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The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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If you make up jour mind to turn
over a new leaf, don't turn down the
corner of the leaf.
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Long hat pins may be one of the
reasons why so many young men "get
stuck" when they go to church.
If that snow don't hurry up those
boys won't have much fun with their
Christmas sleds before vacation
comes to a close.
Quackenbush, of Auburn, and can
didate for speaker of the house,
favors the present primary law. That,
within Itself, ought to beat him.
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Dr. Cook need not despair. There
Are bigger frauds than he Is In this
country, and you don't have to go
any farther than tho United States
wnate to find theirf, either.
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It la rumored in tho national capl
lal that Secretary Ilalllnger, Socre
tary Knox and Secretary McVcagh
will resign about tho 4th of March
Threo such resignations would be
Vttcr than none.
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Adams county, Ohio, Is not the
only place where voto buying and
selling has been a business for some
years. You wouldn't have to go out
tilde of the state of Nebraska to find
this out.
If, as reported, about one-third of
the members of the legislature will
have a road .1)111 to present, there
should be something good In all of
them. II ut a atlsfa tory road bill
will prove an extremely hard proposi
tion. The standpatters In congress have
found a way to nullfy the "calendar
Wednesday" concession, which was
wrung from thetn lant spring. Speak
er Cannon and his handful of sup
porters are ln'comlng rapidly no
wiser.
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"Tho Merchant! and Manufacturers'
association, of Milwaukee declares,
that the socialist government of that
tity Is giving tho city a black eye.
Maybo It's the stuff that made Mil
waukee famous that W really discol
oring Its optic.
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Have our business meu been think
ing any more about that poultry
show? The holiday season will Boon
be over and we will want something
to enliven the monotony that Is very
liable to exist for several weeks when
the holiday season has passed.
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The nervy handlt who robbed the
Missouri Taclflc passengers down
near Kansas City Christmas night,
only obtained about two hundred
dollars. If he had gone through
them the night before he might have
had better success. Everybody la
"hort" Christmas night.
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Tho parcels post may be what some
people want, but It Is not what the
homo merchants want, and It will
prove a great detriment to them If It
Is adopted. It In simply a measure
In tho Interests of the great depart
ment stores like Montgomery Ward,
etc.
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If the salaries of county attorney
and sheriff wero placed at about
41,200, It would bo better equalized
for the amount of work In each office.
The founty attorney don't get enough
while the sheriff has been getting
N. more than ho ought to. The leglsla
unbloil Tlii.'tirrTr?t in this line
mined lhat he shall not. Go after
him, Woodrow, and down him In good
shape.
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Promoting peace at the expense of
the public, by having three Panama
expositions, is now proposed. One at
the national capital, another at New
Orleans and the other at San Fran
cisco. It is a cold day In August
when those fellows at Washington
fall to devise ways and means of get
ting away with the public money.
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Already there are several appropri
ation bills prepared to present to the
legislature as soon as It gets down to
business. We don't know who will
be sponsor of the Institutions this
year. Ralph Clark did the work for
them two years ago, and we believe
they will have hard work to find a
member who will do the work so
neatly and as successfully this time.
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Senator Young, he who was ap-
pointed to (111 out the unexpired term
of tho late Senator Dolllver, wants a
primary to Instruct the legislature of
Iowa who they shall support for
United States senator. Wonder If he
has been reading up on the vote
buying scheme as enacted In Adams
county, Ohio. Tho truBts and com
bines do not care for a few paltry
dollars when It comes to electing a
man who will serve them.
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The report that Representative J.
A. Tawney, of Minnesota, may suc
ceed Mr. Ilalllnger as secretary of the
Interior, Is evidently one of the merry
jests of the holiday Beason. Of course
the country doesn't! appreciate the
awe with which the chairman of the
committee on appropriations Is re'
ganled In Washington, or the hush
that falls on a company of congress
men when his defeat for re-election
Is mentioned. Still it may be as
sumed that the president and his ad
visers would Hot seriously contem
plate putting In the cabinet a man
who has Just received a conspicuous
vote of no-confldcnce from his own
party In his home district where It
had been supposed he was Impregna
ble. Kansas City Star,
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utitkes wLo sat lu Judgmtu; in the
Northern fc'ecuritus iac Iie are still
on the bench. The government s con
tention that tho consolidation was a
violation of the Sherman law was
supported by three of these Justices
Harlan, McKenna and Day, while two,
Messrs. White (now chief Justice)
and Holmes took the opposite view.
The opinions of Justice Lurton and
Van Devanter may be somewhat indi
cated by their decisions in the United
States circuit courts one against the
Addystono Pipe Company and the
other against the Northern Securities
company and the Standard Oil com
pany. The high character of the
supreme tribunal Insures the decision
of the many grave questions that con
front It and affect the country at
large by deeply learned and unbiased
Judicial minds.
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of b'ttauess.
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Kenator Smith la not going to find
as easy a victim as he thought In
Woodrow WHbob, the now governor,
Smith wants to represent the New
-
Jersey trust In the United States
nenate again, mfl Wilson is deter
The agitation for popular election
of United States senators will rise
to the hlght of an Irresistible up
rising It Special Privilege succeeds in
doing what It Is trying to do In four
states at this moment. In Massachu
setts Special Privilege wants 'to re
turn Its tried and trusted servant,
Henry Cabot Lodge, to the United
States senate regardless of the pro
tests of the people. In New Jersey
Special Privilege backs James Smith,
who betrayed the people In tho days
of Cleveland's administration and ran
be depended upon to do so again. In
New York and Ohio Special Prlvl
lege has picked out candidates for
tho senatorial toga none of whom
would daro go before the people for
the office. It Is Just possible that
Special Privilege may over-reach It
self In Its arrogant greed, pull down
the pillars of the templo and bury
Itself In the wreckage, for the temper
of the people Is not to be trifled with
these days.
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Van Devanter and Lamar, tho for
mer from Wyoming and the latter
from Georgia, tho new Justices of the
supremo court Just appointed by
President Taft, have had distinguish
ed Judicial careers. With Justices
Lurton and Hughes added the presl
dent has had the privilege of appoint
lng more members of the supreme
court than any president Bave Wash
lngton and Lincoln. Tho new court
w ill have to pass on some of the most
momentous questions ever submitted
to tho highest . tribunal la the land
How the recently appointed Justices
wjll stand on the anti-trust cases will
engender much speculation. Of the
1 1 1' SK NKTTF.lt LKA DKP.SI 1 1 P.
Supt. Poulson of the Anti-Saloon
League Is not the only republican
politician who Is trying to bring
about an organization of the legisla
ture by republican votes. Chairman
Husenetter, of the republican state
committee, who has little sympathy
with or love for Poulson, Is also ex
ertlng himself to the same end. Poul
son la first of all a county optlonlst,
But Husenetter Is not. lie Is first
last and all the time a republican
politician, eager to snatch party ad
vantage, If he can, out of a demo
cratic legislature.
Husenetter does not care for coun
ty option. He has labeled It as a
"foundling left on the republican
doorstep." But he does care for the
republican party, as Is quite natural
He la eager to throw a democratic
legislature Into a condition of demor
allzatlon and confusion at the very
beginning, and to do everything pos
slblo to make It Impossible for the
legislature to make such a record of
fulfillment of platform pledges as wLl
appeal to the peoplo.
If HuRenetter can "bring this about
he believes, as his fellow conspirators
among the republican leaders also be
lieve, that there will be a chance to
elect a republican legislature and a
republican United States senator two
years hence, when the term of Norrls
Drown expires. 4
Hut the trap Is too plain. The lime
is spread In plain sight of the bird.
Governor Shallenberger Is right, Sen-
tor Ollls, a sincere and honest coun
ty option democrat, la right, In hold
ing that it Is essential the legislature
should be organized by democrats as
democratic legislature.
Two excellent democrats have ul-
ready been prominently mentioned
for speaker Mr. Quackenbush and
Mr. Kuhl. Others, equally entitled to
emocratlc considerationlike Mr.
Taylor, of Hitchcock, and Mr. Gerdes,
of Richardson, may also be brought
Into the contest. That contest should
be settled, as everything Indicates
It will bo settled, in tho democratic
caucus. ' It should be fought out In
that caucus entirely along the lines
of the fitness of the candidates and
their attitude toward the promises
the democratic party made to the peo
ple In tne platform adopted at Grand
Island.
The responsibility at Lincoln this
winter will be not alone on the
shoulders of the democratic majority.
It Is on the shoulders of the demo
cratic party of this state. The entire
party will be held to account, Btrlctly
and justly, for the success of the ses
sion. Success or failure In the legls
lature will largely determine success
or failure at the polls in 1912.
World-Herald.
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Every state legislature, whether
democratic or republican, should
recommend a law favoring the elec
tion of postmasters every four years
by the people.
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Governor Shallenberger displays
his honesty in acknowledging that
the present primary law Is a failure.
There are a lot of others of the same
opinion.
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That peacock In the New York zoo,
which had all Its plumage frozen off
the other day, must realize how Joe
Cannon will feel In the next con
gress.
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Hoxey, the aviator, who went up
11,447 feet In Los Angeles, Callfor
nla, this week, must have been with
la easy hailing distance of the high
cost of living. ,
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States senate, has brought forth a re
port of absolute exculpation. If Mark
Twain were living he would blush at
his creation of the Senator Dilworthy
scandal, as a piece of art. The pro
duction by the Lorimer committee so
far transcends the pen picture In the
Gilded Age that Mark Twain ought to
turn In hta rnffln (in finding his In
ventive powers so far surpassed by a (The Goernment py Railway Mai
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specimen of real life, a work
Kansas City has passed an ordi
nance prohibiting the use of the long
hat pin. That'8 the proper caper.
Now, let's see w hether the city coun
cil of Plattsmouth has the courage
to act.
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The Kearney Democrat calls It
"fake capital removal." Wonder If
Kearney has given up hope of ever
getting the capital when it is re
moved? It looks that w ay when they
call the removal question a "fake."
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Governor Shallenberger is opposed
to the present primary law, and rec
ommends Its repeal. The law is the
worst ever. Had It not been for this
law, Aldrlch would not have been
elected governor, and he knows It
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If the legislature will create a
fund for the purpose of advertising
Nebraska it will do the wisest thing
It has done for many years. With
such a fund much could be accom
plished for the state that would ben
efit everyone who has the future
prosperity of Nebraska at heart.
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The latest report on the reappor
tionment Is that Nebraska will still
retain her six congressmen, but In a
reapportionment of tho state for leg
islative purposes, Cass county will
lose one representallve and entitled
to only half a senator. The float rep
resentative will be no more.
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But as a democratic member he ia
duty bound to see that his party
organizes the upper and lower houses
with the very best material to be
found among the membership within
the democratic party."
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MEN AND MEN WANTED
If the senators from Nebraska had
paid moro attention to tho tariff, than
they have to the wants of their polltl
cal friends In the way of postofflces
etc., perhaps the people would have
been Just as well off. Why not elect
tho postmasters, anyhow, and do
away with all this scramble for office
The peoplo would then have an op
portunlty of getting postmasters that
they really want, Instead of those
who are placed In the positions tor
their political friendship and the
services rendered their superiors In
office. -
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Only one moe ayr d to consider
that new resolution. Bee that It Is
rood one, and then keep It.
The State Bar Association has rec
ommended Myron Leonard for Judge
In the Eighth United States circuit
court, to succeed Judge Van Deven
ter, elevated to the supreme bench.
Why not let the common people have
something to say in the selection of
these judges, the Bame as the
supreme court and district court
udges are selected by the people?
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Plattsmouth people shoujd feel
reasonably happy with the closing of
the old year and the dawning of the
new. We have been about as pros
perous as any city of our size in the
state, and the improvements made
this year will compare favorably with
any of them. With the advent of the
new year, let's don our hustling
clothes and renew our pledge to do
even better In 1911.
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After that verdict In the recent
state election anyone but the mem
bers of the state normal board would
recognize It as a little Imprudent to
'take a slap at Crabtree." Anyone
who undertakes to Interpret that ver
dict can hardly avoid the conclusion
that the people have declared that
they have greater confidence In Crab-
tree than they have In the state nor
mal board Lincoln Star.
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If Nebraska's United States sena
tors were one-half as zealous In wag
lng war against the trust tariff, en
deavoring to place lumber, coal,
shoes, farm machinery and fence
wire on the free list as they are In
their fight to secure the appointment
of favorites to fat positions In their
desire to erect political fences, .the
trust tariff would soon be fighting to
see who shall receive the biggest
share of their unlawful billions.
of
genius In the twentieth century.
which has no competitor in the past.
By the crushing logic of the Julius
Ceasar people, the honor of the
national senate is shown to be Immac
ulate absolutely free from an infini
tesimal blot. Admitting, so argues
the solemn report, that there were
four distinct briberies committed, a
majority of votes were cast for Lori
mer to elect him, and therefore he Is
entitled to a Beat In the senate. Our
cousins In Great Britain expel from
parliament a member If there has
been paid for his election a box of
cigars, or any other trifle, but this Is
free America, not monarcal England,
and of course the freedom of
the trusts to purchase legislation and
leglslatois .:uut not be restrained.
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XO COMPROMISE.
Democratic tariff legislation, ac
cording to Representative Ransdell,
of Louisiana, must be based on a
compromise that will meet the ap
proval of those democrats who favor
a tariff for revenue so graded as to
Impose a moderate rate of duty on all
Importations. Which merely means
that the bill or bills must meet the
demands of the democratic protec
tionists who united with tne Cannon
Aldrlch wing of the republican party
to prevent revision downward In the
act of 1909.
if this plan should be followed the
special Interests would be In thesad
dle once more and there would be a
repetition of the Tayne-Aldrlch bill
scandal. Then In 1912 the people,
who turned the republicans out for
breaking their promises on the tariff,
would kick the democrats out just as
cheerfully. '
The voters did not return the dem
ocratic majority in the next house
Just to give the party a lot of jobs.
They replaced republicans with demo
crats In order to get relief on the
tariff. If the democratic majority
thinks It can retain popular favor by
cautious compromises for "party har
mony" In the hope of thereby holding
on to the Jobs, It Is mightily fooled.
The democratic party has just one
chance for 1912. It must make good
on the tariff. If It repeats the repub
licans' blunder it will meet their fate.
The democratic majority may com
promise, but the country won't Kan
sas City Star.
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Clerks $800 to $1,200, and other cm
ployeei, up to $2, 500 annually
Uncle Sam will hold examinations
throughout the country for Railway
Mall Clerks, Custom House Clerks,
Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Depart
ment Clerks and other Government
positions. Thousands of appointments
will be made. Any man or woman
over 18, In City or Country can get
Instruction and free Information by
writing at once to the Bureau of
lnttructlon, 79 J. Hamlin Building,
Rochester, N. Y. 1
KNOX IN BELLICOSE MC0D
Would Have Waf With Japan Fought
by Reporters of Two Nations.
Washington, Dec. JO. Secretary ol
State Knox was in a warlike mood.
Following a visit to the White House,
be doclared be was in favor of taking
Japan on first for three fast rounds oi
the bloodiest sort . of fighting. The
secretary , had a long talk with th
president. He seemed hardly pre
pared for the onslaught of the report
ers as he reached the executive of
fice door.
"Do you favor a war with Japan?"
he was asked.
The secretary smiled grimly.
"I do favor it," he replied, "provided,
however," he added, "that there are
no soldiers on either side except
newspaper reporters."
"Have you any particular favorites
In the profession you would like to put
in the front rank?" some one asked.
"No," said the secretary, "I am not
playing any favorites. Put 'em all in
the front ranks. 1 love them all."
"Why did the state department sup
press the report of an attack on Vice
Consul Williamson by two Joanese
and a Chinaman ; at Dalny, Man
churla?" asked a particularly brave
young newspaper man.
"All I know about that," answered
the secretary, "Is what I rend in the
newspapers this morning. Therefore,
I don't believe It Is true."
OHIO VOTE GRAFT
PROBE TO CONTINUE
True Bills Number 968 and 41
Persons ArJm t Guilt.
The mountain has labored, and
Julius Ceasar Burrows' committee ap
pointed to Investigate charges . of
bribery made against William Lorl-
LET DEMOCRATS P.E DEMOCRATS.
The Kearney Democrat voices the
Journal's sentiments exactly In the
following: "Governor Shallenberger
does not believe that all of the other
Interests of the state should be made
to stand aside for the single purpose
of carrying out the plan of county
option. The state is filled with
interests that are manifold more Im
portant for future prosperity com
mercially which surmount this one
feature. The democratic party Is the
majority party in the legislature and
It will be held responsible for every
commission and omission affecting
the people, no matter what may be
come of county potion. If the demo
cratic members permit others than
democrats to take command of the
legislature and those others do tho
Illogical things, the democrats will
receive the odium Just the same. Be
cause they surrendered their right to
control will not be accepted by the
people. The people gave that right
to the democrats and they will be
held accountable for Its use. The
right to transfer that authority -rests
wholly with the people and not the
Individual members of the party. If
a member Is a democrat and has been
elected as such, he Is In duty bound
to see that his support goes to the
democratic organization of the legis
lative bodies. After that duty has
been performed each member, as we
regard the Question, Is privileged to
do whatever he deems best for or
against the county option question
West Union, O., Dec. 30. The in
vestigation into the wholesale vote
buying in Adams county is to be con
tinued through the special grand jury
Indefinitely. This statement was made
from the bench by Judge Blair, whose
vigorous action has brought out the
facts in the county-wide scandal.
Judge Blair said: "After we have
had a general investigation of all the
townships in the county, I shall call
before me the workers of both parties
from verytownship and submij. to
them the lists of those who haveTTeen
Indicted. I will tell them that they
must have knowledge who they are. I
shall demand that they designate
every purchasable voter In their pre
cincts and I shall put special detec
tives In the field to bring these men
In. If any workers refuse to disclose
the names of those whose votes he
has bought, 1 will bring the 'floaters'
In to testify against him. We are go
ing to clean up Adams county as it
has not been purged slnoe the civil
war."
One hundred and six additional In
dictments were reported by the grand
Jury, bringing the total, number of
those indicted thus far up to 998.
Forty-one men have taken advantage
of Judge Blair's promise of leniency
to nil who would come In and confess
without having been Indicted.
Do you want an
AUCTIONEER?
If you do, get one who has
Experience, Ability, Judgement.
Telegraph or write
ROBERT WIKINSON,
Dunbar, Neb.
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