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A temperature of 101 in the
shade is pretty hot. That's what
it registered Tuesday.
;o:
The fanners are awful busy
right now, and in consequence of
(lie busy season with the tillers of
the soil, clerks in the stores are
uiven an opportunity to rest.
:o:
Teddy is considerably peeved by
rumored demands of his with
drawal. He says it is preposter
ous. and a fake. Teddy is a "slay
er" when he makes up his mind
I hat way.
:o:
iovernor Osborn of Michigan
advises republicans lo shun Teddy
and vole for Wood row Wilson for
president, (lovernor Wilson seems
lo be progressive enough lo suit
republicans, as well as democrats.
:o:
The muddled situation of the
I epublicans of Nebraska explains
fully why I he nominees for stale
ollices, witli the single exception
( f (lovernor Aldrich, are keeping
very quiet as to whether they aro
for Taft or Iloosevelt.
:o:
Governor Carroll of Iowa says
the republican parly of that slate
must endorse and support Taft or
firepan1 for the defeat of Senator
"W. It. Ki-nyou before the next Iowa
legislature. So you see all is not
serene in the republican party of
Iowa.
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of
I 1 . At a
i on i.ovo oi Lincoln says
"Iloosevelt is I he only republican
Pinning for president in No.
braska." Thai looks very strange,
when Iloosevelt refused to permit
his name to go before the nation
: convention, and Taft was nom
inated. There is only one repub
liean national ticket in Nebraska,
and that is headed by William II
Tail.
:o:
The Dahlman Democratic, club
of Omaha will hold an all-round
ratification of Wilson and Mar
shall, John II. Morchead for gov
ornor, Ashlon C. Shallenberger
for United Slates senator, and
other nominees of the party on
Friday evening. Lieutenant Ciov
ernor Morchead, Mayor Dahlman
and other speakers will be pres
ent. :o:
We noticed among tho list of
newspaper men who visited Oma
ha Monday u number of editors
who a year ago were incessant in
their abuse of tho Nebraska me
tropolis. Words were, almost in
adequate to express their con
tempt for the only great city in
the slate. Such fellows certainly
possess great nerve or gall to ae-
cept the hospitality of Omaha af -
ler all lhe abuse they have heaped
upon the citizens of that cily.
:o:
If I'aul Clark opposes Taft as
tho regular nominee of the repub
lican parly for president, and sup
ports Iloosevelt and his third
term party, is ho not a bolter in
lhe fullest sense of the term?
Then can the Taft supporters of
the First congressional district
consistently support Mr. Clark?
We cannot see why they should,
after his denunciation of tho man
who was chosen at the legally or
ganized national convent ion.
:o:
There are always trust whales
big enough to swallow republican
Jonahs.
I'.very pang of the g. o. p.
gavels helps the whole trust
crowd to travel.
:o:
The movement to have Taft
withdraw from the race proved a
complete lizzie.
:o:
Allen Johnson, one of the re
publican electors for Nebraska,
will give Wilson his support, so
he says.
:o:
With the republican party it is
always advantages to the favored
few, and nothing al all for the
miserable many.
:o:
According to reports from
headquarters at Lincoln, there
will soon be but one telephone ex
change in IMaltsinoulh.
:o:
The Iowa republican stale con
vention refused lo indorse either
Iloosevelt. or Taft and will leave
republicans lo vole as their con
science dictates.
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Dr Wiley, who served under
both Iloosevelt and Taft, turns
them both down for (lovernor
Wilson. "Straws show which way
lhe wind is blowing."
:o:
Wilson could beat Teddy Iloose
velt for president in an even race,
simply because a big majority of
the people 'are opposed to the
third-term proposition.
:o:
The prohibition national con
vention is about to steal Teddy's
party name. Now, who would
ever think of n prohibitionist
stealing anything even a good
name?
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It would be just as well for
those fellow democrats, who were
disappointed over I tie results of
lhe Haltimore convention, to
keep quiet until they reason mat
ters, if (hey can't keep from con
demning some brother democrat.
You may regret what you say now
in Iwo months hence. The nom
inal ions1 for president and vice
president are made and now is the
time to throw all bickerings aside
and join the procession onward
to democratic victory.
:o:
Those seven governors could
have saved themselves and their
party an , immense amount of
trouble if they had remained
away from Oyster Hay on that
eventful trip through the coun
try. Governor Aldrich was one
of "the biggest toads in tho pud
dle" on this trip, and returned to
Lincoln with the air of one who
thought he had accomplished
something great. He would love
to forget that trip, but he can't;
neither can the Taft supporters in
Nebraska.
:o: .
(leorge W. Nor r Is, republican
candidate for United Slates sen-
jator, is another "skeered wolf" in
Nebraska politics. It is very im
portant, so he says, that the
policies of the third-term candid
ate for president are adopted by
the stale convention July 30. Does
he think the Taft following are to
have no voice in that convention?
George W. is treading on danger
ous ground and ho knows it. He
would have the race of his life,
oven with a united parly, with that
little giant, Shallenberger, as his
opponent, and he fully realizes
that fact, also.
Tbat letter of Mike Harrington
is no surprise to those who know
the gentleman. He has to change
his colors ever so often, and we
suppose the time to change has
arrived.
:o:
Your Uncle John I). Rockefel
ler's interest in Standard Oil is
said lo be $-'20,000,000. But this
large sum will not buy any ice for
the perpetual summer-time ahead
for him.
:o:
Will llayward is down and out
as secretary of the republican na
tional committee. We do not
suppose that Hilly will lose very
many night's sleep over his re
tirement, lie wasn't very much of
a Taft man, anyway.
:o:
The republican administrations
have learned us all one lesson
thai we democrats have been vot
ing for what we want and not get
ting it, while our republican
neighbors have been voting for
what they don't want and get
ting it.
:o:
For the past sixteen years the
money, power and the trusts have
been in collusion with the govern
ment to do the people, and if the
old saying about giving a calf
enough rope he will hang himself,
holds true, the hanging is about
due. Don't you think so?
:o:
Many republicans are lining up
for Iloosevelt solely because they
believe if he is elected there will
be a chance lo secure a berth at
the pie counter. It is a llghl for
the olllces with the republicans,
and that is simply where the shoe
pinches.
:o
Will the third-term supporters
in Nebraska send delegates to the
Chicago convention on August 5?
No, you bet they won't. Then, in
a failure to do so, do I hey not look
upon Taft as the legally nominat
ed republican candidate for presi
dent? It looks that way to level
headed politicians. , t . , . J
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Mike Harrington is off again
He has been on hardly long
enough to be considered a full-
fledged democrat. He says he en
dorses fully the Baltimore plat
form, but cannot support Wilson,
but will in preference support
Iloosevelt. That seems funny,
don't it? Hut, then, you must re
member Mike is a very funny man.
:o
The lirst time we ever saw Mike
Harrington in a democrat ic slate
convention, and heard him speak,
we pronounced him a political
hypocrite. And we didn't miss our
guess, which his letler to the
World-Herald fully demonstrates.
Hut then he isn't a much bigger
hypocrite than some olher fel
lows wo know of in the democratic
party.
:o:
It is nearly four months till
election, and there is no use to
jK)lt (lxPil(!(1 lhis oarly in lhe flghl
Many things are liable to happen
that may change the prospects of
either of the candidates for presi
dent in this time. Taft may be
induced to pull out of tho race, but
Iloosevelt neverl Ho is too firm
ly in the grasp of tho trusts. A
man with an ounce of brains can
easily discover that tho trusts and
pie hunters are the principal sup
porters of Teddy.
:o:
The charge by Colonel Roose
velt and his friends that he was
the choice of a large majority of
the rank and file of tho repub
lican parly, is true so far as our
knowledge of this section extends.
Primaries in ten stales indicated
that the same was true in nearly
all section of the country. The
further charges that Taft won tho
nomination because he controlled
tho party machinery and was able
to organizo tho convention and
put Root in to rulo in his favor on
all points, and that Taft's nomina
tion was obtained by the perpetra
lion of shameful frauds has much
evidenco to sustain them and will
have to be decided by the people
:o :
An egolisl always makes a
great hit with himself.
:o:
Remember the four "W's"
Woodrow Wilson Will Win.
:o:
Senator Brown will make his
future home in Omaha and prac
tice law.
:o:
Thero are sometimes many
more lemons than plums on the
political plum trees.
:o :
The next legal holiday in Ne
braska is Labor day the first
Monday in September.
:o:
A big political boss is the fel
low who knows he can make more
money by not standing in with
lhe little bosses.
:o:
Governor Carroll of Iowa has
announced that he will stay by
Taft and those who refuse to sup
port him must "stand from
under."
0
:o: .
Teddy Roosevelt on a Chautau
qua program would make it com
plete. The subject, "Holts Out of
Which Hollers Are Made" would
be an appropriate theme.
:o:
Wilsdn and Marshall appeal to
a great many republicans as men
in whom the people of Ibis great
nation can place implicit con
fidence. They evidently are the
winners Ibis year.
:o:
Nebraska democrats will loyal
ly support Woodrow Wilson, but
they will still retain a warm spot
in their hearts for that grand old
man, Champ Clark. Tecumseh
Journal-Tribune. You bell
:o:
Governor Aldrich is bound to
keep his name before the people
of Nebraska, no matter how silly
his actions are. Well, let his
tongue wa, for after the first of
January he won't have an oppor
tunity. :o:
If the prospects are as tine for
crops of all kinds in other Ne
braska counties as they are in
Cass you can bet there will be
plenty to feed our own people and
thousands in other states not so
fortunate as Nebraska.
:o:
Judge Archbald and Judge
llanford of Seattle aro about
ready to retire by request.
There are numerous ottier judges
appointed by Roosevelt and Taft
that should also be requested to
reliro for the good of their coun
try.
Woodrow Wilson has signified
his intention of running his own
campaign lo a great extent. We
glory in his courage and de
termination to not placo his cam
paign in the hands of those who
have really been in politics too
long already for the parly's good.
:o: :
One of the gems of political
literature that will go down in
history as a masterpiece was the
eddross of Chairman Ollie James,
delivered when he took tho gavel
as permanent chairman ' of the
IJaltimoro convention. The James
speech will be a valuable cam
paign document of the year 1912.
:o:
Have things come to such a
pass that a man can't express his
honest convictions without being
misrepresented nud personally
abused? However, much of tho
sling is taken out when one con
siders the source of tho misrep
resentalion and aTtuse. We some
times love men for the enemies
they make.
:o:
Only four years ago Teddy was
supporting his friend, Hilly, with
all his might. Now he is a bitter
enemy of the man for whom he
used the steam roller in the re
publican convention. Now he is
mad because Taft used the same
steam roller to knock him out at
Chicago. How matters change,
within the short space of four
years.
:o:
John II. Morchead, democratic
candidate for governor, is meet
ing with great encouragement on
his (rips over the state. He
makes these trips with his auto
mobile, and by this means meets
many people he would miss by
railroad. Be is just the kind of a
gentleman the people love to meet
and the more ho meets the larger
his majority in November.
:o:
There should be a new chair
man or the state central com
mittee selected at the Grand Is
land convention, and the proper
man should be selected without
engendering any strife or discord.
Mr. Byrnes has performed his
duty nobly and we would not
be guilty of setting up a howl
should he be selected for two
yi'Ms more, but it generally gives
better satisfaction all around to
change chairmanships occasion
ally in both state and county.
:o:
A religious writer slates
through one of our exchanges that
a man may keep all the ten com
mandments and then be lost. If
that be true, then why strive to
keep them ? II is some of the pro
fessed religious people themselves
who throw uncertainty and doubt
on the Christian religion. They
argue among themselves concern
ing the meaning of the bible, and
thus throw the shadow of doubt
on the entire subject. Anyhow,
Christianity lies in doing and not
always in professing.
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Postmasters all over the United
States are just now seeing the
wisdom of the regulations that
were intended to prevent "per
nicious activity" in politics and
not one of them in the whole
country can be induced to say a
word concerning the political
situation. It is not at all likely
that poslofllcc employes will be
solicited by their superior officers
lo make campaign contributions
They all think that the regula
tions are wise and must be rigidly
obeyed, under the present condi
tion of matters in the republican
pa rty.
:o: y
For a long time after his nom
ination and election in 1908, Taft
was a fellow who when his name
was mentioned, caused all eyes to
be cocked towards Roosevelt. But
times have changed, and old
"Rooty," the crawfish bard of
Oyster Bay, has Tallen out with
Taft', his political offspring, and
is now trying to take back from
Billie the political pants that he
gave him four years ago. Taft
hasn't fooled the people to suit
Roosevelt. Taft's intentions to
fool the folks are good, but he so
sadly fails to hit the mark. In
fooling the public Teddy is a
"crackerjack," and Teddy hates
the fellows who can't do the fool
ing stunt. When "Rooty" was
president, ho was continually
barking at the big "interests," but
he never bit any of them. Roose
velt knows Wall street and Wall
street is pretty well acquainted
with Roosevelt.
' :o:
THE REASON IS PLAIN.
Why is the republican party be
set by its present difllculties?
This question can be answered
with ono word Tariff.
The tariff was originally em
ployed to meet the demands of
the civil war. To raise war ex
penses the government found it
necessary to tax every article
manufactured in this country. The
manufacturers justly complained
of this. They said these taxes
were so heavy it would ruin them,
because they could not pay the
heavy internal taxes on their pro
ducts and meet foreign competi
tion. Foreign manufacturers
were driving Amerioans out of
their own markets by undersell
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So a plan was devised lo protect
the American manufacturers.
"We will place a tariff on all
imported articles," said the gov
ernment, "which will put you on
an even or better than ever foot
ing with your foreign competit
ors." Everyone understood this pro
tective system was to bo but tem
porary, to meet an unusual condi
tion.1 When the war was over, the
taxes on the products of the
American manufacturers were
dispensed with, and obviously,
the protection to the American
manufacturers should also have
been removed, as the special rea
son for protection had ceased.
But in the meantime the
privileged few had discovered that
in the tariff lay a means by which
they could build up enormous
fortunes. These fortunes were
pointed as an evidence lhat the
tariff was a good thing. The rich
protectionists fooled the people
by making them believe that these
fortunes had come from "the
foreigners," when the fact was
the fortunes had been wrung from
the common people who had been
forced to pay artificially high
prices for the. things they had to
have in order to live.
The leaders of the party of
protection must have known in
their hearts of this deception, and
then and there did humbug and
fraud become part,. and. parcel of
politics. But the people have
learned at last, lhat a tariff for
protection, that a tariff for any
other purpose than to raise suf
ficient revnue to meet the ex
penses of the government, has no
excuse in logic or economics. The
party will not admit its error. Re
publican leaders insist that the
tariff trusts are still in the infant
class, and that the tariff is a good
thing for the people.
In the meantime American con
sumers are today paying dividends
on a trust capitalization of thirty
three billion dollars, 70 per cent
of which is water, and American'
workman those who work for the
most highly protected trusts re
ceive wages as low as $0, $7 and
$8 a week. .
This is the big reason why the
republican party is beset by its
present difficulties.
:o:
T. L. Murphy of Omaha arrived
(his morning to visit relatives for
a short time.
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