The Plattsmouth Journal
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PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
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Knt-rtl at the pttT1-f at I'latlsrnoutli. Ne
braska. :is vi'omli-htHH matter.
ClovKicNoit Folk of Missouri says:
"I'lcnty of men will die for their coun
try, but thf man who will live for his
city and state evry day in the year i.-
the man tfoix government needs."
Thk New York Kiel sued a heauty
doctor for $2,00 because In trying to
straighten her nose he ruined It, lost
her case. The court takes the ground
that she got her money's worth for
now she; knows better than to trust
beauty dfctors.
How would you like to k to con
gress? There are fifteen active can
didates in this district and two coun
ties to hear from. Lincoln Journal.
And the Journal could have just as
well added, and told the truth, too,
that at least ten of these live in Lan
caster county.
Tiik Journal would like to see an
election this fall just to know what
weight the 'buntflintf legislature"
would tiave upon the result. The peo
ple are not in a mood to be hoodwink
ed so soon again by the party that is
responsible for the many obnoxious
measures passed.
Edwaiid Roskwatek certainly pos
sesses a great amount of gall. Last
fall he was very lukewarm in his sup
port of Governor Mickey, and then, on
account of an ill-feeling toward some
of the present ottice holders in Douglas
county, he goes before the chief execu
tive with a great plea for his veto of
the biennial election law, and gets
greatly enraged because tiis suggestion
was not favorably received. Evidently
Itosey has lost his cunning, and is no
longer the "smooth guy in politics"
that he "used to was."
(ioveu.vok Mickkv vetoed the bill
to erect the plant to make twine.
There is something very funny in this
twine bill transaction. It was a very
popular measure with the public. The
legislature was petitioned right and
lert to p.iss the bill. Finally the bill
did pass both houses practically unani
mous, without resistance from the
lobby. Hut it was not passed until
the last moment, then the legislature
adjourned and left it with the govern
or. and the twine trust knew that the
governor would veto the bill. There
never was a time when a lobby had
its own way with legislative and
governor as it seems to have had in
the 2'.th session. The republican
press of the state was almost unani
nidus for the twine bill, but even that
did not help matters.
The three supreme court commis
sioners have been appointed, and as
usual, Casscoun y didn't get a smell,
although the bill creating these three
positions was concocted and engineered
through the legislature by one of the
Cass county members. This outranks
all common sense usages, and by com
mon consent of the supreme court Cass
county should have been favored with
one of these appointments. Jesse L.
Root, who was an applicant for the
appointment, so far as qualification
go, is the peer of any one of the sue
cessful appointees, and his defeat is a
downright insult to the representative
who introduced the bill at the sugges
tion of the supreme court judges, and
who labored so incessantly for its adop
tion. But, by some hook or crook, Cass
county is eternally "getting it in the
neck."
Ik vol want the legislature to en
act laws along certain lines you bad
better put it down in black and white
before it meets. Last fall you talked
about what you did not want done
the repeal of the revenue law but
two years hence you may be a little
more definite in your demands as to
what you ix want. There is no doubt
but that some excellent laws were
passed this winter, but not many of
them were of a character to attract
any very widespread attention on the
part of the public, as was the case
when the revenue bill became a law.
As a matter of fact there was consid
erable speculation as to what there
was to do. One thing is certain,
there was very little, if any, of what
mi.' lit be termed vicious legislation
enacted. livening News.
The foregoing is a fair measure of
the standard of morals possessed by
the "Get Rich Quick" editor of the!
News. Led by the .State Journal and
Hoc, the intelligent republican press
of Nebraska protest against the; be
trayal of their party by the late legis
lature, in the interest of the railway
corporations of the state. An act to
promote train robbery by that repub
lican body would probaoly receive his
approval. The acts of omission on
the part of the populist legislatures
some years ago will always serve
with that eminent journalist as an
excuse for republican betrayal of the
people. Of course be doesn't see any
thing oat of the way with the refusal
of that legislature to give the people
"A square deal." Ob, what a dam-phool!
It is said that 71,000 fourth class
postmasters will be discharged this
summer but there are more than 171,
000 good republicans waiting to till
their places.
Akmy otlicers in the Philippines are
subject to a disease called "I'hilippin
it is" which is caused by too rreiueiit
visits to the shark money lenders. The
jM-ople of t his country need have no
fear that the government junketing
party that goes there this summer will
be exposed to infection The Philip
pine government pays all the expenses.
Was it anything like '-taking the
judiciary out of politics" when an em
inent jurist like Judge Sullivan was
sidetracked for a man like IJarnes
with nothing to recommend him but
that he was a good republican. To the
four winds of heaven with such bosh
as "taking the judiciary out of poli
tics," when it comes to a comparison
of these two men.
We met two republ icanson the street
the other day. "surrounded by a num
ber of listeners. One was an office
holder and the other was a prominent
farmer and a large taxpayer. That
farmer was giving that office-holder a
severe tongue-lashing about the way
our law-makers had done during the
last session of the legislature. He was
loud in liis utterances,' and among
other things said: "You fellows think
as you always have thought, that the
republican farmers of Cass county will
overlook, as usual, the serious mis
takes that our party bosses have made,
but it has gone too far. They have
abused our confidence, and we will
never forget their un worthiness asser
vants of the common people." And
he is right. There are many honest
republican farmers of this county who
have made up their minds that they
will not tolerate the actions of the
party leaders, and when opportunity
affords will let them know it in no un
certain tone.
With the distinguished occupant of
the white house hunting ferocious ani
mals in the western wilds, and the sec
retary of state cruising in the Medi
terranean, the government is running
by acquired momentum in its accus
tomed grooves. There are a few hun
dred clerks in Washington who are the
masters and the slaves of routine.
Through them the government re
volves like a planet in a frictionless
ether. Revenues are collected, supplies
are paid for, employees are paid otT,
the mails are received and distributed,
patents, pensions and trade marks are
issued, investigations are made by the
departments of agriculture and of
commerce and labor, the army and
navy (the big stick) peacefully prac
tice in times of peace the arts of war
More and more it is forced upon us
that we are a big country and if it were
true two thousand years ago that "no
man liveth to himself and no man
dieth to himself," how much truer
must it be of the heirs of the ages
equipped with the gun powder, steam,
lightning and printing presses. We
believe that Cuba, the Philippines and
even Spain have been benefitted by the
peace which we compelled, and that
San Domingo has been helped to an
era or interim of peace and honesty
through administrative interference.
The Monroe doctrine, first proclaimed
when we had not a tithe of our pres
ent strength, has assumed a broader
significance and acquiescence.
"Hill the People Forget?'
In talking about the late defunct
and rotten legislature last Saturday, a
republican farmer, addressing one of
the party office holders, said: "Do you
suppose the farmers and all other vo
ters who believe in fair and square leg
islation, are going to soon forget the
acts of the last legislature? No, sir,
they are talking everywhere about
their infamous acts, and will continue
to do so until honest and reliable men
are sent to represent the people in the
legislative balls of the imperial state
of Nebraska. Will they forget? Not
much. The farmers of Cass county
won't stand to be humbugged any
longer."
This is the sentiment everywhere.
not only in Cass county, but all over
the state. The farmers and the com
mon people are aroused, and declare
they will not be trampled upon by the
tools of the railroads and other com
binations any longer. With impunity
this has been done right along by the
men who have been elected by the votes
of the people to do the bidding of the
railroads and other professional lob
byists. It is a well known fact that
the late legislature is. a disgrace to
the state, and in many instances, it is
remarked, that the members on leav
ing Lincoln acknowledged that they
felt more like taking to the woods
than returning home to face their con
stituents. Rut, then, the leaders of the repub
lican party, in the event that no elec
tion is held this year, expect the peo
ple to forget the acts of the legislature
ere another year rolls around. This is
one hope they entertain. In this they
take the people to be a set of dam
phools, and that they will forget and
do the same as they have always done
vote the straight ticket, "right or
wrong."
"Will the people forget?"
Dust Democracy Die and Corn Again ?
"Theodore Roosevelt will be re
nominated for President of the United
State in 1Si)K, and he will be re-elected
Through his domination of his party
organization and his control of the
Rust Office Department, Mr. Roosevelt
already has the nomination in his own
hand. There uill be no trouble about
obtaining a majority of the delegates
in the national convention. He will
be re-elected-noL merely because he
is ihe idol of the people or on account
of his virtues or by reason of the mis
takes that add to his popularity, but
because there will be no real oppsi-
tion. The Democratic party is and
will be hopelessly divided against
itself."
This is a literal extract from the
New York World in whose editoria
columns were the ablest written advo
cates of Alton R. Parker in the last
national campaign.
It is an editorial utterance delib
erate, definite and stated without
limitations as the judgment of one of
the most influential of the great
American newspapers which generally
supports the democratic party and its
candidates.
The World usually trains with the
ultra-conservative or eastern wing of
the democracy, and its views may be
reasonably construed as representing
in a large degree the attitude and
opinion of eastern democrats. This
makes the utterance significant and
especially worthy of note.
It is exactly the political position
foreshadowed in the pessimistic pro
phecy of the World which has been in
my mind as an apprehension since the
election and which has been the in
spiration of a majority of the letters
which I have contributed to the dis
cussion.
An utterance like this from a source
like this is enough to challenge every
democratic voter in America to ser
ious thought and to vigorous action.
There is no doubt that President
Roosevelt is riding the crest of the
popular wave at this time. Even the
south is relaxing if it has not already
relaxed the prejudices aroused by his
negro appointments, and there are
democrats all over the country who
are thinking and saying, in view of
the president's courageous and vigor
ous administration, that Roosevelt is
a better democrat than Parker.
The president's party, if not sympa
thetic, is at least quiescent, either
through astonishment or timidity,
and he is going straight forward in a
great career.
Now. what are we doing in demo
cratic ranks? Wrangling, as usual,
with unabated ferocity. The easte rn
democrats are eagerly urging William
J. Rryan to break away from his en
gagement with the Iroquois club in
Chicago and to come instead to the
Jefferson dinner in New York. To
this insistent invitation they are add
ing the questionable entreaty, "But
if you don't come to us, for God's sake
don't tie up with those radical demo
crats in Chicago."
Where is the hope of harmony in an
attitude like this?
There in congress we saw John
Sharp Williams, leading the demo
cratic minority, deliberately turn his
back upon the best and soundest
railroad reform bill that the genera
tion has produced, and commit his
party to a hasty and imperfect meas
ure which needed constant amend
ment, for no other ostensible reason
than that he was unwilling that the
credit for this vital reform measure
should go to William R. Hearst, who
had already done a Titan's work in
effective democratic warfare against
the trusts and the public grafts of the
time.
And where do we find the hope of
getting together in a spirit like this?
The eastern democrats are even
now coquetting shrewdly with the
rising fortunes of .Joe Folk, of Mis
souri, who has had the good sense to
hear their blandishments, to eat at
their banquets and to hold his tongue.
And out yonder in the great wide
territory of the central west there
are hundreds of thousands of the same
sturdy democrats who stayed away
from the polls at the last election,
just waiting grimly to see what the
democratic party of their faith and
the democratic party of their fathers
is going to do.
It may just as well be repeated here
that the difference between the wide
wings of the old democratic organiza
tion is deeper and wider than the
difference between the platforms of
the two opposing parties in the last
campaign.
How are we going to get them to
gether? j
Now this, if ever, is a time for plain
speech and definite understandings.
There is no need for any man to be
afraid to speak his mind. The next
campaign is three years away, and
this interval must be filled full with
the frankest and freest agitation a
great party has ever known.
Faithful are the words of a friend,
and that Democrat is most loyal and
most worthy who does not hesitate in
this vital period to criticise, to chal
lenge and demand. If the Democratic
party has any chance In the next elec
tion, it lies in the complete separation
of itself from the Republican party,
with which it has grown too intimate
And we cannot separate from the Re
publican party until we separate from
the Republican Democrats who hav
led us into bad company.
Let the fellows who do not lieliev
in the things for which Democracy
stand go away to some other party
Don't be afraid to let them go. F
every man who deserts the party of
the people because it stands for the
people there will be found a hundrec
to come in.
We are now compelled to separate
the democratic democracy from the
plutocratic democracy. Oil and wate
will not mix. The democrat ic party
cannot any longer survive half-pluto
cratic and half democratic.
It is high time for a reorganization
of parties in the republic, anyhow
There are democrats who ought to be
rapublicans, and republicans wiio
ought to be democrats. Let these men
find their political level. Let them
seek the camps to which they belong
Don't be afraid. Go where your con
victions leads you. If you are not a
democrat, don't be false to your po
litical conscience but go right on into
the republican camp. If you are not
a republican and your interests lie
with the democratic party, come right
in to the fellowship of your real faith
and your evident welfare. The curse
of all parties is the compulsory loyalty
that comes from environment or her
edity. The democracy and the plu
tocracy have the great battle which
must be fought out. Let us fight it
honestly and have no half-hearted or
lukewarm followers in either camp.
There is no use to get mad about it
There is no way to drive the republi
can democrats out of the party. The
only thing to do is to commit the party
to principles and platforms so essen
tially democratic that their fellows
will have neither motive nor excuse
for remaining.
We will never have a real demo
cratic party representing the majority
of the American voters until these
fellows go.
We can never sail into port until we
unload this ballast.
I have sometimes asked myself
whether the democratic party must
die before it can be born again.
I might find it easy to quote history
to prove that no party so radically di
vided as ours ever came into effective
harmony again without a burial or a
revolution. It was so with the Free
Soil party. It was so with the demo
cratic party which split into frag
ments at the Charleston convention
of 18G0 and never came together until
a ciwil revolution had washed away
its antagonisms in blood.
Rut we cannot afford to die now
The south is held intact by the shadow
of a negro balance of power, real or
imaginary. The party at large is held
together by the fact that the real de
mocracy is essential to individual and
popular liberty, and because no other
party of possible relief looms upon the
horizon except in creeds so radica
that the thought aud judgment of the
people is not ready to receive it.
And we must not die now. The
democratic party is worth fighting for
and worth living for. Its principles
can never die, ana its organization
along normal and traditional lines is
too vital to the people and their
interests.
Least of all can we who love 'the
grand old party stand by and see it go
down to even temporary disintegration
without a brave and honest effort to
reform its broken lines, to redeem its
drift from the faith of the fathers, to
bring it back to the old creeds of the
people, to rebuke its enemies within
its ranks, and at the cost of all the
truth, and all the courage, and all the
criticism which its errors may require,
to rally once more the great people
who are its faithful followers, and to
carry it once more to wholesome and
glorious victory.
John Temple Graves.
Merited Compliment.
The Journal is alwas willing to give
credit to whom credit is due, and as
the legislature is to adjourn this week.
we want to say that the people of Cass
county should feel proud of their rep
resentative in thesenate. A republican
though he be, Hon. George Sheldon
las proved himself a peer of any mem
ber of that body, and deserves great
praise for the record he has made. No
man has worked harder to maintain
the dignity of that body. Plattsmouth
Journal.
Every person who knows Capt. Geo.
L. Sheldon, knows he merits all the
good things said of him. and the opin
ion of the Journal (the democratic
official organ) carries more than ordin
ary weight when it compliments a re
publican. Now we want Col. Rates
to remember that he must not under
take to do any "hedging" on his opin-
on when Capl. Sheldon is nominated
for governor to succeed Gov. Mickey.
Union Ledger.
The Journal was never guilty of
"hedging," and it is too old to begin
such an unpardonable sin at this late
date. We meant every word we said
about Senator Sheldon, and it would
be such a God-send to the people of
Nebraska to have a governor with the
backbone he possesses, that you won't
find us shedding any tears if he is
nominated and elected to the highest
position in the gift of the people of the
state. He would be such a great im
provement over the governors we have
bad the past few years that the Jour
nal would feel more like rejoicing. 1
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