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Pl.ATTHMOUTH, NKDWAHKA
Entered at the postofiice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska,
as second class mail matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY
THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publishers
P. A. BARROWS
Editor and Manager
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Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Nebraska Telephone No. 85
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OCTOBER 14, 1909
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The dark lantern methods of the
There is a future, but the average
democratic editor never looks beyond
the end of his nose, whether because
of the glow thereon or the weakness of
eyesight, has never been determined.
It is on the sound foundation of ac
complished results that the republican
party of Nebraska can successfully ap
peal to the people to support the can
didates presented by the party for pub
lic service of the highest character.
Leutenant Governor Hopewell is con
templating entering the fight for the
republican nomination for governor,
the attorney general having decided
that the law .which makes other state
officers ineligible for that office does
not apply to lieutenant governor.
And now Peary is going to try to
prove that Pr. Cook did v not discover
the north pole. Be that as it may, the
public has discovered in Mr. Peary an
undesirable' citizen. Somehow the
American people have no use for a
sorehead, and that is what the north
pole controversy has developed.
When Sheriff Quinton fails to ac
count for the funds that have passed
through his hands as sheriff of Cass
county, than it is time to accuse him
of dishonesty and not before. When his
report shows that he holds funds be
longing to the people and refuses to
turn those funds over, ' thait it is time
enough to talk business.
A dispatch from Omaha in yester
day's papers states Charles 0. Lobeck
of that city is getting i ready to launch
his boom for governor. The friends of
Mayor Dahlman are not worried very
much over the matter and say "Wait
till Jim get started, he'll set a pace
that will surely tire Mr.' Lobeck and
Bend Shallcnberger to the discard."
"Babe" Towne, the husky catcher
for the Sioux City, base ball club and
Tommy Fairweather the popular secre
tary of the same club have purchased
controling interest in the Tacker
team from Fred L. Hutchins, who re
cently purchased "the interests of
Duckey Holmes in the club. Towne will
act as manager and Fairweather will
be president.
Evening Journal in this campaign may
bear fruit which a year from now, when
its editor again seeks to misrepresent
the people, will neither look nice nor
smell so sweet.
The good book says: "By their fruits
ye shall know them." There is no re
cord back as far as bible times which
makes any mention of a democratic
party, but one cannot help but think
that possibly there was, but in all prob
ability under another name.
The foot ball game between Minne
sota and Nebraska at Omaha next Sat
urday bid fair to be the most largely
attended of any game in the history of
foot ball at the state university. It is
said that already the seats are being
taken so fast that it may be hard work
to handle the crowd.
So far in the great fight that is on
between Tyrus Cobb and Honus Wag
ner as to which is the greater ball
player, is decidedly in favor of the lat
ter. With one man on each team who
holds the all-around honors of his re
spective league, it will be interesting
to watch the outcome. Here's hoping
Wagner wins the honors, for he is a
gentleman at all stages of the game,
and the best type of the honest ball
player.
John Jerry Stark, republican canui
date for county treasurer, has covered
considerable of the county in looking
over his political fences, and is making
friends wherever he goes. We fell safe
in saying that there is no man in Cass
county better qualified to fill the office
of county treasurer than is Mr. Stark.
The voters can place the utmost con
fidence in him. and rest assurer) that
the affairs of his office will bo properly
attended. We predict his election by
a Iartre maioritv. Elmwrw) T.taAa-
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Echo.
If a man was to be investigated
every time some fellow got a suspicion
that he was getting what he was not
entitled to we are afraid there would
be lots of people in trouble.. Why, we
have known members of the legislature
to make affidavit that they had 'earned
the salary called for in their voucher,
when the facts in the matter were that
Uiey had only put in the time.
The "non partizan" cry which is be
ing sent up by the democratic editors
of the state looks pretty' good to a
fellow if he didn't have a vivid picture
in his mind of .that last-democratic
legislature where dozens of bills were
introduced for no other reason than to
change the laws so that a democratic
governor could appoint democrats to
the offices which would be made vacant
if such bills were made into laws.
The Journal says: "When an officer
has gone wrong the people who pay his
salary should know it." The Journal
is right When an officer ;has gone
wrong." When the Journal knows
that an officer "has gone wrong," then
it is time to publish it to tho world,
but not before. Tho Journal has no
evidence that any officer has gone
wrong. It publishes a statement that
one has "gone wrong' on m.-re suspi
cion, not evidence. '
The Evening Journal does not like
the way the republican state commit
tee is conducting headquarters. It even
accuses it of using editorials taken
from this paper to send out over the
state. Chairman Hayward should at
once call in the democrats and get
their permission to do the things that
ought to be done. How easy it is to
run a democratic newspaper. All one
has to do is to find fault with every
thing, discover fancied "niggers in the
wood pile," condemn what has been
done by others who know how to do
them and in short grunt and growl is
the stock in trade of the average demo
cratic editor.
when Judge J. J. Sullivan, their own
democratic nominee for the Supreme
bench, tackled the corporation tax
law passed by the same immaculate
bunch of democratic legislators and
proceeded to show that it was of no
force and effect. The howl about the
unimpeachable character of democratic
legislation suddenly ceased. A "mighty
sight" depends on whose ox is gored.
What has become of the agitation
which occupied the valuable colums of
certain newspapers for a joint debate
between C. 0. Wheedon of Lincoln and
Senator Burkett. Like most of the
agitations sprung by those papers, it
"died abornin," and the papers that
knew it once will know it no more.
When their little god, the Honorable
William Jennings Bryan, refused to
engage Senator Bailey and another
democrat in joint debate on the same
question, claiming that it was very un
wise and also very foolish for two men
of the same political party to debate
the tariff question, these papers sud
denly subsided. It is very funny how
quickly certain papers in Nebraska
who sail under republican colors take
the advice'of the late lamented three
time looser. .
The Journal criticizes Martin Fried
rich, a republican member of the board
of county commissioners, because he
did not require Sheriff Quinton to file
his report at the time it was not filed.
Where was the democratic member of
the board at that time. Can it be that
he was asleep at the switch? He was
in just as good a position to know the
facts in the case as Mr. Friedrich, but
like everybody else he saw nothing to
get scared about until the sheriff came
up for re-election and the opposition
could find nothing else against him that
they could spring, they suddenly got
cold feet and thought that the sheriff
needed investigating. As one looks
deeper into this scheme of the Journal
to defeat Sheriff Quinton, the firmer
becomes the belief that it is all a put
up job and a very poorly constructed
piece of work.
The tariff has very little to do with
the cost of living. Why then is the
cost of living high? It is because of
the high prices of meat, flour, cattle.
hogs, horses, mules, corn, wheat, oats,
hay, potatoes, cotton, tobacco, and
everything elso the farmer produces
and sells that we use or consume. Do
you ever stop to think what the farmer
is producing and selling in these Unit
ed States today? Over 3.000.000.000
bushels of corn, over 1,000.000,000 of
oats, over 750,000,000 bushels of wheat
and everything else produced by the
farmer in proportion, all valued this
year at $8,000,000,000. The farmer is
strictly in it to stay. Don't you wish
you were a farmer. -Seward Blade.
When the constitutionality of the
fake "non-partisaa" judiciary act was
attacked in tho courts the democratic
politicians threw a fit and prated about
the sacred character of all the acts of
the democratic legislature as if they
The republican who helped to put the
present democratic county officials in
the court house should stop and consider
well before he lends his aid again in
like manner. Those of them who be
lieve in the honesty of Sheriff Quinton
have this to think over. It was your
vote which placed those fellows in a
position where in their greed for office
they are seeking to undermine the hon
esty and integrity of a man whose past
record has been above reproach. By
your vote you made it possible for those
democrats to gain a foothold which en
ables them to assail the honesty of a
public official, and in their eagerness to
ruin his reputation they ruin his char
acter first and then investigate after
wards. Would it not have been better
to have investigated the case first and
then published the result after the in
vestigation. But, however, that has
never been the democratic way.
There will be no rotation of candi
dates' names on the ballots used at the
Nebraska general election November
2. When the last legislature'changed
the primary election law to provide for
the "sliding scale," by shifting the
top name to the bottom every so often
until the advantage of position should
be equalized among all nominees, it
neglected to make the same rule apply
at general elections. Consequently,
the candidates of one jiarty will come
first on the official ballot, as heretofore.
As the democratic ticket Dolled the
highest vote in the state last year, its
nominees will get top place. -Lincoln
Evening News.
Another sample of the work of that
intelligent democratic legislature last
winter. One by one and two. by two
their acts are being shown to be noth
ing more or less than boys' play. In
fact if a gang of fifteen year old kids
could not have put up a more ' respect
able stab at making laws than those
fellows did last winter they would have
been subject to an interview in the
woodshed to the tune of patter goes
the shingle.
and Dahlman, but suppose that Berge
of Lincoln enters the race, that will
divide up the temperance or. county op
tion vote in the democratic party be
tween the governor and Berge, and in
a three cornered fight in the democratic
party Dahlman would stand a good
show of getting the nomination. Added
to that if ex-Governor Sheldon or some
other county option man, who is very
popular with republicans should be a
candidate in the republican jranks, it is
very likely that the liberal element in
the republican party would think that
a liberal minded governor was of more
importance than the rest of the ticket
and vote for Dahlman, letting the rest
of their ticket go by the board. As
Dahlman has a trusted and able lieu
tenant in every community in the
state, under those circumstances, he
would be the most likely candidate to
win. But whether he could defeat
Sheldon, Hayward, or any of the rest
of the candidates which might receive
the republican nomination, is very
doubtful.
The chickens are surely coming home
to roost. On account of the state go
ing for Bryan for president last year
the democrats will be given tint place
on the official ballot this fall. Oh it
was a great stunt that was pulled off
by certain republicans when they voted
for Bryan for president. Not only were
they responsible for the state being
placed in the democratic column, but
that action placed the state in a posi
tion where the prestige which it had
taken years to gain at Washington
was lost. Not only that, but it was
also responsible for the election of a
democratic legislature, the action of
which last winter we are all trying to
forget but cannot, for its acts like
Banquo's ghost will not lay down. Not
only that but it was responsible for
the defeat of George L. Sheldon for
governor and Ernest M. Pollard for
congress, two of the best men that
Nebraska ever had in their respective
positions. It was the casting of demo
cratic votes by republicans that was
responsible for the election of a gover
nor who has used every effort to make
himself solid for another term by tak
ing a Btand for county option, when up
to the time he ran for governor he al
ways was found on the other side.
Elected by the votes of republicans
McGuire goes to Washington a mem
ber of the minority and was unable to
do anything for his district. What has
the state of Nebraska gained in the
election of A. C. Shellenberger as gov
ernor? What did the state of Ne
braska gain by the election of a Bryan
set of presidential electors? What did
the third and first districts gain by
turning down Boyd and Pollard and
electing democrats to fill their places?
If some of our democratic contempora
ries will try and answer kwe would be
pleased to know what that gain was.
As yet no one has been able to figure
it out. As the days go by the balance
tips more and more on the side of loss
while the side of gain grows lighter. A
few days more and it will be in a per
pendicular position. Shall we profit by
the experience of the past and regain
our ground this fall?
THE CONTRAST.
Three years ago when the campaign
was made for the election of a state
ticket and a legislature, the republican
party of Nebraska went before the
people pledging them that the measures
which the people has been contending
for would be passed. The people took
them at their word. A republican legis
lature was elected and everv Dledp-e
made the people was carried out. Two
years later, the democratic party
pledged the people that if they would
give them a chance they would pass a
set of laws that would be of great
benefit to the state. The people took
them at their word. What was the re
sult. Hardly a pledge made the peo
ple became a law. Many were passed,
but in their greed to pass laws which
would make more offices and fatter
salaries, they jumbled up the bills in
troduced in such a shape that hardly
any of them would bear the light of
investigation.
We wish every man and every woman
who has an interest in politics, could
have ben in a position where they
could have seen the working of the
late legislature. The editor of this
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paper, on account of poor health, was
unable to work during the few months
that the legislature was in session, a
nearly every day was a behold
of the work done by that session. From
its very start it was a scramble
place and power. The pledges made
the people were cast aside in an en
deavor to oust republicans and put
democrats in the jobs. Attempts were
made in nearly every case where a bill
was offered which would let out a re
publican and install a democrat, to
raise the salary. Men who had promised
their constituents that if elected they
would do all in their 'power to pass
laws which would be beneficial to the
state, spent their time during the first
half of the session in pulling strings ;
which they thought would land them in
some fat job or intimidating others i
who were in a position to assist them
and would not. Officials who were
holding positions of a non-political
nature were threatened with a loss cf
position ora decrease of salary by
virtue of bills which would be intft V
duced which would endanger Aheir posi
tions, if they did not assist them in
their nefarious work.
So much time was spent in this kind
of a campaign that when the Bession
drew to a close bills were hurried
through without regard to their stand
ing as to legality and nearly all of
them have fallen by the way-side.
Members of the legislature openly
taunted each other with betrayal of
promises, and many times the sessions
took on a very lurid aspect.
These are not insinuations. They are
facts that can be corroberated by the
evidence of hundreds and by members
of the legislature themselves if they
dare tell the truth.
The best way to judge a, man is by
his record. What is the record of the
democratic party in Nebraska?
A GUARDIAN ANGEL.
The Journal attempts to justify it
self in the Quinton controversy by say
ing: lhe Journal has never deceived
the people of Cass county in such ma?
ter3 as to Quinton, and they known
are looking after their interests. When
an officer goes wrong the people who
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Cool Autumn Weather Calls for Heavier
Clothing of all Sorts
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...-v . vimuiwio pictc garmeius an sizes zoc Union Suits phiMrpn
and misses at 50c, 65c and 1.00. Ask to see our Childrens SieepW GarmSt
all sizes at 50c.
The general run of people do not
seem to think there is very much to
get worried about over the candidacy
of Mayor Dahlman of Omaha for gov
ernor. They say that the county option
feeling ' is so strong throughout the
Btate that there is no doubt whatever
but t nut Shiillenberaer will win at the
were holy and beyond the review of any primary. This may be true op a
earthly tribunal. The tune charged j straight . fight between Shallcnberger
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Outing Flannels
MBaT-S in light-and dark coIors' Prices
SK?n f' C' 10c u A"30 These are exceptional prices from the fact
that our Outing were bought last April before the heavv advance in the price
of raw cotton. e give you a 12 l-2c quality for 10c
Flannelettes
A beautiful line of patterns at 10c
Dress Gingham
Good Fall styles all new at 10c and 12 l-2c
Blankets
L13"3?'1!33'348,5.80'!1-00'1'25' and 2.00. All these
are good full sizes and la to 20 per cent less than we could now buy them?
Baby Crib Blankets
in pinks and blues at 89c. Baby Krinkle down Blankets at 1 65
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, G. DOVEY. SON