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THE NEWS-HERALD HUATTWMOUTH, NKUWAWKA t Entered at the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY 1 THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Publishers X P. A. BARROWS I E. A. QUINN ? ? Editor X Business Magagar BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year in Advance, $1.50. Six Months in advance, 75c v Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Nebraska Telephone No. 85 x NOVEMBER II, 1009 It looks at this writing that the fight was on for U. S. Senate between Sen ator Elmer J. lUirkett, the present in cumbent, and the Honorable William Jennings Bryan, the three times candi datc for the presidency. There ought not to be any hesitancy on the part of any republican when it comes to a choice between these two men as to whom he desires to represent Nebraska in the United States senate. There have been times to be sure when the acts of Senator Rurkett may not have . met with your favor. There may have been times when if you had been repre senting the state of Nebraska that you would have taken a different course than did Senator Burkctt. There may have been times possibly, that if you had been representing Nebraska in the U. S. senate that you would have taken exactly an opposite position than did Mr. Burkctt. But the ques tion is, would the stand taken by you been of more service to the state at large than the positions upon different matters which have been taken by Senator Burkctt.' The senntor may have made his mistakes, but has there been any man in public life who has not made his mistakes? Suppose Mr. Bryan should perchance be chosen to represent Nebraska in the United States senate, with his record of the past behind him what assurance have you that he would be able to represent Nebraska? It is true that he might be able to work the wind jammers stunt to his intense satisfaction, but wo havd plenty of wind onjjiandjm Nebraska and a man who will spend his time while in Washington working instead of talking will come nearer earning his Biliary and representing the people even if he does get a little out of touch with his constituency once in a while. No man can represent his state to the sat sfaction of everybody. As far as we have been able to discover, after sizing up the records of the two men, Elmer J. Burkctt has donejnorejfor Nebraska while in the senate than has William J. Bryan in all his public life, and there Is o reason to think that UryanMn the senate would be any gerater success than Bryan a'privateYitiisen. some of the others decided otherwise, on the popular side of the question, does not signify that they were looking forward to paving their way to a sec ond term. Occasionally there is a man who cannot be trusted, who gets to be a judge, but that is no reason why our whole judiciary should have to stand riticism. There is no profes sion but what has its undesirable mem bers, but we believe that the supreme court is so far removed from that class that very few ever attain to it. The "non-partisan" idea sprang from poli ticians who were out and sought to find sonic way to get in and thought by arousing the prejudices of the people that the way would be aved to the end that their desires would be grutified. It has served its time and is dead. democratic Jcandidate elected in the county. Remember that while we hav lost a few offices, we were not defeated, not by any means. The vote polled by the republican ticket from top.to bot tom should be a source of encourage ment to every republican voter in the county, and shows that under equal conditions the republican party of Cass county has nothing to fear. What's the matter with our supreme court anyhow? Nothing. When any one gets so narrow minded that he thinks that just bccauseJacourt de cides favorably toward the party to which that judge may happento b long that he is deciding that way from political motives, he is. wrongThe ed itor of thispaper Iwlieves that when a judge has by his fairness and experi ence arrived at that position where he is chosen ns a member of the supreme court of Nebraska, that that man is big enough and broad enoughjto decide a! I ...1 ! t 1 1 nui-Miuini wiucu come ociorc nis ,court without stopping to think wheth er they are favorable tohis political party or not. There is now we believe one member of the Nebraska supreme . ...i . i . . i ! couri w no is a democrat, juugc uimv If Judge Dean is big enough for su premo judge he is big enough ahd iroad enough Jo decide the questions which come before himjon their merits, "and not from any particular political : motive. There is altogether too much criticism of our supreme court There arc seven members of that court It is not supposed that all of them will l)c of the same mind on cases of close eas. And bccausc'thcy are not it is no tight to believe that any . of them were biased in their opinions from any political motive. Became some of the present court decided recently on a ;CV3? r.-Vi'eh was favorable to the party to wl.ii li tbiy l.clmsul.i'r'" v.: '"n: POLITICAL BASEBALL. Last year optimists thought to beat Speaker Cannon in the Danville dis trict and thus savo the country from art unpopular speaker. They failed. The latest news from Danville indi cates the usclcssness of ever trying again. Mr. Cannon is said to have arranged to buy the South Bend base ball team and move it to Danville With such a weapon of popularity at his back, a Cannon ball team as it were, nothing but death or his own will can have much chance to sepa rate the speaker from his seat in congress. .'The politicians seem to be getting wise to this opening with a good dea of rapidity. The Philadelphia Na tional league team is now owned by the gentlemen who run the city for the sake of contracting with them selves to lay its pavement, cut its boulevards, build its filtration plants, erect its public buildings, grant its franchises. In several other instances politics and baseball are doing har monious team work. President Taft's brother, who aspires to be senator from Ohio, is part owner of the Chi cago National league team. The Roman politicians gave the populace bread and circuses. Ours are to give us baseball. As to the spe cific methods of turning their com mand of . the game to their personal political advantage, that is yet to ap pear. The lack of railroad passes, a painful bereavement to the profes- sional politician, may be remedied by baseball passes. In case of political need the managers of a snap so lu crative as the Pennsylvania contrac tor's ring could well afford to throw open the gates free in honor of their candidates. That would indeed be death to reform. Should Mr. Cannon finally retire from congress he will not be Out of a job. He would make ono of the firmest of umpiresfor his own team. State Journal. ii' There is no use of republicans getting cold feet on the vote in Cass county this year. The democrats have f won out on some of the county offices but it Bhould be remembered that they had license to win. Every man who won out on the democratic ticket was well known all over the county. Twi of them were up for re-election, whiel in a close county like Cass alway means a great deal for that candidate One was a deputy seeking promotion, and in that case he had u great deal of prestige. Then on the other hand near ly all of the candidates on the republi can ticket who were defeated were new to the voters of Cuss county. That means a great deal to the average voter, who dislikes to turn down a man he knows for one he does not know. tr.ti i ..-:- :i mm. raio.uaicg nat Mood on an even i : .'.'lie nM I.J il.w.-' would Cut h.v: been Don't get uneasy over the outlook. If Nebraska is not cutting enough of the congealed article down at Wash ington, it is not wholly the fault of our senators and congressman. The trou ble with Nebraska is that we elect a man to congress and give him to un derstand that if he doesn't raise thun der right away he will be relegatd eto the rear and another man sent down who will. If Nebraska would keep a man down there long enough for him to know which was the cupitol building and which the white house, we would get better results. But just as soon as a man bucks the line and doesn't make again the first attempt then we com mence to holler for the coach to t:ike him out and put in another man. It would be a good thing if W3 would elect a man and then give him to under stand that if he made an nttempt to carry the ball and did not succeed the first time, that we would give him another chance, and another until he made a gain that would carry him over the goal line. If we have confidence enough in a man to elect him, then let us have confidence enough in him to give him a chance to make good. The "non-partisan" idea was con ceived for a purpose, and failed. It is now up to the opposition to think up something new for next year. They will have to do it. This conies of pat ronizing the bargain counters for is sues. They are all right just as long as they arc new. But they don't last. We would suggest for the next issue for the opposition,"We are tired and hungry." A second look at thercsult"f the election should make republicans feel better. We have carried the state for the republican ticket and that puts us on the map again where we belong. Last year the democrats carried the state by something like 5,(100, this year they lost it by something like two thousand. That is a gain for republi cans that for an off year is not to be sneezed at. SHE WAS MARRIED ONLY SIX TIMES But Finally Comes to the Conclu sion It Is Time to Quit. Sheldon, Hayward, Aldrich, Hope well, Andrews. What an array of good talent from which to choose a governor Every one of them a good citizen. Every onr of them the riuht kind. Every one of them men who are big enough for the governor's chair.' Every one of them men who have a principle and stand by it. Shallcnberger, Berge, Dahlman One of them condemned by his own party because he failed to keep a promise to the men.who elected him, but because he thought something else more pop ular, broke his word to those with whom he had associated with for years and is now no longer recognized by them as part of their party. Another, in the words of a democratic officeholder, has "shot.is wad." The other can never receive the support of his party as a party and is.herefore of no avail. It ougnt not to ue nam, tor the young voter to choose the party to which he should give his allegiance in the future. The record of the past should be the rule to follow. Hrf "? Omaha papers cannot get over tak ing a fit every time they read, about some fellow over in Lincoln getting drunk. They persist in saying that Lincoln dry is a failure. Thoy know that most of the drunkenness, which exists in that city is the result of Have lock booze purchased in the shop town and just getting its work in good shape when the holder of the booze gets over to Lincoln on the street car. It is true that there is some booze sold in Linco'n, but the occasion is ,so rare that when a booze joint is pulled it always caused much commotion and crowds throng the streets to sec the sight as in the case last Saturday, when a prominent druggist of that city thought to take advantage of the big crowd in attendance at the foot ball game to do a little business on the sly. Election is over, but there is another one coming. As far as the editor of this paper is conce nxl we do not pro pose to lay down eleven months and then get busy the other one. We be lieve that the voter should take the time all the year round to keep him self posted on political doings and then when the campaign came along he would be in a position to know just what he wanted to do because hp had kept himself in touch with political events. The worst, or rather ono of the worst things in politics is that the average voter pays no attention to those things until just about the time he wants to make the choice, and then he is not in a position to judge. Keep posted all the time. KANSAS CITY, Nov. . Mrs. (iraee Rittcr-Chaney-Ktc., who was released yesterday after being in cus tody on a charge of bigamy, said : "No more wdeding bells for inc." The poor woman should not have been discour aged so early in the game as the last ma'n was only her sixth husband and she is only thirty years old at that. Her husband found out that he was not the only pebble which had been wash ed up by the tide when he discovered one day four marriage certificates neat ly tied up in a bundle among his wife's souvenirs of the past. Very foolishly he called her to task and the officers did the rest. By and by it will be so a woman can't have any rights whatever. SILVERWARE Our line of Sterling Silver and Plated Ware com plete and up-to-date. We carry the product of four or five manufacturers of standard ware and the pat terns are new. Your choice is here. KNIVES AND FORKS Try our 16dwt goods. They will give you perfect satisfaction and will cost you only $4.50. Others for $3.50 to $8.50. We have a nice line of pearl handled goods. Our line of Sterling Silver for the Christmas trade will be the largest ever shown in Plattsmouth. J. W. -CRABILL Watchmaker and Jeweler. Burlington R. R. Watch Inspector. Don't forget our repair department. $2,500 for Judje Sullivan. LINCOLN, Nov'. 10. Judgo Sul livan will be somew hat modified by his defeat when he learns that the court yesterday allowed him $2,500 for his fee in the express company suits. Have You Attended? Have you attended any of the special meetings being held this week at the Methodist church? If not, you aro missing a whole lot of good t hings. These services arc for men, women, young ladies and young men and chil dren. They are being conducted by Rev. Austin who thoroughly under stands how to interest his audience and at the same time he tells them a lot of wholesome truths which really sound new, coming from him. He is assisted by many singers of local note whose efforts arc a great help at the j meetings and the music adds mater ially to the enjoyment of the services. Just go tonight and see if you don't enjoy a most pleasant and instructive time. Services commence at 7:30 o'clock. Odell Fees Good. Prof. E. E. Odell desires that the voters of Cass county who stood so nobly by him as a comparative stran ger to them, should know that he ap preciates very much the support given nm in the last election. Although de feated, he desires the News to say that le appreciates their support and feels that the friendships gained throughout the campaign have more than recom pensed him for the loss of the elec tion. Appreciates the Vote. Martin Friedrich wishes us through the Daily News to express to the vot ers his sincere appreciation of the sup port given him at the late election. On account of the fight made on him he feels that his friends should be ap prised of the fact that he truly appre ciates the support given him and he proposes to show the people tint in the future as in the past he will be serving the public to the best of his ability. Don't Go to Oklahoma. (irTHIHE, Nov. 10. The supremo court of Oklahoma decided yesterday that they will grant no divorces unless the applicant has good and sufficient cause, and that "extreme cruelty" must mean "physical violence" and not just common "cussing" Third Degree. The local lodge of Masons will hold a special meeting this evening for the purpose of doing work in the third de gree. All visiting brothers are cordial ly invited to be present, and all local members are urged to attend. Notice Dance. Don't forget the Redmen's fifth grand ball Friday night at Coates' hall, November 12. Itner's Redmen orches tra of Omaha will furnish the music. An Indian war dance and a clog dance will be given by the Indian.' Also a moonlight waltz will be render ed for the benefit of all. Everybody is :nv:tr and a ano ! tim? is assured t VVVVWAV'"V' E.G. DOVEYfcS According to reliable democratic authority the"non-partisan" idea did not pan out from a democratic stand point. Another paramount issue goic where the woodbine twineth. ,! 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