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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1909)
THE NEWS-HERALD ? Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X Y Y IM.ATTHMOUT11. NI5HWAHKA Entered at the postoflice at Plattsmouth, Cans County. Nebraska, as second class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publishers P. A. BARROWS E A. QUINN Editor Business Manager RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year in Advance, $1.50. Six Months in advance, 75c Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Nebraska Telephone No. 85 DECEMBER 0, 1009 Y V V Y Y v Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X possible to stir the people up to Nebraska many years ago and bung criticise the president and incident-1 up his shingle at Albion. We have ally the latter will furnish the oppo- known him as a man who it was good ' sition enough campaign thunder to i to know and a man who whin given a ; The Fullerton Journal wants its eommercial club to get up and do something. Send them down to Plattsmouth. The club here would be jlad to tell them how to accomplish tie kind of things that count. How would you like to be a rotton tail rabbit and have an army of hunt ers traveling up and down all day ltoking for your scalp They hardly ever get you, but it isnfl't pleasant to feel that possibly they may make a Mistake and shoot straight. The Albion Argus continues to tkrow fits over the disbarment of Attorney Dunn by the supreme court.and thinks it a political deal, r at least intimates such. What is the use of worring over the Matter. The thing is Dunn and Bunn is undunn. Los Angeles is noted for many pecu liar conditions and many peculiar people. The latest is a perosperous kisiness man of that city who has two wives, maintains two different households, the wives are sisters and fond of each other. Could anything be more sublime The owner of the Denver baseball team is going after that 1910 ponnant for sure. He has offered the manager $1,000 if he finishes first and $500 if he comes in second. This ia addition to the regular salary will he worth fighting for. In the mean tinio that Denver bunch wants to remember that the Lincoln aggrega tion under the tutelage of Jimn.ie Sllivan, who needs no bonus to get him to do his best, will be up and com ing from the very start. A beautiful crow sat on a cranberry tree and sang his tuneful lay; from the rise of the sun till the set of the moon, he kept it up all day. The beauti ful snow was the theme of his song and his notes reached far and wide; his heart was free and his soul was true, for he never, never lied. He sang to the sun, the moon and the stars, he sang through the livelong day; he saw a hnter come up the road, and he softly Hew away. He thus lived long through years to come and never had the blues, for he kept him self well posted for he read the Daily News. The appointment of, the Henry Schneider of this city as postmaster is a good choice. Mr. Schneider is at present register of deeds, his oflice expiring at the end of the year. He is one of the wheel horses of the re publican party in Cass county hiuI also a member of the executive com mittee of the state- He is very popu lar here and his appointment will probably be as universally satisfactory as an appointment of this kind could have been. He will make an effi cient and accommodating olliciul in the postoflice, as he has always been in the county office, where he has been so long. Our congratulations to Mr. Schneider. off the ads to perfection. The publishers of the Trade Exhibit have certainly something in their corn exhibit number to be proud of. The secret is out. The country can now draw a breath of relief. The Plattsmouth Journal has en lightened the world (no, just a por tion) of how Cannon came to be elected speaker. It wasn't because he was Bmart, but because he wasn't. The trusts set the trap and the speaker fell in and he can't now pull himself loose. The Journal then adds further information that Cannon is "a poor old fool." That do settle it. There is nothing now for the insurgents to do but to have the poor fellow confined in the Beatrice institution for feeble minded and the battle is won and the country saved. It is a burning shame, though that the Journal has kept this secret all the time, when the matter might have been settled long ugo. assist them greatly in electing a dem osratic majority in congress next fall. The president has been blamed for not doing something, but his mes sage shows he has been doung some thing and something which will go farther toward solving the tariff question than anything congress could have done at its last session. He has appointed a tariff commission which will inquire into all the con ditions existing and when completed the matter will be in shape to have the question settled without the ever lasintg and continuous howl that is kept up yearly and monthly about the settlement of the tariff. It is expected that the democratic papers will criticise this action of the pres ident, for with the tariff take nout of politics the democratic party will be roubeu oi its stock in trade upon which it has won and lost battles ever since its existence. duty to perform, performed it well. When he took a case he put his whole soul into it and as a result generally won. He has been prominent during his residence in Omaha as one of the leading attorneys of the city, and if we remember rightly was associated with Attorney General Brown in the prosecution of the elevator trust. President Taft could search Nebraska elosely a long while and would not find a better or nore compctemt man for United States district attorney than Framk S. Howell. His appoint ment would be recognizing the young element in Nebraska and at the same time the solid republicans of the state. Nothing would suit the editor of this paper personally, than to see our old friend Howell get the Christmas present from the White House. '1 he issue of the Omaha Trade 1a hibit of last week was simply a peach. It- wns printed as a special corn ex hibit number and was about the fin est thinn of the kind we have evi r seen. Baker Bros, of Omaha were the evt'sN who got out the eiirtv itJ'or ti.e cover pajic, and ti Mirth' i overed t lii'insch i s w il 1) jj'ii'-y. If you hiiven't :;et n a ropy mid .an! 10 see ( 1,'c thing ni'e e.ill at t'-i '' C,ee a !id '. iew I lie copy w , :v tm file, 'i he I oIimt-i ;:!nl orn:: ti.i n ( 11 le all i ;' ( n in I he e:ir w I ieh t The Lincoln Herald, a wet demo cratic organ says that a merchant up there advertised a cloak sale last week and that the sale did not pan out good. The Herald says it was because the town is dry. A merchant of Plattsmouth had a sale on last week vnd it did not pan out to expectations either. No one here thought of laying it to the fact that Plattsmouth has six sa'oons, but because the roads were so deep with mud that it was im possible for people to get to town to take advantage of the sale. As the same conditions existed at Lin coin regarding the state of the roads it is easily figured that neither the lack of saloons at Lincoln nor the presence of saloons in Platts mouth had anything to do with the failure of these two sales. It was just a case of too much mud. Simply mud, and nothing else. The Omaha News says that Platts mouth is "peeved" because the Omaha papers did not give our commercial club banquet a lengthy mention. Plattsmouth is not peeved at all. The trouble is all with the Omaha papers who never like to give anything to an town outside their own borders if there is danger that by so doing Oma ha may possibly lose something and the town otirside of Omaha gain. It is this same spirit which has prevailed at the metropolis of the state from time immemorial which has caused the rest of the state to feel that Omaha thought herself bigger than the stJte of Nebraska and that she was entitled first to all the good things and the balance of the state could take the leavings. It is this same feeling on tfie part of the metropolis up the creek which caused it to set the dates of; the com show at a time when the trade , 1,10 U)W,ls vllHl ''"luiai.y woui.ii Ti,p 0malm lu,c in its ;ssue of Sun. stay in those towns at th.is mhsoii of (,,y u,moMllw. ti,;lt tiu,rc niay )(, the year would be bought t, Umnha ' u 0 Christinaa- presents for Omaha THE OREGON PLAN Those two democratic organs, the Omaha World-Herald and the Lin coln Star, are doing their utmost to split the republican party in Ne braska on the senatorship. They confine themselves to this particular thing because, obviously, it is not so easy to forecas tconditions on other public offices. The renomi nation of Senator Burkett is so probable, it is might almost be said so certain, that it is safe to count on it. There fore these two democratic organs are almost busting their galluses in their frantic efforts to get another repub lican to contest with Mr. Burkett for the nomination. They are coddling C. O. Whedon of Lincoln with that hope, but whether they will be able to seduce him remains to be seen. These organs are sly, devilish sly, only their game is very transparent. You see we are to use the Oregon plan of electing senators hereafter. This method pits the democratic nominee of the primaries and the republican nominee directly against each other and commits the legisla ture to the election of the candidate receiving the greater number of votes, no matter what the political complex ion of the legislature, whether it corresponds with that of the nominee or not. It should be noted also, that the Oregon plan, as it is operated in prac tical operation in that state on its first trial, gave Oregon a democratic senator when the state chose a repub lican legislature to elect him. In Oregon the fight at the republican primaries was so bitter between Fulton and Coke that when Coke won the friends of Fulton, at the November election turned to Chamberlain, and gave him a majority. This is a part of the Oregon plan the democrats nre not overlooking. They have already played the first part by passing a law providing for a direct vote. Now if they can play the other part and divide the republi cans vote so that no matter which candidate wins at the primary friends of tfie other will vote for the dem ocratic candidate at the polls their deep-laid scheme wiU have worked out the full purpose. When it is understood the owner of the World-Herald is himself look ing wistfully at the senatorship the situation will become plainer. If he can make cats' paws enough of enough republicans he may be able to rake some chestnuts from the fire. Mean while it will be just as well if republi cans be mindful of what's going on, and why. Fnmont Tribune. to Omaha's aiii and t! towns' loss. W !..! V. ul.. its sellih spirit : wt re a part of N ;:. Kr. v feeling that ' : v . ie ; ) iMtener ::iut '. ;t rt of j eople from President Taft. These a ;e rppoii.twiits. to the offices of L'uiud N o Ciat. s I )i-,'. i e: p . W The editor of the Central City Nonpariel is still not satisfied with the stand we have taken on the con gressional muddle and the action of the insurgents. Bro. Taylor believes that the pledges made by the republi can party will never be fulfilled ex cept by democratic assistance. The editor of this paper believes that the pledges made the people will be car ried out without the aid of democratic asssitance. We pin our faith to the republican party upon its record. Tay lor pins his faith on democratic aid. We would like to ask our wandering friend where in all democratic his tory of the past will he find a gleam of hope that will encourage the be lief that democrats in congrees will do anything which will now or at any time in the future have a tendency to assist in the passage of laws tend ing to carry out republican pledges. Has not the republican party always had to rely on its own party members to carry out those pledges? There may have been times '.vheii a few demo crats have voted in this way, but never in sufficient numbers to call it democratic assistance. Bro. Taylor says our stand is right from a political standpoint and that it is the way that things have been accomplished in the past. But now there li going to be something new. The insur gents are going to revolutionize thingi.Political methods will be sent to the rear and the new things, the insurgentary methods will prevail All the people will have to do is to signify what they want, and presto change, it will be done. The rules of congress will be changed so that the fellows down on the floor will run things and the speaker will have noth ing to say. He will just sit up there and recognize everybody at once. It will not matter if be sees Congress man Bill Jones first.that will not do, he must recognize j Congressman Tom Smith because he is sn insurgent. The whole thing in a nutshell is that the insurgents, by the help of the dem ocrats want to change the rules so that the speaker will not control the body. The rules that have been in use from the foundation of congress making the speaker boss of the whole shooting match, must be changed so that he will not have sufficient power to keep congress from getting balled up. They want the speaker just a mere figure head. They want him tied down to that extent that if they want to run over him they can do so. They want the rules so that the members can over rule the speaker at any time they wish. They want it so there will be no head and all tail. They want the tail to control the head. In fact it appears that the kind of rules suggested by the insurgents must have sprung from ideas which originated nearer the tail than the head anvhow. i ei Olu .,v del! -lt v.;' :o! tr .; M.ivshal and Fnited Aii.iii.iy. There is i tiii' re-ap-ner as F. S. I! Ie nolle, ile '1 'Vim! Oni- , IrriK S. t John Durrnan Expert Blacksmith I l;i t.Jvin i liar.ge of the Wil liam In!:- r.laeksmilh SI. op 1 1-.' mile-! v. r- t of Murray All hitios of l ilie IIo: ;e!,Oi -'me ai.l :.! kind- t f IHack-snUI-fr,?. w;-is',;ri;..i! :u""- M.l , .1. " ....V.X..X"!MM-VyyV'X:"X"!"'' I j. B. A. McElwaii JEWELER. Here are sorhe interesting prices from our mammoth stock of Holiday Goods: 0 size 20 year filled case, open face or Hunting plain fi o a a or engraved American Movement, special $1auvU Open face Chatelain watch American make, guaran teed 20 years, special 16 S 20 year case, open face or Plain or Kncrrnvpri h. trin Perfect Diamond in Tiffany Mounting weighing-1-4 1-1(5 Kt .. v aw Perfect Diamond in Tiffany Mounting (Por A A weighing 1-4 to 3-64 Kt W.VV Fine Diamond in fancy Ring Mounting AA 1-8 1-32 Kt SOUVfromSPOOnS 50C tO $2.00 B. A. McElwain JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH. "On the Sunny Side of Main Street." T ? Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y v f Y Y Y Y Y f Y Y Y The Best That is what our groceries are. Our Store is filled -with GOOD GROCERIES not bargain counter stuff, and you would do well if you would give us a trial. If you want some special delicacy, call us up by phone we have a full line ol them. Soennichsen's Christmas Suggestions! 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