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leite and other western Republicans i congressmen and legislatures are to hended Roberta De Janon. the miss
is frowned upon at the White house. e elected and be misled by some false ing Philadelphia heiress, and the
The president has chosen his lustru- issue which wil! be raised to obscure waiter Cohen with whom she eloped
inents and they are the instruments ! their political vision, and return ouce on December 2'J. Ccheu who is 43
that in the past have served dili-jmore to power Caunon and his sat- years of age claims to have treated
gently the cause of the special Inter-1 t llites w ho have perpetrated this In- the girl all right and in this he is
t.-.ts. Now they are to toil for the
, jitople under the benign leadership
cf .Mr. Tart.
The people eagerly await the work
ing of the president's magic. How-
'ever, they will not be satisfied with
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Those who assert that the liuur- urged on the administration to
gent movement has been "crushed" "crush" the so-called -Republican in
wtll find, that it has been neither surgents by completely ignoring them
t rushed nor hushed. in the distribution of offices and other
"good things."
That some hardened standpatter
conceived the idea and Jumped at it
as something "brilliant" is possible;
that it has been entertained for a
moment by the president or by any
f:tiny.
Py the victory of Friday George
V. Norrls becomes the greatest or
leaders among the "insurgents" and
a national figure. He has demon-
illusions. They will not accept as suf- v
iicient a few or many demonstrations uul"
v, t , ic ear Knowledge or winning tacucs. ,
...kL.K nlnvnut F.iiT tint nilllA. RII(V
Surely, the Democrats have a right
to feel Joyful. All the news that has
come out of Washington lately has
boen decidedly encouraging to the
Democracy.
eed. They want good, tangible eg
Islatlon marking real progrtmi. They
are exceedingly weary of the kind
which falls just a little short of ac
complishing something. Chicago
News, Rep.
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The cabinet was not, however, ablel'ember of his cabinet Is wildly' im-
to. think of any suitable way to dis
cipline the ninety-nine persons In
every hundred who believe that Pln-
chot is right and Balllnger Is wrong.
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Mr. rinchot, "the most useful man
Irr the public service," has been de
posed for telling some unpleasant
truths. The "Interests" which op
posed Mr. rinchot are great believers
In secrecy. Kansas City Star, Rep.
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t The fact that corporations and
other business combinations nearly
always find It possible to shift all
fines and penalties upon the general
public by means of a raise In prices,
Kecms to foretell the coming of a time
when business operations will to a
large extent bo under government
control and direction. The most ad
vanced step along this line is now bo
lug taken In England by Mr. Lloyd
George and other leaders of the liber
al party. Plutocracy thero, as every
where, is making a vigorous fight but
Ju the long run the advancing spirit
of popular right and Democracy will
win. The day of privilege Is Burely
waning towards Its sunset and the
day of the common man Is night.
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THE IXSURfJKXTH.
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FROM THE RUBY WORLD.
He Is a credit to the Fifth Nebraska
district and deserves every honor
that can be given him. It is said he
may be a candidate for the senate
to succeed Senator Burkett and If a
( onobcrnud by her. She is 17 years
old. It would appear a man of Cohen's
age should have had more sense than
to be guilty of such a foolish piece
of work if he did it to satisfy the
girl's whim as he claims. He left a
wife and family behind him.
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According to Washington dispatch
es, the two senators from this state
have agreed upon the new federal
officials in this state. They include
Marshal Warner to succeed himself
We take tho following from the
Nebraska City Press, one of the many
Republican papers of thin state that
has the courage and manhood to
Ktand by the people of the went in
securing their rights, and opposes Joe
Cannon and the band of conspirators
In the following strong terms:
It is stated In Washington that
President Taft will join hands with
.'Speaker Cannon In punishing the In
surgents by taking away their pat
ronage In their districts. We do not
Relievo that the president will stoop
to such acts. If he does It means that
his successor will not be himself. The
repealled Insurgents represent their
constituents and If the president or
the speaker by any power they have
take away the appointments that by
right belong to them It will make the
Insurgents stronger than ever. Speak
t Cannon and his outfit are not Re
publicans, they are grafters pure and
simple; a dlHgrace to any party and
not to bo countenanced by tho pro
gressive Republicans of the west. We
will either have our representatives
treated with reRpect in congress or
we will change tho whole aspect of
cur national representation. Wo of
the west believe that tho people have
a right to tho resources of the coun
try; we believe that our represents
lives should represent us Instead of
apodal Interests; we will not have
such miserable- misfits as Cannon and
Aldrlch tell us that we are to be read
out of the party. Cannon and Aldrlch
no. more represent the Republican
party than does W. J. Bryan. Presi
dent Taft will listen to the call of
the west or he will be without the
support nocessary to make a credit
able record. Joseph Cannon Is not
only tho greatest nienanco to the Ro
uubllcan party today but he Is a
meoance to alt that Is good In govern
ment. Ills downfall will mean tho
first step towards making congress a
real government of tho people, which
under his rule It Is not.
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' "INSURGENTS" AND PATRONAGK
TREAT.
probable.
To use patronage as a weapon In a
dtruggle of convictions and Ideas; to
punlBh men who honestly believe cer
tain things to be essential to Repub
lican strength and success by with
holding from them the loaves and
fishes of patronage would be so petty
and so silly that no administration
could survive the ridicule, the scorn
the contempt that such Bcandalous
tactics, such peanut politics would
provoke. It would be an Insult to the
Taft administration even to warn It
against such methods.
There Is room for much honest and
vigorous difference of opinion In any
vital party that represents principle
and aspires to serve the country. And
when differences develop It is Idle to
Ignore them and Idler to stifle dis
cussion of them. Legislation and policy
are shaped by national need, by earn
est public opinion, by necessary com
promises and concessions of diverse
Interests. Parties and platforms
march with the times, and there is
nothing rigid, petrified about Repub
licanslm or Democarcy. Only Intoler
ant men Ignorant of all political his
tory will be eager to read honest op
ponents out of their party to talk of
humiliating and crushing them.
One miiHt apologize for such com
mon-places as these, but the gossip of
the day In regard to the penalizing of
Republican "heterodoxy" at the de
mand of the "regulars" possibly Justi
fies recurrence to the A B C of politi
cal morality and sanity. Chicago Re-
ord-Herald, Rep.
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Cardinal Satolli is dead In Rome
His demise marks the passing of a
great figure In the Roman Catholic
church, and one who was most pop
lar In the United States. Expressions
of grief over his death are universal
In this countryt where he had served
as Apostolic delegate for Beveral
years. No man at the Vatican had a
more profund knowledge of the
status of the church In this country
than he and no man had done more
toward Its advancement In every
sense. His deatn Is a loss of much
magnitude to the church In America
and it will be long before a fitting
successor appears.
Republican Is to fill that place Norrls
Is the one. He more truly represents
the progressive policies of the times
than any Republican yet suggested.
Should he conclude not to enter the
fight against Burkett then the voters j
of the Fifth Nebraska district should !
return him to fight Cannonism and !
Aldrlchism to a royal finish. He is a
fearless and independent statesman
and a friend of the people.
As the Busy World forecast some
time ago President Taft last Friday
summarily removed Chief Forester
Gilford Plnchot and, in so doing,
precipitated one of the greatest poli
tical fights In many years. AlmoBt
coincident with his action the house
of representatives, under the leader
ship of Representative Norrls of this
state, passed a resolution taking away
and Frank S. Howell of Omaha as
ngton. The Chicago Tribune pronoun
ces the situation as a "amd, seething,
swirling whirlpool," which threatens
to engulf Taftand Cannon and it holds
out small hopes of their riding the
waves, lne lriuune in rati, aoes
not want Cannon to be saved but In
it's blind Republican fanaticism, it
wants to save Taft even after he has
aligned Himself squarely against
every progressive Idea the paper re
presents. That Taft should even have
been expected to be nnything more
than he has developed to be, is in
explicable. His whole career has been
marked by a blind subserviency to
the "interests" and that he should
line up with them now Is only the
natural result of years of training.
It 1b claimed a national law for Urom Speaker Cannon the power of
he publicity of campaign contribu- appointing the house members of a
Ions in presidential and congressional committee to investigate Secretary
elections Is to be passed by this con- Ballinger. This action has stirred the
gress. If ever there was a piece of Lp(.aker and the president up and
useless legislation, it Is this. All the tnev nave vowed war upon the "In
laws' in the world will not prevent 8urgent8." It Is too early yet to fore
men having Interests at stake from cast tne outcome of the struggle but
interfering in the elections and when t Beema inconceivable that the "in
they can no longer do so publicly surgents" will be whipped into line.
they will do so privately, laws or no jhey have cast the die and must fight
laws. Many who advocate such laws the battle out to a finish.
rln an frnm n mire : hleh Ideal stand-
district attorney In place of Charles
;A. Gosa. The dispatch states that
j Senator Burkett and Brown are not
regarded as being insurgent enough
!to Justify the, president in rejecting
their recommendations. Holy Smoke!
We should think they were not insur
gent enough for that. Anyone who can
look at the record of these two men
and call them Insurgents must have
Indeed a brilliant Imagination. .
The great Homestake mining strike
at Lead, S. D., Is approaching a cru
clal stage. The management of the
mines announce that they now Intend
to open the mines with 1,000 men
who have signed up at a non-union
scale. This probably is the forerun
ner of trouble as the union officials
are all hurrying to that city in re
ference to the announcement. Many
of the locked-out miners have left
Lead but there is still enough on
hand to make things rather unpleas
ant if they so make up their minds
It may be that the matter will pass
off without trouble as the miners may
have been starved Into submission
In St. Louis twelve ministers Sun
day united in sermons denouncing
the tendency of the stage toward im
noarlity, denouncing the playhouse as
a htara u-hnra tintraYnaaa and nurlltv
point, others do so from a hypocrltl- thfl vktory whlch the ..ln
m 111 LI.L iLn I i m.v.yu v viv W
cal pretense or moramy wuicu luc 8urKent8
aided by the Democrats,
do not have. The first are misguided won Frlday by the narrow margin of
theorists and the second class are three voteg win Btand( ls Impr0bable.
i
anks Knaves. Thfi ctlon of th BtandDat senate
I & i i . t a ii 1
unaer Aiancn in aaopung a resoiu-
At Alton, 111., yesterday, fifteen tion providing for the appointment
ersons were hurt, six of them ser- 0f a joint Investigating committee by
lously ln two coasting accidents. Alllyive President Sherman and Speaker
told there have been fifteen accidents I Cannon, as a substitute for the house
here on coasters during the week resolution, clearly indicatea that the
resulting ln one death and a long Aldrlch - Cannon - Taft combination
1st of Injured. This demonstrates that knows It can win In the house and
thoBe having charge of coasting car- intends to do so. But It's victory
nlvals and the like 'cannot exert toowM prove a costly one In the end
President Taft has a program of great rare ln the management of the It wm forerun the final overthrow
legislation which he hopes will be aame. Accidents happen under the and extinction of the machine in the
carried out by congress at Its present best of conditions and a little negli- fall elections and the crushing of the
session. He Is relying upon the co-Lence may be responsible for deaths arbitrary power of the speaker. Even
nn-.rtinnnf AlHrl.h and Cannon and L. rtna inrv nf mnv nersons. ba victory of the "Insurgents"
vlihvivii w - - i vl rjv, s u w j j -- i . , B A 1
i l mi n riiiHV w r aui iihi t- ii ii ii n i i r
the followers of thoBe two worthies special precautions should be taken I, u hag fccen hgrd b,ow thft
to secure success for his plans. Per- t0 keep teams off the course of thelmen who are making the Republican
haps they will not fall him. coasters and also to regulate the party the tool of robbing and greedy
INHl'IMJKXCY UKTH T1IK KXKCU-
TIVK FROWN.
divorce evil and all other forms of
degeneracy. One minister created a
ensatlon by taking the opposite stand
and denouncing those who attacked
the stage as "muck-rakers who seek
notoriety." This brother evidently hit
the nail on the head in most cases
for the general Idea which seems to
underlie these sporadic attacks on
the stage ls to gain fleeting notice in
the public prints. Yet at the same
time there are unquestionably some
plays on the American stage today
which are actually nauseating. One
ln particular In Chicago has the crime
of incest as its central theme, some
thing adhorent to any decent person.
However, ifew sensational sermons
have any effect upon the stage save
to advertise the indecent end of it
The people have considerable con- starting of the same.
fldence In the foresight of the presi-
dent. It ls certain, however, that Donver threatens to be "dry" at
their confidence in his foresight Is not the next election as there Is a wlde
so great as It was before he accepted spread movement on foot In that city
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smilingly and praised rather extrav- to shut the saloons up tight and the
agantly the tariff law which la now liquor interests are much alarmed at
in effect. The president by those the outlook. The first closed Sunday
amiable actions compromised himself n many years was yesterday when
Into a position ln close proximity to the saloon men themselves closed up
the camp of lords of special prlvl- tight to counteract the prohibition
lege. wave. It Is proposed to cut down the
Perhaps he is there for a good pur- district in which Baloons may operate
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vmnn Il.hnnn t t fr n n rr wfrr vnivn iW 11 II I II H I'll v Mill! Hinil Lis I QIDu I. IIU uu . .
i,uou. iciuayo no uua n iuhuw the congre8Bionai committee was
the light. Perhaps Aldrlch and Can- nual license to $1,500 per year. By wm
Interests and it's effects will be far-
reaching.
At Liberal, Mo Henry Dorman, i
man 110 years old, has just died
The dispatch announcing his death
does not state whether he drank,
smoked or chewed but to fool the
cranks, he ought to have done all
three things.
The Insurgent Republicans of the
house held a session last night at
which the gauntlet thrown down by
It will not do to take too seriouslf
the talk of soinS politicians at Wash
inglon regarding an alleged scheme
I be relentless war between the re'
tee and the progressives. The latter
are in the right and the country
111 approve their manly
stand.
The highest amount of assessment
non at this moment are sitting at his these means It Is hoped to couuteract
. . . .. . . . . I .V, n n.nVlkltlnn tltfll'O Th A f art thdM
Knees arinmng m nis precepis as w . actlonaric8 who control the commlt-
the beauty of unselfish public ser- omen vote in Denver complicates me
vice. The Dally News trusts that such situation and will afford a curious
a pleaBlng picture is presented to and Interesting study of the final re- Lhould and w
anyone say, Knox or Ballinger suit.
who enjoys Intimate relations with
the chief executive. Th,. n,nrinI,'B rtlsnntchea from
However, it will be necessary to Washington show plainly that the for personal taxes ln New York city
Judge the Influence of his homilies greatest pressure ls being exerted in h8 stated to be that of Mrs. Emma B
by the results achieved ln congress the interest of "party harmony." The Kennedy, a woman .who has $6,000,'
through the actions of the Aldrlch- reactionaries have accomplished their 000 charged to her. Andrew Car
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lannon coterie. If the results are good purpose, they have succeeded ln get- negle and Mrs. Russell Sago are se-
he president will deserve much praise ting Forester Pinchot out and the Cond with $5,000,000 each, John D
and his bright-faced allies among the way to seize the public forests, tho Rockefeller Is third with $2,500,000
legislators wlil win the applause of water power of tho country and the it looks at a distance as if the wo
the people. If the results are not lands of tho people is now open. Now men were more honest than the men
good there will bo a reckoning which f0r "party harmony." They have won in turning in their property to the
will Jar tho foundations of stand'
patlBtn wherever found.
In the meantime the public Is in
formed from Washington that the
Insurgency of Curnmlns and La Fol-
In what they were after and the plan assessor.
now Is to make the "insurgents" fall
In line and sav they like It. Will It The Chicago police acting on a tip
succeed? And If It does succeed will given them by the keeper of a room
the people forget It next fall when lng house ln that city have appre
WEEPIXQ WATER.
(Republican.)
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Olson
on Monday, December 27, 1909, a
son. '
Miss Ellenora Domingo Is visiting
with her friend. Miss Anna Madsen,
at Mlnden.
Miss Grace Lake was over from
Murdock last week visiting Misses
Stella Jewell and Mildred Butler.
Mrs. Jesse Davis has been quite
sick for several days past, threatened
with lung fever, but is now Improving,
some.
Prof. R. W. Ellis returned to his
academy work Tuesday morning, hav
ing spent his vacation and enjoyed
the same In Endeavor, Wis.
On new years day, January 1, 1910,
there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hillman, a Bon. Nothing like starting
the year right. May the youngster
live long and be a blessing to his parents.
Mrs. Alex Spencer received a 'phone
message from her brother Alex Pat
terson, at Newton, la., that their little
son Kermit died December 29th. Mr.
and Mrs. Patterson had but recently
moved to hi3 old home. Many rela
tives and friends sympathize with
them in their sorrow.
A petition signed by a large num- -ber
of citizens has been circulated
asking the state board of railroad
1 commissioners to Intercede in behalf
of securing telephone service at the
depot with our local exchange. Such
service will bo much appreciated if
secured, and our depot force is so ac
commodating that they will gladly im
part any information desired.
In Judge Barnes court last Friday,
Dr. J. B. Hungate sued Josephine
West for services rendered John
West, a minor son, to the amount of
$75. Attorney C. E. Tefft represent
ed Doctor Hungate and Attorney Mat-
they Gerlng 'represented Mrs. West.
Judge Barnes rendered a Judgment
for the full amount claimed. The
case will probably be appealed to
the district court.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Corley provided
a Bplendld turkey dinner new year's
day, and those who partook of the
sumptuous repaBt were Mrs. J. K.
Kelthley of Syracuse, Mrs. Emma
Kharas and two children of Omaha,
Mrs. Elmer Worman, G. H. Olive and
family, Mrs. E. V. Defebaugh, George
Corley and Misses Anna Hubbard
and Ethel Leyda. The afternoon was
an enjoyable one, filled with musical
selections and visiting.
and the managers of the vulgar and
obscene plays do not object to that.
In fact they encourage it.
Now for the "fans." The official
averages of the Western League are
out and show that Harry Welch of
the Omaha team' led the league ln
batting with an average of .372 which
ls a high average. Sioux City led In
club batting average .285 with Om
aha second with .283. Omaha led an
average of .956 in club fielding with
Sioux City second with an average of
952. Melter of Des Moines led in
percentage of games pitched and won,
his percentage being .778, although
he pitched but nine games. Olmstead
of Denver was really the leading pitch
er, having won 27 and lost 8 games,
a percentage of .750. Zalusky of Den
ver with a clean fielding of 1,000
leads the catchers, although he play
ed ln but 12 games. Towne of Sioux
City really leads the catchers with a
fielding average of .986 in 100 games
Kane of Omaha with an average of
978 1b the best first baseman, Fox of
Omaha leads the second basemen with
an average of .963, Shlpke of Omaha
leads the third basemen with an aver
age of .949, Franks of Omaha ls best
shortstop average .954, and Hogrlever
of Lincoln with 1,000, Waldron cf
Lincoln with .998 and Green of Sioux
City with an average of .984 lead the
fielders. Now fight it out you fans.
The greatest theme in the papers
ton. Monday was the ferment at Wash
Advertised Letter lasi.
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