The- Plattsmouth - Journal
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R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Poetoffice; at PlatUmouth, Nebraska, as necond-clasi
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now do you like the ticket?
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Don Rhoden never held aa
offiffice, but he will make a good
sheriff.
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How do you Like the rain? It
II s grand and glorious and the
farmers are happy.
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Well, it's all over till the next
time, and every democrat should
prepare to do his duty on election
day.
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Doubtless New Mexico would
just as soon get into the Union
over the president's veto as any
other way.
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Doctor's Wiley's case is really
more important than the Pin
chot case was. The public doesn't
eat lumber.
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Popular election of senators
has some disadvantages, hut it
eems soinewhatp referable to
Hoction by slush funds.
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These new cream and red postal
cards will be an awful warning to
the milkman of what would hap
pen if he got the nosebleed.
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Gary, fcidiana, built a church in
nine hours, 01 her places, too,
should put in hurry calls for a
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spiritual ambulance.
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! Evidently the vote on that office
fully demonstrates that even some
of Robertston's closest friends do
not believe in keeping a man in
ollice for a lifetime. And the
voters of Cass county will decide
this question in no uncertain
tone at the general election by
eluding James T. Reynolds.
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Our exchanges are discussing
the most beautiful sentences in
the language. "Enclosed find
check," looks good to some of us.
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An expert says crime in cities is
caused by bad air. We have often
noticed the menacing looks cast
at anyone who lets a little fresh
air into a public hall.
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Mr. Taft may be able to milk
Pauline, his Jersey cow, but can
he drive his new horse, Reci
procity,' well enough to plough up
the White house potato patch?
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The old rule of senatorial
courtesy is becoming so obsolete
that a new senator can answer
present" when his name is call-
after being there only two
Nevertheless, the votes in Ari- treasurer. No man in the county
years.
Fred Patterson will he his own
successor as county surveyor.
Well, Fred has proven himself
well qualified for the position.
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Judge Douglass came very near
getting Jim Robertson's scalp
James T. Reynolds will get it,
however, at the general election.
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C. M. Seybert will make a gooi
run for county commissioner and
if he is elected he will undoubt
edly prove the "right man in the
right place."
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Colonel Astor has given Miss
J'oree a 2,000 engagement
ring, which goes to show that it
costs money for a young man to
get married nowadays.
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England is to have HO dread
noughts by 1914. The spile fenc
that England and Germany ar
building up between them costs
the taxpayers of each more than
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The Journal believes that th
democrats have nominated one of
the best tickets ever placed be
fore the voters of Cass county,
and one that should be elected
from top to bottom.
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They are taking straw votes al
ready for 1012, and the opinions
of thirty-three cowboys on the
train from Santa Ec to El Paso
will soon get a front page in the
metropolitan journals.
zona may be more trustworthy
than the president fears.
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There appears to be no danger
that the railroad strike in Eng
land will result in a sympathetic
walkout in America.
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The democrats have a can
didate in the person of Don C.
Rhoden who is not afraid to do his
duty if elected sheriff of Cass
county.
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Some candidates may think
that a nomination is equivalent to
an election, but they will be wiser
on this score after the general
election.
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Oldham, Dean and Stark are the
democratic nominees for judges
of the supreme court. No strong
er or abler men could have been
nominated.
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The boys and girls of Wash
ington having killed 5,000,000
flies, what means are left of
keeping the government clerks
awake on a hot day?
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It is now in order for the voters
of Cass county to learn some peo
ple what the word "enough"
means. And the November elec
tion is the place to do it.
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Now that the price of cotton is
coming down with the big crop,
it is our belief that Uncle Reuben
should be able to add a biled shirt
to his outfit.
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Judging by the testimony given
the steel trust committee, any
panic that showed itself out of
the house during Colonel Roose
veil's administration was taking
needless risks.
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The coming in of the Japs is
getting to be a big problem. And
it is one thing to talk about the
brotherhood of man 2,000 miles
away and another to see your real
estate values cut in two from Jap
purchases all around you.
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The primary election system is
not as successful as many think
it should be, and we believe that
nothing of the kind will bring peo
ple out to vole. Ciive us the oh
way of nominating candidates. It
is more satisfactory.
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The democrats never done a
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is better qualified for the place
He will receive the united support
of the democrats and many re
publicans who know his excellent
qualities for the responsible posi
tion. :o:
The reactionary senators all
hate La Follette, but except in
rare instances they have to do
their hating in private. They have
long since learned the error of
engaging in a "colloquy" with
him.
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Newly arrived Americans in
London take the motor cabs for
16 cents a mile for two passeng
ers, forgetting that you are ex
pected to offer a shilling as a
tribute of personal admiration to
the driver.
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They are trying to make bridge
playing for prizes a misdemeanor
in New Jersey. In view of the out
landish bric-a-brac for which
one has to say thank you and
look happy, this is a greatly need
ed reform.
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Traveling men are complain
ing of slow business conditions all
over the country, although they
admit that the middle west is In
the best condition of all. No one
seems to give the reason why the
country should not be prosperous
just now.
The riders are up in the race,
for office this fall, and the con
test is on.
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Judge Root can feel proud of
the vote he received in his home
county of Cass.
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Wilier and Knapp, both of Lan
caster county, have been nomin
ated for regents of the state uni
versity on the democratic ticket.
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It is plain to be seen that
Taft's interests are not with the
common people, and the common
people will not be with Billy when
election time comes around.
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A veto of the wool bill will
business and several other
nesses that are long since owe
due for an upsetting.
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Mure people than ever behevv
the primary system is a fare.
The majority of the voters did not
avail themselves of the oppor
tunity to vote for their choice of
candidates and are free to vot
for whom they please at the gen
eral election, and of course, they
will do it.
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The harvester trust says that it
is a good trust, very good, that it
does not sell machines to foreign ers
less than to Americans, or
does anything else that it bad.
That harvesters are sold for much
less in Canada than they are to
better day's work than when they
nominated James T. Reynolds for
clerk of the district court. No
man in Cass county is better
qualilled for the position, and his
character as a man is above re
proach. :o:
A fisherman in an obscure
Maine village makes enough from
lobsters to take his family yearly
to California. While the other
kind of lobster that feeds them to
the chorus girls on Broadway
sometimes has to borrow a ferrj
fare.
The Indians of the Klamath
colony are arrested for trading
obi wives for new. Why didn't the
officers tackle the Fifth avenue
colony at Reno?
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llarman has been nominated for
railway commissioner on the
democratic ticket. Mike Har
rington did it with his little pen.
And he did a good job.
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The fate of the arbitration
treaties will depend on how they
affect the power and prestige of
lhe senate, rather than how they
affect the prosperity of the people.
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Some people call it undignified
to eat green corn, but why expect
to preserve a frigid reserve and
a callous self control in the
presence of the great climaxes of
life?
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It is reassuring, anyway, to
learn that the plot to blow uo the
Panama canal works and as
sassinate Colonel Goethals is of
Spanish rather than Japanese
origin.
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James T. Reynolds, candidate
or clerk of the district court, is a
farmer and resides in Liberty pre
cinct. Hut no man in the countv
better qualified for the posi
tion.
If you would be a booster for
your home town and its institu
tions be consistent. Don't boost
one institution and knock another
one just because you might have
an ingrown dislike for someone
connected with it. Be a booster
in general, not individually.
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When Charley Warner was de
feated by the republicans for the
nomination for treasurer they
done a bad day's work. But his
defeat was due to a little "ring
here in Plattsmouth. Mr. War
ner is a farmer and a gentleman
in every respect.
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The many friends of Judge
Jesse L. Hoot in Cass county will
regret his defeat for renomina
tion. But there is no telling the
queer freaks cut up at a primary
election. Rose is the man that
should have been dropped, and
this will be done at the general
election. He is more of a politician
than a judge.
merely indicate that the president
has been confused. The Payne-1 Nebraska farmers can be proved
by any number of witnesses who
have moved up there and bought
them.
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The election Reports yesterday
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indicate that Judge Itoot had been
defeated for the nomination for
supreme judge. If he is, the re
publicans defeat the very best and
ablest man they had on the su
preme bench in many years.
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President Taft denounces the
recall because it would place
Judges at the nicrcy of "sudden
gusts of popular passion." Isn't
it possiblo to conceive of "gusts
of popular iiassion" that are
justified?
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Judge Douglass made a good
race for the republican nomina
tion for clerk of the district court
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Th vote at the primary w
not be canvassed until Friday,
when we will be able to give more
particulars regarding the result
Enough is known, however, to
know who are nominated, but by
what majorities we are unable to
state.
The people are getting tired of
the Lorimer case. Let the sen-
ale either fire him or exhonorate
him. No doubt some of the mem
bers would choose the latter ac
lion, whether guilty or not. Too
many of them may be In the same
boat.
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Many republicans were op
posed to putting up a candidate
for county superintendent against
Miss Foster, but of course thev
couldn't prevent a candidate com
ing out if he wanted to. Miss
Foster has given universal satis
faction and of course will be re
elected.
Aldrieh bill is the one he should
have vetoed.
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Hearings begin November 15 on
trust legislation to fix prices. The
first question is, What will it cost
to "tlx" the congressmen that fix
the prices?
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What has become of the Paul
Clark boom, set afloat by that lit
tle cotorie of "boss" republicans
in Lincoln a few weeks ago? It
must have "died a-boomin'."
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Judge Travis' record as district
judge has been approved almost
unanimously by the voters of
Sarpy, Cass and Otoe counties.
Indeed, his record is one of which
any court official should feel
proud.
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The trouble with Judge Root
was that while his running mates
were out playing politics, he was
busy attending to his duties as
judge. Judge Root is not a
politician.
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The stock market is worried
about what congress may do, but
people who really produce things
instead of trading what some
other fellow produces, don't pay
much attention to the politician
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What a beautiful sight that will
be next year when the republican
spellbinders point to Taft with
pride with one hand and view
reciprocity with alarm with the
other hand,
President Taft, it is reported,
will go before the country this
autumn and explain his veto of
the various bills providing for
tariff revision downward. Ex
planations don't always help. At
Winona the president made an
elaborate explanation of his
course in signing the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff act.
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The democrats have succeeded
in nominating a most excellent
ticket. Not a candidate upon it
but who is competent to fill the
position for which he has been
nominated.
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European nations look down on
America, but as long as Ty Cobb
called at the White house the
other day, our government has
some standing among the great
ones of the earth.
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Congress having passed the re
apportionment, every statesman
of any caliber has drawn a hor
rendous looking gerrymander
with tail feathers all radiating
from his hack yard.
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Someone has drafted a law to
penalize a man for putting his
feet on his desk while dictating to
a stenographer. Thus the com
forts of home are disappearing
from modern civilization.
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Of course no one can question
the fitness 0f Kelly Fox for
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Really there does not seem to
be any very great danger to
popular liberty in the judicial re
call. Suppose it lakes say 15 per
cent of electors to invoke the re
call and a majority to ratify it
there can bo no serious danger
that it will be invoked very often
unless the conduct of courts is
such as to make it most desirable
that they be disciplined.
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Those who oppose the election
or recall of judges say: "Any
more hateful phenomenon than
that of a judge who owes his office
to political manipulations and
employs it to further the in
terests of the men who elected
him could hardly he imagined."
Therefore they want them ap
pointed for life. On the other
hand the other sido says: "Any
more hateful thing than the ap
pointment of a corporation lawyer
as a judge who employs his posi
tion in which he is safe for life to
further the interests of trusts and
corporations and against the com
mon people could not be imagined,
and there ought to be some way
of getting rid of him."
Kelly Fox has been declared the
nominee for treasurer of Cass
county by the democrats and
should have the support of every
democrat in the county, and we
believe will receive the support
of many republicans.
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Japan is not very keen for
arbitration. Having prepared to
carve up Manchuria, she feels
much as if the Turkey bird should
ask to have it arbitrated, whether
or not he should furnish the
Thanksgiving dinner.
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"All England" is tied up by a
Irike of railroad employes. And
it must be remembered that "all
England," including Wales and
Scotland, has an area of 88,729
square miles, which is just about
the area of Kansas and one-third
that of Texas.
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Billie Taft thought the demo
crats were very good fellows when
they helped him get Canadian
reciprocity through congress. But
they are bad fellows when they
try to reduce the tariff on such
necessities of life as wool, cotton,
salt and sugar.
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Don C. Rhoden, the democratic
candidate for sheriff, is not only
a good fellow, but he will make a
most excellent sheriff. One thing
certain, he will not persist in
holding office for four terms
simply because he is a good fel
low, when two terms is plenty.
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Fear is expressed by the ad
ministration that tariff legisla
tion at this time would "upset
business." Well, it might have a
depressing influence on the sugar
In writing in the name of James
T. Reynyolds on the democratic-
ticket for clerk of the district
court, many forgot to make a
cross in the circle opposite his
name. Of course such votes will
not be counted. That is one
reason why his vote will be so
small.
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"Who will be chairman of the
democratic county central com
mittee?" is a question that is
asked the Journal every day. We
don't know, but we believe the
candidates and committeemen
should force Dr. J. S. Livingston
into the service for one more
year at least. The party has ben
very fortunate under his admin
istration and his work has proven
more, successful than any chair
man the democrats ever had.. We
hope, for the good of the cause,
Dr. Livingston will give his con
sent to act for another year.
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THE ARIZONA VETO.
President Taft's veto of the
Arizona and New Mexico statehood
bill indicates an inconsistent, and
. belated idea of executive .re
sponsibility. The president be
gan by dodging responsibility in
maintaining that it was not for
him to say what congress should
or should not do, but now every
thing must be strictly in accord
ance with his views.
When the Pay ne-Aldrieh tariff
bill was before congress the
president said he could not even
offer suggestions, as that would
be usurping the functions of the
leigslative body. lie now not only
overrides congress, but forbids
the people of Arizona to determine
for themselves how to select and
dismiss their own judges.
Mr. Roosevelt has most clearly
stated the position which the
great, majority of the citizens of
the United States belive to be
right that if the people of Ari
zona definitely desire the recall in
any or all branches of their own
state government they should be
permitted to have it. The bill
which Mr. Taft has vetoed ex
pressly provides that before the
constitution takes effect the peo
ple of the territory shall vote
specifically on the question of the
judicial recall.
Of that question itself it seems
pertinent to say that the country
at large might be benefited by the
experiment which Arizona is wil
ling to try an experiment which
Oregon has already tried for near
ly three years, with none of the
disastrous consequences of which
Mr. Taft expresses fear. The
states ought to have the utmost
freedom in making experiments.
That is one of the conditions of
progress.
Congress should pass the state
hood bill over the president's veto.
Kansas City Star.
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