The Plattsmouth Journal
11 IlI.I.sllK.U I K.KLY AT
I'LATTSMOUTII. NEBKASKA.
K. A. HATKS, I'l ni.iMiKK.
Ilt.-r.'il lit I III' l.".llllll. l-III riiilt-.inoulh.Ni-liriiskii.
ii-. M-.-iiiiili-lii-t iimiu-r.
It w.isa "cordial" welcome that
Kentucky extended to her home
coming sons.
Tin- young German nobleman
who is to marry Miss Krupp seems
destined to liecome a bin gt-
Pkkhai'S it is only nature that
Mr. Rockefeller should choose to
rest Wide a lake stocked with gold
fish.
IIwinv. informed us all about
"The Destiny of the Race" the
sweet Kill graduate will now look
around for a young man upon whom
to hinge her own.
Di mock Vis of Nebraska can
uietly observed with great s.ttis-
f.tctiou, the rapidly changing senti
ment in the east in favor of Hryon,
ten years alter they made the fiRht
for him in the Chicago convention.
I,et the east do the shouting now.
Republican Inconststeacj. ! senators dj oireci vote
The republicans of the present 1'kouaisky the nearest approach
day have forgotten what the found-1 yet made to the election of I'nited
ers of their party declared in IS'-", ! States senators bv direct vote of the
Kinc l'.DWAKD. having sat by
her side at a ban-pict, will hence-
forth beakeeii rivelof Hen Itoltin re-
inembering sweet Alice.
when they were seeking the approv-
' Tin- foolish season isa bit late in
arriving this season, but it is here
Indian girl put her name in a crate
of e:mt:iloutes. nttsburg "nil
found it. Kngagciueut announced
Wiii-n l'rancis Hall and Dockery
drive the "band wagon" and warmly
indorse Folk's administration and
whoop it up for ltryan for l')OS, it
shows that the democrats are all pull
ing together, and there'll be "some
thin' tloin' " in Missouri in Novem
ber. And now the sword of Damocles
has been suspended over the beef
packers; but it will not be allowed
to strike the heads of those worthies
unless they fail to contribute to the
corruption fund next fall. The big
stick and the the policeman's billy
arc the instruments that bringresults
in the race for boodle.
Ili-ATKiui Si n: We see by some
of the state papers that there is like
ly to 1e friction between Hichsock
and Hryan. .However, we see this
mostly in the partisan press which
is opposed to both. We have seen
nathing in Mr. Hichcocks paper
to indicate such a condition.
Tiik mint crop is blooming in the
Blue Crass country, a statue of the
author of " My( )ld Kentucky I lome' '
awaits unveiling at Louisville,
and as the Kentucky exiles take up
their pilgrimage, the comforting
thought goes with them that there
will be no denatun.iug ot Ken
tucky's favorite product he for
next year.
Conv.ki-ss cut the 5J5,0(mi item
out of the appropriation bill to pay
railroad fair for the president. Mr.
oosevelt immediately sent a nics
ige to cougressthat it ought topro-
ide traveling expenses for him
Congress has just discovered that it
is no constitutional right to ap
ropi iate public funds for the presi
nt's pleasure.
to
moot's seat is safe until next
winter. The senate committee on
privileges andelections has postpon
ed further action until after the fall
elections. What a fine thing it is
to Ik.' a polygamist and a republi
can senator at the same time. Sen
ator liurtou of Kansas should get
a few more wives, and have them
on hand when the supreme court
takes up hisapplication for a rehear
iug.
Tin-: beef trust investigation will
bring disaster to the western cattle
breeders. It is a step in the right
direction, but as is usual, the inno
cent will suffer. In the end it will
1e a blessing in disguise. The
beef trust hides behind a tariff tax
on cattle atul hnles. 1 lie average
farmer can't see it in that light now,
ibut the time is coming when h
will be able to see it in the darkest
midnight hour of life.
Did it ever occur to you that al
ic republicans who are so popular
todav have become so bv advoca
iug democratic principles? Koose
elt's Donularitv is due solelv
lis stand against corporations, like
wise I.aKollcttc.IIadlcy and others,
ami let it be remembered that it
was a democrat, Ceneral Nelson A.
Miles, who first exposed the cm-
aimed beef scandal.
Wiii:n Judge Parker charge.
that the insurance companies and
other big corporations were contri
Imtiug monev to Roosevelt's elec
tion that gentleman denied it an
characterised the author ns a liar
Hut now the insurance companies
are admitting under oath that what
Parker said was true to the letter
Hut you don't hear from Teddy
He has Ken treed. How can tin
people have respect for a man who
characterizes evervone as a liar who
differs with hi in and is in turn prov
en a prevaricator himself? He lion
est and answer.
people was the choice by the voters
d of the American people. Atth.it of Oregon of Hourne for senator in
tune they did not attribute tlie j the general election of Monday last,
growth and prosperity of the nation ; in the Southern states the custom
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to protectionism as they now do,
lit to the true causes of both that
is, to the union of the states and the
consequent freedom of trade among
them. They declared: "That to
the union of the states this nation
owes its unprecedented increase in
populaiton, its surprising develop
ment of material resources, its rapid
augmentation of wealth, its happy-
ness at home and its honor abroad . ' '
This wise declaratoon has been
studiously avoided in all its recent
platforms, and the exact contrary
asserted. In 1 89-', the party said We
maintain that the prosperous con
dition of our country is due to the
wise revenue legislation of the last
republican congress."
For a generation" or more the ad
vocates of protectionism who con
trol that party and plunder people
of all parties, have ascribed thecon
tinuanccof prosperity to its own leg
islation; thus giving the lie direct to
the republicans of I860. What in -ingrates
and fakirs the republican
I losses are
t
Disi'ATCiiKS say that the govern
ment at St. Petersburg is helpless.
t always has been. There has lieen
no government in Russia except
the government of fear. So long
as the government could over-awe
the populace he kept in submission.
No government can long stand in
this enlightened age of the world,
that is not based upon the greatest
good to the greatest numlier.
Brooklyn CmzKN.vDcin.): Of
all the leaders in the democratic
party, there is none who is closer
to the people than Hryan. In many
respects he is the typical American.
Not profound, not scholarly, a bril-
iant talker and a thorough kdievcr
n democratic equality. 1 leis much
the same type of man as President
Roosevelt, and the extraordinary
popularity of both is clue tb the fact
that they are tvpical Americans.
IF
If the state govcrmcnt of Ne
baska is as corrupt as Senator Shel
don says it is
If the last Nebraska legislature
was the railroad legislature which
Senator Sheldon says it was
If it be true that the railroads,
and not the people, have been elect
ing senators and congressmen, as
Senator Sheldon says they have
If the combinations of capital
have been dictating prices paid to
Nebraska fanners for their products
as Senator Sheldon says they have
If these horrible conditions have
prevailed in Nebraska, then where
lies the fault? Surely the republican
party must be to blame, because
every state office has for years been
occupied by a republican, and
seven out of ten members of the last
legislature were republicans.
If Senator Sheldon tells the iruth
about the manner in which republi
can officials have leen permitting
the railroads to manage the affairs
of Nebraska, then The Herald sug
gests that it isaltout time to turn the
rascals out. Fremont Herald.
Ni-wYokk Woki.d (Di:m.): Mr
Hryan was never more securely cs
tablished in the leadership of the
democracy than he has been during
his absence from the country. It
would le an extraordinary event in
national politics if the return of the
man who helped divide the demo
cratic party ten years ago should
le the occasion for the reunion of
its warring elements but nothing is
so strange that it may not hapiHMi
in politics.
Fkiknd Ti:i.KC.kaimi( Rep.): It
is rumored that the old machine will
attempt to run the caucuses and
conventions in the interest of the
corporations. Should this be the
ase, there is a probability that the
whole'state may go democratic. It
s by far better to have a little care
and consideration now than a whole
chapter of lamentations later on
l-lemember that there is a whole
brigade of republicans holding office
n this state for whom the people
lave no use, and if the state should
per chance go democratic, the whole
ot will be turned out in the cold
right in the very midst of a col
Nebraska winter. Have a warning
gentlemen; the people are not in a
state to be juggled with this fall.
! Tin: secretary of the treasury i
noted for the looseness of his state
incuts and when' he declare
that: "The democratic party in th
coming election will not demand
free trade. It will simply echo the
Cumtuingscry for revision;" he, as
usual, put his foot in it. The dem
ocrats welcomed all recruits to its
tariff revision standard, especially
such notable ones asCov. Cummins,
I,a Fol'.cttc, Coy. Hoch and Con
gressman McCall and others, who
are for free hides, free coal, and re
ciprocity with Canada and such as
arc willing to help revise the tariff,
so that the trusts will lie compelcd
to sell as cheap to our own people
as to foreigners. Hut "free trade'
is a republican myth which politi
cians of the Shaw caliber used to
deceive their followers as to the real
virtue of democratic tariff reform
Tmk advice of Senator Allison
that his home county of Dubuque
lie divided equally lctween Cum
inius and Perkins in the contest for
governor of Iowa is something of a
tlattcner on Secretary Shaw's stand
pat boomlet for the presidency. I
it is correctly interpreted to mean
that the Washington delegation from
Iowa has abandoned its fight on
Cuiumings, Mr. Shaw might as wel
make up his mind to remain in the
Treasury until relieved by a demo
crat .shortly after March 4, VW)
Fok an organization that is only
fifty years old this month the re
publican party shows extraordinary
symptoms of premature senile d
cav.
Tomorrow is flag day. It might
le well to get the old banner out
and familiarize yourself with the
rlag of your country.
is well established of nominating
the party candidate for senator in
party primaries, Oregon is the
first state in which the candidate
for senator is nominated in the gen
eral election by the same vote which
elects state officers and members of
the legislature.
Barring questions of extraordin
ary personal fitness or unfitness in
the candidates, the Oregon plan
makes the popular vote for senator
as direct as the popular vote for
presidential electors in any state is
direct for the presidential candidate
for whom the successful electoral
candidates are bound by unwritten
law to give their ballots.
InOregonthe same vote which has
elected a republican majority in the
legislature has named the senatorial
candidate for whom every republi
can mcinberof either house is bound
to cast his ballot when the next reg
ular session is convened in January
next.
The Oregon plan , therefore, comes
near meeting the demands of Neb
raska democrats and an amendment
to the constitution of the I'nited
States making senators elective by
direct vote in every state. And as
the constitution of the United States
is not likely to be amended, except
as an incident of some great crisis
in our national affairs, the Oregon
plan is likely in time to be adopted
in Nebraska and other states in
which there is a fixed purpose to
place the election of senators above
and beyond the selfish intrigues,
jargaining and corruption which
sway too many weak members ot
our state legislatures.
By direct primaries, binding upon
every, democratic member of the
egislatures to be chosen this year,
the democrats of Tennessee have re
cently nominated ex-Govenor Rob
ert Taylor to be the next senator
from Tennessee, while the demo
crats of Arkansas in their conven
tion at Hot Springs have confirmed
the primary nomination of Govenor
Jeff Davis fcr senator from Arkans
as.
In each case the nomination is
as good as election. In Illinois,
however, where the primary nom
ination of candidates for senator
will 1 only advisory, though bind
ing, the senatorship will not be de
clined until the contest between
parties is fought out at the election of
the legislature in November.
Illinois is, therefore, still behind
the other states named in its pro
gress toward the election of senators
by direct vote. In the other states
the national question is already
praetially decided and the people
are free to choose the legislature
mainly with reference to question
of states policy and administration.
In Illinoisthe senatorship is likely
to be a dominant issue in the No
vember state election,' for, no mat
ter whom the republicans may nom
inate in their primaries, the demo
crats will not let the senatorship go
by default.
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Thosk who think the republicans
will not be able to collect campaign
funds this fall from the railroads
and trusts should remember that
the administration is keeping secret
most of the reports on investigations
that have been made, and that the
trusts and corporations are willing
to pay, rather than have publicity.
aster to your own door? Are you
a slave to party? Let party go to
thunder and work for your own inter
ests. Party name never did you a
cent's worth of good and no one
knows it better than yourself.
Almost everything is being inves
tigated by a republican congress
and almost everything is being
found rotten to the core, even to
the beef trust. Reader, what party
has been in power in the past ten
years? What party has indorsed a
high protective tariff under which
the conditions of the people com
plain have arisen? Are you so po
litically blind that you cannot see
at whose door these untoward con
ditions must be laid? Are you so
politically blind that you will not
agree to lend your aid in the effort
to correct the wrongs that bring dis-
It is not only our commerce but
our national character that has
been injured by the frauds and
scandals now astonishing the
world. If the laws had been faith
fully executed, such scandals would
have been imposible. The greatest
and most damaging of all these
scandals is that the laws of the
United States have not been faith
fully executed that fraud, and con
nivance at crime, and political par
tisan success won by criminals with
stolen money and hush money,
stand in the place of duty and mor
ality. The people may applaud
the spectacular rogues for a time;
but they will turn and rend them
just as soon as they are undeceived.
Kvkn conservative people have
come to the democratic contention
that fining corporations for break
ing the law of the land has but little
elTect and that nothing short of im
prisonment of the officials will com
jk'I o1edieiice to the law. The en
forcement of law, says the New
York Kvcnitig Tost, is liecoming a
hobby of executive officers and dis
trict attornies. The news of the
day is full of specific instances.
Certain officials of the Department
of Justice at Washington are pre
dicting that there will soon be
"wholesale suits" against the Stan
Tiik republican leaders of the
house of representatives are deeply
stirred by grave constitutional
doubtsabout thescnate amendments
to the railroad rate bill applying to
express companies, privatecar lines,
sleeping cars and Standard Oil pipe
lines. The gray-haired guards of
the house must now curb the head
strong reforming gray wolves of the
senate. It's a great game these
republican reformers arc playing.
Thk republicans "cut their mel
on" when they forced through the
house of representatives the largest
sundry civil bill ever passed. Of
course, the districts represented by
republicans got the lion's share of
the appropriations for rivers and
harbors.
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PLATTSMOUTH,
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We Solicit the Fanners Trade
and Guarantee Satisfaction.
When in the City Give Us a Call
T5he Perkins Hotel
If you are going picnicing and
are going to take canned meats,
better change your mind and take a
herring and something to quench
the thirst that it produces. The con
tents of this prescription has not
lccn so recently demonstrated.
Thk packing-house uproar is pro
ducing a lot of canned jokes.
Till': lecf barons are very insis
tent that their packing houses arc
perfectly clean and that no unwhole
some meat is sold to the public.
At the same time we hear that a
desperate clTort is lieing made "to
clean up and renovate" the pack
ing establishments. Why nor alol
ish the tariff on beef and cattle and
so give the people competition with
the trusts and thus reduce the price
to a reasonable basis?
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