The- Plattsmouth - Journal
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R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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Did you return thanks ?
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Now all interest will be in the
direction of Christmas.
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Congress opens up next Monday
and then trouble, begins.
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Who is it that cries, "It
snows?' Oh, yes, (he schoolboy.
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The ball) tub trust, which goes
to trial next month, miiAlit, as well
arrange for a cold plunge.
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The sland-pat papers continue
to resent Mr. Roosevelt's tendency
to have opinions of bis own.
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II, must he admitted that Colo
nel Aslor is slaying married much
longer than the public, anticipated.
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Patronize the merchant who
advertises, lie is not ashamed to
tell the public what he has in store
for the people.
Those Chicago packers seem to
have been able to pack a great
deal of delay into their prosecu
tion of the government.
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Speaking of a horrible waste, of
printer's ink. (lie government
printing ollice has published 21,
ffi7,7tl) public, documents.
He fore the dinotulion of Hie
Standard Old company it used to
declare a dividend every year. Now
it will have lo declare thirty-live,
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Now I bey blame Hoosevell for
the panic of 11)07. lie done just
as the money power wanted him to
!, ami Hie panic was Ihe result.
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Richard Crokcr, who is veiling
in New York, must be dismayed lo
lind the old Tammany organiza
tion in the hands of amateurs ami
mollycoddles.
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A Mr. Hogg runs a restaurant
in llajes Center and those who
are not afraid of being called
cannibals some limes drop in ami
order bam and egs.
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A Washington dispatch esti
mates that Tail's message will
contain 11,000 words. Why, that is
only live or six columns. They
probably mean 00,000 words.
We have heard that roast lur
key is an excellent preventive of
hunger, hut we were unable to
prove it by any personal ex
perlenee on Thanksgiving day.
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Mrs. Patterson, who killed her
husband in Denver, is again a free
woman. From all accounts of the
ease there should never have been
any attempt made to prosecute
her.
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Another new manufacturing
establishment for Plattsinoulb
which will employ Quito a number
of people. A company lias been
organized and articles of incor
poration filed.
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I hose sarcastic editors who
have referred to llio New Jersey
governor as "Wnodrun" Wilson,
tiding that bitter jibe failed to
bring forth a scream, are now
falling him "Woody."
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The 'president, it will bo
observed, has picked the trusts as
the paramount issue, in placo of
the taritT. He did the same thing
nncfl before at Winona when
he announced (hat thero could lie
no further attempt at tariff ro
vision during his term of office.
The report that a Pittsburg
treasurer is 100,000 short hasn't
been vended, but it surely sounds
like Pittsburg.
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Do you feel thankful? You
ought to, if for nothing more than
lllat you are alive and in the en
joyment of good health.
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John D. insists that he does not
Merrill all this abuse that is be
ing heaped on him as the greatest
squeeze artist in the world.
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The slogan for democrats
should be: "(ic. together, and in
one sidid phalanx march onward,
right onward to victory."
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Another thing u be thankful
for is found the fact that the
Heal tie case and the Shady Uend
oulrage are out of Ihe way.
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If the democrats will nominate
a man like H. D. Sutherland for
governor (bey can elect him hands
down. Clean, able and a genuine
all-round good man.
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II, has taken eight years to get
the indicted beef trust packers
into court, but it is probable they
win nc hi i in mucii ress lime man
thai.
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"The tar ease is now in the
hands of a jury," is a dispatch
ilem. Hul now I he parlies mak
ing up Ihe case are mostly in. the
hands of I he jailor.
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l'liere isn't very much Summer
ingering- around to give Fall a
farewell. Old Winter beat her to
and led him right into his
quarters in line shape.
The fact of that tar party was
disgrace enough to Kansas, but
Ihe fad that Ihe jury hesitated
about lluding the members guilty
adds ignomiuty lo disgrace.
"Mary (iardner's teeth kept her
oil' Ihe stage." Hut it was Ted-
ly's teeth that helped to keep him
in I In spotlight. Poor Mary.
She's all there, if she is getting
a lillle old.
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The Consistory of Cardinals in
Home promptly continued all of
Ihe many annoinl ments submit
ted to it. In other respects, loo,
Ihe Consistory of Cardinals is oh
so different from Ihe Unite
States.
In Ihe trial of the indicted
packers at Chicago the law's do
lay has ils greatest exempli Ilea
lion and it seems not to he un
mixed with the rich man's con
tumely,
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These are the wintry days when
it is well to remember that the
good citizen is not only mereifu
to his beast, but is also mereifu
to his neighbors by sweeping the
snow from his walks.
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If the Panama canal is finished
a year ahead o; contract, this dis-
Mressing tendency for the help to
work themselves out of a job wil
be contrary to all the principle
of the government service.
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Maybe Paul Clark will go bar
west if he fails to get Iho repub
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man nomination ror congress
Will Ilayward was so disappoint
ed in his aspirations to a seat in
congress that ho left the United
Slates for nearly six months, and
when he returned ho located in
New York City. Clark returns af
ter an absence of some lime, up
parently on business matters, and
remains because he has some
show to go to congress.
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Thanksgiving will soon be over,
and then crimes Christmas and
New Y'ear's. Oh, joyous times for
those who have the chink and can
make it clink in purchasing pres
ents for their dear ones.
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Merchants have began lo dis
play their holiday goods. The
greatest bargains will be found
with those who invite you to come
in and investigate. The great dis
plays will be found with those who
advertise. .
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Members of that Kansas tar
party were sentenced to jail for
one year. Their crime, however,
seems to call for the revival of the
whipping post and the laying on
of about 305 lashes, one for every
day of Ihe year .
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With all this stirring up of
trouble by probing into the Stand
ard Oil company and the Steel
trust, it is no wonder Rockefeller
and Carnegie are disposed lo de
vote millions to the cause of
peace.
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The total vole polled in Ne
braska al the recent election was
22 5,. '1H0. There are in round
figures 275,000 qualified voters in
Nebraska, which means there wore!
over 50,000 stay-at-homes, or
nearly one out of every live.
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Ken the Chinese rebels light
ing for liberty and justice have
gone in for the murder and mas
sacre of innocent persons. The
asyjons let loose by way of any
iml find a limit with difficulty.
Witness Italian barbarity in
TriiMili.
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Would-be Mexican filibusters
along the Texas border are feel
ing t he weight of Uncle Sam's dis
pleasure. Oiiietude along the Po-
11111111' has prevailed for noarlv
alf a century and Uncle Sam Is
elenoiiieil that it, shall likewise
prevail along t he It in Oramle.
l'be club women of Iowa have
sent a woman physician to Europe
o spend a year in studying how to
are for ami I rain more perfect
abies. Herein is a refutation, of
the charge that the activities of
women's clubs make for removing
woman from her proper sphere.
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Supposing this tarring of a
young lady had occurred in the
south, what a howl would have
went up? Hut Ihe fellows who
omniilled the deed would never
have gotten olT so easily. The
instigator would have been taken
out nnd hung without ceremony.
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Don't go away from home to
buy your Christmas goods until
you have at least investigated
and found that you can't get what
you want in Plattsmouth. Our
merchants have almost anything
in Christmas goods that you can
get in Omaha and just as good and
just ns cheap. Then why not
patronize homo merchants?
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In California a woman auloisl
was lined Tor speeding. The
judge, told Iho defendant if it had
been before tho granting of suf
frage to women in that state he
would let her go without penalty.
This shows ono good of woman's
suffrage it is resulting in strict
enforcement of Iho law.
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During the present situation of
ex-President Roosevelt, which
may bo termed ono of enforced
leisure, ho has had time- to learn
a number of things which perhaps
even he did not know before. In
a recent editorial in Tho Outlook
be declares that Ihe lynching of
negroes for attacks on women is
not peculiar to tho south.
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Will Ilayward was defeated for
congress and removed to New
York and is practicing law. Paul
Clark came back to Lincoln on
business and his friends got him
in the notion to stay and endeavor
to defeat Hon. John A. Maguire.
Paul was not bard lo persuade. He
has filed for congress, and now
there are many republicans in
Lincoln who have it in for Paul,
and are grooming Senator Selleck
for the place in opposition to
Clark. As between the two, Sel
leck is a much better man for the
place.
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The new law has materially
changed the qualification of the
man who may serve on a jury in
Nebraska. Under tho old law
the age limit was 21, a man was
only required to have taken out
his first naturalization paper and
illiteracy was no cause for dis
missal from jury service. But
under the new law a juror must
be 25 years of age, must be a
fully naturalized citizen of Ihe
United Slates ami must be able
lo read and write.
There is talk of opposition to
lion. John A. Maguire for a re
nomination. Why such can pos
sibly be the case we are unable
lo even surmise. But then there
are fellows in the . democratic
parly of Nebraska who are always
looking out for something that it
is impossible for them to get.
They are not willing to let well
enough alone. That's the trouble
with the party in this stale too
many fellows want ollice. Cool
down, gentlemen, and come to the
conclusion, like others have long
since, that you are not the whole
cheese. There are deserving
democrats in Nebraska, but they
are not, popping up for ollice every
lime there is an election, and that
is annually. Let I hem go oil" and
keep (piiel for awhile. Two or
three times a candidate ought lo
be a sullicieiicy for most any or
dinary democrat.
SOME LABOR rtESQLUTIONS.
The indorsement of compulsory
education ami opposit ion to the
militarism of the nations were
two of the important subjects em
bodied in resolution's adopted by
the American Federal ion of Labor.
The resolutions, while dealing
a i I h apparent ly different subjects,
are in reality a definition of one
consistent policy. As education
increases, less and less becomes
Ihe need of war and more clearly
is seen its cruelty, its injustice.
Education ami the enlighten
ment and the finer sense of mor
ality that il brings are forces Ibal
wage a persistent light against,
war and the war spirit, while in I
Ihe darkness of ignorance the
brutalities of war are best, con
doned and its victims more easily
secured.
Compulsory education is not, as
has been often erroneously said,
an interference with the personal
liberty of the parent. It rather
keeps a right of childhood from
being crushed beyond remedy in
the after years of life.
By means of tho public schools
education nowadays can be had
in every slate in the Union
merely for the going after it.
Thai Ihe child does not go is tho
fault, not of the child, but of the
parent. For a slate not to step
in and say to the parent, "You
shall not destroy the chance in
life for your child," is the fla
grant neglect of a plain duty; is,
in fact, little short of a crime.
The ranks of labor have all lo
gain by tho education of its fur
ture members. It has all lo gain,
loo, by the ending of wars, for it
is Ihe laboring man everywhere
who bears tho burden of war,
bolh of its expense and its loss
of life.
Compulsory education and the
abolition of war they go hand
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in hand. Labor docs well In
deed to speed them on their way,
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For Rent or Sale.
The frame business bouse just
west of the postofllco in Murray.
Size, 10x24, and in pood condition.
Apply to Holmes or Smith.
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EM PLEA
OF OUILTY
Great Criminal Trial
Brought to a Close.
LIFE TERM F01 JAMES B.
(Ms Connection Willi Times
Explosion aiJ Fire,
jgh:i j. blew up iron works.
Rumors Put His Tern in Prison
at' Fourteen Years.
Los Angeles, Dec. 2. James B. Mc
Namara pleaded guilty to murder In
the first degree in Judge Bordwull's
court. 1113 brother, John J. AlClSa-
mara, secretary of the International
A uunr.lntlnri ff Xlrittm ari KtriiMiirnl
Iron Workers, entered a plea of guilty
to hnvln? dynamited the Llewellyn
iron workt in I.os Angeles Christmas
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'jan.es ' B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of the
explosion and fire which, at 1:07
o'clock on the morning of Oct. 1, 1910,
wrecked the plant of the Los Angeles
Times at First and Broadway and
caused the death of twenty one per
sons. For nineteen of these deaths
the McN'amaia brothers were indict
ed, and J. B. McNamara was on trial
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JAMES B. M'NAMARA.
specifically for the murder of Charles
j. Haggerty, a machinist, whose body
was lound nearer than that of any
other to the spot where tho dynamite
was supposed to have been placed.
Gas and dynemlto both played their
ft
part, but dynamite started the trouble xIiIm completes the part of the state
and caused the explosion proper this 0f California !n the affair, but Din
was Attorney D.noWs explanation trict Attorney Fredericks declared
rrom his talks with the defendant. that if the government instituted any
Sentences on Dec. 5. investigation concerning any unlawful
Both men's sentences were set for transportation of dynamite, or if an
Dec. 5, when It Is expected District thorlties elsewhere in the United
Attorney John D. Fredericks will ask states wished to delve into causes of
for life imprisonment for James B. explosions wiuie labor was involved
McNamara, the confessed murderer, t was a matter In which he had no
and probably fourteen years for his further concern, though any Informa
brother. The men's lives are consid tion at Ms disposal would be given
ereu saveu. ine great contention that
the Los Angeles Times was not dyna
mited Is dead beyond resurrection oi
argument
As the two brothers eat together In
tho county jail, refusing to see any
one or make any statement, an inter
est second only to the occurrence
itself hung about the question with
reference to James B. McNamara:
"Why did he confess?
To this opposing counsel gave the
same answer. "He confessed because
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torney Clarence S. Harrow, chief ot
counsel. "I will say now that Ihere
was no other reason or motive In It.
I've studied this case for months. It
presented a stone wall."
Harrow's statement was made as
looking squarely In the faces of the
charges that the recent arrest of Burt
H. Franklin, an Investigator employed
by the defense, and two others with
him, might have precipitated a sltua
tion untenable save by confession ot
the prisoner.
"Negotiations have been on for
weeks," asserted Darrow, and this
was corroborated by District Attorney
Fredericks. "We expected at one time
that Jim would confess last Monday,
but he did not," said Darrow.
Darrow also denied that external
.ressnre was exerted from union la
bor sources as General Harrison Grey
Otis charged In a formal statement,
or that the municipal election to be
held next Tuesday, In which Job liar
riman, one nf the -defense's counsel,
Is n candidate for mayor, carried any
weight. It was learned that Harriman
was not consulted at all In the dellh
eratlons.
A brotherly affection, bordering on
worship. It became known, brought
James B. McNamara's confession. A
desire to save his brother' from the
necessity of confessing anything at
all held bark day after day the word
that would cik' the trial.
"Joe Is not In on this deal," the
pale faced man reiterated with Insist
ence horn of one great idea. "I don't
care what happens to me."
His state of mind was known to
District Attorney Fredericks, who com
municated about it continually with
Attorney Harrow and colleagues. A so
lution finally was found In the propo
sition that John' J. McNamara plead
guilty to the dynamiting of the Llew
ellyn iron works, for which he and Or
tie McManiga) jointly were Indicted.
A summary of the day's happenings
Included the following incidents:
James B. Mc Namara pleaded guilty
to having placed a dynamite bomb w-
plf v5" 7Y,
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JOHN J. M'NAMARA.
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Ger lne LOS An-eies imes Duucung in
October, !U0, and caused the death
, of, twenty one Persns-
John J. McNamara did not enter a
fk'a at this tln,e to the Indictment
it him for the
Times explosion, but when he ar-
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proceedings against him for this
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admits it has no evidence connecting
John J. McNamara directly with this
particular disaster.
John J. McNamara, however, plead
ed guilty, to the charge of having
caused the explosion of the Llewellyn
iron works, In which no fatalities oc
curred. District Attorney Fredericks will
recommend life imprisonment for
James B., and fourteen years for John
J., but Judge Hordwell alone can fix
tl.o sentence.
j Light Sentence for McManigal.
' Ortie MeManlsal, who confessed to
having r.t tei lly blown up the Llewel
Ivn Iron works here in December,
1010,. jit the direction of John J. Me
Kriiiiiifa, will be brought to trial, but
Il is exrerted the state will recom
mend a light sentence because he
tinned state's evidence.
Bribery charges against Burl II.
Franklin, a detective, employed by the
McNamara drfi-nse, probably will be
dronned
to tho proper authorities desiring it.
GOMPERS ASTOUNDED
Say Cause of Labor Imposed Upon
by the McNamara.
New York, Dee. 2. "I am astound
ed; I am astounded; my credulity has
been Imposed upon. It Is a bolt out
of a clenr sky
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nniciii.nH ' ruiTi u Liu II il Lit UUl , WUcIl
dvlsed of the pleas or guilty In the
McNamara cases.
The veteran labor leader was vlslblv
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affected as he rend how the men In
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, whose defense he had spoken and
worked so entiringh had admitted
their guilt. Tears came Into his yes
and the hand that held the typed
page shock.
"If this Is all true my credulity has
been Imposed upon." he deilared. "I
am astoundi'd at this news. We have
had the gravest assurances given to
us by everyone connected with the
trial, either directly or Indirectly, that
these men were innocent."
Mr. Gompors asserted with the
greatest emphasis that not the slight
est Intimation of such a change In the
plans of the defense of the McNa
maras ns developed had been commu
nicated to him.
INSURGENTS SEIZE NANKING
Entire City Is Now Occupied by the
Revolutionists.
Nanking, Dec. 2. Nanking has fall
en. Tho enJre city Is occupied by
the Insurgents. Much damage result
ed to the city from the bombardment.
Rebel infantry rushed Into the city
when the guns made breaches In the
walls.
Bombs Found In Leavenworth Prison.
Leavenworth, Dec. 2. The finding
of twelve loaded revolvers and four
Btlcks of dynamite In the federal peni
tentiary yard, at Fort Ieavenworth
probably prevented a wholesale out
Drenk of government prisoners. A
guard found the package before they
had a rhauce to gdt It
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