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PLATrSMOUTH, NEHKA3K.A
R. A. BATES, Puiti.iBHKii
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braxka. an scoonrtclaiM matter.
It will Le Bryan and Harmony.
No State Journals for two days. It
must have rained some.
The State Journal can scan the World-
Herald's accounts of it's flood with sat
isfaction nit.
Chairman Bell, had a hard time get
ing there, but he was on hand when the
time came. All democrats will be on
hand on time in November.
Fire, wind and flood are terrible de
vastors. May no man suffer from them,
but those who do must be succored and
aided. We are all ready to do our
part.
Lincoln in it's sorrow has the pro
found sympathy of this city, which has
itself suffered. Let us hope the callous
wretches who rejoice at our troubles
feel their own.
The Democratic National Convention
in adopting resolutions of sympathy for
the late Ex-President Cleveland did
what the public expected. It gave him
credit for that he deserved a great
statesman, a conservative citizen and
a typical American. It has confounded
the enemies of democracy, and proven
true to th e faith.
The good people of Ashland in their
affliction, have the profound sympnthy
of Plattsmouth and its citizens. It is
such occurrances as this that bind the
whole world together as brothers. When
we sat in the gloom of disaster by flood,
the sympathetic words of our fellow men
throughout the country touched us deep
ly and we are but too glad now to re
spond with our best efforts for stricken
Ashland.
H. G. Wellensiek, the cashier of
the Avoca bank, deserves the thanks
of the people of Plattsmouth for his
cleverness in bringing Governor Sheldon
from Weeping Water to Plattsmouth
on the Fourth of July in his auto. The
committees and our people in general
authorize the Journal to return their
most sincere thanks to Mr. Wellensfek
for his kindness. He got the Governor
here in good time for the afternoon's
address.
Plrs. Georgs Craig Ho Detter
Last evening Earnest Richter and
wife, of near Murray, were in the city
staying over night at the home of Geo.
Craig and wife, on account of the very
severe illness of Mrs. Craig, an adopt
ed daughter of the Richter's, who some
time since suffered a stroke of paralysis,
and of which she is not making satis
factory recovery. A sister, Mr. Aug
usta Hall, came also last evening from
Minneapolis, to see Mrs. Craig, bring
n j an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Craig with her. They are staying at
the Craig home at present.
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SCORES REPUBLICANS
Address of Permanent Chairman
Clayton at Democratic Na
tional Convention.
EOOSEVELT AND "MY POLICIES"
President Has Well Advertised Him
elf. Says Speaker.
Enormous Tribute Lievled on the leo
pie by Trusts Behind Wall of
- High Protection Demo
cratic Duty.
Upon assuming the office of perma
nent chairman of the Democratic na
tional convention, Representative Hen
ry I). Clayton, of Alabama, said in
part:
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Demo
crats: I,et me thank you fmor the hon
or 3'ou have conferred upon me. This
Is a Democratic j'ear. Democratic
ideas are now popular. Doctrines al
wnys taught ly our party and scolTe.l
at by our opponents are now urged as
a gospel of their own. Measures and
policies of Democratic origin are now
advocated by the leaders of the Repub
lican party. It is no longer nn-irch s-tli-ta
declare private nionopoty to be in
defensible, or that the great trans
portation companies should be regu
lated and control'tMl by public law. A
demand for the revision cf the tariff
is no longer a threat to destroy our
industrial -system. Trusts aie not ti
be tolerated even by the Uepubl'ca'j
party. We need not now enlarge o:i
the list of Republican admissions and
promises for election purpose-; only.
The Republican party has made marked
progress iu promises to the people an 1
much greater progress in a'ding selfish
interests and special privileges. That
party, guided by expediency and cam
paign necessity, would camp this year
on Democratic ground. It is apparen
that if recent progress is to ccntinuo
it does not requre a very great sweep
of the imagination to see written into
a Republican platform four years
hence those immortal words of Thom
as Jefferson. 'Equal rights to all, spe
cial privileges to none.'
Republican Responsibility.
"The Republican party, having had
full control of the federal government
for more than a decade, must give an
account of its stewardship. Its pro
tentious claims, largely without founda
tion, and largely" exaggerated, will no:
nuflice. Iet honest investigation re
veal the bad and defective laws passed
by that party; vicious policies main
tained; reforms rejected; the recent
panic and its consequence; promises
broken; dissimulation practiced; incom
petency confessed by its failure to
meet urgent public needs; and exhib't
ing this incompetency by the appoint
ment of junketing commissions for the
alleged purpose of advising that party,
so long in control and of such boas e l
legislative wisdom, what legislation is
required by the country. Against the
Republican party, so dangerous and
crafty., is a capable, determined, hon
est Democracy, in sympathy with "all
just public demands, and confidently
asking i:i its behalf the candid public,
judgment. To that judgment the is
sue must be committed, and we un
hesitatingly nbmit our cause to that
fine and tr:e sense for the right that
we know distinguishes the American
people.
"My Policies."
"In this quadrennial contest Mr.
Roosevelt has identified himself with
Mr. Taft. Mr! Taft has identiiied him
self with Mr. Roosevelt. The Repub
lican party has inseparably identified
the two together. To praise one yon
must praise the other; to criticise one
19 to criticise his pursuing shadow.
And so, I must say, if it should ap
pear to any one that in noting and de
nouncing abuses and failures on the
part of the present administration any
license is assumed, urge the impossi
bility of separating the present occu
pant of the Whit House from h's own
anointed one.
"It has been made evident iu the
pending campaign that the Ilepubl cans
will seek to conjure with the name of
Roosevelt and will rely upon the pres
ident's policies as a prized asset. The
president has advertised himself and
his policies with a frequency and abil
ity that surprasses the best efforts of
the shrewdest press agent. A distin
guished Republican, a former cabinet
officer, once publicly proclaimed the
president to be the greatest exponent
of the art of advertising the world has
known. The country has been told
and not allowed to forget that, in his
opinion, his energies have been devoted
to the accomplishment of many high
purposes, and that if his work is jet
incomplete it !s so only because his un
dertakings were too vast to be carried
to success during his term of office.
'My policies' must continue. The pre
tense is that the fight must go on un
der the leader designated by him un
til the last foe shall have surrendered
or lies inglorious in the dust. The
uomination of his would-be successor
was largely accomplished by the ue
of official patronage and coarse ma
chine methods, and has delighted the
chief apostle of strenuosity. and. at
the same time, has not perturbed the
conscience of the one-time civil service
reformer, now the boss, an adept in
the Lcstowal cf advice to the public
and forgetful of ail Lis resounding
moral commonplaces. No fair-niindc i
American could read the ci"i'y ac
counts of the recent political djUc-'s at
Chicago wiiliont feeling mortification
and regret; mortification that the pres
ident should have bo abus-d h's pmvoi
In dictating to a great party his dio ci
of a successor, and r g et that that
party nhould have submitted xo co .'. a d
ly to a humiliation that was as mani
fest as It was degrading."
Mr. Clayton called .ttenfion t i
failure of the Repub.lc in convention ;i
insert a plank forbidding eampa'g-i
contributions, quoted Riesident Ito s
velt's condemnation of the practice ri
his message of December, 100.". In
junctions and contempts of court wen
treated vigorously and several quota
tions from the message of President
Roosevelt were given to show that the
president had abandoned at Chlcagt
th policies he had so vigorously irge l
in his message, adding:
"It Is important to note that the act
of June 2, 188t, was passed at the Drst
session of the first eougress that met
under the first Democratic administra
tion after the civil war and there la
bor received its first recognition from
the government. One Republican ad
ministration had succeeded another foi
twenty-four years, and not one act wa
passed In the Interest of labor or in
acknowledgment of its right to fait
and equal treatment. The Rcpub
llcans enacted a tariff which enhanced
the price of products that labor had
made and capital owned, and they pre
tended to do this with a view of se
curing for labor higher wages. What
they gave, however, was to the cap
italist, and they trusted him to divide.
That the increased profits of protected
employers have made them able t j ay
the laboring man higher wages no on"
can doubt, but it remains for the sav
ing grace of Almighty God so to toue'i
their hearts as to make them willing
to pay the higher wages.
"Among the contributions that went
to make up the monument that this
great man, fJrover Cleveland, buiid I
iu the respect and affection of his
countrymen, few are more striking.;
than his almost instant recognition, as
evidenced by the act of ISStJ, of th3
sane and just demands of labor on thn
lawmaking power. Under him Democ
racy blazed the way and now remains
the unflinching champion cf every
sound reform in this direction. Im
munity from law we promise nobody,
immunity from oppression from Its
very infancy the Democratic party ha
been dedicated to establish an 1 se
cure. The Tariff.
"The president and his party deelare
that a pre-election revision of the tariff
would be unwise. This abortion ha:i
been repeated in advance of every elec
tion since the enactment of the Ding
ley law, and surely the country will
net again be deceived by Republican
promises to revise the tariff after tlic
election. Their appeal to the people is
this, 'give us another chance to make
you a promise and the promise will be
made.'
"What does protection mean? Un
der the Republican policy of protect I m
the people, the consumers, while pay
ing a little over $300,000,000 per yearj
Into the treasury through import du'iet
of foreign goods, pay over $1,250,
000,000 a year in the enhanced price
of home produced goods. Our domestic
manufactures exceed our total imports
by ten to one and they are nearly all
protected. It is safe to say that the
people pay at least $3 to the already
wealthy beneficiaries of protectionism
for every dollar that is paid into the
treasury. I'ehind the wall of high pro
tection', which in some cases is alto
gether prohibitive, the trusts levy enor
mous tribute on the people. This
has amounted to not less than
$10,000,000,000 in the last decade,
not counting the amount paid to sup
port the government. This money has
come from the pockets of the farmer,
the mechanic, the merchant, the pro
fessional man and the laborer, and has
been poured into the coffers of the
protected classes. More than two
thirds of the capital that derives bene
fit from protectionism belongs to the
trusts. The Democrats will revise the
tariff downward and In the interest of
the tax payers, who are always for
gotten by the Republican party. There
must be revision and a gradual reduc
tion of the tariff by the friends of
tariff reduction for the common good,
and not by -the beneficiaries of its
abuses, who justify use of the impost
taxing power for the chief purpose
of conferring privilege and profit upon
the few at the expense of the many.
Trusts
"It is the shortest of steps from the
tariff to the trusts. Let it be denied
If they care to deny it, that the tariff
is the real mother of the trusts. The
president has made great pretense of
destroying trusts. Let him tell of the
result. In a message delivered to con
gress he said: The department of
justice has for the last four years de
voted more attention - to the enforce
ment of anti-trust legislation than any
thing else. Much has been ac
complished; particularly marked has
been the moral effect of the prosecu
tions; but it is increasingly evident
that there will be a very Insufficiently
beneficial- result in the way of econ
omic changes. The successful prose
cution of one device to evade the law
immediately develops another device
to accomplish the same purpose. What
is needed is not sweeping prohibition
f every arrangement, " good or bad,
which might tend to restrict competi
tion, but such adequate supervision and
regulation as will prevent any restric
tion of competition from being to the
detriment of the piiblie. as well as
such supervision and regulation as
will prevent other abuses, in no way
connected with restriction of competi
tion.' "This Is tin admission of failure;
and one does not need to dwell on tin1
admission further than to say that the
imprisonment of those who violate the
law would have hud a more snlutary!
effect than ail that has been done or
might have been done in this direc
tion during hI-4 entire administration.
"The Democratic party will strik?
down special privileges, whether
granted through a hi'i protective
tariff, or granted to government c hart
ered corporations by permission of
law. All trusts owe their birth and
their ability to continue existence to
one or the other of these two forms
of special privilege. No private
monopoly, no business approximating
private monopoly, in methods or in
magnitude, can endure without one or
the other."
The recent panic and the causes
which led to the Aldrich bill were
treated exhaustively, and a review
given of the failures of congress to
pass many important measures which
were recommended by the president.
Regarding the president's failure to
call an extra session, Mr. Clayton
pointed out that the Democratic
leader of the house, authorized by alt
his party associates, reieatedly offered
to support the measures, but that Re
publican support was not forthcoming,
and that it was simply a play for Re
publican votes. Federal ursurpation
of power was severely scored in the
following language:
"The president is upon an eminence.
If he violates the law, men everywhere
know it. If he does not himself re
spect it to the full extent, he robs It
of the reverence that might be will
ingly bestowed by others. In this
same overbearing spirit he has placed
and kept In office men who were not
appointed by and with the advice and
consent of the senate. He has In
fluenced or attempted to influence
courts and juries in the administration
of public justice, not only by decid
ing who should and who should not be
prosecuted, but by making known his
personal feelings or sympathies be
tween the prosecution and the ac
cussed. lie has scolded judges foi
their interpretations of the law. It
was therefore timely and appropriate
that the Republican party at Chicago
should have declared that it 'will up
hold at all times the authority and
Integrity of the courts.
"He has constantly cried out for
more power on the part of the federal
government at the expense of the
powers reserved to the states. In his
speec h ' at llarrisburg, in October,
100;, lie told of easy methods for in
creasing the power of the federal gov
ernment. The method provided in the
constitution was too cumbersome,
slow and uncertain for him. There
he lets the country into the secret of
his short cut to increasing the federal
power in these words: ' We need
through judicial interpretation and
construction, to increase the power of
the federal government.'
"Mr. Root, whom the president is
said to have called, 'my secretary'
followed this llarrisburg expression
by a speech at New York, In which he
said: 'Sooner or later construction
will be found to vest power where it
will be exercised by the national gov
ernment.' "Of course many people are not sur
prised at any opinion the president
utters: he has so many of them and
has expressed them on so many con
ceivable and non-preconceivable occa
sions. Now, Secretary Root is an able
lawyer and a man of trained and de
liberate habits of thought. Nothing
shows more plainly the demoraliza
tion wrought by the president than the
fact that this trained lawyer, in the
very front rank of his great profes
sion, should advocate changing the or
ganic law of the union by construc
tion to 'be found'; and to 'be found'
by whom? By the very men who are
to exercise the power. The insidious
proposition of Mr. Root, following up
the suggestion of his chief, is that
where authority Is not granted, which.
In the opinion of the executive, ought
to have been granted, this authority is
none the less to be exercised, and if
no other basis for it can be had, it is
to be based upon construction to 'be
found.' In other words if the consti
tution has not conferred the power
upon the executive," then the power is
to be vested in him by construction
to 'be found in a way not provided
for by the organic law of the Union.
"Representative institutions must be
preserved, our federal government of
delegated and limited powers must be
maintained in all Its constitutional
vigor, and each state must 'be pre
served with all of its reserve powers,
and its integrity and autonomy for
ever. Therein Is the safety of the
TTnion and the states, one indis
oluble and the other indestructible.
Democratic Duty.
We know there is a brighter pros
pect, if the love of country and liberty
Is still strong in the hearts of the
American people; if an oath to support
the constitution is now considered by
them as binding; if the people are in
earnest in their protests against the
rule of Insolent wealth, the unauthor
ized and baleful influence of corpora
tions and the exactions of the trusts;
if the manliness of the fathers have
been transmitted to the sons; and the
fourth of next March will mark the
advent of the Gladsome Light of
Democracy and the beginning of the
return to constitutional government
honestly and economically adminis
tered. To the banner we raise here
we invite all citizens of our common
country who revere the nobler tradi
tions of the past and who deplore the
grave aberrations of the present. Let
us see to it that this standard shall
once again float over a government
resting on lasting foundations.
"Mr Chairman, delegates and fellow
countrymen: The time and the occa
sion in our national affairs impose a
duty we cannot, if we would, evade.
We must go out from this hall with
one heart and a determination to put
our loved ship of state on an even
keel. That keel has been too long
beating the air. We must bring it
clown into the deep and abiding
waters of the constitution."
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DAILY PERSONAL NEWS
Short Items of Interest, From Tues
day Evening's Daily Journal
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Mrs. W. T. Scotten was a visitor in
Omaha this morning.
Carl Fricke was looking after some
businesss matters in Omaha this after
noon. W. II. McLaughlin was a visitor in
the city from Pacific J unction this aft
ernoon. George Lloyd, from near Murray, was
a brief caller in the city yesterday
evening.
John McNurlin went to Murray yes
terday where he will visit a few days
at the home of Miles Standish.
Sam Ballance departed on the Schuy
ler train, for Lincoln, after having been
storm bound for the last two days.
Rev. B. F. Eichelberger departed for
Taoor, Iowa, this morning.
Bruce Rosencrans returned this morn
ng to Lincoln, where he is employed.
J. V. Hatt was looking after some
business matters in the metropolis this
morning.
Mrs. M. E. Bell of the Masonic Home
was a visitor with friends in Omaha
this morning.
Mrs. J. II. Hall was a visitor in Oma
ha with friends today, going on the
early Burlington train.
Fred Oldenhausen was a business
visitor in Omaha today, going on the
early Burlington train.
Mrs. David Hawksworth and daughter
Mrs. E. W. Cook, were visitors with
friends in Omaha this morning.
Ben Dill, that corpulent, jovial friend
of our from near Murray, was in the
city yesterday evening and this morn
ing. John Hockstrausser and daughter,
Kathleen, were visitors in Omaha this
morning, looking after some business
matters.
E. Rothmann, of Murdock, was a vis
itor in the city this morning, having
some business matters to look after at
the county seat.
George Foster departed this after
noon for Wakeeney, Kansas, where he
will work in the harvest fields during
the coming harvest.
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J. T. Porter, one of The Journal s
staunch friends from near Murray, was
looking after some business matters in
the city last evening.
Mrs. L. C. Conwell of the Masonic
Home departed for VVilber this morn
ing, where she will visit with friends
for a few days.
Mrs. Iva Boroushi and daughter,
Gretchen, accompaniep by Mrs. Mattie
Carlson were visitors with friends in
Gmaha this mornirg.
L. C. Pittman of Nehawka, was a
visitc r in the city last evening and this
morning, looking after some business
matters.
G. M. Porter departed this morning
for Lincoln again, having tried to reach
that placeyesterday, but being unable
to on account of the high water around
the capitol city.
Miss Elsie Cerey of Iowa City, Iowa,
departed for her home this morning,
after having visited in the city for some
days past, the guest of her friend. Miss
Claire Bookmeyer.
Rev. J. II. Salsbury departed for
Dunbar this state, this afternoon, where
he is to deliver an address before the
Christian Endeavor meeting of that dis
trict this evening.
Miss Ruby Palen of Takamah, this
state, departed for her home this morn
ing, after having visited in the city
some time, the guest of her friend,
Miss Florence BaircL .
A. R. Kroh of Chicago, who has been
in the city for some time, looking after
some land business, departed for Las
Vages, New Mexico, where he i3 look
ing after some land transactions.
Miss Mary Meyer of Omaha, returned
to her home this morning after having
visited in the city at the home of Adolph
Wesch, and with the family of Martin
Steppat and family, northwest of the
city, for the past few days.
Mrs. H. G. Van Horn, accompanied
by Mrs. Van Horn's sister, Mrs. Tillie
Palmer were visitors with friends at
Glenwood, la., this morning. .
Mrs. Silas Breckenridge was a visitor
in Omaha this morning, going to visit
with her friend, Mrs. Chas Manners,
who is at the hospital at that place.
Miss Leona Brady departed this morn
ing for Greenfield, Iowa, where she will
visit for a few days with her sister,
Mrs. John Cox, formerly Miss Bessie
Brad v.
J. W. Sage and wife departed this
morning for Minco, Oklahoma, where ,
they will stay for some ten days or so. j
They have a farm there and are going ,
to see how things are lining up on it. j
The crops are reported as being ex- i
cellent in that neighborhood. '
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Mrs. Thomas Julian was a visitor in
Glenwood, Iowa, this morning.
Lemon Bates and daughter, Miss
Nellie Bates came in this morning from
Tabor, Iowa, where they have been
visiting over the Fourth.
B. Pool of Glenwood, Iowa, was a
visitor in the city Jast evening and this
morning looking after some business
matters returning home this morning.
Mrs. Chas Manners is reported as
getting along in the best of shape at
the hospital at Omaha, where she is be
ing treated for the appendicitis, having
undergone an operation for the same
sometime since.
Edward Wilson, of Alva. Wyoming,
departed for his home this morning, and
was accompanied as far as Omaha by
Mrs. Joseph Tubbs, and daughter, Bes
sie, after visiting for some days at the
Tubbs home.
L. B. Brown from near Kenosha was
in the city this morning bringing his
niece, Miss Mable Thrapp, as she will
depart for her home at Denver tomor
row. Miss Tharpp has been visiting in
the city and south of town for the past -two
months.
The building formerly occupied by
Claus Speck ; the one owned and occupied
by L. B. Egenberger, and the old Pearl
man building, occupied by D. P Jack
son, are being treated to a new coat of
paint, which is adding greatly to their
appearance. T. J. O'Brian is doing the
work.
Matthew Gering is having his build
ing repaired on main street, the one
which has been heretofore known as
the Lehnhoff building, Mr. James Hod
get is doing the work, and among other
things, a new floor is being put in and
the entire front rearranged. The
changes will add greatly to the appear
ance of the place and make it a great
deal more convenient and serviceable.
The ladies at the Presbyterian rest
room on Main street had 276 women
registered last Saturday between the
hours of 1 and 8 p. m. It is estimated
that the W. C. T. U. room on Sixth
street had at least 500 women and
children to care for during the day.
The rooms were a greatly appreciated
necessity and were highly praised.
Mrs. Al. Totten returned this morn
ing from a visit of a few days at Blue
Hill, this state, and encountered a great
deal of trouble with high water. Ar
riving at Crete yesteaday she was com
pelled to go to Beatrice and from there
through Falls City to Rulo, crossing in
to Missouri, thence up to Pacific Junc
ion, and over here on the morning
rain.
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