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
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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
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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.
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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. Anderson,
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Nelson, Mr. & Mrs.
August Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. 0. E.
Erickson, Mr. & Mrs. W. Nord,
Mr. & Mrs. L. Gt Larson, Miss Gerta
Peterson, Miss Alpha Peterson and
Mrs. Chas. Neiman of Omaha.
Going Down.
The Drice of cream had drnnnwl in
some sections of Nebraska forty per
cent during the past month. Thia s
due, so it is claimed, to a general
use of the manufactured article of
butter put out a3olcomargerine.
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