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Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Nebraska Telephone No. 85
March 17, 1910.
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Some of the papers of the state are
going after Rev. Ludden'a scalp.
Somebody has been going after the
reverend gentleman's scalp for the
past twenty years almost constantly,
but the preacher always comes out
of the controversy smiling. Luther
P. Ludden may have his faults. Cer
tainly he has his enemies, as every
man in public life has who hews to
the line. All the same it would be
mighty hard work to fill his shoes on
that normal board or any other po
rtion in which he is associated.
Some of those fellows who write
dope from the capital city of the state
have about as much regard for the
truth when it conies to trying to win
other side of the nrgumont as
Annaiasjhad in old times. Seme so
called correspondent sent an article
to the Nebraska City Press last week
that the meeting of the board which
accept cdthc resignation of Principal
Crabtrec washeld behind closed
doors. As it happens the editor of
this paper was present at that meeting
and when we arrived wo walked in
through one door which was standing
wide open and during the session, with
many others walked in and out of the
door leading to the main corridor of the
state house which was wide open.
The attempt of some of the people
who do not like the action of the board
in accepting the resignation of Prof
Crabtrec looks to us as pretty small
business in trying to create an impres
sion that the board did not want the
public to know about their acts.
As some of the newspapers of the
city are so biased in their judgment
that they will not send out fair state;
mcnts of the meetings, it is necessary
for the board to hold these meetings
with open doors so that the public
can have a chance to know the truth.
Some of the newspaper men of the
state contend that when a man has
World-Herald in its canvas for the
governorship, and may be the cause
of a Kilkinney cat political fight in
the metropolitan ranks of the un
terrified up there. There are so many
men in Nebraska just at this time who
do not know what the future may
have in store for tlicni that there might
be a good job for a good real politi
cal clairvoyant just at the present time.
The average man hates to let loose
of one political job and take chances
on another.
held office two or three years or terms,
he should step one side and give
somebody else a chance. In making
this contention they proclaim that
public office is something in which
the individual needs should be above
the public good. The trouble with
the whole field of polities is that the
wishes of the individuals arc set higher
than the welfare of the county, state
or nation. In private business it
would be considered the hight of folly
for a business man to discharge an
employee when he had just reached
proficiency and was able to do better
service on account of his acquaint
ance with business and the patrons
of the office and take in some green
employee who would have to learn
the business and the people with whom
the business came in contact. The
sooner that the people of the country
get dow'n to the business principle in
politics and apply it to public office the
better will the business of the public
be attended to. The idea that every
man should be allowed to have a turn
at the public crib is a poor one. If a
man has made good one term, he will
make better the next. If he has made
goos two termd he is better equipped
to attend to the business of the piublc
than any new man that can be secured.
The announcement of Congress'
man Hitchcock that he will be a can'
didatc for the Senate has set i
monstrous big hive of bees to buzz
ing up in Omaha. Every man looks
at his neighbor with suspicion, and
before the month is over the candi
dates up there will be doing things
to land that congressional nomina-
tion which Mr. Hitchcock says he
docs hot want anyhow. It is under
stood that Governor Shallenberger
and Mr. Hitchcock will help each
other, and that in fact an agreement
has already been made to that effect.
This will mean that Mayor Dahlman
will not receive the support of the
GOON MEN WANTED.
The Journal views with alarm a
movement of some of the citizens of
the city to see if something cannot be
done toward the election of a set of
city officials who are good businessmen
and who will be competent to take hold
of affairs and carry them through in
the coming year when so much will
come before the city in a business way.
t sees in the movement opposition to
the democratic party. The time has
come when the citizens of Plattsmouth
should lay aside party politics and
work for the best interest of the
city,regardless of whether the man run
ning for the council is a republican,
a democrat, a prohibitionist, a county
optionist, a dry man or a wet man.
There is a prospect that the coming
year will be of great importance to
the city of Plattsmouth. It is essen
tial that the very best men that ban
be found should be placed in these
positions which mean so much to the
business interests of the city. A man
may be a "good feellow," but unless
ic is competent to meet the problems
which will confront the city the com
ing ycar,the fact that he is a "good
fellow" should not be considered.
We want men with that business abil
ity which will count for the future
prosperity and welfare of the ciiy to
be the men who will transact the nf
fairs of the city for the next year,
whether they he--democrats, republi
cans, or what they are. It is busi
ness this year not politics which should
be the platform of every voter in the
city of Plattsmouth.
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time a revolt against the leader
ship of the party. The issues have
been different, but the principal has
been the same. Then in that case the
question again resolves itself into a
historical matter. If the elements
which revolted in the past were right
in their contention would the country
have progressed under their system?
We are not condemning anybody or
defending anybody. Mr. Brian has
always been a consistent believer in
the principles of the republican party
and as such a believer has always been
found fighting for those principles.
No man can say in all his public life
that he has no been advocating prin
ciples which would have been bene
ficial to the country. His acts as an
official may not have met with the ap
proval of everybody. Xo successful
official can please all, but his
official record cannot be questioned,
take it as a whole as that of detriment
to the party and the county or state
:ie has served. Carrying out the
principles of the party, the party and
the state have been better off bv
reason of his acts. Therefore the
state has progressed, and his part in
its progression puts him down as a
progressive, be he "standpatter" or
be he "insurgent." "By their works
ye shall know them." If you take the
record of Lawson G. Brian, it has
)ccn that of a progressive republi
can progressing, and by such progres
sion the state or county he has served
has progiessed under the manage
ment of the department he has served.
There are progressives in names and
progessives in acts. To which is the
state of Nebraska most indebted?
The Louisville Courier has just pass
ed its twentieth year and feels happy.
Bro. Mayfield gets out a good taper
and is one of the nicest punted which
comes to this office, the print is al
ways clear and clean, showing that be
sides being a good editor, be believts
that cleanliness is a great factor
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PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS
The Albion News, while acknow
ledging that L. G. Brian is a desir
able citizen, that he has made a most
efficient officer in every office he has
held and is all right, cannot support
him for congress because he does not
like his brand of republicanism, being
as Mr. Ladd says, a "standpatter."
Mr. Ladd is one of the best news
papermen in Nebraska. Like Mr
Bryan, he is a desirable citizen and has
made good in every position of pri
vate life he has undertaken, but un
like Mr. Brian, he is a "progressive,"
according to the definition some people
give of progression" and "standpac
ism." According to the standard set
up by some of the newspaper men of
Nebraska, there arc two kinds of poli
tics in the republican party, "stand
patters" and "insurgents." These are
supposed to be the extreme ends c
the party. Both call themselves "pro
gressive republicans." Under the head
"progressives"both factions are claim
ing to be the real thing with the
name blown in the bottle. We are
not attempting to say which is really
the progressive faction. The bone of
contention is Senator Burkett. Or
((inarily Senator Burkett's supporters
would solve the problem, but in Wash
ington he is called an insurgent by the
standpatters and in Nebraska he is
called a standpatter by the insurgents,
and so there you are, which brings the
matter back to the original question,
"What is a progressive republican?"
The only solution we can sec to the
question is to take history for it
The present leaders of the republi
can party today have been termed by
the "insurgents" and others as "stand
patters." They claim that they arc
not "progressive." The question then
is has the country progressed under the
republican party while tin so same
men have been the leaders of the
party? That is the only right prop
osition by which one can be guided.
'On the other land during the past
yeni8 the republican party has been
threatened with an uprising within
its own camp several times with a
dissatisfied element which hns taken
the same htund practically which the
"insurgents" tre taking at the preset. t
The hat pin ordinance which has
been fixed up so that it will sure to
pass the council in Chicago prohibits
the use of hat pins "in any street
or alley of the city, or in any street
or elevated car or public elevator
which protrudes more than half an
inch beyond the crown of the hat
on which they are worn." A maxi
mum penalty of fifty dollars is fixed
for violators of the ordinance. This
is good legislation. We fail to see
why it is necessary .for the business
end of a hat pin to stick out three or
four inches beyond the base of opera
tions. It can do no good, is not a thing
of beauty and is dangerous in the ex
trcme. It should be put out of the
game.
The same old song is being sung
in Chicago which has been warbled
ever since the wet and dry fight began
in every town in the country from the
little hamlet of half a thousand up to
the city with its thousands of popu
lation, that the city cannot carry on
improvements unless it has the rev
rnue derived from the saloons. In
Chicago it is told that the city must
have the revenue derived from the wet
goods emporiums in order to do busi
ness. Probably,' if the truth were
known, it is some of the fellows who
have been getting in the graft on the
saloons who are afraid that there wi
be no business.
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Governor Shallenberrger has come
out against county option. Here
again he gets in his work as what Jim
Dahlman would call a "four flushcr,
It h pretty hard to tell where the
governor does really stand. Tw
years ago he was a temperance man
and an anti-temperance man at the
Hume time. Later he went back on
the saloon interests and hooked u
with the temperance people. Now
he has shelved the temperance peop
and hooked up with an element whic
is neither temperance or anti-tern
perancc. It is a kind of half way
location where he wiP be in a position
to fall off on the side which will give
him the most votes when the time
comes that he will need them.
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The Plattsmouth
Loan and Building
Association
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Plattsmouth Loan and Building Associa
tion was held March 7, 1910. There was a
large attendance of satisfied stockholders.
Directors Hawksworth, Windham and Bar
wick were re-elected for another year.' A
great deal of new stock is being sold and the
books are now open to new stockholders.
There is no better way to buy a home or to save
money. The withdrawal rates on stock with
drawn before maturity are liberal, being 5 per
cent up to six years. 0 per cent from C to 8
years and 7 per cent over S years.
Call on T. M. Patterson if you want a loan
or some stock or any further information. The
following statement shows the Association to
be in a very prosperous condition.
Twenty Fifth Annual Statement
OF
THE PLATTSMOUTH LOAN AND BUILD
ING ASSOCIATION
FEBRUARY 1910
ASSETS
Loans 8(iG,l)36 . GS
Due from Stockholders. 317.13
Taxes advanced 322 . 92
Ileal Estate S21.47
$08,398.20
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $4S,34S . 00
Reserve Fund 1,200.00
Dividends Declared . 15,317 . 08
Profit & Loss 519.01
Matufed Stock 1,000.00
Bills Payable 2,000.00
Cash ; 14.11
$08,398.20
Table Showing value ol Stock and Divi
dends Declared
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29 81 1 32 $65. 34 $ 97.34 $10,092 $ 5292.54
30 21 120 59.53 1S5 53 2,040 1250 23
31 27 120 54.00 174.00 3,240- 1458.00
32 21 114 48.74 102.74 2,394 1023.43
33 20 108 43.74 151.74 2.S08 1137 24
34 10 102 39.01 141.01 1,020 390.15
35 19 90 34.50 130.50 1,824 050 64
30 0 90 30.38 120.38 540 182 '25
37 8 84 26.40 110.40 072 211 08
38 21 78 22.81 100.81 1,038 479 11
39 11 72 91.44 91.44 792 213 84
40 30 00 16.34 82.34 1,980 490 05
41 35 60 13.50 73.50 2,100 472 50
42 53 54 10.93 64.93 2,802 579 55
43 63 48 8.04 50.04 3,024 544.32
44 4 42 6.62 48.62 108 20 40
45 70 30 4.80 40.80 1,520 340.20
40 79 30 3.37 33.37 2,370 260 02
, 47 01 24 2.10 20.10 1,404 . 131.70
48 07 18 1.22 19 22 1,200-" ,81.41
49 131 12 54 12.54 1,572 70 74
50 130 0 .13 6.13 810 18.30
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$483.4,8 $15317.08
The above table is computed at 9 per cent
per annum.
T. M. Patterson, Secy.