Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1910)
-rw w w -m T W -W Y 1 fit rNE,W IUATTt-MCI JTH. Entered at the postoffice at Plattamouth, Cbbs County, Nebraska, 88 second class mail matter. f ? ? ? ? ? ? ? OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING .! P. A. BARROWS A. E. QUINN RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year in Advance, f 1.50. Six Months in advance, 75c Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. AprU 11, James A. Patton says that two mil lion dollars to him is nothing more than a dime would be to a reporter. James is right. A dime in the hands of a reporter makes him feel like a millionaire and a nickel in the hands of an editor makes him feel like a far mer going to town with a load of hogs. Tho election on the saloon propo sition in Lincoln next Tuesday will now occupy the center of the stage until after the result is known. The fact of Havclock going dry will probably assist considerably in mak ing Lincoln poll a dry majority as it has been a sentiment on both hides of the question that if one went dry the other ought to likewise. Lincoln won from the White Sox yesterday by a Chicago score of 4 to 5. It would look as if the Lin coin bunch were a formidable aggre gation for this early in the season. Taking three games straight from ,St. Paul of the American association and two from Omaha and now pulling down the Sox, goes to show that there will be something doing around the canital citv this summer. There were 2500 people out to the game yester day. The editor of tins paper has I enn criticised in' the past because he took a stand which the opposition press declared him a "standpatter." We contended that before the adminis tration of President lalt was over that it would stand as one of the most helpful to the country that we have ever known and that the insurgents who were building their hopes on an idea that ex-President Roosevelt on -Jiis return would oppose Mr. Taft, would find themselves mistaken. We believed that when leddy came marching home again" he would put the force of his experience and power behind Mr. Taft and assist him in every way possible. Indications now point to that very thing, and while we claim no credit as a prophet, we fee- that our stand in the past has been right and that coming events will so demonstrate. Mr. Taft was the chosen successor of Mr. Roosevelt because the people thought he would carry out the policies which the former preside!) had started, lie was the man selectee: or rather favored by Mr. Roosevelt himself as his successor. It did not look to us as reasonable that Mr, Roosevelt would favor as his succes sor a man who could not be depended upon to follow in his footsteps. Mr. Taft may not have started out along the same lines which Mr. Roosevelt would have followed had he continued as president, of that we are aware. Neither should any reasonable man expect that he would or could. No man can assume the of lice- of presi dent of the United States and "do things" right off the reel. Mr. Taft has not only had the democratic op position to contend with, but an op position in his own party which was anxious to make a record that would land themselves for another term in congress and instead of standing back of the president at a time when he needed their assistance most, at tempted to sacrifice the success of their party by catering to an element which they believed, or at least pre tended to believe would come out on top in the end. They inaugurated a campaign against Speaker Cannon et al for the purpose of undermining the administration and after creating all the trouble they could and carrying on a fight for "principle," they lost their nerve on the verge of victory and put themselves before the public as grand stand players who were play ing for applause. What there stand will be in the future is hard to deter mine. At present they have no stand ing so far as prestige is concerned and will probably make another grand stand play for the purpose of getting into the good graces of Theodore Roosevelt when he shall come back to U. S. ? V ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? t ? ? ? Y ? ? - HfcKAL,U : IC DWAHKA CASS COUNTY COMPANY, Publisher Edir Magager Nebraska Telephone No. 85 1910. Mary Sholes Bryan is the latest 'paramount issue" in the family of William Jennings Bryan. The Western Union telegraph com pany is to raise the wages ol its em ployees, which will sound good to most parties interested. Governor Shallenberger has re ceived a present lrom an artist in Washington in the shape of a por trait. It was probably done in "water colors" after eight in the evening. Is this a joke? The police of Chi cago have issued an order restricting the condition of the bathing suits worn by those who bath in the lake That it should ever come to thus. Mr. Bryan says there arc two things ie will not do and those arc that he will not start a prohibition paper or run for the U. S. Senate. A breath of relief will probably be heard from cer tain sources. One of the Omaha papers is offering $25 prize to the person who can answer closest tne question now JJig is Omaha" We are not much of a guesser, but wo will guess that the fel low who lives in .that town will guess great deal bigger than the fellow on the outside. The county attorney of Lancaster county has decided that the students at the university have the right to vote at the city election in Lincoln isrrepeetive of whether they receive financial assistance from "home" or not. If they consider Lincoln as their present home then they have the right to vote. THANK YOU. If the county optionists can get any consolation out of the returns from over the state they are welcome to it. Journal. It may be a little early to make much of a calculation as to what the result in Nebraska at the election Tuesday will mean or which side of the tem perance issue the result will favor, but at this time it looks as if there was nothing for the temperance peopl to worry over and a great deal for the anti-temperance people to thin about. It is a well known fact that on question of this kind, and especially at this time, the vote of the towns doc not in any way show the sentiment of the state at large. It is in the towns that the anyti;temperance sentiment prevail the greatest. Candidly, the result of the elections in the different towns in Nebraska does not look very bright for the wet brigade a' Ins tunc Eleven towns changed from dry to wet nd ten from wet to dry, so tha there is nothing to be gained for neithc side there. When it comes to a fight upon the issue of temperance which will be par- .!'t 1 1.11.1 . . 1 iicipatcu in oy an me voters oi ine state, it will be found that from th farming community will come the greatest strength to the dry cause, Another factoi in the fight will be many towns which voted wet this week did so because ihey do not con sider it good policy to have a dry town with a wet one close by. When it conies down to a question of cleaning up the whole state it will bo found that many of the towns which voted wet by small majorities this year will be found on the side of county option. Again, if the next legislature of Ne braska should be favorable to county WW A T 'WV option such laws will be passed which will prevent the dry territorv from cing forced to receive wet goods again st its will. This will have a tendency to help the cause of county option. Then again about the time of the cction this coining fall the towns which went wet tin's week will just about have reached that stage in the wet proceedings where a dry condition would look pretty good to them. It will be just about the time for a re action and the temperance cause will gain by it. The jamboree on the stieets yester day which for a moment seemed to be a free for all, is another argument favor of when you are drunk of keeping out of a fight, for someone is iable to get hurt. Indications arc that the Honorable heodore Roosevelt, late president of the United States knows more of the condition of things politically in his late domain than a lot of people have any idea of and the indications also show that some people who count ed on the gentleman boosting the in surgent cause will have another count coming. We do not understand how republi can newspapers which in the past have been for the party and who in the ate presidential campaign put m their best licks for Mr. Taft as candidate of the party for the presidency, can so soon after his inauguration turn com pletely around and throw cold water -. T i 1 on ins administration, it snows mighty poor judgment and a lack of principle for the cause they cham pioned. There has nevei been a time in the history of the republican party, but what there has always been from one to a dozen men in congress who lave used their position to knock on the administration for the purpose of private gain. If a man wants to get a chance at the chautauqua plat form at so much per, he cannot be jetter ad vei Used than to go to congress and get a reputation as a knocker. As soon as the country at large recog nizes his ability to knock they pay their dollars at the gate just as readily as they did fifty years ago to see P. T. Barnum s woolcy horse, w hich was nothing more tluin a common every day pony covered with wool stuck on for the purpose of fooling the people. Mr. liarnum often said that the American people delighted to be humbugged, and in that regard it does not matter whether it is the tented circus or the political show. The great er the humbug, the more readily they flock to the ticket window. The Great American Congress has more living wonders and more wooly horses than any other show on earth. THAT SITUATION. The Central City Nonpariel still continues to persist in the argument that there is a "peculiar situation" in the third congressional district. Brother Taylor never issued an edi torial utterance more true. There is a peculiar situation up there and it is the work of just such newspapers as the Nonpariel which makes the situation peculiar. Normally a re publican district, a certain element of self styled "progressive" republi cans have been carrying on a cam paign for the past few years which has played directly into the hands of the democratic opposition. It is true as Kditor Taylor says, that the third district is represented by a "check book" in congress. But the "check book" would never have gained a foothold in the turbulent Third had the foundation not been laid by those in the republican party who for one reason or another had taken a stand which played directly into the hands of the opposition. The Nonpaiel further thinks it has a solution to the "peculiar situa tion," and turns loose this sort of a fusee: "A man who would pledge himself to uphold the hands of the insurgents in their war on the reactionaries would make Mr. Latta's check book look like an overdraft." That is certainly a gem of thought It is an oasis in the political desert. A hanibeiger sandwich at a banquet of the New lork l our Hundred A pig-tail Chin a m c n m a Coontown alley. It is all of those and more. It is a eall for a candidate to go to Washington and scrap the ad ministration of President Taft and play into the hands of the democrats from the time he reaches that city till he sinks back into oblivion. We are surprised that a man of the stamp of Brother Taylor would advocate that kind of doctrine, and yet, and yet, it is the ultimate conclusion resulting from the kind of arguments ho has made during the past year. Brother Taylor can count on one thing and that is that tho people of the third district will neither send to Washington an enemy to Picsident Taft, nor will they return the afoiesaid "check book." It is time that the republi cans of the Third Nebraska Congies sional district went into a fight united. Let the scrap be made at the primary, and then turn in and elect the winner. The men who Editor Taylor calls the "reactionaiu s," were never known to lay down in a campaign because the candidate of the party did not just exactly come up to their idea of a republican, neither will they do so in the year of Our Lord 1910. Can the Nonpariel man say the same thing for the "insurgents." After the primaries have decided on the can didate to lead the republicans of the Third district will Brother Tayloi and his band of insurgent braves get back to the reservation and help win the battle i.f the leader does not happen to be their choice. It is time that an understanding was fully had on the "peculiar situation" in the Tur bulent Third. A PRUNE PACKAGE. The definition of standpattci and progressive it-publican as given by Judge Prouty of Iowa is as follows: "A Progressive is one who has brains to figure out what is fair, and courage enough to fight for it. A Standpatter is one who stands for whatever is right or wrong, he does not ask what is right, but what is regular, he is influenced by patronage, instead of principle, ducats have greater weight than documents, he denounces every progressive measure proposed, but as soon as it becomes a law it is alright. The Standpatters were agaii st the two-cent fare I ill, against the anti-pass bill and other reform measures, but since they have be come laws, they say they are wise and just measures, but since they have become laws, they saw they are wise and just measures." Blair I' Hot. The above is about what could be expected from a man who was either prejudiced beyond all fairness or else did not know what he was talking about. His assertion that a progres sive was one who had brains to figure out what was fair and fight for it, is not bourne out by the record. The progressives in congress who fought Joe Cannon to the point where they had victory in their grasp and then laid down on the job because they did not have the sand to carry out the, "truwh" as the Judge calls it, have not exemplified to the world that they had either the "brains" or the "courage" to fight for the "truth." His definition of a standpatter as given above is neither fair nor the truth. Such sentiments only come from one who filled with disappoint ment because he has not been able to accomplish some pet scheme, seeks to throw dirt upon those who stand higher in the scale of principle than he does. We do not know what the politics of the judge who uttered the above may be, but he talks like a democrat. If he is a republican, he docs not belong to the party by any ties of blood, but by adoption. His brand of progressiveness and standpattism may be on tap in Iowa, but it will not fit Nebraska, for the history of the insurgent movement in Nebraska has shown the worst railroad cappers of former years to be the leaders of the insurgent move ment here. The insurgent movement is a great deal like the mumps, its severity depends upon the locality and conditions. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A xxxxxxxxxxxxxs X alvo X X X AAnnnnnnnnAAAA Miss Leha Parsell of Lincoln spent Saturday and Sunday with Stella Sheeslcy. Miss Flora Boyles came in on No, 5 Saturday from Iowa City, la. where she is attending school for a week's vacation at the home of her parents S. C. Boyles. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stone drove to University Place in their auto Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cashncr. Mr. and Mrs. Moomcy of Murdock were guests at the home of Tho Stout's Sunday. Jiminie Foreman and Elsie Stout attended the dance at Murdock Fri day night. Mr. Elmer Klyver and Miss Cora Stout took dinner with Mr. and Mrs Piter Larson Sunday. C. F. Wood and family of Elmwood spent Sunday at C. E. Curyea's. Minnie Buell spent Saturday and Sunday in Elmwood. Fred Lendig drove to Eagle Sun day. Mrs. C. M. Jordan spent Thurdaday and Friday shopping in Omaha. Misses Vcrna and Ethel Stuart of Lincoln are visiting at bonis this Fifty Years the Slmzdapd R F.AM J- jc Makes the food of superior healthfulness and finest quality week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dreamer and family took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cashncr at University Place Sunday going up in their new auto. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Leaslie of Greenwood were visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Vickers Sunday. Mr. Will Sutton loaded his car for Denver Colo. Tuesday where he intends to farm this year. Mr. Elda Burkholder of David City is visiting at the home of his parents John Qucllhorst this week. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx X X X EAGLE X X X xxxxxxxxxxxxxx E. A. Keetle and family of Ashland spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. Osbon and family. Win, Hobson spent a few days the latter part of the week at Girard Kan. Geo. Swararts and family were Elmwood visitors Sunday. Art Trumble is one of the leading contestants for the Thor motorcycle which will be given away by the Farm Magazine on April 9th. Princ Mann spent Saturday with his parents at Crete. Mrs. Althouse was taken seriously ill Friday suffering from heart trouble. Vic Manspeaker has sold his barber shop to Art Remaley and departed for New Mexico. Dr. Townsend and family of Lin coln spent Sunday with D. Willnc. Mr. Wilson has ordered a new iceless soda fountain of the latest design for his restaurant byusiness. Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Judkins left Satuiday for a few days visit with relatives at Nebraska City. Fred Spahnle was a Louisville pas senger Monday evening. Guy Adams who is working in a nursery near Plattsmouth came home for a few days visit the last of the week. Mr. Mullener who recently moved onto a farm near Bethany was in town Saturday. The Eagle school base ball team played the Palmyra team Friday de feating them to the score of 13 to fi. Carl Price has disposed of his dray to Henry Rugha and will move to Lincoln. George Onkcn Lester and Wesley Waleli and Emil Oberle went to Greenwood Saturday on a fishing trip. Art Gardnei, Chas, Brown, nnd Pink Venner were Lincoln vivsitors Sunday. Miss Minnie Pump was a Ilalton visitor Tuesday. Rudolph Finland, Win, Latrom and A. 1!. Carper were Lincoln pas sengers Tuesday. yyuuuuuyuyuMiau AAAnnAAnnAnnnA SOUTH BEND Uiuiuuiiy nji Mjmjmjt E. Stutzenegger left for Omaha Tuesday noon where he will transact business for a couple of days. Geo. Campbell of Sarpy county is visiting his people and during the meantime will look after some corn for seed. Sheriff Quiuton came in on the Schuyler Tuesday to look into some of the county affairs. The fish car left on the Schuyler Tuesday morning for a trip to Bay City, Mich., where Supt. O'Brien will look into the interests of some of .A the Michigan state fishery products. The state fishery ground here has had a thorough overhauling and Mr. 'OBrien expects to have it surpass all other years in many respects the coming season. Many of the farmers of this vicinity are busy getting their corn shelled and put on the market. T. J. Fountain is among those seeking medical aid this week. Supt. Mary Foster came in from a tour of the west side of the county Thursday evening and was accom- :. .1 i i. 4.. in.. ,4 i. i' I I .. V jiuiui-u uain iu i luiisiuouiu j-nuuy oy Mrs. J. E. Mcllugh. The social dance given Friday even ing was not as well attended as usual due to one given in Murdock which divided the crowd. Refreshments of ice, cream, coffee and cake were served in connection with the dance. The pupils, accompanied by their teachers went for an outing in the woods Friday afternoon. Many bo quets of flowers were gathered. " Mrs. N. Kaneff was a Louisville visitor Friday. Basil Wallick of Lincoln is spending his vacation with his sister, Mrs. C. F. Hill. The gasoline launches were beincr --------- r -p made ready the first of the week forX the usual trips on the river at this point. E. Sturzenegger, Guy and Roy Tarpening returned Friday from their trip in Colorado where the boys took claims and expect to leave with their goods from here sometime next week and make their future home. The village election took place Tuesday and as a result the following were elected: John Wagner and John Timm. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX some sorts. x xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Written by "Our Denl" with the malld( Just because the feminine suasion of the Grew Stock Company is not a panoramic view of ravishing beauty" there is a bunch of near-sp'norts who are oft times heard to remark, "It's a wonder Grew wouldn't roll up hi? peg-tops, come out of the puddles and get down into the pit where the big auction of beautiful baby dolls is being held and rope one or two market able ones, so that we fellows of Platts mouth can fall in sympathy with the "country lass" nfter deserting her "Osier Joe" for the Horrid Man"" who does things that Stanford White was incapable of executing." Now young men, you of the near-stage-door Johnnie stamp.take it from "the Devil' that while a great many actresses are in the posession of faces that will protect them from being kidnapped they draw fair salaries for knowing how to use them, and while our home talent may beat the Grew company for beauty like Barney Oldfield would a Missouri Pacific passenger for speed, we think its naughty to say those things because Mr. Grew puts up a good show, and if the girls of the company arc not the Venus you sup- ' posed before applying the glass, just take another foolish powder and when the effects have died away perhaps the curtain will be down and the show be over. True "Beauty is only skin deep" but who would be so cruel as to even go that far. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASJ.ORIA