic
state committee had broken the law
passed in the interests of Mr. Bryan
and at his urgent request, covering the
paramount point made in his campaign
for the presidency last fall regarding
the publicity of campaign contributions
before election. It is surely about time
when th? people of the state of Ne
braska opened their eyes to the fact
that the democratic party is incompe
tent, untrustworthy, unfaithful, anfor
tunate, unreliable, unparalled, unac
countable and unbusinesslike, and un
deniably up against a hard proposition
when nearly all its laws passed by its
only legislature for many years have
been declared no good, and now their
own party managers break the last one
left that was of any consequence and
which was passed especially to pave
the way to the United States Senate
for Mr. Bryan. The rank and file of
the democratic party have been faith
ful to their leaders against repeated
unfaithfulness of those leaders. The
rank and file of the democratic party
have faith in the principles of that
party the days of its great leaders.
But under the leadership of the
fellows who attempt to lead it now
or in the past few years, it has been
lead to defeat again and again because
those leaders have betrayed the rank
and file whenever an opportunity was
given them to prove their right to
leadership. Pie counter, not principles
of democracy has been the bribe that
has caused them to betray the rank
and file of the democratic party. The
editor of this paper has no issue with
the rank and file of the democratic
party. They have as much right to
their belief as we have to ours, but we
feel that with the record of the past
before them they ought to be able to
see how they have been betrayed time
and again.and either vote indepenently,
irrespective of party, or start a cam
paign for a reorganization of the grand
party of the past on lines that would
appeal to the great common people.
As it is there is nothing to look back
to with joy and the future has no bet
ter prospects.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
As one looks over the politcal situa
tion at this time he is at once impressed
with the similarity now with the con
ditions which have existed occasionally
during the past twenty years in Ne
braska. The democratic party, instead
of hunting for something that would be
of benefit to the people if enacted into
law, have persisted in hunting for
something to find fault with and then
invent something that would catch the
public idea after the people had been
led to believe that there was really
something wrong.
We can remember way back several
years ago when the populist party
came into existence, that the demo
popo combination convinced the people
that in order to get relief from the
clutches of the railroads, it would be
necessary to take the reins cf state
government out of the hands of the re
publican party and turn it over to them.
The people listened to the cry and the
republican party was relegated to the
rear. Everybody knows the result.
The new fellows in power forget their
promises to the people and began a
mad scramble for the political pie coun
ter which did not cease until the peo
ple seeing how they had been taken in,
again put the republicans in power and
the laws that would be of benefit to
the people were passed.
The free silver issue which carried so
many republicans away from their
party was another issue which was
brought out for the purpose of getting
people disatisfied with their conditions
and hoping that it would land the in
ventors in power. It was soon found to
be a flimsy article, would not stand the
ravages of time, and it was relegated
to oblivion. Then came other issues
which passed into the political grave
yard with those gone on before.
Then came up the bank guarantee
scheme brought out by the small panic
of a year or so ago, and it did Valient
service in electing a democratic legis
lature which convened the first of the
present year. So anxious were the
members of that legislature to put
themselves in line for the jobs that
they expected to legislate themselves
into, they forgot their promises made
to the people before election and spent
most of their time doing everything
else but keep their campaign pledges.
Finally some of the democratic mem
bers of the legislature who were more
anxious to keep faith with the people
than to receive political jobs, com
menced an agitation for the passage of
a bank guarantee bill. Consequently
several of them got busy, but finding
that there wasn't a democratic in the
whole bunch that knew enough to draw
up a bill they appropriated $.300 of the
peoples' money to pay a democratic
lawyer to prepare the bill which after
wards passed and was signed by the
governor.
There were bo many things and so
many different members who had ideas
that they wanted to draft into the bill
that the drawer of the bill, Judge Al
bert, was compelled to cut out most of
them in order to get one that would
stand a show of passing and which
would be legal. There were so many
fellows who wanted their ideas put into
law that as Judge Albert put it, "I
stretched it till I didn't dare go any
farther," and the bill was put on its
passage.
peculiar ming aDout the passage
of the bill was, that while they all be
lieved that none of them were capable
of drawing the bill, when it came to its
passage all of them who had pet ideas
wanted them put into the bill. On the
floor of the house democratic members
warned the radicals that they were go
ing too far and that there would be
trouble if they presisted in ejecting
their ideas into it. But the lash was
applied and the bill went through. The
courts have decided just as the conser
vative members warned the radicals
would happen.
Now we are confronted with with an
other new thing, "anon-partisan su
preme court." What makes this new
idea rediculous is the way the demo
crats are working it and the presistency
with which some republican editor
are falling into the scheme. The demo
crats urge the election of a non-partisan
supreme court, but advocate the
election of all of the democratic candi
dates. That is, if you are a republican
be non-partisan and vote for all the
democrats for supreme judge. If you
are a democrat, be partisan and vote
for the same candidates. They
are playing a "heads I win, tails you
lose," game all the way through, and
some republican editors cannot see the
point.
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Pepperburg-Carna.
Leon Pepperburg and Miss Rachel
Cams were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony in Lincoln, Neb.," the cere
mony was performed by Judge Cos
grove in the presence of immediate
friends. The home was beautifully
decorated with flowers and garlands of
sweet honeysuckle.
The bride is the oldest daughter of
Mrs. Cams and the late Lieutenant E.
C. Cams, ex-lieutenant governor of
Nebraska.
Leon was born and grew to manho?vl
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Nebraska university in 1904, and is a
member of the Acacia and Kappa Sigma
fraternities. He is now engaged in the
United States geological turvey ser
vice. They will reside in Washington,
D. C.
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We have iust received a fine line of Wrappers.
Good styles and pretty patterns, good full sizes. Per
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You are invited to call and inspect the above lines
we know you will appreciate them at the low prices
offered.
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