The - Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly
R. A. BATES,
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
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President Taft may cave hoped to
"conciliate" the south by endorsing
'possum, but will that condone (or
his having snubbed the Georgia mint
julep?
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The crop report assures us that
there is "more to eat for every per
son in America." Dut it falls to
roint out how we are going to raise
the money to buy the additional
anodles.
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Robert K. Peary is in Imminent
danger of being denounced from the
jnnglo ns a nurture fakir. Here he
has! gone and signed a contract for
magazine articles at $1.20 a word,
while Bwana Tumbo only gets a
measly dollar.
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The Hayward-Uurkett-Rosewater
slate for next year: For the sen
ate, E. J. Hurkett; ( for congress,
William Hay ward; for governor, C.
t H. Aldrlch, of David City; and for
supreme Judge, 1911, Lincoln Frost,
of Lincoln. This Slate may be broken
Ito smithereens before the robins
nest again, with George L. Sheldon
for the senate, and George Tobey
for congress. Then there Is CO.
Whidon, whom "Slippery Elmer"
very much fears. In a primary Bur
kett will fail In all his calculations.
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The last issue of La Follette's
weekly magazine shows "slippery"
Elmer Burkett up In his true light.
We simply copy the closing para
graph of a long article devoted to
the true character of the man who
should stand by the people Instead
of the trusts: - "On 82 roll calls
which presented squarely and clearly
the Issue between lower and higher
duties, , Burkett voted 62 times
against the higher duties and in
favor of the lower duties and the
Increases and decreases involved in
these 52 roll calls are vastly more
Important than those involved in
the 31 roll calls upon which he voted
for the higher or against the lower
duties.
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In the renewal of the attack upon
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger,
friends of that gentleman profess to
see clear eevldences of a plot by
Roosevelt adherents in and out of
office to discredit the Taft admin
istration and to pave the way for
the nomlniitlon if Roosevelt for presi
dent in 1912. This theory may be
far-fetched but there Is little doubt
that the Roosevelt worshipers are
dissatisfied with Taft, notwithstand
ing the president's recent attempts
to conciliate them by laudations or
bis predecessor and renewed expres
sions of his Inltauatlon to 'clinch' the
"Roosevelt policies." The Roosevel
tlans feel that at heart Taft has
. little sympathy with the ideas of
their Idol, and the Republican breach
shows signs of wider disruption
rather than heating.
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The death of a hypnotic subject
while being exhibited by a "prores
Wf" of hypnotism for the amuse
ment of a theater audience should
and will stimulate opposition to such
experiments and exhibitions. Hyp
( notlsm is a farce that can, when
properly practiced, be put to useful
purposes. But' It U a process for
the physician and scientist, not for
traveling mountebanks and the silly
amusement of curious crowds. It
doubtless will be difficult to prove
that the "professor" was responsible
for his unfortunate subject'! death.
Hut the outcome of his experience
ought to create a sentiment against
public exhibitions of this nature. Hyp
notism is as a two-edged sword. Its
practice should be confln to cir
at Plattsmouth, Hehraskag 1
Publisher.
cumstances which arise from some
urgent medical or surgical need, and
then oaly under the direction and
supervision of a reputable physician.
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We should like to see Theodore
Roosevelt in the United States sen
ate. It might enable the country to
get the real measure of the man.
Heretofore Mr. Roosevelt has had the
advantage of airing his views on every
subject under the sun from race
suicide to nature faking without hav
ing some one talk back on equal
terms. In the Benate it would be
different. The ex-presldent would
find himself on an equal basis with
men every whit as brilliant' as him
self. We Imagine that a debate be
tween Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. La Fol
lutte or Ben Tillman, or Mr. Bryan,
If he Is sent to the senate from Ne
braska, as now seems probable,
would be highly Interesting and that
the former president would find it an
entirely different proposition than
recruiting the membership of the
Ananias club from the pedestal of
the white house.
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THE TRIP A FAILURE.
If President Taft, who has return
ed to Washington after his 13,000-
mlle 'swing around the circle," did
not come back a sadder and wiser
man than he started out, It must be
because of a lack of perception on
hs part. It Is patent to others, how
ever, it may be to Mr. Taft, that his
trip was a failure. The 300 speeches
which he made have been without
avail. The west, Instead of conver
sion to the president's policy of non
resistance and conlllatlon, stands
more opposed to Aldrichtsm and Can
nonlsm than ever. The south, while
treating the president with punctil
ious courtesy and warm hospitality,
Is still the "solid south," as firmly
entrenched la opposition to Republi
can policies and Republican politi
cians as ever.
President Taft returns to the white
house weaker than when he started
on his long trip, and with loss.of the
public's confidence. The Republicans
of the west accepted him as the
party's candidate last year and aid
ed In his election solely because they
has faith in the party platform prom
Iso of an honest downward revision
of the tariff and the candidate'
pledge that the plntforni'a promise
would be faithfully. carried out. In
stead of a fulfillment of his pledges
they have witnessed the president's
weak surrender to the malvolont for
ces In congress that were working in
the iuterests of the Intrenched trusts
and his later ' unblushing defense of
Aldrlch In the very section where
this treachery had created the bit-
terest resentment. They have seen
Taft whitewashing Ballinger, whose
assistance in the scheme to rob the
nation of a valuable part of the pub
lic domain Is notorious. They have
heard the president's Indorsement of
Wall street's currency policy. They
have witnessed with what docility
he stands without hitching In the
harness of the "interests." The
have heard his excuses and his pleas
for "party solidarity." All his hon
eyed words have fell on unheeding
ears. Taft has not made good. The
great partisan fence-fixing trip
made at the public expense has been
a colossal failure.
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The present Indications are that
Theodore Roosevelt can be the next
president of the U. S. if he wants to
be. Taft has proved a disappointment
to the people of the country who
expected him to keep up the progress
that Roosevelt started, for he has
not only failed to continue the
Roosevelt policies but has actually
and effectively hindered those who
did try to continue them. Nobody
doubts his honest intentions; but
it takes more than good intentions
to mite a Rood nresldent. it r.
quires an understanding of practi
cal methods of warfare against the
wolf bridgade whkh Is always ac
tive, and Mr. Taft seems entirely
to lac k this to lack this understand
to lack this understanding. Colum
bus Tribune, Rep.
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Ignorance is such bliss to the tur
keys now that it would be folly to
put tbem wise.
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Probably Speaker Cannon's opin
Ion of Senator Cummins could not
be printed in unexpurgated form.
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It Is such a blessed thing to atrug
gle that we exhort Mr. Rockefeller
to go ahead with that crusade
against the hookwork, regardless
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Yes, air. Rockefeller, "it Is a
blessed thing to struggle," even if
you can't make the old stovepipe
fit. It brings the higher moral quail
tKs into play.
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Is appears to be the mission of
this particular November to put the
kibosh on the weather department's
theory that there is np such thing
as Indian summer.
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rne corn crop was Injured very
little In Nebraska according to sta
tistics cbrapiled by the state labor
bureau. The yield this year aggre
gates 166,556,105 bushels, an aver
age of 25.7 bushels per acre. Last
year the crop of 178,599,000 aver
aged 28.17 bushels per acre.
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If you are in business keep your
name constantly before the people
That is what has brought success
to many a man. Just as soon as
your name drops out of sight an
other man's name appears and the
people turn to him.
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The poor man's greatest enemy,
(unless it be Old Joe Cannon), Ald
rlch in his recent trip to the west,
refused to talk about the tariff, be
lieving in the theory that it is wise
to say nothing In the section where
the robber tariff is so unpopular. '
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It seems to us that we can de
tect a lessening In the reform and
prohibition movements. All move
ments that are based on extremely
radical lines will eventually lose
strength. Moderation is a silken
cord that binds people everlasting
ly to ideas.
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The .peopie or riausmouth ap
preciate a llve.local dally, and that
Is the reason why the Journal's list
of patrons is constantly Increasing.
We pay particular attention to
events that transpire within the
city and county, and that is what
the general reader wants.
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, Billy Hayward acknowledges now
that Nebraska Is a very close state.
He says he started out In the cam
paign on this theory. But before
the election he claimed the election
of the Republican supreme Judges
by from 15,000 to 25,000. Billy Is
veryr changeable in his colemlatlons.
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Milk men in Kansas City have
been Judicially restrained from
combining to raise the price of milk.
Why are men In other lines of busi
ness not restrained from combining
to raise prices? Take as an ex
ample the clothing dealers, the groc
ery dealers, the shoe dealers.
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Frank Harrison, In his State Capi
tal, tells readers where to look for
the straight, of things this way:
"The Fremont Tribune (Internal
revenue officer) quotes with full ap
proval the remarks of the Gothen
burg Independent (postmaster) ' to
the effect that one of the United
States senators Is about the hottest
stuff and the saltiest part of the
earth there ever was. The Item
will now bo distributed carefully
over the country by the Helvy bu
reau (census commissioner) and will
be eagerly repeated by the Alliance
Times (land office), the Humbolt
Leader (Indian commissioner) and
the Grand Island Independent (post
office promised). Thus will the pub
lic be fully edified and instructed
and the duty of the rank and file
of the 'party' be exemplified beyond
measure. Let the unprejudiced and
disinterested work proceed." 1
WHERE IS POLLARD?
As the political wise men haye it
figured out there need be no fric
tion between Chairman Will Hay-
ward of Nebraska City and Judge
Lincoln Frost over the oongresslon
ai nomination. Tnere will be a
Judge of the supreme court to elect
from this neighborhood in two years
more. That happens to be Just the
time for the expiration of Judge
Frost's present term on the district
bench Lincoln Journal. It seems
the Journal does not eves consider
our fellow-citizen, Mr. Pollard, as a
possible candidate, after all the trou
ble be has gone to to let it be known
that be ts In the race. He win
wal. perhaps, to see if Will Hay
ward accepts the appointment tend
ered him by Secretary Hitchcock, at
Washington, before he enters the
race, and then, it must be remem
bered that George Tobey is still
considered a candidate.
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CHEATING EXMITV.
Omaha is perfectly Justified In
presenting to the people of the Unit
ed States a national corn show. Ne
braska Is taking a position In the
agricultural states which warrants
Its business men in proclamlng add
exhibiting the magnificent produc
tions of Its fields. Yet when the
business men of Omaha permit Its
retailers to dictate the date of their
corn show, they exhibit a woeful
lack of Judgment. For years the
Ak-Sar-Ben has been the means of
creating a feeling of cordial friend
ship on the part of the country mer
chants toward the wholesale and
Jobbing interests of the metropolis
Conditions had reached that point
where the country merchant boost
ed for and boasted of Omaha. By
dating the national corn show pur
posely to attract retail trade Just
before the holiday season Omaha
has wiped out almost every vestige
of friendly feeling on part of the
business men of the interior. The
wholesalers and Jobbers of Omaha
must expect to pay the penalty of
their lack of wisdom in permitting
the retailers to so Injure the inter
ests of their best trade, and in view
of the 'splendid progress they have
made in bringing about a most
friendly feeling on the part of the
country, their action is almost in
concoivable. Fremont Herald.
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SOUND WARNING.
Several Washington correspon
dents are warning the president that
there is an organized conspiracy on
foot to discredit his administration
One of these gentlemen sends to the
Chicago Tribune information that
this consists of several elements, the
adlcals who want to put Taft in
hole and thus bring Roopevelt back
Into office, and those who want to
discredit the administration at th(
outset so that V'H will fall to ob
tain the enactment of tho reforms
required to put the country In tho
advanced position It should occupy
The cabinet officers are depicted
as having rushed to the president as
soon as he reached Washington to
tell him all about it. Some of the
advice they are said to have tend
ered him Is good. They told him
that to meet the tariff revision senti
ment In the west he should put a
paragraph into his message dwell
ing upon his purpose to have a tar
iff board created to aid In the en
forcement of the . maximum and
the. minimum law, to make a
thorough investigation of the tar
iff schedules and to report, for the
use of the president, such Inequali
ties as exist with a view to their
submission for action to congress.
Another recommendation they are
said to have made was to make a
clear and positive statement of his
pollticies, to urge him not to recog
nize stalwart or Insurgent to the
exclusion of tlys other, but to
treat them all as Republicans work
ing in the interest of the execution
of the Roosevelt policies. This also
Is good advice. President Taft went
into office pledged to the Roosevelt
policies. In our opinion he was in
error In assuming that either Aid
rich or Cannon had any svmnathv
with those policies, and when ho
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you feel better one day, then as bad as ever the next. It
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There is not a drop of alcohol in it. You have the steadv,
even gain that comes from a strong tonic and alterative.
We wish you would ask your doctor about this. He
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sought their aid to the exclusion of
the Insurgents, who have been heart
and soul for those policies; he em
barked upon a course that could Dot
possibly bring him success. It is
argued, in his denfense, that he was
compelled to deal with the party
leaders in each house to secure suc
cess, but he could have cleared the
way to victory more effectively if he
had Joined In to defeat the Cannon
ligarchy in the house rather than
lend his weight to secure the re
enactment of the old rules.
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FROM THE fll'SY WORLD.
It Is said November has been one
of the dampest months In the his
tory of the state with snow and rain
everywhere. There can be no mis
take as to It being some wet around
Plattsmouth, but then Plattsmouth
has always been a wet town one
of its many redeeming features.
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It is said progress is being made
in the sugar trust investigation in
New York and that there is every
probablliy that somebody may be
indicted, and possibly convicted. All
the same the general public will wait
with considerable interest the out
come of the matter. The investi
gation may develop something which
amounts to something, and again it
may not.
According to the county attorney
of Gage county, Frank Chamber
lain intended to kill Miss Mae Aus
tin when he shot her several days
ago. The county attorney has filed
a complaint charging Chamberlain
with attempting to commit murder
by shooting Miss Austin. They were
lovers and Chamberlain got Jealous
according to the accepted version of
the story and bombarded the young
woman. She will get well.
It really looks as If Samuel Com-
pers and the rest of the Indicted
labor leaders were about to have to
go to Jail. This Is a fatal mistake
on the part of the government, and
something which the laboring men
of the country are bound to resent.
There is an opportunity for the
president to make a spectacular play
and Issue a pardon for these men
who never should have been con
victed. The matter is Interesting
and a little curious to the public who
would like to see what is going to
take place now.
The rule of the law is something
which the public should pay more
attention to. Here we have the
spectacle of siz men being sent to
all by the supreem court for failure
to enforce the laws and protect
their prisoners. The sheriff of
Chatanogga, Tenn., is In Jail for
not having saved a negro from
lynching. Incidentally, there are
five others In Jail with him. 'The
facts of the Tennessee lynching
should be studied by the public and
the courts should receive their ser
lous consideration. Undoubtedly
the sheriff was guilty of negtoct of
duty but there will always be a
question as to whether the court is
not a little drastic In Its ordom
The curious cause of the United
States against Governor Charles N.
Haskell of Oklahoma, is to go on to
trial. Governor Haskell is hr rnm.
mon consent of the Republican or
ganization, about as bad a char
acter as ever graced the American
public, yet the general run of peo
ple seem to like him and really, they
want to see what Is In this man
which has been so vigorously press
ed. Haskell seems to have earned
the enmity of the politicians who
want to help themselves because he
has been active In opposition to
them, and for this reason he is be
ing made a victim of their prose
cutions. The opinion of the rmhll
Sfcymugafcel
says. ICAverCoMuMl
long have they been sold? Nearly sixty
k.l, j . . - ' '
n yuur own aocior ana nnd out
la advance is that he is not such a
guilty wretch aa he las been said
to be.
The supreme court has knocked
out every law which ttte last Dema
cratic legislature passed with oe
solitary exception of the eight o'clock
closing law. With all due respect
to the supreme court, doesn't It
strike the averge eitiaen as strange
that the legislature could be right
only on one Issue out of a dozen. It
looks strange that the members were
right on the eight o'clock closing
law and wrong on everything efee.
The truth is, this state In comma
with many others. Is rapidly becoa
Ing a court ruled state and the ver
dict of the legislature is becoming
a farce. The last law to go by tae
board is the normal board law,
which was intended to change tie
management of the state normal
school. Yesterday 'the supreme
court knocked this out. The ose
thing for the people to remember
Is that only the laws the supreme
court wants are held good.
Tickling, tight Coughs, can be cur
ed and quickly loosened with a pre
scription Druggists are dlspenslag
everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Cough
Remedy. And it is so very, very dif
ferent than common cough medi
cines. No Opium, no Chloroform, ab
solutely nothing harsh or unsafe. The
tender leaves of a harmless, lung
healing mountainous shrub, gives the
curative properties to Dr. Shoop's
Cough Remedy. Those leaves have
the power to calm the most distress
ing Cough and to soothe and heal the
most sensitive bronchial membrane.
Mothers should, for safety's sake
alone, always demand Dr. Shoop'a. It
can with perfect freedom be given to
even the youngest babes. Test it
yourself and see! Sold by all dealers.
Funeral of David Jenningu..
The funeral of the late David Jen
nings took place this afternoon from
the undertaking rooms of M. Hlld on
South Sixth street. Owing to the
fact that services had been held in
Chicago, 111., no services were held
here. Canon H. B. Burgess pro
nounced a prayer over the remains
after which they were burled In Oak
Hill beside his father, John W. Jen
nings, former county clerk. There
were a number of friends of the
family present at the burial, the
mother and sister of the young man
having come from Chicago with the
remains.
Goes to Idaho.
Charles F. Guthman, who has dis
posed of his interests in the Perkins
Hotel, departed this afternoon for
Murphy, Idaho, where he will pro
bably make his future home. Mr.
Guthman was one of the enterprising
young business men of the city and
nis departure will be hailed wit
genuine regret by the peonle mt
Plattsmouth, who have known him
so long and who have found him to
be an ideal man in business. That
Murphy, Idaho, will find him one of
Its most enterprising citizens goes
without saying.
Ed. Donat is spending- todav
ia
Omaha with his wife, going there
tnis morning on the early train
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