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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1910)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal Published Seml-Weeklj it R. A. BATES, Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $L50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Dahlman conies out of the contest In Douglas county over 200 In his favor. :o: Governor Shallenberger steps down and out of the gubernatorial contest. Now on with the Democratic organ ization. :o: The late primary election returns nhows there Is about 12,000 Repub licans who refuHed to vote for "Slip pery Elmer," and they cannot be ex pected to vote for him at the general election. :o: The Democratic candidates for the legislature In this county are against county option, while the Republican candidates are pledged to vote for county option. You pay your money and take your choice. :o: The content over the Democratic congressional nomination In the Sixth district has been settled In favor of Tayor, Judge Dean gracefully with drawing. Why can't the- guberna torial contest be settled the same way? :o: The Lincoln Dally Star has changed hands, and C. H. Edgar retires from the editorial management. Mr. Edgar Is a fine writer and an elegant gen tleman, and we regret to see hlra retire, for he has made a good pa per of the Star. :o: Tho ropiillst talk of naming Ald rlch as their candidate for governor. When they do that they sacrifice ev ery principle for which they contend except county option. Mr. Aldrlch Is a standpatter of the worst typo. He Is worse than Burkott. :o: Tho peoplo of Maine are very much disgusted with a prohibition law that does not prohibit, and are clamor ing for a license law that will govern ! the sale of liquor. County option Is prohibition, only In a milder form to state-wide prohibition. ;q;- ' The Republican Philadelphia Press is frank enough to admit that Roose velt's westorn spoeches have hurt the party. Hut the colonel doubtless con elders that he Is the party, and If he Is satisfied with his own verbosity no one else has any business to com plain. :o: Every postmaster In Nebraska Is working over time for Durkett. And while they are doing so, they know that the civil service laf prohibits It. When Clint Smith was postmaster of I'lattsniouth and while he was dyed-in-the-wool Republican he conformed almost entirely to tho law governing liostmasters In politics. How Is It with the other fellow? :o: IX THE HOLY NAME OF JOBS. It Is a remarkable letter that Presl Oent Taft, through his secretary, has written to an unnamed "Republican leader In Iowa." A little while ago Mr. Taft was en gaged In reading the Insurgents out of tho Republican party. He su(tecded only too well. He read La Follette out, for example and La Follette took three-fourths of the Republicans of Wisconsin with lilm, na the primaries disclosed. Ho read Miles Polndexter out and they have not yet finished count lng the Polndexter vote In the state of Washington, where all the friends and forces and Influences that Taft ana iiiiuingcr coum command were used to crush Polndexter Into polltl cul oblivion. And Mr. Taft. having marched up tho hill with blare of horns and flaunting bunners and with chin de fiantly high marches down again. Far from still starving tho Insur gents out, he Is now humiliating him Helf to keep them In. Like the Mother Cooso lad who went after tho dickey bird ho feels that he cannot fall, because he bat PlittsE&cth, Nebnski Publisher. a little salt to put upon Insurgency's tall. The pinch of salt Is federal patron age. "Only come back In and be one of us," he pleads, "and you shall have your share of the Jobs!" In the holy name of Jobs the Re publican party Is to be welded togeth er again! In the holy name of Jobs the In surgent lion Is to He down In loving amity by the side of the meek and gentle standpat lamb! What are principles compared to Jobs! How Insignificant, after all, are vital differences of opinion over the tariff, the Income tax, trusts, a cen tral bank, conservation, and such oth er things when measured up against the succulent and nourishing Imper iled Jobs! "We Republicans," the president seems to say, "are hopelessly divided as to the Issuesbut surely we can unite, and stand as one man, In the holy name of Jobs! Let us hold on to them and forget the past! Let us hold on to them and the future tan have no terrors!" And this, that he seems to say, Is no more absurd than what he actual ly does say. Just feast your eyes oa this: ". the party faces the fall elec tloiii tho question must lo settled by Republicans of every shade of opinion whether the differences of the last wesHlon sliall be perpetuated 0r for. Kotten." Isn't It delicious? ' , Can you Imagine the mbllme spec tacle of Senator Aldrlch and Senator La Follette, for example, getting to gether and agreeing to "forget past differences?" Can you hear them assuring each other that the offices, after all, are more Important than the ideals? Can you hear Robert Marlon La Follette saying "My dear senator, you and I have differed radically on a great many things, but now that I am to have my share of the federal patronage let us forget our differ ences and march shoulder to should er to a splendid victory!" The Republican party has stolen a great many things from the Demo cratic party. One of the things It had not stolen, however, was the de finition given by an enemy of the Democracy when he said that it was an "organized appetite for office." Now President Taft proposes to steal even that definition and apply It, In all seriousness, to his own par ty. Omaha World-Herald. ! I :o: CONGRESS DEMOCRATIC. The Star has received sevcrai com munications asking how It reconciles Its support of the tariff commission plan of revision with Its desire for a Democratic congress. In the first place the Star Is not advocating eith er a Democratic or a Republican con gress. It Is for, or against, men, not for or agalnBt parties. It Is for men who have stood by the people on the present Issues or stand pledged to give the people their support, and It Is against men who have servsd the special Interests at the expense of th people. It makes no distinction as to those men's party affiliations Suppose the next house or even the next congress, should be Democratic. A Democratic congress at this time would not mean what It meant in some crises of the past when the two great parties were far npnrt on na tlonal Issues, and when the rnnk and mo snared in the great division. The things tho people demand at this time oro demnnded by all the people. Some of these things are that Kraft and fa vortlsni bo taken out of the tariff system; that the rules of tho houso bo modified In such a way as to give the peoplo fair representation In that body; that the corporations be reg ulated In such a way aa to restore equality of opportunity, to cut out abnormal and unjust profits at the ; expense of the people; to force the corporations out of politics and out of direct representation In congress, in state legislatures, in municipal councils and on the bench; that the natural resources he developed and conserved for the best interests of all .taking into account future gen erations as well as the present; that such of these resources as remain in the federal control shall be kept there In perpetuity, and not permitted to pass Into private hands. And the people are going to de mand these things of congress, so far as It Is In the power of congress to grant them, no matter whether the congress be Democratic or Republi can. There is, also, very little dif ference between the policies of the two great parties on these questions. In the matter of the tariff, for in stance. No man, whether he believes In the protective principle, but is fa vorable to downward revision, and whether he be a free trader, would advocate a policy of immediate tran sition from a high basis to the lowest basis that he would ultimately advo cate. Adjustment of the tariff must, of necessity, be a somewhat gradual process, Just as the growth of the pro tective duties has been gradual. But an expert nonpartisan commission could make much more rapid pro gress in this direction, by correcting schedules as they are found to be excessive, than could be made with prudence by the old process of gen eral revision, which Is everlastingly attended by log-rolling, by trading, i by the selling of the tariff maker's conscience. It is true that the Democrats In congress voted against the tariff com mission feature of the present law, along with the other features of that law; but this does not mean that they Mould not favor the right kind of commission as an abstract proposi tion. For even the Democrats would not take the plunge from the present tariff basis to that of revenue only by a single process, even if they con trolled congress and the presidency. Kansas City Star, Rep. :o: R. L. Metcalfe, one who thought at one tiun (not for distant in the past) that he was the man whom the Democrat ought to nominate for United States Benator, has declared he will not support James C. Dahl man for governor. He also states that he will support Aldrlch, the Republican candidate. There are probably other Democrats who will not support Mr. Dahlman, but they do not publish their declarations to the world like Metcalfe. The swell head is what Met is troubled with at the present. JAMES C. DAHLMAN. The above named geutleman has been declared the Democratic nomi nee for governor, after a month's delay In struggling over recounts in Douglas and several other counties in the state. By Governor Shallenber ger's withdrawal from any further contest, the path has been made plain for us, as well as to every oth er Democrat to tread until the poll close on the night of the election. James C. Dahlman, as the Demo cratic nominee for governor, should have the support of every Democrat in Cass county, the same as Gover nor Shallenberger would have r recelved had he been declared the nominee of the party. And from this date on James C. Dahlman will re ceive the undivided support of the Journal, which will do all within its power for his triumphal election That Mayor Dahlman Is honest in his convictions, no one can dispute. One of his particular declarations we ad mire him for is the following: "There never was a time when I did not depend on the plain peoplo rather than on the wealthy and fa voreu classes for my support. I have been recklessly attacked as "the can didate of the brewers," but every man who knows me knows that I am fighting prohibition, not because the brewers are also fighting Jt, but be cause of my love for personal liberty and the rights of the humblest citi zen to enjoy the privileges which our form of government intended him to have. It is to the plain people that I shall look for tupport in thU cam- j.algn, for it la their battle I am now fighting." In the matter of county option he caturally declares himself fearlessly as he did during the campaign be fore the primaries, and gives his rea sons in the following language: "I regard county option as the first step to state prohibition. So does the Anti-Saloon league and It frank ly says so. So do all the other or ganized forces that are fighting for county option. There Is no difference In theory or practice between county prohibition and state prohibition. Each denies to a community the right to govern Itself. Each would give to one town the power to vote prohibi tion on another town without Its con sent. Each Is a manifestation of fanaticism, intolerance and bigotry. Either would lead to lawlessness and secret vice and crime. I am ever lastingly opposed to both." :o: THE GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT. The letter sent by Governor Shal lenberger to Chairman J. C. Byrnes of the Democratic state committee, is as follows: Sear Sir: Since the recount asked for by me in certain counties has shown that Mayor Dahlman has been chosen as the nominee of the Demo cratic party of Nebraska for gover nor, under the primary law of the state, I write to inform you that in conformity with my statement made at the time of the recount was asked or, I shall proceed no further in the matter and am ready to do all I can for tlie success of the Democratic ticket and the good of the party In the future. Whll3 a recount of the forty counties which Mayor Dahlman asked for might have given me the nomination, the time Ia too short, and a longer delay can but result in in Jury to our party and to the benefit of our opponents, the Repugllcans. The recount in Douglas county con- sumed a good deal of time, but was the best possible thlLg that could have occurred under the circumstanc es. The gain of 107 vote3 for me in the recount has vindicated my asking for this action, as the gain made would have nominated me, had the majority against me remained as it appearedat the time I made the ap plication. It has also been a great benefit to Mayor Dahlman and the rest of the state ticket, in that it has satisfied my friends and the people of Nebraska generally that the many rumors alleging frauds and unfair ness in Douglas county were untrue. While it is possible that I might still hope to win the nomination in a legal battle because of irregularities and technicalities shown in the recount in Douglas county, I do not care for a victory that is to be won in that man ner, and I think more of the welfare of the party and of the many friends of mine, who are candidates this year, than I do of any personal ambition of my own, or disappointment because of a seeming repudiation of my ad ministration. This Is going to a Democratic year and I want to see Nebraska in line with the national and I shall do what I can to help you and the splen. did organization, which you bo ably command, to win a sweeping victory in this state this fall. There is no use for me to say to you that I have no personal disappointment In the re sult, for that would be untrue. I in tend, however, to keep on fighting for good government, as I have In the past, and for the triumph of Demo cratic principles in this state. This is one of the most Important crisis that has ever confronted the Democratic party and we should all pull together for Democratic success. We have a United States senator to elect, a state legislature -and six con gressmen, besides a representative lot of men who are nominated for the state offices. It Is one of the strong est tickets that our party has present ed In many years. In Mr. Hitchcock we have a splendid type of the public servant who deserves promotion to the high office to which he now ns plrcs, because of good service that he Vns done In the past. He Is entitled to the united support of all those who stand for good government and for the Interests of the great mass of .oar : - --3 ALCOHOL 3 PER cv.nr- Acgelab(erVeparj(ionlorj slmllaibig (beFmf ondRpgiii (ing the Stomachs aadJJoweJji Promotes Di tottonflirenul- ncssand Rntrontaiitsneittiff Opiniu.Morphine norMiocralJ NOT PfAKCOTIC. Rmpiiil&xJ" jLcSemi J.'yiclhiMh' Aiotittj WrwW ClnnM Sujrr- hutuynm Fknv. Anerfecl Remedy forCor.sflpa lion , Sour Stomach.Dlarrtiuea Worms ,Convulsions.fcTnsh ncssanJLoss of Sleep. Far. Simile Signature of NEW YOHK. ranleed under the Koajan Exact Copy of Wrapper. i the people. Our candidates for con gress are all splendid men who can be trusted, and It is because of the Interests these gentlemen and many others, who have been my former friends and supporters that I write to you as chairman of our party or ganization and ask you to show me where I can fight from now on until the polls close in November, so that I may best help them and you, and I am ready to respond to any demands you may make upon me to the best 0f my ability. I know the Democrats of Nebraska have every confidence in yourself, your vice chairman, Mr. Gruenther, and secretary, Mr. Mat thews, and I expect to be able to con gratulate you and the Democratic party after the battle is over. With assurances of my continued regard and esteem, I have the honor to remain, yours very respectfully, Ashton Shallenberger. :o: NOTICE Some Plattsmouth prop erties to exchange for grazing land. Both business and residence. We are having inquiries for acreage near Plattsmouth. List your property with us. Windham Investment Co., Plattsmouth, Nebraska. A Little Wreck at Omaha. Yesterday morning a Burlington passenger train, No. 4, from Lincoln, and Burlington mail train collided head on at the curve Just west of the local station and Engineer Albert Stafrln of the passenger received se vere injuries. The mall train was be ing driven to the switching point which begins at the curve when the passenger train struck it. Neither train was traveling very fast and the only damage that resulted was the smashing of both pilots. In half an hour the engines were repaired and on their way. Stafrln suffered sprains to a leg and arm, and was painfully bruised in being thrown backwards In his cab by the shock. Several pas sengers suffered bruises in the Jolt, but none was seriously injured. Mrs. W. J. Crosser of Waua, Neb., who has been visiting relatives here for two weeks, departed for her home this morning. Mrs. Crosser was ac companied to Omaha by her sister, Miss Etta NIckles. 'II AK-SAR-BEH CARNIVAL, AND PARADES AHA Sent. 28th to ct. 8th, S0S0 Jl'.Z DIG JOLLY CARNIVAL EVERT DAY Tuttdij I'lM, Oct. 4 carnival Fireworks ect. s ELECTRICAL PARADE OrcrJ Military Maneuvers Everj Dsy by 11 S, Regular Troops, REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. c::ovv yourself a good tirie-you'll have lots of help 1 UlUlitlli For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years AAV AW ml TIPfl ANOTHER BUSINESS THAT MAY LOCATE HERE Dr. H. F. Schlelfert and wife who have been the guests of Mrs. M. A. Darling and son, H. B. Darling, de parted for their home in Chicago on No. 2 last evening. Drs. Schleifert is president of the National Dental Labratory of Chicago, and Is very much Impressed with Plattsmouth as a place to locate his corporation. This city Is in the center of a large and in viting territory for his line; that of dental supplies, and it is not beyond the range of probabilities that Platts mouth may see this business enter prise located here In the not distant future. Dr. and Mrs. Schleifert were Join ed in their visit here by Mrs. Edith Mathewson, and Miss Edith Darling: sisters and Tom Darling of Kansas City, a brother of Mrs. Schleifert, and for a week past the party has enjoyed a sort of family reunion. Mrs. Tuey Surprised. Mr. Arch McDanlel of Lynden, Wash., arrived a few days ago and is the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. E. Tuey. It has been eight years since Mrs. Tuey last saw her brother, and she did not recognize him, as his visit was unexpected. Mr. McDanlel walked into the store when his sister was busy waiting on customers and took his turn asking for a man's collar, size 18. Mrs. Tuey glanced at her customer and saw that he was large and would need a size No. 18, and proceeded to examine the stock to find the size. Her son, Ernest, eyed the stranger and soon identified him as "Uncle Arch." Mr. McDanlel is about to re move from Lynden, Wash., to Mon tana where his home will be In the future. A BARGAIN IF TAKEN SOON Three half sections In Morlll county, Nebraska, smooth, black soil, 30ft to water adapted to general farming. Price only J 16.50. Write at once for full particulars. Windham Investment Co., Plattsmouth, Nebraska. John Campbell of Murray and Jas. Grube of Lincoln who are visiting Mr. Campbell, drove to Plattsmouth this morning to look after some busi ness matters. TtDNCiy triroooa, Oct. I MILITARY PARADE Pruiy Uitt, Oct. ; CORONATIOl BALL
