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Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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What a lot of difference the Im
mediate circumstances sometimes
make In one man's opinion of an
other. The "good fellow" today be
comes a scoundrel of deepest dye to
morrow, If In the meantime he has
tread upon our toes. For Instance,
Teary has lately expressed his opinion
of his rival, Cook, In the euphonious
terms of "liar" and faker," but It was
not always thus. In Peary's book,
"Northward Over the Great Ice," the
writer referred to Cook In gentler
terms as follows: "To Dr. Cook's
care may be attributed the almost
complete exemption of the party from
even the mildest indisposition, and,
personally, I owe much to his profes
sional skill and unruffled patience
and coolness in an emergency. In
addition to his work in his special
ethnological Held, In which he has
obtained a large mass of most val
uable material concerning a prac
tically unstudied tribe, he was always
a helpful and indefatigable worker."
This tribute, It hardly need bo said,
was written before Cook became a
rival of Peary in the quest of the
north pole."
WIIKN TAFf MKKTS DIAZ.
On Saturday, Oct. 16, President
Taft is scheduled to meet President
Diaz of Mexico, on the border line
of the two countries, shake hands
with the octogenarian ruler of the
southern so-called republic and In
dulge In the platitudes and lilgh
twundlng phrazes of diplomacy with
a man who, if a tenth of what is
told of him is true, rivals in des
potic methods pnd heartless cruelty
tno lately di-posej sultan, Abdul
Hamiil, or Adbul the Damned, of
Turkey.
It lies been difficult to got et ihe
nt'tuu! conditions in Mexico, owin?
to the fact that the press of the ,
country is cither subsidized or Intimi
dated and that almoBt Insurmount
able difficulties are thrown In the
path of tourists seeking enlightment.
Put enough has been learned to make
it reasonably certain that Diaz has
been a blight upon Mexico's progress
and a disgrace to civilization.
In the American Magazine for
CMobcr John Kenneth Turner be
gins a series of articles based upon
ft Is personal experiences and re
fiearches in Mexico, that will startle
and should arouse the liberty-loving
people of the United States. Unless
the conclusions of Mr. Turner are
grossly exaggerated, the country is
In a deplorable condition and, in view
of the high character of the magazine
which vouches for Mr. Turner's
articles, and the fact that they are
corroborated in . large measure by
other Information at hand, there Is
no reason to doubt their truth.
A largo proportion, of the popula
tlon of Mexico Is living In virtual
slavery. These slaves get no money
They are beaten, half starved and
worked almost to death. Sometimes,
If they become refractory, they are
bvaten to death. They have no hope
of better conditions so long as Dlai
remains dictator of the republic in
name but despotism In fact. Hut i
While on Saturday, October, 16
President Taft is pouring honeyed
words of compliment Into the ears of
the wrinkled old vulture who fattens
upon the miseries of his unfortunate
people, it will be well enough for the
people of the United States to pause
and reflect upon the conditions in
Mexico and to ask themselves if
there really is any good reason why
this nntlon, through Us official rep
rrsentntlves, should profess absolute
blindness to the terrible condition
existing on Its borders and profess to
see only virtue and prosperity where
crime and degradation stalk hand In
hand?
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NTANIliWT Olt NON-PARTISAN?
publican to vote his party, when It
is headed toward reactionary policies
under reactionary leaders or to vote
against it?
If he votes with the party, and all
the other progressive members vote
with it, is it not certain to keep on
going in the same direction, and with
greater confidence?
If, on the other hand, so many
progressives cast a "vote of protest"
that there is no mistaking its sign!
flcance, is not the party more likely
to adjust its policies so as reason
ably to satisfy the demands of these
numerous members whose continued
support is indispensable to Its suc
cess?
Progressive Democrats were con
fronted with this same question of
policy in 1904, when the reactionary
element captured the party and nomi
nated Judge Parker for president,
So many thousand of them, in all
sections of the country, voted for
Roosevelt, by way of protest, that
reactionary control of the Democratic
party was dead as a mackerel the
morning after eclctlon. If tholr
votes had been cast unanimously for
Parker, however; if he had per
chance been elected, the Democratic
party might still be serving Mam
mon, just as the Republican party is
doing under Taft, Cannon and Aid
rich.
Lx-Longressman Foss of Mas
sachusetts takes the view that it is
better to do as the progressive Dem
ocrats did, and vote to rebuke one's
own pnrty when It has proved
flagrantly faithless. In a letter ex
plaining why he is a candidate for
lieutenant governor on the Deniocra
tic ticket, he says:
partisan, in that it Is entirely in the
keeping and under the auspices of
the standpat element of the party.
Should this campaign win it will be
hailed as a standpat victory, reflect
ing the sentiments of the people of
Nebraska.
This Is why, should the Demo
cratic candidates be elected, the vic
tory would be more a non-partisan
than a Democratic victory, Just as
the defeat of the Republican candi
dates would be not so much a Re
publican defeat as a standpat defeat
and a repudiation of Republican re
action. World-Herald.
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A Pennsylvania man has Blept for
twenty-one years In a chair tilted
against the wall. To what heroic
measures we men must go to keep
cold feet off'n our backs.
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Gifford Pinchot, having left the
president's traveling company, Is
back at Washington, and is again
making a good deal of noise. All
the same, the relations between the
president and Ballinger and himself
seem to be serene, Notwitbstanu
ing the bitter antagonism between
Pinchot and Ballinger, according to
the president both the contestants
are right. The logical Interpretation
of the settlement is that the natural
utilities In water power which be
long to the government are to be re
tained for impartial distribution and,
at the same time, to be turned over
to monopolies, all of which means
that monopolies are to have the
whole. This disposition of the mat
ter Is precisely the same in effect
as the prentended reduction of tariff
duties. In that case monopoly tri
umphed over the masses of the peo
ple; in this case, notwithstanding
Plnchot's bluster, monoply will get
the best of the government's pos
sessions.
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IWYIXO VOll WASTK.
the task of exhausting our natural
resources, apparently feeling that,
unless we used them up, they would
get away from us. And now that we
find that they are getting away from
us through our prodigal use of them,
we suddenly realize that we must do
something to same them.
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XAT1VK IiOKX CANDIDATES.
The people want public officials
who comply with the law in every
respect.
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Is he not a fine officer who waits
to be requested by the county com
missioners to make his quarterly re
ports long past due? we ask the
voters of Cass county.
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The Weeping Water Republican
has opened its "mud batteries" on
the Journal. We are not in the busi
ness of skinning skunks at the pres
ent time, but will wait until the
prices are higher.
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The idea of a little one-horse Re
publican sheet pitching into the Lin
coln Star because that paper has
come out in favor of a non-partisan
udiclary! It reminds one of the old
saying of "a mouse knawing at the
heels of an elephant."
It is with pride the Journal points
to the number of Cass county native
born candidates on the Democratic
ticket:
Frank E. Schlater for Treasurer.
D. C. Morgan for Clerk.
Ed. S. Tutt for Sheriff.
Miss Mary E. Foster for Superin
tendent of Schools.
A. J. Snyder for Register of Deeds.
Five of the nine Democratic can
didates for county officers born in
old Cass! And how commendatory
in the Democratic party of Cass
county to recognize true worth and
ability in native-born sons and
daughters of the county! A most
graceful compliment to the products
of one of the oldest and best coun
ties in Nebraska. And the voters
will not fail to recognize this same
merit and ability at the polls on NO'
vember 2.
We have bifn Intimately associated
in this long and arduous struggle
to induce the Republican party, our
pnrty, to redeem its solemn nledees.
honor Its avowed principles, regard
ing these great and dominant issues
f reciprocity and tariff reform. I
have at last, as I believe have tens
of thousands of other Republicans,
get completely out of patience. I
feel that the time Is now at hand
when the beat men of both parties
must stand together, regardless of
party designation, and demand the
legislation that the interests of Mas
sachusetts need, and which will
lighten the burdens of the neonle.
rresiaeni Tart, in his Winona speech.
asserted that those who had voted
against the Payne-Aldrich bill had
'abondoned their party." If thev
have, thank God for it! If Repub
licanism of today means subserviency
of public welfare to the ultra-pro-
tectea interests then It is time that
we know it. Wherein does my
course essentially differ from that of
so many insurgent Republican sena
tors and congressmen who iolned
the Democratic party on this tariff
measure Just as I am doing? How
long are you going to stand for
this sort of thing? For my part I
am going to fight. When I see the
cost of living, the high prices of
food, clothing and other necessities
or uro, I think It Is time that narty
considerations give place to higher
motives. "He serves his party best
who Berves his country best." The
standpat Aldrlch-Lodge hierarchy of
tne KepuDitcan party has buncoed
and bluffed us to the extreme limit
and it would Beera that their time
ana our turn has finally come.
There Is no other state this fall In
which progressive Republicans can
so easily and Bafely follow Mr. Foss
advice as they can In Nebraska, They
can register here their votes of pro
test without involving the sacrifice of
single office essential to party
supremacy. ,
There are only non-partisan of
flees to be filled at the coming elec
lion in Nebraska. Judges of the
supremo court and regents of the
university control no pnrty patron
age. They cannot legitimately use
their offices In any way to further
party advantages, in a campaign or
at any other time.
The Democrtlc candidates, more
over, stand squarely on a non-partl
son platform. They are making no
partisan appeal. Neither they nor
the party to which they belong could
construe their election as a partisan
victory.
On the other hand, the campaign
of the Republican candidates Is
distinctly partisan campaign. It I
A few days ago President Taft
said that he would ask congress to
appropriate $10,000,000 to be used
for planting trees to take the place
of those that have been wantonly
destroyed. The object Is good, and
no doubt the appropriation Is nec
essary. Nevertheless, the Chicago
ournal is right when it says that the
proposition is one "to tax the plain
people $10,000,000 to replant forests!
aid waste by greedy lumber barons
haste to garner vast unearned
profits through their tariff privilege."
'The American people," it says, "pay
special tax to the lumber kings
to destroy our forests and another
special tax to plant new trees." This,
of course, Is quite In line with our
general policy. We talk about con
serving natural resources, and are
very anxious lest our coal and ore
beds fall under the control of mono
polists, and yet by. "protecting" coal
and ore we put a premium on the
exhaustion of those deposits. We
tax the trees off the face of the earth
and then propose to tax them back
again into life. And so of coal and
ore.
The same thing is true of our ship
ping. On this subject the Journal
says:
The American people pay a special
tax to enable the steel trust to de
stroy our once great shipbuilding in
dustry by charging the American
shipbuilder more for raw material
than his British, competitor pays for
the same material from the same
mills. Mr. Taft coolly demands that
the American taxpayers furnish an
other special tax of $8,000,000 a year
to restore the shipbuilding industry,
Why not equalize matters at the ex
pense of the steel trust by the very
simple process of reducing the tariff
on their products to a point where
American shipbuilders can save that
$8,000,000 a year by low costs?
Hut that Is not our way. Our way
Is to hire men to waste our resources
Oh, no, the Journal does not have
to be in a hurry to convince the
voters of Cass county that C. D
Quinton has already failed In his du
ties as sheriff. If an officer is re
quested time and time again to per
form his sworn duty and then fails in
that duty, we say he Is not a fit man
to hold the position.
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The county attorney, the county
clerk and the county treasurer have
nothing to do In the way of compell
ing an officer to present his quar
terly reports to the county commis
sloner8. The county commissioners
are the officers to see that the law
Is carried out in this respect, and
nearly everybody knows it.
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THK LINCOLN STAR TELLS WHY
The World-Herald directs atten
tion to the argument advanced by
the Lincoln Star why the people of
Nebraska should next month elect
those candidates for supreme Judge
who are running on the Democratic
ticket.
The Lincoln Star is a Republican
paper, its president ana cnier owner
is the ambassador of the United
States to Mexico. He was appointed
to this important position, one of thelhqnestly
tutionul!
What are the people going to do
about it?
Are they willing, forever, to have
their laws passed on according to
the Instructions of Victor Rosewater
and the Republican state central com
mittee, or do they want them passed
on under the constitution and ac
cording to the facts?
This is the advice of the Republi
can Lincoln Star, and we commend
it to the consideration of our Re
publican friends:
If the state really wants a non
partisan or bi-partisan supreme
court, it is in a position to get it this
year. The supreme court is now
composed of six Republicans and one
Democrat. The latter is a candidate
for re-election, so if he and the other
two Democrats are chosen for the of
fices the division of the court will be
four Republicans to three Democrats,
still leaving the Republicans in the
majority. , It seems but logical that
the people, if they are anxious to
have a court divided between the
two major parties should vote for
the three Democratic nominees, other
things between the Republican and
Democratic candidates being equal.
Are "other things equal" between
the Republican and Democratic can
didates? The Star answers that ques
tion frankly and truthfully in Bay
ing: Without casting reflection upon
the abilities of the three Republican
candidates in any way, it may be
said that the Democrats who have
been selected for the positions are at
'east the peers of the Republicans.
They are upright gentlemen whose
abilities as jurists have been tested.
If elected to th6 supreme court they
may be depended upon to perform
their duties intelligently, capably and
If he is not a pretty specimen of
humanity and a noble officer who is
delinquent in making his reports to
the county commissioners, for at
least half the time these reports
have been due, to ask for a third
term; and then wait so long to do
his duty? Candidly, Mr. Voter, do
you think such an officer worthy of
a third term, even if the third-term
proposition is right?
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Don't try to lay the blame of
Qulnton's non-conformity of the law
In falling to make bis quarterly re
ports on anyone else but the county
commissioners. "Where was the
Democratic county attorney? Where
was the Democratic county clerk?
and where was the county treas
urer?" is asked. Why, they were at
tending to their official business, and
complying with the law In making
out their regular quarterly reports.
a'nd then to hire other men to repair
that waste, while at the same time
continuing the conditions which have
produced the waste and also contlnu
tng paying wages to the wasters. It
Is not fair, however, to hold Mr,
Taft responsible for this foolish and
fantastic policy or at any rate It Is
not fair to hold him solely responsl
ebl for it. lie is but following a
precedent of many years' standing
Ills policy in this regard is that of
his party, and also, be It Bald, that
of his predecessor. For a generation
and more the country has been en
gaged In just this sort of business
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When we confine ourselves to the
true facts in the case of Quinton,
why should there be any defense?
The commissioners know that he Is
delinquent on these reports. Even
should he file these reports on next
Tuesday, that would not signify that
he had complied with the law. The
law, says he shall file such reports
"on the first Tuesday In January,
April, July and October." Has Quln
ton complied with the law? That's
what the people want to know.
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WHY WK WONDKR.
Commissioner Swltzer Bays that
Mr. Quinton, made reports for first
and second quarters of 1909, and if
this is bo the quarter ending October
1 is the only one this year for which
he has not reported and the commis
sloners met October 5, not a very
long delay to cause huch a howl to
go up. Weeping Water Republican
In the commissioners proceedings
of October 5 the following appears
"A resolution was this day receiv
ed requesting the Bheriff to (lie his
quarterly reports according to law
and the board instructed him to til
all quarterly reports on or before
next regular meeting of tlie board.'
If there is only one report due
why did the county commissioners
instruct the sheriff to lilo "all his
quarterly reports?" And why did
Commissioner Swltzer flay that he
was after Quinton to file nil his re
loftles In the diplomatic service, by
Theodore Roosevelt, and has con
tinued to serve under William H.
Taft. Nobody has ever questioned
the loyallty of D. E. Thompson to
the Republican party.
When D. E. Thompson's paper
comes to the support of Democratic
candidates, for non-partisan reasons,
it means that no loyal Republican
need hestitate, on his party's account,
to do likewise.
And we invite attention to the
reasons the Star gives for advising
Its readers to vote for Judges Sulli
van, Good and Dean.
The Judiciary and the public
schools, It declares, should be taken
out of politics.
Partisan courts courts whose
members were elected for partisan
reasons and who are all members of
the same political party mean par
tisan decisions. Theq result too often,
In the forcible language of the
Star, in "nullifying good laws, enact-
ed under the spur of public demand,
simply because the party which put
them Into operation was opposed to
the party ot which the deckling court
happened to be a member.'
The people of Nebraska do not
need to be reminded that this Is true.
They have had recent proof of the
fact; proof that leads the Star to
add: "In fact, it Is such outrages
that have caused the present wide
spread demand for a non-partisan or
bi-partisan Judiciary."
The late legislature, the Star re
calls, responded to that demand by
enacting a non-partisan judiciary
law. A partisan court promptly an
nulled that law, after one of the
judges had appealed to the Republi
can committee for advice as to
whether he should proceed, as a can
didate, on the assumption that the
law was constitutional or unconstl
This is the simple truth.
Judge Sullivan, one of the Demo
cratic candidates, is the best beloved
and best trusted jurist in Nebraska,
whose prior service as chief JusticS
of the supreme court of Nebraska
has shed luster en that tribunal. If
there Is any Jurist in the state who
might be ranked with him, In enjoy
ing the esteem and confidence of the
people, it is Judge B. F. Good, his
associate on the ticket. Judge Dean,
of Broken Bow, the third candidate,
was appointed by Governor Sheldon.
His dissenting opinion in which he
upheld the non-partisan judiciary
law was a model of clear thinking
and sound reasoning. His brief serv
ice on the bench has shown bim to
be a Democrat, who trust the people,
and Is anxious to uphold their laws,
rather than an aristocrat who dis
trusts them and is only looking for
an excuse to invalidate their laws.
Why should any Republican, parti
cularly any progressive Republican,
hestitate to vote for these three men,
who believe for the most part as he
believes, and are headed in the same
direction he himself is facing!
World-Herald.
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Is it the duty of a progressive Re
not only partisan, but factionally
We have been tolling feverishly at
ports six months ago?
