-The Plattsmouth Journal-
r ) Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, kebraski t "3
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President '
WOODROW WILSON
of New Jersey.
For Vice President
THOS. R. MARSHALL
of Indiana.
For United SI ales Senator
A. C. SHALLENBERGER.
For (lovernor
JOHN H. MOREHEAD.
For Lieutenant (lovernor
HERMAN DIERS.
For Secretary of Slate
JOHN W. KELLEY.
For Auditor Public Accounts
HENRY C. RICHMOND.
or State Treasurer
GEORGE E. HALL.
For Slate Superintendent
R. V. CLARK.
For Attorney General
ANDREW M. MORRISSEY.
For Commissioner Public Lands
WILLIAM B. EASTMAN.
For Railroad Commissioner
CLARENCE E. HARMAN.
For Congressman
JOHN A. MAGUIRE.
For Stale Senator
WILLIAM B. BANNING.
For Representative
JOHN J. GUSTIN.
For Float Representative
CHARLES H. BUSCH.
For County Assessor
W. R. BRYAN.
For County Commissioner
JULIUS PITZ.
If you are a protectionist it
makes but little dill'erence which
you vole for Tuft or Roosevelt.
They hold oppose larilT reform.
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President Tuft seems to be get
ting in his work on the veto
power. Hut that won't get him
anything in the November elec
tion. . . ,
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, While Governor Aldrich is out
in the stain filling Chautauqua
dales and electioneering, prison
ers keep on escaping from tho
penitentiary.
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Roosevelt poses as a friend of
the common people in his plat
form and at the same, time op
poses tariff reform, that which
would relieve the high cost of liv
ing more than anything else.
If Roosevelt comes to Nebraska
to stump speech it, W. J. Bryan
will be right alone close on bis
trail. Why not have one joint de
bate at Lincoln or Omaha? Hut,
then, you would never get Roo.sc
veil to agree to anything of this
kind.
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The prediction of republicans
that Wilson and Marshall will be
elected should not deler demo
crats from effect ing thorough or
ganization in every county in the
stale. Over-confidence results
the wrong way many times. Don't
forget that.
The wily governor of Nebraska
is afraid the regular republicans
will put a candidate in the Held
against him. Why shouldn't they
after all the abuse he has heaped
upon the president? They will
show their weakness if they don't.
The Taft republicans are nothing
to Aldrich, Norris, or Paul Clark,
either.
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The time has arrived when a
politician cannot carry water on
both shoulders ami bo successful.
Paul Clark, when he rushed homo
from the Chicago convention eix
weeks ago, defaming the repub
lican nominee for president, and
paid he was anything but an hon
orablc man, is now endeavoring to
get the friends of Mr. Taft to vote
for him for congress, lie should
have thought how such an abuse
of the president of tho United
States would sound in the ears o
the president's friends.
President Taft is angling good
and plenty for trust support, lie
should he able to control that
without angling. He has certainly
proved their friend.
There is no question as to the
election of Morehead, Shallen-
berger and John A. Maguire. But It would seem from later re
it is the balance of the state ticket turns that Attorney General Ma
that needs looking after. jor has been nominated for gov-
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According to government crop
reports, Nebraska's wheat crop
averages eighteen bushels to the
acre, and a total or 5l,uuu,ouo
bushels. Pretty good, thank you!
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More prisoners have escaped
from the penitentiary since Aid-
rich has been in office than has
escaped from that institution in
the previous twenty years put all
igelder.
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Free open air concerts by the
Itiirlinglon Route band begin the
season at (iarlield park next
Thursday evening. The park will
ie nrovn ei wi III ii iMi v oi seats
and all are invited.
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Some democrats are talking too
much. No one will lind fault with
that, lint they are not doing the
l ight kind of talking for the ben-
r.llt of the party. Such fellows are
a detriment to the welfare of the
party and should be muzzled.
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John 0. Yeiser is certainly try-
ing aw ful hard to get in some wav
on the management of the Roose-
volt campaign in Nebraska, bat it
seems that he can find
but few
who want to
stand in" with him.
He is a very poor excused as a
political manager.
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The people are not going to for-
get that Roosevelt served them as I
president of the United States for
seven years and what he said
about the third term. Teddy was and then they keep it up. And the
not in favor of a third term four better the lie, the more they de
vears ago. and so said in no un- light in rehashing it. That's the
certain terms, and the people pro-
pose that he shall be honest
enough to keep his word. If he
won't do it, the people will do it
for him.
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If a man expects to keep his
name out of the papers he should
keep himself within tho confines
of the law. When a citizen breaks
the law and is called before the
bar of justice to answer to
charges tiled, be he rich or poor,
high or low, he w ill surely find his
name in Ihe Journal. There
should be no distinction made in
protecting the laws of the state
ami fit v.
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The federal census reports that
Ihe number of cattle in Ihe United
States has decreased 8.7 per cent
in ten years. As the price of beef
has increased about lot) per cent,
there must be some other factor
in fixing prices than the small de-
crease in cattle. Would a decrease
of 8.7 per cent of wheat or cotton
cotion cause arise of 100 per cent
iu the price of those articles?
There is no wheat or colton trust,
but there is a beef trust.
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The president of the National
Soil Fertility League is attempting
to frighten tho farmers by saying
wo are facing a food famine un-
less the soil is conserved. The
farmer knows his business about
as well as any of thoso fellows
who make a business of telling
them what to do, when the most of
them never plowed a row of corn
in their lives, nor even led an un-
ruly cow to water. Thoso fellows,
however, always find out sooner
or later that the farmers are not
fools.
"Organize!" should be the
watchword of every democrat in
Nebraska.
Acrurdiuy to announcement
mad"' in Lincoln Saturdav. W. J.
Bryan will devote the last week of
the campaign in Nebraska.
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When people read Roosevelt's
platform and the promises therein
made, they wonder why he didn't
try to brins? about some of these
things when he had the oppor
tunity for seven long years. You
may lool tne people part 01 ine
time, but. they are not going to be
fooled all the time. They look
upon Teddy as a gay deceiver.
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ernor 01 Missouri, instead 01 w
S. Cowherd, as slated in these
columns a few days ago. Well, it
is all right. If we had been living
in Missouri it wouia nave Deen
hard for the writer to have de
cided between the two, as the
state cannot boast of any better
men than Cowherd and Major, and
either will till the bill to perfec
tion.
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Yankee Robinson's grand ag-
gregalion is advertised to appear
m Nebraska City this month. Now,
we would like to know when the
oiu ieiiow reuirneu 10 earui, as
we are under the impression that
lanhee noniiison nas ueeu ueuu
some twenty-five years. Sixty
years ago, wnen i tit. writer was a
.....
bit of a boy, Yankee Robinson was
on the road, and at that time he
was no spring chicken by any
....
means. Like Van Amburg, Dan
llice and Adam Forepaugh, his
name will live forever in the
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circus world.
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That audicious lie to the effect
that Governor Morehead was
against the initiative and re fen
Mum measure is evidently ever-
blooming in the well fertilized soil
of the republican press. - In Ihe
absence of any other complaint,
perhaps, it will continue to bloom
in xpitc of the record proofs to
the contrary. Lincoln Star. The
little republican papers out in the
slate simply wait for the State
Journal to start a campaign lie,
way with the initiative and refer
U'lidum measure. The State Jour
nal knows it has done Hon. John
H. Morehead an injustice, but docs
not possess sufficient manhood to
correct it.
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New York Times: Mr. Wilson's
opponents will say that his speech
of acceptance is not specific, that
he does not set forth in delail
what he is going to do if he is
elected president. That criticism
i w it hout weight. No intelligent
leader of the address can fail to
understand what Mr. Wilson will
h if he is elected president. With
even great er clearness we can see
wnai, ne is 1101 going 10 uo. ii is
Statement of aims and purposes,
of guiding principles, and of
things he will avoid, is coin-
prehensive enough, is specific
enough, to enable the country to
make up its mind what kind of
president he will be. It is a
proclamation that will satisfy all
save those who are determined not
t be satisfied. It is full of in-
spiration and hope, and of tho new-
light of reconciliation between in-
terests now at war. It is a portent
of industrial peace and pros-
perity.
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Not many days till Labor day
Why not get up some kind of a
celebration?
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This thoughtful government o
ours digs up statistics to show
that the swindlers cleaned up
in this country in the past year a
matter of $120,000,000; Hut some
of them are reducing expenses by
staying in tho pen and there is
still some reason to believe that
"honesty is the best policy."
Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt will
all make a raid on Nebraska dur
ing the campaign.
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Senator Cummins of Iowa, ac
cording to reports, has renounced
both Taft and Roosevelt and will
support Wilson.
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Teddy Roosevelt is now iu favor
of a "white man's party," but a
few years ago he was such a
negro-lover as to dine with Hook
er T. Washington. "What has
come over the spirit of his
dreams?"
He fore the bull moosers can win
they will have to nominate some
one besides Teddy Roosevelt. The
common voters are opposed to a
third-term president, and Teddy
came out iu opposition t.o a third
term less than four years ago.
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Vermont votes September 3 and
Maine September 9. Irt both these
states the progressive party will
have tickets, so that Vermont will
furnish the first real test of the
Roosevelt strength. Vermont is
strongly republican, but Maine is
liable to kick up and go demo
cratic, and will be watched with
interest.
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The leading newspapers of the
east are generally complimentary
in speaking of Governor Wilson's
letter of aceptance; A few
prejudiced papers, like the New
York Tribune, are' not very favor
ably impressed with the docu
ment, ami no one is disappointed
as to their comments. It is an
able document, but it is not in
their line to say so.
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Special privileges is a baleful
giant in a fortress that has been
heretofore impregnable. He has
been routed from the house and
senate chambers and has taken
up his last desperate stand in the
White house. The elephant and
bull moose are his allies, and
their downfall draws on apace
The election of Governor.jWilson
and the inauguration of the rule
of justice and right in affairs of
government will sound the death
knell of the giant ogre, "Special
Interests."
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Governor Wilson's speech of
acceptance makes it perfectly
clear that he does not intend to be
led away from the dominant issue
of this campaign the reform and
revision downward of the tariff
into any discussion side issues,
or of questions which arc of state
rather than of national concern.
His speech is a plea for the ad
ministration of the government,
and especially the taxing power of
the government the greatest of
all powers in the interest of tho
whole people, and not for the
benefit of any special class or
private interest.
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When .lolui Ii. Morehead is
ected go ernor he will not go
hack to Iowa (w here he was reared
oi a farm) with pompous display
of dignity, tell his old neighbors
and friends what he is going to do
for Nebraska and give them the
impression that the people of this
late did not know much, and that
he was g'iing to show them a rea
governor, or words to that effect
This is what the present governor
did when he was elected two years
ago, when he went back to his old
home in Ohio. Hut his friends
back in the Huckeye state have no
doubt learned that Chester was
siinnlv " blowing off. A record
of his administration would dem
onstrate that fact, not even to
mention his trouble in the state
institutions and murders in the
penitentiary, through careless ap
nointees in that institution. In
fact, the present governor has
proved a great failure in his ef
forts to prove to his Ohio friends
that he was going to show to the
people of Nebraska what a great
governor he was to be, and then
proved a great failure. John II
Morehead is a plain man and not
given to "blowing off" just to hear
himself talk.
HARK FROM THE TOMBS!
A Chicago dispatch to the New
York Herald says:
A recruit from ihe ranks of
the democracy came today
when Michael F. Harrington
of O'Neill, Neb., sent a con
tribution to the third term
candidate's headquarters and
announced that be would ,
support him. Mr. Harring
ton is announced as the
original Wilson man in Ne
braska and a heavy con
tributor to the Wilson cam
paign fund.
, "I am for the third term
candidate," he said. "I am
against Wilson because you
would have to rope and tie
him before any man in shirt
sleeves could get ill to see
him."
Now what do you think of that?
When, we wonder, did our old
friend, Mike, make this startling
discovery reflecting on the
patriotism, ability, honesty and
courage of the candidate in whose
name he made so valiant a fight
and burned up so much money in
Nebraska, only a few weeks ago?
Just the other day Woodrow
Wilson journeyed to New York-
alone. He carried his nighty and
clean collars, together with a
toothbrush and a second pocket
handkerchief, in a little old
alher bag. When lie reached
ie Pennsylvania station in New
York he dived into the station
estaurant, where he perched
himself up on a high stool and
onsumed a ham sandwich and a
glass of buttermilk. The veracious
eporlers described him as clad in
rray suit that showed plain
signs of wear, the coat noticeably
horter than the prevailing mode,
and the trousesr bagging at the
knees. His headgear was a little
old-fashioned brown felt hat.
How could a man be commoner
or more democratic than that?
Mike' Harrington himself is al
ways spick and span; his clothes
are a triumph of the sartorial art;
he looks liko a plutocrat even if
he isn't one. Why should he make
the charges he does against a
man who worked ins own way
through college, 'who lives in
simple, democratic style, and who
has nowhere more loyal friends
and suppolrers than he has in the
aboringmen of New Jersey, his
own state?
Mike's reason is no reason at
all. It is absurdly and palpably
insufficient. Woodrow Wilson is
the same man in August that he
was in April, with precisely the
same qualifications for the presi
dency. Mike will have to dig up a
better explanation not that it
matters, but because a lot of us
are really curious to know.
World-Herald.
At a conference of progressive
republican's in Washington Satur
day night, in which Senators La
Follette, Borah of Idaho and
Kenyon of Iowa and others look
part, the form of statement
agreed upon gave reasons why La
Follette followers should refuse
to leave the republican party and
joint the Roosevelt third-term
parly movement.
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Come to think of it, has the
tariff ever benefited the reader? If
not, why support it? '
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Hon. John II. Morehead favors
a four-year term for governor
and the incumbent ineligible for
re-election. That's sensible.
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The politician who looks for
ward and not backward, and who
lends a hand to the solution of
current problems is no politician
but a statesman.
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Senator A. J. Gronna of North
Dakota says if ho left the repub
lican party he would feel com
nelled to resign his seat in tho
United States senate. He says
"If I left the republican party
should feel under obligation to
resign my seat in the senate.
was elected by the republicans as
a republican and I am still a re
publican."
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Tne Journal onto carrraa all
kinds of typowrlUr aupplUa.
While investigating the high
cost of living it might be a good
idea to also investigate the high
cost of presidential camnaigns.
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It Is said die assessors of Ne
braska overlooked 12,500 auto
mobiles in their work last April.
Too bad, indeed, because the stale
needs the money.
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President Taft don't seem to be
worrying very much over Roose
velt's bluffing. He goes riirht. alone
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transacting business, just tho
same as though there was no such
man as Teddv.
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Speaker Clark, Senator Gore of
Oklahoma, Louis Brandies of Bos
ton and Senator Reed of Missouri
are among the democratic speak
ers who will visit Nebraska dur
ing the campaign.
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If Roosevelt is elected president
and Aldrich is defeated, Teddy has
promised to "fix him" with a
federal judgeship, so the governor
says. But that "if" cuts a biff
figure in this proposition.
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Secretary Wilson says the
prospects for a bumper corn crop
will lower the price of meat. We
don't know so much about that,
and we prefer to hear from the
packers on the question. They
could perhaps give us some in
sight in regard to the matter.
There, has been nothing transpired
yet to indicate any lower price in
meats.
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Paul Clark, who thinks he sees
an opportunity to go to congress,
is going to be the worst disap-
lointed man in the First congres
sional district after the 5th day of
November. Paul's record as at
torney for different corporations
is too fresh in the minds of the
voters. His going west to live did
not make them forget his record
in the past.
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Tho bull moose bunch around
Lincoln are pushing Paul Clark,
ex-traction and corporation at
torney, for congress and are try
ing hard to re-elect the only gov
ernor who ever stooped to tho
practice of making state house
stenographers help pay his per
sonal campaign expenses. The
progressive" term is being
stretched to cove a whole lot of
politicians who are simply held up
to us in a new disguise.
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Money will not buy the election
next November. Voters are well
posted, thoroughly independent
and indifferent to party call. It
ought to have been this way forty
years ago. Teddy will be furnish
ed plenty of money by Perkins and
other trust magnates to buy votes,
but the day is past to buy voters
like so many cattle. The people
see the error of their way in be
ing allowed to sell their votes, in
stead of voting for principle.
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It appears to be agreed by all
who know him that John H. More
head is a practical, hard-headed
man of business ability, one who
has made a success of his every
undertaking. The election of
such a man to tho governorship
would mean much to our state,
among other things the introduc-i..
tion of business methods into our
public institutions, where things
have been going to the bad ever
since the present governor took
charge. Howells Journal.
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A thorough organization of the
democrats of Nebraska should
soon begin. There should bo or
ganizations in every precinct and
even in every school district, it
possible. That is the proper way
to succeed in November in the
election of the entire state ticket.
George W. Perkins, the steel
trust magnate, says plenty of
money will be furnished to carry
on tho Roosevelt campaign. Is
this not enough to show any
sensible voter that Teddy stands
right in with the. trusts? It ought.
to be. , '