-The Plattsmouth Journal
Published Seml-Weskly it Plattsmouth, Nebraska tr
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'ostoilice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa second-class
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STOP
KICKIN' THE
AROUN'.
TOWN
In every town folks keep some
hiiim' around'
An' every time strangers come
In low ii.
Some folks go to kickin' lit town
aroiin' ;
It's even uorse'n kiekin' a
lioun' I
Stop your kickin', be hopeful an1
profoun',
It's a mighty poor way I' build
up a town,
To keep kickin' public morals
aroun';
Who wants to locate 'n a town
that's down?
This is th' best, (own anywhere
aroun',
Hut, like others, we've a few
ol' houn'
Who Ret at th' stranger who's in
town ;
Say the town's a houn an'
kick it aroun'.
If a houn's a houn', a town's a
town,
Anil can't be built if kicked
aroun';
You have a right V kick your own
houn',
Hut it hurts us all if you kick
th' tow n I
Let's pull together fo" th' good
o' th' (own,
An' stop kickin' our houn'
aroun', . '
Tho' th' houn', if a myth, Ml make
no houii'
A hounded town Rets a strang
er's frown.
A Caryden Wolfe, in Altiley
(Ind.) News.
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The republicans of Missouri are
all split up and two delegations
will go to the Chicago convention.
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The fellow who is always look
ing for a job is the ame fellow
who is always finding fault with
the one he has.
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Let's make the year 1912 the
banner year for IMaltsinoulh.
Evidently we have made a most
excellent beginning.
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Just as soon as a woman can
learn to pack a convention as
adroitly as she ran pack a trunk
she will become a great politica
rower.
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As a "favorite son" Senator
Cummins has been treated very
harshly by the republicans of
Iowa. He deserved better treat,
went by his own people.
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Secretary Knox said some very
persuasive words to the South
Americans, but there is still a
feeling down there that Uncle
Sam is an adept at the shell gam
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It is said that over $(10,000 was
spent to enable Theodore Hoose
velt to carry the state of Penn
sylvania. Most anyone can
imagine froni whom this vast
sum comes.
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Why pay $2,200 for an old shell
for a city building when u better
and more suitable one can be pur
chased for $3,000, and one that
a question for members of the city
council to ponder over.
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Roosevelt is playing a "rule or
The complete returns from the
First district on delegates to the
national convention show that W .
1. Wheeler of this county was
high man in that race, as follows:
Wheeler, -,W2; Tibbels, 2,r(.H);
Wal.-h, 2.2(13; Ledwilh, 1,70(5.
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Henry Richmond is getting up
a .special train for delegates and
is in fairly good repair? This is
all others who desire to attend the
Baltimore convention. There
must be something in it for Rich
mond, because it is a very cold
day in August when he doesn't
get in his graft.
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1'lattsniouth is one of the best
towns in the west in which to re
side and educate your children.
We have as good schools as there
are in the state and it is one of
the healthiest cities in eastern
Lincoln as his home? Nebraska
City News. That's just exactly
what we would like to know. When
he returned to Lincoln it was
generally understood that he had
returned from the west merely on
a bu.-ines strip. Hut when he saw
a good chance to run for congress
tie immediately concluded to take
up his residence at Lincoln for
I Iii- purpose and nothing more.
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The Arizona senate has defeat
ed woman suffrage. Perhaps the
iiiullins were soggy that morning.
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Kery booster for 1'lattsniouth
is a booster for himself if he is
a property owner. Remember
that.
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ft is gradually dawning on peo
ple that the dominant party in
congress has for years been sell
ing legislation over the counter to
the trusts.
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Will Maupin made a good race
for railway commissioner, and if
he had donned his hustling clothes
and got out more among the peo
ple he would have surely won out.
As it was, he was next highest in
the race.
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see for yourself.
The third term proposition is
Nebraska. Visit Plattsmouth and M1"1 "nl-v 'IM""d by democrats,
but thousands of republicans are
eclaring themselves against
Roosevelt for a third term, and
will not vote for him if he suc
ceeds in getting the nomination.
Simply because they think it is a
bad precedent to establish in this
country.
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The campaign of the Nebraska
Anti-Saloon league to defeat the
oust ilul ional amendments pro
iding home rule for cities, re-
ulled in a complete lizzie so far
is the primaries are concerned.
I'liis means that all straight
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t-..i..u ...ui ..iiiw.n ,.r ii,.. ,ni.. e iu oiaie journal is now
mmi n i i i, on l lllll 1 I ill.. mi I J I
tickets at the general election lryinp l" work up a ,llf4satlsfac
an eye-sore the city for many
years. The council should view
this matter in (no proper licht
and extend favoritism to no one
in expending the city's money.
They should use good, sound
judgment in the matter that is
all I he people ask.
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See where Mexico is today and
why? Itecause IMaz, when he was
elected president for six years
wanted another term and got it
and then he wanted another ami
got it. Then he wanted the fourth
and got it, and so on. The peo
ple had to revolt before they could
get him to cut loose. And that is
the way it will be with Teddy
Roosevelt if he is elected for the
third term. The American people
want to watch out for this third
term business with the Harvest
er and Steel trusts in the back
ground. :o:
Chris (Irunlher is a democrat
all over, and then some. He
managed the Harmon campaign in
Nebraska and calls on all demo
cratic delegates to the Baltimore
convention to rally to the support
of Champ Clark and use all
honorable means to secure his
nomination. He urges all demo
crats to rally to the support of
the national and state nominees
of the party, "to the end that the
people may find relief from the
scandalous conditions made, pub
lic by the utterances of President
Tafl and Theodore Roosevelt."
II be counted for the home rule
imeudment.
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Aldrich fears John II. More-
bead so much in the race for gov
rnor that he would like to see the
prohibition question enter the
campaign as an issue. tien a
man has made such a poor excuse
of a governor he must resort to
something out of the ordinary to
tion among the democrats be
cause Champ Clark carried Ne
braska. You can bet your bottom
dollar that Champ Clark is feared
by the republicans as a presi
dential candidate. This is more
evident because the old Journal
is throwing slurs at the Mis
sourian every chance it gets.
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The Falls City Journal ways a
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even make a creditable showing mM- ,"a", 'urnR-ans voic., .or
Hon. John II. Morehead in his own
county of Richardson. Of course
in a contest with such an honor
able, upright business man as
Hon. John II. Morehead.
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Senator Norris Drown feels
deeply hurt over his defeat at the
primaries. Had Teddy Roosevelt
not come into the state Mr. Drown
would surely have been renomin
ated. He is as much of a pro
gressive as the man who defeated
him and his every act in the sen
ale denotes tins fact. He was
more of a tariff reformer than
they did, but what does that
signify? It simply means that
those republicans who voted for
Mr. Morehead are not pleased with
Aldrich or his administration as
governor. Those 10,00 or 12,000
republicans who voted for Newton
done so for the same reason.
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There are many democrats who
regret the defeat of Hilly Thomp
son for United Slates senator. He
no doubt, feels that he has not
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(ieorge W. Norris and all in all
stood up squarely for the best in- 1 11 l,,,'a,,,,l j,lsl l'xaclV ''ip,,t !'
teresls of Nebraska. M"" Nebraska, and
he has a large number of friends
who think the same. Mr. Thomp
son deserves something at he
hands of the democrats, and
should a democratic president be
elected he will no doubt be n
warded for his indomitable energy
in the cause of his party.
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The Indianapolis News wants to
know what is Roosevelt's tariff
policy, it is impossible to answer
the question. Roosevelt does not
know liimseir. lie takes no in
terest in it. He did not take any
interest in it when his associates
wi re Aldrich, Payne, halzell and
Cannon. For the first time we In the history of these United
have a candidate for the presi- Slates can anyone point to such a
doncy who has no policies and no campaign as that carried on by
principles. His announcements Roosevelt and Taft? One now
are simply platitudes to which all president and the other an ex-
i
men agree. president, abusing one another
:o: line warn politicians. m you
Some of the newspapers that every know anything like it, corn-
are full of solicitude for the peo- ing as it does from men who have
pie have discovered that Champ served in the highest position in
Clark, is in an awful pickle, be- the gift of the American people?
cause under the laws of Missouri Hear reader, do you not think tin
! one cannot run for two offices at actions of Mr. Taft and Mi
e same time. It appears that Roosevelt a disgrace to the Aineri
down in the old Ninth Missouri can people? You know you do
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Clark in congress for twenty
years, a newspaper man, relying
ruin" tame in this eanmaiun
,., ,. , , ail I. , ..'district, which has kept Champ
Hilly I aft is bound that he shall i 1 1
not rule, so it must be ruin for
the republican party unless a dark
horse comes to their rescue.
An old republican remarked
Saturday that Teddy Roosevelt
was the greatest four-tlusher and
the biggest bluffer that this coun
try ever produced, and that if he
was nominated and Champ Clark
was nominated he would most
surely vote for Clark. That's just
the way a good many republicans
arc talking.
upon the possibility of the speaker
being elected president, has de
clared himself a candidate for
the succession, or is about to
do so.
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Come to think about it, what
was the address of Paul Clark,
given by several republican papers
during the recent campaign? Ooes
he live in Washington, Utah or
Nevada? Or does he now claim
The majority of the taxpayers
of IMaltsinoulh are great Iv in
favor of the city purchasing the
Soennichsen building for a coun
cil chamber and other city pur
poses. The more the people look
at the proposition the more they
are in favor of it. Hesides, Mr
Soennichsen wants to erect
building on the lot west of the
Journal and the sale of his pres
cut building will enable hint to
erect, these new quarters and thu
till in a vacant lot that has bet
SHALLEMBERGSR'S VICTORY.
One of the big surprises of the
Nebraska primaries was the
strength shown by former (lover
nor Sliallenberger in running
against two such good democrats
as William II. Thompson of (Irand
Island and Willis K. R 1 of Madi
son. Most of tht! prognosticalors
thought it would be a fairly close
tight between the three for the
senatorial nomination, since they
all three are popular and all Hirer
deserving. ' That Sliallenberger
ran so far ahead of his competit
ors must be accounted lor on
some other ground than that of
personal popularity alone.
The principal explanation of
Shallenbergcr'.s big vote most
likely lies in the manly American
love for a square deal. Sliallen
berger, it is generally recognized,
was pretty roughly dealt with by
his party two years ago. Owing
to the complications introduced
into democratic politics prior to
the primaries and prior to the
convention in 1910, Coventor
Sliallenberger, who was conclud
ing a highly creditable tlrst term,
was denied a renoniination. That
denial may have been and doubt-
ess was, in part due to his own
mistakes, but there has been a
disposition to forget the mistakes
and to remember rattier the
merits of the Sliallenberger ad
ministration and the just claims
which the governor had on his
party for a renoniination and re
lection. Against this disposi
tion on the part of the democratic
voters the great personal popular
ity of W. H. Thompson and the
hard work of Willis Reed and his
oyal friends contended in vain
Ashton C. Sliallenberger is one
of Nebraska's big and brainy
democrats. He made a record as
congressman and governor that
reflected credit on his party. He
is in thorough accord with the
best progressive thought of his
time. He is a splendid and inde
fatigable campaigner, and will be
a tower of strength to the demo
cratic cause as his parly's noin
inee tor sena or in tins rail s elec
tion. World-Herald.
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QOOD ROADS.
A worn-out subject, you say;
something we have been talking
about for forty years at least in
these western states, and yet the
roads are impassable during cer
tain seasons of the year. How
are we to remedy it? We have
said over and over again about
all we know on this subject,
namely, that all that makes bad
roads is water uncontrolled the
water that comes up under the
oad. or seens Into it from a
iieiuhborinu' pond or hill.-ide, anA
the precipitation that comes down
from above in the form of rain or
now.
Water is the most accommodat
ing thing we know of. It gets out
if the way whenever it is given
'PP H i unity. It is always seeking
o get as near as possible to the
enter of the earth. Hence, for
the water under the road, tile,
generally on the side, sometimes
in the road where there is a seepy
place. That disposes of the
under-water. For the upper
water, grading and maintaining
the grade by a split log or other
drag, used after every rain. This,
with permanent culverts, will give
us a good road on an average for
nine or ten months of the year.
We hear a good deal of talk
about hard roads, whether of
brick, stone or gravel. We are
getting them here and there in
the west; but whether we do or
not, and before we do, the under
water and the upper-water must
be taken care of. In the prairie
country the best we can do, ex
cept on the roads where there is
very heavy hauling, is the dirt
road; and when it is good, it is of
the best. It is smooth; it is oval;
it is elastic; and it is easier on
the horses' feet than any other
road that has ever been invented,
not except ing asphalt.
Wheneevr the farmers of the
west are convinced that a good
road will be a paying proposition,
they will gel, if not the best pos
sible, the best practical. So long
as they shirk care of the road and
see who can do the least at it, they
will have bad roads. That is the
penally put upon them, and there
is no possible way of avoiding it.
Here and there farmers are be
ginning to be convinced that on
some main traveled roads it will
pay them to put something be
.sides a dirt road, something that
they can use twelve months in the
year. We note that in some
( laces they are holding meetings,
.-electing a definite piece of road
leading to the nearest town or
city, dividing up the work
amongst them, one section seeing
to the grading, another section
looking after the culverts and
ridges, and another section fur
nishing the gravel or stone, as the
case may be.
When a determination is made
to have a good road, the work is
half doiie, and the other half will
surely follow; but until we reach
that point, we must expect to have
bad roads. Nature will not allow
us to escape the penalty, and we
can make up our minds as to
whether we will lake the penalty
or make an effort.
When the fanners in one town
ship or one neighborhood reach
this point of getting the best
practicable road, their neighbors
in another township or another
section will be quick to see the ad
vantages of it and will follow
their example. Towns and cities
will see the advisability of giving
every possible aid, financial and
otherwise, for getting in better
communication with the country.
Farmers will veto any proposi
tion to make all the roads maca
dam by the expenditure of money
procured by bonds, which are a
mortgage on their lands, and I he
interest on which, as they now
see it, will be more than the bet
terment; but when they see a sys
tem of road building that will give
I hem profit directly or indirectly.
they will not be slow to encourage
it. We have never taken kindly
to schemes of bonding the town
ship for the purpo.-e of building
macadam roads. There is likely
to be a come-back in that kind of
work; but let the farmer see that
good roads will be a good invest
ment, and he will not be slow in
making the investment. Wal
lace's Farmer.
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- Two Ffne Kentucky Bred Jacks! -
JM - CROW!
(License Certificate No. 5333, J. 867)
JIM CROW is a Kentucky
Bred Jack, seven years old, black with
white points, and is 13J hands high. He
is a very high grade animal and a sure
foal getter. He will make the season
of 1912 at the livery barn of U. C.
Rhoden, in Murray, Nebraska. You
will make no mistake in breeding to this
Jack. His colt3 speak for themselve3.
The Celebrated Young Jack
Jesse James, Jr.
(License Certificate No. 5334, J. 867)
JESSE JAMES, JR., is a
young Jack coming your years old, Ken
tucky bred, and black with white points,
stands 13 hands high, foaled July 24,
liHJS. Jesse James will make the sea
son 1912 at my farm, 3 miles southeast
of Murray, to a limited number of
mares. He ia a sure foal getter and hia
colts are of the finest quality, big bone
and large animals.
TERMS! The following term3
will apply to service of both Jacks:
$13.00 to insure a colt to stand and
suck, if paid within 30 days after due,
If not $15.00 will he charged. All due
precaution will be taken to prevent ac
cidents, but owner will not be respon
sible should any occur. When mares
are sold or removed from the county,
service fee becomes due and payable
immediately, and under all circum
stances must be paid.
-W. F. MOORE-
i new BAHBtH snap v
IN CEDAR CREEK. .?.
I wish to announce that I
! have just opened a new $
J- barber shop in Cedar Creek, J
$ and hereby solicit the trade 4
J of the community in that 4
fr line. Also notary public
J work done. S. J. Reames.
i'!I'!',I,J J-JJJJ "X""!"!""!""!"
Laying Concrete Walk.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Falter & Thierolf changed their
plan from laying the brick walk in
front of their store and decided
to replace it with concrete.
Concrete walks will be laid at
the library at once, completing
the improvements at this corner.
The concrete block wall has been
completed and the lot terraced,,
which adds several hundred per
cent to the appearance of the
property.
The concrete walk adjacent to
C. C. Wescott's residence on Main
street, will be laid this week,
which will be quite an improve
ment over the former elevated
brick walk. The cement walk laid
here will add fo the value of the
property more than the cost, be
side being highly appreciated by
those having to travel this street.'
The ordinance provides for a uni
form grade for the walks along
the street.
For Sale.
Some good first-class prairie
hay. on farm eight miles west of
Plattsmouth.
R. L. Propst. Mynard.
John Crabill, the Sixth street,
jeweler, was an Omaha passenger
on the afternoon train todav.
r I BREEDERS
-ATTENTION
I wish to announce that all my hordes
and Jack will make the season of 1012,
at my farm, 1 mile south of Mynard:
the celebrated
Lame back is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles of the
back, for which you will find noth
ing belter than Chamberlain's
Liniment. For sale by F. O. Fricke
& Co.
HUBERT,
Belgian Horse.
COLONEL, the great breed
ing English Shire.
PR I ZELANDER, the
thoroughbred trotting horse.
TOM, the mammoth sure foal
getting Jack.
TERMS ! $10.00, which ap
plies to all horses, and $15 00 for the
Jack, to guarantee colt to Btand and
suck. All care will be taken to prevent
accidents, but owner will not be re
sponsible for any that may occur.
V. A. FIGHT