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-The Plattsmouth Journal - e Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmoulti, Nebraska t R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoifice at Plattsmouth, Nebrauka, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Tin lii-ller I In Jum bride's lrou-sau, I he worse her corn hecf h,i-li! :o: ( 1 1 1' idea of a prior investment is tin' purchase of a home in Washington, by a standpat con gressman. A man who can't stand it to have things go against him once in a while will never make a suc cess in life. :o: It is not much uses to "swat the tly" w hile I lie man w ho maintains a fly-breeding nuisance next door remains unswatled. :o: As the Chinese republic has started with a large deficit, the new government evidently lias some very tilth financiers. :o: The Cost of living in Washing Ion is very high, but as some senators can testify, not so high as Ihi' cost of gelling there. The total number of prisoners in the Nebraska penitentiary is JIH. There were H admitted dur ing tin' month of May and J.'l dis charged. The department of justice will investigate tin' higher coal prices, but it will not help the mailer to dissolve the consumer's bill Into XI fragments. -:o:- From the, silence proceeding from Washington city, one would suppose that "Uncle" Joo Cannon had set out to re-discover the south polo. W. J. Bryan is to occupy one of the six seats reserved for tin; New York World at the Chicago con vention. Mr. Hryan always has a way of "getting there." :o: It Is feared that the Chicago 'convention will be very disorder ly, but I here w ill be no trouble at all if they will make one of the four women delegates chairman. :o: .Beef is the highest for thirty years, but that fact interests (lie workingmau's family about as much as the rise ami fall of auto mobiles. Thank goodness, the speaking campaign is about over. Mr. Tafl ran settle the Tombstone, Ariz, pnslofllee question, and Mi Iloosevell can clip his cooking re ceipes for I he woman's page. ;o : After the Chicago convent ion a song something like this will be dedicated to Toddy Iloosevell: "Oh, say, can you see by I he dawn's early light his battered old hat that was kicked through the night?" The result of the Chicago con vention may have a great deal to do with the nomination at Balti more. It is now extensively prophesied in the east (hat neith er Taft or Iloosevell will tie nom inated al Chicago. :o: The sudden death of Congress man Hubbard at Sioux City, due to heart failure, is a very sad one to his many friends, lie passed away Tuesday morning and had just I he day before been renomin ated for another term. :o: If he is a wise merchant who seeks sound success and will be satisfied with nothing else, he will see to it that he has "quality goods" behind his advertising. For it's "goods of quality" that make for the good am lasting of a business -Frank M. Low. :o: establish- It sometimes pays to kick, but it. never pays to knock. :o: If the two-thirds rule is adopt ed at Baltimore it will take 73!) votes to nominate. Champ Clark will have in the neighborhood of noi) votes on the llrst ballot, while Wilson, his most formidable op ponent, will have something over .'inn, and a scattering vote for each of the other candidates. :o: Tin' democratic party has al ways been rich in statesmanship, and there promises to be a fine exhibition of I his fact at the llaltimore convention. WKh cool heads ami a view to the best in terests of the party and the peo ple we confidently look forward to a slandardbearer who will sweep the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. :o; Kvory democratic candidate for the presidency has carried bis own slate, but neither Taft nor Iloosevell was able to do that. Hnlli of them, although they made strenuous efforts to win. were ladly defeated at home. Clark, Wilson, Harmon. Underwood, all were indorsed by the people among whom they lived. It has always been accepted as a politi cal dogna thai a man who could not carry his own state could not win in a presidential race, and that makes the outlooli for either Roosevelt or Taft very dubious. :o: With the republican party as "chief cook and bottle washer," this country seems to have ac tually and peteringly degenerated into a czarish dominion of dollars, by dollars and for dollars. By the fate of old "Alec" Hamilton's hypocracy of over a hundred years ago this is now the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Hollars, known in slang doin as "dough," is on top; it's ruling everything from the pin acle of republican power to the base of this big bunch of bald headed baseness. The repub lican party has not only allowed these wrongs to grow, but it has fostered ami cultivated the big Held of big business, until today the only rights are the right of dollars, ami Hie only law is the law of dollars. -:o : The business men of Plaits mouth in general should get their eyes open to the fact that nil the roads leading into Plattsmouth need a great deal of attention just now. Let the city go to work am get. the roads in tine shape lo the city limits, and then get after the county commissioners to audi orize the road overseers of the districts joining up to the city limits lo get out and do some good work. If we expect strang ers to visit our city this summe the roads must be made so that they ran get in and out without any trouble. My a concentration ol the business interests of Plattsmouth in an effort for belle roads, ami the results are nccoin pushed, the merchants will gel I he benellts more than any olhe class of citizens. It not onlv en courages si rangers passing through from the east to west and from the south to north, but it also induces farmers from a considerable distance to come to Platlsinouth to do their buying and selling All things consider ed, Plattsmouth is the place where a big majority of the people of Class county will do their trading if it is convenient to get here. name nient. J . 1 Bad luck often comes from trusting trio much to good luck. :o: What if the Chicago conven tion isn't over before election day? :o: political pot boils. Consumer at least gets nice odor of plum stew. :o: Provide a few clerkships for the Cuban rebels. All will be quiet then. ;o : Tln-re was no such thing as day ami night in Adam's time. It was always Eve. :o: Me fore the end of June we will know all about the nominees for president. :o: It is reported that Clark and Bryan will both oppose the unit rule at Baltimore. :o: Modern chivalry is giving up your seat to women who are young and good looking. :o: It is said there are a few legis lators in congress who are really trying to legislate. :o: When a gossip gets wind of some nice, juicy piece of scandal, she starts a hurricane. :o: Now John I., is your Standard Oil money in your right-hand pocket or in your left? :o: Things are getting so at the New York hotels that you pay the waiter and tip the proprietor. :o : Chairman McKinley says the normal stamina of the leaders is being tested. Also their bar'ls. :o: The "Merry Widow" hat U doomed. A hat like that couldn't stay on top very long, anyway.' Senator Nixon of Nevada 'is ad. 'death is no respeelor of wealth or station in this life, i :o: Generally speaking, a man has to get the best of it before he will admit he has had a square deal. :o: Governor Harmon wins out in Ohio and gels the entire delega tion to the Baltimore convention. :o : Heart rending tales of suffering ome from New Y'ork with the obster palaces tied up by the waiters' strike. :o: It is pretty hard to make the world believe that all are free and qual when wo stop and consider low few get on the police force. :o: It devolves upon the United Slates to settle the trouble in Cuba, as President Gomez admits he is unable to cope with the situation. -:o:- llenry Walterson says victory for Iloosevell means a civil war. If the war should be civil, it would be very different from this campaign. :o: Rockefeller is probably proud of his ability to raise the wind but probably regrets that tha( ability lias resulted in a tornado of abuse. i :o: The American people, demand that the trusts obey the law, and then they lavish their admiration on Hie people who rise superior to the law. :o: As the president has had lo spend most of his time cam paigning this spring, the While house vegetable garden must look pretty seedy. :o : Lafe Youngs paper, I lit Des Moines Capital, is now out for Senator Cummins for president, and says he should be nominated in case of Taffs failure. :o: Lafe Young says slandpalisin is dead. One would naturally think so. after being defeated for sen ator on the standpat ticket by 70,000 majority or over. :o: Roosevelt delegates are op posed to seating Howell as a na tional committeeman until after the convention and Howell a Itoosi'velt supporter, too. Don't that beat you? :o: T. II. has not done much at learning newspaper work on the Outlook lately, but when the irate subscriber comes in to ask why his name was put in the paper, he should be able to olliciali' capably as fighting editor. :o: The house judiciary committee, in executive session Tuesday, de cided to undertake an in vestigation of the "beef trust." Wonder if it will result in any good to the common people who are the greatest users of meat? :o: Uncle Sam is going to spend a naval bill of $119,000,000 because he fears some power will jump on us, and some other power will spend another $119,000,000 be cause they fear we will jump on them. Great head for business, isn't it? :o: It is remarkable how all the candidates this year have found that they resemble Lincoln in some particular. It's sort of popular nriw to be like Lincoln, but in life old Abe was maligned far more than either Taft or Iloosevell have been. It is predicted that the encamp ment of veteran soldiers to be held at Gettysburg on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Get tysburg in July, 1913, will be the greatest ever held in I he world. An attendance of iO.Oill) veterans whose average age is 72 years is expected. :o: The democrat and the ap proaching presidential election combined have forced the repub lican standpat tariff robbers in the senate to change front. They are nearly all progressives and favor a revision downward, and will try to play the hypocrite dodge until after the presidential election. :o: If Roosevelt and his following (o not get their way at Chicago, U.f program is for the delegates favorable to Teddy to retire and go to the Auditorium, organize and nominate the great (fraud) trust-buster for president and Mevoriuge of Indiana for vice president. This is made public by the highest authority in the Roosevelt camp. They will first try to run a bluff on the conven lion, and if that don't work, they will boll the whole business. Let 'em bolt. :o: In America the farmer pays a higher rate of interest for his money, proportionate to the si curity which he offers in his farm land mortgage, than almost any other class of investors in the country. In Europe the farmer borrows on equal terms with the biggest railroad, industrial cor poration or municipality. With the view of Introducing the European system into this coun try President Taft has ordered an investigation of the subject of cheaper money for the borrowing American farmer, an investigation which is considered one of the most important undertakings as yet attempted in "dollar diplo macy." :o: Will Maupin nearly every time hils the nail on the head, ami in Hie following, taken from his most excellent paper, we agree with him in every word he says "Nebraska, a stale that has a right to be proud of many things ought to hang her head in shame evorv time she thinks of the miserable wage she pays the de voted men and women who are the teachers of her children Omaha, the metropolis of this rich young slate, pays her schoc teachers a minimum of ?420 for the first year of service, and a maximum of -830 after ten years of service. Forty dollars a month as an inducement to men and wome.n to devote their lives to the education of the rising genera tion; seventy dollars a month as the goal to be won after a life of devoted service. And the aver age in Omaha is better than the average throughout the stale. Our teachers should be the best paid profession in the land. The wage ought to be big enough to call to the profession the best blood and brain ami endeavor of the republic. Nebraska is robbing herself by the shabby treatment she accords to the teachers in her public schools." :o: WILSON AND CLARK. A great deal of encouragement las been lent the Woodrow Wil son presidential boom by a long and very able editorial appearing in the New York World, generally ecognized as the most important democratic newspaper advocat ing the nomination of the New Jersey aspirant. The World takes Roosevelt's nomination for granted and urges Wilson's nom ination against him, almost whol- y on the score of expediency. It argues that Wilson can unite the east and the south against the west and defeat the "populists who now call themselves repub lican progressives" under Roose velt's leadership. Like most other newspapers of New York and the east, the World contends that Champ Clark's nomination would be suicidal. And yet, we believe on the very day that the World's impressive ditorial appeared, Champ Clark lefeated Woodrow Wilson in the Rhode Island primaries by a vole f three to one! If Governor Wilson is so pop ular in the east, and if Champ Clark is so unpopular, why, we cannot fi'Hp wondering, has Clark- beaten Wilson by, such top-heavy majorities in Massachusetts, Maryland and Rhode Island? Why did Wilson make losing fights for indorsement against Clark in states like New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont? It is true that a great many im portant newspapers in the east em and central states are sup porting Wilson against Clark for the nomination. It is also true that many, if not most of them, if Wilson should be nominated, would, like Collier's Weekly and the World's Work, support Roose velt against him for the election It is a fact that practically all the newspapers that will support Roosevelt if nominated are de precating the nomination of Clark and urging the nomination of Wilson to run against their favorite. This newspaper is strongly in c lined to agree with the World that the chief problem the Balti more convention will have to solve is that of finding the most available candidate. Th'ere are a number that are worthy and that would make good democratic presidents, including, we believe, both Clark and Wilson. But it is desirable not merely to nominate a good democrat, but a good democrat who will be elected Governor Wilson may be the mosl available. If he is, it must be in spile of the fact that, in all but two or three states where there was a clean-cut fight, in a direct appeal to the democratic voters between Wilson and Clark, the speaker won by surprisingly large majorities. l.lark, we lietieve, is as un mistakably the popular choice of the democrats as Roosevelt is of the republicans. And why should he. not be? He has been in public life for many years ami his record is lustrous. There attaches to it no taint of scandal, no taint of in sincerity, no taint of demagogy, no taint of cowardice. No public rmestion has risen in congress since he was a member that did not find Champ Clark lighting and voting on Ihe progressive side of it. There is no flaw in his democ racy. There is no spot on his honor. The speakership is the most trying and important office in the American government, ex cepting only the presidency. And Champ Clark has made the most dignilied, ablest and most suc cessful speaker of his generation. Before he became speaker, as leader of the democratic minority, he succeeded in welding it into a compact mass and making it fight harmoniously and effectively for democratic principles. Highly eduacted and broadly cultured, lit is yet a plain leader of the plain people, free from pretense and hypocrisy. Why shouldn't he be popular, as her has proved to be with democrats? Why shouldn't he be equally popular with the independent voters ? The World-Herald has high re gard for Woodrow Wilson. It could support him loyally and heartily should he be made the democratic candidate. But if now, before the convention, the question of availability is to be discussed, this newspaper be lieves that as between Wilson and Clark, Ihe scales tip heavily in favor of the gentleman from Mis souri. World-Herald. :o: : Very few men who haven't had experience to teach them that the gold brick conies in many forms, and devising new packages for this staple product has become an important industry. Still, there are ways for the wary to see what's coming, and in time to save a little money it must be economical in other re spects. There are certain safe investments, and those promising more are apt to classify in the gold brick column. Most of the schemes making fabulous prom ises are failures to all those in terested except the promoter who disposes of the slock. Schemes are the most common and varied forms -of gold bricks, andare made of cheaper material than brass. :o: In County Court. From Saturday's Dally. A decree of adoption was enter ed in the county court this morn ing by Judge Beeson in the mat ter of the adoption of Hazel Ma tilda Slotler by -her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clugy. The adopting parents, according to the decree, are to grant the lit tle girl all of the privileges and immunities born in lawful wed lock, and henceforth the child will bear the name of Hazel Matilda Clugy. Posts and Wood for Sale. A quantity of good bur oak posts, and a large supply of good block wood for sale. For further particulars see Bower & Kino men, one mile south and one and one-half miles west of Cullom. For Sale. Almost new motor cycle. For demonstration call or write C. D. Benedict, Murray, Neb. County Surveyor Fred Patter son and wife and daughter, Eflle, and his stepson, Marian Thomas, were passengers to Omaha on the afternoon train today. DR Herman Grccdcr, Graduate Vetineary Surgeon (Formerly with U. S. Department Agriculture) Licensed by Nebraska State Board Calls Answered Promptly Phone 378 White, Plattsmouth C.W.CHRISWISSER THE Livo Stock Dealer Nchawka, Nebraska is ready to make you the most liberal offer on anything you have for sale in the stock line. Get His Prices Before Selling