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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1912)
The- Plattsmouth - Journal r1- i Mllstied Semi-Weekli it Plattsmouth, Nebraska R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE rioting i feared at the elections , with liberty is taken away alto- sins when it begins at home. V. J. Uryan defends tiovcrnor , Since either Hitchcock or Uillis Wilson and condemns Harvey. . must go, it would appear Mr. lait is bound to drop an H. :o: Sam seems to be more j successful at enforcing political decorum in Cuba than home. :o: -:o: The Plattsmouth Players' club he is at is organized permanently and will arrange to give other entertain ments during the year. :o: in Ireland next inoiiui. u uoes not require a profound student of Irish political affairs to see that this fear is plausible, enough. :o: (lovernor Aldrich is not Hying so high as he was before the Taft leaders sat down on him so hard. He finds out there are others be- ides himself and that he is not the "whole cheese" by a long hot. :o: Teaching morality in the pub lic schools by means of photo graphs from actual life and The Kentucky legislature wants Henri Wallcrson for vice presi dent. What next will Kentucky want? :o : Mr. Taft attended three ban-I :o: ipiels in one evening, all of which' "Stevenson is given whitewash helped conserve the While house, by probers." Lorimcr is no doubt The minstrel show was a great financial success, and everybody was pleased with the performance. butler supply. :o:- fmplciiient dealers think auto mobile buying retards improve ments on the farm. .Probably in ome instances, yes. :o: Is the .North American Review also forbidden to whoop 'er up for Woodrow Wilson? Colonel Harvey is also the editor of the Review. :o: The governor general of Canada has been visiting in New York. Rather too bad to skip out just when he is needed at home to shovel snow off the sidewalk. :o : The butler supply is 400,(100 pounds short, and the boarding house keeper thinks many good things can be said in favor of tallow. :o: Colonel Harvey lias put, on the soft pedal at Wilson's request, hut probably the governor would he willing lo let hint do a few live-llngcr exercises. :o: As Dr. Wiley is sustained by the congresisonal committee, it would seem imprudent, lo put out any more mince-meat consisting of col Ion wool soaked in brandy. utoo county may turnisli a democratic candidate for slate senator, according t the Ne braska City News. All right, conn on with him. :o: .- The cold waves have been severe and have extended un usually far south, but why should anyone complain when you can always get warm by going lo bed? :o: Mrs. O. H. P. ltelmonl is going U start a woman's daily paper The stylo news front Paris should he featured with the big headlines in place of Washington news and baseball. hopeful that, there will be some left over for his use. :o : Some of the presidential pos sibilities are learning that no High school maiden is more co quettish than a nomination. :o: The Yale expedition to Peru has secured the bones of prehistoric man, but I be hungry Yale boys would be more interested in soup bones from the 1912 steer. -:o : Any presidential candidate who wishes to command public con fidence must visit Wall street quite frequently and throw a three-cornered railroad rock through several of the front windows. :o: Vie llosewater wants to be re lecled a member of the nationa committee, awful badly. Hut many republicans are of the opinion that he is rather light for such an important position, and would rather have someone else :o: lb row aside factional strifes mm an pun logoiner lor peace and harmony. That's what the democrats of Nebraska want to do if they expecf success in the fal elections. :o: Our democratic New Yorkers have been running, after the Canadian Duke of Connauglil am his parly, and the rest of the year they spend in adulation of our Dukes of Dollars. A London dispatch says that jails and penitentiaries where- Charity covers a multitude of gelher and where the pursuit of happiness is interrupted by a wall. Yet should the state tear down all its prisons in order to be consistent? Certain persons affect to be shocked at the brutality of capi- :o: The January thaw is evidently over, and now we are naving somewhat colder weather. :o: There should be somebody -::- Senator Cummins is a full Hedged candidate for president now. Considering how hard the newspapers work to prove that all presidents are idle and disorder ly characters, anyone who is wil ling to take the job is entitled to much credit. showing what is right and what is wrong, has been given its first taste in public schools. :o : II would be comforting to know that, those enthusiasts who are predicting the second coming of the Messiah in the immediate future are keeping close lab on the movements of J. Picrpont Morgan. :o: Revision of the tariff down ward is no iridescent dream of the leinocrats. Mr. Taft vetoed all their accomplishments last year, but the new steel schedule pre sented in the house Monday shows another elTort toward the redemption of campaign pledges. :o: Kentucky still worships the star-eyed goddess, for (he lower branch of the legislature of that slate declared for Mars Henri Walterson for vice president. The sun still shines on the old Ken lucky home of tariff reform. :o: People are pleased lo hear that the Helen Taft rose will be a floral novelty this spring, and what a good example would be set if Helen Taft rose before breakfast to cultivate a patch of them in I he White house back yard. :o: (treat excitement was caused in the newspaper olllces by the re port that Colonel Hoosevelt had made a statement on the cultiva lion of lima beans, and a corps of reporters and photographers was at once dispatched to Oyster Bay. :o: The democrats want to be very careful in their selection of slate candidates. The primary system is liable to nominate some fel lows who have nothing to recom mend them for such places and who have been Dan-suckers all eir lives. Such fellows should be learned some sense. :o: The arrangement between Champ Clark and Joe Folk, bv smart enough to invent an insect tal punishment, yet it is no trou- powder that would destroy hum ble for them to" overlook the bugs brutality of the murderer, riend- :o: ish deeds are 'forgotten while the In Adams day woman was fiends themselves are looked upon merely a side issue, but during in the light of martyrs. Truly leap year she poses as the whole a distorted vision. show. Such silly feeling and weak :o: reasoning encourages murder, Groundhog day will soon be and further puts off the day when here. If falls on Friday, but we capital punishment can be abol- guess this will not make much ished without disastrous results, difference it is conceivable that society :o: may reach such a perfect state Open air concert by the Hue that the gallows, the electric lington band tonight, at 7 :30 just the proper thing to do, and tho people have the right to know. :o: Among the unclaimed mer chandise which the government sold at auction In Chicago the other day were 2.206 glass eyes. Someone suggests that Mayor Harrison ought to have purchased the whole caboodle for his police inspetcors, who seem to fail in seeing all the meanness going on in the wicked city. -:o:- chair and the guillotine may be before the opening of the ball at dispensed with and all murderers Conies' hall. neconie subjects for the physl- :o: ciau's clinic instead of for the The new-year-is sufficiently ad law's punishment but that state vanced to stale that from hasn't yet been reached in this observation it is much easier to country and will not be so long break resolutions than it is to pis we have our Realties, Hichc- break a rock. sons ami Mc.vamaras. :o: :o; The distance between the pro- A BEAST OF BURDEN. ducer and consumer is reduced to Truly the editor is a beast of a minimum when he raises every burden. No profession is so much I hint? possible for his own use on imposed upon as that of the his own farm. editor, mien a baby is born he :o: is expected to announce the event Since the election of Aldrich it and declare it to be the prettiest would seem mat most anyone little mite of humanity he ever bought himself big enough for saw, notwithstanding it looks like governor of Nebraska, from the a lobster and is uglier than the way they are coming out for the original sin. And the parents nomination. never takes the paper. :o If some old curmudgeon dies 1,10 government prosecutors the editor is expected to write a a unreasonable enough to con column in eulogy of his life at- l('nd that the purchase of thirteen Iribuliiig virtues to him that n,l'P(,nlt,nt packing: concerns by should make him liable to indict- ,he trust, most of which were :o:- :o:- Senator La Follotle. culls the United Slates supreme court by its real name, instead of refer ring to "a certain court of last resort whose name 1 shall not mention." :o; After the school boy trick, the big boys are accumulating rosin to put on their hands in case Schoolmaster Wilson is appointed teacher and makes a free use of the, ferrule. ;,; "We do not feel that all people are filled for popular govern ment. Some of us don't daro say so, but I do," exclaims President Taft. And every straw poll that is taken convinces the president more and more (hat (ho people are not fitted for self govern ment. ;o: The supreme court of the United States lias decided that the employers' liability act is con stitutional and valid that the stale courts may enforce the act when stale laws aro appropriate. In Buffalo Tuesday the Stand ard Oil company was fined $55, 000 for guilt on 143 counts of ac cepting rebates. The maximum line should have been $2,800,000, but the judge did not wish to be as hard-hearted as Judge Landis. :o: Mr. Taft says much about economy and efficiency. Is he doing his part by having the White house ashes properly sifted and can he get the hired girl to utilize the meat scraps in the hash? :o : Postmaster (Jeneral Hitchcock is highly indignant that he shoul be suspected of disloyally to Presdenl Taft. The general im pressiou that he had deserted the president seems to have been dm to the fact that everyone else has done so. :o: William (J. Slainin, a merchant of Lincoln, has filed for the democratic nomination for rail road commissioner. It's a very cold day in August when Lincoln is not able to furnish its share of candidates on both party tickets, and then some. ment if justice were meted out, Hut the family never takes the paper. ii some gossiping woman pas ses away for tin- g I of the com munity, the editor must laud her as an unwinged angel, who was so good that the ordinary way of going o heaven was too slow for her ami she was transported to glory in an aeroplane. Bui her people never take the paper li'l . iien election dine comes around the editor must jump in and help this or that man into subsequently shut down, was a Restraint of Trade. :o: - The postmasters and federal officeholders generally want to make a sure thing of keeping in office another four years, if pos sible. So they think that if Taft cau't be re-elected, Roosevelt can. Seel No matter about the third term. :o:- Congressman Norn's is sure in the race for United States sen ator, and if he don't make Norris which they leave Missouri democ racy to choose between them for its favorite son" candidate for the presidential nomination, has the virtue of simplifying the work of the democratic national con vention. It will eliminate one of them front the list of cligibles, and doubtless help the chances of the party's strongest candidate. :o: One democrat has no moro right than another to boss party affairs. And the sooner some fel lows understand this, and give others the same privileges they assume, the belter it will be for all concrued. You may be able to convince one he is not right in his views, but. you cannot drive him. It will be well for some fellows to understand this. We should nil pull together. :o: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. With the conviction of every murderer of prominence, the question of capital punishment is revived. It... it i . ... mauiiiin soni intent finds a cover of reason by saying, "Lei there lie no more oil rial murder. If the stale sets an example in kill ing why should it expect citizens not to follow it?" Weak sympathy seeking the support of weaker reason I Tho state guarantees to all its citizens liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet it maintains . . office. After he is in office he has 1 nmn iravel imMty llveIy 10 kcen no more use for the editor who in lho sonalc wc ,niss our &uess helped him. On the contrary, if Thoy arc not very mucn in the he has work to do he will take it habil of rc-Plectingr senators from to the other editor who opposed NcI,1'aska. anyway, and this is one him. He may lake the paper, but Uun(( m favor of Mr- Norr'9- he does it as ait act of charily and :o: not as a slight recognition of 11 ls almost impossible for services performed. When that Governor Aldrich to keep his same man again wants an office hands olT of Omaha. Ho certain he conies around to the editor and ly doos not Possess a forgiving as obsequiously as a whipped dog spirit and probably never forgets, licks his shoes and wants support 0maha doesn't have much use for that he should never get on ac- Aldrich and he probably found count of his perfidy. And when lnat out two V(,ars ago, and may tho editor refuses support then have an opportunity to renew this he is branded as untrue to his so, t of feeling if he keeps up the party and a regular Benedict Dacc he is soing Arnold. Tho people of Louisville want When tho editor stands up for the 1adv Minstrels to show in what is right between man and lheir cilv- Thc' now have a fine man some fellow will howl that "al1 al Louisville and tho club will his interests have been assailed, Pi't'habiy decide to give them a If he doesn't stand up for the vis't in the m'ar future right then he is branded as al -o: menace to society and must be Ju,U! ,18 the date of the re boycotted. In short, the editor publican national convention, is "can and he can't, ho will and he'll also the anniversary of Waterloo me d d if he don't." 11 has already been pointed out Oentle, tinsyninnlhetic. ironical ,l,al 'he remarkable return of reader, we've been down the lino "u'se times was not "the return and have had lacks placed in our fn,ln I'-'ha," but "the return from shoes, coekleburrs in the seat of M''JyPt. our pants, chunks of ice run down :o- our back inside of our shirt on an Those Baconians who now as August day, red pepper put in our s,,'t that Bacon wrote tho King hat to irritate the bald spot on James version of tho biblo may our head, been given green per- soon he claiming that he is also simmons to eal and had lemon af- the author of the Magna Charlii lor lemon handed us by ingrates. "e Declaration of Independence Maybe some time in tho future 'he Fourteenth Amendment and pay-day will come, and when ac counts aro squared we trust the mgratos will lake their medicine the same as we have taken ours :o: the Winona Speech. Senator Hitchcock some woke up of the animals around Washington last week when he Tho wise leap year maid will demanded to know Mr. Taff keep both eyes on the young authority for sending United widows. States troops into China. It was We believe that Hon John H. Morehead is the proper man to nominate for governor, because his record as a business man and his character as a citizen are both as sound as any man's in the state, and if nominated there would be no past dark records to bring forth by I lie opposition. This very matter should open the eyes of the democratic voters lo the investigation of all candidates for stale positions. The demo crats of Nebraska are in no posi tion lo carry a lot of dead weight on their shoulders, which they will be compelled to do if some fellows should foist themselves upon the parly through tho pri mary election, which would not otherwise be done. :o: ' RIFT IN INSURGENCY. The announcement made last Sturday that Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa would be a can didate for the republican nomina tion for president will causo not a little speculation among those who are studying the political situation. Senator Cummins is one of the original insurgent republicans, and, since the death of the incom parable Dolliver, perhaps the strongest personality in the camp of those self-styled progressives. Not so bold, not so spectacular as La Follotle, he is generally credit ed with being the influence for caution, for safety, for judicial thought and action, that holds the insurgents together as a political entity, in snort, it is said Cummins is their balance wheel. For six months Senator La Fol- letto has been a candidate for the nomination. Now comes Senator Cummins' announcement. At first thought it would seem that a split has occurred among the in surgent leaders, of tho sort so common in new and uncryslalized organizations. This thought would bo strengthened somewhat, by the recollection that it was generally gossiped last summer that Cummins rather frowned on La Follelte's disposition to hold the center of the stage lo the ex clusion of all others. Yet it is hardly likely that two men so able and, so ambitious for the success of their common political ideas as Cummins and La Follctle should be so foolish as to split their following in twain and make Mr. Taft's second nom ination so easy. It is logical, rather, to look in to the elements of practical politics for the explanation of this apparent rivalry. There you will doubtless find as a basic fact that Iowa and its negihboring mid-western states do not regard La Follel to too kindly and might perhaps support Taft as between him and "Rattle Bob." What, then, is more practical a stratagem than for Cummins, tho idol of I he prairie states, to hold I hem to insurgency by permitting his own name to be used as a candidate? The merging of insurgent vote could be easily accoinplisheu in the convention and a solid front be presented to the Taft forces with La Follctle or Cummins or say it softly Roosevelt as their choice. :o: Fop Sale I Eighteen head of mules from 2 to 0 years old, weight from 1,250 lo 1,450. McCarthys Bros. Tele phone old 'phono Ash 3421; new 'phone, Oak 441, Wyoming, Neb. l-17-3td-2tw.