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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1906)
The Plattsmouth Journal IlllLlMlK.l) WRKKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. It. A. MATES, Puklimirii. nterwi at the ptMtoffloe at PlalUmoulh. Ne braska, aiaoconili'laiu mitlcr. TiiK democratic county ticket is a winner. TiiK man who worries alout the wore will soon have a rest. So will other icorle. A m an in Nebraska City died af ter eating a pound of Umbcrger. The cheese was stronger than his constitution. .' .. li' you wont men in the next leg islatttrc who will represent the true interests of all the people you will vote for Dr. Jester, I,. V. Langhost ami 1 M. Massic. Kvkk y unprejudiced voter knows that it is not best to have the board of commissioners so strongly repub lican. Those who believe in this vill vote for George W. Snyder, as a matter of right and justice. A I'Kominknt republican .stated yesterday after the democratic nominations were made, that it was one of the best tickets ever put up in Cass county. Some republicans arc unbiased in telling the truth occasionally. It's pretty tough on President Roosevelt to have to take possession of Cuba just after declaring to the South American republican that "the American people entertain no lust of annexation." Tine re-election of Miss Teresa Ilemnel for the fourth term as Grant! Recorder of the Degree o Honor is an honor bestowed up on a most worthy lady and an cf ficient and faithful official. Platts mouth is proud of her. Tins will be an off year for re publicans. The farmers of this county who have paid their taxes during the past two years will re member how promptly the railroads refused to pay their taxes and still refuse. How much better will the state board of assessment be by electing the present nominees on the republican ticket. It will be the same old dose only it will seem more bitter to you. The farmers of Nebraska should assist with their votes and bring about a general housecleaning all along the line. You know the state needs it and by your votes you arc in a position to demand it. Bryan in speaking of the fusion nominee for governor of Nebraska remarked with a feeling of glad ness: "Shallenlcrger is a good man and a true democrat. I hope he will be elected, and I shall do everything I can to help him." Do you think Bryan would support a "railroad candidate" as the repub licans would have you believe Slial lenbcrger is? Don't you think Mr. Bryan knows how Mr. Shallcnbcr gcr stand3 on all reform questions? You know Bryan well enough to know that he is firm and sincere enough in his political work to not give endorsement to any man, even he be a democrat, who is not pure politically, and a man fighting for the righteous causes of reform. The Choral Union of this city, under the management Mrs. Lillian K. Hasse, is a musical organization that is intended to do the greatest good to the greatest number of the vocalists, both old and young of thi. city. A.-t the Journal understands it none of the singers of rialtsmouth wire Inrroil from becoming members of the Union, but it was originally started tor the leneiit ot the younger class from 14 years up, who are the very ones who should take a deep interest mi the instructions they re ccive at these weekly gatherings. Mrs. Hasse is a most excellent in structor, and her efforts to improve the vocal tallcnt of Plattsmouth should le encouraged by a large me- ip. Tin; renovated Monroe doctrine is very much like renovated butter. It is a mighty mixture of rottenness and coloring matter. Tin- republican congressional committee are seriously considering whether it will not I better to ad vise Old Joe Cannon with his vote losing speech to keep to his own congressional district. We hope they won't do that. Send him to Nebraska tohelpthe democrats out. W. A. Poyntkr, former governor of the state of Nebraska, is support ing Mr. Sheldon for office this year. This may and it may not be a good thing for Candidate Sheldon. There are a great many people who recall V. A. Poynter as a man too small for the job that he was entrusted with. That's the nature of all ren egades. The democrats of Cass county will not be without a candidate for senator but a few days, There are too many good and capable men within the ranks of the grand old party in this county to let the va cancy go by default. Then, again, the opportunity to elect a full lcgis- ature is too flattering. The Jour nal will be able to announce the audidate Monday or Tuesday. Tm; New Yorkers are getting alarmed overthe financial situation. The Times says that in both the city and the nation the percentage of reserves to either loans or de posits is lower than it has been since the beginning of the era of activity now in progress. Turning over the United States Treasury to Wall street doesn't mend matters much, after all. It looks like the result of Roosevelt's policy is to be a panic. hVERY corporation striker in Nebraska is plugging for Sheldon and the republican ticket, but we do not know of a man who makes politics a business and draws a sal ary from a railroad, who is plug ging for Shallenbcrgcr and the democratic ticket. This fact proves that the corporations desire the success of the republican ticket be cause It will give them the contro! of the state board of equalization and assessment. Sutton Register. 1M.ECT l. J. Doyle to congress and you will elect a man every inch a gentleman, and. one who stands up for honest government and against corporation control of our congressmen. How do you expect to get the reins of government out of the hands of express companies, railroads and other like corpora tions if you continue to vote for such salary-grabbers as Easy Mon ey Pollard? A vote for T. J. Doyle means a vote for the proper man for congress. Turn the rascals out and elect men who are for honest government, who do not believe in filching money from the United States treasury when not entitled to same. When Deitrich made a "blun der" in his high office a few years ago 'twas hoped the cup of bitter ness, mortification and humiliation of Nehraska would not be filled any fuller and that her sons sent forth to represent her in the future would take heed and bring no more dis grace upon her fair name; that in the nation's capital they would measure up fully to the standard of morality and honesty set by her citizens. Such was not to be how ever and we have had the spectacle of another representative being branded so that all men seeing him would know he had lccn found wanting in the basic principles of honesty, and Kasy Money Pollard of our own conntv of Cass, who brags of taking $1,900 that did not belong to him, will go down in his tory as another very cheap politi cian. To HKi.r out the Wall street speculators Secretary Shaw has deposited $26,000,000 more with the favored national banks without interest. This makes a total of $153,971,091 on deposit with the banks on the same favorable tcrnrs. But then this is a reform administration. Thk government is proceeding carefully, says the Washington Tost, in dealing with the Standard Oil trust case. Yes, that is the trouble; the administration is too careful with the trusts. Str pose Katon and Searle should be elected to succeed themselves as members of the state board of as sessment. Does any voter in Ne brxska believe Katon and Searle would raise the valution in railroad property? Not on your life. George Sheldon should be giv en credit for one stunt he has made in this campaign. He had sense enough to refuse to meet Shallen berger in joint debate upon rail road regulation, taxation, or any other reform issue. That little tilt down at Syracuse was enough for Sheldon. Speaker Cannon declares he is not a candidate for the presidency, for if the house is not republican there will be little chance for a re publican candidate to be elected president." That looks as if Old Joe was very dubious of the election of a republican majority of congress and should spur democrats to their utmost to elect Hon. T. J. Doyle, the democratic candidate in First district, than whom no better man for the place can be found in the district. Remember that the result of the election may be so close that one vote in this district may deter mine the complexion of the organ ization of the next house of repre sentatives. As will be seen by a card else where in this issue, Mayor Gering declines the nomination for state senator, tendered him so unani mously by the democrats of Cass county in convention last Wednes day. Mr. Gering was not at home at the time the nomination was made, but ere he departed for Hastings, he told several of his intimate friends that he could not accept any position for other than political reasons. Henry R. Ger ing, we all know, has done valiant work for the party in the past, and his declination for the position which he is so abundantly able and capable to fill, is no indication that he will not accept a place in the ranks of the democratic party of Cass county and fight its battles just as hard as though he were on the ticket as a candidate. He has served several terms as chairman of the democratic central com mittee, and not only worked un ceasingly for the success of the ticket, but assisted lavishly of his own means in defraying campaign expenses, l he Journal is satisfied Mr. Gering could be elected, but at this time urgent businessmatters deter him from making the race. No one, who understands the situation can blame Mr. Gering for his action in the matter. Tlit Tariff Business. All dictionaries agree that a tariff is a tax. A high tariff is a higher tax. What is a "protective tarifl?" It is a high tax under a mislead ing name. The word "protective" is the su gar coating on the pill. It is fixed that way to induce the people to swallow it readily. If it is a "protective" tariff whom docs it protect? It protects the high prices of the millionaire manufactures, the trust magnate, the Standard Oil company, etc. They never drop. Does the high tarifl (high tax) make the prices of farm products go up? Hardly. Wheat has drop ped more than 25 cents a bushel in the last few months. Some republicans said when wheat was high, that the republican high tariff tax put it up. If it did, why didn't it keep it at a high price? The tax is just the same, but the price of wheat is not. Have the prices of manufactured articles taken a drop? Not that anyone can notice. What is the conclusion? There can only be one conclu siou that the tariff makes the con sumer pay more for all manufactur ed articles, but docs not help him to get a better price for the pro' ducts of the soil. Sli Ycirs of Republics Control. For six years the republican par ty has controlled the legislative and executive affairs of this state. They have made the appropriations, equalized the assessments, made the levies, collected the state taxes, and spent the money. They have absolutely controlled the finances and must be held entirely respon sible for the low taxation on rail road property, the high taxation, on all other property, the in creased state taxes levied upon the various counties of the state and the extravagant appropriations made by the various legislatures. In 1900 the amount of taxes charged by the state board of equal ization for the maintainance of state government was $1,208, 984.94; this year, 1906, the present state board (of which Searle and Fat on, who are running forre-elee tion, formed a part) have increased the state taxes to the enormous sum of $2,191,421.85; nearly a million dollars more. No reasonable argu ment can be advanced for this high taxation and it is doubly aggravat ing when it is noted that $1,856,- 7H.48 is contributed by all other property and the balance is assessed and will probably not be paid, but fought by the railroads as in 1903, and later. State taxes are steadily increasing year by year, with no decrease of the outstanding indebt edness. Look at the figures as shown by the State Auditor's re port: State taxes, 1900. .. .$1,208,984.94 1901.... 1,232,391.92 1902.... 1,131,194.61 1 1 1 1 1 1 1903.... 1,513,316.38 1904.... 1,768,675.24 1805.... 2,131,296.69 1906.... 2,191,421.85 The following is the list of the officers elected by the Grand Lodge of the Degree of Honor, in session at Hastings this week: Grand Chief of Honor, Mary Latky, of Lexington; Grand Lady of Honor, Maria Smith, of Holdredge; Grand Chief of Ceremonies, Emma Smith, of St. Edwards; Grand Recorder, Teresa Hempel, of Plattsmouth; Grand Receiver, Katie Schmitt, of Omaha; Grand Usher, Castello Foot, of Hastings; Grandjlnner Watch, Marion Mason, Long Pine; Grand Outer Watch, Carrie Lang, Geneva. Mary Miller of Diller, Mary Latky of Lexington, and Adelia Harding of Hebron, were chosen Superior Lodge Representa tives in the order named. Dr. Ada Ralston, of South Omaha, was elected Grand Medical Examiner. Do Too Beliefs? Do you believe railroad freight rates are too high in Nebraska? Do you believe passenger rates ought to be reduced to two cents per mile? Do you believe township assess ors ought to be elected and not ap pointed? Do you believe the entire pass system and every branch of it, ought to be wiped out by law? Do you believe the legislature ought to give the new railroad com mission power to fix rates? There is only one way by which the people of Cass county can prove that they believe in these things. They can prove it by working and voting for the election of demo cratic candidates for the legislature in Cass county. These men are pledged to cast their votes in the legislature for bills to bring about these reforms. It will be idle to say that we be lieve iu such reform legislation un less we work and vote for the elec tion of legislative candidates who will favor such legislation. These candidates have promised that they will do all they can to bring about legislation of the character above indicated. They are men of their word. They can be trusted. What will the republican candi dates promise to do? The republican spellbinders will have a hard job to convince the voters that advancing prices and stationary incomes is prosperity for them, if it is of the utmost ad vantage to the tariff protected trusts. If we were not afraid that we I might be criticised for getting into partisan politics, we would like to ask Candidate Sheldon how he is going to secure better freight rates for farmers by "standing by the re publican candidates," when the re publican party has had control of the state for all the years in which the abuses complained of have grown up. But we are not running a partisan paper, and if the people like to be stuffed like the wrapper of a sausage, we know no machine that can grind the filling into them better than Candidate Sheldon. Beatrice Sun. If the people of Cass county de sire their interests well looked after impartially, they will vote for Geo. W. Snyder for county commission er. Situated as he is on the east side of the county, locality should be in his favor, while the west side already have two republican mem bers of that body. It is no more than right that the minority party should be represented where all the people are interested. Besides Mr. Snyder is one of the best men in Cass county for the position. News from different sections of the First congressional district, in dicate the election of T. J. Doyle to succed Salary-grabber Pollard, and that the friends "Kasy Money,' are becoming greatly alarmed over the outlook. Mr. Doyle is a gentle man who makes friends wherever goes, while there is a sort of "frost" pervades the atmosphere wherever the $1,900 salary-grabber puts in an appearance. Taxing ourselves to help the for eigners seems to be Secretary Shaw's idea of one of the advant ages of the trust-protecting tariff Now it used to be the republican cry that the foreigner paid the tax, but times have evidently changed, or have the exigencies of politics compelled them according to the cold-blooded Shaw to sing a differ ent tune? No wonder Speaker Cannon had a chill when in Maine, he evi dently had a premonition of the coolness of the voters towards the republican standpat candidates He will strike more frosty weather before November. What are we going to do with Cuba? Santo Domingo next. Then Venesuela. DR. J. O. BRUCE Osteooathic Physician Ckrmlo DImmm Specialty Coatei Block, room 23 and 22. Offlce bottn t to 12 a. m., 1 to & p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. by ap pointment. Telephone, offlce 347; realdenca at Perkins Hotel. QB. MARSHALL. DENTIST.. All kinds of Dental work. Plate made that It. W year experience. Prices reasonable. Work guaranteed. OFFICE Fitsoirald Block. 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