f
National
Bank
Protection
means a great deal to you as
a depositor In point of work
ing capital capital surplus
and undivided profits of 880
00000 The First National
Bank of McCook ranks first
among the banks of western
Nebraska
Our books are examined by
National Bank examiners un
der the supervision of the
Comptroller of the Currency
at least twice a year There
is no better security than that
For Your
Savings
Thrift is a simple thing but
it means a great deal It is
the foundation of financial
success and contentment
Save money and put it away
safely for a rainy day De
posit in
The First
Bank
of McCook Nebraska
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription j 1 a Year in Advance
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET
For President
WILLIAM H TAFT
of Ohio
For Vice President
JAMES S SHERMAN
of New York
For Governor
GEORGE L SHELDON
It was very kind of Grover to die af
ter writing those letters They wouldnt
have been of much value to us other
wise
The Cambridge Clarion took one long
lingering look at that 40000 surplus of
the Nebraska state fair and immediate
ly repented of ever doing any more gra
tuitous advertising for that enterprise
The state fair should pay the newspapers
for service rendered just as they must
for any and all other gcods
The comptroller of the currency lined
up the boys the other day and without
stuttering told the astonished world
what has been patent to any and all in
telligent observers for years namely
that the bank examiners have failed to
make good The comptrollers says that
in future their work must be improved
That embezzlements have failed of
covery defalcations and dishonesty
have been concealed from you and in
many cases you Lave failed to correctly
or even approximately estimate the val
ue of the paper and the securities held
by the banks
The Republican campaign in Nebras
ka is moving along with increasing force
and vijor During the past week Gov
ernor George Sheldon has held big and
successful meetings along the main line
of the U P between Sidney and Grand
Island Railway Commissioner Wil
liams has addressed large meetings in
Otoe and other southeastern Nebraska
counties Senators Burkett and Brown
are in the front of the fray speaking
often twice each day and facing always
large and enthsiastic audience From
every point where meetings are held
come reports of Republican enthusiasm
and increased interest on the part of the
people generally The vital issue of
election day is that Repnblicans appear
and cast their ballot and every sign
indicates that if this duty is performed
Nebraska is for Taft Sheldon and the
entire state and congressional Republi
can ticket
norms opposes cannon
Congressman Norris Makes a State
ment For The Tribune
MISUSE OF POWER OF HIS POSITION
Dictates Legislation and Shelves Other
Measures to Which He is
Not Friendly
Congressman G W Norris of our city
has been plied with inquiries as to his
attitude respecting Speaker Cannon and
bo makes the following statement to
The Tkihunk for the information of its
readers
I am opposed to the re election of
Mr Cannon as speaker not because I
doubt his patriotism or question his
ability but becauso he uses the power
of his high position to prevent the con
sideration of legislation asked for by
the peoplo and desired by a largo body
of the membership of the house of rep
resentatives The most serious objec
tion in my judgment to his re election
ns speaker is that he is opposed to any
j change in the present rules which
would take away or modify the unrea
sonable and arbitrary power now pos
sessed by the speaker and he does not
hesitate to use this same arbitrary
power to its fullest extent to prevent
any modification thereof The speaker
ought not to use his influence as speaker
to prevent the consideration and dis
cussion oMegislation demanded by any
reasonable nura1 er of members of tho
house of representatives Ho ought to
be the servant of tho house doing its
will rather than the master controlling
its action He ought to be big enough
and broad enough not to use the power
of his high ofiice to prevent discussion
and consideration and to throttle legis
lation even tho he is individually op
posed to tho contemplated measure
The responsibility for legislation or
for the want of it ought to rest with
tho membership and not upon the
shoulders of any one man however
able and willing he may be The pres
ent spHler like most of those who
have preceeded him prevents by arbi
trary power the enactment of legisla
tion to which lie is opposed It has
been the same under both Democratic
and Republican rule The real trouble
is not so much with the speaker as
with the rules They give the speaker
entirely too much power I am not so
much opposed to the speaker as I am
to the system The rules so far as the
speakers power is concerned have been
the same under both Democratic and
Republican control
In a body as large as the house of
representatives stringent rules are un
doubtedly necessary for the transac
tion of any business The Democratic
filibus er of last winter forcibly illus
trates that arbitrary power must be
lodged somewhere in order to enable
the house to pass any legislation The
mistake is in giving ail this power to
the speaker already clothed with a
power almost equal to the president
In the last congress the house was in
the sore dilemma of a silly Democratic
filibuster on one hand and the auto
cratic power of tho speaker on the
other No charge is made that the
speaker did any thing but what he be
lieved to be right but the objection
is that he should have the power to
thwart the will of the many with his
individual opinion The power is
given the speaker to circumvent fili
bustering and to secure legislation but
the danger is that it will be used to
prevent legislation as well
The ppeaker ought to be what I be
lieve the constitution intended simply
the presiding officer of the house Most
of the work of the house is done in the
standing committees The speaker
under tho present rules appoints all
standing committees This is the great
power that gives him control of the
situation In addition to this it has
long been the practice both Democratic
and Republican for the speaker to ap
point himself chairman of tho com
mittee on rules the committee that
really has charge of the order of busi
ness and precedure The speaker ought
to be disqualified from serving on any
standing committtee He should not
have authority to appoint any of the
committees
At the last session of congress I in
troduced a resolution to amend the
rules The amendment I proposed
would in my judgment bring the de
sired relief This resolution proposes
to have all standing committees selected
by the committee on rules The reso
lution provides that the committee
shall be composed of fifteen members
selectedone each from fifteen geograph
ical groups by the members themseves
This would give all parts of the country
a voice in the selection of the standing
committees and an opportunity to be
heard in proposing legislation The
order of procedure and business would
be taken from the speaker and his self
appointed committee and given to a com
mittee upon which every section of the
country would be represented and whose
members would not owe their appoint
ment to the speaker but to the members
from the respective groups from which
they were selected This plan or some
similar plan must be adopted before the
house of representatives will be really
representative A change of speakers
or a change of political parties will not
lessen the power of the speaker The
real cause of the difficulty is not the
more has taken a vacation from his
duties on the railway and will go to
Denver for treatment About Jan 1
he will go to Oborlin Kan and take
charge of the B M station there
We hope he will improve in health rap
dly Red Cloud Com Adv
sarw
man necessarily but the power Change
tho men nnd leave the power and you
have not removed tho cause or relieved
theovil but only struck tho instrument
On the other hand take away this arbi
trary and unreasonable power by some
plan similar to the one outlined above
and you have at one stroke mado tho
house of representatives a representa
tive body representative of tho entire
country each member thereoff bearing
bis proportionate share or responsibil
ity Tho speaker would than no longer
be tho head of a machine He would
caase to bo a ruler and become tho dig
nified presiding ofiicer of the greatest
representative parliamentary body on
earth
The Republicans aro very fortunate
in having Capt John C Gammill as a
candidate for state senator Cambridge
Clarion
Hon John C Gammill is now the
Republican nominee for state senator
from the 29th senatorial district He
will later on be elected Curtis Enter
prise
One felicitous feature of coroners
jury verdicts in accidents is the fact
that those upon whom responsibility is
placed are usually dead or beyond en
forcement of verdicts
The average old line politician cannot
look upon the present primary law with
anything like complacency nnd remem
ber the halcyon vest pocket davs and
back office camarilla of the old regime
Republican County Central Committee
The following are the Republican
county central committeemen and their
post office addresses
Alliance Sam Prenier Bnrtley
Beaer Geo B Morgan Danbury
Bondville II N Collins Indianola
Box Elder W B Sexon Box Elder
Coleman John N Smith McCook
Danbury T F Gockley Danbury
Driftwood J H Wade McCook
East Valley U G Etherton Bartley
Fritch C M Goben Indianola
Gerver C M Lotton Cedar BluiTs
Grant A M Benjamin McCook
Indianola E S Hill Indianola
Lebanon J B Cummins Lebanon
Missouri Ridge JohnDeeuy Indianola
North Valley Win Wight Bartley
Perry Chas H Jacobs McCook
Red Willow FCSmith Indianola
Tyrone L A Sheldon Lebanon
Valley Grange A D Johnston McCook
Willow Grove P O all at McCook
lstprec 1st ward J F Corneal
2nd prcc 1st ward W CAllison
1st prec 2nd ward H W Conover
2nd prec 2nd ward Scott Odell
Geo S Scott Chairman
John F Cordeal Secretary
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Misses ODonnell of Strattou were
city pilgrims Monday
Mr and Mrs A N Likeburg leave
tonight for Omaha on weeks visit
A A Bokg of Valley Grange precinct
has moved to near Chapman Merrick
county
Mrs A C Wiehe loft Wednesday
evening for Kansas City to bo absent
on a weeks visit
Mr and Mrs A Barnett arrived
home Saturday nght from their ab
sence in Chicago
Mrs Ella Benton and daughter Es
sie departed Monday morning for their
home in Springfield Illinois
Postmaster McLean returned Sun
day noon from spending a few weeks
in Wisconsin at his old home
Mrs A R Mehaffev and Miss Ruth
Campbell went down to Lincoln yester
day morning on 2 on a visit to Mr and
Mrs Kates
Ed Coupe of Falls City one of the
McCook boys of the olden days was
in town part of last week on a social-
business trip
Mrs Michall Houlihan returned
home end of kist week from visiting
Miss Margaret at Ammons Lyman
county South Dakota
Miss Linna Mehaffey who has been
a resident of our city during the sum
mer departed on No 2 this morning
for her home in Pittsburg
Mrs C D Ritchie returned home
Sunday having enjoyed a week of the
rushing season among sorority
friends and visiting her parents
P Walsh went into Lincoln Monday
night to represent Red Willow county
in tno Democratic state convention
which began its sessions Tuesday
Miss Laura Hinckle of Middleton
Ohio is the guest of her cousins Mrs
Mary Northrup and Mrs C II Boyle
She is on her way home from visiting
in Denver
Miss Sadie Coyle recording clerk in
the county clerks ofiice will be absent
on vacation in Colorado after her visit
to Alliance with other member of Court
Granada No 77 Daughters of Isabella
Roy Goheen who has been living up
in Oregon for a few years returned to
McCook fore part of the week and is
employed at present with J I Lee The
Goheen family is still located at Clarks
ton Oregon
Jack Edwards who has been suffer
ing with stomach trouble for a year or
jiiiBsafflaBfiffitiifl -
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THE DEMOCRATIC DEPARTMENT
Conducted by Democratic Committee
Democratic National Ticket
For President
WILLIAM J BRYAN of Nebraska
For Vice President
JOHN W KERN of Indiana
Democratic State Ticket
For Governor
Ashton C Shallenberger of Alma
Lieutenant Governor
E O Garrett of Fremont
Dr
Secretnry of State
A T Gntewood of Arapahoe
State Auditor
William B Price of Lincoln
State Treasurer
Clarence Mackey of Ansley
Superintendent of Public Instruction
N C Abbott of Teknmah
Attorney General
Harry B Fleharty of South Omaha
Commissioner Public Lands Buildings
E B Eastham of Broken Row
Railroad Commissioner
W II Cowgill of Holdrego
Congressman oth District
Fred W Ashton of Grand Islai d
State Senator 29th District
Coiil Matthews of Bartley
State Representative 63th District
J II lloppe of Bartley
County Attorney
Sidnev Dodge of Marion
FRED W ASHTON
The Democratic and Populist
candidate for Congress in the
Fifth Congressional District will
if elected and the House of Rep
resentatives is Democratic sup
port all measures endorsed by the
Democratic National Convention
But should the House be Repub
lican he will support all reform
legislation regardless of party ties
and if Mr Cannon is a candidate
for Speaker will use all his
power to defeat him and put in
the chair a man who represents
the people as distinguished from a
representative of special interests
As member of the State Senate
he voted for the following meas
ures Anti Pass Bill Two Cent
Rate Bill Maximum Freight Rate
Bill Railway Commission Bill
Sibley Express Bill Pure Food
Bill and other reform measures
A FEW HINTS TO VOTERS
Before casting your vote with
the republican party remember
some of these things
First The failure of the repub
lican part to take steps to pro
vide for electing senators by pop
ular vote and the refusal of the
republican convention to endorse
the reform
Second The failure of the re
publican congress to pass a bill
providing for publicity of cam
paign contributions and the re
fusal of the republican convention
even to endorse the reform
Third The failure of the re
publican congress to pass a postal
savings bank bill and the hypoc
rsy of the party in endorsing this
reform which it had just ignored
in congress
Fourth The passage by the
republican congress of a currency
bill which enables speculative
banks to convert all sorts of se
curities into currency and actually
reduces the margin of safety for
depositors instead of increasing it
Fifth The destruction of rep
resentative government in the
lower house where the republican
speaker and his committee on
rules have all power and not even
a majoricy can get a vote on a
popular bill if the speaker refuses
consent
Sixth The forty nine per cent
increase in the cost of living under
the republican Dingley tariff and
its trusts while wages have in
creased only nineteen per cent
Seventh The refusal of the
republican congress to amend this
tariff although its iniquities are
admitted and future revision has
been reluctantly promised by its
friends after the storm is over
Eighth The notorious fact ad
mitted by Senator Aldrich re
publican leader in the senate
that American tariff protec
concerns sell their
Special
Fall
Millinery
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East B Street
products Sfcfcg
abroad in competition with Euro- L SMtS
pean lactones hl iowui pnueb
than they exact from American
consumers and the refusal of the
republican house of representa
tives to adopt an amendment to
have our government agents re
port on these prices
Ninth The republican leaders
pretend they favor a tariff suff
icient only to compensate factories
for the difference between labor
cost in America and abroad but
the fact is that the republican
tariff is more than sufficient to
pay the whole labor cost On
steel products the labor cost
fifteen per cent and the tariff is
thirty two per cent
c wastage
Will be found at my store October 1-2-3
All the newest shades and latest styles
will be found and the prices are such as
will meet the demands of all Everyone
is invited to call and inspect these pretty
creations whether you buy or not
Miss
217 Main Avenue
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MARK
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Successor to Misses ODonnell
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The
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Tire Setter
The machine that sets your tires while
you wait and does the work right
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
If not satisfied your money will be re
funded We also do turning lathe
work and general blacksmithing
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McCook Nebraska
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