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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1907)
The Plattsmouth Journal riJUMSIIKD WKKKLY AT H.ATrSUOUTH, NEBRASKA. II. A. IJATFS, I'tMJMsiiKit. I. it r-l ittlhf postoflliM' lit riuttsmoutli. Nt tr:isk;t. uh mtohiIoIuhs matter. Tin-: overwhelming majority for lights means that the people ot I'lattsmouth are tired of remaining longer in darkness. Tin: election Tuesday was one of the most quiet ever held in I'latts mouth. The lid was down tight and around the saloons it had the apearance of Sunday. I'atkons of the public schools are very cautious who they select for members of the school board. A full demonstration of this fact was made yesterday in the election of J. M. Roberts and II. M. Soen-nichsen. Tin: President's apologists have "discovered" a $5,000,000 plot to undo him. IJoth his friends and enemies long since discovered the 51(, oof), 000 plot to give him high office on two memorable occasions. Roosevelt knows this to be true, yet lie has thrown no fit of simulat ed virtuous indignation at being ex posed. He doth protest too much. Why not cut off the per diem of members of the legislature entirely. They seem to have been doing more work without it than they did when they were receiving S5.00per day. But, oh, how they have hustled to get home. They are not very anxious to stay at the copital when there is no $5.00 per day in sight. They have already remained a week to pay their own expenses. Sexatok Cakmack of Tennessee expressed a whole lot when he said: "I am weary of a condition of things where a man whose busi ness itisto make laws must hold his office by the consent of the man whose business it is to break the laws." The great corporations of the country whose business it is to evade or break the laws are the peo ple by whose grace the law makers are elected. Jerome grabbed at the one straw in sight and it failed to float him. Tin- legislature will adjourn to day. The final session, however, will probably last over until tomor row night. Pj.oi-i.e who have worn diamonds boldly all the year have prudently laid them aside since the assessor and his books appear on the street corners. - Secretary Taft, it is announc ed will "take his coat off" just as soon as he can reach Ohio. But as he is now in Panama it is suspected his coat is already off. The assessors are getting in their , The question "Who wrote the work, them. There is no escape from Pkesiiext Roosevelt has not yet claimed the credit for present ing the strike of the trainmen . This is a serious oversight on the part of his press bureau. Railroads do more than 95 per cent of their business on credit, it is said, but the man who has been accustomed to riding on a pass will find this hard to believe. Shakespeare plays?" is likely to be overshadowed by "Who wrote the Harriman letter?" Tin-: Arizona Kicker's private graveyard isn't a circumstance compared to President Roosevelt's Anti-truth club. While the grafters elected their ticket in Chicago, it is some satis faction to know that St. Louis graft ers failed to get in their work last Tuesday. The democrats routed the gang in that city in good shape. Governor Sheldon has appoint ed Allen D. Iieemer for warden at the state penitentiary for the next two years. Iieemer, whose home is at West Point, was appointed by Mickey four years ago. The sen ate confirned the appointment. The Lincoln Star (rep.) says "If Governor Sheldon tried to cor rect all the mistakes made by the legislature he would have a big task in hand, but he can do some thing along this line and the plat form clause of the direct primary bill is a good place to begin." It has been suggested by several of the leading buisness men and tax payers that Maj-or Gering call a mass meeting, to get an expres sion from them as to what kind of a system they prefer, before the council enters into a contract with anv parties. The Tournal does not think this suggestion out of order. Senator Root probably is con scientious in his opposition to uni versity appropriations on the ground of insufficiency of funds, but we imagine he would have a difficult time proving that he has voted for no appropriations, at this session, which have been in violation of the constitution of the ftate. Lincoln Star. Si'EA ;c er Cannon puts on The grafters won out in Chicago. when he's away from home. It was a real death-grapple between decency and bossism. Faed Abe Uusse was elected mayor over May or Dunne, who has given the city a good, clean administration and has so far thwarted the looters and boss es in their desire to turn the whole municipality over to the foreign owners of her public utilities. These latter day Abes are fateful Jonahs for republicans, as witness Abe Ruef, Abe Hammel, Abe Detwiler and Abe Uusse. If Abe Lincoln were alive today he would be glad he was dead. The sylph-like Taft is down at Panama and the country may hear of the rapid and satisfactory work being done upon the canal site. So far the only thing about the whole matter which are not subject to change without notice are the gen eral direction of the ditch, which is to be east and west, and the two oceans to be connected by it, the Atlantic and Pacific. All else is nebulous and characterized by the masterly inactivity in essentials which so clearly differentiates the party which "doesthings" and does the treasurv. Why did President Roosevelt take the trouble to write all that letter to Congressman Pollard? Was it for no other purpose than to help Pollard to swell up? It is a ques tion that naturally suggests itself. Poltard is by no means the only western republican who voted for the ship subsidy graft: he was one of the most insignificant of its com missions; he is in every waycom onplace and mediocre. Klection day is not appoaching, and besides Pollard's district has already dem onstrated its willingness to stand for anything. Why, then, did Roosevelt single Pollard out to con gratulate him in a long and tedious letter? says the Omaha World Her-Id. airs For instar.ee, aboard the Bluesher while in southern waters he has been en tertaining the passengers by wear ing a paper bonbon cap set at a jauutv nn-le. But when he gets back to Danville it is safe to say the old black :c!t chapeau will be do ing service. A ::ill has iust passed both brandies ot tne legislature tor a constitutional amendment increas ing supreme judges from three to seven and increasing salaries from $2,500 to $4,500, and the salaries of the district judges to $3,000. One good lawyer is no better than another and the salary in each in stance should be the same. Fokaker will be handicapped in his race with Secretary Taft until he gets a press agent brother such as the one which the rotuned Cabinet officer has the good fortune to pos sess. It will be found that Jerome is neither a good nor game loser. He is cocky and debonair when in luck and favor, but when the tide runs against him he sulks and pouts like a spoiled child. Andrew Carnegie says at least 100,000 people are now using the simplified spelling. Andy is to modest in hisstatement. Any man who cannot spell baker on a dead level is a "simplified" speller and the woods are full of them. The democrats will control the city council of Chicago. The re publicans elected the mayor and most of the ticket, but the demo crats had enough hold-over mem bers of the council to give them a majority of two. While "General Prosperity" is gazetted to take the saddle upon the mainland in these United States and command the cavalry, it is strongly suspected that "General Graft" is in entire charge of the nfantry upon the isthmus of Pana ma. Is it not time the strenuous was bunching his hits? ICight singles is a record, but a wholesome bunch of calling everybody liars, who think him wrong and indefensible, would mark his stormy and ques tionable career and probably take in more than half of the male popu lation of the United States. i I. c : 1 1 The county high school bill was passed with the emergency clause and immediately became a law and we believe it one of the best bills that has been passed during the session of the legislature. Several school children have been suspended from a West Vir ginia school for refusing to repeat the Lord's Prayer. Some commun ities have not yet learned that the schools are the places for education and the churches and the homes for religious training. AYcge table Preparation for As similating the Food and Regula ting the Stomachs and Dowels of PromotesTHesUon.Chcerful ncss and Rest.Contains neither OpiumtMorphine nor Mineral. Not X ak cotic. Roosevelt's superlative desire for notoriet' seems to have been gratified in a manner and to a degree beyond his hope, his appro bation and his power to curb or check. Chickens come home to roost, and as undesirable a dock as can be conceived are now upon the president's headboard and they have come to stay. Mx.Senna Htll. Softs -jinise Semii ft-pprrfiunt - ijrm Sttd -(liinfud Sitfar . USiAyntn Huron A perfect Remedy forCor.stipa lion. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Worms .Convulsions .Feven sh acss and Loss OF Sleep. :c Simile Signature of new "vonic. tan iiiiii i EXACT COPy OF WHAPPEB. ERST rsn A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of AW IF i Use For Over Thirty Years (1 TMC CtNTAUft COMPANY. MCW YORK CITY. AST Xouody now believes that Judge Alton B. Parker did not tell the truth about Roosevelt in the cam paign of 1904. But the fact of the latter's becoming President and the hesitancy of the people to think that any President would try to de ceive the whole people upon a mat ter so vital made them accept his word. But they ascertained upon the sworn testimony of other influ ential Republicans in the insurance investigations that it was not Par ker who lied, as the President so excitedlv asserted in the verv clos ing hours of that campaign. Had Mr. Bryan been president the Panama scandals, now mountain high and mounting higher, would have been impossible and his word would never have been questioned by his intimates and party asso ciates. But he is not president and the lies and scandals are rife anc humiliating. The legislature has passed the Gibson anti-brewers' bill, prohibit ing them from having an interest in more than one saloon license. The following senate bills were among those passed: Cutting express rates 25 percent: regulating the procedure for securing pardons, reprieves and commutations; fixing salaries of sheriffs and specifying the cost of boarding prisoners in county jails. The report of the conference com mittee on the pure food bill was adopted. Ix every state in the union dem ocrats are taking on new life and hope. The Roosevelt administra tion is creating among the rank and file of the democracy renewed enthusiasm everywhere. Victor is the promised reward in the com ing democratic national campaign. Democratic leaders, state and na tional, have onl- to remain sane and democratic to secure control of the national government. There does not appear in any section of the country to be any division or want of harmony among the demo cratic masses. Nothing but jeal ousy and differences among demo cratic leaders now can stop the on ward march to democratic victory. The irrepressible Major General Leonard Wood, he of the rapid pro motions for services unperformed and dualifications wholly lacking, is at it again. This time he quar rels with a civil officer over in the Philippines for using disrespectful language to him. Without know ing the facts in the case and with out knowlege of the character of the civil office. The Journal hazards the assertion that the civil officer is in the right and that if the case ever reaches offiicial investigation that Wood will, as usual, be found in the wrong. As an accident and misfit Wood easily holds the army record. "Whex rogues fall out honest men get their dues," is an old say ing. Andnow lhatHarriman, who in partnership with President Roose velt's cabinet officers, Mr. Cortel you and Paul Morton, helped to buy the electoral vote of Xew York in 1904- with a corruption fund rais ed at the request of the president of the United States, has broken with his confederates, the public will learn the extent of the bribery adopted by the republican national committee to secure the election of a represetative of the trusts to the White House. Xo wonder the people of this country are turning to W. J. Bryan; no wonder the gold democrats are returning to the fold; no wonder that the people are call ing aloud for the unification of democracy under the leadership of an honest man to take the govern ment out of the hands of a body of men who have debauched, and are now debauching the American voters; and no wonder the honest republicans are predicting the downfall of the republicans in 1903. The legislature has "cut out Don Despain's salary because they could find no law providing for the same. There raav be a fellow in the court house, who draws a salary where there is no provision for the same. If such be the case, the county guardians should investigate and pattern after the Xebraska solons. Says the Beatrice Sun (Ind.) I M 4 - . 1 ne custom tnat has grown up of stopping the clock for three days when uecessar-, in order that a leg islative body may falsi fy the records and accordingto the journal adjourn Thursday, when as a matter of fact it doesn't close until late Saturday, is immoral and is not justified by any argument. The constitution gives ample time for all the legisla tion that is needed. If the members should get down to business and in troduce only such measures as have merit and that there is a demand for, the calander could be easily cleared. Under the present ar rangement a thousand bills are in troduced, read, considered, and printed at a great expense of time and money in order that two hun dred may be passed. The next leg islature should begin at the other end and appoint its sifting commit tee the first week in the session. Oxe of the tenets of democracy which we have always admired, but which seems to be ignored by many in these latter days, is that prin ciples not men should govern in all things. Xo man is infallible and the time has not yet come for the test of democracv to be a man's ealt3' to this or that leader when it does come then good-bye to de mocracv. w ltn tne republicans it s "The King can do no wrong" but it has not yet been cause of party treason for democrats to crit- cise those who have been selected to office. An office-holder is only the hired servant of the people, though once in office some of them assume to be the "whole people" and attempt the role of dictator and guardian ad litem of the conscience of the people. Let us get back to the faith of the fathers as taught by Jefferson that there shall be "no proscription of opinion, no unne cessary interference with individual conduct, property or speech." Oldex martyrs dreaded persecu tion, but accepted it. Mr. Roose velt, the present-day "martyr," seems to run after punishment. Roosevelt is apparently willing to let the republican party have its own way so far as the nominee for the vice presidency is concerned. It now remains to be seen wheth er the woman who was elected a Justice of the Peace in Chicago can sentence a culprit without shedding tears. Ax Ohio woman is suing for a di vorce because her husband will not let her rend the newspapers. Wh.it an inhuman brute he must be and the Thaw trial going on, too! A contemporary says that Speak er Cannon is cautious. Any man who can accumulate a fortune of a million dollars in an interior Illinois town must necessarily hae some caution in li is makeup, also some other qualities. A Choctaw Indian maiden, in announcing that she prefers to de vote her life to charity rather than to matrimony, lets it slip out that she has $100,000 in her own name. The wedding may be expected soon. Gov Sheldon has signed the Aid rich maximum freight rate bill. This bill provides for a 15 per cent, reduction on grain, live stock, veg etables, coal and lumber. The lav is effective July 1, and the reduced rates will then be in force unless set aside bv the railroad commission. Tin: Xebraska legislature ad journed Saturday afternoon, but the records of the house and senate will show that adjournment took place at noon Thursday, April 4. What is that but a legalized lie? Lincoln Star. (Rep.) j Root is contemplating resigning again from the cabinet. His real friends and relatives are greatly puzzled at his lack of respect as evi j deuced by his continuing to hold a ! portfolio in a body where he is :::!::- imi.ed, overlooked and obscured by The alleged $5,000,000 dinner at j thc president in his strenuous zeal which Roosevelt's downfall and dis-1 to iJ00m the impossible Taft. Root cornmure was piannea ana cieter- is too bjff to be errand bov for : i i a. i c . t . . milieu, aim me man, oenaior j'eu- Roosevelt. How his gorge must rose of Pennsylvania, who grew too : rjse at such treatment! confidential over the wine at another smaller dinner, both have turned out to be myths and the story a troublesome boomerang. Penrose denies with Rooseveltian emphasis any knowledge of the 'plot" so loudly proclaimed from the White House. And the Xebraska hen comes in for this handsome compliment from, the Denver Field and Farm: "Why not put a picture of the hen on the twenty dollar gold piece and silver dollars? A good fat hen is worth 75 cents on any wholsale market. A hen will pay for herself three or four times every year. The eagle is a worthless bird and is always looking for a fight or an opportun ity to steal something." It is very likely that Congress man Ramey has plenty of evidence of an embalmed beef scandal in the Panama canal zone, but nothing will come of the investigation under the present administration. There was abundant proof of such a scan dal in the Spanish-American war, but at that time the republican ad ministration had enough kalsomine to go around. Drugs Law. Recommended and sold Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum : by F. G. Fricke Co. sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch of your clothing. Dean's Ointment cures the most obstinate cases. Why ufTer. All drujgists sell it. Use Kennedy'sLaxati ve Cough .Syr up. Children like its pleasant taste, and mothers give it hearty endorse ment. Contains no opiates, but drives out the cold through the bowels. Made in strict conformity to Pure Food and : Solid tr-jld and liiier ! bill's jewelry store. watches at Cra- i Consumption is less deadly than it used to be. "C 4b Certain relier and usually complete recovery will result f rom the following treatment : Hope, rest, fresh air, and Scoli'jr Emtxfaion. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c AND SI.OO. , , ,