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Siiu-KNKK;Kit's majority over the
next highest candidate for governor,
(Dahlman) is 2.211.
T FT and the republican platform is
dead against free lumber. Are you
dead against it, Mr. Farmer?
Tmk full populist vote in the state at
the recent primary was 2,G.'1, of which
Berge received 1,572 and Shallenberger
l.O.VA
S many holes have been discovered
in the primary law that it is a ques
tion which it resembles the more, a
cribbage board or a colander.
"A Ckank at Oyster Hay" is the
heading on a news story in the morning
papers. On reading the story it devel
ops, however, that Mr. Roosevelt is not
the one referred to.
Sknatok Latta's majority for con
gress over Edgar Howard in the Third
district, is 1.252. This ought to con
vince Kdgar that the democrats over
tnere didn't want him as bad as he
thought they did.
Mosks . Wktmoke says that the
election of Itryan is just as sure as that
Missouri will go Democratic in Nove
mber. If this prediction is true, and
we hope it is, the holding of an election
will be a useless expsnse.
Vori.iT it wake up the country if
Taft should consent to hold a series of
joint debates with Bryan? But such a
consumation is too good to be hoped for.
After the first round, there would be so
little left of Taft that the coroner
would have to pick up the remains with
a blotter.
The republican leaders in Nebraska
have now under advisement the propo
sition of sending Little Vic Hosewater
out of the state until after the election.
They claim he is making votes every
tlay in the week for Mr. Bryan. Don't
do it, gentlemen, let him keep right on
in the goxl work.
We don't rr.ean to be pessimistic,
but we would really like to have an
answer to this question. If the price
of wheat goes up five cents a hundred,
and under the Roosevelt rate law it
costs five cents a hundred more to have
it hauled to market than it cost previ
ously, how and wherein is the farmer
benefited?
One thing that worries the Repub
lican managers is that they have no
means of judging by past events
whether or not their presidental can
didate is popular with the voters. Mr.
Taft has been at the public trough for
more than a score of years, but every
position he has held has been handed
to him on a platter. He has never
submitted his claims to the people.
When Taft spuke at Youngstown,
Ohio, last Saturday the steel trust
closed down its plant there and re
quested its employes to attend the
meeting. Workingmen are listening to
both candidates, but there is quite a
difference. They invite Bryan to talk
to them. They are requested by the
trusts to listen to Taft. Which of the
two men should feel most honored by
the presence of his audience?
Monday appeared to be a great day
for Democracy as well as labor. By
invitation of labor organizations, Wil
liam J. Brj an made three speeches to
gatherings of workingmen in Chicago,
while Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor,
spoke to the laboring men of Danville,
111. Danville is the home of Speaker
Cannon, who is having the fight of his
life in his effort to return to Congress.
Every national bank owes its exist
ence to an act of congress; it is a crea
tion of the law pure and simple. By
the law to which it owes its existence,
its notes, which circulate as money, are
guaranteed by the government. Every
holder of a national bank-note is a cred
itor of the bank which issued it. Every
depositor in a national bank is a cred
itor to the extent of his.deposit. Ititis
a good plan to guarantee the payment
of one class of obligations bank notes
why would it not be a good plan to
guarantee another bank deposits?
The Revolt Continues.
The Roosevelt-Tuft managers are
making a desperate effort to make a
show of gaining ground, while every
day the earth is slipping from beneath
their feet. Not even the highest priced
press agents to be had in the land can
find anything upon which to base a
claim of growing jopularity for the
Roosevelt proxy, says the Kansas Cijy
Tost.
The revolt which began against Roose
velt when his mad policies and insane
declarations plunged the country into
a financial panic in the very midst of a
of a season of unparalleled prosperity,
has continued unabated and only grows
stronger with the lapse of time. Nor
is it by any mean3 confined to the West
or to any one section of the country.
It is as strong today in Massachusetts
as in Missouri, stronger in New York
than in Texas.
In lS'JG and again in 19D0 the greatest
aversion to Bryan and the principles he
advocated was found in the East, and
especially in New York. The money
center was alarmed with a fear of in
novations and radicalism and turned al
most solidly to the parts of McKinley.
Millions were raised from trusts, insur
ance companies and poured recklessly
into the doubtful states. With a fair
election and a free expression of the
voice of the people there is no doubt but
Bryan would have been elected, even
with the richest and most powerful in
terests arrayed against him.
Never in the history of the country,
save only in cases of traitors publicly
exposed in time of war, has there been
such a revulsion of sentiment against a
man as the wave of indignation that
beats at the door of Thedore Roosevelt.
His dictatorial attitude toward Concrress i
his crushing of rights reserved to the
states, his unprecedented tampering
with the federal judicary, his assaults !
upon all invested capital, guilty and in-
nocent. his arrogance of all power and wno W1U ao ms auty witnoux regarc to
authority and his officious meddling with ! Personal ends and who will make a corn
all public alTairs, public and private, j missoner of which all can be proud,
have driven from him that strong sup- Vote for Seybert.
port that once ran from a fanciful bug
aboo to the party of William McKinley.
The country feels now, as it never
felt before, the need of a return to con
stitutional Democracy and a govern- I
rr.ent of equal rights, but nowhere is
this felt more strongly than in the East,
the one-time stronghold and fortress of
Republicanism. With a better under
standing of the man, and with the broad
ening and developement of the man
himself, the bugaboo of Bryanism has
passed away and given place to a faith
and confidence born of a clearer know-
ledge and maturer judgment. Not
even the most hide-bound New England
financier believes any longer that Wil
liam J. Bryan is a dashing adventurer
with a Don Quixote lance in rest for the
attack of established institutions, but
all men have come to regard him for
what he is, the cairn and conservative
statesman, the intelligent and broad
minded man of affairs.
There should be no doubt of the result
of a contest between two such elements,
Taft, the sycophantic time-server,
blindly promising to continue the mad
policies of the Rough Rider, and Wil
liam J. Bryan, the tribune of the peo
ple, giving every assurance of a return
to national sanity and the constitution
of our fathers. The revolt against Taft
and Rooseveltism goes on. It is sweep
ing through the North and East, and
on November 3 will place enough states
in the Democratic column to insure that
Rooseveltism, with all its attendant
dangers, is dead for all time to come.
If a man is a prohibitionist from
principle, is it not his duty to vote for
the prohibition candidates for president
and vice-president? Republicans will
vote for Taft and Sherman because
they are republicans. Democrats will
vote for Bryan and Kern because they
are democrats. There are prohibition
ists everywhere that are prohibitionists
until election day, then they go to the
polls and vote directly against the pro
hibition candidates. What would you
call such men? Hypocrites of the first
water, of course. There are a few
here in Plattsmouth who will vote for
the prohibition candidates for president
and vice-president, but they are pre
cious few. If you are a prohibitionist
show your colors.
What we ought to strive for in the
presidental race is the survival of the
fittest, not the fattest.
From reports the county over it is
becoming assured that William C. Ram
sey is going to get a tremendous vote
for County Attorney, and he deserves
every vote of it. He is an able, ener
getic and vigorous young man and the
best for prosecuter in the field by odds.
The nomination of Shallenberger for
governor with prompt acquiescence
therein of Dahlman and Berge means
that the democracy presents a clean
front to the enemy. He is an ideal
leader and with the support of the two
gentlemen mentioned he will be a win
ner. The great demonstration of organized
labor for Bryan last Monday looks as if
there was more than talk to the reports
that labor the country over is for the
democratic nominee. It is right and
just that it should be. Mr. Bryan rep
resents the idea of a fair show for every
one and that is all labor has ever asked
and much more than the republicans
ever gave it.
Judged by the species of fruit that
have been pouring into the Journal
office since the season commenced, the
past season has been one of except
ional worth. The applesjespecially are
large, well formed, of fine flavor and
great worth. This all goes to show
that Cass County is the banner county
of the state when it comes to fiuit and
its many thrifty energetic farmers are
responsible for it. All hail Cass County
and its fruit growers.
Every voter in Cass County owes it
to himself to carefully consider the
merits of C. N. Seybert, democratic
candidate for county commissioner. He
is just such a man as deserves the
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citizen who has the welfare of
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county at heart. A vote for him is a
vote for an energetic and honest man
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j The Democratic County ticket is one
j that should inspire the party workers
j with faith in the future of the party
j should it continue to name so good a
j ticket as at present. There is not a man
upon the present ticket that could be
improved upon. From Banning Tor
senator down through to Bates for float
representative and Sattler and Laugh-
j lin for representatives, Ramsey for
attorney, with Seybert f or commisioner,
it is A 1 ticket and deserves the support
of every democrat and Bryan man in
fie county. Turn out and from now
on boost for this ticket. It can and
will be elected.
The Wages Of Sin.
Out of the sensational testimony
given before the the coroner's jury in
the Rustin case at Omaha, the old, old
story that the wages of sin is death
stands forth most strongly. From the
moment the investigation of the dead
man's life began, the tale of his devious
wanderings into forbidden paths com
menced to unfold and it is near the
culmination. Here was an instance of
a brilliant, and talented young man with
everything that should have made him
a success in the world falling gradually
from one point to another, sinking each
day lower in the scale of degradation
until tired nature succumbedjand his
life went out as the penalty of his living.
From some of the testimony! adduced
it is plain he had come to be the2assoc-
iateof drug fiends and others of the lower
type, and there is only the mantle of
charity to say that he was not himself
one of them. With this moral downfall
came the inevitable financial'ruin'which
involved the hapless family in its meshes
and brought home to him the cup of
woe until to his diseased mind there
was no end but an exit from the world.
So comes the suicide compact with an
other unfortunate for whom the dark
shadow of the gallows hovers in the
background, and with the fallen woman
who turned away from the dreadful
deed which she was asked to commit.
All these things are the terrible pen
alty that must be paid for sin. It may
be of many sorts yet there is ever
present the same, grim, fearfuljend
the wages of sin.
Notice of Sale.
J. F. Tubbs has three pure bred.dark
Jersey Male pigs for sale at $15.00 each.
I legible to register.
UP AGAINST IT.
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TAR'S VACATION
GOMES TO AN END
CANDIDATE STAP.TS FOR HIS CIN
CINNATI QUARTERS.
DAY OF SPEECHES IN OHIO
Leaving Middle Bass Island, the Party
Is Entertained at Home of
the Late President
Hayes.
Sandusky, O.. Sept. 8. William H.
Taft Monday began his journey from
Lhe fishing grounds of Middle Bass
island to the activities of his cam
paign at Cincinnati, where he will ar
rive late Tuesday, after a speechmak
ing trip through the state. The Taft
family was quartered for the night at
the home of Edward H. Marsh, a col
lege friend of the candidate.
The feature of the day, which was
one of varied travel by boat, automo
bile and trolley, was the visit to the
home and tomb of the late President
Rutherford B. Hayes at Spiegel Grove,
near Fremont. Here the party were
the guests of Col. Webb Hayes. Fre
mont was reached shortly after one
o'clock, after the candidate had landed
and been heartily received by the resi
dents of Port Clinton, where he made
a brief address from the deck of Com
modore Richardson's yacht Jessamine,
on which the sail was made from the
Middle Bass club.
The importance politically of the
meeting to be held in the theater here
was accentuated by the assurance re
ceived here that former Gov. Herrick
would speak on the subject of the
guarantee of bank deposits by the gov
ernment, on which he takes the ground
that such guarantee would be another
form of monopoly. Gen. Keifer will
also sneak at this meeting on the sub
ject of the tariff, and Gen. Henry C- '
Corbin is scheduled for remarks. J
Club Bids Him Farewell.
The start from Middle Bass island
was made at 11 o'clock, and the many
members of the club who were on the
island paid a special tribute of fare
well to the departing guests. Mr. and
Mrs. Taft were surrounded on the
lawn by a score of fair kodak opera
tors and the "Taft smile" was perpetu
ated wiht many clicks. On the dock
every man, woman and child on the
island shook hands with the candidate,
and when the yacht slipped her hawser
there was a merry hurrah and flag
waving.
An hour later, when the Jessamine
poked her prow into the channel at
Port Clinton, the industries of that
town indicated themselves by the
tooting of steam whistles, the ringing
of bells and the firing of salutes.
County Chairman Tadsen stepped
aboard the yacht and proclaimed Mr.
Taft as the next president, whereupon
the crowd on the dock cheered heart
ily. Luncheon and Ball Game.
The 17-mile automobile ride to
Spiegel grove was made in little more
than an hour. After luncheon the
party were entertained with a base
ball game under the famous old trees,
in which Burchard A. Hayes, with his
white hair and beard, played first base
and caught out Master Charlie Taft.
as well as his juvenile nephews, with
great spirit.
In Fremont, while waiting for his
trolley car for Sandusky, Mr. Taft
shook hands with a quickly gathered
crowd, arriving here at six o'clock.
The party went directly to the
Marsh residence for a quiet evening.
Deserters from American FleeL
Melbourne, Sept. 8. As the search
of a patrol from the American fleet
for the men who failed to go aboard
their ships when the fleet left here
Saturday for Albany has not met with
much success, rewards have been of
fered for the apprehension of 221
etraggiera.
PARKER TAKES CHARGE
GOES TO WASHINGTON TO
FEND LABOR LEADERS.
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Long-Pending Suit of Bucks Stove SL
Range Company Scheduled to
Begin Wednesday.
New York, Sept. X. Judge Alton M.
Parker, who is chief counsel for the
American Federation of Labor in the
suit known as the Bucks Stove &
Range company vs. the American
Federation of Labor ; Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell, Frank Morrison and
others, which will come before the
supreme court of the United States
n Washington on Wednesday, left this
city to take charge of the case. The
proceedings this week will consist of
argument by counsel oa a petition by
the Bucks company asking that, the
defendants be punished for contempt
of court for alleged violation of an
Injunction previously issued by the
same court. The executive council of
the federation will he in session in
Washington during the proceedings.
I. W. Van Cleave, who is president of
the Bucks Stove & Range company,
which made the petition to the court,
Is also president of the National Man
ufacturers' association. Last Novem
ber Mr. Van Cleave applied to the
court for an injunction to prohibit the
federation from advising organized la
bor that the company was unfair to
its employes. Later the court made
that injunction permanent. Mr. Gomp
ers and his associates, however, de
termined to make a firm stand against
the writ of injunction and issued an
appeal to the public setting forth their
reasons for not complying with all the
terms of the injunction. It is said that
the legal proceedings of this week will
consist of labor's argument against the
Injunction. It is said that Judge Park
er has devoted much time for severaf
months to a study of the legal status
of labor unions, and the outcome of
HUB UilSt5 IS (lVVdl irU Willi I UL1S1I1TT1 OUl1?
Interest by both employers and em
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JAMES PLEADS NOT GUILTY.
Springfield Negro Also Asks
Change of Venue.
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Springfield, 111., Sept. 8. Joe James,
indicted for the murder of Clergy A.
Ballard, and whose life wa3 sought by
the mob during the recent riots, but
who was spirited away in an automo
bile, was arraigned before Judge
Creighton Monday. He entered a
plea of not guilty and asked a change
of venue on the grounds that race
prejudice among the people made a
fair trial impossible.
The court overruled the motion to
quash the indictments against Abe
Taymer, indicted as the mob leader
for the murder of Scott Burton and W.
H. Donnegan, who were lynched. Only
one of the indictments in the Donne
gan murder was quashed.
Springfield citizens organized a law
and order league Monday, with Rev.
J. H. Boswell president, the purpose
being to wage a crusade against vice
and to co-operate with the whites in
driving questionable characters, black
and white, from the city. The resolu
tions urge establishment of a work
Louse for prisoners.
Grieves for Son; Drowns Self.
San Francisco, Se;t. 8. Brooding
ever the death of her son, Ensign
Neumann, who was killed in a turret
explosion on the battleship Georgia
while (n the taryet range off Boston
last, fall, it is believed, caused Mrs.
.iiza D. Neumann to jump o;T the
tck of the Pacific mail steamer City
of Sydney, on the night of September
1. when the steamer was a few hours
cut from Acapulco.
Mitchell Talks at Marion, III.
Marion, 111., Sept. 8. John Mitchell,
former president of the United Mine
Workers of America, addressed 2.000
people at a Labor day celebration
here. Mr. Mitchell spoke of the rapid
advance of laboring classes and de
nounced the Idea that the rich are
growing richer and the poorer poorer.
WILD OUTBREAK
OF
BERKMAN AND FOLLOWERS IN
TROUBLE ONCE MORE.
HE AND A GIRL ARRESTED
Attempt to Turn Meeting of New
York's Unemployed Into Lawless
Demonstration Is Prevented
by the Police.
New York, Sept. 8. An attempt
was made Monday to turn a meeting
of unemployed workingmen Into an
anarchistic demons! rat Ion, and for half
an hour Ihe big meeting hall In Cooper
Union, where Ihe meeting look plan,
was the scene of wild excitement,
during which red Hags were ruined,
the police denounced and Incendiary
speecftes made.
Alexander Herkman, the anarchist
who some years ago Hhot Henry C.
Frlck. a steel company official, during
the Homesieid strike In Pennsy!
vania was 4raKK'd from the hall by
the police and locked up. A young
woman who gave her name as "Mary
Smith," and who titood by Herkman,
was also arrested, and Enitn:i Gold
man, in-cognized leuder of the '"reds'
in Ihls country, was made to b-avu
the hall.
Planned by J. Eads How.
J. Fads Mow of St. Louis, some
times alluded to as the .Millionaire
Hobo," planned the demonstration. H i
and other officers of the Unemployed
and Brotherhood Welfare association
had for some time been making ar
rangements for a monster parade and
meeting on Labor day. but when th
parade formed tin-re wen- fewer than
1.000 in line. The police say they
recognized many anarchists in line,
among them some who attended t If
meeting in Union square last spring
when a bomb was thrown at the pollen
which killed a spectator and fatally
wounded the bomb-thrower himself.
"Marseillaise" Starts Trouble.
As the parade drew up in front of
Cooper Union a well dressed man
stepped to the side of Mr. How and
asked him to havw thj' band play th'
Marseillaise. Mr. How referred thu
man to the leader of the band. As the
French national air was not. on th'-i
program the man gave the band leader
a dollar to i iay it.
It was the playing of this air, identi
fied in past times with so much
bloodshed, that started the trouble.
As soon as the crowd had gathered in
the- hall the band began to play the
Marseillaise and in an instant, nearly
everyone present jumped to his feet,
cheering and stamping on the floor.
Red flags appeared but the pollen
quickly made the holders of these put
them away.
Alexander Herkman and Kninw
Goldman entered the hall at this junc
ture and took seats near the plat
form. Dr. Wen Heitman, who calls
himself "King of the Hoboes," and who
was one of the first speakers, an
nounced that his speech had
written by Emma Goldman.
been
This
brought forth cheering.
Reitman Breaks Loose.
Dr. Heitman was on the program
for a speech on the "Care of the Un
employed." but it was not noticed
that he had anything to say on thin
subject. Dr. Keitman urged the un
employed to cease submitting to labor.
He denounced public institutions and
then said:
"Listen! This Is anarchy, but I tell
you there should be fewer thousands
expended in the maintenance of
churches and the police, and the
money should be expended in caring
for the unemployed such as you, and
not spent in keeping up such super
stitions." At this point Charles Oberwager, a
former president of the Central Fed
erated union, was introduced. He de
nounced the preceding speaker, de
claring Dr. Reitman had preached the
doctrines of anarchy. This caused an
outburst and during the excitement
Berkman sprang to his feet and de
manded to be allowed to take the plat
form to defend the anarchistic doc
trines in which he believes.
Police Take a Hand.
Policemen swarmed through the hall
and ordered the disturbers to be quiet,
while several bluecoats surrounded
Berkman. Emma Goldman tried to
reach his side, but sie was stopped
and told to leave the hall or she would
be arrested. She obeyed. Then the
young woman who said her name was
"Mary Smith" fought her way to Berk
man's side and urged him to take the
platform. Herkman tried to do this
and was arrested. The crowd closed
in about the policemen and for a mo
ment it looked as though a rescue
might be attempted, but Herkman re
mained calm and said nothing to urge
his followers on. Other policemen
took "Mary Smith" into custody and
the two were taken to a police station,
where they were locked tip charged
with disorderly conduct and inciting a
riot.
F. D. Bethune in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. S F. I).
Hethune, a corporation attorney of
New York, who disappeared from hin
home in that city, August 23. is said
to be in Los Angeles. No motive for
his disappearance is known and he Is
supposed to be suffering from mental
derangement. His family last had
communication with him from Buffalo
by long-distance telephone In which
he said it would be useless to search
or him.
ANARCHISTS
