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riattsmouth Telephone No. 85.
February,
Mayor Tom Johnson will enter the
enatorial race in Ohio to contest
for the shoes now worn by Senator
Dick.
The Louisville Courier says a few
things regarding the old county con
vention, but whether ho means it or
not we were unable to gather. Any
how he Baid some good things which
were true whether ho meant it or
not.
Attorney General Thompson is
said to have his eyes glued on the .
senatorship. Let him go to it;
the more the merrier' and out
of the whole jumble the repub
licans ought to be able to get at
leastonc good man. Lncoln Herald.
Sure thing, my dearly deterioating
brother, sure thing. And as usual
they will.
The City of Lincoln is agitating
the matter of extending the paving
on 0 street ten miles eastand west
of the city and also that of fourteenth
trcct the same way. That is business
and will mean more for Lincoln
than anything she could do. Forty
miles of paving in addition to what
she has will make her the best paved
city in the west.
If wc remember rightly, some few
years ago the Nebraska legislature
passed a law that the U. S. flag should
not be used in a liquor advertisement
in Nebraska, and, if wo remember
rightly,' in a suit to determine the
legality of the law the courts held
that the law was valid. We notice
that a certain Omaha brewery is still
advertising their product with a big
picture of the flag. How about it?
Congressman Latta, the first demo
cratic congressman which the third
district of Nebraska has had for many
years has at last made it known
that he is on top of the earth. After
maintaining a sphinx like silence
ever since he has been in Washing-
torn, ho jumps up and opposes an
appropriation of $18,000 for the
work of extending the growing
of trees in the western part of the
state. That man Latta is certainly
standing up for Nebraska.
The Onuha Examiner published
.last week pictures of its editor before
Icing elected United StatesSenator and
afterwards. The one before on the
usual 5th page and the one after on
the preceding page. The resembl
ance was sufficient to know that
they were the same man with the
exception that after drawing his
eulary as senator he was able to own
an overcoat, something which he
had hitherto unknown as an editor
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Senator Burkett made a speech
a few days ago which had the right
ring to it. lie thinks that the presi
dent has a hard row before him to
hoc but thinks that the row will be
hoed just the same. The insurgent am
democratic weeds have gained a start
but a good vigorous cultivation will
have a tendency to bring out a good
crop of the right kind of legislation.
The senator stands ready to assist
in every way in his power to pull
a few weeds and help along the good
.work.
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Editor
Magager
Nebraska Telephone No. 85
10, 1910.
The editor of the Lincoln Herald
publishes a life size picture of Mayor
Dahlman and says that the first
time he ever met him was in a race
for tho ponetentiary. Furthermoro
ic says he beat the Mayor to it and
lias always regretted it. They always
do.
Havelock has started a movement
to do away with the saloons tho coming
year. They have got tired of being
the dumping grounds for Lincoln's
undisirables.
Somebody up in Lincoln has asked
the question in the News of that city
Why people allow their dogs to
bark." The answer might be that
they know the neighbors have no
shot gun handy.
Haley's comet was observed by
people in Lincoln Sunday night with
a four inch telescpoe. However we
common pcoplo who have nothing
but a pair of eyes to use will have to
wait until about April 1st, before
we can observe the new arrival
Chicago is to vote this spring
upon. tho question of "for" saloons
or "against" saloons, enough sig
natures to a petition having been
secured to make the battle. The
result will be watched with much
interest.
Wade Ellis has resigned as assistant
attorney general of tho United States
to accept the chairmanship of the
republican state committee of the
state of Ohio. This means that the
fight in Ohio is going to be an interes
ting one from a political standpoint
this year.
The Pope of Rome refused to see
Mr. Fairbanks, who used to be Vice
president of the United States be
cause that gentleman had accepted
an invitation to speak at the Metho
dist church in that city. The Pope
probably knows his business better
than wc do, but he ought to have
taken a look at Mr. Fairbanks when
he had a chance, for the tall gentle
man is really worth looking nt.
Senator Brown is going after tl
Washington gas company which np
pears to need looking after. Tl
senator has a record which will ten
to make those fellows sit up and tak
notice. There is nothing the matt
with Brown, and when he has had i
experience in Washington that soir.
of those fellows have had, he will I
ono of the mot influential senators
in that body.
Last Friday Senator Depew
New York chartered a special ti
of
ii in
and loaded in three hundred editors
and their wive from New York a
am
took them to Washington and show
ed
them a good time. They met the
president and went home feeling that
lite was worth the living. That
Senator Depew is a foxv old cuv. and
knows that if he wants to .be elected
again to the senate he must tct
the good side of tho newspaper men
of his state. Mr. Whedon will nlease
tUka notice.
A few days ago Doc Bixby, in his
Daily Drift said that there was no
country paper supporting James Dahl
man for the democratic nomination.
We desire to call the attention of the
gentleman to the Petersburg Index,
whose editor a year ago was one of the
strong supporters of the Omaha Mayor.
If ho has not met with a change of
heart we believe that th&Jndcx will
be found on the side of "life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness" as
fostered and set forth by the man
from Omaha.
John W. Kern, vice presidential
candidate in 1908, says that the demo-
ratio party will hardly be united
again for many years since a number
of the leaders have gone over to pro
tection. And Bryan has gone over
prohibition he should have added.
Bryan says he was 19 years trying to
find out where he was at on the whis-
key question. What he meant was
19 years trying to find out which
would get him the most; on which
side his political bread would get the
most butter, in other words. Lincoln
Herald. (Depi.)
Things arc likely to be very intcrcs-
tine up at Lincoln town pretty soon
The wet goods advocates spent two
months getting 3,500 signatures to
a petition to give the people a chance
to vote on the proposition of "wet
or dry" and now it has been discovered
that only about one hundred and
fifty of the bunch signed the petition
legally. The wet fellows are now
going to appeal to the courts in am
effort to have the signitures made
legal. It seems that they failed to
give the name of the city after their
signatures.
The Journal says that it behooves
every democrat in the country to get
together to save it from the clutches
of the money power. We would Jike
to ask the Journal to give us a little
information as to when the democratic
party ever saved the country from
anything, except its repeated attempts
to save it from prosperity. It sounds
nice to call on the democratic party
to save the "country, but, the country
would like first to have a manifestation
of the power of the democratic party
to save anything. Some how or other
it haa not been very much in the
saving business in its long, unevent
ful and checkered career.
A lot of fellows .are awaiting with
much interest the return of Theodore
Roosevelt from Africa, thinking that
Teddy will whoop things up politi
cally when he finds out how things
are going! The rank insurgents arc
pinning their faith to the idea that
the ex-president will pull off his
ooat and jump in and pat them on
the back. We do not believe that
ho will do anything of the kind. We
are more inclined to the belief that
he will 6tand by the president in his
action so far. Teddy may be a scrap
per, but he is no fool.
The advertising which ThrUs-
mouth has received during the past
three months has been of great bene
fit to the city. Hardly a day passes
but what some one of the state papers
publish a clipping taken from one or
the other of the Plattsmouth papers.
This goes to show that the work which
has been done is bearing fruit which
will be of benefit in the weeks to come.
The Lincoln Trade Review contained
last week two references to some
thing which had occurred in a busi
ness way which had been taken from
the Plattsmouth daily papers.
The good work is still going on and
now that it is started it should not be
allowed to weaken in any degree.
The ship subsidy bill which will
come before the present congress
will probably go the way of all other
similar measures. Scmehow the
country does not want a ship subsidy.
There seems to be a misunderstanding
over the true situation, but it seems
to tho Daily News that something
ought to bo done to have American
Teasels oarrying American trado. Post
sibly if we should get into trouble
with a foreign power the loss which
would be sustained by the United
States by reason of not having ships
of our own to carry our goods, might
be a great deal more than what we
would pay in the way of subsidies. It
however seems strange that if there
is so much money in the carrying
trade as the enemies of the ship
subsidy claim that there would be
plenty of money to go into it. The
fact that there isjnot is an argument
in favor of subsidy.
Have you secured you ticket for
the democratic banquet at Lincoln.
If not get busy, for it will be
worth going many miles to attend.
All the candidates of the democratic
party will be there. There will be
Governor Shallenberger, who by his
ledgerdemam is able to pull to his
support the two extremes of the
liquor question and who in the next
few months will again attempt the
stunt. There will be .1
man the lasso artist from the wilds
of Omaha. There will be Billy Price
the easy one, who would rather run
for something he doesn't want than
for something he does want, if it will
please his friends. There will be
Billy Thompson the smallest giant
in Nebraska.who from time immemo
rial has run for more offices and never
secured any of any man in the state.
There will be W. J. Taylor the fight
ing blacksmith of the Big Sixth who
wants to go to congress and admits
that he doesn't care where the votes
come from to send him there. There
will be Congressman Hitchcock, per
haps, who would rather be United
states Senator than to be right. Then
perhaps the great William Jennings
Bryan, who you have often heard of
as a candidate for president and
never saw him land. And then too
there will be several lesser lights
but all of double distilled forty candle
democratic power who will shine in
that assemblage. If you havn't a
ticket, get it. It will only cost you
a dollar, and surely it is worth that
to see any of the above attractions
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THE NEXT SENATE.
The Washington correspondant of
the Boston Transcript reviews in his
paper the impending contest for sena
torial seats in a way that throws light
on both the personality and geography
likely to be factors in the result. He
calls attention to the fact that the
united States senate is so organized
that at no time can a majority of its
members, or more than one-third,in
fact, go out of office, which method of
renewal makes it a continuing body in
more senses than one. Regular sena
torial terms expire on the 4th of
March, which ends the short term of
every congress, and next March when
congress suspends its session until the
following Deccnber, thirty senators
would ordinarily retire to private life,
if not in the meantime re-elcted. This
time, unless the Mississippi legislature
ends its deadlock; there will be two
additional seats to fill by reason of
vacancies created by death, making
thirty-two in all, of which seven be
long to the democratic side and twenty-
five to the republican side. The states
which will send representatives to the
next senate with new commissions to
succeed republicans last elected are:
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Indiana,
Maine,
Massachuetts,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Missouri,
Montana,
Nebraska,
New Jersey,
New York,
Navada,
North Dakota i
Ohio,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
Utah,
Vermont,
Washington,
West Virginia,
Wisconsin,
Wyoming,
The last political balance sheet for
the senate showed up sixty republicans
and thrity-two democrats, with a re
publican niajorityof twenty-eight,so
that to wrest control from the repub
licans the democrats would have to
gain fifteen out of these twenty-five
seats. While the Transcript man does
not indulge in figures or forecasts, his
analysis of the situation in the various
states which are to choose senators
indicates that the democrats will be
highly fortunate if they succeed in
getting away from the republicans five
or six of the places to be filled. The
democrats have one advantage in this,
that those states not represented by
democrats which will cIioobo United
States senators aro of the solid south,
and tho republicans stand no chance to
make inroads on the democrats expent
on the one appointive senatorship from
North Dakota.
It may be Dut down, therefore, that
nothing short of a political caticlysm
will change the political complexion of
the next United States senate to the
extent of converting the present demo
cratic minority into a working ma
jority. Omaha Bee.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
IN NEBRASKA.
Surveyors Making Plans In Line
Improvements.
A force of ten surveyors are at work
on the Missouri Pacific railway, going
south from Nebraska City. They
arc finding the levels of the road and
laying out the same so as to avoid
all grades and take out all of the
heavy curves. The road at present
has a grade in places fifty-three feet
to the mile and they are going to cut
it down to less than thirtv-onc feet to
the mile. They will be met by a party
from the south who are running
similiar lines and grades. The lower
ing of the grade will begin as soon
as the plans arc approved and the
frost is out of the ground. This will
shorten the distance to Kansas City
from here and make it possible for
the engines to haul heavier trains.
Heavier engines may be used. The
company will spend two or three
million in Nebraska during the next
twelve months, according to reports
received here. Nearly half a million
is to be expended at and in the vici
nity of Falls City, on new yards,
terminal buildings and line improve
ment. TRAINING NURSES
IS DISCONTINUED.
Cause ol Increase In Deaths at
State Institution at Lincoln.
One reason given for the large
numlcr of deaths that have occured
among the inmates of the Lincoln
asylum is that no training school is
conducted there now as was formerly
Before the present administration
took charge of the state institution it
was customary every morning at the
Lincoln asylum for the head nurse
to assemble her assistants and give
them a lecture on how to do their
work and care for patients. This was
discontinued r under the present (ad
ministration and no school of instruc
tion is now maintained. Report from
the institution are that during the
last month the death rate has been
exceptionally high.
Livingston Loan Elect OHIceis
The Livingston Loan & Building
THE TAILOR'S SONG
Fit out at Frank's get a suit up to date,
Right in the fashion of woolens first rate.
A suit that will fit goods sound as a bell,
No outside shops will fit you as well,
Keep track of Mac's good value he sells.
lYIac builds good clothes garments all neat,
Chicago's ready made agents cannot compete.
Examine his line and prices all through,
Look him up for a suit, saves money for you.
Reliable goods, all through his line,
Order a suit for the on coming spring time,
You find value for money here every time.
F.
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YARDS AT
PLATTSMOUTH, - - MYNARD, .
NEBRASKA.
Association held its annual election
of officers last evening. D. B. Smith was
was elected president to succeed him
self, C. A. Marshall, Vice president,
Carl Fricke treasurer and Henry
R. Gering secretary. Directors were
chosen as lollows: D. B. Smith,
C. . Marshall and Henry Hcrold.
Tom Walling was elected solicitor.
The concern is in a prosperous con
dition having just closed a very
successful year. This institution is,
one of the strong financial concerns
of the city and merit the patronage
of its friends.
NO WONDER HE
SHOWS HIS TEETH
The Kind ol Meat Which Teddy
Eats Three Times a Day.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Putrid
meat is the "swell things" in the diet
of certain fashionable people in Wash
ington. Unless it is ready to fall to
pieces, the "real nobs" of the smart
set won't cat it at all.
This sort of meat was served at tho
white house during the Roosevelt ad
ministration, according to testimony
given today by Food Inspector Dodge
before the house committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia, which is trying to
find out why it costs so much to eat
in the capital city.
Dodge testified that one day when
he was about to condemn a big chunk
of bad beef, the butcher begged him
to hold off. -
"There's a footman outside waiting
for a roast off that meat right now,"
said the meat seller.
Concerning the meat served to Pres
ident Roosevelt, Dodge said that the
steward was in the habit of buying
beef by the quarter.
The quarters would be hung up in
the open, Dodge said, and President
Roosevelt would visit every morning:
poke his finger in it and not allow it
to be used until it was "nice and ripe."
Representative Johnson (rep. Ky.)
characterized that kind of diet as a
gratification of canine appetite and
asked Dodge if the "butcher kept this
same meat in the same box with that
intended for civilized people." Dodge,
thought they did.
Robert Hampton Locates Here.
Robert Hampton, the gentleman
mentioned in Mondays' issue of the
News has concluded to open up his
establishment is Plattsmouth. He
has rented, the ' buildjng of Main
between Fourth and Fifth streets
formerly occupied by H. G. Vanllorn's
music store. Mr. Hampton does
cleaning and coloring. He is an ex
pert cleaner, and can take any kind
of fabric and make it look like new.
We suggest some politiciens we know
take their linin there.
Material
LIME, ETC.
- NEBRASKA.