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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1907)
The Plattsmouth Journal rUllUSIIKD WKKKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. K. A. IIATKS, Puhlisiiki:. i::U r l ut the stofll?t at I'lattsniouth. Ne tr:iU:i. us sn-omlrlass matter. Tin: Journal takes pleasure in ex tending congratulations to Mayor Urown, of Lincoln, who was re elected Tuesday. Kmii-.K Taft or Foraker is going to be put out of business politically in Ohio. So far as democracy is concerned, it makes no difference which one Rets the hot end of the poker. Notwithstanding; the great ex ertion put forth by Senator Burkett to array the republican party of Lincoln against Mayor Iirown, the returns from yesterday's election would indicate that the Great Higli-Muck-a-Mtick shot wide of the mark. I'kom present appearances of the gas jets around town when lighted it would indicate that the plant needed "fixing." For the past few nights the average jet has furnished about as much light as the old tal low candle. An exchange remarks that there isiin "unwritten" law and wonders whether there is an "unwritten" constitution. When we look at our strenuous president and Uncle Joe Cannon we are inclined to believe that we also have an "unwritten" constitution. It was Burkett or Iirown in Lin coln Tuesday, or, petty politics against clean government. Iirown and clean government won out in spite r.f Duster liig Head Burkett, Senior Representative in the United .States Senate from the great state Nebraska. I lowthe returns mv.st th'j Great I Am Y. Senator Burkett would h.iw had it otherwise, Mayor Brown will continue to be master of cere monies in all public affairs that r?c ctir in the capital for the follow::: : two years. This includes the na tional campaign, when the Mayor will have the honor of welcoming Mr. Brvan's friends to that city. The regents of the state univer sity have had to go into court to compel the state auditor to issue warrants to pay running expenses. The auditor claims that he can't issue warrants legally unless the money is in the treasury to pay with. With what particularity the present day reformers are following the law in some regards and evad ing the law in others. An Kpiscopal minister of that city declares that "hell is but a pocket edrtion of Chicago." His means of information may not be the very best, but the confidence and the boldness with which he makes the assertion leads one to think that he knows whereof he speaks. It is up to Chicago to ask leave for time to plead to the in dictment. But in the meantime John D. Rockefeller's Coal Oil uni versity will continue to teach John and him syndicated. Ian MacLaren, Dr. John Wat son died at a country town over in Iowa Monday while on a lecturing tour. He was in the prime of life and had written many things which will keep his memory green in the hearts of all who love the good and the beautiful. He was a preacher of power, a lecturer or force and dignity and a writer of strength and conviction. But it was in his shorter stories that he shone most resplendent and it is to them his friends look for the fame which is to endure. His "Beside the Bon nie Brier Bush," published several vears ago, together with kindred stories of Scotch religious life, de serve a place in the library of all. and no one can read a single one of his simple, touching stories of the Scotch peasantry without feeling more akin to his fellowman and real izing more fully his place in the di vine economy. Thomas A. Blizzard, of St. Jos eph, Mo., committed suicide re cently. What else was there to do after Nature's demonstration of Mav .1. Tin:or;ii a dream the widow of i Thomas Lewis, of Omaha, discov ered several hundred dollars which her husband had buried. lie prob ably hid it in the same old place. Ir the editor postmasters had the say-so Teddy's nomination for a third term would be assurred. Af ter a trial at the public teat they want to hold on like grim death. Tin-; poor old State Journal con soles itself in the fact that Mayor Brown was re-elected by less than fifty over Ilutton, the Journal can didate. Consolation comes cheap to a paper published in the capital city, which is considered repub lican by nearly 2000 majority. The fact is the Journal has lost its influ ence, even in its home city, and the people confidence in its wayward ness. It would seem from reports that Nebraska City is enjoying her share of school troubles. Many of the higher grade pupils objected to the retainment of Sup't Sinclair, but the board of education re-elected him by a vote of 5 to 4. One of the local papers calls on both the board of education and Sinclair to resign, and the fight prom ises to be very bitter. Nebraska City is not the only town that has troubles in its schools. There are others. Says the Springfield Monitor: "Consolation or no consolation, the appointment by the governor of Don Despain as deputy labor commis sioner is not setting well with the great majority of the people throughout the state and is bring in e; no end of censure on the gov ernor. Tin's is the same fellow j whom the legislature sat down on ; so for writings blackmailing letter, j on w lr.cn he had to crawiisn. it seems that his is a poor way of con soling Senator Brown, if. as report ed, the appointment was made for that purpose." Tha Teddy Army Laureate. The country will await with breathless interest the fate of the Norrfstown, Pa., bookkeeper who wrote a doggeral song praising President Roosevelt as "tried and j true," and attempted to finance a "Teddy Army" tor a third-term campaign by selling it at 25 cents a copy. It is safe to affirm that President Roosevelt will not order the author to hang or committed for life to the bastile at Leavenworth, but the said author, Finn by name, knows now by personal experience that a man might as well be killed as scared to death. For Mr. Finn was frightened out of at least ten years growth when lie found that the secret-service men of the government at Wash ington were after him for writing that song and trying to circulate it by asking newspapers to give it dead-head advertising. Mr. Finn was surprised, as well as frightened, because up to the moment he was accosted by the secret-service man he had supposed the "home of the free and the land of the brave" to be a country in which every citizen enjoys perfect freedom of political thought and of political action. In his quiet Pennsylvania town Mr. Finn had not learned that it was possible for secret-service men in Washington to be employed in such political espionage as was here tofore confined mainly to the police of St. Petersburg and Paris. But the president really and truly wanted to know who his Poet Lau reate was, and the secret-service men were promptly sent out to get a line on him. If the poem is not too shockingly bad , the poet will doubtless get off with a short term in limbo. If the strains of the song are found to be of the inspiring sort that a Teddy Army can march to Mr. Finn may hope to be pardoned and made postmaster of Norristown by the president. "Back to the constitution" is the slogan henceforth. Let's have a big celebration in Plattsmouth on the great natal day. What do you say? Now that the fate of the peach crop seems to be sealed, we would like to hear what are the prospects for watermelons. Pr.ATTSMOi'TH is to have a street fair under the auspices of the Fire Department. The date ir. arranged for the wek beginning June 10. We are glad it is coming. So is the small boy. The occasional train hold-up in the far west is about all we have to remind us of the days when the buffalo, the bear and redskin dis puted with the pioneer prospector and bad man the possession of that glorious domain. Members of the Roosevelt cabi net are coming west on inspecting tours. They will visit federal of ficeholders and tell them what's what. Afterwards it is expected that all of them will understand how they are to talk and think in regard to a successor of T. R. The Beatrice Sun says: Gentle men in high official position have discovered that a man like Don Des pain is a difficult person to shake off, after having been let into one's private affairs. However, he may work a moral reform about the state house j-et by giving the boys an ob ject lesson in the necessity of cau tion. An exchange is guilty of this: "Opie Read has an idea that a man who could drive a pair of runaway steers without cussin' ain't got spir it enough in him to cast the shad ow of immortality into the etern ity of a jaybird." How much more poetic and picturesque that is than calling him a lily-livered molly coddle." The Lincoln Star says that "the governor had his own reasons for giving the deputyship to Despain. ' ' It is presumed that he had, or he never would have done so. But what those reasons were is what stumps" many of the governor's admirers. Maybe Don will get on his high horse one of these days and give the secret away. "Meat Prices are Soaring," is the way the metropolitan dailies had it a few days since. But we notice the price of hogs isn't soaring very high . Will our prosperity shouters tell us why the price of dressed meats is advancing and no com pensating advance in the price of hogs? The farmers and people who buy meat are unable to see prosper ity in the rise of price of that com modity. This country now needs a Samuel J. Tilden about 50 years old and as full of the undefiled essence of pure democracy as was the old Roman in 1876. The party never has been as full of fight nor as united as when the sage of Grammercy park raised his voice and unfurled his battle flag during that memorable cam paign. Speed the day when such an one is found and when the party again rallies as one man around its chosen leader. From many sections of the coun try come reports of workingmen in various establishments striking be cause wages are inadequate to sup ply them with the necessaries of life. This is a natural sequence to the boasted prosperity. By reason of a high protective tariff the manufac turers have formed combinations and advanced the price of products to such an extent that workingmen can no longer live at the old scale of wages. The department of labor at Washington has put out figures showing that wages have not kept pace with the cost of living, which has been greatly increased through the action of the tariff-pro tected trusts. With all of our wide ly heralded prosperity the working men find themselves in hard lines. The wide-spread strike situation amply proves this. Genuine pros perity is that in which all interests share mutually in all the avocations of life. Foraker gives it out that the agreements of Taft and the yellow rough rider papers cannot bind him by their white house methods of elimination of candidates. He re members Root and the manner in which he was marooned. Some of the people up in Great Falls, Mont., have sacrificed all their property in the belief that they are about to be transported to heaven . The preacher that teaches such a doctrine, should be trans ported to the lowest pit of hades. Has Taft and Foraker really be came strange bed-fellows? Ohio's most prominent citizen, Boss Cox of Cincinnati, hints that he has put them into the same trundle-bed and covered them with the coverlet of desperate political expediency. "No fighting under the cover!" Mortified and chagrined be cause his 14-year-old daughter in sisted on constantly playing "Kverybody Works But Father" in his presence, a St. Louis man is suing for divorce. He is entitled to a hearing on the ground of spe cific, persistent and intolerable in dignities. Again the Osier theory is put to fight by the ascomplishment of the Reverend Doctor Abbott, of Shurt College, at upper Alton, Illinois, who, with 80 years to his credit, out distanced five athletic young men in a four-mile walk. Cen tenarians and others, take notice. Austin W. Tidd, (no relation, however, to our A. L. Tidd) a Tam manyite of New York, predicts Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha, for chairman of the national democratic committee, with Bryan and McClellan as candidates. Bry an and McClellan are the proper caper, but as to Dahlman, we don't know so much. An Iowa man boasted in court that he was 65 years old and sound as a dollar, then dropped to the floor dead. No doubt there are those who will argue that death came as a rebuke to the pride of the man who uttered his boast, but the chances are he would have dropped dead the same moment if he had been merely saying "Pass the bread." While Col. Henrj- Watterson wrants to go back to the constitu tion, Col. Edgar Howard goes back to the last campaign and is telling us about a private meeting between the Sheldon adherents and the brewers. Well what of it? Sheldon got the liqnor vote and the brewers got the Gibson bill. Let's talk about the future. And Baltimore "came clean" also. At her city election she dis placed the present Republican city administration with democrats who were elected by the average major ity of 4,000. Its in the air and the whole people everywhere seem sick, tired, disgused and outraged with the Big Stick, the Big Bluff and the Big Graft. And the pro tective tariff is the most indefensi ble and high-handed graft in all Graftiana. The Star is a radical republican paper, but it is not so niae-Douna that it will not support a good man, be he even a democrat. The Star supported Mayor Brown for re-election because his administration was a good one for the capital city. The Star having a wider circulation in Lincoln than any other paper, and its support of Mayor Brown is no doubt highly appreciated by that gentleman. Roosevelt's fool friends or im placable enemies continue to say he will "turndown" the constitution of Oklahama because the democrats did not write it to suit the stand patters. They now insist they speak by authority. 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The Wall Street News, a news paper powerful in its sphere and un wise in its generation, one which fought Bryan through two cam paigns and repented at its leisure at the manner in which his defeat was compassed, thus confesses how it was done and deplores the whole sale debauchery encouraged, coun tenanced n:ul abetted by all repub lican and somealleged democrats to to bring it about The article was published about a year ago when the insurance disclosures left no possible doubt in the mind of any one how the election was "carried" and attention was called to the riot ous reign of corruption which fol lowed and still follows in its train. Here is the confession from the re pentant Wall street organ: However desirable it was to de feat free silver agitation in 1896, did the end justify the means em ployed to accomplish that defeat? It is not too much to say that the money spent in 1896 to prevent the election of Bryan resulted in politi cal debauchery such as was never before experienced in the United States, and from which the politics and business of this country have not yet recovered. It is not far from the truth to say that the coun try has suffered more by reason of the political corruption of the 1896 campaign that it would have suffer ed from the triumph of free silver, lamentable as that would have been. Bryan's triumph of free silver would have given the markets a terrible shock, but Bryan could not have really done much harm in a political way, and the country would have made a speedy recovery from the disaster, but it will take years to recover from the political debauch ery which has been brought about by the abuse of millions of dollars in political campaigns. Every democratic and honest re publican paper in the United States should copy and religiously repro duce the above confession at least once a month until after the next general election. If truth and not victory is what is desired in contro versy then here is truth confessed by the party which profited by the great wrong done the morals of the country by the republican party in a national election. S Rickets. Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones Q q are not forming rapidly enough. g e$ Lack of nourishment is the cause. Q G Scoffs Emulsion nourishes baby's entire system. Stimulates and makes bone. 5v ALL DRUGGISTS i 50c. 3 Bought, ami which has been has borno tho hignaturo of Signature of Vookiiks, Iowa, gets into the limelight this week ahead of the white house. A female school teacher whipped a farmer for inter fering with her work and the board of directors raised her wages ten dol lars per month and the citizens of the town gave her a $i'i' diamond ring. 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