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K itrrrd at the poitHi:e t I'tmtHiiioutb. Ne-'ir;i-.kH.
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Ik you are a shipper aud not getting
a su:ire deal, lay your case before
the railway commissioners. What's
the iif.e of paying big salaries to have
a railway commission if they don't do
.sornethinir for vu. Make thern enforce
the law.
Whkn it is said that it costs the aver
age family II per cent more to live this
year, it means that the average family
has that much the less to live onl
Kegardless of the precentage, this is
the central fact for the Republican
high taxes to stand pat on.
Si'KKCKKit.the grouchy editorof Schy-
ler's Free Lance, who was convicted
of slandering one of Schylers best
citizens a few weeks ago, and a judge
ment rendered against him for $500.00,
has been denied a new trial. This is the
same editor who is now endeavoring to
maintain his libelous reputation by
slandering Judge Ioomis.
Amomi other valuable statistics in
Covenor Deneen's message we have the
information that in ninty-six Illinois
counties it is no crime to buy and sell
votes at a primary election. When such
results of keeping out Republican
party too long in jower are reformed,
Illinois will be ready to take its proper
place once more as a leading Democratic
State of the Union.
The Lincoln Journal and its side
mouth piece, the News, would like to
make it appear the liquor element of
the state one opposed to Reese.
Thus they throw out the insiunation
that it is for Judge Loomis. Reese
may need more votes than he can get,
and will be willing to accept them
from any source before election day.
Tun "plot" to dyamite the Republican
(Jovenor of Colorado explodes as harm
lessly into the newspapers as the
Oklahoma '-plot" against Governor
Vrantz. It s a poor sort of Republican
'lovenor in this country who cannot
expose a plot, while in Cuba the stock
of plots ready t- explode by cable is
practically unlimited and the size are
assorted to suit the dermoids of any
sort of an emergency.
Uncle Sam is not now "rich enough
to give us all a farm." as he' u:cd to
but that he is not altogether landless
is apparent from preparations to oiT?-,
during the next twelve months, hi:
gains in some 5. tHVJ.000 acres which were
formerly Indian reservations in the
L-Swles of Washington, Montana. Idaho
.-.and South Dakota. In the lot are
.timber, mineral and home stead
lands. There are some large tracts,
but it may be doubted if in any one of
them there is enough contiguous good
: acreage to make a land lottery equal to
Msit which opened to settlement the
big Kiowa pasture In Oklahoma.
H. M. Sokxxichsex is the democratic
candidate for county assessor. Someone,
who is authorized to send in names for
persons to serve on the U. S. grand
jury in the federal court at Omaha,
sent that of Mr. Soennichsen. He ap
peared at the stated time last Monday,
u.ul endeavored to get excused from
duty, for several reasons, one of which
vas on account of the illness of his wife,
but this even would not go. Now, this
has the appearence of apolitical scheme,
to get him out of the way for a few
days; the party who sent in his name
being a manipulator of the republican
reins in Cass County, knowing well the
influence in his party. A small piece
of training, to say the least.
Yesterday's mail brought to our
table a petition directed to congress
asking that body to enact a lawexempt
ing "manufactured print paper, as well
as wood, pulp, and sulphite in the raw
or finished state, from import duty."
The petition is a circularing one, being
sent from one newspaper office to another
for signatures. The petition alleges
that a combination of manufactures
of paper and that it seriously interferes
with the publishing business by increas
prices beyond legitimate profits. A
modification of the high tariff is asked
in order to cheapen print paper to
the publisher and ultimately to the
reading public. The petition in
question has been numerously signed
and among the names we find those of
prominent. Republican editors and high
protectionists. What does this mean?
Is not the tariff to scared to be touched
when it comes in conflict with the par
ticular interests of these Republican
editors? Will these same Republican
editors sign petitions circulated by the
common people asking for the exemp
tion from tariff duties on provisions,
clothing, etc.? One interest should not
be held above another in the adjustment
of our economic conditions. We favor
the petition in question, and we also
also favos simular concessions all along
the line so that every interest shall re
ceive the benefit of the laws enacted
by our national legislature.
What Republicanism is Costing.
Out Jof the medley of topics the
mass of statistics with which Wash
ington officialism confuses the public,
proper research may still gain from the
report of the treasury and the depart
ment of commerce and labor the ioints
that are really important these among
others:
The total net ordinary expense of
Republican administrations last year
were $." 11, 170,01)1), more than doubling
the $:d;i, 637,000 total net ordinary
I expenses of the census year 181)0. At
this rate population should be doubled
since 181)0. The official Washington
estimate for 190G is 81,154,000 and the
same column shows that we must go
back of 1874, with the population then
42,796,000, to find the date since which
population has doubled.
With the total net ordinary expense
of government doubled since 1890, or in
sixteen years, and population doubled
in thirty-three years, we have the pre
sent administration increasing the ex
pense of government at twice the rate
of population.
We have an increase of $182,000,090,
or over 50 per cent, in President
Roosevelt's total net ordinary admin
istration expenditures last year over
the $361,637,000 total net ordinary ex
penses of the Cleveland administration
in 1896. We have an increase of the
cost of living reported by the depart
mert of commerce and labor from $74.
31, wholesale, per captia, in 1896 under
Cleveland to $105.21 in 1906 under Roos
velt. Those who keep these facts in mind
will have no difficult in understanding
why Washington republicanism now
tries to force such frequent and violent
changes of subject.
The Third Tern.
Many thousands of people will be dis
appointed that President Roosevelt has
failed to meet their anticipations during
his Mississippi Valley tour last week by
not making a new avowal of his deter
mination not to stand for another
election. No fault can be found be
cause he has chosen the course of silence,
but it would have been easy for him to
say something on his interesting subject
while wandering as far away from
"fourteen feet through the valley" as
his speechrnaking has carried him.
According to a report sent back by
republican correspondents who made
the river trip to Memphis, the time
er.route was largly occupied by republi
can governors and congressmen in
canvassing plans to promote the nomi
nation of Roosevelt at the republican
convention next year. Democrats are
not to blame, therefore that third-term
talk is uppermost just now.
Whatever may be the honest intent
of Theodore Roosevelt, it is entirely
obvious that an influential body of
practical politicians is sj'stematically
vv rking to force his nomination. It
:.y te that these politicians have their
own interests in mind and not Roose
velt's, but none the. less it is an un
mistakable fact that they are working
to stampede the convention and carry
the Roosevelt nomination in a whirl of
enthusiastic acclamation. In the slang
of the street that would "put it up to
Teddy." Whit would he do if the
contingency materializes?
No man has eve:-declined a president
ial nomimation. Would Theodore Roos
evelt have the moral courage to make
a precendent? That question is in
many minds to-day, but only when the
republican national convention has
adjourned will we have definite and final
answer. Unless some new utterance
comes before the convention assembles,
enforcing his declaration of 1904 with
the strengthened emphasis that repe
tition brings, Roosevelt will have to
speak his mind to the republican
delegation gathering in convention.
He will have the chance to imitate
Caesar or to shame him.
No democrat will belittle the personal
popularity of President Roosevelt or
deny his strength as a candidate, while
every thoughtful student of politics
will recognize that the popularity of
the man would intensify the serious
menace of his candidancy. There is no
graver danger to our republicans in
stitutions to be apprehended from an
ambitious president who is looking to
military force as a means to continued
hold on position. Neither now nor in
the future need America entertain any
dread of a military dictatorship. Not
fear, but affection, is likely to prove
their weakness.
What may we expect from Roosevelt,
if he should remain in the White House
for a third term, may be so distinctly
outlined in his St. Louis speech, in
deliberately chosen words, that he who
runs may read. It is law construed to
serve the caprice of the executive and
affirmed by a friendly judiciary com
mitted to "constructive jurisprudence."
It is a written constitution transformed
into a "living conditions to which it is
to be applied." These words spell
revolution, for the constitution of the
United States established a government
of carefully enumerated powers and is
in very large part an instrument of pro
hibition rather than a grant of
authority.
We ought to thank Mr. Roosevelt for
the explicit development of his views
about the constitution. If it is to be
"Candidate Roosevelt" we shall know
where he stands on what he himself has
made the paramount issue before we
read his letter of acceptance.
! What is the use of having jurors if
the Judge has the jxjwer to take the
case out of their hands and decide it
himself? This Judge Jesson did in two
very important cases this week.
j "Wahoo Sam," who is the battling
I hero of the hour, is a Nebraska boy, and
is a bigger man than Roosevelt or any of
the sports. If he was running for
president, he would knock them all over
the fence.
When Mr Taft's able press agent
cables back that he is enthusiastically
indorsed by the Chinese press, it may
help to prove that they like semi-Asiatic
Americaism better in Asia than they
will in Ohio after Mr. Taft begins speak
ing there from his Asiatic notes.
The meat packers object to putting
the net weight on their packages for
the reason that they do not want the
people to know what they are getting
for their money. They say that if the
net weight is put on the packages the
dealers will soon "catch on." -They
might work off 12 ounces pounds, upon
the unsophisticated.
The city council at Plattsmouth pass
ed an ordinance granting an electric
light franchise, and in the report which
the Journal of that place givens of the
meeting the mayor is quoted as saying
to the councilmen: "You have, in my
opinion, did the best thing." These
should be words of cheer for the council
men. It is comforting for men to be
told that they have did the best thing
Beatrice Daily Sun.
The voters of Cass county should
never forget for one moment that A. J.
Box, the democratic candidate for
sheriff, is a man whose record as a
citizen is one to be proud of, and that
his character is as bright as the nood
day sun on a cloudless sky. Possens
ing all the requirements necessary to
make a good officer, and one who will
never shirk from duty, an reasons
sufficient why he should be elected to
the office of sheriff.
Rrm ember that Charles R. Jordon,
the democratic candidate for county
commissioner, come from a section of
Cass county that has not had a repre
sentative on the board for many years.
Turner Zink comes from Weeping
Watei, where reside both Commission
ers Marshall and Switzer and if he is
elected the complexion of the board
will remain just the same on a space of
three miles difference between the
two.
If Govenor Hughes, of New York, ex
pects to find a man in the West to pull
with him against the District of Col
umbia high-jumpers, he need not look
to Danville, 111. When not engaged in
the simple rural work of mending his
Illinois fences, the Danville Cincinnatus
would rather hear the groans from the
suppressed House of Representatives
than the best music he could make by
playing second fiddle to the greatest
New Yorker that ever lived.
It is a pleasure to the Journal to refer
to Miss Foster the democratic candidate
for county superiutendent of schools.
Why? Because we desire the voters to
know her superiority to her apponent,
who is simply a graduate from the
Weeping Water academy, while she
holds a life certificate. If the patrons
of the schools want a person that is well
qualified for county superintenden they
will vote for Miss Mary S. Foster every
time.
When Washington ethnologists try to
make it appear that "trial marriage"
are a success among the Eskimos as a
settlement for the divorce problem, it
may be humor. In any event, as far as
we have adopted Chicago usuage in St.
Louis it appears clearly that instead of
the result reported among the Eskimos
we have the usual Chicago results,
with trial marriage succeeding each
other until all concerns are satisfied
to remain permanently divorced.
A BILL passed by the last legislature
empowering cities to vote bonds for
public utilities, is regarded as a dead
letter for the reason that it amends a
section of a statute that has been re
pealed two years before. The people of
the state of Nebraska pay a good round
sum for a lot of incompetent place
hunters to meet at Lincoln every two
years and make laws. These fellows
try to see who can introduce the great
est number of bills, without reference
to the possibility of any of them pass
ing. The measure referred to is only a
fair sample of the legislature that Neb
rBska pays for.
It is authoritatively stated that Paul
Jessen has agreed to deliver Otoe
county over to Jesse L. Root, of Cass,
republican candidate for district judge
by 300 majority. While performing
this stunt it is presumed Mr. Paul
will be actively employed in driving
nails into Congressman Pollard's po
litical coffin, with the aid of chairman
Hay ward of the republican state com
mittee, thus killing two stones with
one bird, as it were, Mr. Paul may
be able to play the role of dictator
with the voters of Otoe but on this
point the Herald is from Missouri.
Mr. Paul was once a great man in
Otoe but his greatness became too
great for him, his balance wheel was
swept away and he no longer carries
the county in his vest pocket. Lincoln
Herald.
One who is next to Judge Jessn, says
that gentleman counts the German
vote of Otoe county in his vest pocket.
The Journal don't beleive it. The Ger
mans are as free and independent class
of people, as any on earth, and wedon't
believe any man can thus control them
as above to do his biding.
In the person of E. Ratnour, the
democrats have a candidate for coronor
who will prove equal to the emergency,
and will attend strictly to all demands
upon his time in the performance of
those duties. Mr. Ratnour is in the
undertaking business at Weeping Water
and is most highly respected by all who
know him. He should by all means be
elected.
It is stated that after Judge Jessen
had decided a case last week before the
jury, went to the jury room, after reach
ing same, they took a vote on the matter,
and that every one of them voted again
st the verdict that Jessen had rendered.
What are jurymen for, if the Judge is
to take the whole matter out of their
hands? Public sentiment is decidetly
against such actions.
Nearly every man in Cass county
who knows H. M. Soennichsen will vote
for him because they know him eniment
lv fitted for countv assessor. Besides
he is a gentleman who will see that
everyone is treated alike when it comes
to assessing property. In the perfor
mance ot his duty he will have no
friends to reward or enemies to pun
ish.
With the election of Charley Jordon
to the position of countv commissioner,
the taxpayers ot the 1 hira district can
rest assured that they will have repre
sentives who will see that "equal and
exact justice" will be .handed out to
all. He is a man who will not do more
for one section of his district than
another, and he will see that all are
treated alike. This is Charley Jordon
every day in the week, and this is why
the people will elect him.
Two ago years when the democrats no
mimated W. E. Rosencrans for county
clerk, they kenw that he possessed all
the requirements to make a most
excellant official, and they have not
been in the least dissapointed. .n e
contrary, they are proud of his grand
record. Republicans and democrats
alike praise him as an official and citizen
many of them declaring him to be one
of the most gentlemanly and' efficient
officer that ever held an office in Cass
county. This is true to the letter and
the reason why he will be elected.
Jchn L. Sheldon, one of the fusion
candidates for Regent of the Universi
ty, was born in Lincoln, Neb., July 14,
1874. He is the only graduate of the
state University running for office of
Regent on any ticket this fall. The
board is at the present composed exclu
sively of republican members. Mr.
Sundean is a populist. He brought suit
in the supreme court to test the primary
election law on the question of fusion.
Mr. Sundean, s personal habits are
above reproch. He is a devoted hus
band and father. From his home he
makes a beeline for his office, and re
turning from his office he makes straight
for home. As county attorney, he ser
ved Saunders county faithfully and
well from 1901 to 1905. Tecunseh Jour
nal. Big Crop of Onions.
B. G. Watkins from near Nehawka,
was in Plattsmouth yesterday evening
with a load of onions that he disposed
of to our merchants. Mr. Watkins can
certainly be termed a successful onion
grower, especially this year; he raised
about 1,000 bushels, all of which were
sold at an average of $1 per bushel.
The load sold in Plattsmouth finished
up the quantity that he had to market.
While here Mr. Watkins gave the Jour
n d office a pleasant call.
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cily wiiter, In oui! repair
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A fine five room cottage
witn one lot. cir.y waier..$725
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es witti lot and haue each
near the. shops $800
One. nine-room house with
one acre of ground arid
improvements $300
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acr of eronnd $600
One five room cot fa ire with
four "ots $650
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