The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911, February 17, 1910, Image 4
Bryan has declared himself for county option and it would certainly be a quear condition in Nebraska politics if Mr. Bryan should be found this full supporting a republican platform. It might be that he sees his only chance to land in the presi dential chair is to get the republican nomination, and this may be his method of forcing himself into the ranks of a party which has a record of electing its presidential candidates. Who knows. THE NEWS-HERALD I w t y ? ? ? r t ? t ? ? ? ? ? vsea me world over PI.ATTHMOUTH, N1C1IWAHKA ? ? ? ? t y ? ? ? Entered at the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. No other article of human food has ever received such em phatlc commendation for purity, usefulness and whole someness from the most eminent authorities OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publishers P. A. BARROWS A. E. QUINN Editor Magagtr RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year in Advance, $1.50. Six Months in advance, 75c Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Nebraska Telephone No. 85 February, 17, 1910. SpcakerPoole of the Nebraska demo cratic legislature wants to be a can didate for Secretary of State. Well "wanting" to be and "getting" to be are too propostions which do not al ways run together, and Mr. Toole may find the road to the Secretary of State office much harder to trail than that to the speakership. Some of the elements which elected him speaker may prove mud holes in the road to Secretary of State which he can neither pass through nor get around. The Wahoo Wasp got Us stinger in working order some time ago and now the editor, Mr. Pickett has been Bued for criminal libel. This !s evidence that Brother Pickett prints a newspaper which prints the news. An editor, is up against a very pecu liar proposition many times, and this is one of them. But everything comes in a life time. The editor of the Daily News has been honored in the past with but five suits for libel, but as neither of them stuck, we arc ill out of the penctentiary and on top of the earth. We fail to sec how some of our editorial brethren who print from two to three columns of editorial every issue and never take a stand on anything for fear of hurting someone's political feelings, can do bo. Generally in order to express an opinion, one hould have an opinion,but when a man discusses a subject and does so in fear and trembling because he might tread on somebody's toes, we cannot Bee very much satisfaction in writing the article. We belicvo that the newspaper man who takes a firm, tand one way or the other, will be a much more valuable asset to his community than the one who climbs the fence and will not try to get off either side for fear of falling. Many papers which desire to remain neu tral, do not attempt the editorial stunt. In this they are showing good judgement, but one cannot successfully run a newspaper with an editoral column which never takes cUlier side of the question. The banquet given by the Nehaw ka Commercial Club last Suturday evening was one of the most success ful gatherings of its kind we ever at tended. We like the way these Ne- hawka peoplo go at the problem of boosting their town. They put up the money necessary to carry on the work of getting the roads in shape to get the people to come to the town and then ask the farmers along the line of roads to assist by doing the work. The get-togither spirit which was manifested at that banquet which was shown before the banquet anl which has been prevalent since means success to the movement. The business men furnish the money, the furmers around the t6wn do the work and the women, b'.css them all, pitch in and get up the feed that puis the feeling into a man that if he don't work he is k mighty undesirable citi i'n. Such mcth'xls will win every timo and it would ba a mighty good hunch for some other towns to pat tern after the Nehawka Commercial CI lb. The farmers of the coi n y surrounding Nelnwka are showing the right kind of rpirit, auj with their hearty co-operation, the project will be a success. The stand taken by Mr. Bryan for county option will probably be a great deal of disappointment to many of his loyal supporters in the demo cratic party, and while it has been expected that sooner or later it would be his "paramount issue," it comes just as hard to those who for years have been the sworn and faithful followers of the thrice-nominated man. If Mr. Bryan had taken this stand one year ago when the legislature was is session, there would have been little doubt but . what a county op tion law would have been placed upon the statutes. However, like he has done in many other cases he was not quite sure that the county option issuo would ever be a paramount issue and so he dodged it and kept quiet. is influence one year ago would have brought about what he now claims to want, and it is a question if he had used his influence along that line whether an eight o'clock law would have ever been pass ed and probably would not have been for there would have been little use for It. While we may possibly be taking the unpopular side of the Peru argu ment, and while Principal Crabtree is a Cass county citizen, and as such we might be criticized for not up- noming mm in the matter, still we feel that the board could do no diff erent than they did. Mr Crabtree was under the jurisdiction of the state normal board. It was his duty to follow their instructions. If he felt that he could not do bo and believed that he was right in the matter, and also could not pursuade them that he was right, we believe that" the only proper thing for him to do was to resign his position. He could not expect, that his administration of affairs at the Peru school would be successful if it was against the wishes of the board. If his leaving the school would have worked a damage to the interests of education, it would have been the fault of the board and not Mr. Crabtree. No institution or other business can succeed success fully, when there is insubordination on the part of any employee. When hoaccepets a position under, that board he is expected to carry out the rules laid down by the board for the management of the school. If he feels that he cannot do successful work with those rules, if he cannot convince the board of their error, there is only one thing to do and that is to resign. However we believe thit Prof. CrabtTcc is a victim tn some extent of circumstances which have drawn him into the trouble. His advisors hive not been the right kind, evidently, or he would not have been in the position ho is. Right or wrong, his true courso' would have been to have stepped down or carried out the wishes of the board. There is but one conclusion to be drawn from the democratic ban quet held at Linoln last Monday night, and that is that the democratic party will declare for the eight o'clock closing law and dodge the county option issue. Shcllcnbergcr . is for jthe eight o'clock closing law and j Richard L. Metealf praised it and the governor who signed it. This practi cally means that Governor Shellen berger will make the campaign on the early closing platform. The re publicans will without doubt make , the issue that of county option. Mr. Mayor Dahlman says that he and Governor Shallenbcrger are both sleeping in the same bed. Jim should lay in front so that he will not dm- turb Ashton when he wants to get up and quench his thirst early in . the morning, for it is a long time between drinks after eight in the evening till seven the next morning. ' The Ashland Gazette rises in its chair and nominates Hon. George D. Meikeljohn for the republican nomination for governor. The editor of this paper has supported Mr. Meiklejohn several times for different offices and we would not feel very badly to have the opportunity of doing so once more. George D. Meikle john is a grand man and would make an ideal governor. COURIER CLATTER. The editor of the Louisville Courier Mr. Mayfield, takes exception to a little notice we gave him in which we said that we did not know whether he was joking or not, but whether or no, he made some true statements. He gets back at us as follows: "For rine the News editor goes the limit, 'whether he means it or not.' The editor of the Courier has never made a practice of in cluding a joker in his editorial ' utterances, but for the benefit of Editor Barrows, who has under taken the difficult task of injecting life into Congressman Pollard's dead horse, we will say that we were very much in earnest when wo advocated the plan of holding . the county convention. It is just as humiliating to be serious and then have some darnphule laugh at you as it is to tell a joke and . have it taken seriously." We do not know what the Courier man means by "rine"J but we have heard of people getting the "rino" for doing things, which is probably what the editor is trying to getf at, and we will say that our "rino" is always at the limit. It is so hard to tell whether the Courier editor is really joking or not.. He was going to carry Louisville precinct for the county ticket last fall, but the result was so far from the expectations it looks as if there must have been con siderable of a joke mixed up in that deal somewhere, although of course there was no "rino" in connection with that joke. As to our "difficult task of injecting new life into this paper" we will say that we are doing very well my dear Brother, very well. But we hope our Brother has . not joined the Journal in knocking on a Cass county citizen of whom ho as as well as every other man in the county ought to say a good word for instead of knocking. The estab lishment of this paper by Mr; Pollard, whether he did bo for the purpose of his political advancement or not,was done for the purpose of giving the ropublican party of Cass county a paper which would be of assistance to the party as well as to the business interests of the county, and Mr. Pollard and a few more good loyal republicans are behind the enterprise. It should be the duty of the. Courier to boost for any enterprise which would help Cass county, whether it was run by a "darnphule" or who it wan run by. Hie Daily News would rejoice, at any prosperity which might come to the editor of the Courier and his paper, for with that prosperity, would come added assets to Louis ville and Cuss county. If the Courier was trying to inject life into a dead horse, then he would be entitled t all the more credit. We might take the remarks of the editor of the Courier ns a joke, hi d he not been so serious in the assei tion that he never jokes through his e litoriul columns, notwithstanding we have heard seme unfeeling persons remark that tic editorial columns of the Courier woe considerable of a joke. mBrm mm Royal has always received the highest award when cxniDiiea or tested in competition Perhaps it is but human nature, but the brewers just can't keep out of politics even where they have been put out of business. They never ac cept as final the decision of a city, a town or a state to do without saloons. They willingly ship or-sell their pro ducts to any who are willing to buy, whether to drink themselves or to Bell in a joint. They fought and defied prohibition in Kansas, and now that Hoch, Stubbs and Jackson have en forced tho law and decreased their sales they are angered. No governor in recent years has done as much as has Stubbs to drive joints out of Kan sas and it was in the last legislature that a stop was put to the'saloon drug store. Not content with that Governor Stubbs went to Washington recently, showed the president how loosely the internal revenue laws were' being en forced in Kansas and obtained from him an order that the government's entire policy pertaining to the en forcement of the revenue laws in "dry" states would be changed. ' Now comes word from Topeka that this activity and earnestness to make Kansas a real dry state-has made the liquor interests more bitter against Governor Stubbs than any other gov ernor since the prohibitory amend ment was adopted. They are now sending throughout the state to cx joint keepers, bootleggers and others whom they believe might be against Governor Stubbs for any reason, a circular calling upon them to organize branches of the "Union League of To peka". The object of the league is to assist in electing to office not only a governor, but district judges as well, who will be friendly to the liquor in terests and to assist in "putting down despotism." Lincoln News. When one looks back over the work of the last legislature and sees what a punk bunch of statesmen composed that great body of accidental accidents and when he sees the governor claim ing great credit for the passage of the eight o'clock closing law when the facts in the case are that the bill was first introduced by a republican and when finally amended and passed was opposed by a majority of the democrats in both branches of the legislature, in fact only seven demo crats in the senate viting for it, he is led to believe that the old democrat ic party has not laid aside its tradi tions quite as much as it would seem. The eight o'clock closing law would never hare become a law if the re publican members of the legislature had not voted for it to a large extent. We fail to see where the democratic party can claim any credit or the passage of a measure that was op posed bitterly by a majority of the democratic membership in both 1 bran ches of the legislature. It is about the only law which did pass which has stood the test of the courts, and the facts in the case show that a majo rity of the democratic members op posed it. CELEBRATE THEIR SILVER ANNIVERSARY. A Pleasant Evening at the Home of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rydberg. Last Saturday being the twenty fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rydberg wedding, they in vited a number of their friends to help them celebrate their silver wed ding. A supper was prepared by the hostess and the guests were asked to sit down to tables laden with many good things to eat. Mr. and Mrs Rydberg were presented with many beautiful presents which will help them to remember the occasion, at a late hour the guests departed wisliing the host and hostess many happy returns of the event. Those present were: Mr. A. F. Heder gren, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Swanson, Mr. John Weborg, all of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. W. Fahlison, Mr. & Mrs. A. G. Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. A. Pei stup, Mr. & Mrs. L. C. 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