The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, October 31, 1887, Image 2

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    THE DAILY JlKitALD, J'LA'iTSMOUTH, NK13UASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1887.
(l)c jitattomottti) Daily cralb
KNOTTS BBO S.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
J-'or Supreme Jul?.
SAMUEL MAXWELL.
ii.r l ulviislty Kejcents,
J)i:.MJ. 15. DAVIS,
Dli. GEOKGE KOHKUTS.
For J mixed of Hfcoml .Judicial Dinti ict,
HON. SAMUEL M. CHAPMAN.
HON. ALLEN W. FIELD.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
I'or Treasurer
I). A. CAM1MJELL.
For Clerk
UUID C U ITCI I FI ELD
F.r Hcnriler
WM. I. POOL.
For J edge
CALVIN RUSSELL.
For Suueriiitwndeiit of l'ublie Instruction
JIAYNARI) SPINK.
Sheriff
J. C. EIKEXUAHY.
Kor Clerk of I ijsli i;-t Court
H. J. STKEIUIIT,
For 'runty Conmii.-'.sioiier
GEORGE YOUNG.
For Surveyor
A. MADOLE.
For Coroner
HENRY BtECK.
Tho Republican Stato Platform.
Tlio ruputilieiiu purty of Xebr.nka. while
c'.r ea'fitU of properly rixlitn, :nni lioidin:; 1:0
sympathy with those who would with the emu
muuiat diTidc. or with tiie iuiarchi-ts destroy,
re:issrls its determination that tin; arcM rail
way corporal loiss of tuts slate which hold re
lations of chifest interest to the pe plc shall
be the fairly paid servants of the sta'e ami not
its nia!"ei. Til work of li j;i.-lative eonr-ol in
tiiu stat.i: and 11. .lion shall continue uulil ail
ui-e of eoiiiplaiut o( exorbitant, raies and
unjut discrimination in favor of individuals f
localities Fliall eea.se to exist. Assumh-g tin;
resp.)u.sibility;-.Thich ifairly belongs to if, ,f
having originated all legislation looking to
rail iiiad euiilrol and the ciea! ion of those tri
bunals or coiiimifioim which have been en
abled to grupplo with corpori'tu power, the re
publican party will see to it that by a 1 needed
enlargements of power these commissions, na
li nial and stale, shall be armed for buttle and
tor vi -t.ry While favoring such c- an ire in
the eonstitiitiov.ot this state as will permit tin:
railroad commissioners to be elected by tin
p:opl, it heiMby voices its contiueiico in tin;
xit itij; board ot transportatiou.and cxiiimend-'
its lorts to obtain for .Nebraska the same
tarilf of rates for freight and earria.fre of pas
sengers as is accorded to neighboring states
kimilarly circumstanced. It is crossly unjust
aud a previous wrong that Neir;;ska should
pay mor for the transportation of her products
and tne cuiTin- of hr supplif s than her neigh
bors, Iowa, .Minnesota and iukola, with us
2 00 miles of easily constructed and cheaply
maintain?'.) lines of railroad aud the republi
cans of this state will not ceae lb : ir eltorts
until all wrongs be righted.
Wo r auirm our a iherauee to tlio America. 1
syteii ot tarilt. under whw-li, with its brad
protection of American labor, our country ha
prospered beyond any other, as the business
of tho country now demands revision, the re
publican, alive to the demands of every mate
rial interest, will see to it that such revision
fc'iill bo made at tho earliest practical clay.
We condemn the action of the democratic ma
jority in conures in that after repeated
p;edgs 01 tHiiai. iorai.it ins utterly tailed,
while h-iii! a, lar:zc majority in the house of
repref ;-nta.ires. where t iriif bills must origi
nate, to bring about such reform, which must
couiB trm tho party that has ever been the
ri':id of tho American laborer and producer.
The grateful tha.iks ot the American people
aia due to tho-e who defended the union ill the
late war an 1 we are in favor of providing
suitable pensions for soldiers and pallors who
were disabled in its service r who have since,
without theirfault or vice, become objects of
public or private charity and to the widows
and orr.hao" of lho.-e who fell in its defense.
We heartily sympathize with the ambition
and rli-iilH ol tin- patriots of Ireland in iheir
endeavois to obtain for their country the
liisiiigs of five institutions and loc.il self
government. We recognize in t harles Stew
arc -ain-!l and the lU.'lton. William K. Glad
stone worthy champions of the fundamental
priMciuala of the Ueclaratiou of Indepen
dence. We condemn the action of the president in
his attempt to return the trophies won by
eraveryoii the field of battle.
We condemn the narrow, intolerant and par
tisan net inn of the democratic party 111 exclud
in-; from the privilege of s'ate citi.enship the
lixif million people . Dakota, oolely on the un
manly and iudtffcnsiblc groutul of a difference
in political views. ot content with their ef
fens to exclude the neirro from the elective
franchise, they now seek to proscribe an intel
ligent, pros e.-ous nn-.l patriotic people because
of their political opinions.
We view with alarm tinj abuse of the veto
pjwor py the president of the United States,
A power from the use of vrhich England sov
ereigns liavo abstained for two centuries; a
power met but ix times during the liist Jorty
year, of our national gorernment. a power by
the people intrusted tu the president for the
purpo-eof p: eventing hnstv legislation, has by
ae present incumbent of that -tlice been used
to thwart tUe well ascertained will efthe peo
ple acd to resist their repeated demands. He
has, in one-half or a single term of office, tted
the nower more times than all the predecessors
combined. Jle Ins sought bv all the prece
Ueuted use of extraordinary power, to consti
tute hiinielf a co-ordinate branch of lln na
tional legislature. lie has frequently exer
eised this 'one man power"' by tho cowardly
method of th "pocket veto" by which imnort
ant measures have been defeated without any
reason being given for withholding its approval.
sion and trcaHoa will triumph over truth
and patriotism, just bo long will tho
loyal north hesitate to trust the manage
ment of thin government to their hands.
Ovt r sensitive democrats, who are con
stantly apologising for their having been
in the Union Army, better ttite their
horns to some other tunc than criticising
republicans for waving the bloody shirt.
For if cotideiuing tin; south in their
cfiorts io kc"p alive the sectional hate
engendered by the war, if pointing out
the fa t that the south still pcisists in
honoring Davis ns'a patriot "whoso life
is without stain or blemish" , if denounc
ing tlio removal of union soldiers to
make ready for confederates, if devotion
to the old 11 ig and allegience to the con
stitution. If this is "waving the bloody
shirt"', then let'er wave.
TROOPS ON THE MAHCII.
WHAT
AN 'ARMY
ON THE
IS LIKE
ROUTE.
WHEN
THE REBEL KINO AND THE
SOUTH.
"The Memphis Appeal" in a sudden
burst of eloquence and idiocy, mingled
in about equal proportions, mounts the
stump and waves the bloody shirt in the
following emphatic manner:
Yes the day will come when the inter
pretation of the federal constitution by
Calhoun, by which he defined its limita
tion, will be the univesally accepted one
It must come, if truth and justice are to
survive, and a government of and for
the people is not to perish from the
earth.
The idea of the old secession dectrin
of Calhoun being again resurected in this
country is enough to make a patriotic
man hold his nose while the Memphis
Appeal holds the floor.
But such breaks as the Memphis paper
has been guilty of, demonstrates what j
few northern democrats arc prone to be- j
uevc nameiy, mac tne oia south holds a
firmer grip npon the hcaits and minds of
that section, than the much talked of
"new south." The presence of the old
traitor at different points in th south,,
and the red hot receptions tendered him,
ehould at least, awake the intelligent
democrat to a realization of the fact that
the war is not yet over. So long as
southern journals continue to prophesy
he coming of a future day when Beces-
OURJUDICIAL TICKET.
Tin: democratic press of this district,
will from this day until Nov. 8th, hiaist
on Sawysr's election as district judge in
Allen Field's place, basing their request
to republicans to turn over a judgeship
to Mr. Sawyer on the ground that it is a
very pretty thing to have a non-partisan
judiciary so called when the demaera-
cy are in the minority.
Were the democracy in the majority in
this district, nothing but a straight dem
ocratic ticket would be tolerated, but,
being in the minoiity the sweet strains of
non-piii tisan muic will be piped on the
man Sawyer's account from this on till
election day. Personally Tnto Heu.vi.d
has no attack to make upon Sir. Sawyer
further than that he is a democrat and
has been a chronic oflice seeker ever siuce
he settled in Nebraska. He is, we are
told, a fair average lawyer and a pheasant
man yet plastic in the hands of the small
politian. lfeisnotas strong a man as
Allen Field nor as broad a lawyer, and
would not make as aide a iudge. How
ever, placing the two men on a par as to
standing and ability, what good reason is
there for any republican to desert, his
ticket and vote for Sawyer? It can't be
done honestly on non-partisan grounds,
for Mr. Sawyer is running, and he is the
only man who is running for the oflice of
district judge, on a purely partisan plat
form. The denioracy of this district
would have observed the non-partisan
idea and would not have nominated si
judicial ticket had it not been for Mr
Sawyer, who walked into the democrat
ic judicial convention at Lincoln and in
his speech, accepting the nomination,
stated specifically and with great partic
ularity that he did not want the office,
but that, he accepted it purely as a dem
ocrat to keep the party organization up,
for said he, "the time may come Vtrt
soon in this (7 in tr tat when the democrats
will be able to elect jud'jes and then it
is our duty to do so." This is the man
w ho is running on a non-partisan dodge
and w -nts to steal enough votes from
republicans to occupy a seat on the bench
as a democrat.
But the most serious charge made
against Mr. Sawyer is that he is a tleino-
gogue, who rides any hobby for o;rtce.
He masquei ads as a strict democrat with
democrats; as a Van Wyck republican
with Van AVyck republicans! as a prohi
bitionist with prohibitionists, and stands
in with the saloon elements when it is to
ins interest to ilo so, always receiving
its support in Lincoln. In other words
his lightning rod is always hoisted and
from its barbs the single motto may be
always discribed, "Sawyer!" "Sawyer!"
"Sawyer!"
Alien t tela is a strait-iorward man
whose worth will be attested by the vote
he will receive in Lincoln and Lancaster
county ou Tuesday week and we want
our readers to remember that Tuk Her
ald speaks by the law when it promises
the voters of this district 1200 majority
for Allen Field in Lancaster county on
Nov. 8.
A Large Hotly of Soldlern Cannot Move
Over Twelve of fifteen Allies u luy
Tho I'nuvoldable Causes of Successive
Halts.
It may at first seem strange that a lly of
troops cannot move, even under tho liest of
coiitiitioi's, over twelvo or fifteen miles a
clay, when a man can easily walk, if ho is
anything of a walker, from twenty-fivo u
thirty rnilvs a day. It only retpuLres, how
ever, n li tlio experience, to prove tho figures
above given, though they may lo arrived at
j liy calculation. A coniiiny of infantry mov
ing in miumu 01 iours, tne usual marcning ior
mation, takes up about SJ yards of depth,
A regiment of ten companies will roquiro
IliiO yards, a company of cavalry about 100
ynrds, and a battalion of four companies
alxiut 4.00 yards. A six gun battery of field
artillery in column of sections, and accom
panied with tho usual baggage, requires
alxiut .!") yards. From these figures wo cal
culate the length of a column moving on a
single roa-1. An infantry brigade of four
regiments will take up exclusive of baggago
1 ,:S;"iO j-ards. Tho baggage, including ammu
nition, will require nine six mule wagons to
each regimont. Each wagon with its team
requires twenty yards depth, and for tho en
tiro brigade tho depth will bo over 700 yards.
Add this to 1,350 yards, and wo have nearly
2,100 yarJj, or a milo and a quarter for tho
depth of tho column. If wo allow but throo
regiments to tho brigade, we cau reduce tho
depth to about 1,000 yards. For tho baggago
belonging to different headquarters we must
allow a depth of 200 yards.
Now, coming to a division of infantry, wo
have but to multiply tho foregoing total by
tho number of brigades in the division. But
when wo take up an army corps, wo have to
inako calculations for artillery and cavalry,
extra baggage and supply trains. Suppose
wo take as a maximum figure an army corps
composed all told of 42,000 men. It has four,
divisions of infantry, eight to twelvo bat
teries, and at least four regiments of cavalry.
YVcro it ablo to march close up, on a singlo
road with all its trains, including reservo
supplies, it would stretch out, at tho least
calculation, about eighteen miles. But it is
impossible for a column of this longth to keep
from stretching, or "lengthening out," as it
is technically termed, and so the best author
ities make an allowance of 25 er cent.,
which, added to the eighteen miles, makes
twenty-two and one-half miles, or a distance
which would tako a mounted messenger
moving from tho head of the column to tho
rear, if ho made good speed and met with no
obstruction, at least three hours to make, or
moving from the rear to the head, nearly
half a day.
WHAT OES. M'CLELLAJT SAID.
Gen. McClellan, in one of his reports, says:
"If I had marched tho entire army, 100,000
men, in one column, instead of ou five differ
ent roads, tho column, with its trains, would
have stretched out fifty miles." In tho
Franco-Prussian war it was found that a
Prussian army corps of 42,512 men, 90 guns,
13,800 horses and 1,300 vehicles took up on
a single road twenty-seven miles, eighteen
miles occupied by the troops and nino miles
by the trains.
If roads were all broad enough and in good
condition, columns could march with a far
greater front, and the depth bo vastly re
duced. But in this country, at least, thero
are few roads where there is room for a col
umn of greater width than a set of fours to
move and leave sufficient spaco for the unim
peded progress of orderlies and staff officers,
or for vehicles which have to go in an oppo
site direction. Jfc may bo asked why tho col
umn cannot bo kept closed up, why it has to
lengthen out? Sometimes a wagon breaks
down. It is haulod to ono sida for re
pairs and the others pas3 on. But
to haul it to on& side consumes some
time, mayhap only a few moments, and a
few moments again when repaired to re
enter the column. Tho consequence is a halt
of everything in the rear. Neither men nor
horses can be marched steadily without a halt
aui I rest every hour, and a halt at tho head
of the column, or in resuming the march,
occasions loss of timo to all regiments iu rear,
which cannot halt or start at once, but must
do so successively.
Again, perhaps, a bridge has to bo crossed,
and time is lost by tho breaking of step, or,
perhaps, tho chango of formation. Perhaps
the stream has to bo forded, or somo obstacle
is met with in tho road. It must be remem
bered that, in addition to the actual distauco
accomplished in marehing, many other things
are required of the soldier. He has to go on
guard or picket, ho is sent out perhaps as a
flanker on tho march, or arriving at camp ho
has to collect fuel and water; moreover, ho
carries a heavy load, his kit, gun, ammuni
tion and day s rations, averaging from fifty
to sixty pounds. So that perhaps were wo
ablo to calculate all t'hat he has done, we
should find he bos expended as much strength
as would tako the ordinary pedestrian over
twenty-fivo to thirty miles of road. "W. It.
Hamilton in kow York Post.
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information
to Capital' Seeking Investment.
PCSW
TERS ABOUT PLATTSWIOUTH.
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It is tlio rratewny to tl.o grout Suu th Hattccountry
It is Htnated on tho Missouri Ufver at the mouth
vi 1110 1 nine, ;it i jmiia .
c.'igo ami 1a :ivoi only two hour. !y rail from Lincoln tho capital, and iorty minutes from Oma a,
metropolis ; tho State.
l'opul .t ion ahout i),0u0 anti rapidly increasing.
lias 01:0 vl the iint st .-y.-tems of Water AVorks in the State.
Streets are well lighted by gas.
A street railway in operation.
Grades of the .-'lieets established, and bonds voted for tho purpose of constructing . sewerngo
paving of Iain llrtree-i, work to eoimnence thereon in tho pring of ISsS. . .
Has a line four story higlt school building and six ward school houses. Aside from business -houses
over 100 residences have been constructed during the year 1S-S7.
An Ot.r-rn llaiisi' i-d.tiiKr SiriOfHlO
Nebraska Preserve and Canning factory, capital 513,000, capacity 300,000 cans per year and
ploys 40 hands
Prick and Terra Vv'orks, capital -50,000, capacity 10,000 bricks per day, employs thirty hands.
Plattsnioiith Canning Factory, capital ,$30,000, capacity l,50u,000 cans per year and employs
hands, turns over in ono year's business about sl)0,0o0.
Two daily papers; ono Republican and one Democratic.
fechnelbaeher buggy and wagon factory.
Pepper berg's cigar manufactory, employs fifteen hands, and largely supplies the trade
ern Nebraska.
Dufuor & Go's, now Packing lloiu-e.
Tho great C. V. tc Q. Railroad machine sh-.ps, round houses, storehou-es, &c, are maintained at
this point for the use of it- system west of the JVIissouri liiver, employing many hundreds of hands, and
disbursing to employes monthly about 330,000.
One of tho finest railroad bridges in the United States spans the ?dis?ouri Piver at the Southern
limit of the city.
Over 2,000 miles ot railroad conveys its freight trailie into and through our city.
Ten passenger trains leave. Piattsmouth daily for north, south, east and west over the G. P. & Q-
K. C., St. Joe ec C. P. and the P AT. P. li. in Nebraska.
The cheapness of the land around Piattsmouth and its nearness to Onriiia markets together with
good railror.d facilities, make it not only a pleasant place to reside, but a desirable place for the establish
ment of manufactories.
To healthy, legitimate manufactoring enterprises, the citizens of Piattsmouth v.ould doubtless make
reasonable inducements to secure their location, and correspondence is solicited.
"While real estate values are growing lirmer each dav. yf. there is nothing speculative or fictitious
about them, and good residence lots cau be bought at from'loO to '-; land near ti e city can be pur
chased tit from ?-2V)0 to $-100 per acre. "Within the next twelve month.-, our city expects to welcome the
Missourri Pacific and tho Omaha and Southern Railways into its coroorale limits.
ot Bouthwest-
The above facts tire riven without exacrireratiou and tie" i.ro.-tects for the future lirosncrity of our
city, more than above- indicated. Parties seeking investments mliealty
are earnestly requested to come and make personal investi:;-;t ion. "Wit : ! here you will
ride to South Park,
purchased at from s
coin Avenue; or by
tcr. South Park is
the most beautiful and desirable residence loc;
:I "0 to &-200, each. This pichiresn ue addition i,
t.
iiith Otii Street and may be reached in a ten niirute
ore rapidiy building up than an
lie given a tree
i
1 1 v in the city, wiiere lots may De
i ee.-iile by either Chicago or Lin-
all: from the
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other j-art of tl
VV
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( 'orrc-sponuence
business cen-
olicited.
i m hi iwi i ii iran ir r n liiwn i n w
JcfT Davis,' 7ruo Claim.
Chicago N'.-v, -. iiiiig., 23: Although
Jefferson Davis v.as welcomed to Macon,
Ga., as tlio "ki:!-;!itly champion of state
rights and .sor.lhrin honor" histni'j claim
to public attention is at the living monu
ment to a great nation's m;:nanitnitv.
The south noaMs its chivalric blood
and spirit. It i assr-s comprehension,
then that tli3 somh does not appreciate
the indecency ot its hy.-t a-ical displays
of enthusiasm oyer a man vhos life for
nearly a q '.a'ter of a century has been
one lonr snarl of ii;r,;titude.
If ever a man had cau-e to retire to
the caves and i old bis peace, Jeff Davis
is that man. It ever people had a reason
to turn their faces from a false, deceitful
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south.
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If, as Gen. Jackson, of Georgia, who
was chosen by President Cleveland to
represant this nation in an important
foreign mission, declared in his speech
at Macon Ga., if "slavery was the
gentlest and by far the most civilizing
and humanizing relationship ever borne
by labor to capital," then the true pur
pose of the south must be to again put
labor in the relation of slavery. If the
south does not design to reduce labor to
slavery then it is false to its own con
victions of duty. For there are at least
5,000,000 of laborers of black skin in
the states of the solid democratic south.
Xot being slaves, they are, according to
Gen, Jackson's statement of the belief of
the south, deprived of the blessings
which would result from again being re
duced to "the gentlest and by far the
most civilizing and humanizing relation
ship ever borne by labor to capital."
Such reasoning then requires the south
as the supreme end of its dealing with
the great question of labor, as the dom
inating force of a great political party
now in possession of the national govern
ment, to strive to put labor in the relation
of slavery. Do the laboring men of the
north flatter themselves that they know
the true belief and purpose of the solid
democratic south" better than Gen.
Jackson hiuself ? Sioux City Journal.
Ho Had Reached tlie Limit.
A. Detroit peddler of tinware took out
some egz Deaters on ins last trip, and as tlio
price was only fifteen cents each, and they
worked on a new principle, lio calculated on
hig sales. Ilis first experience will answer
for all others. He drove up to a farm houso
in tho western part of Wayne comity and
took a beater in to exhibit. Tho people
likod it exceedingly well, but tho old farmer
said:
"Young man, I want to sea your patent."
"I have none."
"Then j-our written authority to mako
sales."
'Don't need any."
'Then you must give mo a bond, with two
sureties, in the sum of $ 1,000, that you will
stand between me and any trouble."
"13ut I can t do that."
"Then I can't buy. I'vo just had to pay
royalty on a drive well, damages for using
an infringement on a patent gate, and have
a lawsuit about a hayfork and another over
a windmill, and we don't even buy a dishpan
without a bond that it don't infringe on
somebody's patent bathtub." Detroit Free
Press.
A Singer Slakes Restitution.
An inheritance of 150,000 franc3 has just
fallen to the ezarowitch. This sum was left
him by a Russian singer named Maria Fillo.
In her -will she says: "This legacy is only a
restitution. A near relation of his imperial
highness gave mo this money. I return it to
him who would have had it if I had not
lived." Tho czarowitch has accepted the
legacy, and lias distributed it among tho
Moscow hospitals. Chicago Times.
Tho art of paper making has reached a
point where a growing tree may be cut down,
raaJo into pa;r and turned out as a news
paper, all within thirty-six hours.
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent; a
kind cyo makes contradiction an assent; an
enraged eye makes beauty deformed. Addi
son.
Ladles' Clazo Donga a button
shoes S2, worth S2-SO T- H Fhil
lips'-
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B. MURPHY- & CO.
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STAB LSS
Cor. 12th and Granite Streets.
Contractor and Builder
Sept. 12-Gm.
JULIUS PEPPcRBERG,
MAXUFACTrilKIS OF AND
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
DEALEIl IX TDK
Choicest Brands "of Cigars.'
including our
Flor de Pepporbergo and 'Cuds
FUX.L, LINE OF
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES
always in stock. Nov. 20, lSSS.
GENUINE :-: SINGER
jrith high arm ami vibrating, thuttle,
sold raone. tiEasy payments or cash
F. J. BICKNJ3LL,
Manager Plattimouth Bran
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Il ive anything you want tram a two win ded p0 c;'rt to a
ji;t5iCiigor wao-ou.
CARRIAGES
SH(
hept rcr.dy. .Ca-? or
FOR PLEASURE
DRIVES,
twerrrj.for
AND
always Kept rcr.uy. .w or tigut carnages, pall-bearcr
ml cvcrvtliii L' for funcra' iuinislieJ on slmvt m, r afiron
o - "'nivuci;.
rp o
Aerrns cash.