The Plattsmouth Journal
I'L'IM.ISflKD WKKKLY AT
P-A.TT3MOUTII. NEBRASKA.
C. A. ItATIIS, IVlU.IMIKU.
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What about that banquc t on Wash-ii'tor-s
birthday? .Several farmers
ir a In inquiry in regard to it last Satur
il.y. The time is ripe for it.
Is it not about time for the Cass
cuuiity democrats to be moving 'f they
expect to hold a banquet on the !nd
of February? There will be several
banquets held in Nebraska during the
winter, and Cass county should not be
b.-hind the times.'
The Isthmus of I'anama was never
kuj posed to be an ideal place for com
petent Americans to tarry indefinitely.
Hut while there is much relaying of
clerical and other help, we shall manage
to keep the force recruited up to full
efficiency until the ditch is dug.
The silence of the leap-year joker in
IMattsmouth may be accounted for by
the fact that the better half of creation
in th"u town has never found it neces
sary to look for leap-year opportunities.
The marriage license clerk is kept busy
enough every year without perceptible
feminine effort.
Congressman Pollard may be right
in the stand he has taken in favor of a
ship subside, but he will have a hard
job of it convincing his constitntes
here in Nebraskn of the correctness of
his position. But it has placed him
close to the throne of Joseph, the speak
er, and maybe that is what he is after.
The encouraging news from Pen
iijylvania of more Dingley plants start
jug up 13 accompanied by news of more
wages cut down. But after Dingleyism
turns the full dinner pail bottom upward,
it feels that it is encouraging enough
when it promises to begin again by cover
in X the bottom.
nd other'
i rie seizure ot cigarettes a
tobacco trust products made by the
Roosevelt administration just before the
Kertucky election was followed in due
course by the inauguration of a rep
ublican govenor in Kentucky. Except
for gaining the vote of night-riders i:i
Kentucky, the seizure has no explana
tion unless it explains itself now in the
republican govenor. The situation may
give a facetious department of justice
SiX. W ashington an opening for comment
on the success of official effort to con-vci-t
r.iht-rider.s into desirable citi-
We would like for every subscriber
to th
Journal to look up their last
.sul sorption receipt and note to what
date they have paid. Under the new
postal regulation which is now in force
fie-"-, the first of January, all subscrip
tions must be paid for in advance in
order to pass through the mails as second-class
matter. For the benefit of
all concerned we desire our patrons to
attend to this important matter before
it is too late. Heretofore, the paying
for the paper was optional with us, but
now the government says what is to be
fjjne.
The bankers of Kansas are petition
ing the govenor of that state to call
an extra session of the legislature for
the purpose of enacting a guaranty de
posit law, simular to the one recently
proposed by W. J. Bryan for the na
tional government. The legislature in
the new state of Oklahoma has passed
such a law now, and as soon as it goes
into effect the people of that state who
l3posit money in a banks will know ab
solutely that they will get it back,
whether the banks break or not. The
Oklahoma law, which compels the state
banks to recognize it, also contains a
proviso that national banks may take
advantage of it by paying the tax the
same as the state banks do.
Horace Boise, whose critical illness
recalls the value of his services to mem
bers of all parties in Iowa, was elected
governor the state at a time when it
seemed much more nearly impossible
or a democrat to be elected governor
of Iowa than it has ever seemed since.
Democratic leaders who do not wait for
someone else to lead them will still find
l2mocrauc success following them in
Iowa and out of it. The Journal trusts
the old veteran will soon be himself once
more.
There is no better year than a leap
year for those who look before they leap
into or out of matrimony or anything
else, for that matter.
Taft is the man with the barT.
His brother, who is rated at $10,000,
()i)0, says he will back him with $2,000,
000,000 to secure his nomination. If
Taft is not the nominee, the other fel
low will have to raise a bigger bar'l.
Is his address at Utica, N. Y., re
cently, Governor Hughes made his
strongest point against bossism, more
especially against bossism by office
holders. "Every man charged with the
responsibility of office, ' ' he said, 'should
feel it his duty not to be a boss to a
ring, or even to a party, except as that
party serves the ' interest of the entire
people."
The Journal wants the news when it
is news, and feel very thankful to our
friends 'for all such items. But we do
not care for marriage notices a month
after their occurrence, nor death notices
either that have occurred so long back
that people have forgotten them. Send
in such items when they are fresh or
don't send them at all. Our readers
don't like "stale news" any better than
we do.
The calling of the Nevada legislature
in special session is the beginning of an
attempt at State govemtient Nevada
might have become fit for easily if kept j
out of the Union until it equaled the
population of the Territory of New
Mexico in 1900, even with the total
population of Nevada in the same year
substracted from it. On that basis New
Mexico might still be kept out of the
Union with more Democrats as "un
desirable citizens" than -Nevada had
voters during a generation after it was
constructed to vote for the Republican
presidential ticket and make other un-
necessary and inexcusable trouble for I
the rest of the country.
The total annual production of petro
leum in the United States runs from
'three billion to five md three-quarters
billion gallons for the years last reported i
- , x 1
ny me .uepanmem oi commerce anu
Labor. An increase of a cent a gallon
on a billion gallons of refined petrole um j
would mean 1,000,000,000 cents, which !
are reducible by short division to !
$10,000,009. A report issued by the !
I Department of Commerce and Labor reads: "While not presuming to fore
is hows that the price of refined pe I stall the action of any future convention,
troleum in barrels was 7.60 cents a gal. we express the belief that the republi
in August 17, 1906, and 8.73 cents a cans of Nebraska recognize in Honor
gallon on October 26, 1907. So the in- J able W. II. Taft, one whose personal
fant class in arithmeric is now prepared character and whose long public service
to stand up and tell the country at large mark him as pre-eminently the man
ju.-t how much real suffering there is i under whose leadership these policies
he-hind the s-enes with the Big Stick j would be perpetuated."
swingngarvl tie brass band playing'
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before the footlights.
Titled American heiresses are never ,'
likely to succeed in the future better ,
than they are now doing with their
titled husbands. The difference of stand
point is permanent and radical. The
foreign prince who marries the daughter
of someone he looks on as a mere stock- '
jobbing vulgarian cannot surrender his
standpoint without ceasing to be prince
ly, nor can the Americen heiress who
expects her parents to buy her a prince
cease to expect to own him without
ceasing to be American. The house di
vided against itself must continue to ap
peal to the divorce courts until either
the princely idea or the American idea
ceases to exist.
In perusing the list of the promi
nent democrats that attended the J ack
sonian club banquet in Omaha Monday
night, as published in the World-Herald,
we note the name of "Former Mayor
E. J. Picknett, of Plattsmouth." Now,
will someone arise and tell us which one
of the boys this is?
The president flays a living Admiral
with the same ease he shows in 1 flaying
a dead deer. But even as president he
has no power to stuff the living Admiral
for his museum of natural history after
flaying him.
When it is announced semiofficially
that a republican congress has the deck
clearing for action in a campaign year,
t is not thought necessary to explain
that the clearing process consisted of
removing everything below deck except
the blank cartridges whose subsequent
explosions attract public attention with
out alarming campaign contributors.
Wanted A good milk
Phebus, Plattsmouth.
cow. Glen
The republicans in the field are tri
umphant in there calculations that the
votes of their states can beat the ad
ministration favorite. They can also
beat any other republican favorite with
equal ease, and the real republican dif
ficulty will appear when both field and,
favorite attempts to join in making ex
cuses, explanations and apologies enough
to prevent them from doing it.
Heketokore the great trouble with
the democratic state committee to many
men get on it who are not active and
who do not care enough for the honor
bestowed upon them to even attend the
regular meetings. In the reorganiza
tion of the committee for this year, it
is the duty of local democrats to see
that their selections for state committe
men are men who want the honor and
will be active in the interest of the
party.
It is easy to understand how an Eng
lish Baronet finds Speaker Cannon very
democratic, don't you know. Being off
uty when the Baronet asked for anp
explanation of how the American con
gress is managed, Speakers Cannon
threw his leg over the arm of a chair,
offered the Baronet a poisonous cigar,
lit one himself, and explained his theories
When he is acting officially, hammer
ing the speaker' s desk under his own
rules to prevent anything democratic
from developement, he is illustrating
his practices, not his theories.
Republican politics in Nebraska is
sizzling so hard that the "boomers" who
thought they had the state nailed down
hard and fast for Taft are wondering
how it all happened. Three weeks ago
the Taft men were speaking of the "Ne
braska indorsement," as though Taft
owned the republican delegation from
this state. But today Senator Burkett
is doing his best to swing Nebraska over
to Hughes; Frank Harrison, leading re
former, ispulling his level best for La
! Follette, and Governor Magoon, of Cuba,
a native Nebraskan, has silently enter
ed the contest for his home delegation.
So that, despite the Lincoln Journal
and the Omaha Bee are printing columns
of Taft "stuff," it does not follow that
. .
me ieorasKa delegation win ue iui me
big Ohio "booby. " Even that "indorse-
ment" of Taft, when subject to close
scrutiny, is not a real endorsement. The
resolution, which has been heralded
abroad as pledging the state for Taft,
Captain H. E. Parmer.
It appears from newspaper reports
that Senator Burkett is trying to make
a change in the Omaha postoffice. It
is a little strange that our senators,
both Burkett and Brown, young men,
who by the valor of the soldiers
of the civil war are premitted
to represent Nebraska in the United
States senate, are now doing their level
best to remove a veterand of that war,
who by the way has a marvelously good
record.
Captain Henry E. Palmer spent near-
! ly four years and a half in the army,
entering as a private, coming out as a
captain of cavalry. His excellent mili
tary record gave him the vote of over
7,000 Grand Army men in 1884 for the
position of department commander of
this state. During that term of service
he secured with the help of the now
Weak Lungs
Bronchitis
For over sixty years doctors
have endorsed Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral for coughs, colds,
weak lungs, bronchitis, con
sumption. You can trust a
medicine the best doctors ap
prove. Then trust this the next
time you have a hard cough.
The beat kind of a testimonial
"Sold ior over sixty years."
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All vegetable and gently .laxative.
Senator Warner, of Missouri, of the
committee, a National Home for the
old soldiers at Leavenworth, Kansas.
For the past eight years Captain Pal- I
mer has been devoting all his spare j
time to the magnificent sanitarium for j
the old soldiers at Hot Springs, S. D. j
He was a resident of this county for
21 years, never asked for office during
that time but represented this county
at many republican state conventions
with great credit to himself and to his
city.
He was a public spirited business man
with a splended record; everybody liked
him and we opine that the fight that is
now being made upon him by the two
senators, against the wishes and desire
of the business interests of Omaha
against the strong petition of 300 old
soldiers of its best business men, near
ly all the old soldiers, and all the past
department commanders of this state,
that Senator Burkett will find out that
he has made a mistake in his fight
against so prominent a Grand Army
man as Captain Palmer, whose record
is above reproach in every sense of the
word.
While Capt. Palmer does not agree
with the Journal on politics, we must
say somenhing in his behalf, knowing
his worth as well, as we do. Under the
ruling of President Roosevelt, in post
office appointments, we cannot see
how he can consistenly remove Capt.
Palmer from the Omaha postoffice, not
withstanding the untiring offorts of
both senators to do so to make a place
for one of their "pets."
CEDAR CREEK
ELEVATOR MEN
Elect Officers for the Coming
Year and Have a
Good Time
Yesterday was a fete day at Cedar
Creek. The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Cedar Creek Co-operative
Grain company was held. They
had a general good time and received
reports of what business had been done
thus far since the opening of the ele
vator a few weeks ago. During the
time they have purchased about 17,000
bushels of corn and have shipped some
12,000 which has shown the company
a very good profit. The stockholders
are well satisfied with the results of
the investment thus far, and anticipate
better returns as the season advances.
The following officers were elected for
the coming year: John A. Hennings,
president; J. L. Terrberry, vice presi
dent; Henry A. Schneider, secretary;
John Albert, treasurer; G. P. Meisinger,
Phillip Schaeffer and Loui3 Fredrick,
board of trustees; Wm. Schneider, man
ager of the elevator.
FROM THE ANTILLES
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Bene
fits City Councilman at Kingston.
Jamaica.
Mr. W. O'Reilly Fogarty, who is a
member of the city council at Kingston,
Jamaica, West Indies, writes as fol
lows: One bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy had good effect on a
cough that was giving me trouble and I
think I should have been more quickly
relieved if I had continued the remedy.
That it was beneficial and quick in re
lieving me there is no doubt and it is
my intention to obtain another bottle.
For sale by F. G. Fricke & Co.
KNOCKED OFF
BRIDGE BY ENGINE
While Working at Omaha Was
Struck by Freight.
Yesterday morning, while working on
a bridge near the Willow Springs dis
tillery, a man named Johnson, a bridge
carpenter in the employ of the Burling
ton railway and a member of the bridge
gang under the charge of Hollonberg,
was struck by an engine and knocked
off the bridge to the ground some dis
tance below. When picked up the man
was unconscious and was taken to the
Clarkson hospital in the Burlington
ambulance, where he was given an ex
amination and medical treatment. It
was found that his skull had been broken,
with very little hopes entertained for
his recovery. He was attended by Drs.
J. B. Jacks and B. B. Davis. The man
had been working with the Burlington
gang for some time, but his home and
relatives are unknown.
Highest cash paid for poultry, deliver
ed at Mynard any day in the week.
Tel. 3 O. W. F. Richardson.
Why Suffer from Rheumatism?
Do you know that rheumatic pains
can be relieved? If you doubt this just
try one application of Chamberlain's
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sleep possible, and that certainly means
a great deal to anyone afflicted with
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PERKINS HOTEL
PLATTSMOUTH,
RATES $1.00 PER DAY
Hirst House West B. 6c M. Depot
We Solicit the Farmers Trade
and Guarantee Satisfaction.
When in the City
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T5he Perkins Hotel
Union Bank Incorporates.
About the middle of this month a
change will become effective in the
form of management of the Bank of
Union, it becoming an incorporated
bank with six stockholders, instead of .
Hr tti rji il 1 i
r. xijy itMiutinuig ie uir uw.
as neretotore. ine stocnnoiaers ana
incorporators of the new organization
are W. F. Tracy, M. H. Shoemaker, i
William Ost and Mrs. E. M. Tracy. ;
This array of capital and business ability ;
is assurance that the business will con-i
tinue along the conservative and safe ,
lines as followed by Mr Tracy dumig i
his six years o. successful management ;
of this bank The capital stock remains ;
the same as heretofore, $10,000. ,
The stockholders held a meeting on ,
Monday and elected officers as follows :
President-M. H Schomaker. j
Vice-President L. G. Todd. !
Cashier W. F. Tracy.
Assistant Cashier Mrs. E. M. Tracy.
Directors M. H. Schoemaker, W. F.
Tracy, William Ost, L. G. Todd and
August Ost. Union Leader.
Advice to Mothers; Don't let your
children waste away. Keep them strong
and healthy during the winter with Hol
lister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It is the
greatest tonic for children . Pure and
harmless, does the greatest good. 35c,
Tea or Tablets. Gering & Co.
Nursing baby?
It's a heavy strain on mother.
Her system is called upon to supply
nourishment for two.
Some form of nourishment that will
be easily taken up by mother's system
is needed.
Scott9 Emtilsion contains the
greatest possible amount of nourish
ment in easily digested form.
Mother and baby are wonderfully
helped by its use.
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NEBRASKA
Give Us q Call
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Will Fox Has Experiences.
The class which Uill Fox was a mem
ber here, before going to the south for
fhf winter, rontninffl fort v-f our mem-
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forty-three. Some of them remembered
, hjm at Christmas with a letter, and not to
; be impartjal( he wisne,, lo write a, the
; mMmW. ,lf tup TVlf. :lh,a f afl.
dregsinff forty.three people and writing
fort three different letters took his
breath so after some t.onsiderationf he
wrote them allaetter an(1 gent it tothe
teacher who he re ueste( to read it.
Amonj? bis many experiences in the
gouth he Wnt huntinfff ami on return.
ing displayed what ne caed a wi,d duck
bu(. what tQ be a penuine
..pekin from some one,g farm d
Hia mother had the ,aURn on Master
Bm but he wi knQW betternext time
Buys Nebraska Fine Stock.
Yesterday O. F. Bonnell, of Avoca,
Iowa, made a selection from the herd of
W. H. HeiTs fine cattle, and will take
his purchase to his farm near Avoca,
where he has a fine herd of cattle, his
business being the breeding and raising
of fine cattle. That a breeder of fine
stock having a good herd of his own
comes here to purchase stock to add to
his collection, speaks well for the herd
which Mr. Heil has.
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