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OCTOBER 18, 1009
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Nebraska Telephone No. 85
Strange to say, the World-Herald
does not agree with the Federal Judges
in their decision on the bank guarantee
law.
The Kansas City Star says that in
dication are that the wells which are
furnishing gas to that city are failing
and it may by necessary to go to other
fields for the Bupply.
Dave Crockett's motto: "Be sure
you're right, than go ahead," should
be adopted by our contemporary up the
street. It saves lots of embarass
ments. This going off half cocked
doesn't pay.
If you are a republican be a "non-partisan,"
and vote for all the democratic
candidates for supreme Judge. If you are
a democrat be "partisan" and vote the
same way. A kind of "Heads I win,
tails you lose,?' proposition.
Omaha is on the verge of a diph
theria epidemic. . Health Commissioner
Cornell of that city says: "Unless we
take very vigorous precautions there
will be 1,000 to 1,500 cases on our
hands. We took fifty-six cases from
one school last week."
. The Journal has fits every time it
thinks about the mistake it made when
it attacked the honesty of Sheriff Quin
ton and still insists that it is an awful
long time since the Sheriff made a re
port. Cheer up old man. It don't pay
to get a sour stomach at your age in
life. mmmm
It will now be in order for the Jour
nal to make some excuse as to why it
felt so happy because there were so
few foreign born Cass county citizens
on the democratic ticket. It will have
an explanation all right. It's a mighty
small hole that the Journal can't crawl
through. 1
The Evening Journal doesn't like the
idea of a little one horse sheet pitching
into some of the big Dapers. Pitch in
if you want to Colonel, it doesn't hurt
this paper at all. We like it. It does
not harm us and give you little fellows
a feeling that you are some pumpkins
after all.
And now Dr. Cook has got his spunk
up. It took a long while to get the
Doctor riled, but the latest move on
the part of Dr. Peary was just a little
more than the former could stand, and
he now proposes to do things to the
fellows who doubt his claims as to
prior discovery of the north pole.
Today will settle the great battle for
the world's championship in the base
ball arena. It has been a peculiar and
interesting battle. Pittsburg won the
first, Detroit the second, Pittsburg the
third, Detroit the fourth, Pittsburg
the fifth and Detroit the sixth. The
teams took a rest for one day and to
day are settling the matter at Detroit.
The weather man however is not much
of a base ball fellow, and with rain and
snow this morning in Detroit, it is pos
sible that the deciding game cannot be
played today. They should come to
Nebraska where we have nice fall
weather all the time at this season.
made or not and whether the fees wera
being turned in. And last but by no
means least, where was the Evening
Journal, the self appointed Guardian
Angel of the people, all this time?
Has the Journal been negligent in its
duties, or has it been harboring this
matter with the intention of springing
it at this time? The more one looks in
to this matter the more we are con
vinced that it is just a political game.
Simply that and nothing more.
We would like to ask the Journal
this question: When Sheriff Quinton
has made his report and turned over
the fees of his office at the meeting of
the board next Tuesday, how are you
going to square yourself with your
readers whom you have deceived into
the belief that the sheriff has been a
dishonest official and how are you going
to give back to Carroll D. Quinton the
reputation you have tried to ruin?
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The Journal says: "Why should any
one wait until October 19th for an offi
cer to make his report?" The answer
is plain. Because the county board
does not meet until that time. Of
course if one is in a hurry to make a
mountain from material on hand suffi
cient only to build a mole hill, he just
ctn't wait. He will have to get busy.
If one wants to ruin the reputation of
bis neighbor on short notice he must
certainly go in a hurry, or the oppor
tunity may be lost.
. Omaha is certainly in hard luck this
fall. Juttatatime when she would
have reaped large business returns
from the people who u-ually visit the
metropolis to do their full trading, the
street car strike kept them away. Now
she is threatened with a diphtheria
epidemic which may cause the schools
to be closed and will naturally result
in thousands of people staying away
through fear of contracting the dis
ease and taking it home. Small pox
generally causes a panic, but if there
is any disease on the face of the earth
that people should fear it is diphtheria.
We have talked with prominent re
publicans, prominent democrats, and
a whole lot of people who are not so
prominent, and we have yet to find a
man who believes for a moment that
Sheriff Quinton has been dishonest.
But the Journal, standing on its self
built pinnacle of "I am Holier than
Thou," seeks to make the people believe
that the sheriff is a defaulter. Such a
campaign never wins, and if reports
from over the country are reliable, the
action of the Journal in this matter is
going to be the means of giving Quin
ton a bigger majority than he received
before.
The Lincoln Star has packed its grip
sack and gone over bag and baggage
to the democratic party. It has really
been in the ranks for some time, but
could not find an excuse which it deemed
good enouth to give for its action. It
claims the "non-partizan" plea as its
reason, but as being non-partisan at
this time is nothing more or less than
being democratic it would seem that
excuse for its action is not necessary.
When a fellow does something he is
ashamed of he proceeds to give an
"excuse." When a man makes a
change which he deems is all right it
is not necessary to make any excuse.
No justification is necessary.
North and south together have beer,
the object of weather fury this week.
In the north it was merely a prema
ture cold snap, with snow in the bor
der states. The part of the south that
escaped the hurricane of a couple of
weeks ago has had its turn with one
of equal destructiveness. Key West,
reported half in ruins, is a city of
twenty thousand people or more. The
gulf coast has had much undesirable
advertising by its hurricanes and tidal
waves in recent years. Nebraska, a
land of "cyclones," where even the
buffaloes' horns sometimes blew off
while it was yet the great American
desert, appears on the whole to be
about the safest place in the country.
Statt Journal.
The decision of Judges Munger and
Vandeventer that the bank guarantee
law passed by the late legislature is un
constitutional, will probably bring down
a storm of condemnation upon the heads
of those judges by the advocates of the
bank guarantee scheme. They will
now contend more than ever that a
non-partisan judiciary is necessary.
The average democratic editor cannot
see beyond the end of his partisan
nose. He pretends to be a nonpartisan
while at the same time he is the strong
est partisan in existence. Look back
if you please at the record of the Omaha
World-Herald. That paper is consid
ered the "only thing" when it comes to
democratic politics. Its loud acclaim is
echoed all over Nebraska by the small
er democratic dailies and their "near
republican' allies. Yet a perusal of
the rear files of that paper will not
find at any time where it has advocated
the election of a republican supreme
judge in Nebraska. It has been non
partisan just so far as it will favor a
democrat and disfavor a republican.
It now howls loud and long for the el
ection of a non-partisan supreme court
yet is advocating the election of every
one of the democratic candidates. The
principles the World-Herald preaches
are so different from the principles it
practices, that it never gets up in the
morning from the same side of the bed
it crawls into the evening before.
The governor of a state like the
great state of Nebraska is supposed
to be a man large enough to forget po
litical disappointments, and if disap
pointed, he can respect the courts and
accord to them at least, the right to
make their decisions according to the
law and evidence. It is not to be ex
pected that a court will make its de
cisions so that both Bides will be
pleased." it would be beyond the bu
man possibilities to render that kind of
a decision. Men in offices of public
trust, and especially in positions like
that of the governor of a great state,
should be men of such large calibre
that they could forget their personal
ideas or feelings in the matter and not
seek to make the people believe that
the court was a political court. 1 he
governor says that the decision was
just what he expected and intimates
that it was given for political reasons
The governor's statement published in
the papers this morning sounds more
like the wail of a disappointed and dis
gruntled politician than the ideas of the
governor of a great state. One thing
is sure, if the governor really believes
just what he says in his statement, he
is too small a man to be governor of
Nebraska. If he believes that the
judges rendered their decision accord
ing to the law and the constitution,
and he has made those statements for
political effect, he is more than ever a
small bore politician and a disgrace to
the governor's chair. If he believes
the decision wrong, he is going far out
of hia road to seek to make thejeople
distrust the courts and puts him in the
same class with the socialist and the
anarchist.
fees were not being paid in, if they
should be, it was his duty as custodian
of the funds of the county, to make
some inquiry. The county attorney is
the legal adviser of the county board
and of the rest of the county officers,
and if he knew anything about this
matter it was his duty to see that the law
was enforced. The question now re
solves itself into this one thing: Did
these democratic officials, knowing that
Sheriff Quinton was not making his
reports according to law, have such
confidence in him that they were not
alarmed over the matter, or did they
deliberately decide to forget their duty
as county officials in order to have
campaign material to throw at the
sheriff when he should come up for re
election? And did the Journal, as the
Guardian Angel of the people join in
the scheme to down a brother man, or
is it really a nice innocent sort of an
angel with unsprouted wings?
HOW ABOUT IT?
We have noticed during the past few
days a number of peddlers going
about the city offering goods for sale.
Our attention has also been called to
the fact that there is an ordinance
which requires non-residents to take
out a license when they wish to come
into the city to sell their goods.
We do not know whether these peo
ple have been required to pay this li
cense or not. The matter we are try
ing to bring before the readers of the
Daily News is that a license should be
levied against peddlers which would be
so high that it would keep them out.
The merchants of Plattsmouth are
entitled to the trade of the people who
reside here. They pay taxes upon
their stocks of goods which assists ma
terially in keeping he city going. If
there is any thing for the good of
Plattsmouth which requires money to
make it a success the merchants and
business men of the city are the-ones
who are expected to put up most of it.
We are opposed in every way to people
coming to the city who pay no taxes,
have no financial interests here, except
that of getting all they can out of the
city and putting nothing in, do
ing business in opposition to the men
who reside here and who assist so
largely in making every public enter
prise a success by their liberal sub
scription of funds toward the expense
which will be incurred to carry on the
enterprise.
Another thing which ought to be con
sidered by the buyer of goods who is in
the habit of sending to the out of town
cities for groceries, dry goods, furni
ture etc., and that is, do you know that
you are getting your goods just as
cheap and just as satisfactory goods as
you would get if you bought them in
Plattsmouth. Did you ever make out
a list of the goods that you want and
take that list to the Plattsmouth mer
chant and give him a chance to figure
on it? If you have not, just try it once
and see how it will work. Make out a
list and take it to him and it will as
tonish you how close he will come to
meeting the prices of the outside fel
lows and besides will save you the
freight. Added to this is a fact that
is of importance, if any of the goods
bought of your home merchant are not
as represented you can see him about
it and have the matter arranged satis
factorily. The other way you take
what you get and that settles it. If
you have a little stuff to sell, the home
merchant buys it. You can't send it
away in the small quantities usually
brought in. The home merchant takes
it off of your hands and you get your
money or goods as the case may be in
exchange.
Give the home merchant who assists
in keeping up the town, assists in keep
ing the county running, assists in
bringing outside enterprise to the city
which will give you a better market
for your produce, and assists in so many
way3 to help things along, a chance at
least to sell you what you need. It
will not do any harm and may be of
great benefit to both of you. Give it a
trial.
DIRTY CAMPAIGN.
The Livingston-Ramsey-Bates Gang
Commences Mud Slinging.
Sheriff Quinton is being made the
target of the leaders of democracy in
Cass county, and his enemies are de
termined to defeat him if resorting to
unquestionable campaign methods will
bring it about.
At the last meeting of the county
commissioners a resolution was intro-
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mouth asking that the board require
the sheriff to file his quarterly reports
according to law, and the board ordered
same to be filed at their next regular
meeting. It is not that they want to
see Quinton's reports but they openly
state he has defrauded the county out
of thousands of dollars.
What the ringleaders in Plattsmouth
want to do is to down Quinton, else
why would they bring such charges just
before election. If Sheriff Quinton has
been guilty of gross wrong for these
many months why have not these
watchdogs uncovered the graft months
ago. The county commissioners have
checked up Sheriff Quinton's books
each year the same as other officers,
and have not reported anything wrong.
It is possible that Livingston, Bates,
Ramsey, et cetera, have discovered
without even going over the account?,
that Sheriff Quinton is behind thou
sands of dollars.
The sheriff s office during his first
term was a fee office, and the entire
yearly receipts was close to $1000, in
fact there was little doing compured
with other years. The past two years
he has been receiving a salary as fixed
by the legislature. Along with this
salary he receives mileages for all trips
made. Sheriff Quinton has made num
erous reports, and stands ready at all
times for an investigation.
It has not been so many years ago
that County Judge H. D. Travis oc
cupied one of the rooms in the court
house. Did he turn over the fees of
his office on demand? He did when his
term expired, and paid over every cent.
The republicans did not get up and
howl just before election time that
Judge Travis owed the county thou
sands of dollars. If such campaign
material has been used the party would
have suffered and the office holder
would have been fully vindicated.
Bates thinks by using flaring head
lines and insinuations that he can work
on the feelings of the voters and create
dissatisfaction. He makes no direct
charges for fear of the law but seeks
to besmirch the character and condemn
Sheriff Quinton before even an investi
gation is made.
Commissioner Switzer says that M
yuinton made reports for 1st and
quarters of 1909. and if this is so
quarter ending Oct. 1st is the onlv one
this year for which he has not reported
and the commissioners met Oct. 5th,
not a very long delay to cause such a
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The Journal seeks to lay all the
blame because Sheriff Quinton did not
file his report, on to Martin Freidrich,
one of the republican members of the
board of county commissioners. Where
was the democratic member at this
time? It was up to him to look afk.er
these things as well as the other tnem
bers of the board. And where was the
democratic county attorney and where
was the democratic county clerk and
where was the democratic county treas
urer. They were all in a position to
know whether these reports were being
After having made the mistake of
injecting the Quinton matter into the
county campaign, and finding out that
its action is condemned by many of the
most prominent democrats in the county,
the Journal now attempts to further
keep up its campaign of misrepresent
ion by conveying the impression that
this paper has said that the responsi
bility for Quinton not making his re
ports was on the democratic county
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Cool Autumn Weather Calls for Heavier
Clothing of all Sorts
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Our line is now full and complete. Ladies 2 piece garments from 25c to
1.00 per garment. ' Ladies Union Suits, splendid values 50c to 2.00 each.
Misses nnrl P.hiMiwio 9 ni'ppo nrarmonrc nil ki7PS 9K. TTm'nn Quito nKIMn
and misses at 50c, 65c and 1.00. Ask to see our Childrens Sleeping Garment V
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Outing Flannels
A larse assortment to select frcm both in light and dark colors, prices
ranges at 8 l-3c, lOcand 12 l-3c These are exceptional prii es from the fact
that our Outing were "bought last April before the heavy advance in the price
of raw cotton. We give you a 12 l-2c quality for 10c.
Flannelettes
A beautiful line of patterns at 10c
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Dress Gingham
Good Fall styles all new at 10c and 12 l-2c
Blankets
in Tans and Grays 48c, 58c, 75c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.35, 1.48 and 2.00. All these
are good full sizes and 15 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.
treasurer, clerk and attorney. Such
is not the fact. This paper said noth
ing of the kind. We did say that those
officials were in a position to know
thai he was not making his reports.
We now say however that the demo
cratic cour.ty clerk asclerk of the board
of county commissioners knew that
the law was not being carried out and
if he thought that there was danger it
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