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VOLUME XLJX. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928. NO. 4.
Hoover and Curtis Are Choice of Convention
RUNNING RACE MEET
AN UNUSUAL EVENT
With fair weather during the three
days of the Running Race Meet, July
3, 4, and 5, O’Neill will have the larg
est crowd that has ever gathered
within her gates for a similar affair.
The program is one of the best and
includes horses from all of the sur
rounding states, and from the big
western circuit. Some of the fastest
races are run over the O’Neill track
and some of the fastest gallopers of
the country come to O’Neill because
they always receive the best of treat
ment from the racing management.
The down-town attractions will be
another big drawing card. The Mc
Clellan Shows, of Kansas City with
four riding devices, eight shows,
thirty other concessions, a caliope, over
two hundred people are among the
concessions; Goldie Meek and her 49
show and other shows will also be
here; Phil Ziemer, who has charge of
the concessions says that there will
be a large number of other shows and
places of amusement along the streets
from the Burlington depot to the court
house.
An airplane will be here and will
carry passengers.
Plenty of fun for everyone.
HOOVER AND CURTIS.
The following editorial appeared in
the Saturday issue of the Omaha
World-Herald, a democratic news
paper:
If the Kansas City convention has
done nothing else for us it has empha
sized the shining truth that America
is a land of miracle and romance, of
opportunity and high adventure.
Its nominee for president of the
United States, Herbert Hoover, was
born in a cabin on an Iowa farm, edu
cated in California, and became, as a
mining engineer, a nomad on the face
of the earth. After attaining to pre
eminence and great wealth in his pro
fession he maintained an office in Lon
don where he established his residence,
and, until he entered upon a public
career, he spent more of his life in
England, continental Europe, Asia and
Africa than in the United States. A
valued and trusted lieutenant of Presi
dent Wilson during the world war, he
i announced himself a republican only
| eight years ago, since which time he
has served under President Harding
j and Coolidge as secretary of com
merce, in training for the presidental
nomination that now has come to him.
The jiominee for vice-president
whose grandmother was a Kaw Indian
was born in an Indian camp, wore a
government blanket, susisted on gov
ernment rations as a youth, became
then a horse jockey, later a hack
driver, then a self-made lawyer, and
rose at length to be the leader of his
party in the United States senate,
from which post he advances to the
vice-presidential nomination.
For pure romance, for striking at
I testation of the possibilities and op
portunities that confront the Ameri
can boy whether of high or lowly
lineage, these nominations leave little
to be desired, whatever may be deem
ed lacking in other respects.
Herbert Hoover’s dame, since he
started feeding the Belgians early in
the world war, has been a household
word in America. Excepting only the
name of his one-time chief, Woodrow
Wilson, it is probably the best known
American name in Europe and other
foreign lands, as befits one who has
sometimes been sneered at as “an
internationalist” and “international
minded.” Every housewife every
farmer, gained what seemed to be an
intimate if not always congenial fa
miliarity with him when, as food ad
ministrator, he was trying desperately
to keep down the price of wheat and
limit our food consumption, for the
benefit of the allied forces and peo
ples, after our own entry into the
war. By his admirers, who are numer
ous, especially in the business world,
he is esteemed an administrator of
superlative rank, and his technical
knowledge of the details of the feder
al government and broad grasp of its
problems no one questions.
Politically Mr. Hoover identifies him
self—if he needed identification—in
his message to the convention that
nominated him: “I stand upon that
platform. If elected I shall give the
best within me ... to uphold the tra
ditions of the republican party, so
effectively exemplified by Calvin
Coolidge.” He is Coolidge’s fit and
logical successor, as he has been his
trusted adviser and loyal discipline
since the death of Warren G. Hard
ing. William Allen White speaks of
the platform as “conservative to the
point of reaction,” and Mr. Hoover,
without qualifications or mental res
ervations, can stand, consistently and
conscientiously, upon it.
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Hoover Receives The Nomination For
President On First Ballot
Both Men Receive a Great Ovation
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The Republican National convention
assembled in Kansas City nominated
Herbert Hoover, of California, for
president of the United States on the
first ballot late Thursday night of
last week.
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas,
was the choice of the convention for
vice-president.
The convention met in Kansas City,
Missouri, on Tuesday of last week and
organized with Simon D. Fess as tem
porary chairman. Senator George H.
Moses, of New Hampshire, was chos
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HERBERT HOOVER, OF CALIFORNIA
en the permanent chairman.
Much time was taken up in select
ing a platform but the one selected is
sound and conservative and will meet
the approval of the party generally.
With Hoover and Curtis the west
will have an opportunity to place
western men in the white house this
fall for the first time in the history
of the United States. Both are very
ble men and if they are elected presi
dent an-' vice-president we are as
sured of an administration that will
be conducted along conservative lines
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SENATOR CHARLES CUR TIS, OF KANSAS
and in a businesslike way that will
not bring humiliation to our country.
The ovation given each of the
chosen candidates was one that will
be long remembered by those present
and was, perhaps the greatest ap
plause ever given to any nominee for
a like office.
Much could he said about the con
vention and their choice of candidates.
The Nebraska State Journal tells the
story very nicely and we publish it
below:
HERBERT HOOVER.
The republican national convention,
following the clearly-expressed man
date of the members of the party or
ganisation, has nominate*! Hrrbert
Hoover for president of the United
Htatea. In spite of the opp<> iti n of
the great moneyiei interests of the
country and of the radical elements as
expressed in the agitation fur a cer
tain type of farm relief, Mr. Hoover,
sheer force of the demand for his serv
ices, has triumphed.
The people of the country are to be
congratulated upon the opportunity
to secure a man of his type for the
position of chief executive. Mr.
Hoover is not a politician in the sense
that we have all com-* to understand i
the term, a man alert to sense what ,
the public wants and then push it as I
a leader. He is not a statesman of
the type that has been engaged upon
the task of building safe and secure
the liberties which a democratic form
of government premises. He is a big,
constructive force who*« leadership is,
available Just at the time when ser
i vices such as he can perform better ’
than any man in public life are most
necessary for the public weal.
No fact is more evident than that
the political era in America has ended,
and the economic era has begun. The
demand of today Is for the politician |
1 to Sake to the rear and the man who ,
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can do the big things in an economic,
or, if you please business way, to take
hold. Doing big things in a big and
successful way have been Mr.
Hoover’s task for more than a dozen
years. What these were will be de
tailed in the campaign to come. Henry
Ford recently said that he was for
Hoover for president because he has
shown that he can size up any job,
pick the right men and direct it thru
to success. A column of panegyrics
could not more clearly describe
Hoover’s qualifications for the leader
ship for which the nation pauses.
What is uppermost in the mind of
the men and women of today?
Their respective jobs, their perman
ency and their promise of rewards.
We have as citizens of the republic
won our political independence; we
need now to grasp the economic in
dependent of the individual that is
present today. The organizing abili
ties that Mr. Hoover has shown in his
leadership of business as secretary of
commerce, when placed at the com
mand of agriculture, will gain for that
industry what it most needs and de
sires. His past record as builder and
administrator is a guarantee of this
accomplishment.
Mr. Hoover is personally dry and
he is pledged, as head of the law en
forcement department of the govern
ment, to a policy that should appeal
to every other dry. President Cool
idge’s policy of economy in govern
mental expenditures will be Mr.
Hoover’s policy. The mounting cost
of government is one of the menaces
to the prosperity of the individual,
and a strong man unafraid of the
politicians alone can halt it.
We face a campaign in which pas
sion, prejudice and partisanship
threaten to obscure the real issues and
the real good of the people, but we
repeat that the opportunity is present
to select as president a man remark
ably well equipped for a gigantic task.
CHARLES CURTIS.
The selection of Senator Curtis of
Kansas for second place on the repub
lican ticket gives the west, whether
one considers Hoover an Iowan or a
Californian, entire control of the situa
tion. After all the talk about the po
litical power of the industrial east, the
republican party, through which it has
funcitioned in more ways than one,
turns to the middle west and chooses
both its candidates from this side the
Missouri river.
The fact that Senator Curtis was
the one candidate for president upon
whom the experts had picked as the
man who would be nominated if the
others reached an impasse in their
candidacies is the best testimony of
his fitness for the second place.
While a member of the old guard, he
has never been a slavish follower of
any political machine, and his inde
pendence and abilities won him the
leadership of the senate republicans.
He has served for thirty-three years
in the house and senate, convincing
proof of his integrity and ability as a
public man. This service has made
him familiar with all the complexities
of government, an able counsellor and
a wise leader. The agriculaurel west
will have in him a spokesman who
knows its needs and desires. He is
a good campaigner, and a man whose
personality and speech will be a
strength to the ticket.
GOLF TOURNAMENT WILL
START SUNDAY MORNING
AT COUNTRY CLUB
The annual golf tournament will
start Monday morning at the O’Neill
Country Club with the prospects very
bright for one of the most successful
gatherings of its kind yet held by the
Club.
Some of the out-of-town players
who expect to tee-off Sunday are A.
W. Breyer, Harold McKinnon, Nor
folk; Wm. Sheehan, Winner; Thomas
A. Hanson, Tilden; Bobby Reickhoff,
Orange City, Iowa; John Mann, Chi
cago; George Swingle, Lincoln; John
Hopkins, Omaha; Joe Leonard, Bas
sett; Joe Baldwin, Ainsworth; Harry
Snyder, Atkinson; Parnell Golden,
Casper, Wyoming.
The dance will be held at the Coun
try Club Monday evening.
The banquet will be at the Golden
hotel Tuesday evening.
From 125 to 150 entries are ex
pected.
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT FOR
LADIES DURING TOURNEY
A bridge tournament will be held
at the Country Club during the Golf
Tournament which will begin next
Sunday. The bridge tourney will last
Sunday and Monday. All members of
the Country Club and all out-of-town
guests are cordially invited.
BLUE GRASS HARVEST
BEGAN WEDNESDAY
The Nebraska Seed Company rep
resentatives arrived in O’Neill the
first of the week and under the di
rection of Paul Schwisow who is
superintending the work, began the
harvest of the blugrass crop in this
locality.
Thirty-two strippers began taking
the seed Wednesday morning on the
Ditch Camp ranch, Cottonwood ranch
and on the Paul Schwisow farm. Only
a small amount of seed can be taken
this year on account of the under
growth of the clover and other grass
which make it difficult to get clean
seed. Mr. Schwisow says that the
work will perhaps be discontinued in
a few days.
The blue grass seed obtained from
Holt county is rated as the best on
the markets and that is why the seed
companies are anxious to get all the
seed that they can at this time.
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DRESS AND HAT SALE
Beginning Saturday, June 23rd
FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS
Better Dresses Priced Astonishingly Low at
$6.75 $10.75 $15.75
High Grade Spring and Midsummer Hats
$1.00 $2.50 $3.75
Exclusive Pattern Hats at Hail Price
CHAPMAN’S STYLE SHOP
O’Neill, Nehraska
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