The Plattsmouth Journal
11 HI.l H K.l KKKI.Y AT
I'LATTS MOUTH, NEUKASK A.
Tin: htest reports from the S.i:i i
l-'rancico i!is.itcr pl icc the r.utr.U-r
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,.. I l'raiH'iiD v.i.:Vkts i! wo u-tc ::ot
iMiic that he vi!Ita thv cot;-'.i:::vr.s
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' ot oh to pay t.ie money.
Tin: postmaster general has is- 1
snetl a notiee that all rural mail Tin: nearer the approach of the
earners have the rieht of way on all Omaha municipal election, the
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lir.iskll. IK Ki'tMIl.li'lusH InuttiT.
county roads, and that other car
riages or conveyances must surren
der the right of way to the rural
carriers, so don't hump into the
mail wagon.
Tmk democrats will have the ad
vantage in the campaign this year.
The republicans have taxed the
people to death and will have to de
fend the cause of the most corrupt
and extravagant administration in
the history of Nebraska. This they
cannot do to the' satisfaction of the
voters.
I,i:T the democrats of Nebraska
nominate for governor a man of
both integrity and brains, and make
the campaign upon the party's typ
ical elemental principles, and the
people of the tax-ridden state may
witness the downfall of the repub
lican ring in Lincoln, which has
been instrumental in sapping the
very life-blood from the common
people through a system of increas
ing taxation.
Tin- flaunting of the "bloody
shirt" is a thing of the past, the
liluc and (ircy comingle in reunions
while Corporal Tanner, rand Com
mander of the (J. A. K., is visiting
with Confederates in the south, and
all the bad feeling engendered by
the civil war cemented with ever
lasting friendship, what has the g. o.
j), in store for an issue except the
protection of robbing trusts through
a fraudulent ptetective tariff.
It is not the purpose of The
Democrat to write at great length
to state an important fact nor is it
neccessarv to do so. Adams conn
ty democrats will present to the
next state convention as a candi
date for state treasurer, Dr. Frank
Uabcock, of Adams county, the
present treasurer, serving a second
term. With a complete ticket com
posed of men as well fitted for place
and like standing, there need be
no doubt as to results. Hastings
Democrat.
more positive the success of Jim
Dahhuan becomes. The republi
cans haven't forgotten how hard
Hensoti tried to defeat the deceased
Mayor Moores two years ago
by running as an independent
candidate. Dahlman is a hustler,
and the independent voters have
great confidence in his abilities to
make a fine chief executive for the
metropolis.
Tin: country is safe and is likely
to continue safe as long as a demo
cratic ticket can be elected once in
a while. The chances are that the
democrats will carry the elections
of this year and capture the presi
dency in ln.s, in which events the
country will experience a fresh ac
cess of confidence in itself and feel
very much as an ailing person does
who learns from the doctor that he
is in a fair way to vigorous health.
V.vv.s though Chairman Allen
in his convention call, failed to ask
that body to take action on the
question as to how the democratic
candidate for United States senator
shall be selected, the delegates will
no doubt have something to say
about the matter in the convention
just the same. It would have been
just as well for Mr. Allen to have
included this proposition in the call
The Journal is positive that it would
have met with, the approval of the
democratic masses, if not the cher
ished few.
Hon. Ciuoucii W. Hurc.k ran for
governor two years ago on an auti
pass platform, lie made a most
remarkable run, and had it not been
for the extreme popularity of Pres
ident Roosevelt in that campaign
he would be serving as governor of
Nebraska today. As the republi
cans since that campaign have had
so much to say about railroad pass
es and the surrender of the paste
boards held by the state house ring,
why would it not prove the proper
caper for the democrats to renom
inate Mr. Merge on the kind of a
platform he so ably advocated at
that time. On such a platform the
Journal candidly K-lieves Mr.Ucrge
can carrv the entire ticket on to a
glorious and complete victory.
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Ax exchange remarks that gov
ernment ownership, rather than
government control, should be the
watchword of all who sincerely de
sire regulation of railroads." While
it is not at all likely that either of
these conditions will confront the
public soon, we are rather inclined
to Mieve that government control
is preferable to goveenment owner
ship. If the government owns the
roads, it simply adds their opera
tion to the other intricate branches
of the government, and enlarges
the civil service to the extent of a
few hundred thousand moreolVicers
If wholesome laws for the regula
tion of railroads can be passed,
they will correct the evil complained
of. If they cannot be passed and
enforced, then nothing could be
hoped for from government owner
ship, the incentive of life is to
accumulate property, not to hold
office. If we are to have a purely
paternal government, then there is
no incentive in life, but to get into
government employ. Let lis have
o
laws that will regulate and enforce
the laws.
Tin: state of Nebraska has not
been slow to respond to the call for
lid for the sufferers in San Fran
cisco. Manv ot our people remem
ber the call of Nebraska after the
grasshoppers had destroyed their
crops. Many recall the feeling of
genuine satisfaction, when the peo
ple of our sister states sent corn and
food and seed to our fanners. When
calamities come, our heartfelt sym
pathies go out to the stricken peo
ple, but the genuine expression of
sympathy is shown in a form more
substantial than words.
ease one
i ir.-idioiis, and men w ho mean to
Conduct them-elves with hon.sty ;
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j.uni iiisiiu i.i'" ' i.iiui.
iit. "Modern business methods" i
is a sufficiently euphonious te:m to
fool a brik and ambitious m.ii; r.ot
too much given to reflection or self
examination. And all goes well
for a time. The bank account in
creases; the man feels himself to be
shrewd and influential; he is able to
put his family "at the top of the
heap;" honors come easily to him,
and young men are flattered to be
associated with him in business.
Then the exposure comes. Those
that have trusted him know him
for what he is; his own specious
plea of "the modern business meth
od" sounds strangely inadequate
even to himself. I lis name, which
he hoped to see associated in the
minds of men with great enterprises,
and which he expected his sons to
use as a sort of "open seasame,"
becomes, suddenly, the synonym
for dishonesty, greed and failure.
The grafter has, perhaps, thought
himself hardened. lie finds, to his
dismay, that he is not. Shame
awakens; conscience no longer
sleeps. The dreams of his ambi
tious youth come 'to haunt him.
He would give his fortune, many
times duplicated, for the innocence
and integrity of his early manhood.
He is not a bad man he can suffer,
he can be ashamed, he can long for
innocence. Perhaps, on reflection,
there are no bad men. At anyrate,
the grafter has shown himself capa
ble of dying broken-hearted, or of
going, a melancholy lunatic, to the
asylum for the insane. His career
requires stern metal. Let him who
enters it be sure that his conscience
is dead, his family pride buried, his
self-respect quenched, and that lie
is obdurate to the reproachful tears
of the women who love him! Hav
ing made quite, quite sure of all
this, one might adopt a grafting
career in an expectant spirit. Reader.
Tins is the proper time for every
body to put their shoulder to the
wheel and assist the city adminis
tration in doing something that w ill
result in more substantial improve
ments this season.
SixKKTARY Shaw in his speech
the other night in St. Louis said
that the democratic party had neith
er policy nor principles. If Mr.
Shaw should be so unfortunate as to
get the republican nomination for
president in 190S, he will find the
democratic party has enough of both
to down him.
The republicans have already
started all kinds of stories and are
making all kinds of promises that
tend toward pulling the wool over
the eyes of the voters. They be
come more desperate as the cam
approaches, and realize the fact
that they are standing on danger
ous ground.
Tin; state officials to be voted for
at the November election are gov
ernor, lieutenant governor, secre
tary of state, treasurer, auditor,
attorney general, commissioner of
public lands and buildings, super
intendent of schools and three rail
road commissioners.
A Lincoln preacher figured out
last Sunday that the San Fran
cisco horror was a providential pun
ishment because it was the wicked
est city on the continent. That
sort of talk would inflate most any
reasonable person with disgust. If
the Almighty was looking for a
city to punish for its pure cussed
ness He would certainly make a
visitation to the capital of Nebras
ka. But such talk is pure balderdash.
Tiii;kk are some things that
nothing can stop, not even an earth
quake, and that is the "infant in-
dustrv." Thirtv-two babies were
)om in one day in camps around
San Francisco. In the language of
President Roosevelt, "let the good
work go on."
Kkni:st M. Pou.akp is asking
for a second term as congressman
and, according to all precedents,
he is entitled to it. He has made
his short term count for the fann
ers of his district, and from his ef
forts they may expect that a reason
able time in the house will enable
him to do great things for them.
It will depend upon the farmers of
the district to sec that he gets the
nomination. If they desire to be
represented by a man working for
their interests they should send
delegations to the convention who
will In? for Pollard. Falls City
Journal.
Pkksidknt Rooskvklt made no
mistake in notifying, with thanks,
the representatives of foreign gov
ernments that America needs no
help in taking care of its own in
California. The highly organized
machinery of American civilization,
with marvelous adaptability and in
response to an impulse as wide
spread as the nation, has concen
trated itself upon the task of reliev
ing the distress caused by earth
quake and fire, From Los Auge
les, from Portland, .Seattle and
other uninjured cities of the coast,
aid sufficient to last for the first few
davs has been sent into the stricken
cities, and the supplies that will
carry on the good work are daily
going forward by trainloads from
Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha and
Denver. The world has never wit
nessed a more lilcral outpouring of
aid for the victims of calamity than
that which has come in response to
the news of the earthquake of five
days ago. No appeals for aid have
leen necessary. The one spur to
giving has leen the simple publi
cation of the news that the cities
of California were in distress.
Chairman Allen displayed wis
dom in calling the democratic state
convention to meet a week pre
vious to the republican convention
Democrats should always lead, and
let the republicans follow, as that
party has done in many instances
by adopting principles advocated
by the greatest living statesman,
Hon. William Jennings P.ryan.
A new state committee will be
selected at the democratic conveii
tion August 15. It is to be hoped
that care will betaken to select men
who will at least give a portion of
their time to the duties required of
one in that position. If they don't
want to thus serve they have no
business to attempt to represent
their district in the counsels of said
committee.
Till': Omaha News is doing good
work for Jim Dahlraan, but not in
tentionally, however. The voters
of Omaha have very little faith, po
litically speaking, in such papers
as the News.
The man whosurvived the Johns
town flood, came unscathed through
the dalvaston disaster, and was
pitched headlong down two stories
by the collapsing of a staircase in a
S.in Francisco hotel, sustaining only
a few minor bruises, will begin to
wonder whether the fates have
singled him out for destruction, or
whether he bears a charmed life.
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Tin'. Lincoln Star, republican
wants to know if the democratic
party is more competent than the
republican party to revise the tariff
It all depends. If by "revision
meant making a tariff in the inter
ests of the people, yes; if it means
revising the tariff in the furtherance
of tariff graft on the part of the
tariff-fed trusts, then the republican
party is it by long practice, Com
moner.
Chairman Allen has called the
democratic state convention to meet
in Lincoln on Wednesday, August
15. The basis of representation is
placed at one delegate at large from
each county, and one additional
delegate for every 100 votes or frac
tion thereof cast for Hon. W. 0.
Hastings for supreme judge in 1905.
According to this ratio Cass county
is entitled to 19 delegetes. The
call says not a word regarding the
nomination of a candidate for Uni
ted States senator.
Old Joe Cannon for president!
Wouldn't that cork you ? That's the
talk now in Washington. But as
the democrats are more than likely
to elect the next house, mavbe it
might be prudent for Uncle Joe not
to drive the presidential bee entire
ly beyond the buzzing limit. The
music of the busy little insect might
amuse him in the davs of his retire
ment, especially if a democrat
should get himself elected to the
Sixtieth congress from the Fight
eenth Illinois district. And what
has happened once may happen
again.
Republican radicalism concedes
the truth of almost every vital
principle of democracy; it even
goes so far as to admit democracy's
tariff demands. The tariff, if giv
en into the hands of democrats to
revise, would not undergo any
greater alterations than the Repub
lican prorevisionists demand. The
democracy's time-established posi
tion toward the trusts is copied ex
actly in the attitude of the republi
cans who have broken away from
their old regime. A party imita
ting the democratic party but call
ing itself republican, cannot exist
at the same time that the democ
ratic party exists. The people
would prefer the real thing to the
pretense. The republican party
cannot get away from itself or its
past. The fact that it is trying to
do so, the fact that the ablest and
most vigorous politicians of the
party are trying to shake off the
old character, damns the old char
acter. They cannot keep the name
without keeping the character.
The fact that they are endeavoring
to become democrats under another
name, and to some extent under
false pretenses, proves conclusively
that the nation is democratic in
this year 1906.
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