The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
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It Is feared the forest fires la the
northwest will afford an excuse for
hiking the price of lumber again.
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Indlcatlons are that the tariff will
be revised next time by tariff ex
perts Instead of by political experts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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The public schools will open next
week owing to the fact that the pup
ils are denied the privilege of a re
ferendum vote.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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