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1 I : I THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916 PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE 4. t 1 n n v a J P fi h. pi S; h in tit mi fo: fei .S Alt 'Chz plattsmouf b Jouvml PIHMSIICI) SKIKI-WEKKLY AT PI.ATTSMOITH, SEDHASKA. Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher " SL'BSCMPTIOV PRICES SI-50 PEH VKAll IS ADVANCE .,....., ?v ""WW WW'S" 4. THOUGHT FOR TODAY i;e resolutely and faithfully what you arc, lie humbly what -I you aspire to be. Man's noblest gift to man is his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also. -I Henry D. Thorcau. I o: You always hear from a hard loser. -:o: Ilabbit hunters are getting into the game. He who does d.3 he likes usually does as other people dislike. :o: Now that they know where Villa is nohodv seems to want him very bad. -:o:- And c. al is going up also. re the people to be frozen us well as starve;!? -:o: The high price of tin doesn't pre vent lots of loafers from getting canned. -:o:- If there are any candidates who have to be smoked out, it is about time the fire was started. -:o:- AnJ rrost of the cki soldiers are still vot:ng the way zb. s'ict fo Presidou,, Wilson, th-j savior of the country. :o: "There arc- as good fish in the sea r.s ever was caught." And there ought to be, when it is known that the suck ers are tl.e fust to bite. -:o:- There's always something to do, my friend, there's always something to do; to look around and think, my friend, and you will find a clue -:o:- Thc republicans of Otoe county re fuse to accept Taft as a speaker, and the republican state committee don't want Roosevelt. So there you are. :o:- The Omaha Bee puts one in mind of the boy who passed through a grave yard after night and whistled to keep his courage up. Only the Bee has a little harder time in keeping its cour age up in lighting for Charles E-va-sive Hughes. -:o: The New York school officials are talking of going back to the old-fashioned slate and pencil, because of the scarcity and the high price of paper. While that would not have much ef fect upon the paper market, yet it is well to remember that every little bit helps. An exchange in answer to a corre f-pondent says, he will be "perfectly safe in getting married on Saturday or any other day." It seems to us that paper is assuming a lot of responsi 1ility in this day and age. It is cer tainly more responsibility than we would assume. :o: Which will you choose when you go to your booth on election day? Wilson and peace and plenty and pros perity and an eight-hour day, o: Hughes and war and a ten-hour day? That's to be the size of it. Mark it down on your cuff and see if that wil not be the case. -:o: The effort made to have President Wilson change Thanksgiving day from Ih'j lasi Thursday in November to th-j third Thursday in that month, wil tirobably not succeed, and hain't even received a particle of encour-igemem -'ince 18'JS it has been the custom to observe the last Thursday i.- Novum In-r as the day for feast and returning 'thinlw, the chances are Thanfcsgivir. ,'av will continue to be obseivej that day for many years to . . a,, U . ,..,ti? are "Trent xor the Amiicaii - sticking to custom. DEFAMING TWO GOOD MEN. What a fortunate thing it is for the honor of the state that a great ma jo; ily of the voters of Nebraska know and recognize the false pretense there is behind the effort to make it ap pear that Senator Hitchcock and Keith Neville are men of bad character. This effort is, of course, due to the injection of the liquor question into the politics of the state, and the effort of certain candidates to ride ' the amendment into positions to which they could never under color of any other title aspire. They proceed upon the fallacy that if a citizen takes one view of the liquor question he is a pure and trust worthy creature, no matter what his life may have been, and if he takes the other view he is a double-dyed villain, steeped in sin and over-burdened with moral obliquities. That is the plane upon which some are seeking to conduct the republican campaign for state and congressional offices in Nebraska this year, and as a lesult some very good and very earn est citizens are lending their counte nance and support to much genuine defamation of character. As a matter of fact no two men who were ever presented as candi dates of any party are cleaner in character and habits than Keith Ne ville and Gilbert M. Hitchcock, both born Nebraskans. Go up to North Platte, the home of Mr. Neville, where everybody knows him, and the uni versal certificate of his neighbors is that he has led an exemplary life, without stain or blemish; that his in fluence has always been exerted for the common good and that he has been signally helpful to his town and its people. There are no skeletons in the closets. He has lived a clean life, wronging no one, and setting a splen did example to the young men of his neighborhood, all of whom love and honor him for his clean comradship and his unfailing liberality in pro moting their welfare. Go over to Omaha, the home of Gil bert M. Hitchcock, and inquire there as to the kind of a man he is. His bitterest political enemy cannot point to a single act in his entire career that reflects upon his honor or his perfect manhood. There was a time when his financial credit wasimpaired. All old Nebraskans remember it. In his paper he was advocating the cause of the common people in the fierce campaign of the middle '90s. Those who then controlled the financial credit of Omaha sought by certain coercion to control the utterances of Mr. Hitch cock's paper and drive him from the support of Mr. Bryan. They did suc ceed in making it hard for him to get money with which to keep his paper alive, but he was true to his- convic tions. He persisted, but in doing it he accumulated a tremendous load of in debtedness. It took years to enable him to dis charge the debts he accumulated, but he finally did it in full. Others might have quibbled and sought to evade, but not Hitchcock. Much of the re spect he now commands in Omaha is accorded him by those who failed in their efforts to coerce him into po litical submission in the dark days of the state's history. Nobody in Omaha can say a word against G. M. Hitchcock's personal character or his habits in' private life His life has been as clean as a hount'i tooth. His honor, personal or busi ness, is unstained. The great majority of the voters of Nebraska know these things. They also know that the liquor .question is the one public question upon which the citizen may not entertain convic tions without inviting tolerant defa mation. As soon as that question is approached the exponent of either side is denounced either as a moral per-i vert or a crank. That is why it never should be injected inito partisan poli tics. There are good men and bad men 'on both sides. There is just as much excuse fc, assailing the republican candidates for governor and senator as men of bad character and bad principles as there is for assailing Messrs Neville and Hitchcock. There is no excuse for either course. Ordinary decency is just as appropriate on one side as on the other of this amendment question. No one can complain about any truthful effort to impeach the officiaJ record of any" public man. Truthful criticism of one's public acts is a le gitimate weapon in political warfare. Truthful impeachment of character is also permissible. But untruthful de famation is despicable, no matter by whom or in what cause it may be practiced. Seldom does it work its purpose. Lincoln Star. -rot- Has yeast gotten into the flour sack? Now's the time to get your overcoat out of soak. -:o: If you want to be in at the finish you have got to get a move on your self. If there are no taxes in heaven they can't have many modern improve ments there. It sometimes seems that to rub up against the world, a man must have a pretty tough hide. :o: A good memory consists in being able to forget the things that you should not remember. -:o: Don't be satisfied with trying to keep up with the procession, but if possible get ahead of it. :o:- An optimist is a person who is thor oughly imbued with the idea that the best things have never happened. Before he owned an automobile he took his time about walking home. Now he rides home at a forty-mile gait. -:o: Plenty of time at the beginning often results in a break-neck rush at the end. This is the way it is with some candidates. -:o:- Now that they are using the auto mobile in lynching stunts down south, the matter of jerking a human life into hades can be done without much violent exercise. 10 - A scientist points out that while the death rate among the young is stead ily decreasing, that for persons be tween 50 and 75, is increasing. In other words it is no longer safe to grow old. -:o:- This week and next are the weeks in which to make the "fur fly" in your direction. You can't lose much time, Mr. Candidate, if you expect to get there with both feet. So take time by the fore lock, arid get to "Work. Marshall T. Harrison, of Dunbar, has concluded to accept the second choice as a candidate for float repre sentative. He was elected to this po sition several years ago, and after serving one term, the editor of the Journal had the pleasure of defeating him for a second term. :o: Mr. Hughes dislikes the federal banking and currency law which will prevent panics. He does not like th? child labor law that will prevent the dwarfing of the bodies and minds of boys and girls in the factories. He is against the eight-hour law which is so distasteful to the railroad man agers. Apparently the only thing that he would like is to see Charles E-va-sion Hughes president. - tor- John Murtey is a level-headed fel low, and just the kind of a man to represent Cass county in the state legislature. He is not only a success ful business man, but is a gentleman of excellent judgment on matters per taining to the county and state. The voters will make no mistake in going to the polls on the 7th, day of November and votmg for John Murtey to repre ' sent Cass county in the legislature. WE NEED JOHN A. MAGUIRE. Next to the election of President Wilson this fall the people cf tha Firbt district are very much concerned for themselves and the country over the election of a congressman who will work in harmony with the administra tion of Woodrow Wilson. The repub lican candidate is not in sympathy with the president nor with his poli cies. He seeks to win favor among progressive republicans and demo crats on his vote for some of the measures passed by congress. He found it necessary to desert the lead ers of his party in congress and to vote under pressure of public opinion at home. How much better it will be to have a man in congress who needs no driving to be progressive. Mr. Maguire's splendid record in congress and his complete harmony with President Wilson's leadership are a guaranty that the best interests of the country and of the First district will always be served with manly cour age, fidelity and honesty. Mr. Ma guire's experience in public life, his acquaintance with public affairs and his unquestioned loyalty to President Wilson will enable him to aid and sus tain rather than embarrass the chief executive of the nation. Mr. Maguire will not be in the position of the re publican candidate, Mr. Reavis, who stands still and tries to face forward and backward at the same time. While his constituents have urged him to look forward and backward and move in the direction of progress he is at the same time smarting under the lashing tongue of the arch-critic cendi date of his party, Mr. Hughes, who condemns President Wilson's great de structive policies and all who support ed them. Mr. Hughes points them backward toward the old idols, high protective tariff, Wall street banking methods and ship subsidy. He ad monishes his followsrs to listen to the old prophets of mammon, Penrose, Crane, Smoot, Bupont, Galliz:gcr, Lodge and Root. Will the republican candidate for congress repudiate Mr. Hughes' petty criticisms of a great president and a great record? Will he denounce tne chief monitors of his candidate for president, or will he con tinue to ignore the big issues in this campaign and continue to give the in telligent people of this district big doses of sentimental bunk wrapped in the azure blue and moistened with appealing tears begging his hearers to look not at his disappointing record; not to judge him by his reactionary party leaders of the east, but char itably to gaze upon his radiant counte nance and listen sympathetically to his siren voice and oily tongue while he 'weaves dexteriously a network of empty phrases and sings a lullaby, all for the sake of votes. tot- More rain is coming. -to: Fall pasture is coming nicely. tot- Wilson, prosperity and plenty of money. :o: Learn to economize, but don't be a tightwad. tot Don't borrow, trouble, and you'll find more pleasure in life. tot You are not entitled to any good luck if you don't believe in it. to: When one hands you a left-handed compliment, hand it right back. tot Most people who hide their light un der a bushel look for a vitrified bushel. tot Only eleven more days till election. The time is short, boys keep moving. tot Some girls are so modest that they blush every time they see a wooden leg. tot- Now, you are beginning to wonder what you done with your last sum mer's wages. FRANK J. L1BERGHAL Present County Clerk Solicits Your Support for Re-Election. The people are wise who buy sta tionery at the Journal. I ? THE W TO SUPPORT OR REPRESENTATIVE L. G. Tcdd, Democratic Candidate. A CASS COUNTY PRODUCT. L. G. Todd, the subject of our sketch, is a product of Nebraska and of Cass county, where he has spent his lifetime and is well acquainted with the needs of the community he desires to represent in the legislature as float representative from the Sev enth district, composed of Cass and Otoe counties. Mr. Todd, while com paratively a young man, has been en gaged in the farming line almost all of his life and his training and gen eral abilities arc such as to make him a valuable representative of this great agricultural empire of the west. Coming from' "one of the pioneer fam ilies of Nebraska, who had such an r.nt part in the development this section of the state, Mr. Todd has the rugged traits of character that go to make up a man of the people and one who cannot bo swayed from his convictions of right. He is fitted in every way to serve the district with honor and credit to the good people ot Cass county. A man who will be found on the side cf the people all the time. Mr. Todd, in adition to his farming interests, is at present the president of the Bank of Union and keenly alive to the business interests of his district. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Having iceeived the nomination fo he oliicc of sheriff oi Cast, county, he deir.oc atic ticket, and in tonne Lion with announcing my candidac. for said oiTfcs, I wish also to expre.-; my appreciation for the loyal support given me at the primaries, and trust that you will be able to give the same loyal support at' the general election, November 7th. With the promise of faithfulness to all the duties of the office, I solicit the support of the vot ers of Cass county. JOHN G. WUNDERLICII. I announce my candidacy for the office of float representative from the eighth district, comprising Cass and Otoe counties and will appreciate your support. L. G. TODD. For Representative 7th District on Democratic Ticket JOHN MURTEY, Alvo, Nebraska. Your support respectfully solicited. I am your friend, JOHN MURTEY. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Having received the nomination for the office of county commissioner for the First district, on the republican ticket, I solicit the support of the voters of Cass county, and in return for such support I pledge myself to the faithful performance of the duties of said office. JOSEPH J. JOHNSON. I am the republican candidate for the office of county clerk and, if elect ed, will give the people a clean, business-like administration of the office, and will appreciate the support of the voters of Cass county at the election on November 7th. CLARENCE L. BEAL. As the democratic candidate for state senator from the Second district, composed of Cass and Otoe counties, I solicit the support of the voters and promise to sec that my time will he devoted to the best interests of the taxpayers of the district and state. JOHN MATTES. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of county attorney on the democratic ticket, and solicit the support' of the voters, and if elected will see that the laws are enforced, and will appreciate any support given to me. JOSEPH CAPWELL. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of clerk of the district court on the republican ticket, sub ject to the choice of the voters at the general election, Tuesday, November 7th. Your support solicited. JAMES ROBERTSON. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. Having received the nomination for the office of county treasurer on the republican ticket, I take this one method of soliciting .the support of - " ' i w . ! SV' - - Vk Democratic Candidate for Representative of Cass County The proper man to represent Cass county in the State Leg islature. A gentleman and a scholar, and one abundantly well qualified to look after the interests of the tax-payers. "MmM - the voters of Cass county, assuring the faithful performance of the duties of the office, and thanking you in ad vance for any favors that may be ex tended me at the general election, No vember 7th. MAJOR A. HALL. ANDREW F. STURM Candidate for STATE SENATOR Solicits Your Support J -r . CHIEF JUSTICE Andrew SVL; iVJornssey Candidate for Election to Quccccd Himself On the Non-partisan Ballot JAi1S R. DEAN BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA Former Judge of Supreme Court Candidate for Supreme Judge , ON NON-PARTISAN BALLOT You Can Vote for 3 Candidates Custer County Republicant "Judge Dean made a good record on the Supreme Bench." Mason City Transcript: "Judge Dean's pri mary vote ran evenly over the state. He proved a popular man. for Supreme Judge. In a field of ten candidates where six were nominated. Judge Dean crowded the high man closely for first place.'? , Marshall'-T. Harrison, DUNBAR, NEBRASKA Republican Candidate for Float Representative Cass and Otoe Counties S. C. Boyles of Aivo was in the city today for a few hours looking after some matters of business at, the court house. 3? C'Mmf , ...77 AT V i- I 25f a K ( ' - r. fit I 6 'r- f w. 1 I 4