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THE NEWS-HERALD
I'l.ATTHMOUTll, NHI1WAHKA
Entered at the postoflice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska,
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Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85.
January,
Have you a little red button
If not, why not.
Will a man who is so cold that a
person cannot get close enough to
receive polite business treatment make
a good servant of the people.
It looks at this writing as if Platts
mouth was going to be the best known
town in the state and one which would
have more manufacturing enterprises
than any place outside of Lincoln
and Omaha.
To insurgc or not to insurgc. That
ia the question. Whether it is better
to insurgc and draw large dollars on
the Chautauqua platform or suffer
defeat because the noodle went wrong,
That is the question.
Kditor Taylor of the Central City
Nonparicl is awful afraid that we are
afraid that the insurgents arc going
to do the republican party a lot of
harm. Nay, Nay, my wayward son,
Nav. Nay. It will take something
besides wind to bust the republican par
ty and as in the case of your imported
Kansas cyclone, may turn out only
gentle zephyrs.
As is always the case when it comes
to getting into the game the Daily
News has them all skinned. The
rustling and good looking manager of
the News was the first man to sport a
booster button and the homly old
editor the first to buy more than one.
If you can't be good looking like the
News manager you can follow the suit
of the homely editor and'get busy ant
buy enough for the whole family.
While in Lincoln last week the edi
tor of the Journal called on the govcr
nor and entered a protest against the
tailing of an extra session of the
democratic legislature. The Colone!
had one experience at the legislative
game anil knows well that there
would be no relief for the people at
the hand of the same old bunch which
fell down so badly in the regular
session. The colonel is a pretty wise
old guy after all.
Our special grapevine undcrgrounc
wiadess dispatches from Washington
announce that if the next congress
is republican that the insurgents wil
elect Theodore Roosevelt as speake
of the house. They figure that he
w ill be electetl to congress from his
district this fall and that he will make
Rome howl if he should be selectei
in place of Mr. Cannon. Should Mr,
Roosevelt run for congress, in his
district, and should he be selected
speaker of the next congress, the
insurgents would discover that as
speaker and a man who would make
the house come to time, he would have
your Uncle Joseph Cannon discounted
by several leagues.
The Lincoln correspondent to the
Omaha Bee tells that Editor Taylor
of the Central City Nonparicl, an
nounctl on leaving the insurgent
meeting at Lincoln last Thursday
evening that "if Senator Burkett
Tiad been present he would have
received the indorsmcnt of the meet
ing" is a pretty strong one for Taylor
to make, inasmuch as he has been one
of the strong boosters of the insurgent
cause. Whether he made it or not,
one could sec by the feeling of ti e
people leaving the meeting that tlicy
were not feeling very good over the
result., We believe that it virtually
means defeat for the insurgent cause.
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Editor
Magagar
Nebraska Telephone No. 85
27, 1910.
The 27th comes on Thursday.
Thursday comes on the 27th. They
both come the day of the big booster
meeting in the City of Plattsmouth.
Are you on.
.A friend on the Coast sends us a
copy of the Portland Orcgonian.
t is a mammoth Sunday edition of
seventy pages and covers everything
going on is that rustling city.
At the present time it would seem
that the united efforts of the people
of Plattsmouth, led by the Commer
cial club, were going to be prolific of
great results. With two additional
actories secured during the past
week, or practically so, the start is
well made.
Tho political opposition to the
administration of President Taft is
beginning to show signs of life. With
Ashton James Dalmanbcrger for
governor, lhompson L.. Hitch-
whecden for Senator and Price E
McBcrgenguire for congress, the fight
ought to be a lively one before the
snow birds bloom again.
Just wait till Charles Bryan and
the eintor of this paper get our
shoulders to the wheel of that old
democratic wagon which has been
stuck in the nvud so long, and begin
to boost. Us two with the insur
gents twisting the tail of the domo
oratic' donkey to make him pull
ought to at least get the old rickcrty
gogig propped up so it will stand
till it reaches the next slough of
despond. Me antl Charlie be some
pumpkins when we feel good.
President Bryan has promised i
we help Brother Charlie deliver the
country out of the grasp of that
"brutal majority" down at Washing
ton, to make us postmaster of the
Plattsmouth postoflice. . The editor
of the Journal is to be our, assistant
and Sheriff Quintan miperin
tendent of mails. Tho money orde
department will be discontinued
until another republican adminis
tration.
Charles O. Whecden of Lincoln ha
shied his castor into the scnatoria
ring and has filed for a chance to try
issues with Senator Burkett. Com
ment upon the matter will be reservet:
until we have time to see what Mr
Whecden jias done in the past which
would entitle him to the support of
the people. A personal letter from Mr
Whecden, announcing that he has
filed for the nomination does not say
whether he believes in the republican
party and its ability to bring about
the reforms needed. As we under
stand it Mr. Whecden is the candidate
of the insurgenters up at Lincoln,
and he should let the fellows out in
the back woods know just how far
he intends to carry his insurgenting.
That band of insurgents is such a
mixture of republicans who have
formerly been free silver, pass ad
vocates, anti-Taft, and open or secret
supporters of W. J. Bryan, and also
loyal republicans, that it might be
well for Mr. Whecden to tell the
people where, he has been politically
during the past fifteen years.
The condition of things is certainly
deplorable when the people feel that
they have got to boycott the meat
merchant because they cannot afford
to pay the price of meat as it now is.
The question is, are they justified
in taking such action. Is it not a
act that a working man at the prc-
jent price paid for labor is better
)ff under present conditions than' a
few years ago when everything was
cheap and labor correspondingly low.
One does not have to go back very
far to remember that meat and gro
ceries were consideraby less than
they are now and that half of the
abor of the country" did not know
low long their jobs would last, but
were constantly in fear that they
might be the next to join the army
of the idle thousands. What good
did it do a man if meat was half
the price it is now if there was no job
whereby he could earn the money
to buy. What good was it to a man
if his wages were so low that he could
not get together enought to buy the
the cheap products of the farm.
The present condition of high prices
for meat, high prices for groceries,
high prices for clothing, high prices
for land, high prices for hogs, high
prices for cattle, high prices for all
the necessaries of life and high prices
or labor, is far more a desirable
condition than low prices for all of
the above and half of the men of the
country working for half what they
were worth and the other half with
no work at all.
WE WONDER.
Where will the fellows be who
have been fighting the president in
the event that his policies are
carried out by the present congress?
Already the insurgent cause in
Nebraska is losing ground. It could
not be expected to win with the cle
mcnts behind it which controlcd the
the late lamented meeting in Lincoln.
In all probability there are very
few men in Nebraska but who believe
that the republican party will be
able to meet the question before the
country which must be solved. In
this statement we do not except
the opposition party. They know
the republican party and know its
ability to deal with important issues.
In the late revolt against the leader
of the republican party they thought
they saw a ray of hope for demo
cratic success this coming fall. But
as, the days come and go and the
elements which have been so far
apart are getting closer together at
Washington, they sec little hope
There always has been in the past
and there always will be in the future
men who will be dissatisfied with
conditions. I his dissatisfaction is
caused in different ways. Sometimes
disappointment in securing what they
elicve they ought to have had has
been their cause for disgruntlcment
Sometimes they think that in the
dissatisfaction which seems to prevail
against a party that by taking hold
and assisting to magnify the cause
they may be able to get revenge
for what they may have lost. In
the late revolution at Lincoln there
were enough tlifferent elements con
tending against the administration
to have made trouble, were it not
generally known that most of the
leaders in the revolution were men
who at some time had met with
disappointment. In that band of
revolutionists could be seen men
who but a short time ago wen? using
every effort to prevent legislation
against the railroads, both in the
reduction of rates and in the abolish
ment of the pass. There were others
who less than two years ago assisted
in carrying the state of Nebraska
for the democratic party. Some
of them working openly and others
in secret. There were others in that
band who were not contending to
be either republicans or democrats.
There were others who were openly
and have been for years leading
democrats. There were others who
had a personal grievance against
Senator Burkett and who thought
that they saw in this condition of
unrest a chance to get even with the
senator. There were other repub
licans whose past loyalty to the
party has never been questioned,
but who in the excitement of the
moment were carried away by the
condit'ufhs surrounding them. ' It was
oiily another case of the many in
past political history and there will
be many more. Perhaps the repub
lican party may loso on account of
the insurgent movement, but it will
come out of the ordeal brighter than
before and the people more than ever
convinced that it is the only party
to be trusted. These movements
will come and go as long as the world
stands, and the present one is no
more nor no less in importance than
lave the others been. It will come
ike the butterfly, spread its bril
iant wings for a few days and then
fade away. It will be like the Irish
man's poem on Napoleon's army:
Napoleon had an army, fifty hundred
thousand million strong. He marched
them up the mountin and he marched
them down agin. And when they
were up me.bys they were up, and
and whin they were down they wer
down, and whin they waz in the
cinter they were naythcr up nor
down." The insurgents movement
in Nebraska has been to the top
of the mountain. A few days ago
they started down and last Thursday
builded their camp fires in the center.
They are now nearing the foot hills
and the bare desert, with its sage
brush and burning sands are be
fore them.
HASKELL CONDEMNS
HASKELLISM.
In calling the ' Oklahoma Legisla
ture in special session to remedy cer
tain ills which have come up during
his administration, Gov. Haskell pre
sents a powerful indictment against
himself and his party. He says that
county officers are receiving too much
salary, he wants to place restrictions
upon counties and municipalities in
voting bonds, and he makes an ap
peal for ecomomy along many lines
All of this programme is to be car
ried out in the session which he has
called for January 20, if the Legisla
ture takes him at his word.
The economy appeal may impress
the residents of Oklahoma, but some
of them may be inclined to ask why
the abuses which Gov. Haskell com
plains of were not remedied earlier,
The Democrats have been hf control
of the legislative as well as the execu
tive -brandies' of ' the state govern
ment since the beginning. Most of
the abuses which he mentioned or re
fers to were created by himself and
his party friends. Declaring that
"our present state laws fixing the fees
and salaries of most of our county
and other public officials were passed
by the Oklahoma Territorial Legis
lature several years before the state
was organized, and are still opera
tive," he neglects to tell why the
Democratic legislatures of the state
failed to repeal them, and thus to
head off the extravagance which he
mentions.
Moreover, the state itself has been
bonded for $1,G00,0()0, while the state
constitution declares that the state
debt shall not exceed $400,000. Here
is a little divergence Jctwccn law
and practice which the governor will
be asked to explain. Haskell helped
to frame the constitution. He has
been at the head of the state ever
since it started out in its career. His
party has been in control of all de
partments of the state government.
For every ill with which the state is
afflicted Haskell and hfs party arc
responsible. Haskell is at last roused
to the peril which confronts his party
in the state campaign of 1910. Real
izing that he himself has no political
future, he desires that his party may
escape a little, at least, of the punish
ment which it deserves. Haskell and
hisj party friends" have made it com
paratively easy for the Republicans,
if they take advantage of their op
portunity, to carry the state this year.
A republican victory in November
will end the social quarantine which
has been erected by the country
against Oklahoma because of the fan
tastic follies of its Democratic gov
ernor and legislatures, and restore to
that community some of the prestige
to which its physical advantages en
title t.-Glohc Democrat
IS THIS A JOKE.
The editor of this paper received
yesterday the following letter from
Charles W. Bryan, business manager
of the Commoner, personal organ of
William J. Bryan. We will publish
a portion of the same with the answer:
THE COMMONER.
Lincoln, Neb., jan.20, 1910.
Pub. Daily News,
Plattsmouth, Nebr.,
Dear Sir:
Tho approaching congressional
elections and the political up-
heavel at Washington, which
is spreading like wild fire through
out the counrty, prompts us to
write to you at this time. The
betrayal of the public by the
present administration has been
so bold and brutal that the people
can scarcely believe the press
reports from Washington. We
believe this can be made a demo
cratic year. The people's cause
needs defenders We will gladly
co-operate with you and the demo
cratic organization in any legiti
mate plan to bring about the
election of a democratic congress.
Believing that we will be suc
cessful and sincerely hoping that
we may have your prompt and
hearty support, I am,
Very truly yours,
Chas. W. Bran.
Feeling that such a very polite and
urgent invitation to assist in electing
a democratic congress should not be
sent to the waste basket, but was
entitled to an answer, we sent
Mr. Bryan the following letter
trusting that it will meet with his
approval:
See Plattsmouth Succeed
THE DAILY NEWS.
Plattsmouth, Jan. 24, 1910.
Mr. Charles W. Bryan,
, The Commoner,
Lincoln, Nebr.
Dear Sir:
Your very valued favor re
ceived asking the support of
the Daily News to throttle the
brutal administration down at
Washington and to assist the
Commoner in making this a demo
cratic year, received.
In answer will say that as be
tween a "brutal administration"
like the present and a "bust
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the government" administration
like all past democratic attempts
gave been, we prefer the former.
We have been unable to dis
cover in any democratic admini
stration of the past any hope
that if the party, if given the
reins of government, would bo
able to de otherwise than keep
up their record of the past, one
which democrats point to with
pride and the American people
with horror.
I have lived through several
republican administrations with
out any trouble in keeping the
wife and babies fat and healthy,
but I shall never forget the ono
democratic administration in
which it was a hard job to keep
the wolf from the door and in
which my newspaper went to the
devil because its subscribers
could not get enough for their
products of the farm to pay their
subscriptions.
Therefore I shall have to de
cline your very earnest invita
tion to assist you in throttling
that "brutal administration."
Very respectfully,
P. A. Barrows.
Attends Brother's Funeral.
Rev. F. II. Frcund, of. Portland
Oregon Was a guest of the Riley
hotel last evening departing for his
home this morning. Rev. Freund
was enroute from Terrehaut, Indiana
where he was called by the death
of his brother John. He left Portland
some days ago, .hoping to see hia
brother alive, but did not realize that
hope as his brother had died before
Rev. Freund reached his bedside.
John Freund was 44 years of age,
and leaves a wife and child, his mother
and brother, to mourn his early de
mise. A COUGH?
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