-The Plattsmouth Journal-
published Semi-Weekly at
R. A. BATES,
Entered at the Postolfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as Becond-cla9
matter.
St.SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President
WOOOROW WILSON
of New Jersey.
For Vice President
THOS. R. MARSHALL
of Indiana.
For United States Senator
A. C. SHALLENBERGER.
For Governor
JOHN H. MOREHEAD.
For Lieutenant Governor
HERMAN DIERS.
For Secretary of Slate
JOHN W. KELLEY.
For Auditor Public Accounts
HENRY C. RICHMOND.
or State Treasurer
GEORGE E. HALL.
For State Superintendent
R. V. CLARK.
For Attorney General
ANDREW M. MORRISSEY.
For Commissioner Public Larids-
WILLIAM B. EASTMAN.
For Railroad Commissioner
CLARENCE E. HARMAN.
For Congressman
JOHN A. MAGUIRE.
For Stale Senator
WILLIAM B. BANNING.
For Representative
JOHN J. GUSTIN.
For Float Representative
CHARLES H. BUSCH.
For Comity Assessor
W. R. BRYAN.
For County Commissioner
JULIUS PITZ.
OOO(XXOOOOdO550
CHAMP CLARK, SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRE
SENTATIVES: "ConBidernd from a literary
standpoint Governor Wllson'i
apoech of acceptance will take
high rank In the political out
put of the year. It will make
pleasant reading, and, therefore,
will prove a fetching campaign
document. He dliouasea the
laauet of the day philosophical
ly, clearly and forolbly. Its cour
teous tone will allay opposition
and win htm friends. It Is an
admirable pronouncement."
WHY DOES A HEN?
When Mrs. Goose has laid an egg
She does not cackle. Not
She keeps the matter iiuini sho'a
like
A lot of llrms I know.
Hut Mrs. lien is different
When she doth eggs product),
She publishes (he fact abroad,
Jlecause she's not a goose.
D. W. (i.
. :o: .
Unless you are justified in say
ing things, keep your lips closed.
Lots of people have lo be
niighly good sprinters lo keep in
.sight of their running expenses.
If a republican Ibis year wants
to be progressive he will lose no
time in joining the democratic
party.
:o :
If Roosevelt is such a great
nposlle of the people, how does it
come that his campaign is being
flnanced by Hie harvester trust?
:o:
Roosevelt has concluded that it
is best for him not lo attack the
record of Woodrow Wilson. Very
wise conclusion, when- n candid
ate lias as clean a record as the.
democratic candidate for presi
dent. :o:
It is coming to the point right
now that slate candidates on the
republican ticket must show their
hands and come out either for
Tnft or Roosevelt. This is the
order from the hull moose head
quarters. :o: .
Roosevelt talks against trusts
now, and for seven years as presi
lent of the United Stales did ho
make one solitary effort lo re
.strain them? He must be a dam
phool to think the common people
are going lo vole for him to place
him back where he can make more
trusts.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Publisher.
Tlie laiy ..--I elephant in the
world is ilt-ad, and the g. o. p. ele
phant is trying to hit him a hard
second.
:o :
Labor da is a legal holiday and
Plal.tsinoul.li should have some
kind of a demonstration in honor
of the event.
:o:
"Swat the fly" and "Kill the um
pire" should never have been left
out of Roosevelt's platform. It
contains everything else.
:o:
Hon. John II. Morehead, demo
cratic candidate for governor, has
wisely concluded to keep on run
ning his own campaign. He is do
ing well enough and proposes to
"let well enough alone."
:o:
"Swat the masher" is what
Omaha is doing now, and what
every oilier town ought to do. The
young man, or old man for that
mailer, who will stand on the
street corners and "make eyes" at
every young girl that passes,
should be arrested and lined.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa says lie
is a republican and will support
the regular republican nominee,
William II. Tuft, for president.
That's just the way a good many
republicans are talking whom (he
Roosevelt people have been count
ing with them.
-:o:-
If Governor Wilson is elected
president of the United States he
will enter upon the discharge of
his duties freer from partisan
pledges than any miyi that has
served, in. the highest position in
the gift of the American people in
fifly years or more.
- . ;o:-
The Appeal to Reason, the
great socialist paper, published at
Girard, Kansas, denounces Roose
velt as the worst sort of hypocrite
for 'posing as the workingmau's
friend, when in reality his record
shows him to be a dyed-in-the-wool
friend of the trusts.
:o: '
If Roosevelt had kept his Ihird-
term promise, the republican
party would not be in such a mess
as I hey are in today. Those sev en
governors, of which the governor
of Nebraska was one of the num
ber, are -responsible for the pres
ent predicament in which the
parly tlnds itself.
:o :
Whenever a man is a candidate
for office and sees his chances of
election receding every day, that
is the very lime he tries to hit
upon some plan in which he may
have an opportunity to regain
some of his departed strength
with the voters, llul such people
generally fail in such schemes,
and it now remains for our astute
governor to put up some other
plan to get the people out lo hear
him "blow olT."
:o :
W. II. Thompson, chairman of
I he democratic state committee
has isMied a call for meclinu on
Friday, August 30, of the editors
in each congressional district who
are supporting the cause o
democracy. The meet iocs w ill lie
held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and Lincoln is designated as the
place of meeting for the editors of
the First district. Mr. Thompson
says: "The purpose is to plan for
united action in each district of
all papers of all nationalities who
are supporting our cause and our
candidates and for a discussion
of ways and means for obtaining
funds to run the campaign." The
idea oi me cnairinan is a very
good ono and meetings should bo
attended by every editor in their
respective districts.
If The g. o. p. mess does not
cause many republicans to break
out of their parly, the signs of the
times will not prove correct, by
any means.
:o:
The democrats of Nebraska
should be closing up their ranks.
This is no time for laggards. Call
the roll and let every true demo-
era! answer the roll call, and get
in lino for the fray.
:o :
The besetting sin of the aver
age retailer is envy of his com
petitors, coupled with the
fear
that if he participates in any
lown-boosling movement they will
ietp more ueneiii proportionately
than he does. Omaha Trade Re
view. ;
:o:
pcaher uiarK nas nouueu Uov-
ernor Wilosn that he will make a
number of speeches in Maine be-
fore the election in that state on
September!). And Governor' liar-
mon has also notified the demo-
cralic candidate for president that
he expects to make a number of
speeches in Ohio and other states
during the campaign.
:o:
Now you will hear a howl go
up irom all or Ahlrich s constitu-
lional amendment "pie eaters"
that John II. Morehcad was afraid
. . i
to meet Aldrich in joint debate,
'I'l. ...Ml ll.l ii . .1
mm win no doiiDi do tne order or
the little governor. Let 'em howl.
n ...ot .-..i ii ii.:.. . : . . I
ii m k'-i mem miming in reiurn.
Hon. John II. Morchead will be
elected on the 5th day of Novem-
ner, and alter the first of next
January the people of Nebraska
will have the pleasure of boasting
of a chief executive who has the
honor, the business qualities and
the energy lo administer the af- 1
lairs of stale as they should be
administered.
:o:
The Tekamah Journal, . one of 'erent communities, and never bo
the staunch republican papers of fore was the stale of Nebraska
Nebraska, hits Aldrich right where
he belongs in the following terse
terms: 'To our knowledge in
Tekamah precinct alone. the-re are
at least threc-scoro republicans
who were radically anti-Uahlnian
two years ago and who are just as
horoughly opposed to the re-elec-
tion of Governor .Aldrich. k And
Aldrich has only himself to blame, what he is talking about. No one
If he wants to be eelcted by re- pretends to deny that the poni
publican votes he must remain a tentiary has been in a most de-
republican and not go around
chasing such an "ignis faluus" as
the bull inooser. The Journal
would be pleased to render him as
hourly support as it did two years
ago, if the governor had had the
good judgment to remain a re
publican. We do not propose to
Advocate the election of a man
whose republicanism is of so
doubtful a character as is that of
Chester H. Aldrich. And all trood
epublicans have been absolved
from supporting him by his own
icliou in repudiating the national
head of the republican parly."
:o :
BEATINQ THE BUSH.
Somehow there seems to lie
something harsh about the name
Jasper, and il must strike the re
publican candidate for stale ollice
as particularly irksome just now
For Jasper Mcltrieii has come
back ironi a conference with the
mil moose parly manager lo pro-
claim that I he hushes are going to
be thoroughly threshed and that
candidates in hiding therein had
heller gel out into the open.
Wherever there is a republican
state candidate whose fealtv to the
Ihird-teriner is not avowed, that
candidate must tell where he
stands. "He who is not for me is
against ine" is the Roosevelt
slogan. Wherever a candidate de-
dines to declare himself for
Roosevelt, tho third party will
name a candidate against him.
Whether or not this winnowing
process is to be applied also lo the
congressional ticket is not stated,
If it is to be conducted on prin-
ciple, however, it would seem as
if tho attitude of prospective con
gressmen is of far more import
ance lo the vaunted cause of tho
progressive party than is that of
any state officer. Lincoln Sar.
Put away a little sun-dune for
a rainy day. It beats an umbrella.
A whispered call to duty, if the
salary is about right, can be heard
by a deaf man.
:o:
While politics is making many
trange bedfellows, it is making
just
is many strange political
divorces.
-:o:-
If extravagance is the cause for
the high cost of living, why isn't
the high cost of living the cause
of extravagance?
:o:-
The more one knows of Gov
eruor ioui aiarsiiall, vice presi
dential candidate on the demo
cratic ticket, the more he is ap
preciated and liked.
:o:
The campaign does not seem to
be warming up very rapidly. That
is caused from the fact, perhaps,
that a great many more voters
this year than ever before have
not made up their minds just ex-
actly where they are at.
:o:
Uy a vote of 173 to 83 the house
put another one over Taft's veto
of the steel tariff bill. Taft is do
ing his dirtiest to see that the
trusts are protected. There is no
danger of the combines going
back on Taft
:o
Governor Marshall's speech, ac
.i ...
cepung tne nomination lor vice
president, is a masterly effort and
has the true ring to it
Marshall is a democrat of the
right quality and his nominal ion
was a lucky stroke for the party
:o:
The booster spirit is abroad in
1 lie land and nearly every small
town and city in Nebraska has
caught the spirit and are putting
forth every effort for their dif.
so alive with boosters
:o:
Rev. I)r. Loveland, in, an address
at Columbia, Missouri, the other
day, ; was not very slow in con
deiniiing the conditions of the No
braska penitentiary. Dr. Love-
land is a former resident of Ne
braska and .knows pretty well
plorable shape since Aldrich be
came responsible for its manage
inent
-:o:-
Chairmau Hallos of the regular
republican national committee,
says Governor Johnson, the side
partner of Roosevelt, is trying to
steal the republican title in Cali
fornia. That's nothing more than
the bull tnoosers are doing in
other stales. The bull moosers,
with Aldrir-h and Paul Clark to the
fore-front, have been trying to
steal the republican party in Ne
braska for some time. Hut a
great tunny of the rank and fllo of
the Taft followers have not so
soon forgot leu the way Aldrich
gave ineni tlie cold shoulder in
the lale bull moose stale conven
tion.
-:o:-
When Samuel J. Tilden
was
elected president in l7b, and
(here was some show to count him
out, Governor Morion, then
sojourning in California, tele
graphed Old Zack Chandler
"Claim everything!" Those who
s
remember that election, which
was attended with great excite
inent, for the democrats knew
that Hayes was defeated, but that
Old Zack and his cohorts were
bent on counting him in, and the
finally did get him in. The idea
of claiming everything seems to
have remained with the repub
liean party to this day. Hilles, the
I Taft chairman, claims that the
president will get nearly 400 elec
toral votes; while Dixon, tho bu
moose chairman, claims Roose
I vclt will sweep the country like an
old-fashioned cyclone. Woodrow
Wilson is content lo let the people
make their claims and do the
voting, and we believe the peop
will do him justice.
The death of Chief Donahue is
mourned by all who had the pleas
ure of that ollicial's acquaintance.
He endeavored to do his best for
the city of Omaha and was a good
citizen. His place will be hard to
fill as he has filled it.
:o:
There is some talk of the Taft
following nominating the third
candidate for congress. Of course,
Paul Clark claims to be the reg
ular Roosevelt-bull moose can
didate, and the Taft people think
(hey should support a regular re
publican. Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania rapped Roosevelt pretty
hard the other day in the senate,
and said that the bull moose can
didate knew very well where his
ampaign funds were coming
from. The trusts made up most
f Roosevelt's campaign funds
ight years ago, and he expects
them to furnish the money this
year.
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Hon. Herman Diers, the demo
cratic candidate for lieutenant
governor, is a business man, as
well as an able man. He has
served in both the house and sen
ate and made good in both
branches. The voters sometimes
lose sight of the importance of
electing a lieutenant governor,
thinking that the position does
not amount to much. But it does.
He presides over the senate and
honld be a man with consider-
ible ability and experience. Her
man Diers possesses both, and if
lected will prove his ability and
preside over that body with
dignity and satisfaction.
The president and the sec-
el ary of the interior have order
d about one and one-half million
acres of Indian lands, in the for
mer Shoshone (in Wyoming),
Uintah (in Utah), and Crow (in
Montana), Indian reservations, to
be sold at public auction by Jgmes
W.Witten, superintendent of
opening and sale of. Indian lands,
at minimum prices- ranging from
50 cents to $1.50 per acre. The
sales will begin all ILaimftr, Wyom
ing, on September 19; at Provo,
Utah, on October 8. and at Bil
lings, Montana, on October 21,
1912. , Not more than 640 acres
will be sold to any one purchaser
on bids, made in wrson or
through agents and no residence
or cultivation will! be reaufred'.
Patents will be issued as soon as
the purchase price is paid.
VOU really are more in-
terested in the quality of these
suits than the price; but considering the quality,
the prices are amazing. They come almost en
tirely from Hart Schaffner & Marx and Al
fred Decker & Cohn, (Society Brand) and sell
regularly from $20 to $30. Our prices now
on these goods is $10, $14 and $18. The $14
lot containing the majority of suits. Think of get
ting a Hart Schajfner & Marx suit at $14, and
some as low as $10.
Manhattan Shirts!
The $1.50 and $1.75
values, now ; $1.15
The $2.00 and $2.50
values, now 1.40
Boy's School Suits at Low Prices!
All made by Ederhimer, Stein & Co., and
worth regularly from $5 to $7.50, now selling at
$3 and $4. Sizes 7 to 17.
aTFall goods are ready; the new styles in suits
and overcoats are the best we've ever shown, and
that's saying something. Fall hats too the new
shapes from John B. Stetson Co. You'd better
choose early.
Manhattan Shirts
Let us boost for Plattsuiouth at
the Nebraska state fair.
:o:
Governor Wilson is for repair
and not for destruction.
:o:
Hon. John A. Maguire has been
successful in having 605,000 ap
propriated by the government for
the construction of a posloffico
building in Falls City, Neb. Last
year Mr. Maguire secured an ap
propriation for the purchase of a
site for the building.
-:o:-
There are two or three demo
cratic papers in Nebraska that
have'sold out to Aldrich simply
for a good slice of the constitu
tional amendments to publish.
Wonder what the democrats in
those counties where these papers
are printed think of such fellows?
They certainly have no faith in
such newspaper men. They are
certainly queer democrats if they
do. The democratic party has
-:o:
With Perkins, the multi-millionaire,
back of the bull moose
party, and Morgan, Charley Taft
and other rich combinations back
of the regular republican party,
these organizations ought lo have
money to run their campaigns
without any trouble. But with
the great division now existing
among former republicans, tho
democrats stand the chance of a
lifetime to win.
With perhaps one or two ex
ceptions, the deomcralic slate
ticket is one of very best ever
placed before the voters of Ne
braska for their support. It is
very unfortunate that all could
not bi considered in the same
class, but in electing officers to
take charge of the affairs of the
people they s-hould at least be
considered men of good,, moral
character and honest.
:o:
The railroad of this- state have
discovered that automobiles- are
seriously affecting their passeng
er traffic' in this- slate ' and they
are looking into the auto situa
tion. Among; other- things which
they have discovered, e they a!
lege, is that while there are more
than 30,000 auto registered with
the secretary of slate, they find
that only 17,500 are- fisted for
taxation, and the clianee-s are that
they will make trouble for those
who have failed to come across
the dead' line at the- tax receiver's,
office..
BARGAINS IN
Boy's Wash Suits!
Ages 5 to 8, worth as
high as $2 per suit,
your choice now. . . . 35c
Stetson Hats
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