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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1910)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal Published Semi-Weekly at R. A. BATES, Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE It Is feared the forest fires la the northwest will afford an excuse for hiking the price of lumber again. -:o:- Indlcatlons are that the tariff will be revised next time by tariff ex perts Instead of by political experts. :o:- Jamea Schoolcraft Sherman, west ward bound to make standpat speech es, can learn something to his ad vantage by addressing J. G. C, Dan ville, 111. :6: It Is presumed that the good old faithful lie, "the foreigner pays the tax," has been put on the retired IlHt. The tariff grafters ought to give It a rich pension. :o: Japan has taken possession of Korea from Its rightful owners un der the samo unctuous plea of "the larger good" that led England to de prive tho Doers of the Transaal. : o : Tho president hinted to Secretary Ilalllnger that ho would be pleased to have him "beat It," but Mr. IJal linger prefers to stay close to the administration and help beat it. :oi It Is to be hoped that as soon as tho contest Is settled between Gover nor Shallenberger and Mayor Dahl man, that every Democrat will buckle on his armor and prepare himself for the battle of personal liberty and against oppression. :o: According to the returns G. M. Hitchcock received a large number of Republican votes throughout the state. This is a very strong Indica tion that many Republicans are very much sick of a Nebraska senator representing Interest in Rhode Is land. :o: It Is with pleasure that we note tho nomination of Ralph A. Clark on tho Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor. If ho is elected he will prove the ablest man that has presid ed in the senate for many years. He la eminently well fitted for the posi tion and will prove no slow poke. :o: . If Senator Aldrlch, who makes the tariff rate on manufactured rubber, ias bound his intimate friend, fori "whom It makes It the ruber man ufacturing trust to buy, at his own Vrice, all the crude rubber that Sen ator Aldrlch can import, Where's the chance for the American market to benefit by free crude rubber? :o: Over two-thirds of the voters of Nebraska are opposed to tho pres ent primary law. With the old con vention way of nominating candi dates, tho Democrats would not have been In Its present muddle. We never did see a primary election work with entire satisfaction to the can didates or anyono else, for that mat ter. :o: The capital removal question advo cated by Major Dahlmau, certainly was a good thing and popular even within the city limits of Lincoln. It would appear that way from the big vote the capital-removing candidate received in Lincoln. From the vote Dahlman received evidently there Is a goodly number right In Lincoln who want the capital removed. Congressman Magulro should be elected becauso he has been a true representative of tho Interest of tho people of tho First district. Ills op ponent is a standpat Republican and has always catered to tho inter cst8 of that faction. When you vote for John A. Magulre, you can rely that he will favor the interests of those ho represents. Every insur gent Republican In tho First district ehould vote for him. -:o: 1112 CAN'T FOOL TIIK PF.ori.K. The following from tho Auburn Herald la just as true as quotations from the good book: "The feeling toward John A Ma gulre, tho congressman from this Plattsmouth, Nebraska Publisher. district Is well UluHtrated In the splendid vote he received at the pri maries. Although he had no opposl tlon, he was given his full party vote, showing the desire of the Dem ocratlc voters in the First district to show their fealty and the satisfac tlon he has given as a true represen tatlve of the people of this state in the halls of congress. In addition to the support of the Democrats at the November election, he will no doubt receive the vote of the insur gent Republicans, as Hayward Is now recognized as a standpatter, and is already counted along with Burkett, as a member of the Taft Aldrlch-Can-non-Hitchcock group of statesman. If Hayward could only have kept his friends in Washington quiet, he might have fooled the people of this district Into the notion that he was an Insurgent, but the extreme satis faction expressed at his nomination, together with the congratulatory messages sent him by members of this same crowd has given tho snap away, and has lined up the handsome gentleman from Nebraska City with the forces that are working to keep down La Follette, Cummlngs, Dolll- ver and other Insurgent leaders, who are endeavoring to get true represen tation for the people." :o:- TAI'T AM) Till INSURGENTS. If President Taft thought to pla cate the Insurgent leaders by calling off the fight of the congressional committee on Insurgent candidates and by making a brand new, thls year's campaign promise to revise the tariff downward, he must be bitterly disappointed In the comment made by Colonel William R. Nelson'a two newspapers, the Kansas City Star and Times. Colonel Nelson la too old a bird to be caught with chaff. He does not propose to allow Mr. Taft, with a few promises and kindly words, to cut the ground out from under the in surgent movement and establish again his own undisputed leadership of the party. Colonel Nelson, who, next to La Follette perhaps, is the most powerful Insurgent la the west, plainly regards Mr. Taft's move more as a clever blow aimed at Insurgency than as a concession to it. From the editorial columns of the Kansas City Times of last Tuesday we cull the following: It Is Interesting to know, di rectly from Mr. Taft "the ad ministration has no desire to read any person out of the par ty" interesting, but not Im portant. The administration which the Republican voters and a multitude of Democratic and Independent voters elected to power in l'JOS, lias ignored tlie nuiNt earnest uiul most vital purpose that the voters luid ut heart lit Unit election. Private Ki'ccd ti luinplicd nun In lit con Hirss. Attempts to lead proureNsivo RepuliliwiliH out of the party were frequent enough, up to the hour when the state elections began to furnish reading more suggestive for tho administra tion. The present administration has been, and can be, no more potent in reading men out of the Republican party than It has been in reading men into it. Not content with these cruel thrusts aimed squarely at the heart of the trimming president, the Times alms this blow at tho nation al congressional committee: The announcement of the na tional Republican congressional committee that it intends to help the progressive candidates for congress In the coming cam paign recalls to mind tho very effective left handed aid the committee gave the progressive candidates before the primaries. For its contribution, from what Senator Dolliver called its "rot ten money," to send speakers Into Kansas and to flood that state and other western states with literature attacking Ilrls tow and Murdock and Cummins and Dolliver, tho progressive candidates and the voters are under obligations to the con gressional committee. Hut now, what aid can it. Rive to the men who uere iioiiiIiimUmI Ihtuiiko they oppoNexl the thing; the mi tlonal committee declared to lie Mridnlit Republican h1I(Icn,. Does the committee expect to send Nelson W. Aldrirh and Senator Guggenheim, for inst ance, into the Eighth Kansas district to help Victor Murdock? The Kansas City star is even more savage in its comment on the sud den and strange conversion of the president and the national commit tee. It quotes from the president's speeches at New York and Wlnoua lauding the new tariff and criticis ing the insurgents, and then speaks right out like this: Mr. Taft bad his chance at real revision and threw it away. The fairest promise which he could now make, as a pre-election repentance, could not pos sibly be fairer than his bath tar iff revision speech of 1906, which turned the eyes of the sqaure-dealers to him and which made the country confident that in him It would have an Insist ent tariff reformer. In all the lontf drawn out con test between the people and the p--iul interests in the coiiureM. sionul M-Ksion not one word came from the president of en couragement for those who were mainully fighting for the inmc pie and to redeem the Repub lican campaign pledges. It was not until the people had been betrayed that Mr. Taft found it consistent with executive pro priety to take a hand. To talk now of further revis ion under exlueiK les of a cam- ( paijiii win not help. Campaign promises were made before and not kept. This Is merciless critlcism-and ef fective as merciless It i effective becauso warranted, and merely voi ces what the millions of progressive voters are thinking. Mr. Taft had his chance and threw It away, as the Star says. He can not now hop to placate and de ceive anew those whom he has al ready deceived, by coming around "under the exigencies of a campaign" with a Job lot 'of fresh promises and pretensions. World Herald. :o: The public schools will open next week owing to the fact that the pup ils are denied the privilege of a re ferendum vote. :o: Mr. Taft's promises to the people won't go any longer. He has sold them out once, and they don't pro pose to give him another chance to do the same thing over. :o: This year's 3 billion bushel corn crop ought to force down the price of pork and hog products to a rea sonable figure although It probably will not. :o: Terhaps Senator Aldrlch is entitled to some smpathy. No doubt senators before him have applied the tariff to their own purposes, but they didn't happen to get caught at it. :o: Governor Shallenberger says that after the recounting of the vote in Douglas county is completed, and Mayor Dahlman Is still found to have a majority he will pull his coat and wade Into the campaign and help elect him. In the windun the enem- les of Governor Shallenberger will even be praising the governor for his many noble traits of character. :o: P. A. Barrows, formerly euMtor of the News-Herald In this city, has been employed to direct the editorial columns of the rural . Republican press of the state In the Interest of one "Slippery" Elmer Burkett. This la sufficient evidence that Burkett stands with the Taft-Cannon-Aldrlch standpat element of the Republican party. Barrows Is a full fledged standpatter and he was not backward In declaring himself In favor of this cotoiie during his career as editor of the News-Herald. His retirement as editor Is sufficient evidence, also, that the News-Herald compauy would not stand such work, and called a halt, by requesting Mr. Barrows to step down and out. :o: . The Oregon plan provides for me renomlnatlon of a party candidate by popular vote for United States sena tor. Tho candidate receiving the highest vote in the primary becomes the party's nominee. Then the can didates must stand for election by the people Just the same as candi dates for governor or for any other office. If tho candidate for United States Benator be a Republican, whom the majority of the people voto for at tho general election, and the legisla ture Is Democratic that legislature Is In duty bound to ratify the choice of tho people at the polls. Tho same In caso a Democrat Is the choice of 'the people, and the legislature Is Republican. Cat the Republican candidates for the house and senate in this county declare they will not do as the people direct, while the Democratic candidates believe the people are capable of declaring who they want for United States senator and will act according to their wish es. "Let the people rule." :o: Evidently the State Journal and ex Governor Sheldon want to run Ald rlch's campaign for him. It will be a good thing for the Democrats if they do. :o: Progressives had a field day In the Georgia primaries, too. The Smith with the mellifluous cognomen of Hoke won the Democratic nomina tion for governor, which of course means also the election, over Gov ernor Brown, who two years before defeated Smith. The successful can didate is regarded as an advocate and exemplar of advanced legislation, and Governor Brown has the reputation of being conservative. But by far the most important outcome of the Geor gia primaries as a slgi of the times was the defeat of Congressmen Liv ingston and Howard. These men were known in the last congress as "Can non Democrats" and on that issue they went down to deserved defeat. There are some other "Cannon Dem ocrats," in the south and in New fork state who sought to be elimi nated for the good of the party. :o: Edgar Howard in his comments upon the candidacy of Congressman Hitchcock for United States senator, has spared no opportunity to give hlra a "swipe" in his Columbus Tele gram. Platte county is one of the big Democratic counties of Nebraska, and when it is known that it gave Mr. Hitchcock a good' majority, it would appear that Edgan's Influence was not so great, even In his own county. Metcalfe was Howard's fa vorite candidate, but this was not a cause for his bitter opposition to Mr. Hitchcock. :o: Even if he la defeated for a renomlnatlon, Governor Shallen berger will still be warmly cher ished in the hearts of the Democrats of Nebraska. That he has made a good governor everyone knows, and his defeat doe3 not end his political career by any means. He la too good a man, and his recognized ability should land him in the United States senate two years hence. As to ability he is far above the men who repre sent tho people of Nebraska in that body at the present time. :o:- The State Journal ha3 already be gan to tirade of abuse upon Mayor Dahlman as the Democratic candidate for governor. It couldn't wait until the official count was declared. The State Journal Is as much the cause of the big vote Mr. Dahlman received In Lincoln as anything else, and if it will Just keep on with its bitterness against the Omaha mayor, and telling that In which there Is not a spark of truth, he will receive a bigger vote In the "Holy City," at the general election than he received at the pri mary, and many of them will be Re publicans who are sick and tired of being dictated to by the Journal ring. :o: NEXT NOVKMIlKlt. New York World: The size of the Democratic victory that will be an nounced on the morning of November 9 will be staggering. It will Include an overwhelming majority In the house of representatives and a gain of many United States senators. Ohio, the president's own state will be lost to the Republicans. New York, the state of tho ex-prestdent, will be sweeplngly Democratic. Ma jorities will be so large that people will tire of computing them. Not through Democratic virtues and abilities but In spite of Demo cratic blunders and weaknesses are those things to come about; not be cause there are more Democrats than Republicans but because there are more American progressives than standpatters; not as a rebuke to this man or that man in particular but as a condemnation of many men; not as a rejection of one policy but as a repudiation of many policies; not as an evidence of momentary indigna ALCOHOL 3 PEK ri'vT. ANeSelablePreparaCtontxAs similatingtltcFootfaiKlRcdtia ling Uic Sionodis andfluwlsi IJKreiiriiaiHll Promotes DisMwrfiil ncss and Restontains neither Opiuni.Morphinc norMincraLI ft ot Narcotic. Pjmpiui Sit J" jSU.iaaa liCarkiuiSjJb HwmStrd' C'raMSlmrr. htfjnoi'limn Aperfect Remedy forComfljia Hon . Sour Stoniach.Dlarrhoca Worms ,CoitTilsions .Fewer tsh ru-'ss and Loss of Sleep. . Facsimile Signature of j NEW YORK. " Hp32Q fcuaranUed under the VooA Exact Copy of Wrapper. tion but as voicing the demand of a great and free people for light, for truth, for justice, for economy, for peace! What are these bitter Republican quarrels but attempts in advance to escape the Judgment which all know Is at hand? There Is a mad rush for safety. Responsible men are posing as irresponsibles. Old offenders mas quarade as Innocents. Sacrifices are offered up in the hope that the pop ular wrath may be appeased. There Is talk even of a third term in the white house for the vociferous and lawless person under whom Cannon and Aldrlch and Payne and Sherman and Dalzell got their strangle grip on party and country. In spite of all this there will be no "mistake about that which is to take place in November. It is to bo more a Republican defeat than a Democratic victory; more a popular uprising against plutocracy and priv ilege than a party revival; more a matured verdict on Rooseveltism than upon Republicanism; more a rebuke of Taft as proxy than of Taft as president; more 'an expression of hope in Democracy than of faith In Democracy. Turn on the lislit! :o: SPEAKS IIP LIKE A TRUE DEMOCRAT G. P. Miller, editor of the Papllllon Times was a most enthusiastic sup porter of Governor Shallenberger In the recent primary. In the last Is sue of his paper he shows the true spirit of his Democracy as follows: "Our disappointment over the de feat of Governor Shallenberger is not due to a lack of faith in the ability, Integrity or efficiency of James C. Dahlman. Mr. Dahlman has served the city of Omaha as its chief execu tive during the past four years In a manner which has forced his most virulent opponents to admit he Is the best mayor Omaha has ever had. Not even a suspicion of graft has attend ed his conduct of the affairs of that office. Those same qualities would undoubtedly make him an excellent governor. His views on the liquor question are extreme and do not coin cide with ours but the views of his Republican opponent are no less ex treme and come no nearer our views than do those of Mayor Dahlman. In all other respects he Is far super ior to his Republican opponent, Ches ter A. Aldrlch. The interests of the people of Nebraska will be safely cared for with James C. Dahlman In the governor's chair." P. W. Marks of Memphis, Neb., was In tho city today looking after business of importance. Mr. Marks says tho rain Sunday evening did considerable damage In his vicinity, strips of country suffered from hall. Tho heavy downpour of rain lasted for hours and reached a measure ment of nearly six Inches. m i.i ill w ,11 I i M llll For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ature of In Use For Over Thirty Years ii ii inj WHEN YOU CAN STAY AWAY FROM THE STATE FA Secretary' Mellor of the state fair board asked his hired man to write something about the state fair, and this is the result: . "When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder in the shock; when the thirsty politician is so dry he can not talk; when the cow and little cowiets do not Journey to the fair or airships rise In glory and go sailing through the air. When Jim Dahlman takes his w ater and Bill Patrick take3 his booze, Bryan joins Joe Cannon's party, runs for office, win or lose; when the cat comes back life Jeffrle3 and Jack Johnson turns to white; when the ships that pass in daylight are still passing in the night; when saloons shall close forever and the back doors close for good; when sa loons out in West Lincoln make a quiet neighborhood; when our gov ernor gets in better with the folks in Omaha, when they shout with loud Hozannasoe'r his famous closing law; when St. Paul and David City fur nish governors for the state; and Republicans In office voluntarily ab dicate; w hen the dome upon the state house shall be painted fiery red; when Bill Price quits playing martyr and Is numbered with the dead; when In fact all this has happened as it may some future day, then you can in justice surely from the state fair stay away." Greatest Kvcr. September 5th to 9th are the dates of the state fair at Lincoln, and the 1910 fair is the greatest ever at tempted to be held in the state. The attractions comprise the best races, four flights each day by the Wright aeroplanes, four great concerts each day by Lombardo's Symphony band and Grand Opera Concert company of sixty-eight people, the great Pat terson shows and night entertain ments consisting of three running races, concert, vaudeville, and a stu pendous fireworks display on the 5th, Cth, 7th and 8th. In addition to the amusement features there will be the best agricultural exhibit shown at any fair in the world in 1910 and the second best live stock show. These facts should appeal to the pride of every loyal Nebraska citizen. Let's go. Old Timer in Town. From Wednesday's Dally. E. J. Upjohn of near Ft. Crook was a caller at the Masonic home today, having run down to see Mr. T. J. Rlngold, an old neighbor who is eighty-five years old and in not very good health. Mr. Upjohn has known Mr. Rlngold many years, In fact, Mr. Up john came to Omaha with his father In the early 50's when there was but one store, a blacksmith shop and a "busted" bank In Omaha. He bought his first pair of boots at the one Btore which was In a log building stuck In the side of the hill at Omaha. Mr. Upjohn has seen the hamlet develop Into the city of today. George H. Reed and Mrs. D. V. Sheffer, his sister, were In the city today transacting business with Judge Beeson. Signature AM AW flu
