he Plattsmouth Journal
I'UBLlHED WEEKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASK,
II. A. HATES, Publisher.
nterud at the postottlce at I'lattHmouth. Ne
braska, as hccou1cI:ihs matter.
Dead and damned is the way the people
refer to the late congress.
It is needless to say that Joe Cannon
is not running on "my policies."
AFTER his remarks concerning Grant,
it is apparent that Taft needs no Burch
ard to accomplish his defeat.
Congressman Pollard will orate at
Auburn on the Fourth of July, while
Governor Sheldon will do the same in
Plattsmouth.
The president, Taft and others are
formulating a platform at the White
house this week. It will take "advanced
ground" for tariff reform "after elec
tion." Fool 'em some more.
It is predicted that the next congress
will see a great change in membership.
Is it possible to elect a congress that
would think that a billion dollars was
worth looking at twice?
It is announced that Mr. Taft
stand for a revission of the tariff,
will he stand for a revision of the
of "my policies?"
will
But
rest
The republican congressman who tries
for re-election will carry two handicaps,
Cannon's indorsement and the lack of
Roosevelt's. But the two will not al
ways appeal to the same people.
Taft is not so sure of the republican
nomination at the present time as he
was two weeks ago. The friends of all
other candidates have formed an alliance
and will put in some pretty hard licks
against General Grant's defamer.
It looks now as though the republi
can papers will ha'e their hands full in
an effort to pacify the old soldiers over
the insult Taft paid to General Grant
on Decoration Day. It is preferable to
be accused of accepting campaign funds
while living than it is accused of being
a drunkard after death. To insult the
memory of a dead hero is cowaidly.
S'ever in the history of Plattsmouth
were the business men so universal in
favor of a Fourth of July celebration.
That the celebration this year will be
one of fie greatest this year ever held
in the old town, or even in the county,
the harmony in which all the committees
are working is a sufficient indication.
Make up your mind to celebrate in the
county seat this year.
The republican national platform will
declare, as former ones have, for "the
principle of protection," and although
there may be a promise to revise the
tariff, there will be no direct promise
to revise it lower. How can the pro
tective principle be prevented without
continunig or even increasing, the pres
ent rates? Don't be again fooled by
promises.
Taft is bidding hard for the colored
vote. Last week while traveling through
Georgia he took a "nigger" into the
dining car to eat with him and attempted
to have Mr. Negro sit at the same table.
The conductor, however, informed Mr.
Taft that he was in Georgia where they
had a "Jim Crow" law, and Mr. Negro
had to retire. This is about the cheap
est piece of peanut politics we have
heard of since "Bill Jones" ran for
Sheriff in some county in Arkansas and
kissed the babies, milked the cows and
performed such ridiculous tasks to se
cure votes, but never did attempt to eat
with a "nigerer".
The particular portion of Taft's
speech at General Grant's tomb on Dec
oration Day, to which the millions of
friends of the deceased hero take ex
ception, is as follows: "But in 1S54 he
resigned from the army because he had
to. He had yielded to the weakness cf
a taste for strong drink, and rather
than be court-martialed he left the
army." Not content with the forgoing
he still adds insult to injury in the fol
lowing: "He was so constituted that
it seemed impossible for him to earn a
livelihood even when he had given host
ages to fortune in the shape of a wife
and four children." This is the lang
uage of Billy Taft, the republican can
didate for president.
I A Rulo woman went out on the river j
bridge there one day last week and (
jumped for the cold water below, to
commit suicide, but she forgot to remove
her Merry Widow hat and she floated
gracefully over into Missouri and was
saved!
The farmers are becoming very dis
couraged over the continuos wet weather
and the heavy storms. These storms
seem to prevail all over the country and
we have not been hit as hard as other
parts of the country.
Convert the money appropriated by
this congress into $20 dollar gold pieces
and it would require five freight trains
of eighteen cars each to haul it, loading
twenty tons to a car. This gives some
conception of the magnitude of a billion
dallar congress.
Reduced rates will be given to the
traveling public this summer, notwith
standing the 2-cent fare. The Traffic
association, which started out bravely
to bite off its nose to spite its face,
has decided to follow the example of
Congress and make an effort to "save
its face."
Some fussy persons may object to
having the "Chicago platform" made
in advance in Washington, and the
"Denver platform" in Lincoln, Neb.
Fair minded people will concede, how
ever, that the men who will have to
stand on the platform are entitled to
superintend the job of building it.
It is certainly one of the greatest
pieces of impudence on the part of the
republican papers to even mention the
fact that the democratic national com
mittee sent money to Nebraska, when
it was proven not many months ago the
great amount of money that was spent
for the election of Roosevelt. They
havn't forgotten the story of Lawson so
soon.
"Will Bryan carry his own state?"
anxiously inquires the Chicago Tribune.
That paper may judge by the great;
crowds that are flocking to see and
to hear Mr. Bryan in his tour
of Nebraska. In many instances the
people drove from 50 to 100 miles 'cross
country in the mud to hear and cheer
him. Such very large straws should
denote the drift of the current.
James G. Blaine was a bigger man
than William H. Taft and he was politi
cally ruined by the rabid remarks of an
ill-advised friend. Fearing that the
utterances of Secretary Taft's many
fool friends may be explained away,
the Nemesis which h2s been following
the Roosevelt heir has put the ill-advised
remarks ir. the mouth of the candidate
himself.
The Journal desires to keep it before
the people of Cass county that if they
want to witness one of the greatest cel
ebrations to be held in southeastern
Nebraska this year, and at the same
time enjoy themselves as they never
did before on the great natal day, they
will bring their entire houshold to Platts
mouth on the Fourth of July. 'There will
be plenty of speaking, music and one of
the finest parades ever. Plenty of fire
works in the evening.
The question the voters of the United
States must decide at the coming elec
tion is whether they are satisfied to
pay high prices for much they buy, or
by reducing the tariff participate in the
reduced prices that the foreigners en
joy. That Is a very simple proposition
to vote upon. Those few voters who
benefit by trust high prices will, of
course vote to continue the republican
party in power. Those who think the
trusts should shift for themselves
and be subject to competition will
vote with the democrats.
There is no use denying the fact
that the republican party is in an ex
tremely bad shape in Iowa. The Alli
son and Dolliver supporters made a big
effort to defeat Governor Cummins in
his last race for chief executive, and
there is not the least doubt there was
considerable dirty work resorted to in
the recent primaries to defeat the gov
ernor, all of which doe3 not place the
Cummins people in a very good humor,
and as there will be considerable cut
ting and slashing among the republi
cans, harmony is entirely out of the
question.
We can listen to a public speaker
talking about $100,000,000 deficit in the
national treasury now without batting
an eye. What's $100,000,000? A mere
bagatelle. Suppose we do have adefict
of that much; do you think this country
could go bankrupt? Not while Rocke
feller, 'Carnegie and J. Perp Morgan,
are around. Does it worry you that
the salary roll of the government has
been doubled in ten years that is to
say, that under the glorious prosperity
reign of Teddy the First and William
the Last, the government salary list has
doubled? as many added in ten year3
as was put on the roll during the hund
red years and more, before. So you
see we grow. Dollars are nothing now.
Every congress increases the roll of tax
eaters and raises the salaries. Deficits
do not bother congress; dad's rich.
Slandering Grant's Memory.
Throughout the length and breadth of
the land members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, without regard to
political affiliations, deeply resent the
Memorial day address made by Secre
tary Taft at the tomb of General U. S.
Grant, in which he charged that the
greatest of Northern generals was ad
dicted to the excessive use of intoxi
cants. And the old soldiers have just
cause for their indignation, for the
gratuitous slander was utterly without
excuse or justification.
History does not support the accusa
tion of Mr. Taft, but even if it did, this
would not serve in anyway to lessen or
mitigate his offense against decency.
General Grant was a brave and valiant
soldier, whose services were rewarded
by the American people with the high
est gift within their power. Since he
died, many years ago, the hush sectional
feelings engendered by the war have
been softened, the bitter animostities
have passed away. Men of both the
North and South have come to value by
proper standards, Lee and Jackson as
well as Sherman and Grant. There
cannot be found today in the South a
man of prominence who would speak
disparagingly of any of the northern
dead. It remained for an Ohoian and a
republican to malign and slander the
memory of Ulysses S. Grant And he
a man who desires the vote of every old
veteran who served in the civil war
with this noble hero.
The Grand Army of the Republic does
right to resent this insult to the illustri
ous leader. The resolutions of censure
that are being adopted by the G. A. R.
camps throughout the United States
wili find an approving echo in the hearts
of their former foes. Respect for our
distinguished dead allows no place for
sectional resentment.
Notice to Cass County Farmerls
The secret of curing hams and
bacons lies in the use of Wright's
Liquid Smoke. It's quicker, safer
and gives better results than the
old style method of using a wood
fire. Sold by
F. G. FRICKE&CO.,
Druggists, Plattsmouth, Neb.
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All Buster Browns have smoothe in
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DAILY PERSONAL NEWS
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Short Items of Interest, From Fri
day Evening's Daily Journal
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E. C. Virgin, of near Murray, visited
in the today.
T. M. Patterson was a brief business
visitor in Omaha this afternoon.
Mrs. Ed Polin was a visitor in Omaha
this morning.
G. A. B. Hicks, of Cullom, was a
business visitor in the city today.
Wm. Hogabone, of LaPlatte, was a
business visitor in the city this morning.
Henrv Walker, of the Burlington
bridge gang, is on the sick list and not
able to work.
Miss Gertrude Beeson departed this
morning for a weeks visit with friends
at Kansas City.
Walter J. White was looking after
some business matters in the metropo
lis this morning.
Mrs. William Ballance and daughter,
Ethel, were visitors with friends in Om
aha this morning.
W. T. Richardson, of Mynard, was a
visitor in the city this morning, look
ing after some business.
Mrs. Nellie Agnew departed for Lin
coln this afternoon, where she will visit
with relatives for a few days.
O. Freeburg departed this afternoon
for Omaha, where he is doing some
steam fitting for the Burlington.
Nels Jones, who has been on the sick
list for some time past, is so far im
proved as to be able to go to work again.
Teachers examination will be held on
Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20th.,
at the office of the county superintend
ent. Sam G. Smith and son, Ray, of Rock
Bluffs, were visitors in the city this
morning, looking after some business
matters.
Miss Crete Bnggs came home from
Lincoln this afternoon, where she has
been attending the state university for
the past year.
Edwin and David White returned
this afternoon from Lincoln, it being
the ending of the school year of the
state university.
John W. Ewing, of Minneapolis,
formerly of this place, a telephone
electrician, came in this morning and is
visiting with friends in this city.
Ed. Fitzgerald began this morning
with a gang of men cutting willows for
the Burlington for riprapping purposes
to be used on the other side of the
river.
Today closes the school of Miss Myrtle
Sanders at Cullom, and they are cele
brating the event at that place with a
picnic and program which is very inter
esting," a number going out from town,
W. H. Smothers came in this morn
ing from Haxton, Colorado, where he
has been making his home for some
time, and where he has taken a home
stead. Mrs. L. C. Pace, of Lincoln, arrived
last evening, and is the guest of her
neice, Mrs. W. L. Pickett, and will
visit with Mrs. Pickett's parents, who
are now in the city from Evansville,
Indiana.
Dovey's Shoe Man is
to busy selling Queen
Quality Shoes to write
an ad this week.
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Frank Kohnke visited in Omaha this
afternoon.
Mrs. Alois Smitana visited in Omaha
this afternoon.
August Bach, sr., was a visitor in
Omaha this afternoon.
Sam Smith was a business visitor in
Omaha this afternoon.
Frank Anderson, from Pacific Junc
tion was a visitor in the city today.
W. C. Greebee brought in a forty
pound cat fish that he had caught last
evening.
Mrs. Henry Steinhauer and son, Ed
gar, were visitors with friends in Oma
ha this morning.
E. T. Younker of Glenwood, la., was
looking after some business matters in
the city this afternoon.
Hut Berger, of Glenwood, Iowa, a
cousin of Mrs. A. B. Taylor, is in the
city, in attendance at the funeral of
Mr. Taylor.
Mr3. C. R. Whittaker departed for
Lincoln this morning, where she will
visit for some time with friends and
relatives.
T. H. Pollock of the Plattsmouth Tel
ephone company was looking after bus
iness for the company this aftemocn
in Omaha.
E. P. Briggs of Philadelphia wa3 a
visitor in the city this morning, having
some business to transact with the
Kroehler brothers.
Mrs. B. F. Beach and children came
in last evening from Cherokee, la , and
i3 visiting with her sister, Mrs. J. G.
Jacks, north of the city.
Mrs. Dora Schall, mother of Mrs. M.
Fanger, of Omaha, who has been visit
ing with her daughter in the city, de
parted for home this afternoon .
Mrs. Jennie Ramsey, of LaPlatte,
departed for her home this afternoon,
after having visited in the city since
yesterday, a guest of Mrs. Mary Brink
man. N. B. Dodson and J. W. W'ilkir.s, both
of Kansas City and land men who have
been looking after some business in the
city, departed for Omaha on the fast
mail.
G. J. Swearingen, of Sutton, return
ed to her home this afternoon, having
visited in the city since yesterday, a
guest at the home of his cousin, Wm.
Brissey.
At their meeting last week the Platts
Lodsre of Odd Fellows elected the fol
lowing officers for the coming term:
Joseph E. Jones, N. G. ; Wm. Holly, V.
G.; M. L. Johnson, trustee, and Emil
Walters, P. G.
George Kaffenberger was a visitor
in Omaha this afternoon, and at the
station said that his son, Johnnie, who
had his finger cut off last Friday, was
getting j" long finely.
H. G. Van Horn says that a wave of
prosperity struck him and that he is do
ing a good busines in the talking ma
chine line. He says that he will have
some speeches of W. J. Bryan in a few
days.
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the Fourth of July
Chas. and Will Schopp were isito:s
iri Omaha this afternoon, and also
looked after some business matters at
Council Bluffs.
Miss Hermia Windham departed tl is
afternoon for Greenwood, where she
will visit for a short time witi her
brother, Robert and wife.
Eugene W. Hayden of Chicago, rep
resenting the Mergenthaler Linotype
company, was a visitor in the city this
morning in the interests of the house he
represents.
Mrs. John Burton departed for her
home at Emerson, la., this morning, af
ter having visited in this city for some
time, a guest at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Henry.
Lin Cook was a visitor in Omaha
over night with friends, going that fer
with his sister, Miss Amy, as she
started for Iowa City yesterday. Bert
Thrasher held down the office work at
the Nebraska Telephone office while he
was away.
Mrs. Anna Belle McDonald and Mrs.
L. Callan, members of the finance com
mittee of the Degree of Honor, from
Omaha, who have been meeting with
the committee here, departed for Oma
ha this morning.
Silas Long and J. G. Richey are
having the grading done on the south
side of Main street between Seventh
and Eighth, for the purpose of having
a concrete walk laid. H. C. McMaken
& Sons will do the work.
Clarence Beal departed today for Belle
Fourche, S. D., where he goes to visit
with his sister, Mrs. B. L. Kirkham.
Clarence will stay during the vacation,
and will play with the Belle Fource ball
team while away, they providing em
ployment for him while there.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Uhl of Omaha were
visitors in Weeping Water with the fam
ily of Dick Miller for a few days, ar.d
returned home this morning, coming by
the way of Plattsmouth and stopping
over for a short visit with friends, and
departing for home by the way of the
Burlington.
Mrs. J. W. Gamble returned this
morning from a few days visit at
Gretna, where she was with Mr. Gamble
at the commencement exercises at the
city schools of that place where she
sang several numbers and Mr. Gamble
delivered the address.
Don Brown and wife, of Tecumseh,
who are visiting in the city, called here
on account of the illness of Mrs.
Brown's mother, Mrs. S. E. Hall, de
parted for Griswold, la., this morning,
where they will visit over Sunday with
Mr. Brown's parents, J. N. Brown and
wife.
Mrs. V. N. McKay and son, L. M.
McKay, of Des Moines, Iowa, the
former a cousin of F. M. Richey, de
parted for their home this morning,
after having visited in the city for the
past few days, the guests at the home
of Mr. Richey and family. Mrs. McKay
and son were greatly pleased " with
Plattsmouth.
Mrs. M. A. Latky, Grand Chief of
Honor of the Degree of Honor, and a
member of the finance committee, of
Lexington, after having met with the
committee here, departed this morning
for a visit at DesMoines, Iowa, for a
short time before returning home.
Rev. E. Schmidt, the general secre
tary of Foreign Missions will give an
illustrated lecture on the mission work
in "East India of the German Evangelical
synod of North America, on June Sth,
8 p. m. An offering will be taken dur
ing the service for the mission work.
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