The - Plattsmouth - Journal
t i Published Seml-Weeklj it Plattsmouth, Nebraska t
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Eiterai at tha PoatoTi.'e at PlatUmiuth, Nebraska, as second-clas
matter.
$LSO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
This is the week and Wednesday
Is the first day of the great car
nival at riattsmouth. Every lover
of fine stock In Cass county will, or
should be, here on opening day and
view the stock show. It "will all
pay all farmers to be here.
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"W'hy In bell should I notice Fow
ler?" asks Speaker Cannon. Not
being well Instructed In the ethics
of that region we cannot answer.
Hut 1! there Is anything In signs
and portents, Mr. Cannon will have
to notice him in this world before
the comet disappears behind the
run.
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It Is not generally known, per
haps, that the United States does
not own and, as Indicated, have
never owned an nore of public land
in Texas. The state has Its own
homestead laws and Its own com
missioner of the general land office
nt Austin. Out of Its vast domain It
haR endowed its public schools with
more, acres than there are In the
tate of Nebraska.
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George P. Melslnger, Democratic
candidate for county commissioner,
is making friends wherever he goes.
He belongs to one of the best fam
ilies In Cass county, has resided here
for niHny years. Is a farmer and
purely honest In all his dealings.
No man In the county Is better qual
ified for the position of commis
sioner, and you can bet your bot
tom dollar that if he Is elected the
Interests of the taxpayers will be
carefully guarded.
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A meeting or the Republican
county central committee was held
In Langhorst'g opera house Satur
day afternoon. A feeling of general
satisfaction wan manlfett as regard
the personnel of the ticket and all
feel confident of a sweeping Repub
lican victory this fall. Wlllard
Clapp was selected as the new chair
man; Dr. Cook of Plattsmouth, vice
chairman, and II. G. Wellenslek of
Avoca, secretary. Leader-Echo. This
meeting was composed of the regu
lar old ring.
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In a recent Issue of a prominent
magazine 1'ncle Joe Cannon derided
ttto Idea that the upeaker of the
house could be In nny way tyran
nical, and elaborately proved by nil
that was good and bad that the said
speaker could not make himself In
n.iy way obnoxious, because the
members could remove him at any
time they wished. Having delivered
himself of this pronouncement,
I'nclo Joe proceeded to punish the
Republican "Insurgents" by care
fully eliminating them from the
chairmanships cf nny Important
committees, anl by sundry other
methods whl.'h your Uncle Jos
eph knows the how only too well.
Speaker Cannon is evidently of the
mind that tho public can be flim
flammed through a magazine article
as easily as It can be through the
tariff,
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KLCKI.F.SW ALTO DRIVING.
Tho terrible list of fatalities re
sulting from fast and reckless auto
mobile and motorcycle driving, as
recorded In almost every issue of
our dally paperB, reminds ua of our
duty as a public newspaper to
sound a note of warning to thoso
who own or operate these machines,
that they may avoid tho legal con
sequences of any future neglect,
both in the criminal courts and In
the civil courts and by this timely
warning they may avoid causing
the sorrow and suffering from the
accidents which must inevitably fol
low through their carelessness.
We have therefore copied extracts
from our statue books covering the
maximum speed limits allowed by
legal definitions and the penalties
Imposed for violations of the law so
that none may plead ignorance In
future cases if prosecutions should
follow Its violations. Section 147
of the compiled statutes of 1909
provides as follows as to "speed:"
"No person shall operate a motor
vehicle on a public highway at a
rate of speed greater than is rea
sonable and proper, having regard
to the traffic and use of the high
way, or so as to endanger the life or
limb of any person, or in any event
In the close built up portions of a
city, town or village, at a greater
rate than one (1) mile in six (6)
minutes, or else where in a city,
town or village, at a greater rate
than one (1) mile in four (4) min
utes, or elsewhere outside of the
city, town or village, at a greater
rate than twenty miles per hour,
subject, however, to the other pro
visions of this section. Upon ap
proaching a crossing of intersecting
public highways, or a bridge, or a
sharp curve, or a Bteep rescent, and
also In traveling such crossings,
bridges, curves, or descent, a person
operating a motor vehicle shall have
It under control and operated at a
rate of speed less than heretofore
specified, and In no event greater
than la reasonable and proper, hav
ing regard to the traffic then on
such highways and the safety of the
public."
Section 140 further provides In
defining what Is meant by "closely
built up portions," as follows: "The
territory of a city, town or village
contiguous to a public highway, de
voted to business, or where for not
less than one-fourth (1-4) of a mile
the dwelling houses on sucl: high
ways average not more than one
hundred (100) feet apart."
For violations of this law, for the
first offense a fine of not to exceed
$25 Is Imposed, but for the second
cr a subsequent offense the fine
shall not be less than $23 nor more
than $30, or the punishment may
be imprisonment In the county Jail
for a time not exceeding thirty
days.
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cau:h rowiir.s ion eo.t.iti:ss,
Caleb Powers, pnrdoned convict,
named as an assistant assassin at
tho murder of Governor Gobcl of
Kentucky, proposes to drag that
wholo nasty mess bntk Into the pol
itlcs of the blue Grass state. Caleb
Powers was secretary of state
through fraud. Ho was lu the Tay
lor crew of Republican politicians
who proposed to hold the govern
ment of Kentucky from the rightful
officials at all hazard murder If
necessary. And murder was neces
sary. The killing of Governor Goe
bel marked a vicious chapter In the
political history of Kentucky. Those
responsible for it never paid tho full
penalty for their crime. Caleb Pow
ers was three times convicted of be
ing an accessory to the assassins
tlon; twice sentenced to life Imprls
onment and once sentenced to death.
He served the greater part of eight
years In prison, but was pardoned
by a Republican governor recently
elected.
Goebel'a opponent for the guber
natorial chair was In exile for eight
years through a refusal of Repub
lican governors to honor Kentucky's
request for extradition.
Powers came from his prison cell
claiming tho wreath of a martyr. He
proposes to strlko down every hand
that was raised In defense of the law
of tho land as it was applied to his
case. He believes ho was wronged
Measured by the yardstick of pun
Ishment as Inflicted upon the man
who actually fired the shot which
killed Goebel, Towers may have
been wronged. Rut what of Goe
bcl's lot? In vain now the real
friends of Towers urge hlra not to
nurse his wounds in public. He has
declined their advice. He appears to
be a whirlwind of power. On the
wmmpj? ii'.w l.e is convincing, . and
Kentucky loing a fighter, Is show
ing so!i:e t M ern, If not admiration,
for him. lie may succeed In his de
termination to enter congress for his
heme in Knox county is among the
Republic?:) strongholds of the state.
His congressional district is repre
sented by Don C. Edwards, last
elected to congress without Demo
cratic opposition. Powers has en
tered the field to fight Edwards for
the nomination, claiming that Ed
wards aided in sending him to
prison.
The country appeared to have es
caped from the odor of a distressing
crime when the last of the caset
pending were cleared by a pardon
from the present governor. Some he
wrongfully pardoned before their
case had even been pressed to trial.
In the whole history of this case
there seems to have been more or
less of a misapplication of justice,
and it may be that the administra
tion of law was marked with error
In the trials which resulted in the
conviction of Powers, but the facts
were sufficient to convince three
different Juries of his actual con
nection with that murder. Now the
country is to be asked to walk
through the dirty trail again. We
do not anticipate that Congressman
Edwards will decline to Join Issue
with his warring antagonist. Powers
may be the cause of more blood
shed in the Blue Grass state, but it
is to be hoped that Knox county will
settle the question at the ballot box
and let no assassin's bullet rob the
successful man of his seat as Goebel
was deprived of the gubernatorial
chair he had wou. National Month
ly. ;o:
The Democrats are certainly for
tunate this year In selecting their
ticket. There is not a weak element
In It and it should win. Not one
candidate with a shady reputation
not one whose past will not bear
Investigation. It seems as If every
one commends the ticket as one of
the best ever selected. This is as it
should be.
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Governor Shallenberger says he
would hate to think his sp"oc.?jcg
were not worth $50 apiece. We
would like to buy a large consign
ment at our price and sell them at
his. Omaha Bee. Do tell! Maybe
the governor could be prevailed upon
to swap even for one of those edi
torials Little Vic produced in the
Bee during the campaign last fall,
which was Democratic to the coro.
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Since the doctor' trust of Iowa
has established by law what n doc
tor can charge for his services, the
ministerial associations are now agl
tatlng an established salary for the
preacher. If a doctor's pay must be
fixed by legal enactment why should
not a minister havo an established
wage? The doctor's trust Is no
dream In Iowa, and it has all been
accomplished by the medical assocla
tlon seeing to It that they are prop
erly represented In the legislature.
Now for the ministers' trust.
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It seems the report in regard to
Governor Johnson's health is all
mistake. In Chicago Sunday he
said: "I am not sick and have had
no operation performed for appen
dicltls nor any other disease, nor do
I intend to have any," Bald Governor
John A. Johnson of Minnesota, who
arrived here today. "Just how the
report got out that I was seriously
111 and that an operation would be
necessary I cannot Imagine. I was
weak and worn out for several days,
1... M I 1 1 .. , .
uui inui; recovereu ana now i am
nearly well again."
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Senator UFollette, on his lecture
tour at chautauquas, Is exhibiting
a large number of articles which he
had bought In a New York depart
ment store and had them sent to the
customs house to have appraised un
der the new tariff laws. By the
appraisement the cost of every ar
ticle would be Increased about 25
per cent. Dealers are receiving no
tice from Jobbers of Increases In the
cost of many articles used by the
common people. Yet the stand-pat
Republican papers are trying to
make out that revision was downward.
Every sensible man, whether !aw
er, farmer, mechanic or merchant,
nust recognize the force of the fol
lowing statement of Judge Letton in
his dissent on the non-political Ju
Jlciary law: "After eliminating the
prohibition of free speech and the
provision limiting the number of sig
natures for the office of supreme
judge, we find an act which in sub
stance provides that candidates for
Judicial and educational offices shall
be nominated by petition and not at
primary elections, prescribing the
number of signatures to entitle the
candidate to the printing of his name
upon the official ballot, and provid
ing that the names shall be printed
thereon without the party designa
tion. I see no obstacle to the carry
ing out of these provisions." Judge
Letton is a Republican, and in two
years more his successor will be
elected. The people will no doubt
re-elect him,, if they believe a man
Is honest in giving an opinion that Is
free from political prejudice. In the
language of the Omaha World-Herald:
"If Judge Letton is right, man
festly the partisan Republican mem
bers of the court, who have slain the
non-partisan act arewrong. It Judge
Letton Is right, then the people of
Nebraska, by an arbitrary abuse of
power, have been robbed of a law
which would have given them a non
partisan Judiciary. A partisan court
could, It it wished, continue indefi
nitely to overturn such a law as this,
Dr any other law in which the mem
bers of the court are Interested, or
to which the party to which the
members go publicly for advice as to
their official actions, is opposed."
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AXOTHDK ATTACK OF TIDDIC1TIS
"Two years ago thoughtless Re
publicans in this county elected a
Democratic county clerk, treasurer,
superintendent of schools. For two
years these offices have been made
Democratic headquarters. This has
been especially true of the county
clerk and county superintendent. In
these two offices more attention has
been paid to politics than to the
public business." News-Herald.
How does the astute editor of the
News-Herald know that these two
particular offices are "Democratic
headquarters?" It must be from a
view across the street from the edi
torial sanctum of the News-Herald
office. While the editor is cogitat
ing deep and long over the differ
ence between a cream-separator and
a Blot machine, he happens to look
through the window of his sanc
torium across the street and into the
superintendent's office in the court
house. There he sees a number of
young ladies taking teachers exam
ination under Miss Foster. For
aught the e;litor cr any ono else
knows, these young ladies may all
be Republicans. But the News-Herald
editor Is so absorbed in trying
to solve the difference between a
cream-separator and a slot machine
that he at once concludes that Miss
Foster and these young ladie3 are
holding n Democratic caucus with
not n single vcter present! And this
new discovery presents to the gi
gantic intellect of the News-Herald
editor another deep and profound
problem; that Is, the difference be
tween a teachers' examination
(where none are present but ladles)
and a Democratic caucus. With this
new problem and that of the cream-separator-slot-inachine
business the
News-Herald may possibly survive
what seems to be another attack of
Tlddlcltls.
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( HOPS AND COST OF LIVING.
Predictions of cheaper living,
based upon ample crops, must be
taken with some caution. We are
not confronted by the problem of $2
wheat, which Mr. Patten probably
did not expect when he was predict
ing It last spring. His prediction
served his purpose admirably. In
stead of shipping wheat Into Chicago
and breaking the Ma market the
sort of thing that hts broken nearly
every predecessor of Mr. ratten In
"bull" operations the farmers held
cn to their wheat and waited for
that $2 quotation. The harvest be
gan less than a month after the May
ntlon closed, and wo now have
cry assurance that the wheat cni
Low Rtes
TO THE NORTHWEST: Cheap
west, Puget Sound and California.
daily through trains to the Northwest via the Great Northern; also via
ineiNonnern racinc. To California, daily through tourist sleepers
via Denver, Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City.
ROUND TRIP TO PACIFIC COAST:
round trip excursion tickets on sale
last chance to obtain these cheap
ney in we worm.
EASTBOUND: Special round trip
Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Louis, August 28th to Septemher 5th
and from September 11th to September 19th. Daily low thirty day
round trip rates from Chicago to Atlantic cities and resorts.
September is the last month for
rado. Homeseekers excursions September 7th and 21st.
n
of special rates.
will exceed 700,000,000 bushels and
may reach 735,000.000 bushels.
Wheat is selling in Chicago for less
than a dollar.
Food ought to be, and probably
will be, cheaper than it has been
lately. But cotton and wool are
high and textile prices show no dis
position to recede. Most of the
prices are rising. Structural steel Is
not a commodity that the average
citizen purchases, but he is affected
by its price, and all steel prices are
up. Hides are on the free list, but
the shoe stores and factories are
stocked up with goods purchased be
fore the repeal of the hide duty and
prices are not yet coming down. The
most important item of expense is
rent, and with the growth of popu
lation thrt tends upward, but the
extensive building operations all
over the country may keep abreast
of the demand.
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But Taft Isn't the first nor the
only one who will haveto get busy
eplalnlng how It happened and why
It wasn't different.
Royalty in Europe is getting Its
bumps all right. The king or Swe
den is finding out what It means to
have an elephant on his hands.
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Cannonlsm la decidedly on the
wane. And when the old whelp
does go down it will be with such
a thud that he will never be heard
of again.
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They've bagged an outlaw In Penn
sylvania. According to the stories
which have filtered out of that Btate
there are still something like a mil
lion or two left who ought to be
bagged.
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lt's a fine politlcnl privilege to be
auie to determine w hich of the south
ern states are "doubtful" and the ex
ercise of that privilege will give Taft
a chance to show woh Iltlteetaoi
a chance to show how little he
knows about politics In the south.
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The Kearney Hub and Oinaha Bee
are about the only two Republican
papers in Nebraska that have the
audiclty to defend the Payne-Aldrlch
tariff bill. But then when Little
VUk cracks hlswhip It Is the signal
for the Hub editor to fall into line
"and do as he does" on all questions,
and he follows suit.
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One day you will hear that Har
rlman Is going to die and the next
day he Is going to live. Why so
much worry about it? Is his life
any more than any ether human's,
only that he Is a millionaire? On
the other side of tho divide there
will be no distinction, and why
here?
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Here are a few protective sched
ules In the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill:
Yarns, 143 per cent; cloths and
knit fabrics. 141 per cent; women's
and children's dresses, 118 per
cent; ready-turtle clothing, 96 per
cent. Whether these rates are
higher or loror than the old rat p
we do no know, nor does it ma.
much difference. It will tnk
whole 1U ' f ; ' irlng to crn
that the Ai Mia,:, tv "
liiJIlirillilii
IMiMlllniH
litililli
for Autum
one - wav Colonist fares to t h Vnni,.
September lSth t rvtr-rvr iw..
- Very low Seattle nA r,iifn,i.
durine Seotemher. This ic h
rates for the greatest railroad jour-
rates
the special vacation rates to Colo
Consult nearest ticket agent; he has latest advi
W. L. PICKETT, Ticket Agent.
L. W. Wakklbv, G. P. A., Omaha.
needs any such per cents as these
to "protect him from the pauper
labor of Europe."
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Llberatl and his famous band
and grand opera singers makes
music very popular at the state fair.
They will be heard at Lincoln four
concerts every day, September 6 to
10. They never disappoint the
crowd, simply hold them spellbound
during the entire program. The
cornet solos by the great leader or
the solos by the other artists always
well rendered. No matter whether
the band renders "Andre Cheniev,"
a number so tremendous that It
taxes the full musical power of the
band, or "Uncle Sam's March," as
the last note dies away the crowd
always cheer.
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TARIFF ALPHABET.
"A" stands for Aldrlch, "B" for his
bill;
"C" for consumer, known, tco, as
"nil."
"D" is for "downward." No, not for
"damn."
"E" is the "easy mark" getting a
slam.
"F" la for "faithful," and "G" is
for "goats."
They are the fellows who rolled up
the voters.
"H" stands for "hides," and "I", for
the "It."
The "J" for the Joker, just covered
a bit.
"K" is for "kicker," "L" stands for
"leather,"
for the "M-a-a" of Nelse tha
bell-wether.
Is the "neck" where the con
"M"
'N'
sumer gets his'n.
"0".ls his outcry when he's arisen.
"P" Is for "President," for his
quarrel.
"R" is for "revision" and "S" for
the snarl.
"T" 18 for Teddy, 'way cross the sea,
Thinking of William and bursting
with glee.
"U" is for "unrighteous" and "V" is
for "vain."
"W" is for wrath, which we're feel
ing again.
"X" is " 'xpenses," and gosh, how
they swell.
Lo, the consumer, "Y" 's for his yell.
"Z" Is for "Zebedee," his children
weer many;
Had Aldrlch liven then, Zeb couldn't
have had any.
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The Mystery Seems Clearing.
Greenwood's sensational disap
pearance of J. jr. Jenson, a prom
inent stockman of that place, is
commencing to clear up. According
to printed stories now he departed
owing several bills, the exact amount
of which are not stated. It will be
recalled that he took a car of cattle
to .Omaha and sold them, immedi
ately disappearing. A search was
made for him by friends and the
South Omaha officers, but no trace
has been discovered so far. He was
thought to be a well-to-do stockman,
but recent investigations indicate
that this was incorrect, and that he
really was in debt to ome extent.
Order to Show Cause
In the district court of Casseotmt v. Neb!
v,.,tlnV .'"V "f"" Purpose of con-
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n..t lie wanted to said suardlan
mil estate.
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