The Plattsmouth Journal
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H. A. HATES, l'l iiLisiiKK.
nti r(1 at tlir posloffli'pnt I'Ultniinuth. N'
hrsl. ivoinlrU mutter.
Tun present roliU-r tarilT is the
father of trusts and the mother of
Kraft. The democrats oppose the
rohkry, while rcjuiblicans endorse
it. Which do you favor?
Chairman "Jim" Sukkman
ha announced that it only costs ft
to into the republican standpat
Kame, but with the tarilT tax and
trust monopoly it costs consider
able to Ret out.
Don't for a minute imagine that
the administration intends to pun
ish Mr. Rockefeller, or any of the
other Standard Oil magnates, the
worst it will do will be to tire the
court to merely inflict a fine. This
the trust has perhaps anticipated, for
it has just reduced the price it pays
for crude dil. And yet the Repub
licans boast they are the trust-bust-inn
party.
Anoi'T three years ao I'res.
Roosevelt issued an executive order
forbidding postal clerks and letter
carriers from joining labor unions.
The postal clerks of Chicago, Mil
waukee, Louisville, Nashville, Salt
I,akc City and San l'rancisco met
in Chicago, August 28, and formed
a national union in defiance of that
order. Ugh! What wil the fonetic
filosofer and flabergaster tlu about
it, tint? Wil he cri "delited," nz
ushual when he gets a gud hard
kik?
Mr. Hkvan has raised a cpres
lion that it might be well to study
over a little. He said that ten
years ago (during Cleveland times)
the republicans said that they could
elect anybody -resident. Now the
republicans have only one man they
are sure they can elect and that is
Mr. Roosevelt. Why is that?
Think it over. Mr. liryan says
that it is because President Roose
velt has taken up democratic mea
sures irr advance of his party and
has urged their passage.
Wi? defy any tarilT advocate to
name the date when a free trade
measure passed congress. The tar
iff has always been an issue as to
high or low schedules, but never
free trade, ignoramuses to the con
trary, notwithstanding. Ignorant
people talk about free trade under
Cleveland's administration, yet
when the Wilson bill passed con
gress it was charged by republicans
that its average rate was higher
than under the McKinley bill.
1 low easily some people do forget
history.
Wknotick that the republican
platform of Iowa condemns with
out reserve all assaults upon the
protective tariff, liothwithstanding
the fact that the distinguished Iowa
republican governor, the candidate
who is running on the same plat
form is on record as having said
"all the graft of all the insurance
companies from the beginning does
not equal one-fifth of the amount
of which the American people are
robbed in a single year by exces
sive tariff." Would it be using
strong language to say this is in
consistent at least?"
Tin; float convention at Nebraska
City yesterday displayed a great
deal of wisdom irr the selection of
Dr. W. C. Jester of this county as
the democratic candidate for joint
representative for Otoe and Cass
vounties. Dr. Jester is a well
known physician at Faglc, and
possesses that ability which is so es
sential in a representative of the
people in the legislature. 1 le is one
of the lcst men in Cass county, is
well liked by all who know him, and
is a gentleman upon whom the dem
ocrats of Otoe and Cass counties
can look with pride. He is just
the kind of a candidate to be elect
ed. The nomination catuc to him
unsought, and was given hrm In
honor of his well known worth as
a gentleman, scholar of true dem
ocratic instincts.
lb. (iiioKi.i: W. 1!i:k.i: will
open the campaign at Cohnr.bus
next'. Monday night. This meet
ing is look forward to with great
interest, as some of our republican
friends have expected Mr. Herge to
do a little sulking, deorge l'.erge
is not that kind of a man.
Tine silver trust composed of re
publican bankers and others is hold
ing up the United States govyn
ment by refusing tosellsilverexcept
at a large advance on prices. The
selling agents of the trust, I,lxley&
Co., make their headquarters in
Loudon and Secretary Shaw has not
yet discovered it.
Thk editor of the News takes ex
ception to our little squib on Roger
Sullivan. Farley is so used to de
fending corruptionists in his own
party that he insists on slipping
over to defend them in the demo
cratic party, when occasionally one
crops out.
Hon. R. D. Si tiikki.ani), former
fusion member of congress, and the
present fusion candidate against
Norris in the Fourthdistriet, said in
I
Lincoln yesterday that the populists
would vote with the democrats
without division. Mr. Sutherland
is a populist, and knows pretty well
the feeling of his party.
Tine republican papers are now
engaged in estimating Senator Shel
don's majority for governor, One
paper estimates his majority all the
way from 50,000 to 80,000, and irr
the very next column impresses
upon the party the necessity of
organization. If they are so sure
of Mr Sheldon's great majority
what's the use of such advice?
Tin; Journal prints in another
column an editorial from the Grand
Island Democrat, which is directed
principally to the republican papers
of Nebraska, who insist that the
railroads did not corrtrol the recent
republican convention. We want
every voter to read this splendid ar
ticle, as it will convince, any unpre'
judiced voter that the railroads
were about as much in evidence in
this convention as ever.
In an interview with a lice re-
j porter in Omaha last .Saturday in
i the metropolis, R. 15. Windham
made the statement that Senator
Sheldon would be elected by a larger
majority than any man who ever
ran for governor of Nebraska. This
is saying a good deal for a man who
was turned down by Mr. Sheldon
in the selection of delegates from
Cass county to the state convention
which nominated him. This, too,
in face of the fact that Mr. Wind
ham had previously been .selected
a member of the committee on plat
form. Mr. Tai'T is disputing with Mr.
Roosevelt the championship of the
noble profession of diplomacy
hiding the truth. In his speech to
the negroes and federal office-holders
of North Carolina, June 9th, he
declared that while the democratic
leaders have been for years declar
ing against corporations, "they
have instituted no legislative steps
in all this time to restrain the
abuses. ' ' Taft knew this to be ut
terly false. I Ie knew, for instance,
that the Tillman-Gillespie resolu
tion under which the Standard Oil
and the railroads are now being in
vestigated was of democratic origiu.
He knew that the Tillman bill to
prohibit corporations from contrib
uting to party corruption funds a
bill which passed the senate but
was opposed by Root, Rooseveltand
Taft so that it failed in the house
wasof denrocraticorigin. He knew
that the democrats iucongress have
introduced nunuVrless measures
designed to curb the trusts by abol
ishing the tariff duties on trust
made goods. He knew that nearly
every democratic state had estab
lished a railroad commission to pre
vent extortions and discriminations
by the railroad companies. Iu fine,
Taft knew that he was evading the
truth and gloried in what he was
doing. Let him read what Presi
dent Roosevelt lm written about
liars, and he will probably think
less of himself, unless Roosevelt
has told him not to believe such
things.
De.Tiocraci to the Front.
Democratic gains and republican
losses in the state and local elec
tions of Arkansas confirm the iud -cations
given by the Oregon elec
tions in the spring that the drift if
political sentiment is strong toward
the democratic party this year.
ltoth in Oregon and in Arkansas
the results tell of a sharp reaction
from the conditions of 1904, which
were marked by republican enthus
iasm arrd democratic indifference,
says the St. Louis Republic. This
year we have democratic enthus
iasm and a great deal of republican
indifference.
I n Arkansas they have a poll tax
of fl a year which goes to the
school fund, and nobody is permit
ted to Vote who cannot produce a
receipt showing that the tax has
been paid. It is practically the
only tax levied upon negroes as a
contrbutiou to the support of their
schools. And yet, so indifferent
were these republican voters in
Monday's election that thousands of
them chose to forfeit their right of
suffage rather than pay the tax.
The story of democratic enthus
iasm and activity iu Arkansas is
duplicated in Texas, Kansas, Illi
nois and many states of the Fast.
Iu Illinois, in Iowa, Pennsylvan
ia, New Hampshire and Vermont
the republican party is rent by fac
tion and threatened by revolt. Ivven
the senatorial candidacy of Mr.
Cullorn arrd the favorite-son in
dorsement of Speaker Cannon for
the presidency stir no enthusiasm
among Illinois republicans.
FormerGovernor Yates's repudia
tion of Cannon and his laudation
of Bryan in the sarrre breath with
Roosevelt are significant of trouble
for republican candidates .in Jllli
nois at the Novemtar elections, for
though Yates did not win in the
recent senatorial primaries he had
a very respectable republican fol
lowing in the state.
In Iowa, republican defeat is
threatened by the bolt front Cum
mins, while in many of the eastern
states republican supermacy is as
sailed by a formidable uprising
against the gangsters and self-seeking
leaders who have gained con
trol of the party.
Against all this republican dis
count the democratic party comes
torwaru united, nuoyant , arm ag
grcssive, with the added inspiration
of Bryan's leadership, for a great
battle against the trusts and the
outrageous tarilT which fosters them.
If the republicans do trot lose by a
landslide irr the November elections
it will be because there are forces
workiirg underground that are not
visible on the surface of this year's
politics.
Rcm'iKr C. Sn.uv.N, the demo
cratic traitor of Chicago, is again
frothing at the mouth. He is so
mad that he calls Mr. Bryan a liar.
But like the fellow that was kicked
by the jackass, Mr Bryan will sim
ply consider the course. Sullivan
is not a good democrat, as his past
acts fully testify, and for him to
longer continue on the national
committee should not be permitted.
He is simply a common cur, risen
from the lowest depth of humanity
to a position of affluence from dis
honest methods, was favored by the
democrats of Illinois by being se
lected as national committeeman
from the state.
Perhaps the largest crowd that
ever assembled at the state capital
was in Lincoln yesterday. It is
estimatd that fully fifty thousand
people attended the reception of
Mr. Bryan on the capital grounds
last night, and while the reception
was going on the streets were
thronged with people who could
not get in hearing distance of the
speakers. The greatest American
living lion. William Jennings
Bryan was the center attraction.
Mr. Bryan speaks in St. Louis
tomorrow night, and the democrats
arc arranging to give him a grand
reception. Seats have been pro
vided in the big auditorium for
sixteen thousand people. Here will
be a splendid opportunity for Mr.
Bryan to tell "What he knows
about Roger Sullivan," the man
who is no friend of the Nebraskan
and never was.
Tfci Democratic Slogan.
The campaign in doubtful con
gressional districts which Chairman
Griggs, of the democratic congres
sional campaigu committee, is re
ported to have arranged for William
Jennings Bryan seems well planned.
It is proposed that the Nebraskan
direct his most telling blows against
the robljcries of the Dingley tariff
and the trusts which it fosters.
"The paramont issue in the con
gressional elections of this year is
the trusts issue," said Mr. Bryan
in his Madison Square Garden
speech. .In this he evinced a pen
etrating insight into the existing
political situation. The issue made
by the tariff-created trusts and the
issue of clean politics, as against
boss-ridden politics.atthis juncture,
cast all other issues into the
shade.
In attacking the republicans on
the tariff, the democrats assail them
at their weakest point. The fruits
of Dingleyism are now so well un
derstood that the stand-pat position
! of the republican leaders is almost
indefensible.
Iu nearly every state the republi
cans are badlv divided on the tariff,
and thousands of voters are in re
volt against the dictatioir of party
bosses who insist that thel Dingley
schedules must be held sacred for
two or four years longer, at least
The apparent listlessrress "of the
congressional campaign so far is
probably due, in large measure, to
the fact that voters of both the
great parties are, in the main, of
one way of thinking on most of the
great questions.
Republican voters are as weary
of the robberies of the Dingley tariff
as are the democrats. An active
campaign on that issue will win the
votes of many thousands of them
for democratic carrcidates for the
house of representatives.
Republican Campaign Contributions.
Its pretty strong proof that the
republican leaders of the house of
representatives, when they deliber
ately killed the senate bill to prevent
corporations from contributing to
political campaigns, expected cor
porations to contribute in the future
as in the past. The republi
can leaders did not wish to kil
the goose that lays the golden
eggs.
The questions will soon be asked
to see the accounts of all political
parties and know just who contrib
utes. In the last natiorralcampaign
the president assured the country
that Judge Parker's charge of cor
poration contributions to the Roose
velt campaigu fund was well,
groundless, but the life insurance in
vestigation proved that Mr. Roose
velt was mistaken.
From appearances of the pala
tial headquarters iu New York and
from the extravagant expenditures
of the republican congressional
committee, the corporations must
be up to their old game of secretly
making contributions, but of course
Mr. Roosevelt knows nothing about
it, though he has taken personal
charge of the campaign. These
corporation magnates are slippery
fellows and Morgan or Rockefel
ler's mau will slip into the strong
box $50,000 at a lick if Mr. Roose
uelt does not keep his weather-eye
open.
Cannon Goes Off Half Cocked.
Speaker Cannon appears to have
forgotten that he and his republican
colleagues passed unanimously the
Grosvenor ant-injunction bill on
May 2, 1902. (See cong. record,
page 4995, for that year.) Gen.
Grosvenor stated that his bill was
prepared, by the labor leaders and
yet Speaker Cannon now declares
in his sjecch of acceptance that a
similar bill "would turn loose in
times of trouble the criminally dis
posed." In charity for Speaker
Cannon it must be said that he is
seventy years old arrd probably his
memory is not as good as it used to
lc. But what excuse can be made
for the republican tnemljers of the
judiciary committee who recom
mended the passage of the Grosv
enor anti-injunction bill and for all
the members that allowed it to
pass even without a roll call? Let's
see, what is it about chickens com
ing home to roost?
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