The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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R. A. BATES,
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The sooner the muddle Is settled
on the gubernatorial question, the
sooner harmony can be made to pre
vail In the ranks of the party.
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Vice President Sherman will be
able to add to his other distinctions
that ho was "mentioned" for chair
man of the New York Republican
convention of 1910.
Is It to be Inferred from the ar
rest of Joseph C. Sibley In Franklin,
Pa., that It Is really illegal to en
gage In a "conspiracy to debauch
voters" in Pennsylvania?
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Colonel Roosevelt's western trip
will take him 5,493 miles) and esti
mating threo cheers to every mile,
there's a total of 16,479 cheers, not
counting the stopping places.
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Being repudiated by both Presi
dent Taft and ex-President Roose
velt, James Schoolcraft Sherman Is
left "without where to lay his head,"
and may have to sleep standing up.
One lesson of the New York sit
uation Is that "shrewd politics" has
ceased to bo shrewd. The only suc
cessful politics nowadays Is the clean,
decent, open-and-above-board "kind.
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"Slippery Klnier" is doomed to
defeat this time. He knows the peo
ple of Nebraska have had about all
they want of the man who has so
signally sold them out In Washing.
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In the contest the casual observer,
and reader of the dally papers Is
unable to see which candidate for
governor Is the gainer. It Is about
an even break so far, and tho friends
of both Shallenberger and Dahlman
are waiting In suspense for the final,
result. ...;,,
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We have noticed In election con
gests In tho pant that the man who bo
gan such contest always got the
worst of It. such will kill a candi
date politically quicker than any
thing else. We are really sorry thut
iiucn a thing was ever thought of.
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Tho opportunity to get a number
ono manufacturing plunt Jn Platts
mouth should receive the support of
every business man. The one pro
posed will be worth two or threo of
some other kind. Aid It with your
means. Don't let the opportunity
pass? We may not have another!
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Turncoat Aldrlch Is not going to
have as smooth sailing for gover
nor as Uo thought. His record In
the state senate on the county option
question was somewhat different to
his present views on the question.
Of course the present muddle be
tween Shallenberger and Dahlman
gives him encouragement. But that
will finally blow over and all will
be serene In the Democratic ranks.
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Aldrlch, the Republican candidate
for governor, was In Lincoln the oth
er day strutlng around like a bantuni
booster, declaring he would be elect
ed, and county option would pre
vail. Four years ago Aldrlch In the
senate opposed county option, and
many are wondering what caused the
change. The chance of securing the
Republican nomination for govornor,
no doubt. Turncoats never succeed.
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September 6 the people of New
Mexico will elect delegates to a con
vention to draft a constitution for tho
new Btate. Tho Important lssuo In
that regard Is whether to adopt a
constitution with or without a provis
ion for a popular Initiative and refer
endum. The advocates of the Ini
tiative and referendum should win.
The time Is past for devices of gov
ernment which take power away from
tho people Is In keeping with the
spirit and tho needs of the twentieth
century.
Plattsnoutlt, Nebraska
Publisher.
CRUDE Kl'IWSKK.
"Crude rubber Is and has been
on the free lUt of our tariff and
there has been no movement or sug
gestion from any source to place It
on the dutiable list. If this Import
ant raw material which competes
with no domestic product, should be
placed upon the dtiable list the duty
would clearly be addod to the cost
of the rubber manufacture to the
consumer and would not affect the
producer, whose price would still be
controlled by the market price of
the world." From Aldrlch's defense
to the Bristow charges.
Hut, Nelson, we thought the "for
eigner" paid the tariff tax. That's
what you and your high tariff com
patriots have always told us. But this
Is different. So the consumer pays
the tariff tax after all, by your own
confession, Just as the wicked Demo
crats have always contended. This Is
an awful revelation, Nelson.
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CANNON SHOWS HIS TEETH.
Will "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Sen
ator Aldrlch consent to be unloaded?
Hardly, from present Indications. The
bark of hope of organization of the
Taft administration appears hopeless
ly foundered In an angry sea. Presi
dent Taft hliLself, a reactionary of
reactionaries at heart, would per
haps willing consent to throw over
Cannon and Aldrlch to save his own
political bacon, but there Is no evi
dence apparent that those worthy ex
emplurs of G. O. P. principles are
willing to be made the scapegoat of
the Taft administration. Cannon
showed his teeth in the Interview the
other day in which he said:
"I have been In harmony with, and
have to the best of my ability co-operated
with the Republican majority
In the house of representatives In the
legislation that has been enacted for
the last seven years, during tho ad
ministration of Theodore Roosevelt
and William 11. Taft. Whatever sins
of omission or commission have been
chargeable to me are Included In the
record 'for the Republican party. I
would not change that record If I
could and could not If I would.
We gave him, (Taft) what
he wanted and he knows whom to
trust. One of the laws his Insurgent
satellites are hollering about Is the
Payne-Aldrlch bill. Mr. Taft signed
It, didn't he? And in his speeches
on his western tour ho declared it
was the best tariff law the United
States ever bus hud."
Unfortunately for the reorganiza
tion plan, every word quoted In the
above paragraph from Speaker Can
non's statement Is true. The Repub
lican majority in congress was in
complete harmony with the Taft ad
ministration. President Taft did pro
nounce the Payne-Aldrlch bill "the
best tariff law tho United States has
ever had." There Is the rub. The
Taft administration cannot repudiate
Cannon and Aldrlch without repudi
ating Itself.
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senator niRKirrrs on:.
Senator Burkett having been re
nominated after a hard light within
his own party In which he was earn
estly opposed by the progressive ele
ment as a straddler and covert enomy
of the Insurgent movement, is out in
a statement of rejoicing In which he
says:
I have voted consistently with
the group of wrMern senators
who are determined to keep the
Republican party at it ban been
and as it always must lx the
party of the people as against
the Mordid Interests of greed aud
avarice.
"The group of western senator!"
to whom reference is had comprises,
we take It, tho following: La Follette,
Bristow, Clapp, Cummins, Dolllvcr,
Nelson and Bevcrldgo.
These, In any event, are the scna
tors who voted against that crown
ing iniquity of tho Republican party,
tho Payne-Aldrlch tariff.
Burkett voted for It. He did not
"vote consistently" with them on
that.
In the debate on the tariff bill and
In tho efforts to amend It so its to
make it honestly a tariff reduction
bill, 129 roll calls of Importance were
ordered.
The record shows that on these
rolls calls, Mr. Burkett voted with
Aldrlch 70 times, against him 68
times, and failed or refused to vote 8
times when the insurgents and Dem
ocrats were lined up against Aid
rich and trying to secure some real
relief for the people.
How did "the group of western
senators who are determined to keep
the Republican party the part of the
people as against the sordid inter
ests of greed and avarice" how did
they vote on the same roll calls?
Senator La Follette, that bravest
and truest of all the Insurgents, vot
ed with Aldrlch only 18 times and
voted aga'nst him 106 times.
It Is evident that, so far a3 the
tariff was concerned, Mr. Burkett
"vo!ed consistently" with Aldrlch
rather than with La Follette.
How about the other insurgent
senators?
Bristow voted against Aldrlch 101
times and with him 20 times.
Cummins voted against Aldrlch 89
times and with him 31 times.
Doliver voted against Aldrlch 13
times and with him 43 times.
Nelson voted against Aldrlch 69
times and with him 53 times.
Beverldge voted against Aldrlch
55 times and with him 34 times.
Each of these insurgent senators,
It will be seen, voted with the Dem
ocrats against Aldrlch much more
often than they voted with Aldrlch
against the Democrats.
But Senator Burkett, who pre
tends, when he Is In Nebraska, that
he is himself an insurgent, voted a
great deal more often with Aldrlch
against both the insurgents and the
Democrats than with the latter
against Aldrlch.
Senator Burkett's claim, there
fore, that he "voted consistently"
with the Insurgents is not borne out
by the record. He failed to "vote
consistently" at all in his eager de
sire to vote' "half-and-half." But
In his failure to keep half-and-half
he leaned strongly to Aldrlch's side.
World-Herald.
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It appears that as the recount pro
ceeds In Douglas county, the increase
of Dahlnian's vote goes on.
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However, Mr. Sherman la making
exactly the kind of vice president
that the voters had every reason to
anticipate.
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Most of those who had begun
reading Colonel Roosevelt out of the
Republican party are now engaged
In the task of reading him In again.
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Joseph C. Sibley, arrested for buy
ing votes in Pennsylvania, may re
taliate with the query: "How else
Is one to get votes In Pennsylvania?"
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Teddy Is ready to light, ancTsays
the New York standpat Republicans
can have all of it they want. He
says he will sacrifice nothing for har
mony.
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The insurgent Republicans will
vote with the Democrats this fall.
They are tired of Republican cam
paign promises which are never ful
filled. :o:
It was William Tecumseh Sher
man who declared "War is hell."
What James Schoolcraft Sherman
said was that politics is something
like that.
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When Teddy comes to Nebraska,
he should lecture tho Nebraska sena
tor who has been serving Rhode Is
land Interests. That Is one "Slip
pery Elmer," Burkett.
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The overwhelming defeat of State
Treasurer L. C. Brian for the Re
publican nomination for congress In
the Third district should be enough
to take the egotism out of that un
important Individual.
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Mr. Roosovelt announces there
will bo no romproinlso at Saratoga
and adds that those who are looking
for a fight will bo accommodated.
He Is a never-ceasing source of dis
appointment to those who think it
la his duty to turn rabbit.
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Champagne was put on the sched
ules at from 54 to 60 per cent while
wearing annnrel was taxed from 80
to 92 per cent. Drinking champagne
was to be encouraged and wearing
woolen clothes to be discouraged
So with hats, those bringing over
$4.50 per dozen were taxed 77 per
cent and those valued at more than
$13 per dozen 47 per cent.
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Many are claiming that the Re
publicans who voted for Dahlman in
the primary will not support him in
the general election. This paper does
not believe anything of the kind.
There are thousands of Republicans
In Nebraska who will not vote for a
county option candidate for governor
and those who voted for Dahlman
In the primary will vote for him at
the general election, along with thou
sands of others.
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In Iowa a Republican exchange
says that there is no such a thing
as a Roosevelt Republican. They
must be Taft Republicans or no Re
publican at all. Our Iowa friend
will find out after the votes are
counted at the fall election that
there la a large quantity of Roose
velt Republicans in the country, and
that the most of them have voted
with the Democrats in order to res
cue the country from the hands of
Its enemies.
Mr. Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania
as, until this week, regarded as an
able exponent and fair representa-
ve of the standpat school of poll-
tics. Now that Mr. Sibley has been
rrested on the charge of "conspir
acy to debauch voters," he will be
less acclaimed among the thieves
that for the past fifteen years he has
been trying to steal the people blind.
He deserves a term in the peniten
tiary as a warning to the ballance
of the corruptlonlsts.
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The Republicans are having more
or less troubles of their own accord-
ng to report from headquarters,
and It is very seldom that Republi
can headquarters sends out any over
estimated trouble reports occurring
within the family .circle. If the
statements are founded upon fact,
and thye are certainly to be, Teddy
Roosevelt is going to enter the Jun
gle again and begin shooting big
game. The biggest game that he has
his globe sights adjusted for at this
killing seems to be one Mr. Taft,
whom Teddy Roosevelt brought forth
after great labor and hoisted into
the president chair.. Mr. Taft Is
mighty big game but Teddy takes
nothing under size when he goes
gunning.
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There are a good many sore ones
In all political parties today, says
the York Times. Some blame their
friends, some the people, and some
those who opposed them, but none
blame themselves. Quite a few are
angry and are ready to declare they
will never run for office again, while
others think in their hearts they
will fight their party ticket and do
all the dirt they can. It is almost
twelve weeks to election and time
will soften their sorrows and heal
their sores. The wisdom of holding
the primaries early is evident. Near
ly twelve weeks of meditation, or
mingling with friends and foes, of
honest and 6elf-examlnatIon, will
change the purpose of most of the
parties that are torn and bleeding to
day, but the chances are before elec
tion most men of each party will be
persuaded to get in line and vote as
his principles dictate, regardless of
personal disappointment and anguish
of soul.
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NEBRASKA IX 1012.
While the recount proceedings af
ford a breathing spell Nebraska Dem
ocrats should grasp the opportunity
to strengthen their lines and herd In
the stragglers, preparatory to one of
tho most important campaigns ever
fought in the state.
The year 1910 Is destined to bo a
Democratic year. It Is the concensus
of opinion everywhere that this year
will witness the election of a Demo
cratic congress and of Democratic
governors In a number of important
state, Including, probably, both New
York and Ohio. The outcome of the
election In the various states Is cer
tain to have an Important bearing on
the national conventions and the pres
Idential election in 1912.
It could not fall to be a serious
blow, if not, Indeed, a disaster, to
the cause of progressive Democracy,
If Democratic victory and Democratic
gains this year In states like New
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Ohio should be attended by Dem
ocratic reverses and losses in the
west, where the new Democracy was
born, and especially in Nebraska,
which bears the Democratic colors.
For the sake of progress and good
government Nebraska should have a
sure standing and a voice that carries
weight in the national Democratic
councils of 1912. The one way surely
to secure this Is for Nebraska to re
tain her proud position in the list of
Democratic states. World-Herald.
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"SUITKRY KLMEIl" AGAIN'
Many Republican papers refuse to
support Burkett for senator, which
denotes that "Slippery Elmer" goes
before the voters for re-election with
a divided party. The following from
the Scottsbluft Star, one of the lead
ing Republican papers in Nebraska,
In speaking of Burkett says:
Mr. Burkett has been false to his
public trust and outfit to be turned
out. Elected to represent Nebraska,
ho lias represented Rhode Island;
and he has not even had nerve
enough to do that openly, but has
hedged and trimmed and straddled,
trying to play insurgent at home and
standpat in Washington. The steel
trust, the sugar trust, the Guggen
heim trust and Standard Oil would
want nothing better than to have
such men as Bucket in every sena
torial seat. His opponent, Congress,
man Hitchcock, is a man of clean
hands. In his whole public and pri
vate life not even a suspicion has
ever been raised against him. In
ability, education, indeH'ndcncc and
honesty lie is immeasurably the su
perior of Burkett. As a matter of
local interest in the North Platte val
ley Hitchcock is the only Nebraska
man in Washington, with the excep
tion of Noi l is, who has done anything
for irrigation or in the interest of the
reclamation service.
This Is a true picture of the man
who has misrepresented Nebraska in
the United States senate, and no one
knows it better than many of the In
telligent Republicans, who will be
only too glad of the opportunity to
give him a "swipe" at the general
election.
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State Fair Items.
The entries for races of the State
Fair, Sept. 5th to 9th, will close next
Monday, August 15th, and are as fol
lows: Trotting 2:25, 2:30, 2:15 and
2:10, and pacing 2:20, 2:17, 2.12
and 2:04. Each being for a purse of
$600 with a five per cent entry. At
the same time closes the Nebraska
derby of 1 1-16 miles which will be
ran on Tuesday of the fair, and the
ten mile relay race, two miles each
day changing mounts at the end of
each half mile. These together with
the six early closing races, four of
whkh are for $1,000 each, and nine
running races, constitute the best list
of races ever offered on a Nebraska
course, and taken with Wright Bros.
Aeroplanes to make flights each day
of the fair, together with other usual
features, should furnish a very at
tractive program for Fair visitors.
Ills Tirst Visit.
From Friday's Daily.
Mr. Long, editor of the Nehawka
News, came up this morning with a
party in an auto from that village,
who had some business matters to
look after at the court house. And
while they were doing business, Mr.
Long took the opportunity to take In
the sights, as this was his first visit
to the county seat. In his rounds
he gave the Journal a call, which we
are pleased to acknowledge. Mr.
Long Is a pleasant gentleman, and Is
giving the people of Nehawka a good
local paper, and we are pleased to
know that he Is doing as well as he
expected when he launched the
News.
Pleasantly Entertained.
From Friday's Dally.
Miss Clara Austin entertained a
few of her young lady friends on
Thursday afternoon In honor of her
cousin, Miss Marguerite Zimmer
man of Peru, Illinois, who Is visiting
at the homo of her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. W. I Austin. A dainty
luncheon was Berved at 5:30. A
very pleasant time Is reported. Those
present were: Misses Marguerite
Zimmerman. Lillian Thompson, Bes
sie Edwards, Alice Tuey, Vlrgie Mc
Danlels and Clara Austin.
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IMPROVEMENT OF NATION'S WA
TERWAYS OF INTERE8T TO
EVERY CITIZEN.
VITAL FACTS ARE PRESENTED
Cost of Getting Grain to Market Mat,
rlally Reduced Through 8Mpment
by Water Benefits Distributed Ail
Over the Country.
Ton may not know It 70a probably
don't but it is a matter of Importance
to you whether the waterways of the
United States are improved or aot
and this Is true no matter who you
are, what your business is, or what
part of the country you live in. It
may be that you are a farmer and you
tell me that It Is nonsense to say
that It can make any difference to
you whether the waterways of the
country are Improved or not, because
you live away out west, miles away
from any river which is navigable now
or ever will be.
' Well, I admit that it is not as easy
to see as the grain elevator down at
your railway station, but the benefit
is there Just the same a real, sure
enough, dollars and-cents benefit War
terways have already been of tremen
dous advantage to the farmers of the
country and their further improve
ment will put more money into youf
pockets and those of your neighbors,
Take grain for an Illustration. A
large part of the grain raised la the
country is shipped away from the
place where it la grown, some for use
in the eastern states and some for ex
port to Europe, Under these condi
tions the price of grain is not fixed
at the nearest railway station. Your
wheat, for Instance, is worth Just what
It will bring in Liverpool less the
cost of getting it there. Yon can see
at once that it makes a whole lot ot
difference 10 you how much it costs
to send your grain to New York 01
Liverpool and there's where the
"waterway comes in.
Where Economy Comes In.
In 1908 the average cost of carryins,
wheat from Chicago to Buffalo by lake
was one cent a bushel, while the cost
by rail to New York was 11.7 cents
almost twelve times as much, although
the distance is the same. But grain
which is to go all the way by water
must be transferred to canal boats at
Buffalo. Little canal boats drawn by
mules cannot carry stuff as cheaply
as big ships driven by steam, so the
through rate by water was six cents
a bushel, a little over half as much
as by rail. For the twenty years end
ing with 1908 the water rate, on the
average, was lower than the rail rate
by 6.2 cents a bushel. On the ship
ments from Lake Superior the differ
, euce was greater still, since Duluth is
less than 100 miles farther from New
York than Chicago is by water and
nearly 600 miles farther by rail, but
no comparative rates are published.
I The beneficial effects of the water
, way, through lowered cost of transpor
tation, are not confined to the grain
shipped from cities on the lakes, but
extend to practically all the grain
produced. The total production ol
the five principal cereals wheat,
corn, oats, barley and rye during the
past 40 years, was over 120,000,000,000
bushels. If the average addition to
the value of this vast volume of grain
was five cents a bushel, and that
seems a moderate figure in view ol
the facts stated above, the total la
more than $6,000,000,000 nearly all ol
which has gone into the pockets of the
farmers.
But while the beneficial effect ot the
waterways extends to a surprising dis
tance, a waterway close by exerts a
very much more direct and powerful
influence than one a long way off. II
the Great Lakes and the Erie canal
have increased the value of grain all
over the west, what do you suppose
would .happen it the Mississippi, Mis
souri, Arkansas and Red rivers were
so improved that boats could run ev
ery day in the year unless hindered
by Ice?
Money Needed for Work.
) The National Rivers and Harbors
congress is working for the improve
ment of the rivers, harbors and water
' ways in all parts of the United States.
Chairman Alexander of the rivers and
harbors committee, says that $339,000,-
000 will complete every project which
has been begun or has been recom
mended by the army engineers. Five
hundred million dollars would prob
ably finish up all of these and all the
new projects which will be surveyed
and adopted within the next few years.
1 The average annual production of
the five principal cereals, which dur
ing the last ten years has been 4,151,
000,000 bushels, has been steadily in
creasing and will probably continue
to Increase for some time to come.
I The complete Improvement of all
our waterways would increase the
value of every bushel of grain pro
duced by at least five cents my own
opinion is that it would be more than
.that
v But let us be on the safe side. Sup
'pose we spend a billion dollars on
iwaterways instead ot a half billion;
suppose that the production of grata
'remains as it Is instead of Increasing;
and suppose that the price of grain is
Increased only 2 cents a bushel in
stead of five.
I Even so, with production stationary,
the expense doubled and the benefit
!cut In half, the whole $1,000,000,009
'would be returned In less than ten
'years In the Increased price of grain
alon.
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