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republicans have always done in : the I". S. senate and hear the word
this state. The republicans have "liar" bandied about by these no.'.-
I l-en led around by the nose so long em cay senators ne wouia mar.N
by the railroads that it con-.es with j his stars he lived before the days of
roor crace tor them to talk of ' the Great American Trusts.
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The Vaics s! Dex3:n:j.
I're-ident Kootve'.t. first and Iat.
.i' stolen a ood deal of democratic
:h l:e i'i e not kr-.ow
iv to n-c. but re; ubli
who inn.inc that the
e no issues left will
f.f.cecv.ve i: t..ev w:.I listen, a
l.ttle to the voice cf tlcr.iocracv now
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resoumlir.g even through t.:e coun
ties of Nebraska.
The notes of democratic doctrine
sound strong and clear and the texts
from the JefTersonian gosjel are
: given out for preachment in
every precinct letween now and
November.
In reaffirming the principles of
Jeffersoniaa democracy the demo
crats of Nebraska do not need to
expand their resolutions with mul
titude of words. The simple men
tion of Jefferson's name in connec-
bosses.
I'm okti NAT! l.Y for l'resideut
Roosevelt, many of the so-called
wild assertions of Senator Tillman
;ire supported by men of well
known standing in the republican
I'arty.
It is said the board of public
lands and building will not inves
tigate the alleged rottenness of the
Norfolk asylum management for
fear that the disclosures may effect
the campaign-
Sl'.NATt K Gr.oKCK L. SlIKI.IH.N
of Nthawka, candidate for the
nomination for governor, will 1
the principal speakers at the old
settlers' picnic at Palmyra, Otoe
county, June 14.
Tin: Lincoln Journal says that
Charles IJryau presented Jioo to
Governor Mickey yesterday as a do
nation from his brother, W. J.
Uryan, for the San Francisco
sufferers, making a total of $200
contributed by Mr. Bryan.
AnofT twenty democratic editors
met in Lincoln yesterday to talk
over the political conditions in Ne
braska. In the evening they en
joyed a banquet at the Windsor,
which was attended by a numWr of
prospective candidates.
Tin: Washington Star reports an
alliance Ik tween President Roose
velt and Senator I'rimrose to defeat
the insurgents in 1'ciinsvlvania and This s a 1' " th(-' ri-ht
Kive the corrupt machine there an- Erection. The merchants of this
ether lease of i.mvr. The ma-1 could emulate the the merchats
Now that the senate committet
has followed the recommendations
of the majority of the engineer ex
perts to build the Panama on the
sea level plan, there should be no
more delay in pushing the work.
There is no doubt that in view of
the danger to locks and dams from
earthquakes, the sea level type is
the only safe one. It may cost a
little more and take a little longer
to build, and those who talked so
much alout making the "dirt fly"
may be disgruntled, but making
haste slowly in a work of this mag
nitude is the only safe policy.
Tin: merchants of Trenton, Mo.,
have taken a practical step in the
direction of road improvement.
They have purchased steel enough
to make four hundred drags, and
this material is given out to the
farmers who will work the road,
free of charge, upon the order of
the rural free delivery carriers
Where there is a bad piece of road
the carrier endeavors to interest the
people in the community to fix it
What active anti-railroad men
Governor Mickey and State Treas
urer Mortensen are, just now, as
they are about to step down and
out. They seem to think now that
the railroads are fearfully under
assessed, which never occurred tojtionwith that of our own William
them in 1903, 19'4 and 1905 when
Jennings Bryan, expresses hostility
they were making the assessment to most of the things that the re-
and were candidates for re-election . publican party has done, is doing or
j wants to do.
At a meeting recently of repub-, Reform of the robber Dingley
licaus in Grand Island, ex-Speaker j tariff is a purpose on which Nebras-
Rouse was endorsed for governor j ka democracy is unanimous and de-
and a committee of one hundred termined. Republicans who claim
leading republicans was selected to
boost the gentleman. One of this
committee named was KditorBuech-
ler of the Independent, but he de
clines to serve and puts up a very
strong argument against being
drafted for this kind of work. The
chief objection Mr. Buechler has
against ex-Speaker Rouse is that
Rouse is notoriously a Burlington
machine man.
chine will need more than ten ad
ministrations to save it from the
wrath of the outraged people.
RtHtHAT.i.T is not the only
phenomenon that can talk in op
posite directions at the same time.
The wireless telegraph ojvrator on
the French steamer La Provence
accomplished that feat on the 27th
of April by talking to people on
loth sides of the Atlantic at once.
Great talkers mav exjn.'Ct imitators.
AVh notice from an exchange that
there is a painful lack of teachers
in the schools of many counties of
the state. This is a good sign. It
indicates that the girls are getting
tired of teaching, and are getting
married. It shows that they are
growing weary of working for
wages and are now going to work
for nothing, or just for the fun of
the thing.
It will le intesesting to notice,
when the republican state plat
forms are promulgated, how far the
republican politicians will follow
President Roosevelt in his proposi
tion to confiscate the proierty of
the very rich. Party organization
must le preserved at all hazard and
the party leader is entitled to full
oliedience or the party machine
will In; worthless.
Ik you are a republican Ikss, look
out for political squalls alwut No
vember, is the way the prognosti
cations in the jolitical almanac are
warning the g. o. p. The advice
to democrats is to get together on
essentials and lay aside factional
quarrels, The democrat that for
selfish reasons is trying to disrupt
the party at this time should le
warned to desist and advised that
only those who fight for the getter
al welfare can expect consideration
and reward hereafter.
Ik one-half that has lieen said
regarding the abuses in the insane
asylum at Norfolk is true, there
should le a general house-cleaning
at that establishment. There is a
tendency upon the part of a great
many men who are in the employ
of the state, to outgrow their jobs
Men who are employed as attend
ants too ofter rise iu their own
opinion alwve their business, and
instead of King kind and consid
erate of those who are placed h
of the Missouri town with profit
We need good, roads, and to much
cannot be said in this behalf.
Tin: Roosevelt administration
will soon come to be known as the
great compromisers, for in addition
to compromising on the railroad
rate bill and trying to compromise
on the statehood bill, it is now pro
posed by Secretary Taft to compro
mise w ith the senate on the Phillip
pine tariff bill, by raising the rate
of duties to 50 jer cent of the
regular rates instead of 25 per cent.
Can enyone give a fair reason why
the people of the Philippines should
le taxed 5 per cent and the Porto
Ricans and Hawaiians have free
trade with the United States, ex
cept that the tobacco trust and the
sugar trust and the rice trust say
so?
John N. Baldwin of the Union
Pacific railroad says of the rate bill:
"I Ulieve the bill as adopted with
its amendments is going to give
satisfaction to all concerned." Com
ment is unnecessary. It is easy to
draw our own conclusions of the
bill if it satisfies the railroads
And it surely does, for Mr. Bald
w in is a railroad man and speaks
by the card. But we have not yet
heard whether the bill suits the
other people concerned the ship
pers and consumers. We do not
believe Mr. Baldwin is authorized
to speak for them, and we shall
wait until we hear from both sides
before we determine whether the
bill gives satisfaction to "all con
cerned."
Thk local railroad attorneys have
flooded the U. S. Senate with tele
grams demanding that they be ex
cepted from the anti-pass proviso
of the railroad rate bill. These
local railroad attorneys rarely have
any legal business kfore the courts
for the railroads; unless it is a "cow-
case." They are political agents
to see that "safe and sane" men
are elected to the legislature am1
congress and are more detriinenta
to the tropic's interest than anv
other of the railroad officials. Cut
ting off their railroad passes reduces
their opjortunity of mischief and
voters of all parties should watch
the actions of their senators and
representatives on this important
matter, for it will indicate more
than anything else if they are real-
Tin: republicans of the Tenth
Iowa congressional district, at their
convention, endorsed Gov. Cum
mins and his position on railroad
rate legislation and tariff reform.
This district being the home ot Sec
retary Shaw it virtually knocks out
that gentleman from controlling the
state and probably will result i::
retiring him as a candidate for
president. Standpatters in oth-
r states should take notice and pre
pare for the coming tariff reform
cvclone.
that the tariff should be revised by
its "friends" are reminded that
they have put it off too long, and
that the democratic party is the only
friend of the right kind of tariff.
Hostility to trusts and monopo
lies in restraint of trade, hostility
to machine methods and boss rule
in politics, loyalty to representative
government freely exercised are ele
mental parts of the JefTersonian
democracy whose voice is heard all
through Nebraska just now.
State and national conventions
may expand upon issues, but all the
issues the democracy contends for
in the opening campaign are cover
ed by the single JefTersonsiau max
im: "v;ua! rights to all, specia'
privileges to none."
their charge, they ticcotne tyrants,
and unfit for their positiotft.. Sift j ly friend of the people or the cor
the abuses and prosecute the guilty. ' porations.
Republicans Won't Stand For It.
The republican majority of the
louse Committee on election of
president, vice-president and mem-
kts of congress, very naturally
voted to drop, like a hot baked po
tato, consideration of the bill for
publicity of campaign contributions.
They decided it was loosely drawn,
jut it was probably tight enough,
if enacted into law, to have afford
ed considerable inconvenience and
perplexity to the chairman of the
republican congressional commit
tee, who will receive contributions
this summer and fall, from sources
he would not care to disclose
When the sugar trust produces its
sweet donation, and the steel trust
disgourges some of its tariiT plund
er, and the coal trust, through
Brother Baer, or some of the other
God entrusted coal barons, "conies
down with the dust," it would bo
awkward to publish these facts to
the world. The reason for the re
fusal of the republican majority in
congress to revise the tariff that
shelters trusts would be too plain
for even the most rock rib!ed, but
obtuse, republican voters to en
dorse. Of course the intelligent
voter has observed the evidence
that has been published from au
thentic sources, that the trusts and
corporations have furnished mil
lions to keep the standpatters in
power and that even the funds that
should have been sacred to the
widows and orphans of life insur
ance jolicy holders were illegally
and feloniously diverted to the
same corrupt purpose. It is true
that President Roosevelt denied, in
the closing days of the last nation
al campaign, that the republican
national committee had received
such contributions, but neverthe
less his victory at the polls is stil
clouded by these tainted millions
and no restitution has lecn made
No wonder, than, that the re
publican politicians unite in refus
ing to consider a bill that make
contributions from such tainted
sources almost impossible. Future
republican committees would In: at
the starving point under such cir
ctirastancc.
A Trust Object Lesson.
The Standard Oil clique appears
to have made money out of the
presidentV'Standard Oil message"
for they had the advantage of ad
vance copies of the message and the
Garfield report from some unex
plained source, probably from the
newspapers they control. This en
abled them to sell the market in
advance and then when the message
and report were sent to congress
and other people took the bear side
side of the market, the clique
bought back at lower prices the
Standard Oil specialties they had
sold a few days previously. In
stantly, says the New York Post,
the entire stock market advanced.
It was generally declared in Wall
street that w hen the message should
''come out" the Standard Oil clique
would give the administration an
object lesson" that Standard Oil
stocks were immune from any at
tacks of President Roosevelt, or
any one else. This leaking of
government secrets for the benefit
of the trust is a sample of the care
less, if strenuous, methods of the
Roosevelt administration.
Gf.okok W. Bkrce is now an
out and out candidate for governor.
While the Journal is prepared to
support any man the democrats may
decide upon, we are candid in the
opinion that under all existing cir
cumstances Mr. Berge is the most
available candidate.
The coffin industry of this coun
try is to have another term of ex
ceptional prosperity by reason of an
increased export trade w;.th the
Philippines. The Palujanes trilie
is all to be killed, to say nothing of
our own soldiers who may fall in
performing the ceremony. The
coffin trust industry may yet reach
the magnitude of the steel trust.
Tom Ai.i.kn, chairman of the
democratic state central committee,
and who is a brother-in-law of W.
J. Bryan, says that under no circum
stances will Nebraska's favorite son
be a candidate for senator. He
says, also, that the race for this
honor is between Hitchcock of the
Omaha World-Herald and Thomp
son of Grand Island. For the ben
efit of the party and credit of the
state let it be Hon. G. M. Hitchcock.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which lias been
ia use for over 30 years, Las borne the signature of
and Las been made under Lis per
y , nal supervision 6lnce its infancy.
Ary, -cUcA&i Allownoouetodeoelveyouinthi.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-jrood are but
Experlnieuts that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infant and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotio
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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1 I I II I I I I I I II I II II III B I I T
JOHN BAUER,
The Chicago editor who has been
trying to identify the familiar hoop
snake with the chasing rattler of the
prairies ought to move further away
from the Peoria distilleries.
Kxpatkiatkd Kentuckiaiis need
not be disturled on account of the
denaturized spirits bill. It cannot
possibly ko into effect lefore the
Louisville home-coming jubilee.
Thikty-tiikkk counties in Mis
souri have formally endorsed Uryan
for the nomination for president,
and this in face of the fact that Gov.
Folk of that state is said to K- a
candidate.
Dkm'h r ats should pay no atten
tion to democratic candidates for
governor brought to the front by
the state house ring at Lincoln.
The democrats are abundantly able
to select their own candidates; be
sides the republicans are not in the
habit of mentioning popular dem
ocrats for candidates. They en
deavor to draw attention away from
that fact.
Thk Washington Post declares
that the steel trust has promised to
"sell structural iron in San Fran
cisco as cheaply as it sells that pro
duct abroad," and adds that "the
bill to refund the tariff duty there
fore been put to sleep." With all
due deference to this exclusive in
formation in the Post of the conde
scension and concession of the steel
trust, it is a safe bet that San Fran
cico will be lucky if it can buy steel
at top prices here. Why, to sell
steel in San Francisco at the
same price it is sold abroad,
would defeat the republican candi
dates for congress in every doubt
ful district and put every stand
patter on the defensive. The Post
should know that the protectionists
claim that trust products are not'
sold choaper abroad than here.
