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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1908)
The Plattsmouth Journal I'UHMSilKD WKKKLV AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. li. A. HATKS, I'UJilisiikk. V, itTfd atllm pouII- m Plsittsinouth. Ne rr.HLa. an wcondditxH mutter. With a thousand increase in a total of less than twelve thousand failures re Mrtel for the last twelve months, the country certainly has a still larger in crease in unreported successes. II. M. Soenmciisen, county assessor, has certainly been very fortunate in his appointments of good, competent and reliable deputies in each of the precincts ofthecounty. Nearly everyone has had experience in this line. J i.'oge Tkavis has moved his fine, large library into the judge's rooms back of the district court room. The lawyers, during court, will have access to his library, which will be a great ad vantage to them, as well as to the court. The president's idea that all undesir able republican candidates are already whipped is not humorous. When a re publican administration of any kind un dertakes to dictate the succession it is always a serious matter, and with a Roosevelt republican administration the seriousness is deadly. When an increasing number of people discover that party lines are down this year as they never were before in living memory they fail to find democrats of any kind rushing to join brass band re publicanism, or republicanism in any other of the numerous varieties it devel ops with the lines down. Philadelphia is anxious to have the greatness of Nebraska, Minnesota and Delaware represented at a single Phil adelphia dinner by Bryan, Johnson and Gray. If it succeeds there may be a de crease in the humorous paragraphs about Philadelphia sleepiness which New York papers began publishing not long after the death of Benjamin Franklin. Di king his four years in the county judge's office, Judge Travis collected and turned over to the county, $785,74 of fees earned by former judges in excess of the amount allowed them by law, but which they neglected to collect. He also turned over $-126,83, excess fees earned during his term altogether $1212,57. His settlement with the coun ty commissioners was eminently satis factory to the county as well as the judge. Judge Travis is a man who makes a success of everything he under takes, and is a good business man as well as a good lawyer. JudgeTkavis has appointed as official stenographer of the Second Judicial Dis trict of Nebraska. Earl R. Travis, who has had four years experience as a short hand writer and has become one of the fastest and most accurate stenographic reporters in the state. He is a hard worker, attends strictly to his own bus iness, is sober, upright, industrious and honest and has no bad habits. He has studied law and has a good education. He is a favorite with the members of the bar of Cass county, with whom he is acquainted and also with the people of the county. He is not a politician and does not meddle with politics, and the people who deal with him will get a square deal all round. The Journal congratulates Earl on attaining o posi tion which he has earned and which he des erves. The president has certainly deviatedl from his established rule in the appoint ment of B. F. Thomas as postmaster at Omaha, simply to gratify the wishes of Nebraska's two graft-distributing sen ators. Captain Palmer has held the po sition but four years, and according to the past acts and utterances of Roose velt, he should have been continued for four more years. Captain Palmer is a a veteran of the civil war, has made one of the most efficient postmasters Oma ha ever had, and it is an outrage that he should be compelled to "step down and out" simply to make a place for one of Burkett and Brown's pet henchmen. The old veterans will probably remem ber the outrage perpetrated upon their old comrade in arms during civil war, at the hands of Burkett and Brown, who no doubt owe their present positions greatly to the votes of the old veterans of Nebraska. The fight against Mr. Bryan's nomi nation is gradually dying out in the east. Evidently the disgruntled element of the democratic party are realizing the 'handwrittingon the wall" all over the land. The republican state committee has decided by a vote of 20 to 9, to hold the state convention for the selection of delegates to the national convention at Omaha March 12. This is for the purpose only of selecting delegates at large. Dir. P. L. Hall, of Lincoln, one of the leading bankers in Nebraska, says that "only four bankers in the state fa vor an asset currency and a poll would develop that these four were on the Mark Hanna train when it sped through Nebraska and spread it3 golden fleece." With Wall street growing more and more exhilarated by reports of favora ble conditions the strain of assisting it from Washington may be so far reliev ed as to convince the most conservative republican financiers that some of the surplus may be spared for western im provements, certain to result in an in crease of the favorable reports Wall street needs to exhilarate it. Pennsylvania reports 10,180 violent deaths in the state during a single twelvemonth, which gives each Penn sylvanian in the hundred-thousand not quite 150 chances of dying a violent death if he escapes disease. Never theless, there are parts of Pennsylvania where the staple reading matter illus trates the supposed necessity of coming west to find the best opportunities of escaping death in bed. During the last twelve months the whole United States advanced in every thing which belongs to real and per manent progress. It is also a fact, as far as the record appears, that, at home and abroad, the country did less with the certainty of unnecessary fu ture trouble in it than might easily be found in the average year of history in this country or any other. If this came about without premeditation it is still one of the most important parts of the record of a year which leaves the country as a whole and every part of it no difficulties so great that they are not part of greater opportunities. As AS official alarmist, the governor of Kentucky tells the legislature- that ru.n fronts the state and its liberties are gone. It is not as bad as that. Even though it has elected a republican gov ernor, it will improve as fast as he en1 forces the law. Ex-Governor Taylor might irive the present governor some pointers oit good government, if allowed to return to the stste he so shamefully disgraced. As THE report of the world's produc tion of the precioos metals just filed in Washington show the flood of gold stil rising from the mines higher and higher above the records of any preceding de cade, it would seem that Senator Aid rich and his associates in official finance might make up their mind to let it over flow the United States. It would seem that it is their official responsibil ity to do so. Why not? The country will know what to do- wivh it. A thorough organization of the dem ocratic party in Nebraska last fall would have placed Hon. Geo. L. Loomis upon the supreme bench. With a thor ough organization this year and Nebras ka can be redeemed next November. For the past four years the party has not been organized as it should have been. No doubt Tom Allen, as chair man of the committee, has done every thing in his power to effect a thorough organization each year, but the fault has mostly laid at the doors of the mem bers of committee scattered over the state men who lacked the activity and interest. With the selection of com mitteemen from among those who are known for their energy and interest in the success of the party, and are sure to work to that end, is the only open road to success. The new committee should be selected just as early as poss ible, and work of organization began as soon as the committee can be assembled for the work. Let those representative democrats who attend the banquet next Wednesday night at Lincoln, start the ball to rolling in the direction of the se lection of the of thorough-going, work ing committee. Now is the time to be gin the good work. By this time it should have dawned upon Uncle Joe Cannon that he cannot run and stand pat at the same time. THEjdemocrats should wake up all over Nebraska and begin the work of organization in every county, precinct and school district. Now is the time to begin the good work. Mayor Dahlman wants the democrat ic state covention held at Omaha. You have our consent, Mr. Dahlman, and we believe that Omaha is the proper plare for it. The State Journal and Omaha Bee cannot hide the fact that LaFolIette has a large following in Nebraska among the republican papers outside the two principal cities. They are very enthu siastic in their support, too. What has become of the Storers? Where is Dear Maria and where is Dear Bellamy? What is My Dear Mr. Har riman doing now? And Doctor William J. Long? And all the other "undesira bles" who were famous before the time of Brownson? But where are the snows of yesteryear? That Mayor Brown, of Lincoln, will be selected as one. of the delegates at large from Nebraska to the Denver convention, is a foregone conclusion. Everyone who knows Mayor Brown is his friend, and being one of the best men in the state, he has hosts of friends in every nook and corner who will de light to honor him. There is nothing very sensational in the final decision of the United States courts in the Carter case that a big fed eral appropriation for public improve ments went in rake-offs to contractors and grafters. The sensational . novelty in such cases begins when it appears that public plundering means punish ment for the plunders. There is a very good reason existing why no more of the banks had to close during the late financial disturbance. The majority of the people exercised good common sense and kept on making deposits whenever they had surplus and at a time when the nervous ones were talking loudly alxwt withdrawing their deposits. A Chicago Record-Herald writer says that Bryars chief strength with the people lies in the fact that he has adopted; the Roosevelt policies and has advocated them. This writer seems to have forgotten that Mr. Bryan has been the consistent advocate of "Roose velc" policies for over twenty years, and that is sixteen years longer than Mr. Roosevelt has advocated them. Any ten year old school boyknows this fact. The Great Commoner always leads on isaues. but never follows Republican congressional finance op erate with a hopeful outlook to the happy time when everyone who has col lateral enough ready to incorporate in connection with a rapid-fire government press can have new emergency currency fired at him every time the symptoms of emergency begin to appear in his col lateral. But in view of the necessity for not disturbing anyone-who has views of any kind, it is of course necessary at present to refer this golden hope of the future to the committee" and from the committee to the experts on its way to the Speaker, whose keynote is caution and postponement. Chairman Fowler, of the congress ional eommitte on banking and currency, can hardly expect to be taken seriously when he asks the country at this time to take up the question of substituting for the existing national banking sys tem a credit or asset currency based on gold redemption. The country is not ready for that large question. Schemes without number will be advanced before the country is ready to listen to it. Ow ing to the existence of a great national debt we have during more than forty years had the only bank circulation we have ever had which was known to be good in every nook and corner of the United States and in all the banks of the civilized world. The people will not be satisfied with the change of any bank paper which has not the same assur ance that it is as good as its face. But we are approaching the time when de cision must be made between adopting a different banking system and main taining a larger national debt for the purpose of giving a basis for the exist ing national banking system. The Twenty-second of February U not far away. t How about that banquet of of the Cass county democracy on that date? Let us get a move on us. With fifteen murder cases ready for trial in Kansas City, the docket need not yet be written in red. The red-letter day in the history of such a docket comes when it is cleared by the convic tion of all who are guilty and the ac quittal of all who are not. One of the pleasing incidents of the increases reported in the exports of American protected manufactures is the sale of tin-plate in Wales after paying the freight from the United States at $11.80 a ton less than it sells for in the United States. The unprotected Welsh are in the best position to realize the pleasing part of it. The republican state committee de cided by a vote of 14 to 15 in favor of the much discussed primary. Frank A. Harrison, managerof La Follette's cam paign in Nebraska, feels very sore over the action of the committee, and is liable to make it very warm for some of the Taft bulldozers before the matter is settled. Harrison is a pretty slick. The commissioner of the general land office who was allowed to carry out his plans for reforming it i allowed to re sign without being disciplined for dis loyalty. As he retired without having the Big Stick thrown at him, he is suc ceeded by a loyal republican who is ex pected to know that reform is disloyal when it threatens unanimity. The second Thaw trial fails to create as much interest as the first, although Evelyn tries to look her sweetest with a change of apparel at each session of the court. At the first trial Mrs. Thaw was the great attraction, but attendants at the trial and the public generally do not seem to take much interest in either Evelyn or the proceedings of th present trial. The Philadelphia girl whose fi&xt ball cost $150,000 is-probably convinced that the- ball was worth it. So no dottbt are her parents and the guests who-caught goldfish as part of the evening's tnter- tainmenft. Thecountry is not surprised to find; families in Philadelphia able to afford all that such silly displays-cost. But it still has hope that those whfeel able to pay the cost of silliness will finally feel able to afford better sense. When New York banks report that they are taking in deposits at the-rate of eight a minute with the line of depos itors growing longer, the New York Evening Post is willing to admit that New York had several hundred millions of western money while it was convinc ing us that we "can'tget along without New York." We are convinced now. Although v e may occasionally object to the premium on our money, we never did want to get along without New iTork. Hereafter we hope to use increasingex perience to- find better and less costly ways of getting along with it. It is hari'to keep a Cass county boy down, no matter where he may. roam. The Journal notes with pleasure that its friend, C. S. Wortman, former- county superintendent of schools of this ewanty, has been selected journal clerk of the OklahomntState senate. In speaking of Mr. Wortman in the performance of his duties, the Guthrie Leader says : "Clerk Wortman, of Claremore, has one distin guished feature. He has a -voice that reaches the uttermost and outermost parts of the chamber, and is also pleas ant. Few men of strong voice have the tone-that Wortman has, and for that reason his reading of measures is never tiresome to the body." Mr. Wortman has- hosts of friends in his old home county who have the utmost confidence in his abilities to perform any duty for which he may be selected. The Journal hopes that he may be "called up high er," to that of a position which his re cognized abilities entitle him. We are informed that Lincoln Even ing News, in its six o'clock edition of yesterday made the statement that 300 men had been let out at the Plattsmouth shops while only eight had been let out at Havelock. We do not receive this edition of the News, and did not read the article referred to, but one our citi zens states that he read the same. It would seem to us that a great state pa per like News would make an effort to get at the truth of such statements be fore giving it publicity. We know that IE 5?V The Kind You Have Al .vajs llotight, mul which lias been in use i'or over CO years, lias borno the signature of .rt - ami lias been ihimIo under Ills per- vdyTT2" nal supervision since lis Infancy -tayX -CbccUM Allow no one to deceive you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " JiiKt-as-jrood" are but Experiments that trillo with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against lxierlmeut. What is CASTORIA Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing- Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic Kubstance. Its age is its g-uarantee. It destroys "Worm and allays Feverishness. It enres Diarrhcea and Wiini Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and liowcls, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. PERKINS ftOTEi PLATTSMOUTH, RATES Sl.OO PER DAY First House West B. 6. M. Depot We Solicit the Farmers Trade and Guarantee Satisfaction. When in the City Give Us n CalJ I T5he Perkins Hotel thore has not been to exceed 150 let out here, while we know of more than eight former Plattsmouth boys alore that ffave been laid off at the Havelock shops. A true statement of the affairs as they exist is bad enough, without anysiretch ing, and are to be deplored. How to Avoid Appendicitis. Most victims of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated- Orin Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic con stipation by stimulating the liver and bowels and restores the natural action j of the bowels. Orino Laxati7e Fruit j Syrup does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Refuse sub stitutes. For sale by F. G. Fricke & Co., druggists. j Attend the Historical Society. j Col. H. C. McMaken reiximed this j morning irom Lincoln, wrere ne nas been in attendance at the State Histor ical Society, where they bad what was called a round table, which was pre sided over by R. B. Winiliam, of this city. Mr. McMaken reports a very de lightful time and a gid attendance, with much interest shewn. OW L 3 ZhTj Absolutely Pure The only baldng powder made with Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar Uo Alum, No Limo Pbospbafo 3 ROM I nl ir-Ajt Signature of A A Higher Health Level. "I have reached a higher health level since I began using Dr. King's New Life Pills, " writes Jacob Springer, of West Franklin, Maine. 'They keep my stomach, liver and bowels working just right." If these pills disappoint you on trial, money will be refunded at F. C. Fric ke & Co. 's drug atre. 25c. Checker Player's Tournament. In speaking of the state checker tour nament, the LincolnJoumal says: "The annual state checker tournament of Ne braska will open Wednesday morning, February 5, in the hall over the fire de partment at the northwest corner of Tenth and Q streets. The following members have notified the secretary that they will be in attendance at the meeting: Lee, Berry, Funk, Shoe maker, Small, Abbott, Gordon, Camp bell, Brooking, Bestor, Kelly, Loucks, Hurlburt, J. P. Pepoon, G. W. Pepoon. Several other members are expected to be present." The Bestor, named in the list, is our old friend, Herman Bes tor, one of the champion players of the state, and who always attends these annual tournaments. Wanted A good milk cow. Glen Phebus, Plattsmouth.