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l'lattsmouth, Satunlay, July 4.
Think of Omaha! It will cost fully
$.1,000 to clean the sidewalks of mud.
Rain or shine, the celebration comes
oft at l'lattsmouth just the same. Re
member that, will you?
Every time it is sure nobody is look
ing, Wall street gives three cheers and
a tiger for Taft and Sherman.
According to reports both Omaha
ami South Omaha suffered more than
Plattsmouth did by Saturday night's
5torm.
Make your arrangements to be in
Plattsmouth on the Fourth. Every
thing will be in readiness for the great
event, notwithstanding the storm of
Saturday night.
The storm of Saturday night will have
no effect whatever upon the celebration
in Plattsmouth on the Fourth of July.
It only spurs the committees to work
that much harder to make the celebra
tion that much greater success.
Even Governor Johnson now con
cedes Mr. Bryan's nomination on the
first ballot. This is certainly a disap
pointment to some of those republican
papers that have been boosting so hard
for the Minnesota governor.
The real truth about that "tariff re
vision" plank in the Roosevelt platform
is beginning to sink into the public
mind. It's about the best plank to
make the "interests" contribute to the
Roosevelt campaign fund that human
genius cou'd devise.
There is this marked difference be
tween Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft on the
subject of publicity for campaign con
tributions. Mr. Taft was for publicity
before the nominating convention. Mr.
Brya n is for publicity before the con
vention and wiil be for publicity after
wards. In a petition filed with the state rail
way commission yesterday the attor
neys for the Missouri Pacific road ask
for the restoration of the old passenger
and freight rates. It is argued that
the present rates are non-compensatory.
They ask tha restoration of the
3-cent passenger rate and the enforce
ment of a 15 per cent advance in freight
rates.
The Republican national committee
is having trouble to find the right man
for the position Mark Hanna filled so
satisfactorily. Hitchcock gives ill
health as the reason why he cannot ac
cept the chairmanship; others feel like
the job is too great for them. The
subcommittee has adjourned to meet
July 1st to again take up the matter.
Get my dear Harriman.
The republican platform throws bou
quets at the American farmer and re
cognizes "the social and economic ad
vantages of good country roads, main
tained more or less largely at public ex
pense." But its intimation of govern
ment aid in making: good roads along
rural mail routes is even vaguer than
its advocacy of inland waterway im
provement. By creating four new peers, eleven
Baronets and twenty-five more or less
belted Knights in one batch, King Ed
ward does a good day's work for his
royal prerogative. He needs them
against the time the honest man who is
prophesied as "aboon his might" ap
pears as the leader of English Liberal
ism against this method of restoring
the Middle Ages.
Burkett has started out in the cam-
paingn in his usual blustering, bragado-
cia manner. But give the Great Blow
hard all the rope he wants and he will
kill himself deader than he did at Chi
cago, when he attempted to get Gover
nor Sheldon out of his way for senator.
with his weak effort to have him nom
inated for vice president. Burkett's
days in the senate are numbered, and no
ore knows this fact arty better that Bur
kett does himself.
Mayor Dahlman is one of the ''big
ones" at Denver, and is enthusiastic in
the good cause Bryan and victory.
Every business man is busy these
days decorating his store rooms and
getting his float in readiness for the
big parade.
Nothing is being left undone that
will add to the pleasure of the people
who come to Plattsmouth next Satur
day, July Fourth.
Mr. Bryan is a pretty busy man these
days at Fairview in entertaining visit
ors, but not so much so as he will be
after the Denver convention next week.
Are you doing your duty in the way
of decorating? Only two more days,
remember. Let every business house in
the city endeavor to outdo one another
in this respect.
The storm of Saturday night will not
interfere in the least with the celebra
tion in Plattsmouth on the Fourth. The
entire program will be carried out just
the same. Remember that.
Even the republican politicians must
admit that the republican newspapers
are failing miserably in their effort to
present Mr. Bryan as the dictator of
the democratic national convention.
The monster committee meeting last
night is indicative of the fact that all
hands are as busy as bees in the hive
working to one end the biggest cele
bration ever held in Cass county.
Don't forget this: William II. Taft
is not now nor ever has been in favor
of publicity of campaign funds. If he
had been, the Chicago platform would
have said something very definite about
the matter.
Further reports from the storm
Saturday night are to the effect that
several cities in Southeast Nebraska
were hit fully as hard as Plattsmouth,
if not more so. Take, for instance,
Beatrice, Fairbury and other smaller
towns.
Word comes from Lincoln that Mr.
Bryan will not attempt to dictate the
choice of his running mate. Which
goes without saying. There is no room
in the Democratic party for a dictator,
and none knows this better than Mr.
Bryan.
It is the Journal's opinion that the
Denver convention will make a grave
mistake if it fails to nominate either
Governor Douglas, of Massachusetts,
or Lieutenant-Governor Chanler, of
New York, for vice president. There
is policy in this suggestion, of course.
A storm and flood at Wellin ton, Kas. ,
Sunday night drowned five parsons and
destroyed 75,000 worth of property.
When we read of such unfortunate
happenings to other citie3, it makes us
feel good to know that Plattsmouth
escaped as well as it did Saturday
night. But we cannot escape the acts
of Providence.
There is no good citizen but who
sympathizes with Contractor Wood-
worth in his bad luck. The repaying
of Main street has been delayed by
rains to the extent that he has been
unable to put in even half time upon
the work. And now comes the storm
of Saturday night and ruins nearly all
the work he had completed, and it will
all have to be done over.
The democratic county central com
mittee held an enthusiastic meeting
Saturday at Elm wood. The attendance
being very large and everyone making
the most flattering reports of the con
dition of the party in his precinct.
Chairman Henry Gering, presided, and
Secretary Ramsey was on hand to
note the deliberations. Chris Guenther,
Secretary of the Bryan Volunteers, was
present and addressed the meeting,
making an old-time democratic speech
He related the results of his trip over
the state and other parts, and found dem
ocratic prospects brighter than ever be
fore. The party is united behind Col,
Bryan and his victory seems assured.
Mr. Bryan was to have addressed the
meeting, but found it impossible to do
so as his train left before he had finish
ed his Woodman address. Chairman
Gering is greatly pleased at the spirit
manifested by the rank and file, and
feels that Cass county will do its share
to show Nebraska is devoted to the
great Commoner.
Maybe, as a'New York politician quot
ed as aaying, Bryan "lacks a cinch" on
the nomination. Nothing is certain to
this world until it is done. But if two
thirds of the convention makes a cinch,
Bryan has it.
Amthough Governor Cummins, of
Iowa has suffered two defeats within a
few weeks, the report that he will re
sign is hardly credible. Cummins him
selt has never shown any of the quali
ties of a quitter.
Republican Consistencies.
"A house divided against itself can
not stand."
Taft and Sherman, the timid re
former and the stubborn reactionary,
on the same ticket.
'Temporary Chairman Burrows
snubbing Roosevelt and Permanent
Chairmaa Lodge glorifying him in the
same convention."
"Publicity of campaign contributions
rejected, although previously demand
ed in the President's message and in
corporated in the ' Crumpacker bill
whei. it passed the house a month
ago."
"Postal savings banks indorsed in
the platform, although killed by Re
publican leaders at the session of Con
gress just closed."
"A declaration for tariff revision
within four weeks after a Republican
Congress had spurned it."
"A pretended declaration against
government by injunction in the plat
form and a candidate who invented
government by injunction standing on
that platform."
"An indorsement of Roosevelt for
his progressive policy and a platform
from which progressive planks are ex
cluded by an overwhelming vote."
Such are some of the evidences that
the Republican party is in the throes of
internal strife. It emerges from its
national convention as a cripple from
the hospital patched, it is true, for
the time being, but a cripple neverthe
less. World-Herald.
Fool 'em all the time. They now
are singing the harmony song, though
both sides are disgusted. That is latter-day
Republicanism. Spoils of office
cause them'to swallow anything in the
platform. Principles nothing plunder
everything.
The " War Record " in Time of Peace
The announcement that William H.
Taft, Secretary of War, turned over
the War Department to his successor at
half past four o'clock yesterday was not
accompanied in his party organs by a
review of his administration of that de
partment. In view of their silence, the
summary of his results may be supplied
from the official records, which show
that he has a "war record" unparalleled
in time of peace in this country or any
other.
Before the close of 1907 (June 30) he
had more than doubled the expenditures
of 1897. As a result of the jingo poli
cies of coercive international meddling,
with the Constitution no longer under
the flag, the total expense of the War
Department increased from $48,950,000
in 1897 to $101,671,000 in 1907, while
other expenditures on account of war
were more than doubled. As a result
of these same jingo policies the routine
expenditures of the government were
run up from $365,774,000 in 1897 to
$578,360,000 in 1907.
With this enormous drain still leaving
a surplus in the treasury from unprece
dented taxation, the collapse of last
October, after the withdrawal of money
needed by business from business chan
nels, was followed in 1908 by still larger
demands for war purposes in the time
of peace. With business men struggling
at the beginning of the year to re-establish
prosperity, the war policy of teach
ing weaker peoples that they are unfit
for self-government in Secretary Taf t's
generation broke the highest record
the republican party had every made in
extorting money from a billion dollar
country on the billion dollar basis of apj
propriations for extravagance at Wash
ington.
Retiring on this record, Secretary Taft
will continue to smile as the republican
presidential candidate. He stands na
tionally for the idea that the worst re
cord ever made in the cold statistics of
government totals in America can be
dismissed with a sunny smile and an in
vitation to cheerfulness at the pios
pe:ts of worse to come as his candi
dacy threatens it.
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Every Man, Woman and Child are Talking About the
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We hear it by letter and by 'phone. We hear them talk
about it in our store. That is right! We want them to come
to Plattsmouth and have a good time. Every merchant is
helping to make it a day of pleasure to any one who comes.
You will see them out among you, for they are a jolly good
lot. They want you to have a celebration you will remem
ber with pleasure for a long time to come. Our Shoe De
partment is turning out 4th of July Shoes now, and we
have them in Whites, Tans and Blacks, and once in a while
you buy a pair and when you go to pay for them we refuse
the money. Why? Pop the question. : : : : :
DAILY PERSONAL NEWS
Short Items of Interest, From Tues
day Evening's Daily Journal
Byron Clark was a passenger for
Lincoln this morning on the early train.
Miss Sanders returned from a three
days visit in Omaha on train No. 2 yes
terday. Mrs. T. M. Patterson was among the
passengers for Omaha today, going up
on No 19.
Fred Guenter was among the country
folks having business to look after in
the city this morning.
Mrs. Geo. Winscot and children were
visitors in Omaha today, going up on
the early morning train.
Henry Kaufman was transacting
business in the city today, finding time
between showers to drive in.
Henry Kaufman and Miss Julia
Warga were visiting in Lincoln today
going up on No. 7.
Emmons Richey was a passenger for
Omaha this noon, going up to look after
some business matters.
Mrs. J. V. Newton was a passenger
for Council Bluffs this afternoon, going
up to visit for a few days.
Ed Becker took advantage of the
showery weather to drive in from the
farm today on a little business.
Geo. Thierolf , from near Cedar Creek,
made up one of the passengers into the
city on train No. 4 this morning.
Mrs. Agnew. of Lincoln, was among
those coming in on the Schuyler this
morning, for a visit with relatives.
Judge A. J. Beeson journeyed to Om
aha this afternoon, going up on No. 7
to attend to some business matters.
Rev. J. H. Salbury was among the
passengers for Lincoln this noon, having
business to transact at the capital city.
Mayor Henry Gering made a success
ful run this afternoon for No. 7, going
up to the metropolis on business mat
ters. P. T. Becker was in the city this
morning looking after important busi
ness matters, driving in from his farm
west of town.
Carl Herger, wife and children were
passengers for Omaha today, going up
on No. 7 for an afternoon's business
and pleasure trip.
Wm. Deles Dernier, the Elm wood
attorney, was in the city yesterday
looking after legal matters, returning
to his home on the Missouri Pacific this
morning.
Mrs. Sarah Fitch who has been at
tending her daughter, Mrs. Karnes,
during her illness of several days dura
tion, returned to her home at Bartlett,
la., this morning, Mrs. Karnes being
now on the highway to recovery.
Chas. Manners, accompanied by Mrs.
E. M. Godwin, were Omaha bound pas
sengers this morning, going up to be
present at the performance of the
operation upon Mrs. Manners, which is
to take place at Immanuel hospital today.
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Dr. Jack of the Burlington Relief,
was in the city today looking after his
patients.
Philip Meisinger and daughter, Lena,
were passengers from Cullom this
morning on the Schuyler.
Mrs. C. S. Forbes who was visiting
her friend Mrs. E. S. Barstow, at Om
aha, has returned to her home in this
city.
Mrs. Henry Steinhauer was among
the visitors at Lincoln today, going out
on train No. 19, for a few days stay
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. McElvain and daughter departed
this morning on No. 6, for Bushnell, 111.,
their home, returning after a visit in
the city with Miss Addie Searle.
Dr. E. W. Cook was a passenger for
Omaha this morning, where he goes to
assist Dr. Davis at Immanuel hospital,
to perform the operation on Mrs. Chas.
Manners.
J. R. King, representing the W. M.
Welch Mfg. Co., of Chicago, III., was
in the city this morning, interviewing
the county officers relative to supplies,
leaving for Des Moines, la., on Bur
lington No. 4.
W. Josselyn and W. B. Lodge, of
Lander, Wyo., were passengers for
Omaha on No. 19 this morning. Mr.
Lodge is a son-in-law of Mr. Josselyn,
and spent last evening with himself and
family in this city.
Charles Manners reports that he
found Jakie Beckman at Immanuel
hospital much improved and very cheer
ful. Mr. Beckman expects to be able
to leave the hospital within a week,
the operation being an entire success.
J. A. Clements, editor of the Elm
wood Leader-Echo, was in the city this
morning, coming down from Omaha
last night on No. 14, having business at
the County Judge's office regarding the
appointment of an administrator for his
mother's estate.
Mias Pansy Pickett, one of the most
popular and best known young iadies
of Union, died Snnday evening, after a
lingering illness. She was an employe
of Talkington's general store at the
time she was taken sick, and was an
excellent stenographer and a most ac
complished lady.
Johnny Buttery, the popular Burling
ton engineer, came down from Lincoln
last night on No. 15, returning on No. 7
today. Johnny came down to pay his
respects to A. J. Helps previous to his
departure for his new location in Cali
fornia. One of the coming treats promised
the lovers of music in thi3 city, is a gar
den fete to be given on the lawn and ve
randa of the Henry Heroldhome.by the
members of the St. Luke's choir. This
will take place on July the 14th and a
fine program is being arranged. A tem
porary stage will be erected and no ef
forts will be spared to make the occa
sion one of the utmost enjoyment.
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Will Ingraham Very Sick
Willian Ingraham, a young man who
made his home in this vicinity for some
time, took sick quite suddenly two
weeks ago just after returning from a
visit in Omaha, his trouble being a nerv
ous attack and heart failure, with which
he has been affected for some years.
He was taken to James Reynolds' and
given the best of care, and it was
thought advisable to summon his rela
tives. His father, B. E. Ingraham, of
Rokeby, Neb., also two sisters, came
last week, and finding Will's condition
very serious they decided to remove
him to Omaha for treatment by a spec
ialist. The trip was made Monday evening,
Charley RatlifT, Max Balfour, Will Rey
nolds and Oscar Iloback going with
them to assist. Will is an excellent
young man and has many friends here
who hope he may be permanently cured
by the hospital treatment in Omaha.
Union Ledger.
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feel bound to write and tell you so,"
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Hamilton, Ontario. "My little daugh
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plied Chamberlain's Salve and it healed
beautifully." This salve allays the pain
of a burn almost instantly. It is for
sale by F. G. Fricke & Co.
Hill Denies Interview
A special from Albany, New York,
under date of June 29, says. Albert E.
Hoyt, editor of the Argus received from
Paris today the following cablegram
from former Governor David B. Hill,
the reference being to an interview
which was published widely as coming
from Mr. Hill on the day he sailed for
Europe. In this interview Mr. Hill was
quoted as referring to Governor John
son as "the poor house candidate,"
criticising Mr. Bryan, and saying that
"there is no democratic party:"
Hoyt, Argus, Albany: Attention just
called to alleged political interviews in
American newspapers published after
my departure. They are fictitious. I
authorize you to deny same through the
Associated Press and otherwise.
"Dear Sally," wrote Miranda Jane.
Between you, the gate-post and me,
I owe my good complexion to
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Gering & Co.
New Deputy Recorder.
Miss Frances Weidman is the succes
sor of Miss Mary Karvonek as deputy
register of deeds, having received the
appointment from County Register of
Deeds, Henry A. Schneider, Miss Kar
vonek resigning, effective today. Miss
Weidman is' well and popularly known,
and is one of the brighest young ladies
in the city. The selection of her by Mr.
Schneider is one that redounds greatly
to his credit and is univerally approved.
Miss Jennie Johnson is Miss Weidman 's
successor in the book store.
Constipation.
For constipation there is nothing quite
so nice as Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. They always produce a
pleasant movement of the bowels with
out any disagreeale effect. Price, 25
cents. Ssmples free. For sale by F.
G. Fricke & Co.'
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