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THE NEWS PI.ATTMMOUTH, Entered at the poBtoflke at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. t t Y ? ? f t y OFFICIAL PAPER OP THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publishers P. A. BARROWS A. E. QUINN RATES OF SfBSCniPTlON One Year in Advance, 11.50. Six Months in advance, 75c Platts mouth Telephone No. 85. April 4 One congressman lias introduced a bill before the present house to plant "hippopotamuses" in the rivers of the south land. Now if Congress man Hitchcock will introduce a bill to plant whales in the Missouri river to keep the channel from wandering out into the country, lie will perform a great and lasting benefit to his state. Our democratic friends are making lots of noise over the results in some of the states where" elections have been held. They have a right to feel joyful and no one feels like deny ing them the liberty. It is so seldom that they have a chance to give way to their feelings along that line that they should be alowed full sway. Somebody sent the editor this week a pair of new socks from the Buster llrown Hosiery at Chatanooga, Tenn. Wc do not know how they knew way down there that we needed new socks but the point of order was well taken and we accept the gentle hint as well as the socks in the spirit of thankful ness. Like some other editors we used to know, we had very nearly reached the Jerry Simpson stage. The Weeping Water Republican was twenty-eight years old yesterday and says that its birthdays come and go so fast that they are hardly noticablc. The Republican is one of the best weekly papers in the state of Nebraska and one of the cleanest edited. It shows prosperity in every line and we trust that it will live to enjoy many more birthdays under the able management of Brother Olive. Governor Shallcnbergcr has got to that point in his career which every man sooner or later reaches who at tempts to ride two" horses which are going in opposite directions. Having ridden the temperance horse to death and also made the brewery animal very tired, he now conies out and an nounces that ho will be glad to run for office on the democratic ticket on any platform that the party may se lect. Like the old maid who had about reached the impossible stage and matrimony seemed to be slipping from her possibilities, in her anguish die prayed "0 Lord, give me a mart"; anything, just so it is a man." In his present stand the governor has proclaimed that it is not principle, but office which he desires more than anything else. In securing three straight games from the St Paul base ball elub of the American association, the Lincoln team of the Western league has shown that it has gathered together a great elub, and the other teams in the Wes tern will do well if they head the An telopes off after the season starts. Of course opening the season at Denver which is always hard on an eastern team the Lincoln club will be at a disadvantage, but when she gets onto her own lot there will probably be something doing. It is seldom that a Western league club makes the showing against a team in what is considered a much faster league as did the Lincoln team this week. Following is the record on runs, hits and errors of the two clubs during the three games: R II E Lincoln 31 3ft 7 St. Paul 13 21 14 - HERALD t y t. ? ? y y t y y y y y NIJHWAHKA CASS COUNTY Editor Magager Nebraska Telephone No. 85 1910. THAT DECISION. We cannot agree with the supreme court in their late ruling in which they declared that Miss Gertrude Jordan was entitled to hold the job of county treasurer of Cherry county. In all probabilitythis will not cause any great consternation in the ranks of the judges of the supreme court when they find out that we dissent in the matter, but some how we feel that their decision is not according to the rules laid down in Hoyl's latest. As wc understand the constitution of the state of Nebraska, one cannot be considered a voter unless he is twenty one years of age or has taken out papers declaring his intention to become a citizen of the United States. Neither can he hold an office except he comes under the same rule, an additional requirement in the case of the foreigner, us we understand it, is that he must have his final papers be fore he can hold an office. If the law stipulates that a man should be a voter before lie can hold a public office, why should not that hold equally good in the Cherry county case. Wc do not believe that the law should discriminate between indi viduals. If a man must be a voter before he can hold an office, why should not the same requirement be made of anyone else. We believe that the voter should not be discrim inated against infavor of the non voter. Wc think that there is only one so lution to the problem and that is that either woman should not legally hold office or else they should be made by law a part and portion of the crea tive body which they are supposed to represent. In other words they should not hold office or should be voters. We trust that the supreme court will not consider it necessary to tc- verse their ruling should they happen to come in contact with our opinion, for candidly Miss Gertrude Jordan is one of the most competent officials any county ever had and is absolutely eorrect m her transactions, as we have reasons to know with a business contact with the county treasusrer' office in Cherry county during the time that she was deputy treasurer, and we would dislike to sec her loose her job. N. 13. and P. S. The editor of this paper is not a candidate lor the ot fice of judge of the supreme court on account of the above show of judi cial wisdom. DAHLMAMSM. In his platform for governor Mayor Dahlman favors the re moval of the state capital from Lincoln. There are many light here in Eastern Nebraska who faveir the same proposition and would be only too willing to sup port such a proposition. The people of Lincoln alone have caused this feling to exist. Plattsmoulh Journal. It is true that the people of Lin coin alone have caused this feeling to exist. In that the Journal is right A great many people will nevei for give the people of the capital city because they voted to have the town dry and persist in keeping it that way A great many people cannot under stand now any town can prosper under dry conditions, yet Lincoln has exemplified the fact that the city not only prospered under a dry system and without the aid of license money it had always received, but prospcied as it nevei did before. Business men of the city who formerly believed that if the town cut cut the salcons it would never be able to survive the business depression which would fol low, are now among the strongest supporters of the dry policy fei another year. ' Mayor Dahlman has hivched onto the "removal" scheme and attached it to his kite for the purpose of catch ing votes of those who have it in for Lincoln for no other reason than that it is a prohibition town. There is nothing fair whatever in the action of the anti-Lincoln sentiment which prevails. The advocates of the wet policy launch out their great slogan of home rule und personal lib crtytfor themselves and then deny to Lincoln the privilege of remaining dry if she so desires. It is not a quse tion of majority rule with them unless that majority belong to the wet side of the argument. They not only re fuse to grant to the capital city the right to rule herself and remain dry if she has the votes sufficient to carry thf election that way but they join in an unholy scheme to carry the elec tion by an importation of voters for no (,iher purpose than to vote for a wet town. They howl "prohibition doe ) not prohibit," and do all they can to break the laws in order to show that their cry is backed up by the facts. In spite of the fact that there has bet ii a class of people in Lincoln during the past year who have persisted in ma!;ing prohibition look like a failure, and also in spite of the fact that the ciiy has been within thirty minutes ride on the street cars from a town which has three saloons provided with ialf a dozen bartenders each to wait upon the multitudes, the record of the year has been such that the people of the city are infavor of a continued dry policy and in the support of that policy they have gained adherents in large numbers fiom business men who formerly believed in a restriction of saloons and wet conditious. Should anything happen that Lin coln should again return to the wet policy, it will be because of the im potation of voters with the purpose in view of making the town wet not withstanding a majority of the people wish jt otherwise. If at any time any faction or set of peeiple desire to move the capital of the State of Nebraska from the City of Lincoln to some other town and want to make the issue upon the one hinted at by the Journal, they will find the people of the state ready for the fray and the result will be one in favor of a retention of the capital in a city which believes in "home rule" in the truest sense of the term. STILL ANOTHER. The incomparable Nebraska City Press, whose editor claims to be an authority on politics in Nebraska, but admits that he cannot remember ack over the record of the republi can party as far back as thirty years ago, says he is a republican of the "new school" which believes in honesty integrity and a square deal. If that is the foundation of the new school of which the Press editor claims to be long, hejsurely must be in the kinder garten class or he would know that honesty, integrity and a square deal is the principal on which the republi can party was founded and the prin ciple on which it stands at the present time. There is no argument in his dec laration that the policy of this paper has been such that he would never have recognized it as republican if wc had not so declared, it. Such ar gument in the face of the record is nothing less than foolishness and we believe that an investigation of the facts or an interview with the Press' pet candidate for congress will dis close the fact that as a republican paper, the Daily News has a record unimpeachable, and furthermore re liable. The "peanut" arguments of the juvenile quill pusher of the Press are simply ludicrous ami not convincing. Assertions which the facts in the case and the records show cannot be veri fied, docs not tend to place the editor in that class where the public by read ing his paper can be assured of re liability. Like a number of other editors who are in their swaddling clothes, the Press man insists upon trying to make his readers believe that the editor of this paper is a Can non supporter, when the facts in the case bourn out by numerous state ments appearing editorially in this paper in the past have declared to the contrary. No paper can bring strength to its cause or success to its candidate by mistatements of facts which the records will show are bare faced and uncalled for. The editor of this paper is not controlled by any man, be he candidate for congress or a candidate for road overseer. This paper is not, nor will it, advocate the candidacy of any man because he happens to be one of the numerous stockholders of the com pany which owns the paper. The paper was not founded for that pur pose, but for the purpose of giving the people of Cass county a republi can paper. Whether it has lived up to the requirements the republicans of Cass county arc better able to testi fy than a foreign pencil pusher who admits his membership in a "new school" and by his lisping arguments, a member of the infant class. FELL OVER A BLUFF MOTOR CAR WITH KANSA8 CITY PEOPLE ON BOARD WRECKED NEAR TOPEKA. ONE KILLED AND TWO INJURED George Scott Died Within Five Min utes After the Accident C. L. Wil son of Manhattan, Kan., One of the Injured Road Caved In. Topeka, Mar. SI. George Scott, widely known as "Scotty," bead bar tender at the Hotel Baltimore of Kan sas City, was killed and C. L. Wilson of Manhattan, Kan., painfully injured In a motor car accident at Calhoun Bluffs, four miles east of Topeka. The others in the party were: J. W. Mc Olung of Topeka, the (Jrlver; V. L. Smith, Hotel Baltimore, Kansas City, manager of the Great Smith Motor Car Agency, and C. J. Anderson of Manhattan. Smith was bruised, but the others escaped without injury. The accident was caused by a part of the road, running along a high bluff not far from the Kaw river, slipping down under he weight of the machine and throwing the motor car over the hill. The fall was about 20 feet and In going that distance the car turned over. Scott and Smith were pinioned under the car. Scott was caught be tween the rear of the tonneau and some jagged Etones while Smith fell between some stones and In such a position that the car was barely touch ing him, although he could not move. Calhoun Bluffs is a favorite drive with Topeka motorists. The bluffs run along the Kaw river for miles, and the winding and unusually wide road gives a beautiful view of the valley. The motor party which ended so dis astrously left Kansas City and went to Topeka In a Great Smith car. The motorists drove to the Smith Automo bile company's plant here, where the car was to be overhauled and, after a few hours' rest, started on the return trip to Kansas City In another car shortly after 4 o'clock. McClung was driving and Anderson was with him, while Wilson, Scott and Smith were In the tonneau. McClung knew the road well, and when the car reached the top of the hill he turned on a little more speed and swung the car away from the cliff. But it appears that the outer edge of the road had been hanging for some time, probably for months, on account of a cave-In of the clay bank below the road. The weight of the car caused the outer foot or two of the roadway to slide. Scott died within five minutes after the accident. When the car was moved Smith got up and helped move Scott away from the rocks. Scott complained of his back hurting him just above the kidneys. "Let me lie this way," he said, try ing to turn onto his right side. Then he died. Coroner Keith was called and he de cided that the death of Scott was purely an accident. The body was brought to Topeka and Wilson was taken to the Throop Hotel, where his wounds were dressed. After examin ing Scott's body at the morgue Coro ner Keith decided Scotfs death was due to an Internal hemorrhage. THE ROOSEVELTS LEAVE AFRICA Ex-President and His Family From Alexandria on Their Way to Naples. Sail Alerandria, Mar. 31. Ex-President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermlt and Miss Ethel have sailed for Naples on the steamer Prinz Helnrlch. Mr. Roosevelt was cheered as he stepped from the train at the pier sta tion. He stopped to receive the greet ings of several persons and then, with the others of the party, walked briskly aiboard the steamer, which was dressed in flags with the American colors fly ing from both mastheads. A great crowd followed him across the pier and on to the yessel. As he stepped aboard, Mr. Roosevelt acknowledged he popular welcome by raising his hat Every berth in the Prlnz Helnrlch was occupied, and the officers fcad given up Uielr quarters for the use of passengers. Tne weatner itway was magnificent and the steamer sailed with a promise of a splendid trip to Naples. A Plea for Roosevelt Policies. Washington, Mar. 31. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, speaking la the senate In support of the bill to invest the president with statutory power to withdraw lands from public domain to protect natural resources, made a strong plea for the upholding of the Roosevelt-Garfield-Plnchot plan for conservation. More Bankers to Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Kan., Mar. 31. Will iam H. Marker and Noah Marker, brothers, have arrived at the federal penitentiary here from Indianapolis, Ind., under sentence for wrecking the First National bank of Tipton. Their arrival increases the number of bank ers to 38. Fowler Denounces Central Bank. Washington, Mar. 31. Denouncing the central bank scheme favored by Senator Aid rich and the monetary commission Representative Fowler of New Jersey, former chairman of the banking and currency committee, 4 tressed tbt Lous. The great Baking Powder of the country used in millions of hemes never failed Fifty Years the Standard F CREAM akiiig Received the at Chicago This section of Nebraska escaped the frost Wednesday night and it is a wonder that some damage was not done to the fruit, as the night was ex tremely chilly and had the appearance of a freeze up. The comet will rise about five o'clock today and it stands people in hand to keep an eye open, for if the thing gets to roaming around it might do some damage as it will only be one hundred and thirty million miles from Plattsmouth. m The attention of the "peanut poli tics" editor of the Nebraska City Press is called to the fact that President Crabtree lias ignored -the order of the normal board to send in the names of the graduates who are teaching school under certificates signed by the do funct normal board, notwithstanding that he has been called upon twice to do so. And yet the Press editor says the board is playing "peanut politics." Is It "peanut politics" to remove a man who refuses to carry out the wishes of a board who is the legal head of a' school of which he is only superintendent ? The whole thing in a nut shell is, that Superintendent Crabtree refused to follow the rules laid down by the state normal board and therefore placed himself in a position where the board could do nothing else but demand his resig nation. It is simply a case of insub ordination and a removal was the only thing which could be expected. Possibly however the Press would have the superintendent remove the board. That would have been according to the line of argument which has been advanced by our juvenile brother and also following the line of proceedure indulged in by enemies of the present board. The "pemnut polities" is all on the side of the Press and its friends. It dates back to the time when the democratic legislature attempted to pass bills which would throw out republican officials and give a demo cratic governor a chance to fill their places with democrats. Because the supreme court declared that the bill which gave the governor the power to remove the old republican board and substitute a democratic board was unconstitutional, the friends of Prof.' Crabtree have done all in their power to make the public believe that the old board, has been playing "pea nut politics." The friends of Principal Crabtree with the help of tAich papers as the Nebraska City Press, have been playing into the hanels of Gover nor Shallenbergcr and .the demo cratic party. Instead of staying by a board of state normal schools which has built up the educational interests of Nebraska to its present high state, a few peanut editors are seeking to throw dust in the eyes of the public and make them believe that the pres ent board has done an unpardonable act in asking for the resignation of an insubordinate superintendent, when they should have handed their resig nation to him. Such acts on the high seas woultl have been called mutiny antl the offender would have to walk the plank. We still insist in the state ment that when the facts in the Peru state normal ease have been laid b fore the public that it will be found that the state normal board were justified in their action. 0. J. Gilson was a traveler today to the Market town where he will remain for the day. Lib, highest award World's Fair XV VV V W W WW V AnnnAAiniAAAnnA X X X ALVO X X X AAAAAnAAAAAAAA J. R. Wilcockson spent Sunday in El m woot 1. Herman Sutton of Pella, la., is visiting at the home of his uncle Andy Sutton's this week. J. II. Stroemer was in Omaha on business Saturday. Tom Stone nnd Fred Loidig drove to Eagle Saturday. Mary Ann and Lena Kilheifau of Lincoln were guests at the home of Eli Coon Sunday. Ernest Coon of Lincoln spent Sun day at home. Alta Lynch of York, Neb., spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. and Mrs. George Ryan drove to Lincoln Sunday. Lee Snawly's were visiting friends in Palmyra Sunday. Lee Uassey 'of University Flace is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Knott, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stroemer were passengers to Omaha Wednesday. Mrs. J. Ii. Elliott spent Monday and Tuesday shi pping in Omaha. John Sutton spent Sunday in Green wood. Miss Nettie Wilcoxson of Elmwood, was a guest at the home of J. 13. Rouse Monday. J. II. Rogge of Elmwood was in town Monday. Fred Dreamer, was a passenger on No. 17 Wednesday for Lincoln. M.r and Mrs. George Hall were Lincoln visitors Wednesday and Thurs day. Marie Stroemer, Verio Linen, Joe and Grace Foreman arc home ona vacation this week. Mrs. Lee Cotner nnd two small children departed on the popular morn ing train for Omaha and Council Bluffs to make a few day's visit with her brother-in-law Grant Cotner whoso home is in the Bluffs. The COZY CORNER Perkins House ED. BRANTNER Proprietor Cigars, Candies and Tobaccos cordially invite my old friends, as well as new, and all others in search of a cozy corner for an hour's rest, to come to my place, where you can enjoy a refreshing smoke An unexcelled line of choice Tobaccos always in stock. Ed. Brantner, Prop. W Powder II J Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A i