The- Plattsmouth - Journal
f Published Semi-Week! at Plattsmouth. Webraski CT3
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice. at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, an necond-class
matter.
J.50 Pfl rr9i? IN ADVANCE
Every citizen should boost f' r
the Platte river wagon bridge.
:o:
The Fourth of July is drawing
rear and ou do not want to for
get the celebration at IMatts-
mouth.
( :o:
Our naval men arc now bring
entertained in Ilusisa. We should
judge the foggy nights call for all
tehir skill as navigators.
:o;
The, democrat have everything
coming their way, and if no great
mistakes are made by congress
the next president will be a demo
crat. :o:
The senate has been in session
only 82 hours, and probably half
that time was spent in coaching
the new members on "senatorial
courtesy."
:o:
Mr. Taft is now worrying about
where he can exchange those
duplicated silver wedding pres
ents without the givers knowing
About it.
:o :
I.a Follello's friends are claim
ing Nebraska, as against Taft,
lor the presidency. Hut Taft's
friends are by no means giving
tip the fight.
:o:
George V will be glad when he
hafc n right to put bis orow'n on,
nn)l not have to walk put bare
headed in the chilly days of an
English June.
:o:-
The color line in the lumber
trust is found to include the
blacklist, the Itlack Cat and the
lllackstone but no trace of the
Itlack Hand.
The Auburn Herald has
changed hands. J. (.',. Voline, who
has been connected with the Her
nld for ten years, is now the chief
guy nt the helm.
:o:
Mrs. Taft was unable to receive
the guests at the silver wedding.
We wish Aunt IHia would stay on
in Washington end relieve her of
the arduous duly of making the
pies.
:o:
These daisy chains the college
girls carry please the farmers,
who are glad to see such large
quantities of that pesky white
weed exterminated from their
fields.
-:o:-
Eighly-lhroe students get
diplomas nt West Point, and, un
like most other graduates, they
do, not have to spend n year
swooping out the ofllce and wash
ing the windows.
:o:
governor Dencon of Illinois has
vetoed tho bill to keep the news
papers from publishing the crime
news. He fell that citizens nal
turally want to know what the
legislature is doing.
:o:
Why men will persist in run
ning for ofllce when their friends
foe! doubtful of their election and
tells them so, we cannot tinder
stand. Why block the road to
success for others?
:o:
A Japanese bell-boy in a Bos
ton hotel has become a college
professor. This is probably one
of the cases where hotel employes
are able to afford costly luuxuries
nut of their tips.
:o :
It looks to the man tip a tree as
though the democratic stale com
mittee was in acting this year
The primaries are not very far
oft and the state chairman should,
gi-l a move on himself.
:o:
Jack Johnson is being cheered
in London streets. Over here the
sound of "$10 and costs for auto
speeding" was more frequently
heard than the acclaims of the
populace.
:o:
Elbert Hubbard has won a bet
of $500 that he did not dare have
his hr.ir cut. How does he expect
lecture dates without that black
and tangled mane to shake in the
face of the cowering and ashy
pale audience?
:o:
A candidate should di-abuse
his inii.it of the fact that he can
lay down after he tret the nom
ination and his friends will eh-ct
biin. Iou't place too much de
pendeiiee on your friends. They
will vole for you, no doubt, but
they are not, going to break their
necks1 in hustling for votes for
you. You must do that, yourself.
Men with hustling prodivities are
the only men that can be depend
ed upon to nudge to the front.
:o: ;
Otto atouck of IUeliardsou
county wants the democratic
nomination for regent. So does
Miller of Lincoln. As between
Iwo two we prefer Otto. He is a
young man of considerable ability
and served two terms in the legis
lature. Miller served one term
in the state senate and is rich,
which is about all he has got to
recommend him. He is a demo
crat when it suits him, and when
it don't suit him he is the other
way. Such democrats should not
be rewarded. You ran bank on
Olio Katouck's democracy everv
day in the week and Sunday, loo
:o: :
TRUST DEFENDERS.
In ils canvass of Nebraska's
i newspaper men to discover their
x.ews of reciprocity with Canada,
the Chicago Tribune found 178
editors favoring it ami 52 again!
Thai was the result, so far as Ne
braska is concerned.
In Hie western, northwestern
and southwestern sections of the
country, out of 1,303 replies re-
"i,ed (mm editors, 3,113 were in
favor of the president's reci
procity pact.
..I -. -
ui course ine editors or news
papers have no monopoly of intel
ligence or inside information up
on the wisdom or unwisdom of
proposed policies of government,
but (he very nature of their em
ployment their profession, it
may lie termed requires that
I hey shall keep moderately well
posted upon the questions of Ihe
hour, and if they be not unduly
partisan, they may be relied upon
to give their views candidly,
especially outside of the columns
of their own papers.
This canvass was not needed to
disclose that President Taft's
reciprocity pnet is popular all
over the west. Its opponents have
busied themselves in a disin
genious effort to line up the agri
cultural element against it, but it
has been a signal failure. These
opponents are belter known to tho
editors beyond the Missisippi than
Ihey were al first to the farmers
whom they attempted to confuse
and defraud.
If no other argument for reci
procity were ready to hand, a list
of the names of Its opponents,
together with an analysis of their
records In public life, would
serve. Men who have always been
Ihe champions of special privilege
are now mightily concerned lest
the farmers they have ai,bd in
fleecing are to be injured. The
editors of the west, regardless of
political leanings, are 3 to 1 for
reciprocity because they have in
vestigated the measure and be
cause they know the men against
it and their motives.
It is a little humiliating to dis
cover that, standing up with the
lumber trust, the paper trust and
the various other conspiracies
and combinations that have been
enriched by the tariff, are a num
ber of the members of congress
from this state. In fact, the three
republican congressmen, have so
little respect for the intelligence
of the people that they are pro
fessing to oppose reciprocity out
of consideration for the Nebraska
farmer.
It is time that the people of Ne
braska began to resent such ef
forts of their representatives to
bambozle them with false pre
tense. If we concede to the three
republican congressmen intel
ligence enough to entitle them to
their positions, we must conclude
that they know better than their
professed belief that Canadian
reciprocity along the lines con
templated in the, proposed pact
would injure the Nebraska
farmer.
These men are brazenly de
termined to stand up for such
legislation on the tariff as the
robber trusts want. They are do
ing it for the ben'lt o,f the trusts,
and not for the benefit of the Ne
braska farmer. ' Their associa
tions all point to this conviction.
They are not taking a stand
along-side honest men whose in
terest in the masses is credible.
They ere standing up beside
thieves, and it is an insult to the
intelligence of their constituents
for them to pretend that they
think they are doing it for the
er knows better. Everybody
else knows better. They
themselves know that everybody
else knows better. Lincoln Star.
:o:
If you can't swat the cat, iry
swatting the fly.
:o:
The Harvard freshman coxs
wain has the mumps, but Harvard
r
men usually have a lot of cheek
--:o:
The cobweb skirt is now to be
fashioned and we can easily see
lli n t many of our fly boys will be
enmeshed in it.
:o:
Charlie Taft was hurt pole
vaulting, but if he is ever going
to climb as high as his father he
must have a vaulting ambition.
:o:
There arc now six candidates
on the republican side of the
Wisp announced for supreme
iudge, and only three to elect.
:o: .
Harvest is on now. Some farm
ers began cutting wheat Monday,
and they say the crop is of excel
lent quality and turning out well.
:o:
The hotel men in convention al
Boston sang,' 'It's Nearly Time lo
Hit the I town." Wc doubt if any
of them ever admitted that the
time had fully come.
:o:
Hay was quoted at $27 a ton in
Chicago the other day. No won
der the farmers are buying autos.
Pretty soon they will be trading
bales of hay for the whiz wagons,
and we'll have to go after the hay.
:o :
Now a 24-slory hole) for New
York. If the proprietor wakes up
at 2 a. m. and wonders if the
front door was locked, he'll have
a long distance to walk down in
his night shirt, if the elevator
boy is asleep.
:o:
They are trying to popularize
the Congressional Record by
making the price $1 a year. We
should like to subscribe, but fear
that the children would abandon
all serious reading for this
frivulous literature.
:o:
Why not a non-partisan
judiciary? Every time this pro
position is mentioned some of the
leading republican papers of the
elate go into the hysterics. For
some cause or other the repub
lican leaders don't want a non
partisan judiciary. And why?
:o:
Some fool republican in con
gress declares that the demo
cratic support of the Canadian
treaty means that the party wants
to annex Canada. Let us inform
this simpleton that what the
democratic party wants to annex
at this time is the United States.
:o:
We demand a lather's day off.
Dhat with coal bills in winter, ice
bills in summer, Christinas and
Easter and family birthdays hit
ting with a regularity that backs
the 10th of the month offn the
calendar, here conies a string of
June brides and, well they must
be taken care of, bless their
hearts.
:o :
August 19 is the date of the
big log rolling at Nehawka, and
the citizens of that thriving little
burg are up and ready to do the
proper thing, as they ever are.
This will undoubtedly be the
largest and best celebration the
Woodmen ever held in Cass coun
ty. The Nehawka hustlers intend
to make is so.
:o:
That man Rose, appointed su
preme judge by Governor Shel
don a few days before he "stepped
down and out," wants the pe.'nle
to elect him now for a full term.
Many republicans think he has
already all that is coming to him,
and it lookg as though Mr. Rose
will have to retire when his term
expires. He has proven more of
a politician than a judge.
:o:
That man, Poulson of the Anti
Saloon league has woke up again
and is giving the people of Lin
coln more trouble on the saloon
question. The only way the peo
ple of the capital city can expect
any peace is to give Poulson
notice not only to leave Lincoln,
but to leave the state.' , He don't
belong in Nebraska anjway.
Simply sent here to make trouble.
:o:
Secretary Knox, through his
"dollar diplomacy," succeeded in
gixing away to the Argentine re
public plans and patterns for
warships that cost the govern
ment hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and in getting two con
tracts to build dreadnaughts by
private parties in this country.
Now it is announced that the Ar
gentine republic has ordered
work to he stopped on both of
them ami Knox and the ship yards
are holding the sack, into which
no pigeons fly and no dollars
drop.
:o:
HARMON AND WILSON.
The Lincoln News informs its
readers that "in every forecast
sent out by unbiased observers
from the cast the declaration is
made that the conservatives are
all for Harmon and that if the re
publicans should name a progres
sive for president Harmon would
certainly be the democratic
nominee."
What an amazing lot of infor
mation lo be crowded into so
small a space!
We are a pretty constant read
er of the eastern wespapers and
periodicals. And we find, as the
News must also find if it roads
them, that in the publications
which heretofore have opposed
the progressive democracy, there
are printed twenty lines of
eulogistic matter of Governor
Wilson for every scant line of
grudging and detractory mention
of Governor Harmon. The chief
literary fugleman of conservative
democrncy, George Harvey, editor
of Harper's Weekly and the North
American Review, is also Gover
nor Wilson's foremost boosler
through the publications which he
controls. Nowhere east of Ohio
do we know of a conservative or
reactionary newspaper that is
boosting Judson Harmon. And fti
Ohio, his own state, Harmon's
bet known supporter fs Senator
poiuerene, a lieutenant of Tom
Johnson's, and since Johnson's
death the leading democratic
radical in the state. On the other
hand John R. McLean, the most
prominent Ohio reactionary
democrat, has been steadily
pouring cold water on the Har
mon movement, through his Cin
cinnati Enquirer and his Wash
ington Post.
This does not go to prove, we
grant, that Judson Harmon is a
good progressive, any more than
it indicates that Woodrow Wilson
is not. It does go to show, how-j
ever, that the News is absurdly in
error in saying that "the con-!
servatives are all for Harmon."
For ourselves, we think that both
Harmon and Wilson are good
progressives, as their records at
test. Wilson, however, is the
more tactful and diplomatic, and
in consequence has succeeded in
winning a large radical following
while still retaining his hold on
the more conservative elements of
his party. Ami by the same token
he may become, in the view of the
politicians, "the logical candid
ate" ia 1912.
So far as Harmon is concerned
he has fought a hard and bruis
ing fight for reform in Ohio. Re
spite the most brazen bribery ami
corruption he succeeded in put
ting through the legislature a re
form program that compares very
favorably with that which Gover
nor Wilson won out with in New
Jersey. In addition to that he has
exposed and prosecuted grafters
and crooks in his own party as
well as in others, and by a rigid
economy program has cut off their
perquisites to the extent of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars an
nually. Furthermore, he earned
the deep-seated enmity of power
ful corporate interests when he
refused to make the telephone
merger bill a part of his legis
lative program, and also when he
insistent Iy kept hands off of the
fight for the repeal of the County
option law. That is why. Judson
Harmon's stock is at low tide "in
the east" and it is a very good
reason why he should not be sub
jected to unfair and ignorant at
tacks from progressive sources.
The men who are fighting un
selfishly and bravely for better
things are not so numerous but
that every one of them is entitled
to a square deal at the hands of
those who also are fighting pluto
cracy and reaction. World
Herald. I- NEHAWKA.
A (Special Correspondence.) 4.
H- 'M-H-I M-M-M-H H
Mr. Will Philpot ami wire spent
Sunday at George and Gust Han
sen's. Miss Mary Hansen is visiting
with home folks a few days.
Henry Behrns. wife and daugh
ter Sundayed with J. G. Wunder
lich's folks.
W. H. Schumaker returned
from Plattsmouth Sunday, after a
week's "courting."
Albert fctoll and family spent
Sunday with home folks.
L. C. Todd and wife were Lin
coln visitors Thursday.
Miss Wunderlich made a flying
trip to the county seat Saturday.
The bridge gang is busy re
placing a bridge at Gust Hansen's
(his week.
Mrs. Massey and Miss Johnson
were Weeping Water visitors
Monday.
Zack Shrader had two horses
pretty badly hurt in a runaway
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Fitch
drove from I heir farm near Ne
hawka to this city today to attend
to some business matters. This
drive was one of about sixteen
miles and a long, hot one. so Mr.
Fitch says. Mr. Fitch says they
are not needing rain for the grain
and corn right now near his
place, ns they got a fine rain last
week, but that it would not hurt
the pastures a bit if it rained a
litt le every day.
Paul Morgan returned from
Omaha on Ihe morning train to
day, where he was called a few
days ago on business.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In County Court
Stale of Nebraska, Cass Coun
ty, ss.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Henry C. Hardiiock, Deceased.
Notice js hereby given to the
creditors of said deceased that
hearings will be bad upon claims
tiled against said estate, before
jue. County Judge of Cass Coun
ty. Nebraska, at the County Court
room in Plattsmouth, in said
County, on the 15th day of July,
1 y 1 1 . and on the 18th day of
January, 1912. at 9 o'clock A. M.
each day for examination, adjust
ment and allowance.
All claims must be filed in said
court on or before said last hour
of hearing.
Witness my hand and seal , of
said County Court, at Platts
mouth, Nebraska, this 19th day of
June. 1911.
(Seal) Allen J. Beeson,-
County Judge.
Probate Notice.
IN COUNTY COURT. .. ,.
State of Nebraska, County of
Cass, ss. , , .
In the matter of the estate of
Albert Eugene Lew is, deceased.
To All Persons Interested:
You are hereby notified that
there has been filed in this court
a report of the administrator of
said estate, together with his peti
tion for final settlement thereof.
That a hearing will be had up
on said report and petition before
this court in the County Court.
Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said
County, on the 3rd day of July,
1911, at 9 o'clock a. m. That all
objections thereto, if any, must be
filed on or before said day and
hour of hearing.
Witness my hand and seal of
the County Court of said County
this 8th day of June, 1911.
(SEAL) Allen J. Beeson,,
County Judge.
Probate Notice.
SJate of Nebraska, County of
Cass, ss.
IN COUNTY COURT.
In the matter of the estate of
Abel Bevan, Deceased. - . .
To All Persons Interested: , ( .
You are hereby notified that
there has been filed in this court,
report of the administratrix 4 of
above estate, together with her
petition for final settlement of her
accounts as set forth in said re
port, and for her discharge as
such administratrix, in all things
except the payment of claims.
That a hearing will be had un-
i on said report, and petitjou, before
this court in (he County Court
Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said
County, on the 27th dav of June,
1911, at 10 o'clock A. M.
That all object ions, if any, must
be filed on or before said dav and
j hour of hearing.
Witness my hand and the seal
of the County Court of said
County this 5th day of June, 1911.
Allen J. Beeson,
County Judge.
ASH I.A KVftK HISTIIICT.
NO I'll K OK PUOI'OSK.K I SSI K Of
IIOMS.
Notice Is hereby Riven that the Ash
land Drainnge District needs the sum
of Heventeen thousund live hundred
sixty-eight and 80.100 ($17,568.60) dol
lars, and the board of Directors there
of In about to issue seventeen thousand
five hundred sixty-eight and 60.100
$17,568.60) dollurs of negotiable bonds
of said dlstirct, drawing six per cent
interest per annum, pavable In ten
eijiial annual Installments, with Interest
. i-wiijiiimm HiiHcueu, said nomls to be sold
at not less than par. At any time wlth-
I In SllltV flllVK Ut'lu tUa t . 1. A .... .
- ...... ...... u.v.. ..ic uiiio ui mo Hint
iuuiemion ui mis nonce, to-wit: June
tt, 1911, any owner of anv tract of real
estate in said district, or of anv ease
ment therein, may pav to C. Keetle,
treasurer of said district, at the Farm
ers and Merchants Hunk, Ashland. Ne
braska, the proportionate share of the
prlnclpul amount of said bonds charge
able against said tract, and the amount
or bonds Issued will be reduced in the
aggregate amount of said advance
payment so mnde. and anv tract upon
which such advance payment is made
wll lnot be chargeable with payment
or any of said bonds or the Interest
thereon; provided, that if a deficit la
caused by an appeal from the assess
ment of benefits and a change thereon,
or by reason of any assessment being
uncollectible, or In any other manner
whatsoever, then said deficit shall be
a charge upon all the lands assessed
acrorrilns- in m, i . .
i benefits, the same as any other liability
The proportionate share of the prin
cipal amount of said bonds chargeable
against each tract of land in said dis
trict has been determined, levied and
assessed by the board of directors
thereof In dollars and cetns against and
upon each tract thereof on the basts of
the apportionment of units of benefit
and assessment hitherto made at the
rate of four and forty-five hundredths
dollars ($4.4.r) per unit; reference being
hereby mad,. for BpPPn(! information
as to particular tracts, to the Resolu
tion of said Hoard of Directors relat
ing thereto on tile In the office of A. B.
sa'id d'is'tr'lct,nd' Ne,,ra',ka wretary of
l-.IYVV"! t'" "''' of said Ash
land Drainage DiBtrlct, by the Tresl-
! .'n..'."' VT thereof, and the
:aypof'j;"ri.u."a,d d,H,r,ct thu 3d
(SKI1'1""'1 "'lnage District.
By Nelson Sheffer, President.
A. H. Fuller, Secretary.
Whooping cough f not danger
ous when the cough is kept loose
and expectoration easy by giving
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
has been used in many epidemics
of this disease with perfect suc
cess. For sale by F. O. Fricke
& Co.
Subscribe for th Dally Journal.
