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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1908)
The Plattsmouth Journal I'Ur.l.lSIIKD WKKKI.Y AT PLATrSMOUTIl, NEBRASKA. It. A. I5ATKS, IMthi.ismkk. nu r.il ;il Hie posti I1Iim- ill I'liittsmoulh. -br:ihk:i.iiti'-iiiil cIiinh m:illT. $1.50 Per Year in Advance. Tin: Weeping- Water Republican, like the Journal, is not pleased with the primary system of nominating state candidates. Hi:,kst and Ilisgen have followed the example of Debs and started on a speech making" tour of the country. Is the Republican committee financing that, too? "Tai-t can see some danger" in the returns from Vermont, but some repub lican papers of the Omaha Bee stripe, keep on "whistling to keep their cour age up." Takt is scoffing at guarantee of bank deposits, and the republicans of the west are advocating such a guarantee, iucluding Senator Norris I'rown of Ne braska. The way of the transgressor is hard, including the way of the eco nomic transgressor. Sknatok Forakkr sounds a warning against 1'residents having too much power. The admistration of Mr. Roose velt has proved that there is not so much danger in Presidents being given power as in their usurping authority that does not belong to them. Mil. Taft has declared that he be lieves the missionaries in China are do ing a good work. But this was not the question. The religionists asked him whether or not he believed in the di vinity of the Christ, and they are still waiting for a reply. NoTwmiST AMH.st; the fact that Ala bama has adopted a prohibitory law, a I'nited States court has decided that shipments of beer must reach the con signee and cannot be stopped in transit. That is all the thirsty Alabamans want. hu e the beer gets to the consignee, it would require a stomach pump "rather than a search and seizure writ to recover it. Chairman Hitchcock will perform a Herculean task if he succeeds in paci fying the warring Republican factions in Illinois, Yates and Foss, who were defeated for the nominations for Gov ernor and United States Senator, are probably no madder than Leland and Long of Kansas, but they are not as diplomatic as the latter and are talking right out in meeting. It is a difficult matter these days to find a Republican state where there is not a merry war on between the political leaders. Secretary Taft declares that if elected he will immediately convene congress for the purpose of an open revising the tariff. Isn't this admission that there is something wrong with our tariff laws? But Mr. Taft never thought of tariff revision until forced by W. J. Bryan, backed by public sen timent, to recognize it. Mr. Bryan has all along insisted on tariff revision so as to stop the robbery of the American people under the protection of the law. Mr. Taft never raised his voice until he became a candidate. Let us elect the man who has always insisted that the tariff should be revised instead of the man who never saw the necessity for it u r.til driven to it by popular demand. If Tom Allen concludes "to step down and out" as chairman of democratic state central committee, for the Lpor' sake give us a chairman equally as effi cient as Mr. Allen has been. There is talk ; some men who do not posses the prop : erience, and if they ever had any tive ability it is not known even le of their own voting pre cinct y perhaps possess the 'cheek' to pi emselves to the front, and Jmak le believe they are "some pum " We have plenty of good and i men for the position, then why rout such fellows when there aren e Hon. H. H. Hanks of Ne- brasl .-. Hon. W. H. Thompson of Gran nd. Judge Oldham of Kear ney, Stephens of Fremont, and other : workers in democratic har ness, assess every quality to guide. To b d, the Journal would rather sec T 'ten remain as chairman dur ing t - aent campaign, even if he will t sent to remain longer. Calamitiks never come singly to the small boy. The baseball season closss and the schools opeu about the same ! time. Vf.ry soon the burning question of the hour will be, "Where did I put Willie's school books last sprirg?" Gkovkk Ci.kvki.and is dead. His lips are dumb and fie cannot reprove those who have taken his name in vain. But if lie could come back from the grave, as Samuel of old, he could but say: "Why hast thou thus disquieted me to bring me up?" And William H. Taft could but reply: "I am sore distressed. " A Douglas county republican declar ed the other day that Victor Rosewater's meddling in the local politics of that county has made at least 500 votes for Bryan. He said he did not know much about the state campaign, but he sup posed Rosewater's attempt to dictate here will cost the party a proportionate number of votes for it. The Iowa republicans are in a worse condition than ever. In convention yes terday at DesMoines the "stand-patters" bolted, and all of that faction but two refused to take any part in the de liberations of that august body. While Cummins was nominated for senator, the bolters aver they will nominate an other candidate next Wednesday. This will complete the wide-open split. This is democratic year and big quest ions are to be decided. We have the candidates and the principles. Petty family quarrels and personal matters have no place in the campaign. Get together and push for the good of the country, locally and nationally. Thou sands of Republicans in every state are going to help us because our cause is just. How can any real Democrat fail to do his duty? In speaking of the recent primary election in that state, the Osceola (Mo.) Democrat says: "It took just exactly three weeks to find out who was nomin ated in the recent primary election. Had there been several more candidates it is doubtful if we would have found out in time lor the November election. " From the way the returns are coming in, it will take about that length of time to find out who are the successful candi dates in Nebraska. A. C. Shallenberger is undoubtedly the democratic candidate for governor of Nebraska, according to the returns from the primary last Tuesday. While such papers as the Omaha Bee are en gaged in endeavoring to raise "a muss" between Dahlman, Berge and the sue- j cessful candidate, the Journal is of the opinion that hoth of the defeated candi date are made of true democratic metal, and will pull thei- coats and wade into the campaign with a vim that will insure the election of Mr. Shallenberger. It's pretty tough on the Republican managers to have their powder wet by the United States court sprinkling the Standard Oil line so that the anti-trust issue will not even fiz. No wonder President Roosevelt denounced the court, looking at the matter from his partism standpoint. There is no doubt the Standard Oil is guilty of accepting rebates, but the Republican attorneys and Judge Landis were so anxious for a spectacular fine that they overplayed their hands and did not allow the jury to know the whole truth. And now comes such papers as the Omaha Bee and point to the Vermont election Tuesday as a straw, showing the direction of the national political wind. Nearly a score of years ago the lateHenery W. Grady said, "The grand est product of New England is 14,000 Vermont Democrats, who, undiminished by death and unrecruited by birth or conversion have marched over the rug ged hills, cast their Democratic ballots, and then gone to their homes again, only to awaken on the morrow and read the usual result of 22,000 Republican majority. May the God of the helpless and the heroic help them, and may their tribe increase." It wiil be no ed by the returns that the Vermont Democrats polled Tuesday the 14,000 votes they have been casting ever since the civil war. None has died, and none has been born to increase the total. It would be a violent stretch of the imagination to find any lesson in the result. If republican papers can find any consolation in the result they are ! welcome to it. ' The Bryan of Today. For twelve years he has stood the best loved and the most cordially hated of any man in the public eye As his friends have advanced from love to worship and their numbers increased, his traducers have become less virulent and their numbers declined In his sincerity, honest and man howl he has won the confidene of man kind In the fight for public decency and the elevation) f governmental standards he has stood the invincible tribune of the people Despite the most intolerable opposition he has risen with new honors and a gace as serene as the dawn In his eye there gleams the glance of an honest man, whose heart beats in unison with the noblest aspiration of a great people and whose head is preg gnant with high ideals and great hopes, the economic emancipation of man He visited the crowned heads of the world, and through the force of his exalted personality, demonstrated to them the grandure of a free citizenship, and the divinity of true manhood He is the mouth of the oppressed, the heart of the benefactor, the head of the leader and the conscience of has dared to challenge the hosts of privilege, and through his daring and honest manhood forced the male factors into the open where the light of the day has withered their hopes and made them surrender The people are crying for deliverance from the hosts of special privilege. He has heard that cry and with the de votion of the Spartan mother, the strength of Hercules and the courage of the gods he has championed their cause The conscience of the nation is at last awakened, and he is 'the voice of that conscience. If in this man thepeopleof American have not a champion where may they hope to find one? Omaha Chancellor. "Is there any reason why the farmers should be willing to risk a Bryan ad ministration?" excitedly asked the Baltimore American. Well, yes, there is the Democratis demand for tariff revision downwards; there is the de mand that senators be elected by the people; there is the Democratic promise of laws protecting bank depositors against loss; there is the Democratic insistence that railrords should be valued at their earnings limited to fair returns on actual value of the roads; there is the Democratic resolutions for publicity of campaign contributions before election. FBuilfpjii SEPTEMBER Excursion Ractes! 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FISHIN'I GERMANY'S NOTE VEXES ENGLAND TRYING TO STEAL A MARCH IN THE MOROCCO MATTER. OTHER NATIO:.'3 TO UNITE Pledges Which Great Britain and France Will Demand from Mulal Hafid Before They Rec ognize Him. London, Sept. 4. It is learned that the British government is holding aloof from Mnlai Hafid, the now sultan of Morocco, for the present, but that it proposed to recognize him in due time. British officialdom is irritated by the course adopted by Germany, which it regauls as an attempt to gain influence over and the good will of Mulai Hafid by stealing a march on the other powers. j Consultations are now going on be- ! tween Great Britain, France and Spain, and there is no doubt but that Great Britain and France will act to gether and probably insist that Mulai Hafid give promises to carry out the obligations of Morocco to the powers before they recognize him. Demands on Mulai Hafid. Paris, Sept. 4. The Associated Press is able to give an outline of the guarantees which France and Spain will insist upon from Mulai Hafid. The first is the acceptance of the stipula tions of the Algeciras act. Second, the acceptance of afl the treaties and conventions previously entered into by Morocco, and third, the acceptance of all concessions, privileges and settle ments of whatever character signed since the Algeciras act, or In virtue thereof. German Officials Surprised. Berlin, Sept. 4. The action of Ger many concerning Morocco, It Is ex plained. Is limited to the suggestion to the signatories of the Algeciras act that the time has arrived to recog nize Mulai Hafid as sultan of Morocco. Official wonderment Is expressed at the agitation of the French and Eng lish newspapers over the occurrence. They act as though Germany had done something outside her privileges in stead of something that one of the signatory powers must do if the Mo roccan situation is to be cleared up. Mulai Hafid has informed the pow ers on several occasions that he would fully observe the terms of the Al geciras agreement and he doubtless will repeat these pledges if to do so is regarded as a necessary preliminary to his recognition. WARNER SEEMS TO BE IN LEAD. Official Count May Be Needed to Set tle Michigan Contest. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4. While not conceding the renomination of Gov. Fred M. Warner in last Tuesday's pri mary election, the Free Press Thurs day night completed a new tabulation of the election returns which, with ! 17 precincts missing, gives Warner aj lead of 318 over Auditor General J. B. j Bradley, who opposed Gov. Warner for j the Republican uoiniiiai ion and who was supported by the Free Press. The latest Free Pr-3 f ." '', i: ion rives' Warner .ST..":-,.". Bradley ST. 21 7. ' It is uow !i ji;gh; that nothing shovt . of the officii! canvass cm determine the iioihi: :-.;.lt-ii :'i li.eiv hs talk of re counts and of liugaiion to ensue be fore either side concedes the noii.ii;.. . tlon to the otli-r. The D- reit .W'.'v. which supported Warner, made i j , tabulation which gives Warn r a i f: 1 of 1,013 over Bradley. Wealthy Woman Kills Herself. San Francisco, Sept. 4. EvaJinf, the vigilance of her nurse Thursday. Miss Helen Cullen, a young woman of wealth who had been ill for some time, swallowed the contents of a bottle of iodine, made her way to a third-story window at the Waldemar apartments and leaped to the courtyard b-low. She died a few hours later from her iaiurlM WIDOW OF FIELD, JR., WEDS BECOMES B'.IDE OF MALDWIN DRUMMOND AT LONDON. Simple Ceremony, Performed In West minster Registry, Witnessed by Few. London England, Sept. 4. Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, was married at the Westminster registry office Thursday morning to Maldwin Drummond, second son of the late E-dgar JUheling Djummond and the Honorable LouTsa Theodosia Penning ton, who was a daughter of the third Lord Muncaster. The wedding, which was extremely quiet, was celebrated in the little registry office opposite Buck ingham palace. The only persons present to witness the ceremony were the duke of West minster, who is a great friend of Mr. Dnininionil; Craig W. Wads worth, second secretary of the American embassy, and Mrs. Field's two sons. The boys have been living in England with their mother since the death of their father and they arc to enter Eaton in the :,utumn. Mrs. Field bad known Mr. Drum mond for about ten years, having met. him during her frequent visits to Eng land. She renewed her acquaintance when she came here after Iter hus bands death to practically take up her residence and educate her sons in an English school. To the world at large Mrs. Drum mond was chiefly known as the guar dian and mother of the Field grand children, who are to receive a for tune of more than $100,000,000 left by their grandfather. HORRIBLE MURDER IN BOSTON. Man Kills His Actress Wife and Dis members the Corpse. Boston, Sept. 4. The most brutal crime in Greater Boston since the death of Susan Geary, a chorus girl, four years ago, and one much re sembling it in its details, was dis closed Thursday night by the discov ery of the torso of Mrs. Honorah Jor dan, an actress aged 23 years, of Somerville, In a trunk in a boarding house at 7 Hancock street on Beacon hill, this city. Later the head and the bones of the limbs were found in the furnace of the Jordan home at Somer ville and the scalp, hair and other grewsome remains were taken from the kitchen range of the house. Chester Jordan, aged 29 years, an actor of Somerville, is held by the po lice charged with the murder and ac cording to the officers, he made a com plete confession of the crime. According to Jordan's confession he accidentally killed his wife Tuesday night in a quarrel at their home and. becoming desperate over what he had done, took a butcher's knife, razor and shears and cut up the body and placed the torso in a trunk. He then planned to take the steamer Harvard Wednes day night for New York and throw the part3 of the body overboard. The fact that the Harvard was laid off owing to an accident disarranged his plans and he was obliged to hire a nackman to take the trunk to a Bos ton boarding house to await a more favorable opportunity. The discovery of the crime was due to the suspicions of the hackman, who notified the police. Aaron S. Watkins Notified. Ada. O., Sent. 4. Before a large audience in IMown auditorium of the Ohio Nor! right, Bret, ficially r.o". the tand d : rrt'ci;;:! V. was mad."! : of thi-- v crowded ; rampu . ! I r ir;!y v irg fa.. r:i univer.-ity Thursday j '.Htu;i Wat 1; ins was of-1 i ;' his .;'.i:uii,r ion as j :-esid.-:it bv the .ent o; -. who l ii v er-'-i; v ! .!:' li ; ! i i a- ifd r..-hi; tern-! le.- i! tl;.. ov.'iisinan. hf-r.'-r- ; ;.vi V. heat Fields. S pt. 4. The Na-; tion-.tl E.;;;orI.ii ,iso"iation of the State--, pf a tour of 1,500; miles, through the wheat fields of . YVfcbU-rn Ci:.u.i.t. iviariu'd l're Tiiurs-', 'lay e '.'!.!.-,.-. Th-? t !i:.jrs will be the gut.'Sfs of Winn!;'; ui'll Friday even ing when they will return to St. PauL ORVILLE WRIGHT IN GOOD FLIGHT TEST OF AEROPLANE AT FORT MYER SATISFACTORY. SMALL ACCIDENT OCCURS Two Cornell Students Construct Suc cessful Machine Knabenshue Ascends in His Dirigible Air ship at Columbus, O. Washlngtcui, Sept. 4 Orvlll-) Wright nuide a flight In his aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va., Thursday evening While making the second circle of tin drill grounds Mi. Wright pulled the lever which controls tin planes In the wrong direction and was compelled to descend in order to avoid running Into Home wires. The machine encircled the ground 4 once and was half round tbo field when t tie mishap occurred. The aero plane was in the air for one miiiut and 15 seconds. Wright was at work all day prepar ing for the flight. The starting ap paratus was thoroughly tested ami shortly bei'ore fi o'clock the aero plane was wheeled across t he drill grounds to the starting track. Over an hour was then consiHiu'd in test ing, the motor and arranging details. Officers and Scientists Watch. Standing back from the aeroplane, a crowd of several hundred people, In cluding distinguished officers and scieiists formed a semicircle. At 5:55 o'clock rtie aeroplane shot out along the Single track and reaching the end, continued to travel along th: ground on its runners for about 20 feet, when Mr. Wright turned the for ward planes upward and the machine gradually rose from the ground. Mr. Wright directed ft toward the other end of the field, where a graceful turn was made for the return trip. Turning directly over the starting apparatus, Mr. Wright continued on the second ap. .Ii.'.st as the machine started to make the turn for the sec ond return trip, it was sei :i to dart down to earth in front of the ten'. There was no one at that end of the field and the crowd ran pell mell for the aeroplane, cheering wildly. Tl- general impression v. as that Mr. Wright had descended purposely d: rectly in front of the t j, t win-re tl." aeroplane is housed. It was found though that the for ward part of the right runner- had been broken off in two places. Mr. Wright was uninjured and calmly toll t lie crowd how the accident happened. Students in God Flight. New York, Sept. 4. Special dis patches from Ithaca, N. Y., say: An aeroplane constructed by two Cornell students made its first successful trip Thursday at Varna, three miles north of this city. The constructors, John C. Buckhart of Portland, Ore., and Oscar Trorlicht of Indianapolis, have been trying to perfect their machine all summer. The machine slipped along for O yards on rails and then rose into thu air. Reaching a height of 50 feet, the aeroplane traveled at the rate of 40 miles an hour for several miles. Sight, ing a clump of trees ahead, the driver brought the aeroplane to earth and alighted without mishap. Buckhart says that with a better engine he will be able to travel a great distance. Knabenshue Makes Flight. Columbus, O., Sept. 4. Taking ad vantage of perfect air conditions, Hoy Knabenshue Thursday started from the fair grounds in his airship and made a trip downtown, circling the dome of the statehouse, with three passengers aboard. Besides himself, the airship carried Engineer Buester and Frank Goodale, one of Knaben sfcue's aeronauts who runs a smaller ship. He wa3 gone just 27 minutes, returning to the fair grounds. H circled the race track. Thousand witnessed the flight. GIANT TREES ARE SAVED. Fire Brought Under Control After Several Are Scorched. Sonora, Cal., Sept. 4. The forest fir which threatened the famous big tree grove in this couty has been brought under control and the great trees are safe. Considerable damage has been done to the big trees, but it is not thought many of them will die from the scorching, especially if the fall rains begin early. Several, of the dead giants of the forest have been badly burned. Pardon of Black Hands Asked. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 4. Gov. Stuart received from Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte Thursday an appeal made by the mayor of Bagno Aquilia, Italy, for the pardon of Antonio and Carlo del Grosso, Antonio Scimia and Domeneco Raneri, who are now serv ing a three-year term in the Western penitentiary on charges of having been connected with a Black Hand outrage. Reform Leader is Fined. Kansas City. Sept. 4. C. W. Trick ett, assistant attorney general of Kansas for Wyandotte county and the leader of a recent reform campaign to prevent the illegal selling of liquor la Kansas, was fined $500 In the city court at Kansas City, Kas., Thursday afternoon. He was convicted last week of accepting- aa Illegal fe la a JulUt CM.