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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1908)
fhe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. R. A. BATES, Publisher. ctered at the pottofHce at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, as ttccondclasa matter. Towns along the Missouri and Platte rivers are going wet without the aid of an election. What's the matter? The high waters have not yet been attributed to "the enemies of Mr. Taft." Why does Burkett want to push Gov emor Sheldon to the iront for vice president? We can guess. Can't you? And it will not be necessary to throw out a few hundred contesting delegates in order to nominate William J. Bryan. Virginia and Kentucky have jumped right into the Bryan bandwagon with both feet. The same with New Mexico and Utah. Come on, boys. Governor Johnson, as a presidential candidate has about come to the conclu sion that he is not in it this year, and talks of withdrawing. We told you so. The czar of Russia is now having trouble about getting four new battle ships. In more ways than one, the czars of Russia and the United States are a great deal alike. "Ah, there boys," wires Earnest Pol lard, "the enemy cannot truthfully say that we did not do anything in congress this year. We put the old time honored rnotto back on the coins." The Taft-Roosevelt combine has ceased worrying about gettiug a major ity in the national convention. The trouble now is to keep the remainder of the delegates from walking out. Keep it before the people of Cass county that Plattsmouth will have one of the greatest, grandest and most elaborate celebrations in the history of the county. Come and see for your self. The iron hand still has its grip on the delegates to the Chicago convention. The committee is still throwing out those who are not r leasing to that av.gust body. Who ever heard of such a pro cedure? There was a gentleman in Platts mouth last evening that wanted to bet that Taft would not be nominated in Chicago next week. He claims that the sports are betting all over the country on this preposition. There are some democrats who ad mire President Roosevelt and might support him if he were again nominated and there are a number cf republicans who would not support him under any circumstances, and would support Bryan in preference. The old fasnioned greenbacker who argued that every man should be per mitted to issue asset currency on the strength of his property ought to be pleased to see the republican adminis tration adopt their currency plan and apply it to the banks. The proceeds of the national republi can committee at Chicago have demon strated one thing that in a fair and square contest with brute force and the "big stick" eliminated, William H. Taft would not be the nominee of the republican party. Two band3, thirty-five floats and a fine program at the park will be the day attractions in Plattsmouth on the Fourth of July, with an abundance of fireworks at night. You will have plenty to amuse you thte year in Platts mouth on the day we celebrate. It is to be hoped that the Chicago convention will adort Roosevelt's plat foi. word for word. All that the democratic party needs is the realization on the p?rt of the peojXe that the re publican be: -oh hz.c actually got gall er.ovgh to stand for Roosevelt. li tariff commission and the cur rence commission, both created by he lt congress, expect to occupy from four to eight years in making in vestigations, and formulating plans with regard to tariff reform and currency reform. How easily these men seem to think that the people can be fooled? It is now thought that W. J. Bryan will be nominated by acclimation at Denver. Uncle Joe don't intend to quit the Chicago convention without a struggle. The other opponents of the Ohio Booby feel the same way. Speaker Cannon says he will stick as long as anyone vote3 for him for the presidential nomination, adding, omin ously, "The end is not yet." But Can non has long been an inveterate smoker. There will be no trouble to get people to come to Plattsmouth this year to cel ebrate, when they know we are going to have one of the most extensive cele brations ever held in the county. Some other towns may attempt to celebrate, but they can't near "come it" with the county seat this year. Do you remember last year about the little button, "Pollard put it back?" Will the democratic brethren please polish up the buttons, change the name and wear them again this summer? Nebraska City Pres3. He put it back, didn't he? Well, that was all that was necessary, and that was all that was required. Now, go soak your pate. A few weeks since a lot of university cadets were egar to find some suitable point to enjoy a week's outing, and Ne braska City insisted on having them come to that city. They went, and some of them behaved so badly that the Nebraska City papers have not quit talking about the depredations com mitted by the university youths during their stay, and say they do not want them again. We have not seen a record of the vote of our congressmen on the cur rency bill, but we do- notice that Sena tor Burkett voted for the bill and Sera- tor Brown against, and strange to re- ate, a really conscienciou3 republics n will endorse both senators. You watch the endorsements, and if both senators are not endorsed by the republicans for doing diametrically the opposite to each other, we'll eat our old last years hat. That $15,000 13 a very small fund to be compared with that ?5,000,000 which Mark Hanna fried out of the cor- poratiotions to elect r.lcKinley. fcucn small amounts are easily forgotten by the republican papers who are ashamed to acknowledge their party leaders who are composed of the only grafters and pap-suckers in the land. They should sweep their own door yard of the piles of political rubbish, before complaining of the very small amount in their neighbor's door yard. It is just as easy to bj hon est about the matter. anotke". rauroaa 111 tne nanus ot a receiver, more strikes, more factories shutdown; the "big stick" at Wash ington, the "big stick" at Chicago; stock market shaky, money market tight; prosperity clubs and more threats against organization of capital; a billion dollar congress, and a treasury deficit; tariff revifion "after the election" and high tariff now disquisitions on nature faking, spelling reform, astronomy, the strenuous life and effoxts to suspend the constitution; plans for a summer vacation, a hunting trip to Africa and hundreds of thousands of men getting hungrier every minute all of which is a kaleidoscopic view of "my policies" and their happy results . The New York Globe, (Rep.) in speak ing of the administration of Roosevelt, says: "The administration of Presi dent Roosevelt is the most expensive this country ha3 ever known during a time of peace. In every department of the government there has been an in crease relatively larger than our increase in wealth and population. The Presi dent has been an industrious writer of state papers. He has bombarded con gress with messages general and mes sages special. He has touched on al most every subject of mundane concern. Yet one looks in vain through the vol umes of his writing to discover any more than perfunctory advice to keep expenditures down. He has been an adviser of new appropriations all along the line. No president in our history has showii a smaller development of the economy sense. He has many times shown extreme impatience when it was suggested that while a particular thing might be good, perhaps the gov ernment could not afford it. He has enlarged on how mean it was for an opulent country to tighten its purse-strings" The Nebraska City band has been engaged for the great celebration here on the Fourth of July. Judge Travis will deliver the Fire men s Memorial Day addres? in Ne braska City next Sunday. Two bands will be h ere 01 the Foirth of July. Music till you can't rest. Come to Plattsmouth to celebrate. Again there is talk of Governor Sheldon for vice president. The Gov- t 11 . . emor says sucn taiK is not worrying him as much as it is some other people. We would presume not. A few weeks ago the supporters of Taft would haye us believe that the Ohio Booby had enough votes to nom inates him on the first ballot. Now it is reported that he lacks several of pre forming this feat. Why speculate about the national re publican platform? Like its predeces sors, it will claim everything and prom ise everything. The time is long past since republican platforms were made for any other purpose than getting votes. j. hose at. .Louis republicans who in tend to start an "endless chain" letter scheme to force Roosevelt into a third I term may spare themselves the pains. ii lneoaore tne rirst, had seen any j chance of election, there are a number of more experienced political fixers who could turn the trick better than the St. Louis amateurs. The Fourth of July in Plattsmouth is looked forward to with great inter est, and, under the present man agement it cannot help but be a howl ing success. The committees deserve great credit for the interest manifested in making the celebration one of the biggest affairs ever before held in Cass county. Mcke your arrangements to come to the county seat to celebrate. Why don't the Lincoln Star and other republican papers quote correctly, and not try to palm a clipping from the New York Times off on its readers as com ing from a democratic source? The Times has never been anything other than a republican paper, and well does the Star know this fact. Why don't you dig something from the Louisville Courier-Journal, the way you did a few months since? The Courier-Journal don't sing to suit their purpose at the present time. uh, sname on tnese democratic pap ers! Can't a few good fellows get to gether to write a platform in order to save the republican convention trouble, without somebody having a fit? Four years hence, it will be unneccessary to hold any republican conventien, the trust magistrates and Wall street manipulations will meet and decide on a candidate and expect the voters to support whom they decide upon for president. Such a proceedure would please the omce-holdirg gang. 11 no others. It is not alone in the ranks of demo cratic and independent voters that there exists a deep and abiding fear of j and repulsion to Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt's policies. At least eighteen of the most prominent Republicans in the country, among whom are four former cabinet officers, are the same way of thinking. These ;v, --vi ;i f resolutions committee of the national republican convention, asking that body to write into the forthcoming platform a plank strongly declaring against any infringement on the con stitutional prerogatives of the courts. This is without doubt, considering the eminent source from which it comes, the severest rebuff any president of the United States has ever received at the hands of the foremost men of his own pf.rty. With the nomination of Taft at Chi cago next week, democratic victory is reasonably certain in Nebraska this fall. Mr. Bryan is now certain of the nom ination, and there is going to be a gubernatorial nominee who will keep pace witn the peerless leaaer. ihe democrats can win but they have got to work. We do not want to indulge in day dreams. We had better postpone that pleasant but enervating form of amusement until after the November election. It won't do to bask in the sunshine of Roosevelt prosperity and depend upon the errors of the aforesaid (J )( )( )( n IS.. B)E Every Man, 4 We hear it by letter and by 'phone. We hear them talk about it in our store. That is right! We want them to come to Plattsmouth and have a good time. Every merchant is helping to make it a day of pleasure to any one who comes. You will see them out among you, for they are a jolly good lot. They want you to have a celebration you will remem ber with pleasure for a long time to come. Our Shoe De partment is turning out 4th of July Shoes now, and we have them in Whites, Tans and Blacks, and once in a while you buy a pair and when you go to pay for them we refuse the money. Why? Pop the question. : : : : : DC ovigh Rider and the leadership of the great Nebraskan to roll up the votes in Nebraska. Every democrat has a duty to perform this year if he expects vic tory to perch upon our banner, and he should be getting in shape to perform that duty. The campaign in Nebraska isn't going to be anybody s Sunday school picnic and it isn't going to be anybody's cinch either. The opposition to the republican party in this state i is bigger than it ever was, and with the nomination of the Big Booby of Ohio, hundreds of republicans will flock to the support of Mr. Bryan. Bryan Has 869 Votes. The New York Herald, in Its Mon day's estimate of the democratic situ ation, places Mr. Bryan's probable strength in the Denver convention at S69 votes. Of these it classes 567 delegates as already elected and in structed, 145 as uninstructed but classed for Bryan, and 157 yet to be elected, probably for Bryan. The Herald gives Johnson 22 votes, Gray 35 votes, and 82 votes doubtful. Virginia which holds its convention to- dav is classed in the doubtful list. The significance of the Herald's es timate is enhanced by the fact that the sympathies and etiorts ot that r.ewr- paper are frankly anti-Bryan. In mak ing these figures it has simply allowed fs honest newspaper duty to rise super ior to its partisanship and desires, an 3 ha3 given the facts, impartially, as nearly as it could get them. It takes 672 votes to nominate, under the two-thirds rule. The Herald's fig urse, it will be noticed, give Bryan al most 200 votes more than two-thirds of the convention, and less than 150 against him all told. This impartial statement of the real situation sheds light on the purpose of I r t TTT tj 1 i 1 1 j i.- ew 1 orK " oria ana otner Pluwwsuc newspapers, claiming to be "demo- cratic that still continue their fight, with vitrolic bitterness, against Bryan's nomination. Since there is not the slightest hope of defeating him at Den ver it is plain that their effort is directed solely to weakening him in the cam paign. Knowledge of the fact will rob them of whatever influence they once possessed among democrats. Omaha World Herald. Some very nice pictures of the Kansas City floods, are on exhibition at the windows of the Leonard building, taken by Carl Leonard, of Kansas City and forewarded here, showing the flood ed condition of portions of that place. 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. C. FRICKE&CO., Druggists, Plattsmouth, Neb. Y'l2 Woman and Child are Talking About the Bon PDsitftsinnioiui'iM 3C BUSINESS FAIL URES INCREASE Dradstreef's Review for the Week Ending June 1 1, So States, Bradstreet's says: "Weather, crop and trae repoits display irregularity. It has been too wet and cool in the south west and northwest for best retail and trade and crop developments, but east of the Mississippi river conditions have been better and more favorable reports come from the latter sections. In wholesale lines evidence of improve ment in fall buying are seen, but pur chasers are generally cautious, while sales for immediate shipment are con fined to strictly filling-in requirements. Political and crop uncertainties seem likely to influence distant purchases for some time to come, and trade is hardly better than quiet to fair the country over. ' 'Business failures in the United States for the week ending June 11, number 253, which compares with 225 last week, 161 in the like week of 1907, 170 in 190G, 175 in 1905 and 181 in 1904. In Canada there were thirty business failures as against twenty-seven last week and twenty-two in the same week in 1907. "Wheat including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending June 11 aggregate 3,064, 547 bushels, against 4,366,204 last week, 3,376,S62 this week, last year and 3, 400,314 in 1902. For the fifty weeks of the fiscal year exports are 195,315,508 bushels, against 164,321,994 in 1906 and 1907 and 240,637,762, in 1901 and 1902. Corn exports for the week are 126, 338 bushels against 266,433 last week and 783,455 in 1907. For the fiscal year to date exports were 51,518,519 bushels against 69,532,535 in 1906 and 1907." Farewell Reception The Entre Nous club gave a farewell reception to their president, Mrs. Lizzie Pollard and her husband at the elegant home of A. F. Sturm last Friday even ing; the invited guests being the rela tives. The evening was pleasantly spent in social conversation and games and re freshments were served. There were general expressions of regret in losing them from our community, and best wishes for their future prosperity. Dr. Pollard leaves for his new home today. Nehawka Register. Send in Their Names It is the intention of the Journal to j notice the arrival and departure of all comers and goers, but occassionally we miss some very important personages, amply because those with whom they are visiting feel a delicacy in reporting the sarh'e to us. Now, we don't want anyone to feel backward about giving J us the names of friends visiting them Telephone the names to us. R,..VrH VJ, Dr M,M I town aturday evening and surprised Burkett Wh. PfGoCnt he.'don. , their daughter, Miss Helen. The oc A special from Washington under j casion was in honor of her twentieth date of June 12, says: "Senator birthday anniversary. Music and games Burkett of Nebraska called at the j were enjoyed throughout the evening White house prior toJeaving for Chi- j after which a declicious two-course cago today and in glowing terms sound-, luncheon was served. The crowd pric ed the praises of Governor Sheldon of ; sented Miss Roman with a beautiful his state, who, he said, would make a ring, as a remembrance of the occasion splendid vice presidential candidate on In the wee small hours of the morr.ir. the republican ticket. He said he the guests departed, declaring they had might nominate him, but had r.ot fully enjoyed a most delightful evening wish made up his mind how far he would ing they might return to many' more press his candidacy." euch happy occasions. 0 0 Hard to Swallow An Otoe county farmer tells a story that is hard to swallow. He said h s wife kept missing her young chickers and could not account for their dL appearance. The mystery was finally accounted for when some of the family found that the big green-headed frogs in their pond were in the habit of com ing out on dry land and swallowing the chicks, feathers and all. Now what do you think about that? A VERY PLEAS ANT GATHERING Thiriy Couples Trip fhe Light Fantastic at John Kaffen berger, Sr. Saturday evening at the home of John Kaffenberger, sr., six miles west of Plattsmouth, thirty couples joined the Kaffenberger family in dancing the hours away. Music was furnished by a mandolin, violin and guitar. At mid night one of the Kaffenberger's famous three-course luncheon was served, con sisting of everything in the line of good things to eat. Notwithstanding that most of the couples were specked with mud, everyone had an enjoyable time, and danced until late in the morning. Those present to enjoy the happy evei t were: Mary Kehne, Louise Kehne, Martha Steppat, Anna Steppat, Margaret Weber, Emma Hirz, Lizzie Hirz, Nettie Mei singer, Mary Meisinger, Helen Horn, Minn'e Stohlman, Clara Parkenirg, Jo sephine Vallery, Luella Ktffenbarger, Mabel Kaffenberger, Johnnie Kaffer berger, Louie Meisinger, Albert Mei singer, Nick Baumgart, Fred Baum- gart, Loaie Baumgart, Ed Baumgart, George Horn, Harry Horn, Cecil Th omas, -Clare Thomas, Charley Miller, Phillip Hirz, Will Hirz, Fred Hirz, Fritz Kaf fyke, Harve Harger, Mr. and Mr3. Sol Adamson, Katie, Kaffenberger, Maggie Kaffenberger, Mary Kaffenberger, Lena Hirz, Bertha Nolting, Mrs. Nicholas Todd, Frank Steppat, August Kehne,' Willie Kehne, Gustav Heidaman, Fritz Procht, Max Vallery, Fritz Vallery, Clyde Adamson, Will Krugar, Otto Parkening, John Parkening, George Kaffenberger, Emil Meisinger, Frank Peterer, Fred Kaffenberger, Henry Heil, Mike Fischer, Richard Wollstein, Heiry Nolting, Arnold Stohl man, Henry Eorn and family, Will Val lery and family, Adam Stoehr and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hirz, Mr. and Mrs. Coon Vallery, Herman Gans mer and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Kaffenberger, sr., Mr. and Mrs. John Kaffenberger, jr., John Meisinger. A Pleasant Birthday Parly. A jolly crowd of sixteen voun" reo- i .i ..... rl" j p:e gainerea at the home of Mr. and ! Mrs. A. G. Roman, two miles south of j 3 fJ