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Nothing succeeds like keeping ever
lastingly at it. Boost for Platts
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The coal problem Is not so serious
us it was, but the Easter bonnet ques
tion has suddenly arisen.
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"1 am not afraid of the people,"
tays President Taft. The people do not
fear Mr. Taft. either; but they fear
for him.
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Xtr. Taft ought not to blame the
newspapers. With scarcely an excep
tion, they have been as friendly as
hey dared.
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Republican papers are not blowing
much about the special congressional
flection In Massachusetts. Two years
ago the district went 14,000 Repub
lican, and a Democrat was elected
lit the recent election by over 5,000.
What a change was there, my coun
trymen. And the Aldrlch-Cannon
Taft schedules did the work. You
an't fool the people all the time
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Iowa standpatters are not so very
pli ntiful in proportion to the number
of Republicans In that state. Since
Cummins won out and Dolllver saw
the light and "Insurged" and others
are laying low; especially those that
are looking for pie. The same In Ne
braska. ThoHe standpatters who were
howling so loud are very quiet.
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An exchange wisely observes that
If we continue ninking farmers' boy's
stenographers, clerks, preachers and
laweyrs, corn will be worth $8 per
bushel within the next ten years.
And we may safely suggest that
many of them would make better
corn raisers than they do preachers
and lawyers. Of course, your home
community Is always excepted.
' Would you eonslder an organiza
tion to buy all the coal lands In Penn
sylvania a conspiracy In restraint of
rtrade and a monoply?" asked Justice
MftTlan during the argument of the
:3taiidurd ens.' In tho United States su-
preme court the other day. The
company's counsel was unable to an
swer. And yet the company goes Into
'court 'under a plea in extenuation that
Us ownership of practically the en
tire oil business of the country was
arquired by straight business methods
and the use of superior acumen in
conducting Its affairs, aided by un
limited capital. The court's question
was a significant one.
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Notwithstanding the strongest sort
of opposition on the part of the Re
publican members, the houso commit
tee has been compelled to yield to the
popular demand and has reported out,
the bill to require tho publication of
campaign contribution?!. The effort to
pigeonhole tho measure "was thwarted
by tho Democrats. Republicans In
committee voted against tho bill or
did not vote at all. But the prospects
are good for the passage of the bill
At this gession. To take off the lid Is
drwided by tho G. O. P. managers
was a deliberate refusal after the last
congressional election, on the part of,
some of the congressional managers
of the president's own party, to file
their accounts. What It costs to elect a
Kepuur.can majority Is thus still a
mystery. It Is a phase of tho old Quay
motto; Addition, division and sil
ence.
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dealers to sell milk by the quart were
gathered up and found by a large
percentage to be short measure. Were
the dealers swatted quickly by the
strong arm of the law? Nay. They
went to court, too, said It was Im
possible to get bottles that would con
tain exactly the amount represented
as being sold the consumers. In each
case the court said "very good; may
be you can't; but you can make pack
ages or bottles that will contain at
least the weight of the quantity as
Whir Rurkett's silence begins his
tory becomes eloquent. Nebraska represented." May be these dealers
voters have not forgotten when "Un- are obeying the law may be. Being a
cle Joe" Cannon stumped the South little larger calibre than retailers. It
Platte country In behalf of E. J. Bur- took more time to make their heave
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kett. In the Lincoln auditorium Can- to.
non declared that whenever he need- All of which Indicates that under
ed Burkett's vote, he, Cannon, got it. our system of procedure, the small
He wanted Burkett returned because chap gets It In the necK ana tne Dig
they" needed him. And any student one gets his in dividends,
of current events knows that Can-
non meant the special Interests when
he enuclated that Innocent "they."-
Lincoln Star.
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tarily and fragmentary Democratic.
World-Herald.
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THK MASSACHUSETTS VERDICT.
'A DEMOCRATIC VICTOR!."
1IARMOX OF OHIO.
Among the men who are being
closely watched by the political fore
casters who are already earnestly editorial columns
speculating on the possibilities of the
The Sioux City Journal, a Republi
can newspaper, discusses the outcome
of the fight In the house of represen
tatives with the clarity, logic and
candor which lend distinction to its
As to the "Insurgents" who voted
I I tnm Cn n n it 9rr onDolror It fiflVfl
year 1912, Is the chief executive of -.".vv ,
.v. rM.i .. T.,H0nn One thing Is clear: With the
Harmon. A few days ago, Gov. Har
mon made this observation:
"To talk big and do nothing is bad
in any case, but especially so In a
matter of public morals.''
The force of the expression of the
governor will appeal strongly to men
who have become weary of the Bome.
what loquacious statesmen who are
everlastingly saying rather than do
ing. For many months now the so
called statesmen at Washington have
been busy "saying," and perhaps the
governor was offering an inference
befitting that class of statesmen. The
work that Governor Harmon has been
doing in his own state has been such
as to cause strongest endorsement
from not only the Democratic, but the
Independent and Republican press.
We venture the prediction . that a
strong effort will be made by the-level-headed
Democrats of the coun
try to make Governor Harmon the
standard bearer of the Democratic
party In 1912. There is every reason
to believe that President Taft will
succeed in his desire for renoralna-
situation wholly In their hands
and those of their Democratic al
lies, the insurgents did not car
ry their victory to Its logical lim
it. They had an opportunity to
do what has been described by
practically all their spokesmen
as the most desirable of all
things, namely, to get rid of
Cannon. Of the thirty-five in
surgents who voted against con
stitution and precedent and
party obligation to over-rule the
speaker, only nine had the moral
courage to vote to oust him when
he himself presented the oppor
tunity. One suspects that the
twenty-six weak-kneed insur
gents who voted to continue Can
non In the .speaker's chair will
have a merry time explaining to
their Cannon-hating constituents
why they "voted for Cannon"
when by voting against htm they
could have retired him.
The Journal next points out that
the Insurgents also failed to "push
their reform of the rules committee
to the point that must Insure the
overthrow of the Cannon organization
In its control." It recallB that the
original Norrls resolution provided
The outcome of the special con
gresslon election in the Fourteenth
Massachusetts district cannot but be
regarded as highly significant.
A Republican majority of 14,250
In 1908 is converted Into a Demo
cratic majority of 5,840 in 1910.
One of the strongest Republican
districts in the entire union, a dis
trict that has never faltered in its
allegience to the Republican party,
returns a Democrat to congress by
such a majority as to make it, for
the time being, one of the strongest
Democartlc districts!
The issues of the campaign were
the issues that the whole country Is
discussing the Aldrich tariff, the
failure of the Republican party prop
erly to restrain the trusts, and the
high coBt of living.
The verdict is squarely and over
whelmingly and decisively against
the Republican party. And it was
rendered three days after the up
rising in the lower house of congress
which, we are assured, would elim
inate Cannonism as an issue "the
only issue the Democrats had" re
unite the Republican party, remove
the dissatisfaction In the ranks, and,
send the party on once more to vic
tory.
, The Republican bosses will have to
revise their estimate.
The simple truth Is that the people
of this country have become pretty
thoroughly educated' on the tariff
question. More than that, they are
no longer under any delusion as to
the character of the leadership of the
Republican party, and the direction in
which that leadership Is headed. They
are fairly well convinced that the Re
publican party, as it is organized and
controlled today, is only an alliance
between "big business," corrupt pon
tics, and torylsm.
: As the World-Herald has repeated
ly asserted, the thought of the coun
try is overwhelmingly Democratic. A
far larger number of American citi
zens are satisfied with the Denver
form
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"mertly local," as some of the New
England regulars would have the
country believe.
No, Indeed! Insurgency Is national.
It has swept the country. The only
place where it is not yet expressed by
big majorities Is in the Republican
membership of congress, and that will
be changed in the" next house, at
least, either by the election of a suf
ficient number of progressive Re
publicans to give that wing control of
the Republican side, or by electing
a Democratic house. The alternative
depends on the kind of nominations
the Republicans make. Kansas City
The Republican party, for star Rep-
several years past, has owed its con
tinued ascendency to its pilferlngs of
Democratic policies, which alone en-
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PUBLIC SPIRIT AX AKtiKT.
the country which each group repre
sented. Under thin resolution the
committee could easily have come un-
fni n mips committee to be chOBen I L r, I r.,i,n .,,i,t i m-ivnio aaaat tn
tlm. nnA thn. th nlfklne un of abled it to noia enougn revive ive- x i
Governor Harmon, In view of the by grUPS f th5 "7! PuJHce In line to tave off, for a every man in the community. By
splindid work he Is doing, will be re
gardod as a master stroke of policy,
n the going to Ohio for the Democrat
ic candidate. Harmon has a record
f "doing," and with the approval of
nearly all Ohio men for the manner of
his doing, we prophesy his presiden
tial strength will grow rapidly not
only In his own bailiwick, but
througout the whole country.
made up according to the Bections of wne the impending revolution. public spirit we mean a disposition to
Dut these tactics will no longer advance the interests of the commun
serve, Loyalty on tne part 01 us "j ""uitv. iuc vi uc.
members to the Republican party, re- without property is benefited in such
der control of the progreRsive ele- gardloB8 of what it Btanda for reeard. a community because that spirit pro-
ment of the house, Republican ana
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IIKJ SW1XPLKRS AXI LITTLE.
WHICH?
The Sioux City Tribune alms
wicked and malicious dart at Ne
braska's senior senator:
"Which side of the Cannon fight Is
Senatorf Burkett on?" asks the edi
tor of the Tribune.
Ask again and then again. After
wards keep on asking. Echoes innu
merable will be the only reply vouch
fiafed to the journalistic inquirer of
ParklngtoftVa.
It is but human nature that the
man higher up should be taken pat
tern of by the man lower down.
Hence there Is little surprise at the
disclosures made by the government
agents In Chicago and other cities
of various petty frauds practiced by
retail dealers In food products upon
the consumer. Such things as load
ed bottoms on scales and fake weights
were common. There Is a computing
scale la general use in many parts of
the country that turns a pretty fig
ure each year as an automatic swind
ler. Of course, most of the poor
rascals caught at it were promptly
haled before the court, fined or jail
ed. Far be it from the dignity of
the blind goddness to slmlanize with
such offenders. Sherman act? What?
And the dear public being fllmmed
out of a fraction of a pound per by
such vulgar methods! In you go. No
temporizing with the sacred rights of
the people.
These same government sleuths,
also, found that the large manufac
turers of package goods, which have
come Into universal demand, for rea
sons of convenience and others, have
been gradually decreasing the size of
their packages and increasing the
price thereof. Were they dumped
Into dungeons deep, unceremoniously
and indignantly? Not they. They
went to court, said It was impossible
to put exactly a pound or a halt
pound in every package. In New
York thosuands of bottles used by
less of what it does, and regardless of vldes more comfort and pleasures
Democratic. But Mr. Norrls and the rIt,wm do next, is about played available. If it Is a man of property
other Insurgents failed to stand by I Jhat loyaUy hfls bepn g,yen fQp 0J bu8lne6s things that makes a city
years, with increasing doubt and attractive to live in, bring people.
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growth dlaaatisf action. By hundreds energy and capital to it, and thus in
of thousands of intelligent voters it crease the volume of business and
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will hp elven bo lonaer unless it is the value of property. There are
earned. Imen in Memphis who are conduct-
Independent voting was what work- lnR business enterprises while at the
ed the political revolution in the 9arae t,me owners of property, and
Fourteenth Massachusetts district. the increase of the value of property,
It will work a like revolution in many whoB cre Save them no work, was
another district this coming fall. The greater than the net profits of their
conscience1 and intelligence of the business, that gave them all of their
country, of the Republican party it- work- This increase in the value of
Finally, th, Journal admits that . ready, and aching for the Property came from increase in popu.
whatever victory has been won, par- chance to punish the party that is la
tlal and unsatisfactory as it 1b, "is power for its cynical faithlessness.
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this resolution, .and amended, it to
eliminate the groups and provide for
election by caucus. The Journal
says:
The regular Cannon Republi
cans will control the Republican
caucus. If the insurgents should
go into "the caucus and agree to
abide by Its outcome the regulars
could name the Blx strongest
Every virtue helpB every other vir
tue. Every reform helps every other
reform that Is worth while. Invest
ment through public spirit may pay
larger material returns than invest
ment through private enterprise, and
the man of larger vision is the one
who Bees it. He can see beyond his
own business and his own bank ac
count, and understands his part de
pendence. on the business and bank
account of every other man in the
community and certainly of the com
munity as a whole.
Building a community to private,
as compared to public spirit, is doing
what the world has been trying to
get away from the habit of pulling a
load with four mules pulling one way
to the front and three mules pulling
the other . way to the rear. Speaking
figuratively, the business of life has
been through all the centuries, in the
broadest application, and touching
the most- vital and largest questloiu
of humanity, to get all the mules pul
ling one way, and we are as much
improved over former times as we
have added mules to the front and
taken them from the rear. The same
thing stated differently is that tha
business of life has been from the ori
gin of man to reduce and stop fric
tion. The search for Motionless ma
chinery has gone on in the physical,
moral and intellectual world. Mem
phis News-Sclmetar.
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kCannon men in the house as the
Republican members, and the or
ganization would be as firmly In
control of the committee as ever.
a Democratic victory." For, It point
out:
Liberalization of the rules
was demanded in the last Dem
ocratic national platform. ' It
was not demanded by the Repub
lican platform. It could not
have been attained without solid
Democratic support.
This, It might bo remarked, Is only
history repeating itself. Whatever o(
progressive legislation was enacted
under Roosevelt s administration was
made possible only by the support of
a majority of the Democratic mem
bers and a minority of the Republl
can members
Further than that every bit of pro
gressiveness that the Republican
party has displayed In recent years
was stolen from the Democratic plat
forms.
NATIONAL 1XSUUOKXCY.
latlon. The more rapid the growth of
a community the more rapid the In
crease in the value of property. If
a man. has, $200,000 invested in a
manufacturing plant and the cost of
The extent which the country Is living in the community and the
dissatisfied with the new tariff law pleasure of living in it make a dlffer-
and with Cannonism Is strikingly re- nee of 50 cents per day for or against
fleeted In the several newspaper polls him, and he employes workers, this Is
made by the Chicago Tribune. The $50 a day, or $15,000 a year or 7V4
result of the western poll already has lcr cent on his capital of $200,000.
Been given, and has shown that the Public spirit Is not charity or glv
west Is overwhelmingly against both Ing, but Investing.
things. That result w as no surprise,
but many will be amazed at the re
turns from the east.
Public spirit is that larger spirit
of faith that is willing to invest in
the community through faith In the
Only Republican and Independent community, as a whole or organized
papers were asked to express their 8Pgments 0f a community Just as prl-
In County Court.
In county court this morning a
I petition asking for the appointment
of a guardian for Charles Nordenses,
alleged to be incompetent, waa with
drawn by Messrs. Clark ft Robertson
who had filed it. Mr. Nordenson whe
is an Inmate of the Masonic home
appeared and objected strongly to the
charges and the counsel for the pe
titioners after hearing him talk and
sizing up concluded that he waa aot
incompetent by any means and the
petition was withdrawn. .
A petition was filed by Messrs.
Clark & Robertson asking for the ap
pointment of Verna Barnum Cheney
as executor of the estate of Eliza G.
Barnum, deceased, and the admission
of her will to probate. Miss Cheney
is the sole heir of deceased.
In the matter of the estate of John
T. Balrd, deceased, George L. Farley
was appointed administrator. Messrs.
Clark & Robertson appeared for the
estate. .
views. More than half of those In
vited ' responded. Of the responses
vate spirit is willing to Increase in
estment In one's own business, where
789 were against the tariff law and the faitn la conflned to on's self Pub-
197 for It; 879 against Cannonism lc Bpirits Inspires a manto take an
and 155 for it. And the most as-
Thls Is the plain and unvarnished tonlshlng thing about the returns is
truth. And this is why unadulter-w lUB '
ated Republican newspapers, like the both Cnnnonlsm and the Payne-Aid-
Sioux City Journal, look with frank rlch tarlff was grealer ,n NeW En
and sour dUfavor on such perform- lnnd iUa ,n the we8t' ""jesting
ances as were witnessed in the house Uhat tho remarkable election In the
last week. They hate to see the Re-KPe CoJ D1"trlct of Massachusetts
..vn the other day was by no means
interest In the management of his
community or its component parts to
help get things done right, and on the
other hand the habit of Interesting
himself in public matters begets pub
He spirit because he has more faith
in the administration of affairs in
which he has been exercising some
voice. '
Death of Willis llorton.
Another old time Cass county citi
zen died last Tuesday at 8:05 a. m.,
at his home In Wabash, in the person
of Willis Horton. The cause of death
was pneumonia.
Mr. Horton was born In New Tork
state In 1831. He was one of the
earliest settlers In Wabash. The rela
tives are one brother In Brlgton, la.,'
and two sisters, one living In Wabash
and the other near Wabash.
Funeral services at 1:30 Wednes
day In the M. E. church, Wabash, aad
Interment In Oakwood cemetery.
Weeping Water Republican.