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
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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.
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Sam seems to be more j
successful at enforcing political
decorum in Cuba than
home.
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The Plattsmouth Players' club
he is at is organized permanently and will
arrange to give other entertain
ments during the year.
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in Ireland next inoiiui. u uoes
not require a profound student of
Irish political affairs to see that
this fear is plausible, enough.
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(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.
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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?
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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.
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fmplciiient dealers think auto
mobile buying retards improve
ments on the farm. .Probably in
ome instances, yes.
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Is the .North American Review
also forbidden to whoop 'er up
for Woodrow Wilson? Colonel
Harvey is also the editor of the
Review.
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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.
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The butler supply is 400,(100
pounds short, and the boarding
house keeper thinks many good
things can be said in favor of
tallow.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Some of the presidential pos
sibilities are learning that no
High school maiden is more co
quettish than a nomination.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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The January thaw is evidently
over, and now we are naving
somewhat colder weather.
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There should be somebody
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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
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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."
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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.
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"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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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