Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909, October 23, 1897, Image 2
THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS-HERALD, PL ATTSMO UTH, NEBM OCTOBER 23, 1897. 2 The Semi Weekly News-Herald PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS ... BY THI . . . SEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, If. D. POLK, EDITOR. DAILT EDITION. One Year, in advance, Six Months fn Week, Single Copies, 0 SIKI-WEKKXY EDITION. One Year, in advance, .... 1 00 Six Months 50 T.f.B LARGEST CIRCULATION Of aay Cass County Paper. Tuis paper bo far hoe indulged in no personal flings at any of the democra tic candidates, although plenty of ex cuse for so doing, has been offered by the courte of the democratic organ. No AMOUNT of political legerde main can change the'fact that Cass county has never had a more compe tent, honest and obliging set of offi cials than during the last two year?, and according to cust m, these men will be rewarded for their faithful bervice by a re-election this fall. Since the tactics of theJournal have been made known, the public need not be surprised at bogus statements of all kinds during the last week of the camp.iign when too late to answer their charges. An election story printed on the eve of election may bo depended on as a rank falsehood that will not bear inspection. The eilverites who have made great capital out of a statement that the bank of England was going to keep part of its reserve in silver will be chagrined to learn that the bank is do nothing of the kind. Such plan was at one time considered, but the able financiers foresaw the trouble that might follow such a course and it was given up. Ohio democrats adopted a sil ver Dlatform at their state con vention and they are trying to make the people forget about it. Bryan is not allowed to speak in the state, and Towns of Minnesota was sent home a few days ago after he had delivered but two speeches. The silver ques tion seems to be pretty well settled and the public refuses to be interested by a farther discussion of a dead issue. Charles A. Dana will live in his tory as one of the greatest of Ameri can editors, and a prouder distinction can scarcely be reached. Mr. Dana was in many respects the greatest American editor. His paper has always been an educator, in the best sense of the word. It has been edited by scholars and moralists,and its high tone was never sacrificed in order to gain or retain subscribers. It is the one New York paper that has been admired at all stages of its progress, since the late editor took posession. As A fair sample of the truthfulness with which the Journal is conducting the fuBion campaign, a short time ago it stated that Berge, the democratic candidate for county superintendent, could not get out in the county to can vass any, because the school board of Murdock, where he is teaching, was composed of republicans who would not let him off. Investigation shows that the members of the board re ferred to are John Connelly, a promi nent democrat. Dr. Madding, a spirit ualistic pop, who sees ghosts every night, and G. V. I'ickwell. If you see it in the Journal you may know it is not so. Weeping Water Republican. GARBLED letters, dirty personal at tacks on the republican candidates and malicious misrepresentation of the editor of this paper, is the plan followed by the Journal in an tffort to elect its waning con-fusion ticket. Such work might avail something in city slums, but with the intelli gent people of Cass county the result is a more ardent support for the ticket, which is opposed by 6uch guerrilla warfare. Every man on the republican ticket is the superior of his opponent in fitness for the office asked for, and the public is aware of that fact. The outlook for an over whelming victory grows brighter each day. . Is IT true that Wheeler will have Reub. Hyers and John Davies as deputies ? Some of the democratic voters would like to know, you know; for surely men who have received of fice at the hands of the republicans of Cass county far beyond their merits, as Hyers and Davies have, would not go back on a ticket unanimously nominated, unless extraordinary in ducements were offered them by Mr. Wheeler. With MatGering as mana ger of the office of sheriff and Hyers and Davies for deputies it would be a great combination, and one which the average voter would not take much stock in. There never was a time when the . independent voter who looks chiefly to the best interests of the taxpayers and the credit of the county had a more clearly defined duty to pei form than he has this fall. Not a word af fecting the integrity or competency of the present officials can be truthfully uttered, while much could be said against their opponents. The inde pendent voter, therefore can veiy con scientiously at this election lend bis most zealous efforts to the support of ' the candidates who have been tried and proven in every way satisfactory to those who have no personal axe t to grind. THAT RATIO. The s:itement if ex-Gocrnor Bo.es that ''the Chicaffo platform has had j its diy in court before the tribunal of last resort" has moved sundry and divers members of the democratic national committee to protest and to deny that the governor is competent to decide the question, and above all to speak for the democratic party, says the Chicago Times-Herald. They rule him out of the parly und assert that he never was sou ad on that plat form and consequently his opinions are entitled to no weight. As a matter of fact his opinions re not those of a party man, but of a close political observer, and his judg ment is all the better for that re tson. The nalloual commitleerren in g.ving their views are interested in raa;n- tatning their party organiz ation nud wish to make it appear ih-.t the Chicago p'.at'orm is still a living force, but ez-Goveraor Boies speaks from a much higher vartago ground, as one who dasires to rehabilitate a defeated party aad bring it to the support of an issue which he believes is still vital. lie occupies the true position of a leader. He acknow ledges the lost field, but would rally his legions to another battle a da new issue. These committeemen themselves are not clear, or ut least are not a unit, on what is left of the Chic go platform. Sjme of them stoutly main tain the 16 to 1 idea, but McGraw cf West Virginia thinks tnat "govern ment by injunction" is the most vital issue left, while John J. McIIalton of Montana, believes that the platform "will not be reaffirmed as an en tirety," and says: "I hope to se all populistic notions left with the popu lists themselves. The pi Uform, with less populistic nonsense, would have been accepted by the people at the last election. " Holding such views. it seems strange to see a man like McHattcn in that crowd. Mr. Boies is right, and, like Mr. Caldwell of Kentucky, knows a politi cal corpse when he sees it. Conse quently it is time for the obsiquies. The people agree with him and will join in the funeral observances in No vember next, and this time bury it so deep that even the resurrectionists will not disturb it. We ake pained to learn from the Kansas Citv Times that certain un re generate residents of Wichita, Kan., have recently done a great wrong, says the Chicago Times-Heral J. It appears that Hon. William J. Bryan delivered a speech at the Wichita county fair the other day in pursu ance of a contract by which he was to receive oue-half the proceeds. Mr. Bryan, however, is not the only finan cial juggler now doing business in the west, and as the result of that fact there is reason to believe that the boy orator is considerably poorer today than he really ought to be. The gate receipts upon the occasion referred to were about $4,800, and Mr. Biyan re ceived $2,400 as his share. It now ap pears that without Mr. Bryan's know ledge, and without the aid or consent of any other nation, an admission fee was also charged at the grand stand, whereby about $2,000 additional was acquired. As Kansas is a prohibi tion state only 6,800 bottles of beer wero sold on Bryan day at the Wichita fair. The talented Nebras kan was bunkoed out of his share of the grand stand receipts and also one half of the beer profits. It thus ap pears that instead of receiving $3,400 and one-half of the wet good9 revenue for talking an hour, he really was paid only a beggarly $2,400. Whither are we drifting when such outtages can be perpetrated V Has Kansas no shame? Of com se the me. e pittance of $'4,400 which Mr. Bryan received is worth $2,4iK) instead of $1,200 or les?, as he would prefer but even that fact offers no excuse for the wicked ness of Wiehita It was a n.ighty mean trick. Sam'l Richardson has the advan tage of a record as commissioner that has never been surpassed in this county. He has made a success of his private affairs and has retired from active labor and could give the office his personal attention. This city comprises the bulk of the district und the member elected shou d reside hero where he could be seen on short notice in case of emergency. INFORMATION AND OPINION.". This git rious October woather which in Nebraska is as near perfection as this world affords, is a good time for voters to consider whether they des re to try the experiment of placing stool pigeons oi Mat uering s and Dr. Jek yl's in to office, or whether they will reward faithful service and give the customary second term to men who have fully earned this distinction. Anyone familiar with the voters of ibis county will have no doubt as to results. No briefless barristers who want county officers to rustle business for them will be able to secure busi ness in that way. Honest officials is what the people want, and the people rule. The Grand Island Republican ven tures the opinion that the State Fair Bulletin, which the state fair people have clung to with such desperation, was responsible for the los of ten thousand admissions. No doubt of it. So it uch for one of the private snaps. And at the same time it may be re marked that the state fair has been worked as a snap until the managers have about reached the end of the string. A few more years on the same lines and there will be no fair and no snap. Kearney Hub. A process by which peat is manu factured into ceal.has been discovered in Germany. Electricity is the agent and the process Is not expensive, the cost being about 10 cents per 100 pounds. Coal is formed in the natural way out oi various vegetable sub stances, in the process of nature, after the lapse of long periods of time. Now if this transition can be hastened in the case or ono kind of vegetable sub stance out t.f which coal is formed. why not another ? Is it not possible that the day is coming when our coal will be manufactured to order? So great are the changes in the closing years of the nineteeth century that we are not prepared to dispute any claim that inventive genius may set up. Omaha Trade fc.xnioit. x.Ir. C. M. Printz, an expert accoun tant of Chicago, and brother of C. A. Printz. arrived the tirt of the week overland on his bicycle. He left yes terday to continue his journey awheel through to San Francisco, Cal. The probabilities are that by the time ne reaches the liockies he will have to put runners und r his wheels. Have- lock limes. The republicans could tot make a "still hunt" for votes this year if they wanted to. Tbeir principal speakers. Col. Winter Wheat and General Pros perity, have been talking with more energy than a steam engine since the middle of the summer and it is im possible to stop them. State Journal. "The World -Hera' d gives a long column ot figures showing the defalca tions of the state and county ollcials in the state 6ince 1890," says the Prairie Home, a populist paper. "Ac cording to them, about one-fourth was by the purilicid democracy. As they have not.and do not now hold only a small proportion of the offices of the state, it proves them at least 100 per cent worse thieves than the unregen- erated republicans." Ex. "Dr. Jekvl" can't be district judge any more, but ho has great hopes of beinsr 6heritT, consequently he sup ports Mr. Wheeler with the idea of course that tie can control him. A learned professor at Geneva, Switerland, 6tates that France drinks more alcohol annually than any other nation in Europe. His calculation is baed on the percentage of alcoholic liquors consumed. According to this standard, each person in Franco drinks thir ei n quarts of alcohol ar.d many more quarts of wine?, beers,elc , in the course of a ye: r. George M. Pullman, ihe well-known palace car builder, died at his lv me in Chicago at 5 o'clock yesterday morning of heart diease. Mrs. P. Van Fleet returned last even ing fiora Hastings, Neb., where she has been attending a meeting of a foreign mission tocily. Nebraska City News. Ten of the suspocled pickpockets nr resied nt Tocumseh at mo Bryan meeting were liba sited. Conip'aint was made against one of the number and he was given a trial in the county court, but a c tse was not made against him. AVOCA ITEMS. Henry Breekin in, our rustl in car penter, is building a lareo two stry dwelling for Henry Straub, east of Avoca A. R. Eikcnbary and James Robert son were in town last week. Rain has been falling here for sev eral days, and the ground is thor oughly soaked. The "o!d fashioned school" will be presented at the hall next Tuesday eveuing, October 20. The young ladies of the Christian church will give a chicken pie social and supper at the hall Friday evening or this week. A short musical and literary program will bo civen. A good time is predicted. Hryan'a M Union m Fwllure. North Platte, Neb., Oct. 13. W J. Bryan has been here today trying to fix up the quarrel between the populists and the democ-ats. He ad dressed a large audience at the opera house this evening, but failed in his attempt to pacify the factions. The populists refused to give the democrats a place on thecunty ticket claiming tht the d. moorats had the state ticket, but the democrats refused resolutely to give an inch, except oi a basis of division of tho offices, and the democratic nominees wi.l not with draw. There wi 1 be three full ticket in the field, and the Bryan dem er.it s are very bitter toward the populi.-ts because they wiil not divide w.th them. Last frill tho fusion in tbis county was complete and harmoni ous. This year tho democrats who introduced Bryan tonight and tlieir paper, are fighting tho populists ha d and the prospects are very bright for the utter rout oi the pops and the election of the full republic in ticket. Bryan in his speech urired the fusion forces to support tho state ticket not withstanding the local fight in the county. Money in I'otatom. Gordon, rs'eb., Oct. 20. Farmers about Gordon are getting retur ns from their Klondike holdings, the potato crop, and for two weeks luavilv loaded potato wagons have trundled along the roads, almost blockading the streets at times, and their drivers have, with varied degrees of patience. i waited their turn to ute the scoop in filling cars. 'Jhirty car loads of po tatoes, aggregating over 21,000 bushels, have beeu shipped by the Gordon merchants, while thousands of bushels are yet to bo marketed. On presentation of his scale check each farmer receives a check on one of the local banks for the value of his load, getting 30 cents per bushel for his crop. Frosts have threatened the tubers, thus increasing the haste of the farmers, but with two weeks more of good weather the Sheridan county potato crop will be marketed, and the bank account or stocking hoard of nearly every farmer will have been materially increased. A pain in the chest is nature's warn ing that pneumonia is threatened. Dampen a piece of flannel with Cham berlain's Pain Balm and bind over the seat of pain, and another on the back between the shoulders, and prompt relief will follow. Sold by all drug gists. . Croup Quickly Cored. Mountain Glen, Ark. Our child ren were suffering with croup when we received a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It afforded almost instant relief. F. A. Thornton. This celebrated remedy is for sale by all druggists. The New Election Law. Toe politicians are wakeniDg up to the necessity of enlightening voters upon the new blanket ballot, which will be tried for the first time In Ne braska at the election next week, savs the Lincoln News. The new plan involves eo many radical changes from the old system that some trouble is anticipated, and the efforts of the campaign managers win be devoted to familliai-izing the people with the new plan between how and election day.. Sample ballots will be printed as soon as the copy Is received from the tecretary of state, and these will be used as object lessons. The ballots that will be used will be of white paper, ns under the old lw, and will contain the names of all the candidates of various parties for state and county offices. As there are no presidential electors, and only three slate officers to go on the ballots this fall, they wiil be moderate size, as compared with the huge sheets that would be required in an election like that of last fall. Each ballot will be seven columns wide, the columns con taining respectively the names of re publican, democratic,populist,national democratic, silver republican, prohi bition und petition cmdidales. The candidates for supreme judge and re gents will head the tickets, and county officers will follow. The size tf the ballot that will be required has not been definitely de termined, but it is expected that it will till half a sheet 24 by 36 inches. In other words each ballot will be twenty-four inches lo g and not far from eighteen inches in width. These may occasion some trouble ia crowd ing them into the boxes, and it will require some time to unfold them for tho count, but it is asserted that enough timo will be gained on the straight ticket to offset these incon venienc. s. The certified list of candidates tilled by each party wiil appear in very m a ly the same manner us they did on the old form of ballot. At the head of each column will be the party designation in large fuil face type and utider it the party emblem. Tee republican party has selected the eagle as its emblem, the democrats a game rooster, the populists the cot tage home," the national democrats a star and the silver republic ins the lil ei ty Itll and the prohibitions the white rose. At the top of each party ticket and immediately under the einb'em will be a circle one-half inch in diameter and a cross in this circle is a voto for every candidate on the ticket underneath. It is entirely im material whether the voter makes a cross in this circle or in the small squares opposite the name of each candidate, but it is more convenient both for the vo'.or and the election officials it the straight vote is mirked at the head of tho ticket. A voter may mark a cross in the circle at the top of one party ticket and still vote for candidates on other tickets. If for instance, he wishes to vote the tepublican t'eket with the exception of ono or more candidates he will mark bis vote in the straight ticket in the circle at the top and then place a cross opposite the names of the candidates on the other tickets for whom be wishes to vole. The judges will then record his vote for the republican ticket with the excep ticn of those candidates on other tickets for whom a vote was indicated. The law further provides that every precaution shall bo taken to prevent confusiou on the part of the voter Each of the columns containing a list of party candidates must bo separated from tho others by a distinct black line. The names of tho candidates must bo p.-inted incipital ie't.'rs from one-fight 10 one-fourth of an inch in height h and a printed square in which lo record a Tute if tho vott-r o desires must he left at tho right of each can didate's name. At tho right of the printed lists of c indidates there must bo a blank space laige euough to : d mit of a namo being wiitten in for each office that is to lo tilled. Tho official ballot must lie pin ted and in possession of the county or mu nicipal clerk at least five days before the election, and the red or trreen sample ba lots must bo printed and ready for inspection at least teu d iys he'ore the election. HAVELOCK ITEMS From the Lincoln Call. Will. am King of Weeping Wa'er Neb., has shed bis purple and fine linen and gone to wo k in the shoos at Havelock, with the aim to eai n an honest living1 by honest toil. Mrs Charles Mitchell went to Glen wood, la., to visit a few d i ys and was accompanied as far as Plattsmouth by Mrs. IX O. Hewitt, wheie she will visit with old neighbors for a week. Wm. Stitzer, formerly with Streight St saner oi t'laitsmouin in the furni ture business, h is gone to work for W. IL Johnson in the hardware store. Mrs. Charles Rankin, who, accom panied by her children has beeu vis iting her sister at Plattsmouth, re lumed to Havelock last evening. There seems to ba a cloud hnaging over a f.imilv in Haveloek thatthieat- ens to develop into vcanaal in high society. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dudley returned Sunday from a four days' visit to Den ver and other western points. A Record Breaker. JOLIET, Hi., October 20. Without any preparation for such a trial Joe Patchen, the b.ack pacing stallion, reduced the world's pacing record to a four wheel sulky by nearly four sec onds making the mile in the remark able time of 2:05. The record was es tablished at Ingalls park track, this city, before 2,700 people who had been attracted by the announcement that Star Pointer would go against both the wagon and the high wheel sulky 1 records and that Joe Patchen would try to beat his own record of 2;01J. Semi-Weekly News-Herald $1 per year. ABOUT WALL PAPER ..WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED . . An Elegant Stock of Weill Paper For the Fall Trade WHICH YOU SHOULD INSPECT AT 0NC 11. We usually buy enough in the spring to last the year through, but our sales were so much larger than heretofore that we were compelled to add an additional stock to supply our customers' needs for the fall papering, which, by the way, is the best time to paper and paint. We handle the famous Mound City Mixed Paints "Horse Shoe" Brand. SMITH & PARMELE DRUGGISTS. MAIN ST. TIME TABLE PLATTSMOUTH. NEB. Lincoln Omaha Helena Portland San Francisco All points west. Chicago St. Joseph Kansas City St. Louis and all points East and South. TRAINS LIAVI AS FOLLOWS: No 20. Local express, daily, 8t Joe. Kansas, St Louis, nil points south 0:40 di No 4. Local exo. dally, Burlington, Chloauo, all points east.... 10:34 am No 10. Local exp, dally except Sun day 1125 am No 92. Local exp, daily except Sun day. Pacini) Junction 1228 pm No 30. Freight, daily except Sunday Pacific Junction 2:50 pm No 2. Vestibuled exp. dally. Bur lington, Chicago and all Dointseast 5:30 pm No. 1 stub from Junction to Platts mouth 6:15 pm No 12. Local exp, dally. St Joe. Kan sas City. St Louis. Chicago all points east and south.. 8:& pra No 5. Local exp, dally.Ouiaba, Lin coln, Denver and Interme diate stations 7:32 am No 85. Local freitfiit, dnily. Unu a..iO am No Lnc tl freight, daily, ex .Sua day. Cedar Cree. Lull l a vlile, Soutli bona 7:37 am Mo 7. Kiist luail, ually, Omaha and Lincoln pm No H. Vestibuled exp, dally, Uen vrrniiil 11 poinls in Colo rado, Utah .iikI California. Urand Island. Hl u k HliK. Montana and Pacific N. W. 3:43 pm No 9. Local exp, dally except Sa -uay. Louisville. Ashland, Waboo, Schuyler 4:00 pm No 11. local exp, dally except Sun day, Omaha and Lincoln.. 4-.M) pin No 17. Local express, Sunday only, . Omaha 5:27 pin No 73. FreiKbt, dally, Louisville... U:U5 pm Sleeping, dining and reclininit chair ours iseats free) on through trains. 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