The
Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Seral-Weekl j it PlittnoBth, Mebrtskii
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
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Why doesn't the billion dollar
telegraph-telephone merger go a lit
tle further and take In the wireless?
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Jyor la the sweeping decision
against the Standard Oil Company
particularly reassuring to the sugar
trust.
This Is also the week when the
farmer In Rhode Inland who sends a
turkey to the White House comes in
for his annual allotment of publicity.
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Senator Aldrlch reports that he
found no poverty In the west. It is
unquestionably true that the west
ern bankers, as a rule, are prosper
ous.
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An Englishman is trying to revive
the old doctrine of putting to death
the feeble minded, regardless of the
intense loneliness that would ensue
among the few that were left.
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Aldrieh says: "Andrew Jackson
was a great man, but he is dead."
The United States bank, which Aid
rich is striving to bring to life again,
is also dead. It was killed by An
drew Jackson beyond the hope of
resurroctlon.
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The untimely death of Congress
man David A. De Armond, of Mis
souri, by burning to death, la de
plored all over the land. Mr. Do
Armond was one of the leaders of
the house, and one who was loved
for his many manly qualities. The
writer knew Congressman Do Arm
ond for many years, and considered
him one of the brightest men in the
west The manner in which the Are
is supposed to have occurred, should
be a warning to all who have been
using a hot brick In the bed for
warming feet. The Journal extends
sincere sympathy to Mrs. De Armond
and sons and daughters in the hour
of their dire distress.
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It is nd to nee mien an evidence
ef inornl cowardice In n hitherto
vsnllant "insurgent" as Is revealed
In a recent, speech of Senator Cum
milifl of lown. In the speech In
iiestion Senator Cummins Is quoted
ns saving: "There need be no con
cern about tlio attitude of the in
irgent and their friends. They
will do their lit'st to nominate can
dldates who believe In a progressive
Republican party. When they fail
ihey will be Republicans still, for
if there ever wuh a time when there
was absolutely no reason for trans
ferlng anw branch of the govern
met to Democratic hands, this is
the time." If this means anything
at all it means that Senator Cum
lulus and his like will strive to make
the Republican party aland for the
things that are right and Just, but
that, falling In that commendable ef
fort, they will support wrong and
Injustice rather than co-operate with
the Democratic party In forcing re
forms. It la to be hoped that Sena
tor Cummins has been misquoted
for the utterance of such sentiments
Is surely unworthy of the man we
have been led to believe the Iowa
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At a meeting in New York on
Tuesday evening, a joint convention
of the National Municipal league
and the Civic association, William
S. Dennett made a political speech
extolling the honesty of the foreign
born voters, and citing the allege
support which this class at the late
election gave lo Hearst for mayor,
and making a thrust at Judge Gay
nor. It would seem that this man
Dennett, who Is a member of con
gress, owes his Kent largely to the
foreign-born element, and It is pre
sumed that he favored Hearst, that
Kplendld reformer, who threo years
ago wag a candidate for governor,
when President Roosevelt sent his
wvretary of state Root, to tell the
Vetera of New York state that
Roosevelt charged Hearst with hav
jlng encouraged the assassination of
President McKinley. These matters
occur in so rapid sequence that one
cannot help remembering them.
Only two yeara after Roosevelt sent
Root to expose Hearst, the alleged
instigator of murder, the same
Hearst was Roosevelt's guest at the
white house, when Hearst was con
tributing bis effort toward klllloff
off Bryan. Without, however, any
thanks to Hearst, he did Insure the
election of Gaynor by running as a
third .candidate for the purpose of
beating him.
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A cold wave warning was sent
out from Washington Tuesday even
ing, but as yet there is no Indication
of a storm's approach.
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Thanksgiving is past. Now for
the holidays. The "early bird" In
advertising Is the fellow who will
get the bulk of the trade.
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Standard Oil's refusal to make
any good resolutions resulted In the
federal court of appeals ordering it
to make a good dissolution.
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The sugar trust is trying to
"square" itself with the government,
which is the first time in Its his
tory that it ever sought a square
deal.
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UUBlte UC IIUIUIU oiui; fc . ...... . - u v -
a heavy coat, or search the closet ed for county option, or county pro-
for last winter's heavy weight cloth- hibltlon. The prohibitionists would
ing. The thoughtful man also hustled undoubtedly be satisfied with Shel-
around for a blanket for the horse, don for senatojalso, at least as
and the really considerate man who against Burkett. since Sheldon has
couldn't find a blanket went to the declared himself for prohibition
store and bought heavy protection while Burkett dodges the liquor ques
for his home. What is more dis- tion with tho same skilled agility
gustlng than to Bee a horse shiver- that he displays in dodging all other
ing from the cold for want of a lit- questions as to which men with
tie protection? Do you think that blood and iron in them have con
because the animal is a dumb brute victlons and differences.
that be does not apreciate your at- Sheldon and Aldrich, backed by
tention, for he does and he can show the progressive Republicans and the
it. Another thing the humane horse I prohibitionists, would make a spank
driver will do will be to take the Ing team of candidates. But they
bridle Into the house and warm the would find it no holiday affair to
bit before placing it in the mouth carry off the palm of victory.
of the horse. Some will smile at For the Burtoett-Rosewater-Hay-
thls, but a good way to test the ward-Union Pacific element of the
worth of the suggestion will be on a party, while disfigured and in need
cold and frosty morning, to takte the of repairs and tonics in consequence
bit and touch it with yoifr own cf the late election. Is still a force
tongue. If you have a heart in you that must be reckoned with. The
It will suffice to prompt a warm- combination, including most of the
ing up of the Iron. Be kind to your corporation and banking interests, is
horse if you think well of him, if solidly behind Burkett for senator.
you can't be kind better get rid of So, too, are the postmasters and the
the horse he knows more than you. rest of the federal brigade and the
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ferenco of the earth, all at the gov
ernment's expense, with a force of
secret service detectives accompany
ing him, of course, the trip under
POOR MANAGEMENT.
standpat machine. Just now this
element is casting about for a satis
factory candidate for governor to pit
air. lau nas traveled a distance agairiSt Aldrich. It may, in fact, al-
equal to more than half the circum- ready nave found the candidate, but
ago, Wilbur r. waiieman, rormer
appraiser of the port of New York,
declares, he laid proofs' of sugar
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trust bribery of customs officers be
fore Lyman J. Gage, secretary of
the treasury under Mr. McKinley.
According to Mr. Wakeman, Mr. Gage
said: "I don't believe that my good
friend Mr. Havemeyer knows any
thing about this matter, and I want
you to give him my compliments
and present the statement which you
have presented to me, and tell him
if anything like this exists it must
be stopped." That is as far as the
government went in the matter, and
the weighing frauds went merrily
on.
The harmless trust buster, Mr.
Roosevelt, showed similar lack of in
terest. Proofs were presented to
him and his attorney general, Mr.
Bonoparte, of the sugar trust's vio
lations of the Sherman anti-trust
law. Mr. Roosevelt was too busy
making grandiloquent declarations
of his intention to "shackle cunning"
and "curb rapacity" to pay any at
tention to concrete examples of viol
ations of the law, and his attorney
general indicated by bis lack of at
tention to the matter the possession
of a straight tip direct from the
throne that he had better keep his
fingers cut of the sugar bowl.
When Mr. Gage's "good friend,"
that has never
controverted. He might have gone
further and added that the protective
The 80,000,000 dollars piled up
by the Standard Oil Company during
the last year will come in very handy
during that corporation's present
rainy day.
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One man has taken Taft's meas
ure correctly. He baked the presl
ent a Thanksgiving mince pie that
measures nine feet in diameter. Taft
needs that man in hl3 cabinet.
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If you think Plattsmouth is a good
lace to live in, perhaps the fellow
ou write to would oo trie . same.
.Mention tlr fact to him when you
end him a letter. This Is one way
o "booBt."
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The Republican party should feel
big with pride over ll.o oil octopus,
the fruit ot Its legislation the last
years, as is nearly every other
overgrown monopoly now sapping
the life of the Republic.
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Missouri judge recently, while
hearing the appllcunt for a divorce
testify that he had gotten his wife
through a matrimonial agency, stop
ped the proceedings and dismissed
the case with, the declaatlon that no
one need apply for a divorce, who
had used such an agency to get a
mate. With a few exceptions that
would be a good rule for all courts
to adopt.
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There are ninety-one counties in
Nebraska, Including Douglas county.
At the recent election out of the
ninety-one sheriffs, the Rcpubll
cans elected only 42; county clerks,
48; county Judges , 48; county
treasurers, 50; county superintend
ents, 43; and in the ten counties
which elected register of deeds each
party secured Ave . each. Whose
state is It? ,
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The real issue In our politics to
day is whether the dollar or the
man shall rule this country. The
battle is raging In the Republican
party yes, right in our midst, tho
long arm and talon fingers of pluto
cracy are seen and felt. Its sublime
cunning surrounds us, Its tools, with
the word of God in their mouths
and the devil in their hearts, and
breathing platitudinous1 devotion to
the cause of humanity while they
seek to tear down our leaders ond
divide our council. Right must win
or the republic dies.
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II V. KXOWH MONK THAN YOU.
if so his identity is kept carefully
concealed. There has been some
rumor of Judge Hamer of Kearney,
and also of Postmaster Thomas of
taken professedly for the purpose of omaha, not to mention Chairman
placing nimseit more in toucn wun Hayward and several others. This
the great people at large, but as may matter of a gubernatorial candidate
be suspected, really to appease the a receiving the careful personal at- tariff is the father of all the corrup
growing dissatisfactoln of the Re- tention of Burkett himself, in his
publicans of the middle west. In intervals of leisure from laying the
this latter end he returns disappoint- wjres for an annulment of the Ore-
ed. He found out on his way thatEon Dian iaw.
presents of sugar plums would not while the standpat element may
bring back the lost confidence in bis not be quite so numerous as are the
administration. He had been un- progressives, it includes in Its ranks
fortunate in endorsing Aldrich, the m08t 0f the skillful and experienced
man whose Influence over him had politicians. Burkett is smooth and
led him astray on the tariff schedules, industrious, with a personal machine
But, as he finishes his long totir, and 0f no small proportions to work
returns Blck at heart to find troubles through. ' Rosewater is Just as ln
at home multiplying on every hand, dustrious, and he, like Burkett, un-
plots developing to cut him out of a derstands that he is fighting for his
renomlnatlon in 1912, by calling back political life. He has proved himself
Theodore Roosevelt, Aldrich starts already one of the shrewdest wire
also on a long pilgrimage to discuss pullers that ever afflicted his party.
currency. This was his ostensible mis-1 The Union Pacific machine is, In it
sicn. self, a tower of strength, and its de-
Dut there are strong grounds for votion to Slippery Elmer knows no
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suspecting that the real object was to bounds. '
divert attention from tariff reform, Against this array of power and
by beguiling the powerful tariff re- talent the progressive can oppose a
formers of the great middle west by majority of the country press, which
his impressive lectures upon the ne- Is a mighty political instrument
cesslty for Immediate legislation to when effectively used and the astute
relieve the annual stagnation at the and sleepless generalship of the
crop-moving time In the money mar- mysterious -Frank A. Harrison, who
ket. Now. he does not fool the seems Just now devoted, in about
westerners on this Bubject. There equal proportions, to promoting
is plenty of money this year for county option and insurgency. If
bringing the crops to the seaboard, the standpatters should by any
chance be defeated in the primaries
it will probably be because Harrison
will have projected himself into the
thick of the fight, just as he did
when Burkett was nominated against
Millard and Brown over Edward
Rosewater. And if there Is one thing
that will make the standpat corpora
tion crowd the fight harder than it
might otherwise fight, it will be the
knowledge that Harrison is direct
ing the operations ot the other side.
The situation has all the makings
of one of the prettiest factional ruc
tions ever seen In Nebraska. World-
Herald.
The Philadelphia National league
baseball club has been sold fur
$350,000. This represents in a
measure the financial value to which
the sport has risen. The Philadel-
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pnia ciuo is not anywnere near me
money-maker a number of others
are and if it Is worth that amount
some of them 'must rank close to the
million dollar mark.
1 h- gunhoat Princeton has bei'ii
ordered to Nicaragua where it will
reinforce the Vicksburg and remain
until peace has been declared and
due leijuratlon made for the killing
of the two American cUlns who
weie bhot by orders of tho govern
ment n few days ago. This has the
appearance ot compelling .te gov
ernment of that torn and unhappy
country to make prompt reparation
for their depredations and may
mean severe punishment for the gov
ernment.
Horace C. Henry, a banker and
railroad builder of Seattle, Wash., i
the Cunningham land fraud yester
day testified that he had signed
numerous affidavits in the matter
without knowing what they coi-
talned. This is what makes people
lose confidence in banks. The habit
which some of them have of sig-
Ing anything set before them wltfc-
Mr. Havemeyer. declared many years
In lit In vouf f p-ntlrtn nf the canni(tv 1. j
ago that "the protective tariff is the " ""
mother of the trusts" he told a truth
been successfully reople more money tnan an other
one cause. He should receive severe
punishment for the offense.
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The investigation into the coal
mine desaster at Cherry, 111., is U
be put' under headway at once and
it will drag along for some weeks
or months until public attention is
directed in some other direction and
nothing will ever be done to punish
the men responsible for the crime.
The trouble with investigations is
that they take too long to get action
and the public mind cools. The
tion, bribery and fraud that have
ensued in the relations between the
beneficiaries of the tariff and re
presentatives of the government.
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The sugar trust has never lacked
for friends and emissaries in any
branch of the government ' service.
In congress it has ever had at Its
beck and call a motley array of
faithful servants, headed by the
PvorwAtchful Aldrich. As the case
of Gage and Bonaparte show, it has defense of the wealthy m,ne owner
not lacked for support in the cabl- and tne negligent official Is an U
,.n oHmtniatrnHnna 0nH vestigation so that sentiment can
tnrti,.t i,v i?nnsPVPirB tndlf- De smothered and punishment avoid
ed.
as
ference to its Individual crimes while
thundering in the abstract against
corporate wrongdoing, even presl- wi wuca n going
dents have had astigmatism where over the country of corrupt Juries
It was concerned. . 8ut'h as at Chicago where the Juiry
It is a shameful mess. Enough has commission is under fire, the juries
been disclosed to show that the gov- which serve Cass county are com-
ernment has been an accessory for pletely exempt. They are Invariably
years to the crimes committed. The composed of the best and most reli-
revelatlons are such as to demand a able men in the community. It is a
nnncrpRslnnAl InvpntlB-atlnn. If there I fortunate circumstance vhpn a rntn-
be enough members of the national munlty can point to an unbroken
legislative body untouched by the line of juries to which the taint of
sticky hands of sugar trust "Inftu- suspicion has never attached and
both upon the Atlantic and Pacific
side. Aldrich talks and talks, but
suggests nothing definite. He pre
sents no matured plans. Evidently
he hopes to excite interest in cur
rency schemes, and thus lead insur
gent Republicans to forget the tar
iff, and if, in this end he should
succeed, his real mission might not
be In vain. But he excites no Inter
est in the west In what he talks
about. Aldrlch is the last man to
Bend as a missionary from New Eng
land for the conversion of the west.
Mr. Taft Is not managing politics
successfully.
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When tho cold snap canto on the
other day, It was perfectly natural
for owners and drivers of horses to
A RUCTIOX L PROSrKCT.
The talk of George L. Sheldon for
senator, that is beginning to go the
rounds of the progressive Republi
can papers, Is full of promise of a
hilarious time In the Republican
primaries.
Apparently nobobdy knows, thus,
far, whether there Is anything be
hind the talk; whether, that is, Shel
don will listen to the urglngs of his
friends and allow himself to be pro
posed ns a .candidate for senator.
Dut it is plainly evident that the
progressive Republicans are more
than eager for a candidate they can
get behind and try conclusions with
Slippery Elmer Burkett and the
standpatters. They are full of gin
ger and confidence. They have al
ready aligned themselves, It Is gen
erally understood, bnck of cx-Sena
tor Aldrlch for governor, and so, It
Is said, has the anti-saloon league
ence to institute an inquiry.
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FROM THE BUSY WOULD.
THE SUGAR TRUST SCANDAL.
Hardened to revelations of cor
ruptlon In which "big business" and
big politicians are Involved though
this country has become in recent
years, the people stand astounded
at the magnitude of the sugar
trust's stealings as recently dlsclos
ed.
For more than twenty years, It
appears, this monopoly has been de
frauding the government, with the
knowledge and connivance of gov
ernment officials, until it is esti
mated, more than $30,000,000 has
been filched from the public treas'
ury through false weighing of ira
ports and underpaying of customs
duties.
And It has remained for private
Individuals to make the exposure
which has forced the government
with apparent reluctance, to take
cognizance of the great fraud that
have been perpetrated. Ten years
this county should be proud of it3
record in this respect. The best me
only in the county have been drawn
on these juries for many years.
in. uku l0 uave iue It is proposed to run ex-President
branch, part of the Missouri Pacific Rooaevelt for governor of New York
nl1fno1 tin f tntrt ttia Vionrla rf, ro. I .
v " - " This would cause a whole lot of
celvers If the roadbed was not im- peop,e ,n thRt up and
proved at once, has caused the man- takfi nQtlce WheQ hj raQ befonj he
agement to get busy and they have had & cQ8e ca from defeat
assured Governor Sutbbs that they hand of XugUBtu v Wyck ftnd
win spena money .mmeatatety on exceedln.lv doubtful
tnia roau ana get it into Bnape ior . , ,
If he could win against several
travel, mat is one way or mailing
them come to taw. Stubbs has given
them time to get busy In and, as
he Is an old time contractor him
self, he knows just how long it will
take.
Statistics have not yet came In as
to how many persons were shot or
cut to pieces in the prohibition dis
tricts of the south, but it Is safe
to say they will exceed by far the
number killed or injured tn the
same style In the districts through
the north where liquor is sold. Pro
hibition' may prohibit, yet no one IN thh mstkict COURT OF cash
prominent Democrats in the state.
Tsddy is more popular in the wwt
and south than he has ever been In
New York and It Is doubtful If his
popularity there Is as great now s
it was years. ao. The repoUttfri
of being ex-President does not hlp
much in state politics.
Pti for
Hedge fence posts for sale.
GUmour, Plattsmouth, Neb.
Wm.
XOTICH OV SAL.K
has been able to explain how It
take place in prohibition communl-
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
In the matter of the Ounrdlannliiu of
comes that bo many drunken brawls Re Campbell, a Minor.
Notice In hereby given that In pur
suance of an order of Hon. Harvey D.
ties on Thanksgiving day and other Travis, Judge of the District Court of
holidays. It may be homemade bug- f"8" cou"ly' K,n' 8nd
' tered on the 16th dny of October, 1909.
Juice or It may be a worse quality for the selllnir of the real estate here
of the stuff In those sections. '"Rfu,r f'"'"! bed there will be sold at
me nouns uuur ui me couri iiuuno i
riattsmouth, Nebraska, on the 1st day
The annual Thanksgiving day Ul ". V'";"1, V'",,''':',
public vendue to tho hlKhest bidder for
slaughter took place yesterday on cash, the followintr described real e
the gridiron and the result proved u'e; tow": ... . . r
a great surprise to the followers of half of the west half of the outhwent
the game In many cases. Missouri J""!;"0' 8ecl'on, 2 Township 11.
University surprised the talent by said sale win remain one one hour.
wlnnnlng the championship of Mis- n JA"ES Jf- CAtM!',DKlnKr
Ouardlan of Ree Campbell, a Miner
jiourl valley, defeated Kansas by a' a o. DWYElt, Attorney.