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PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.-
It A. HATE, PL'itUSlIEK.
nlered at the poMofHon at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, as s;condclass matter.
Mouk strikes, more failures, more
receive 2 hip i! Hurrah for Roosevelt!
TllK Sixtieth congress accomplished
something, anyhow. It spent nearly
$100,000,000 more than its predecessor.
"Boo.st, don't knock," is a motto
that applies just as much to a Fourth
of July celebration as it does to any
tking else.
Qukky: What will the republicans
point to with pride in the national cam
paign, the do nothing congress or the
treasury deficit?
Bryan, of Nebraska, and Douglass,
of Massachusetts, would make a strong
combination, and prove the winners in
the ensuing election.
Mayor Dahlman expects to make an
auto campaign to become governor of
Nebraska. He says he will start out
on this trip over the state about J uly
15th.
There are some sixty-five chautau
quas in Nebraska this year. If this
business keeps growing the correspon
dence schools will have to get busy
turning out lecturers.
Republican candidates for congress
will have to go before the people on
promise as to what they will do next
time. They have no record of the per
formance to point to with pride.
At least, LaFollette, Stone and Gore
succeeded in calling the attention of the
country to the fact that the currency
bill is about the worst abortion in the
may of legislation a republican congress
ever passed.
Mr. Bryan ha? no doubt aroused the
people in the sections of Nebraska he
has visited in the past few davs. His
meetings were attended by immense
throngs, and enthusiasm reigned sup
reme throughout his entire trip.
There is this difference between a
republican congress and other failure?.
The other failures sink into oblivion,
but the republican congress comes forth
to "point with pride" to the billion dol
ars they have saddled upon the tax
payers of the country. We want to hear
from Congressman Pollard on this
matter.
A real estate dealer in Oklahoma at
tempted to secure the services of Walt
Mason of the Emporia Gazette to adver
tise his properties in rhyme. This is the
way Mason went at it: "We have for
sale a large frame dwelling the owner
is a chump for selling it's newly
painted pink and green and every
window has a screen."
It would appear that Pollard is not
going to have everything his own way
in the republican congressional conven
tion. Of course not. All that is needed
for some republican to down the salary
grab, ship subsidy congressman, 4s to
get up and hustfe. Pollard can use that
extra $2,500 to further his nomination,
and still be ahead on the salary business.
The do nothing congress should also
have some effect upon his re-ncmina-tion.
With all due respects to Edgar How
ard, we fail to see any reason in his
coming out for congress in the Third
district, when one of the ablest and
most popular democrats in the district
had already announced as a candidate.
The district has been represented by a
republican for several years, and a con
test for the nomination always leaves a
few sore spots, which are hard to heal
sometimes. The Third district can elect
a democrat with harmony prevailing.
With congress apt ropriating over a
billion dollars at its late session, a sum
far in excess of our revenues, with a
surplus which threatens to be entirely
wiped out and leave a treasury deficit
in the not distant future, with General
Prosperity on a"vacation which may be
uncomfortably prolonged until after the
next election, some of our republican
brethren are manifesting a trifle of
anxiety about the prospects ahead.
Next Fourth of July.
Decoration Day is over, now for the
Fourth of July.
Everything is booming for the big
celebration at Plattsmouth on the Fourth
of July.
The government building for Platts
mouth is now an assured proposition
President Roosevelt has signed the ap
propriation measure.
A larger crowd was in attendance
at the Decoration Day services Satur
day, than has been here on a similar
occasion for several years.
Put few business houses were closed
Decoration Day. The date coming on
Saturday our merchants were compelled
to keep open in order to serve their
rural trade.
A Boston man has invented a milk
ing machiene. The article will be put
on sale in time for the republican na
tional committee to use it on the infant
industries.
Congress quit when it had bested
previous appropriation records by some
thing like $90,000,000. Even a republi
can congress has to stop somewhere.
The people of Wisconsin should be
prouder of LaFollette than ever before.
He is one of the greatest men in the
United States today. He is a man of
the hour.
Yes, the democrats of Nebraska need
a good daily paper at Lincoln, and we
hope the time is not far distant when
such an enterprise will be brought
about. Aurora Sun.
The present congress ha3 spent five
train loads of gold, or putting the mat
ter in another way, each congressman
has cost the country more than his
weight in the precious metal.
The republican newspapers have quit
saying that Bryan can't be nominated
and are now saying that he can't be
elected. After November tjiey will
probably be saying that he can't make
good.
Farewell to the Sixtieth congress, the
session that goes down in history as the
one that done less and cost the people
more money than any one in the history
of the United States. "My policies"
did the business.
The people are all pleased to learn
that former President Cleveland has so
far recovered from his illness as to be
able to return to his home in Princeton,
with the hope that his permanent recov
ery will soon follow.
The people feel relieved that the most
do-nothing congress that ever assembled
has adjourned. In the fullest sense of
the word, it is a billion dollar congress
with nothing to show for the piling up
of such a big sum on the taxpayers of the
country. Mr. Pollard will no doubt be
able to tell the people all about it in the
coming campaign.
The empty dinner pail brigade in this
campaign should do as much for Bryan
this year as it done for McKinley in 19C6.
There is one part of the work we do
not care for and that is the campaign
contributions from the thieving corpor
ations that went into the 1906 campaign.
But we do ask the support of the de
serving classes of this entire country.
Men who are for the "square deal" we
have heard so much about from the re
publican side of the house.
The congress just adjourned has made
thousands of votes for the democratic
side of the political affairs this year.
Even the strongest republicans condemn
the last congress, and declare that it
should be rebuked at the polls in No
vember. We believe there are enough
of the liberal minded republicans to do
the work effectiually, too.
The lie originating in New York re
garding Mr. Bryan and that $20,000,
has returned to the libelers. Mayor
Dahlman, who was a member of the
national committee in that campaign,
says: "Pile it onto me as hard as you
want to. I am the arch criminal in this
and Mr. Bryan is absolutely blameless. "
"Mr. Bryan supported Parker during
the whole campaign, took the stump
for him months before the money was
paid, and never knew of its payment."
Bring on another lie.
The republicans seen to have muddled
the financial legislation so that no one
is satisfied.
With Roosevelt, at Chicago, the ques
tion is: Shall I be content with "my
man," or shall I demand also "my pol
icies?" Fred White was nominated by the
democrats over in Iowa, Tuesday, for
governor, and Claude Porter for United
States senator. Both strong men.
The returns from the Iowa primaries
yesterday indicate that the contest for
senator between Allison and Governor
Cummins is imcomfortable close, with
both claiming the victory.
The Methodists have decided to change
the time honored title, ' 'presiding elder' '
to "district superintendent," and it is
feared someone will now try to change
the name of the Amen coiner to the
"sphere of acquiescence."
Hon. A. C. Shallenberger, demo
cratic candidate for governor two years
ago, will probably be one of the Fourth
of July orators at the celebration in the
city. He will be here if he can possibly
make arrangements to do sc.
You can win money by betting that
the republican platform will say some
thing about the country having grown
rich from the protective tariff. The
fact will remain, however, that the
country has grown rich in spite of it.
It matters not who is nominated for
senator in Iowa, Allison or Cummins,
the contest has left the republican party
pretty badly split up. The campaign
has been a very bitter one throughout
between the friencs of both candidates
The chairman of the democratic state
central committee should wake up an
get a move on himself. There has been
no meeting of the committee this
season while the republican com
mittee has held several. Get a move on
you, Tom.
There is a funny situation in Oregon,
the result of the election in that state
Tuesday Governor George A. Cham
berlain, democrat, was the choice of the
voters for U. S Senator, to succeed
Chas. W. Fulton, republican, and a re
publican legislature has been elected to
carry out the wishes of the people.
A philosopher says that girls who
eat green peas are bound to flirt; they
can't help it. Cabbages and cauliflower
make people vulgar and stupid. And
the cure for a bad tempered husband is
to fill him with boiled carrots. Which
latter will boom the vegetable business.
Samuel Gompers says that Joseph
G. Cannon "is a brutal autocrat" and de
mands his defeat. It is probable that
Boss Cannon has too firm a grip on his
district to be defeated, but the people
of the United States are going to render
him harmless by electing a democratic
house of representatives.
Mr. Bryan is still waking them up
in Nebraska, and he is sure of carrying
the state, if the republicans do not find
another Mark Hanna to make a circle of
the leading towns just before election
and deal out a few hundreds of thous
ands of dollars to buy the voters like so
many cattle. That is the only hope for
republicans in Nebraska this year.
The rep lican congressional com
mittee has offered a prize of $150 for
the best essay on "Why the Republi
can Party Should Be Successful Next
November." The amount of the prize
is entirely too low. The man who can
envolve any reason why the Republican
party should be successful next fall
ought to have a fat annuity for life.
Plattsmouth will have the greatest
Fourth of July celebration this year in
the history of Cass county. When such
citizens as Henry Gering, Hilt Wescott,
Fred Egenberger, Jake Falter, H. A.
Schneider, Frank Schlater, Ed. Donat
and M. Fanger "take the bull by the
horns" you can depend upon something
doing in Plattsmouth on the Fourth this
year They are all working with a will
that counts.
"Mr. Bryan appears to believe confi
dently that he will be elected this year, "
says the Kansas City Star. "There is
no doubt that the republican congress '
has done a great deal to strengthen
him in that conviction." And for once
the Star is at least partly right. But
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Catarrh is recognized all over the civilized world as
a formidable disease. In the United States alone, two
hundred thousand people have catarrh annually. In
other countries the ratio or victims is as great.
For many years Peruna has held the foremost
place as a standard remedy for catarrh.
Persons objecting to liquid medicines can now pur
chase Peruna tablets.
that newspaper cannot be expected to
tell the whole truth, even though it tells
a fraction of it. It is true that Mr.
Bryan expects to be elected. It is
equally true that the firm foundation
for that hope was begun by congress
and completed by Theodore Roosevelt.
Again it is true that if the people of
the United States take council of their
better judgement, Mr. Bryan's hopes and
expectations will be realized in Novem
ber. The lie circulated by Mr. Bryan's re-,
publican enimies, assisted by those few j
democrats in the east who want to see
him defeated at Denver, that he did
not support Parker in 1904, having ex
ploded, they now bring forth a bigger
lie. They now claim that in considera
tion of his support of Parker they
had to send $20,000 to Nebraska for
campaign expenses. Tom Allen says if
any money was sent to this state it fell
into the hands of Mayor Dahlman, mem
ber of the national committee. Anyone
who had anything to do in that memor
able campaign knows that so far as the
democrats are concerned money was a
scarce article. But what is the use of
trying to deny all the lies that these
enemies set afoot, for they jump right
out of one lie into another so fast that
it would be impossible to keep up with
them. It's anything to defeat the great
Nebraskan, but the harder they lie the
harder he runs. His nomination is now
assured beyond a single doubt, and one
New York paper, who is bitterly op
posed to Mr. Bryan, says it is now pos
sible for him to be nominated unanim
ously. In speaking of different democratic
candidates for governor of Nebraska, it
has been suggested that they all get to
gether previous to the primary and have
sort of a love-feast and agree upon some
matters regarding the same. This may
be all right, but we seriously doubt if
such a meeting would effect very much.
Just as sure as the friends of Shallen
berger and Berge get at loggerheads,
and either of these gentlemen is nom
inated, just as sure will the one nomin
ated be defeated. A better way out of
the trouble is for all the candidates to '
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get together and agree upon the one
that can make the best race, or all with
draw in favor of an outsider who can
harmonize all the factions.
Tom Watson declares that Bryan has
changed, and that "the bold, brilliant
and enthusiastic tribune of the people,"
in 1896, has since 1904 "weakened into
the party hack. " That is pretty hard
language, and coming from a republican
would be thoroughly denounced, but Tom
Watson's license for denunciation is not
questioned nor is his genius in that line
excelled. Kearney Hub. Pray, what
is the difference in coming from a re
publican, or a hired tool of the republi
can party? Tom Watson was induced
to accept the nomination at St. Louis
by republicans. The convention at
which he was nominated was controlled
by republicans, and for a money con
sideration is now engaged in abusing
Bryan, that republican papers like the
Hub m ay copy and comment upon as
coming from a populist source. Tom
Watson, be hanged! He has been dead
so long politically that his rotton circass
smells bad.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Chalfant were
visitors in the city this morning, look
ing after some business matters.
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Nearly every one likes a fine
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make the hair more manage
able; to keep it from being
too rough, or from splitting
at the ends. " Something, too,
that will feed the hair at the
same time, a regular hair-food.
Weil-fed hair will bestrong,and
will remain where it belongs
on the head, not on the comb!
The beBt kind of a testimonial
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Also manufacturer or
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a CATARRH.
A fleets the
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Lungs,
Bronchial
Tubes.
The Merry Widow Hal.
I would like to see the budding and
the blooming of the trees. I would
like to watch the birdlets as they float
adown the breeze, I would like to see
the sunlight on the knolls and on the
flats, but the girls obstruct my vision
with their Merry Widow hats. When
a girl would cross a doorway people
view her with alarm, for she has to go
in sideways, with her head beneath her
arm; when two maidens take a ramble,
on on either side the street, they are
widely separated, but their merry hats
will meet. Ah, the sorrows of the
husband who would kiss his only own!
For he has to do his kissing by long
distance telephone. In church the
merry women with their Merry Widow
tiles, drive their melancholy husbands
to the middle of the isles; in the home
the weeping fathers seeks the cellar's
quiet gloom, for upstairs the Merry
Widow headgear takes up all the room;
there he's joined by all his neighbors
who unite in crying "Rats?" when the
conversation touches on those Merry
Widow hats. Walt Mason in Emporia
Gazette.
Make the Parade a Feature.
H. A. Schneider, speaking of the ap
pointment of himself as chairman of the
committee on parade said: "My idea is
to have a parade which will be an ad
vertisement for the town, in that it will
be novel in its way and composed of a
number of comic as well as other floats,
representing the business or profes
sions. Not the idea of getting out whi t
goods one can on a wagon for the in
spection of the public, and for the dis
tribution of samples, but that it may
be suggestive of something higher than
mere sordid distribution of commercial
samples. That the suggestion of one's
business in a novel and comic way is all
right, but on any day one can see dray
loads of goods going from the depot to
the numerous stores, and from stores to
the residences of the purchasers. Dress
your store windows and let that he a
standing advertisement for the business
and one that will speak volumes.
Depart for England.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Adams of Ilavc
lock, formerly of this place, having lived
here for a number of years, departed
for an extended visit at the old home
near London, England, last evening.
They passed through here onBurlington
train No. 2. They expect to be gone
about three months and will visit the
place where they lived during childhocd.
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