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President Roosevelt with a!
toothache must he as comfortable
as a "iraffe with a sore throat.
Tin: package that President
Roosevelt hauded to Ilarriman was
very neatly wrapped, but the lemon
was inside just the same.
A kos;i has been named after
President Roosevelt, but like all
other flowers of the same variety it
has its compliment of thorns.
Tin: Missouri river proposes to
help along the boom in Plattsmouth
by returning to its old channel.
II.wiNf". once lunched at the
White House, even Hooker Wash
ington may some day lose his rep
utation for veracity.
Don't go back on a young man,
girls, because he's poor. Listen to
this: An Indiana girl married a
laboring man whom she supposed
to Ik- enniless has had her happi
ness wrecked by discovering that he
is worth SJOn.nOO.
Pi.ATTs.Mot 'rii is at present on
the boom, and every citizen should
grasp the opportunity to assist it
along. Property is steadily ad-j
vancing and changing hands, new I
people are coming in daily to buy
property and make this their future
homes, and now all we will have to
do to keep up the boom is to muz
zle a few knockers.
( It really seems strange that San
Francisco and Philadelphia are so
distant from each other when we
read of the characteristics of gov
ernment and graft which prevail in
each.
Republicans now admit graft
and padded payrolls in the alleged
construction of the alleged Panama
canal. It's high time somebody
was being called a liar for thinking
all was not immaculate upon the
scandal-breeding isthmus.
Tin: legislature passed a total of
221 bills, of which ninetj'-six were
senate files and 125 were house
rolls. Gov. Sheldon signed 204
bills and vetoed fifteen. Two bills
became laws without his action.
Of the bills vetoed eleven were
house rolls and four senate files.
Doesn't it look sort of funny for
a state legislature to pass a law set
ting aside the federal statutes? That
is what the Nebraska legislature
did when it passed the bill prevent
ing railroads from enjoining the
collection of taxes. While the rail
roads have made themselves very
unpopular by their course in at
tempting to resist the collection of
taxes, they cannot be denied the
same rights that other people en
joy.
An investigation into the con
struction of the Pennsylvania cap
itol discloses the fact that contrac
tors were permitted to use American
glass, which cost $27,329, in place
of French plate, for which they re
ceived $138,757, a net profit to the
contractor of $111,428. In the
land of Matthew Quay and the
Quaker fathers they believe in
standing up for American glass and
American contractors, even if the
people do have to pay the freight.
Ir I I.irri man expected any imme
diate dividends from his $50,000
presidential stock in 1904, he is
destined to be disappointed. All
the others have realized upon theirs
in favors and withheld prosecutions.
Roosevelt has been as tender to
campaign fund raisers as Jerome,
and Jerome is the limit.
It is said that when President
Roosevelt read the resolutions in
dorsing his administration, passed
by the seven members of the Ne
braska legislature who remained to
notify the governor that the body
was about to adjourn, he brushed
away a tear of gratitude and order
ed a highball in honor of the occasion.
A little town in the western part
of the state has solved the mail
order problem and has solved it in
a very practical way. The mer
chants of that town have taken up
the matter of advertising in the
local papers, and are conducting a
systematic campaign along that
line. The result has been all that
was expected. People who used to
send away for goods now buy them
at home. The same policy will
work in anv communitv.
Tin: Louisville Courier-Journal
thus tells us how to understand the
fine points in the question just at
present knocking at the White
House door for answer: "Mr. Bat
Masterson, moralist, publicist, po
litical economist, official bad man
of the west, simplified speller and
leg man for a sporting paper, has
handed down his decision as to the
merits of the Harrimati-Roosevelt
controversy. Certified copiesshould
be furnished to persons who do not
understand the knotty points in the
debate."
Ir the newspapers can be relied
upo::. and they generally can in
matter of fact, the Peoria Ilera'.cl
Trr.v. - ",-iptha:; put the quietus upon
the opposition to low passenger
fares by this: "A horrible thing
has happened to the Nebraska rail-:::.;-.
Aftering operating three
iiii'i.L.s under the confiscatory two-
ii: rate tneir earnings snow an in- n..- imunuu
to life imprisonment the sentence
of the pair of double-dyed murder-
C, vernok Sheldon has disap- ers, Aggie Mvers and Frank Hott-
p:oved of the cigarette bill intro- j :nan, for killing the former's hus-diK-cd
by McMuIlen. The bill pro-j nd, Clarence Myers, in Kansas
hibited the smoking of cigarettes by j City, nearly three years ago. This
boys tinder IS, and McKissen ad
dew a senate amendment to prohibit
the pitting of tobacco juice by
miners in any public place. The
..in ernor held that the bill prcsup-p;-e
i a violation of the Case-beer
ar.ti-cigarette law. According to
the law on the statute books, cigar
ette smoking is unlawful. This
me isure has been found defective
actio;: upon the part of the chief
executive was hardly unexpected
and it will receive the approval of
the general public, not because it
think.- ibev do not deserve death
bv hanging, hut because of the un
Tin: Beatrice Sun hits the nail
right square on the head thusly:
Quite a number of laws passed by
the late legislature had an emergen
cy clause attached and became op
erative as soon as they were ap
proved by the governor. So far as
the general public is concerned,
there is no knowledge of what
these laws are or whom they effect.
And yet, ignorance is noexsuse for
a violation of the law. An act re
quiring that all laws that become
operative upon passage should be
printed in the newspapers of the
state, would meet a long felt want.
bv the courts
acicnowieej.t
objection to
anv cause.
though keenly felt
anging a woman for
Tin: railroad commission is pay
ing off the campaign workers last
fall. Clark Perkins of Aurora, sec
retary of the republican state com
mittee, has been seclected secretary
of the commission, and his salary
fixed at $2,000 a year. U. G. Pow
ell of Lincoln has been elected rate
expert at a salaryof $150 per month.
C. W. Crosthwaite was elected ste
nographer at $70 a month. The
taxpayers will in time find out that
this body of office-holders will prove
a most expensive luxury about the
time it begins to play into the hands
of the railroad managers.
Neither the Thaw trial nor Del
mas eloquence can wholly obscure
the plight of the president by the
publication of the Harriman letter.
The Columbus Press-Post sarcasti
cally shows him to be as firm of
purpose as was Lady McBeth on a
most memorable occasion: "What
a series of unhappy misunderstand
ings has grown out of those contri
butions of $50,000 each to the re
publican campaign fund for New
York in 1904? They have had the
effect of breaking up the old-time
friendships between the president
and K. H. Harriman and the other
generous gentlemen and heads of
corporations who whacked up the
contributions soliberally in the hour
of danger. The president knew
nothing about them, in the Spartan
sense, until they were found out.
Then he was too firm purposed to
resign."
W:.:. J. Bsyan, in a lecture at
Kansas City Monday night, praised
churches and other institutions for
their refusal in accepting "tainted
money," and said: "I am glad to
see this question agitated. I am
sanguine enough to believe
that this struggle over accept
ing money which has been amassed
by questionable means will be yet
settled on the side of ethics and
morality. I believe the time is
coming when great educational in
stitutions will refuse to give respect
ability to great criminals by going
into partnership with them. We
are too prone to measure morality
at the door of the penitentiary. We
forget that there are many criminals
outside of prison doors."
The veracity issue is water-logged.
The Wall Street Summary, a
newspaper from its very location
and environments expected to sing
low as to presidential criticism,
gets out from under the Big Stick
far enough to make this thrust at
the pugnacious occcupant of the
White House: "Verily, the ve
racity issue is spreading! To the
announcement that a Rockefeller-Harrimau-Hearst
conspiracy ex
isted to control the next presiden
tial conventions and to defeat
Roosevelt's policies, which, it was
alleged, was first made public by
Senator Penrose, that gentleman
comes forward with a sweeping de
nial that he ever made such an as
sertion, and virtually proclaims his
loyalty to the president. Now,
what will Mr. Roosevilt say?"
Tin: government secret service
men who seem to be afraid that
they will discover where the $173,
000 missing United States money
went, which so mysteriously dis
appeared from the Chicago sub
treasury some six weeks ago, broke
into publicity Tuesday by search
ing a negro scrub woman's shanty
iu that city. The only discoverj
they made was that they were be
ing made monkeys by some newly
licensed sleuth from Podunk or
Coon Hollow. And the money? It's
gone!
Taft as a Stool Pigeon. -
The over-tired public has begun
to suspect that the handy and tract
able Taft is being advisedly used by
Roosevelt as a stool-pigeon to draw
the fire of the president's enemies
and decoy the unsuspecting friends
of the former into the Rough Rider
net. Evidences of this have already
cropped out and the regularity with
which prominent republicans in
widely seperated parts of the coun
try announce for a third term gives
color of probability to the conspir
acy, says the Kansas City Post.
Taft has always been as putty in
the president's hands. His bump
of self-respect is not as prominent
ly developed as is Root's and he
unquestionably obeys indirect com
mands which Root would resent
and flatly refuse to tolerate. Being
hale-fellowr-well-met with all, and
his long experience in public life
being taken into account in jolly
ing the impressionable, it is not
surprising that the astutelRoosevelt
uses him to decoy strength to him
self while ostensibly being out of
the running.
That the present occupant of the
White House is most desperately
desirous of running again is patent
to those who understand the diplo
matic finesse with which objects
desired are ostensibly rejected, but
rejected like Caesar rejected the
crown in sucli a manner as made
it unmistakable that his whole heart
was set upon it. His every move
is eloquent with a pantomime which
beseeches the public to look upon
him as the one only deserving in
this entire country, the one man
who is properly equipped to be at
the helm of the ship of state and
who is capable of successfully guid
ing it upon the turbulent waters of
the sea of national unrest.
And Taft is the complacent dum
my around which reserve strength
is to be rallied and thrown to Roose
velt at the moment the claqueured
stampede is sprung in the national
convention. It s already as good
as a play.
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Kearney people seem to be con
siderably worked up over Governor
Sheldon's cut-out of the appropria
tion for the normal school at that
place. And the Kearne' papers do
not comment upon the action of the
governor in the kindest manner.
"However sincere and capable
President Roosevelt may be there
are other men of sufficient integrity
and force to take up the work. To
deny this would be to cast grave
doubts upon the efficiency and sta
bility of the republican form of gov
ernment." This editorial para
graph from a newspaper which is
the president's strong advocate con
cisely summarizes the attitude of
the general public in the question.
The idea of one man's perpetuating
himself in office is repugnant to
the very principles upon which the
government is founded.
Governor Sheldon has finished
his work on the bills passed by the
legislature and out of the various
appropriation bills he cut a tocal of
$249,411. This leaves the total ap
propriations of the legislature $3,
241,7S0.90. The appropriations
cut out areas follows: Wolf bounty,
$35,000; deficiency wolf bounty,
$22,411; and a deficiency on the de-
ficiencj', $2,000; for a wing to be
built at the Kearney Normal school,
$S5,000; for a new building at the
Beatice Institution for Feeble Mind
ed, $30,000; for Yukon-Alaskan
exposition, $15,000; for a gymna
sium for the Institution for Deaf and
Dumb at Omaha, $30,000; for an
engine and boiler at the Peru Nor
mal school, $5,000: for a building
at the Grand Island Soldiers' home,
$325,000. All the other appropria
tion bills that passed were signed.
Secretary Taet, who is spend
ing some time down in Cuba trying
to pacify the various conflicting ele
ments centered there, has indicated
that the United States troops will
be withdrawn about July 4, 190S,
when the control of Cuban affairs
will again be turned over to the Cu
bans. The Liberals are anxious
thatthe final elections be held in De
cember, 1907, and the government
turned over Ma.v 20, 1908, the an
niversary of the inauguration of the
first Cuban republic. They also
want the municipal and provincial
elections held simultaneously. The
Conservatives, on the other hand,
desire that the final elections be
held later than next December, and
that the municipal and provincial
elections be held six months apart.
While the pot-gutted" tool of
Roosevelt is doing his biding in
Cuba.Foraker is sawingwood like a
good fellow in the Buckeye state.
Axd still they come. More prom
inent republicans are being caught
in the dragnet in the west. They
range in size from United States
senator to entry clerks, and now
that they are being dragged into
the limelight of exposure they ' "hol
ler" persecution, as do the crimin
als when first caught. It is not
forgotten that Cornelius N. Bliss
said, when accused in the insurance
fund-looting investigation, "My
word should be sufficient to refute
it," and how his photographed re
ceipts for the looted money were
scattered all over New York within
a few hours after he had entrapped
himself. Since then he has sung
low.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch took
the prize for unveiling sarcasm in
this timely allusion to a live ques
tion: "Truthful George Washing
ton declined a third term and meant
what he said. Let us wait and see
what Truthful Theodore Roosevelt
means."
The Louisville Courier-Journal
dismisses it thusly: "In 1904 Mr.
Roosevelt said to Mr. Harriman,
"You and I are practical men," but
in 1907 Mr. Harriman is a deliber
ate liar," while Mr. Roosevelt is a
staintess patriot who never knew
anything about campaign funds in
1904."
Kvarts being chief of counsel for
the defendant, and Judge I'ullcrtou
for the plaintiff. It was more sen
sational and perhaps more harmful
to public morals than the Thaw
trial and for a time made pastoral
calls of less frequent occurrence in
the entire United States. In that
case, as in the Thaw case, the jury
disagreed, standing nine to three
for the defendant. Tilton then dis
missed the case and at onc started
out on a lecturing tour to retrieve
his fallen fortune. The subject of
his lecture was the "Promblem of
Human Life." He made an entire
failure on the trip.
Mr. Bryan thus handles the al
leged White House scare over the
alleged scare of the office-holders'
union as to a fund being raised
to discredit and defeat Roosevelt:
"The president seems unduly ex
cited over the alleged $5,000,000
raised in Wall street to prevent his
re-election. If Wall street is op
posed to any doctrine held by Pres
ident Roosevelt, it is certainly not
a republican doctrine. When we
came up against tne corporation
fund in 1896, we found no more ar
dent champion of these special in
terests than Mr. Roosevelt."
The St. Louis Republic says: ' 'A
citizen of Nebraska offers $100 in
gold to every couple who marry in
his county. There are perhaps
pessimists who would insist that
the only difference between this
man and the ordinary bunko steerer
is that the Nebraskan offers his gold
in the shape of coins instead of
bricks." This man doesn't reside
in Cass county. They marry in
this county fast enough without any
such inducements. Our girls are
all pretty and accomplished, and
the young man who secures one of
them for a wife, thinks he is getting
that which is worth more than a
gold mine.
New York has had two ot the
longest drawn-out court trials this
country ever saw. Both were not
ed for the prominence of the prin
cipals, the lawyers engaged and the
wealth directly or indirectly involv
ed. The most noted, and possibly
the longest, was the celebrated
damage case of Tilton vs. Beecher,
now thirty-three years ago. Theo
dore Tilton, noted editor and lec
turer, sued Henry Ward Beecher,
noted author, lecturer and pulpit
orator, for $100,000 for alienating
his wife's affections. The trial was
bitterly contested by the ablest
counsel in America, William M.
Ten Questions for Mr. Roosevelt.
The New York World again asks
Mr. Roosevelt to answer the ten
questions which it asked October 1 ,
1904, as follows:
1. How much has the Beef Trust
contributed to Mr. Cortclyou?
2. How much has the Paper
Trust contributed to Mr. Corte'you?
3. How much has the Coal
Trust contributed to Mr. Cortel-
you.'
4. How much has the Sugar
Trustcontributed to Mr. Cortelyou?
5. How much did the Oil Trust
contribute to Mr. Cortelyou?
6. How much has the Tobacco
Trust contributed to Mr. Cortel
you? 7. How much has the Steel
Trust contributed to Mr. Cortel
you? 8. How much has the Insurance
Trust contributed to Mr. Cortel
you? 9. How much have the national
banks contributed to Mr. Cortel
you?
10. How much have the six great
railroad trusts contributed to Mr.
Cortelyou?
Those questions are now, if poss
ible, more pertinent and timely
than they were then. This be
cause of the hair-trigger willing
ness to call men liars who are above
the very faintest suspicion of such
characteristics and who refrain
from resenting the insult because
of the official position of the fren
zied accuser.
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