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The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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Yv k kiTilum declares Giavis Is a ,
iih suloiiiiiniao. Whatever that mean,
It seems thut the country could stand
a few more of them on Uncle Sam's
pay roll.
President Tatt wants -congress to
pass a law discriminating between
good and bad trusts, when In fact, the
only possible distinction la between
l ad, worse and worst trusts.
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May-r Gaynor tied a large bunch
of crepe to the tiger's tall when he
appointed eight Democrats who were
not indorsed by Tammany to offices at
salaries aggregating $07,000 annually
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"'Having killed specimens of all
knows animals, Roosevelt has now
discovered and slain an entirely new
kind of beast, to which the national
museum scientists give the name of
otocyon vergatus. Like many a nob
ler being, tho otocyon vergatus had
to die to gain a name.
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tin: insi kgkxt ktati:.mi;t
It was well enough for the pro
gressives to issue a Htutomentdcfln
ing their position, though there was
no urgent need for such a statement.
The country understands that position
well, In spite of tho efforts of the re
tictlonarles to make It appear that the
opponents of Cannon and Aldrlch are i
against the administration and the
Republican party. So far as the presi
dent's purposes were defined In his
message bearing on the railroads and
other corporations, the progressive!
nro In accord with them, and the
country knows that the obstruction
to carrying out those purposes Is
more likely to be offered by the ro
nctlonarlos than by the progressive!.
. Meanwhile,' It Is well that the
treatment of the progressive! by Can
non has been such as to force them
Into a working organization of their
Sun. They need not be alarmed about
helr status. They aro making the
fight that must be made If the people
.are to be delivered from the rule of
itongress by the power of money. If
the Republican party Is Injured by
this formal division In congress It
will not be because the progressives
have refused to obey Cannon, but be.
cause Cannon has made his policies
the party's policies by forcing his will
through the caucus when he has
found It Impossible to force It by
illreet order. Kansas City Star, Rep.
TIIH MKKTIXd AT LINCOLN.
The action taken by the insurgent
Republicans at Lincoln, In openly
condemning tho record of Senator
Durkett and calling for a state meet
ing of Insurgents to determine on a
plan of action is significant, not so
much la its bearings on the personal
fortune of the senior senator, as in
the light it sheds on the state ot the
. public mind in Nebraska. It goes to
show, as this newspaper Bald yester
day, 1hat even If the Insurgents at
Washington should surrender and
make peace with the dominant ele
ment of the party the Insurgents out
on the plains and prairies would still
continue to fight. And the reason Is
that the rank and- file of insurgents
aro not fighting for patronage, or for
admission Into a Joe Cannon caucus,
but for principle In which they be
lieve. They are thoroughly awake to
tho fact that there prevails, in this
nation today, a government by "The
, System" Instead of a government by
the people. They propose to keep on
fighting to restore government by the
. people and there Is no man or cotcrio
of men so big that by an ukase of ex
communication they can make them
utop fighting.
Senator Durkett has been tho half-and-half,
milk-and-water type of in
mirgent. Ho has been 49 per cent
Insurgent and GO',4 per cent stand-
imt. Ho has pursued tho path ot
umi)iimist. lie has talked one way
in Nebraska and another way In
Washington. And he has talked ono
way in Washington and voted an
other, lie has sought, at one and the
Hiinie time, to be Insurgent and re
gular. He has tried to create the Im
pression that he was representing the
people of his Btate, and in sympathy
with them, while al the 6ame time he
was cheek by jowl with Aldrlch and
Smoot.
The failure of this policy to w in the
approval of the folks back home
shows that those pamo folks back
home have enlisted for the war. They
o not look on tho movement In which
they aro engaged as a fake warfare,
conducted for party advantage, but
as a real war waged In the name of
good government and popular rights.
They have no disposition to compro
mise, and they know how to fight.
The Lincoln meeting was attended
by Republicans like Attorney General
Thompson, Mayor Love, City Attor
ney Flaiisburg, Judge Frost, former
State Superintendent MeDrien, form
er Speaker Clark and others who
have spent their lives and won honors
In the service of their party. They
aro no mere malcontents, fighting for
personal advantage, or making trou
ble because they thrive on It. .They
are earnest and representative Repub
licans, driven reluctantly, by flagrant
act8 of betrayal, to take up armg
against the unfaithful leaders whom
a short time ago they delighted to
honor. World-Herald.
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FROM TMK UUSY WORLD.
John Williamson of Auburn, 111., on
Tuesday crawled through a hedge
dragging a loaded shotgun after him.
In the excitement the gun was dis
charged and John died. CarelesB,
very earless, yet every day It happens.
Think It over.
Two men were suspended from the
New York stock exchange for short
periods for the manipulation of Rock
Island stocks a few weeks ago. This
stock. went up thirty points in a few
minutes and then reacted back in a
shorter length of time. The men were
found by the governors of the board
to be guilty of practices detrimental
to the welfare of tho exchange. We
Bhould believe they were.
The speed of Insurgency In the Re
publican party can be traced by the
fact that Jas. M. Mann, member of
the congressional committee from Il
linois, has been forced to decline a
re-election oh account of his Cannon
views and Congressman McKlnley
takes his place. The latter Is a Can
non man but not bo pugnacious as
Mann and the latter's retirement Is
the result of the insurgent agitation.
The expectation that the aviation
meeting at, Los Angeles, would be the
greatest In American history, If not
in that of the world, seems destined
to turn out correct. On Tuesday Glenn
Curtlss, the American aviator, with a
passenger made a Bpeed of fifty-five
miles an hour, something never be
fore done. In addition he secured re
cords for rising from the ground and
for running his aeroplane the short
est distance before rising. Paulhan,
the French star, failed In his efforts
to establish a high altitude record,
reaching but 400 feet.
John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor
of noston, who was defeated for re
election two years ago on account -of
chnrges affecting his administration,
was last Tuesday once more elected,
defeating Storrow, who ran on a good
government ticket. As Is generally
the enso about one term of reform
administration Is all the people of a
city want. Usually the reformers turn
out to bo worse grafters than tho pco-
pie whom they succeed and this seems.
to have been tho prevailing Idea In
lioston. Roth leadiug candidates were j complished real good. In many other
Democrats, Iitston voting now under cases it has operated the other way.
a non-partisan law. i
j Mrs. James Hunt of Chicago and
j Louis Paulhan who was oversuaw- Howard G. Cole also of said city, have
lowed on Tuesday at t lie great a iatlon ' started tongues wagging because, for
j meeting at Los Angeles by Glenn Cur-jsooth, they cr.iuniitted matrimony at
tiss, vesurday reJur.K'd himself and j Jacksonville, Fla., cn' January 7. He
'established a new record for height, it remembered, Mrs. Hunt was di
: reaching the unexampled distance of vorccd by Mr. Hunt because ho sus
iat least i, COO feet. The judges of-jpxUed Mr. die was unduly Intimate
filial record placed the distance at a
little under 3,000 feet. He was iu
the air more than fifty minutes, and
came down in seven and one-half
minutes. The meeting was a gran J
one and has aroused the greatest en-1
thuslasm. Yesterday one of the sights
of the meeting was when three bal -
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dirigible of Knabenshue and Beachey
and Faulhan and his big by plane all
in the air at once. Paulhan greeted In
turn the balloons and the dirigible
flying about, a vertiable manblrd.
As an additional evidence of the
growing strength of Congressman
Norris of this state, tho fact that he
has taken the initiative In protesting
to the president on behalf of the in
surgents against being classed as
against the policies of the adminis
tration ir.ay be cited. It Is said that
a lively and highly entertaining cor
respondence has been taking place
between the chief executive and the
Independent Nebraskan and that Nor
ris has not spared words In stating
plainly the character of men with
whom the president has aligned him
self. That he should have courage
enough and conscience enough to
place himself squarely on record, is
an evidence that he Is well fitted to
take the place of Durkett in the sen
ate. The anti-saloon league of Nebraska
Is stirring Itself and preparing to
make a hard fight for county option
at the coming election. In their or
gans they are running quarter and
half page ads., calling for all who
favor that policy to send then a writ
ten pledge to that effect. This would
Indicate that If the liberal element
In the state want to maintain what
they construe to be their rights, they
have to huBtle and organize: The
principal appeal of the anti-saloon
league Is to the ministers of the
church. They declare an aroused
church means a clear-cut issue. In
connection with this fight it Is an
nounced Mayor Dahlman of Omaha
is to make a touf of the state in an
automobile and speak against county
opinion and prohibition but the au
tentlclty of this state is questionable.
Owing to the continuance of cold
weather and the heavy snows over
he corn belt, corn yesterday made an
other sharp advance and gives every
promise of reaching unheard of fig
ures by next spring. The great quan
tity of corn caught In the fields by
the wet weather of November and
held there by the sudden descent of
winter is Influencing the market and
it gives promise of soaring to the
top of the list While the crop last
season was a good one In the total
there is a great quantity estimated
from one-quarter to forty per cent
of the crop still In the field with
email prospect of being gathered be
fore April and the loss must be very
heavy. Wheat, on the other hand
gives promise of going down to bed
rock as compared with the price of
the past few years.
Illinois is about to pass a law per
mitting cities in that state to adopt
the commission form of government
This system which had it's origin
In Galveston, Tex., after the great
flood and tidal wave has grown stead
Uy In favor and many cities in many
states now operate under It. It does
away with the council manic form of
government confiding the care of tho
city to a board of commissioners con
sistlng of three or five members. It
does not abolish ring rule or graft,
however, contrary to general belief,
but it does reduco It to a more exact
science. Tho right of the people to
rulo under It's operation, however, is
reduced to a minimum. The so-called
"better element," usually a synonym
for rich grafters, generally profit by
the commission system, hence they all
favor it. In many cases it has ac
with her. Also, be it remembered,
lMr. Cole was divorced bv Mrs. Cole
because he had been seen with a "wo
man in a pink gowa" and when said
; divorce was granted an injunction
was issued restraining Cole from
i
t marrying Inside of two years unless
jhe re-married. Now, they have gone
and done it and the man Cole says he
will stay In Jacksonville for some
time to come. From what the court
says, it will be well for him to do so
as he surely is in contempt for his
actions. Just, what can be done out
side of Illinois Is doubtful but Cole
and lady are exiles for a while at
least. The case seems to have the
good people of Chicago In some sweat.
Incidentally, the first Mrs. Cole who
was an Intimate friend of the second
Mrs. Cole Is some scandalized over
her conduct and will probably make
a "scene" when she meets her. She!
also may disturb Cole's serenity of
mind at said meeting, However, little
we wot!
The Macedonian cry is raised from
the white house at last. President
Taft has definitely decided to call for
help. eYsterday's Chicago Tribune
has an official pronouncement of the
president's position, as he views It,
given to the country through the
medium of It's able Washington re
presentative. Without question the
Tribune knows whereof it speaks, It
represents the greatest and most up-to-date
news service in this country.
We are told that the president is
bent on securing the legislature re
forms to which he pledged himself
in the national ccampalgn. We are
also told that he intends to maintain
the strength of the party of which
he Is the titular head. Now, let's see
the program:
First, He intends to secure the
enactments to the interstate com
merce law aa recommended In hla
message several days since. These
recommendations In the main, are
good.
Second, He wants the federal In
corporation law enacted. As the Ne
braska state Journal says he creates
'A Zone of Lawlessness" for the big
corporations. H1b federal Incorpora
tion law means exemption from Btate
control ot every big trust In the coun
try. In effect, "t is a license to plun
der the people, menace to the few
rights remaining in their hands.
These then, we are told, are the
two pet measures he advocates, the
one of deception and the other a
downright betrayal of the people. The
first to blind them, the second to
loot them. No legislation at all is
better than this program.
Further In this authorized state
ment from the white house, comes the
statement that "the president natur
ally is impatient at the action of
certain senators and members of the
house In Imputing notives to him
which are discreditable and are cir
culated, he feels, only for the pur
pose of doing him injury in the eyes
of the people &c." "The hand Is the
hand of Taft but the voice is the
of Cannon." Let any calm dlspas-
lonate man read the paragraph print
ed and say what it means. It means
that La Follette, Clapp, Cummins,
Drlstow and even Dolllver in the
senate are beyond the pole that
Norris, Murdock and the rest of the
Insurgents are outlawed and no long
er persona grata at the white house.
In the Republican party it Is war
grim, Implacable, red-vlsaged war
The President casts his lot with Can
non and Aldrlch. He takes tho place
he agreed to take when ho accepted
at their hands the presidency. He Is
"safe and sane," andi from tho Jun
gles of Africa, comes no word.,
"Tho Jungles are silent." Yet from
their depths may como salvation of
the Republican party. Over the na
tional cnpltol and the white house
looms a figure Inspiring and bold to
honest Republicanism. It 13 the spec
tre of a man whose record looks good
to the Republican who Is such from
principle. It is the'dim ghost of the
man who has initiated reforms which
were made for the people. It Is the
terror to New Lork and Wall street
one terror to New York and Wall
.street Theodcre Roosevelt.
Poli Jrs as played today is a strange
game. Largely it is money, but in the
end it will he justhe, Roosevelt,
has his faults. They are many and
grievous. At times he transcends the
law, at times he is like unto an auto
crat. Yet never has he been accused
of being owned. A clever politician,
has oft turned his sails to meet the
favoring breeze cf public opinion but,
more oft, he has loosed, all sails and
rode out on adverse w ind landing In
a fair harbor. Today he and his
policies stand discredited in the house
of his friends. In Africa he Is a
companion to the Hon and the eleph
ant, and he gives no word. But he
will return Will he on his return,
will defend his policies or will be eat
from the hand of Cannon and Aid-
rich? Time alone can tell. '
No sensations took place yester
day at Los Angeles In the great avia
tion meeting but the avalliblllty of
the biplane for carrying passengers
received an Impetus as nearly every
machine in the contest carried at
least one or two passengers and did
it with ease. The way toward aerial
transportation seems to lie open and
within a very short time there will
be regular passenger lines operating
machines for transportation without
doubt.
Yesterday another big storm had
the country in its grasp and old
winter has been playing havoc with
travel . and communication in the
eastern states. Coal carrying roads
have been badly crippled and Indica
tions are for a lot of trouble with a
coal famine In many eastern and mid
dle west cities. The traffic of the
railroads in other commodities has
also been diminished and the result
will show in decreased railroad earn
ings for the month.
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An alleged "confession" of Ray
Lamphere 13 printed today in a St.
Louis paper. The confession describes
In detail the many murders which
this man claims to have participated
In, in company with Belle Gunness at
La Porte, Ind. The story Is a grue
some one and doubtless In Its details
would make reading anything but
pleasant, yet It will doubtless sell the
paper in great quantities. There is
a serious question as to whether or
not it is merely a well written piece
of fiction and much doubt exists as
to whether he ever confessed or not.
As he Is dead, it will be hard to
Drcooklze him.
A Washington dispatch to the
State Journal calls attention to the
sudden leap Into fame of George W.
Norris of the Fifth Nebraska dls
trlct and in an extended article much
praise Is given him. The article also
states that it is only a question of
time when Norrla will announce his
candidacy for senator to succeed Bur
kett. As Busy World has said before,
if it must be a Republican from Ne
braska by all means let It be Norris.
He stands for something and he can
be located when one wants to know
where he la while the present senator
Is colorless and plays both ends
against the middle at all times. Nor
ris would be of sufficient calibre to
make his name ana tUe name of his
state known as a member of the up
per house.
The Kansas City police have un
earthed a great, big, sensation in the
death of Col. Thos. Swope and his
nephew Christian Swope, both of
whom recently died. The authorities
did not at first suspicion but the
deaths were natural but later develop
ments aroused suspicion that the two
men were murdered for the many
millions which Thos. Swope posses
sed. It Is said that a man who would
have Inherited the rich man's estate
tried to Inoculate the entire Swope
family with typhoid bacteria so that
death might come In that way without
throwing suspicion on him. This fall
lug, he resorted to poison to accom
pllsh his ends and succeeded. The
vague outline of the story which has
reached the public furnishes the
foundation for a tale rivalling the
most gruesome novels. As is nearly
always the case, however, there seems
little likihoed cf the villain escaping
and the hand of justice is upon him.
Ex-Chief Forester Pinchot yester
day issued an extended statement to
the people which touches the ques
tion of conservation cf natural re
sources and in which he defends his
course and criticises the policy cf the
administration In no uncertain tones.
Pinchot also reiterates the belief that
the resources are in peril and that
the right of popular government is
no less in peril, lie declares that he
stands ready to back the government
policies when they are right and to
oppose . them when w hen they are
wrong. The document on the whole
is an able one and sounds like Pin-
hot was all he has been credited
with being a sound and true friend
of the public and a patriotic official.
Despite this he was decapitated and
his overthrow which was sought for
so long by the interests, was finally
accomplished. Really the oft-reiterated
charge that the government does
not want consclencious officials seems
to bear fruit in this case.
The merry hades which Is envelop
ing England has received an addition
al boost in the shape of a solemn
warning issued to the electorate by
Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain,
who is the dyed-in-the-wool leader of
the English protectionists, comes out
strongly for a high protective tariff
and for the abandonment of the
policy of free trade which has been
the policy of the government for so
many years. He is an advocate of
the policy of protection as connected
with Its colonies and believes In rais
ing a high trade wall about all the
colonies as against other nations. The
adoption of the Chamberlain policy
by England would probably lead to a
tariff war between the nations which
would have disastrous and far-reaching
effects throughout the world.
However, the Indications are that the
Tories cannot win and that the pres
ent government will be returned, al
though It may be by a reduced ma
jority. '
President Taft la said to have been
appalled at the extent of the row he
has raised In the Republican ranks
and to have an appeal to the Repub
licans to get together and cease their
fighting. He denied that he intended
to hold patronage from the insur
gents unless they continued to fight
the speaker and oppose party meas
ures. This proviso about fighting the
speaker will probably be a stumbling
block toward a settlement of the
trouble. Then again, what is to be
done on the Pinchot matter? This
may result In more grief for Pinchot
Is the one man of all others who has
brought matters to a crisis and the
Insurgents cannot conscienclously de
sert him now. Then again the in
surgents have almost burned their
bridges behind them bo far as the
people are concerned. They have
showsn the public the true inward
ness of the Republican policies and
the party control. They have ex
posed the tendency of the party legis
lation toward favoring the "inter
ests" ond have plainly developed that
the party machinery is ln the hands
of the Aldrlch-Cannon crowd. How
they can swallow all they have done
and quit their fight, Is a mystery.
$100 Per Acre.
Harry Smith and brother A. W.
Smith today closed a deal bywhlch
a Mr. Nelson located at Carson, la.,
becomes the owner of the eighty-five
acre tract of land lying north of Mr.
Smith's property and owned by J. M.
Roberts of the Plattsmouth State
nank. The consideration is stated to
be $100 per acre or $8,500 for the
tract, a handsome figure and yet
quite TeaBonable. The Messrs. Smith
have located a number of Iowa farm
ers in Cass county lands, they being
able to secure good land cheaper here
than alnd In their own locality Is
selling.
For Sale An 80 acre farm In Otoe
county. 40 acres adjoining Platts
mouth; also small acreage tracts.
Windham Investment & Loan Co.