The- Plattsmouth - Journal
CZZD Published Semi-Week! at Plattsasouth. Nebraska GT)
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'o3to(!ice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
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Early holiday advertising
catches I In1 trade.
Thauksg i nu one week from
next Thursday ami then comes
Christmas.
Try to lie patient. Tafl's mes
sage will I"' delivered Hie Ural
week in December.
Tafl's message, according to
the forecast, is expected to play
both ends against the middle
men. ;, ;
Tho democrats eluded Aldricli
governor a year ago, but they will
not help re-elect him a year hence.
Not mm h, Mary Anna.
:o:
President Tuft appears to be
considerably wiser than ho was
when he started on his western
tour, even if the west isn't.
:o:
Weather prophets who fore
casted that "next winter would ar
rive, early and stay late," are al
ready beginning to feel exultant.
:o;.
Turkeys are not roosting so
high as I hey were a year ago, and
some of us poor fellows may be
able to reach one from the lower
limbs.
;o ;
Champ Clarks seems to favor
Canadian annexation not because
he wants the land, but because he
enjoys hearing the Canadian
patriot snort.
:o :- .
The, International Harvester
company begs leave to report that
Missouri's anti-trust law is not
as mirth-provoking as it thought
al first glance. v
:o:
' Plattsinonlh is one of the best
towns in the west and is no place
for kickers. Their time in Plaits
mouth is pastami we hope, for
ever arid one day after.
t :o :
To hear the trust attorneys tell
it, Sherman's march through
Georgia was a sunshine scatter
ing expedition compared with the
Sherman's law's march through
Wall street.
:o:
President Tuft, on his recent
visit to the south, defended li is
appointment of democrats to the
supreme court. Ileally this was
unnecessary labor on the part of
Hie great, defensive president.
:o;
Evelyn' Art hur See, leader of the
Absolute Life cult, has been sen
fenced to live years in the Illinois
stale penitentiary. Tho life he
will now lead will be absolutely
according to the prison rules.
:o:
Carnegie has given another
525,000,000 to the cause of educa
tion. The laird is determined that
this dangerous thing of a little
learning shall not be allowed to
continue to stalk about tho coun
try. :o:
Council Bluffs has reiee !.,
,;.;,. r , .
commission form of government,
prefering, evidently, to await the
trial which Omaha will soon pass'
through. The commission form
of government is not half as pop
ular as it vas six months ago.
Plattsmouth has already re
ceived enough advertising in the
papers throughout eastern Ne
braska to pay for the Platte river
bridge. The papers in Kansas are
becoming somewhat enthused
over the bridge. The, Oniaha
Karjsas City Scenic Iloulo is at
tracting considerable attention at
this early stage in Ihe game
IN ADVANCE
Congress meet
the first week
in December.
:o:
It is not (rue that Mr. Tail had
t.o hire a guide to find his way
around Washington.
;n;
If the Aldricli currency plan is
as good as its exponents contend
it must be worth its weight in
semi-anthracite.
:o
Plolling against the president
of Mexico seems to have succeed
ed bull lighting as a national
spoi't in that country.
President Tuft's denunicalion
of the middlemen is likely to be
more popular with the topnien
than the 00,000.0(10 hot lomnien.
:o :
It is estimated that Tafl's mes
sage is to be brief. However,
anything less than 20,000 words
is regarded as brief in Washing
ton. :o:
Kansas votes on equal suffrage
next year, and it is for the men to
say whether the women are to
continue to be the better-half or
the whole thing.
:o
Uncle Sam is requested to
recognize China as a republic, but
the old gentleman seems to think
it shows belter qualifications for
the Anarchy club.
Our obi friend, Dr. Cook, is
coming home and the reporters
are examining him critically to
nee if he bears any souvenirs of
I he European hen.
:o:
From Hie way ,llie wild horses
of congress are cavorting around
already, Mr. Taft needs to be a
better broncho busier than any he
saw in Wyoming.
:o:
Thcyuhave jailed a man for tar
ring a young woman at Lincoln
Center, Kas., all hough close-fil
ling garments of black are sup
posed to be fashionable.
:o:
III the good (dd days congress
would never have dared open up
December I without running down
to Wall street and taking out a
license to do business.
:o :
Queen Mary has started a
crusade against the deadly hat
pin. Why not get some revenue
for the government by fining the
women $2 for every eye they
scratch out?
:o :
A politician slates that a re
vision of tho anti-lrusl law will
be undertaken at the next session
of congress, but he neglected to
say whether it is lo be revised up
ward or downward.
:o: .
There should be no opposition
to Hon. John A. Maguire for re-
nomination. We understand there
are one or two others talked of for
I he place. John Maguire has
made a flue congressman, and is
popular man in uie 1' irs
t
district, and is tho only mnn who
will stand the least show of car
rying the district.
;o:
A Cass county school girl was
told lo wirle an essav of 250
words about an automobile, am
sue submitted the following: "My
uncle bought a motor car. He
was riding in the country and it
balked in going up hill. My uncle
tried to make it go, but couldn
although ho spoiled a $25 suit
trying. I guess this is about fifty
words. Tho other two hundred
words are what undo said as "he
was walking back lo town, but
they aro not fit lo write down."
Now that our share of Standard trouble in democrat- rnrrving Nc
( Hi stock has been divided into luaska with the parly united anil
03,38:1 little pieces by the reor-J harmonious. There are others
ganization, we greatly fear that who also believe as we do. Then
soi if the fractions will get lost why is il that we will permit with
in our I rouser pocket.
:o:
Vic Hosewater is a pre
fly cute
polit man.
He gives bis orders to
such fellows as K. M. Pollard, and '
ir they fail in the work given them
to do, Vic is mil "in il," don't you
see '
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The meat packers of Chricago,
in insisting on writs of habeas
corpus, want to give the anti
trust, law a tryout on ils crim
inal side. This is the very thing
the people have been asking for
now for a number of years.
:o : .
In Kansas nine prominent men,
without nny justification therefor,
tarred and feathered a young
woman school teacher. William
Allen
White should insist on
somebody answering that ques
tion, "What's the matter wilh
Kansas?
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The standpat faction, Taftites
of Nebraska are trying to steal
away from the La Follctle sup
porters the cognomen "progres
sive," but we don't believe they
will be able lo hoodwink the mas
ses of the republican parly into
such a belief.
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Now, Mr. Taft, when you write
your message, just imagine you
were a newspaper reporter again,
wilh the city editor howling for
copy. The public read your stuff
in those days when you boiled Yr
down!
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Kx-Congressman Pollard, it is
said, would like to be the repub
lican nominee for governor next
year. He has our consent. The
democrats can defeat him easier
than any other condidate, unless
it be the present occupant of the
executive chair.
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Mr. Taft laid a wreath on the
grave of the author of "The Star
Spangled Hanner." We trust this
does not create a spirit of unrest
among our poets, whom we have
reduced to temporary silence af
ter long effort to check their
stormy upheavals.
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We have never seen a paper
yet that has mentioned Aldrich's
name for re-election, yet we
lave noticed several nrom input
i
republicans mentioned for the
nominal ion for governor next
year. Aldricli has surely demon-
d rated that he is not big enough
for governor of Nebraska.
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Don't burn the leaves. Thev
are worth a dollar a load to any
farmer. They aro nature's fer
tilizer. They are the best soil
producer in the world; Ihe best
mulch, the best protector against
cold and heat, the best to protect
the soil from injury of anything.
Don't burn Ihe leaves.
:o:
The Chinese, throne, which
three years ago sent away Yuan
Shi Kai in disgrace, has now re
called him to Pekin to put down
the rebellion. He is known as
China's "strong" man, but ho is
going to need every ounce of his
strength and more, loo, in his
contest with Ihe rebellion now
grown to formidable proportions.
:o:
The Omaha Moderator sizes up
the present governor of Nebraska
as follows: "I have noticed that
the only place that the doughty
Aldricli is interested in cleaning
up is Omaha. You never hear him
say anything about Wilbor, Grand
Island, Lincoln nor other places
in the slate. Aldricli has a Rube's
grudge against metropolitan life
and with Ihe persistency of a
country constable he wauls to im
press upon the public mind that
ho lias been vested wilh a little
brief authority."
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The Journal has said time and
lime again that there would be no
in our ranks those who are there
for no other purpose than rule or
ruin? There is one thing badly
u led in the democratic partv of
the stale and that is a weeding out
of all dissent ionists. We have
counseled' wilh loo maiiv fellows
who are not true democrats, and
who attend our meetings simply
for the purpose of gleaning what
I hey can from our doings for the
benefit of the oilier fellows. We
can secure no harmony with such
men within our ranks. A demo
crat, is a good democrat, all the
Mini', and can be depended upon
al all limes, but one who is wilh
us today and then working to de
moralize the party tomorrow, is
one thai, should not be considered
as a good democrat, and should be
banished from our counsels on
every occasion. The democrats
should begin to get together, and
not put il off until within a few
weeks of Ihi! election, and with a
thorough organization in every
county and every precinct, to
know who is for us and who is
against us, we will have an or
ganization that can be depended
upon to bring forth what we are
fighting for victory.
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Here is a proposition for some
of the Journal readers to work
out: A cashier of a Chicago bank
paid out a $1,000 bill by mistake
for a $100 bill. II passed through
the hands of several merchants,
each one accepting it as $100 and
no one discovering the mistake.
Finally il was deposited in an-
other bank as $100, where Ihe
error was discovered, but it was
turned back to Ihe first bank as
$100. Ones) ion: Did anyone
make or lose by the transactions,
was any harm done; were all Ihe
debts properly settled?
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VIRGINIA JUSTICE AGAIN.
When the Healtie verdict was
rendered last summer, we com
mented upon it as an instance of
Virginia justice, as Ihe product of
a law enforcement that is able to
surely and speedily bring lo judg
ment criminals, even though they
be wealthy and influential.
Hut other rich criminals have
been convicted in the trial
courts and gone free finally
through the technicalities and de
lays incident to reversals by ap
pellate courts and the resulting
new trials. In fact, herein is
where the wealth and influence of
such offenders have been brought
lo bear most strongly. Their
money has been able, through the
employment of shrewd lawyers, to
secure postponements and to
bring forward technical errors for
appellate courts to hang re
versals upon. And too frequently
ui American jurisdictions has
justice thus gone the way of nul
lillcation. II is only necessary to
recall certain comparatively re
cent cases in California to con
cede the truth of this.
Hut even as the Virginia nisi
prius administration would toler
ate no undue lengthening of tho
original trial, no time-killing, bo-
fuddling tactics on the part of
counsel, so now it is demonstrated
that, the Virginia supreme coui
accords small consideration to
legal objections that are without
merit. Less than a week ago it
received Meatlie's application for
a writ of error and the seventeen
assignments of error contained in
his bill of exceptions, and it has
now found Ihe exceptions to be
without substance and has doniei
the application. And now the
governor of Virginia shows no ex
ecutivo clemency and Healtie will
be electrocuted on November 21
the date, set by the trial court.
In Ibis case, so far as he
could, the trial judge in his nil
ings, gave the benefit to tho ac
cused. It would, therefore, bo
lamentable miscarriage of jus
lice, so far as a court and jury
Ul
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can determine il, for the case to
have been reversed on some such
extraneous error as the omission
of an "a" and a "the" in the bill
of indictment, or on any similar
non-meritorious legalism.
There is a great cry through
out the United States that the
administration of the criminal
laws must be simplified and made
more effective, for which England
is often pointed out as a model.
Before faring so far abroad,
why not see Virginia first?
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DO PEOPLE READ POLITICS?
From tinre to time there is
much complaint about there being
too much polities in Ihe news-
papers. Hut while there are many
ople professing lo take no in
cest in politics, there are a great
iiny more people who would not
buy a newspaper unless it did
contain political news and politi-
il editorials. That there are a
great many people, who do not
read political editorials, especial-
in partisan newspapers, is un
questionably true, and it can fur
ther be said that only a few of the
ditorials in the partisan news
iapers are worth reading. That
is, after having read them. Ihe
eader has gained little or noth
ing.
Persons who take no interest in
baseball games sometimes com
plain at the amount of such news
in the papers, and those who are
not interested in the market
columns cannot inderstand why
a page or two is devoted by tho
big dailies to quotations and news
pertaining to tho stock and grain
markets. There are some people
who do not attend church, and
they think a good deal of white
space is wasted by the newspapers
in giving church news and thus
it goes. Tho truth is, a news
paper cannot be made for one
reader; it must be made for every
body. So when politics are in
dulged in by the editor, it is gen
erally because some peoplo are
mightily interested, in fact, be
cause tho majority of people want
to know what is going on and
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what is being ' said of politics.
Thai I here is a great deal of non
sense printed during political
campaigns is undeniable; that a
good many editors would be only
too glad to get away from
political writings is another truth,
but everybody ought to be in
teresled in great political issues
and public measures.
Just now there is a change go
ing on politically, and people
should keep abreast of these
changes. Political parties, su
preme in states and cities, ar3 be
ing whipped from power, and a
realigment, such as has not been
known in years, is taking place.
There is a peaceful revolution
evident, and Ihe average citizen is
interested in knowing what it is
all about. Whether the future
trend is toward an alignment of
conservatives and progressives,
instead of republicans and demo
crats, is a most important matter;
whether woman suffrage,' is to
ascend to that point where it will
interfere with the progress of old
parties or aid them in further de
velopment; whether the socialist
movement, which shows a won
derful increase in adherents the
past year, will cut any figure in
future politics these aro all
momentous questions, and all are
a part of that revolution that is
upon us, with no man knowing the
ultimate result. If tho detail of
these things is not legitimate
news, and the proper basis for
editorial review; if people are not
interested in such affairs, we do
not know what news consists of or
the character of the information
in which people are most in
terested. :o:- .
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