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    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. No judge with
the spirit of judicial fairness and
with a soul bigger than a mustard
seed would say in advance what ac
tion he would take upon'matter to
be presented to him in his official
capacity. Mr. Roosevelt has been
very small in many matters, but
this is asking even his enemies to
believe -too much-in his partisan
littleness. There should be some
.limit to supposed" turpitude-
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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
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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
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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.
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