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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
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You always hear from a hard loser.
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Ilabbit hunters are getting into the
game.
He who does d.3 he likes usually does
as other people dislike.
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Now that they know where Villa is
nohodv seems to want him very bad.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Has yeast gotten into the flour
sack?
Now's the time to get your overcoat
out of soak.
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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.
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A good memory consists in being
able to forget the things that you
should not remember.
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Don't be satisfied with trying to
keep up with the procession, but if
possible get ahead of it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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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.
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More rain is coming.
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Fall pasture is coming nicely.
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Wilson, prosperity and plenty of
money.
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Learn to economize, but don't be a
tightwad.
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Don't borrow, trouble, and you'll find
more pleasure in life.
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You are not entitled to any good
luck if you don't believe in it.
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When one hands you a left-handed
compliment, hand it right back.
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Most people who hide their light un
der a bushel look for a vitrified bushel.
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Only eleven more days till election.
The time is short, boys keep moving.
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Some girls are so modest that they
blush every time they see a wooden
leg.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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