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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1912)
I -The Plattsmouth Journal g Published Semi-Weekly at R. A. BATES, Entered at the Postolfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraaka, as second-clas matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President WOODHOW WILSON of Now Jersey. For Vice President THOS. R. MARSHALL of Indiana. For Uniled States Senator A. C. SH ALLEN BERGER. For Governor JOHN H. MOREHEAD. For Lieutenant Governor HERMAN DIERS. ' For Secretary of State JOHN W. KELLEY. For Auditor Public Accounts HENRY C. RICHMOND. 4'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 &talo Senator WILLIAM B. BANNING. For Representative JOHN J. GUSTIN. For Float Representative CHARLES H. BUSCH. For County Assessor W. R. BRYAN. For Count v Commissioner' JULIUS PITZ. There is one thing to bo said about the Hon. Hill Taft: He is not afraid to use the veto power, whether it is popular or not. :o: Prices are now higher than they vcr were, since the war, and this is what makes us feel like light ing. :o: The republican party without its negro .votes would have been a minority party in every election since 1876. :o: It won't do to rely loo much up on the common people for cam paign funds, simply because they have not got the money lo give. :o: The bull moose is a typical rep resentative of the new third party. It is noted for its blind passion, its unreasonable rage and its love of far-off dark places. :o: The automobile speed limit law must be enforced, no matter whom the parties. The law is no respecter of person it hits all alike. :o : The Omaha Trade Exhibit truthfully says: "Whoever saw a busy store with a dirty or empty show window? The store window tells not only what the store sells, bill also how il sells it." Roosevelt denies tillering Aid rich a federal judgeship. This sounds like someone "blowing off," as is his custom when he wants to appear big, when he is so little. :o: My the narrow margin of the votes the house passed the wool tariff revision bill over the presi dent's veto. The vole stood 17 4 to 80, twenly-one republicans voting with the democrats. :o: This will throw the suffragettes into a rage: A man named Haas shot and killed his wife on a rail road Iran near Vienna. Haas was tried before a jury and lined $1.80 for failure to take out a license to use the revolver with which he killed his wife. :o: Neither can wo get over tho idea that Roosevelt would gladly have welcomed an opportunity to take chances with tho corrupt repub lican party if he could have laud d the nomination at tho first Chi acgo convention. "' Plattsnauth, Mehraska Publisher. Grand Inland has been selected a headquarters of the state cen tra! committee. 'Ibis may be a i.-e selection, but we can't be. Iiee it. Lincoln is the proper place. More people go to Lincoln in urn! day than go to Grand Island in a month. The state capital is the place for all such head quarters. :o: Squeezed way down in a corner of the telegraph news, in small print, and as inconspicuous as a shrinking violet on a cold, rainy spring day, is the statement made by Dr. Forbes Winslow of London that there will be more lunatics than sane people in the world 100 years from now. The wise old telegraph knows there is nothing sensational in such a statement; that everyone thinks such a con- dition exists in the world now, al- i-eady. :o:- In this lime of parly stress and political turmoil il is well to re member the following words from the lips of the first man ever elected president by the" repub lican parly. Abraham Lincoln said: "I am not bound lo win, bul I am bound to be true. I am not bound lo succeed, bul I am bound to live up lo what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right and part with him while he goes wrong." A college professor says: "Tho housefly causes 100,000 deaths a year and does a property damage of $12,000,000." The fly travels only. 1.500 feet and delights in a liquid diet. When ho flndJoscvelt, comparing hL.nlf with somothink he likes better than his latest meal he disgorges. One pair of flies, beginning in May, w ill breed 143,075 bushels by Sep tember. The time will come when it will bo considered more dis graceful to have flies in our homes than it is now to have bedbugs." Swal the fly! :o: There is no question as to Plattsmouth having one-third more trade since the auloinobil came into general use than previously. Any Saturday you can count from ten lo llfteen autos from the west side of Ihe county mere is a reason lor tins. rco. (ile who own automobiles can coiiie lo Plattsmouth in comfort and it takes but a few hours for them to bring their families her and return. Then, again, the Murks of goods are much larger for the people to select from than in smaller towns in Ihe county, and besides, the trip is a recrea tion for those who toil al home all week. :o: The Nebraska City Press says that. lion. John II. Morehead is a standpatter because he is a bank- , There is no excuse whatever for such an assertion. We have i number of bankers here in Phillsmouth and thev are nil progressives. The majority of Ihem are for Mr. Morehead, loo. There are some republicans for him, too. Dr. Hall, national demo- cratic committeeman, and a pro- gressive democrat, al that, is a well known banker and a support- or of Mr. Morehead. Such stuff as Ihe Press prints is all tommyrot. Thurn ia s. lillle to u snid nirainst the good business record of Mr. Morehead that for the want of something to say that paper hits upon tho banking business as conclusive evidence that one en- gaged in it must surely be a alnnHnallne Thnt. nrnrnmnnl i very thin, Bro. Sweet. . There was a time, and notj many years ago, eltner, wtien I'iattsinouth enjoyed some big celebrations on Labor day. There are just as many here now as there were then, but some of the charms for such celebrations have disappeared. And why, we know not. :o: 11 might be well to hav made known a few facts relative to some bond purchases by the stale treas urer under the Aldrich regime. There is a suspicion that an ex- tieasurer is prelly close and pos ted of some knowledge that would be well for the people to have. :o: Paul Clark seems to be "be tween the devil and the deep blue ea." lie won't support Taft and the Taft supporters won't support him for congress if he don't. Paul will have to eat a lot of crow if he does, and if he don't he'd just as well withdraw and save campaign expanses The republican that goes off with the Roosevelt-bull moose third - term party cannot claim that he is any longer a republican. Yet Aldrich and Paul Clark are at. tempting to get Taft republican votes on the plea that they are all republicans. Roosevelt does not claim any further connection with I he republican party and these fellows have no more right to claim support from the regular republicans than Ihey have from I he democrats. -:o:- Oue of the pictures thai adorn ed Hie hall in which the Roose velt convention was held at Chi cago was mat oi Auranam Lin coln, me emancipators picture being one of several bearing the inscription, "The Roosevelt s of their time." Great heavens I What consistency! What decep tion! Think of the picture of the martyred humanitarian looking down on tho scene while R.ixsevelt drove the black men from lhft con vention! Think of thU man, the immortal Lincoln! Mem hide their heads in shame when, they even think of such a thing. :o: The Journal would haw been pleased to have received tli job of publishing the constitutional amendments for the state at a price of something like $5lK) for the job. It would have offset this dry weather nicely, but we could h"t take it as the price o support ing a man for ollice against the political views of the paper. The Journal is supporting Mr. More head for governor and is doing il from principle, not because of price. Fairbury Journal. 'The Journal speaks our sentiments to a dol. And we will add that a democratic paper thai will sell his principles for a mess of pottage, like some of them hae, should not be contenanced by the party which they pretend to support. Thev should go over to the repub ir :i ii parly soul and body :o: Lincoln Star: A Kansas City paper, enumerating ine aciuove menls of Roosevelt's presidential reign, refers to the passage of the pure food and drugs act. Hut Di Harvey Wiley, who was al the head of the pure food department i" ihe Roosevelt administration, declares that Roosevelt createtl l . ..... . . t the Remsen board to nullify that act. Dr. Harvey Wiley, who was the public guardian in mo matter of pure food and pure drugs, not mily during the term ot Mr. Roosevelt, bul before and after it, now says that Mr. Rosevelt had a chance to guarantee the consum ing public pure food and pure I drilKS. but failed to do it. He further says that Governor Wil U'n and Governor Marshall both sought to make puro food legisla lion effective in their respective states, and Wiley is out for them in the current campaign. He wantSttO more ROOSCVelt falSO pretensos. If the beef trust keeps this up it won't be long until meat will bo sold by the ounce. , -:o: Ma be it was Paul Clark that Roosevelt promised the federal judgship ti instead of Aldrich. :o: The roads should be looked af ter, and if they are kept in proper shape it will result beneficially lo Plattsmouth. :o: Chairman Hilles of the Taft forces says the fight will center on the tariff- issue. That's right where the people want it. :o: The new street sweeper works like a charm. It would be more satisfying to the business men if the sweeping could be done at night, after closing hours. :o: For the ninth time Champ Clark ha9 been nominated for congress from his old Missouri home dis trict, and nearly every time unanimously. That shows how the speaker stands at home. :o: Now the report comes from Lincoln that the bull nioosers of Nebraska desire to nominate Richard L. Metcalfe for governor, and that Aldrich jumped stiff- legged when he neard it. No use to worry, Governor, Met has not lost all the sense he ever had, yet. :o: Our merchants should study their Saturday business more closely, make their stores as at tractive as possible and give the farmers and Iheir wives the best treatment possible. The trade is bound to teep on increasing, and the fall business should be a great deal better than ever; j Taft republicans, in committee meeting in Lincoln Wednesday night, declined to accept the olive branch tenUJtvely extended them by the bull moose third-term fac tion. Like their idol, Teddy, they wanted everything their way be fore they wfcMBJd play. . ; :o: The Line-oUrr Journal, commend ing a couplVui plans in the demo cratic stail' platform, remarks that "Doubtless the republicans would have adapted similar planks had they I bought of it." To be sure. Hut ihat is just what makes the different1 between democrats and republicans Hie habit of thinking. Democrats think. (j rn-!rr. z " Z-jl 1 " n 1 a " iti 1 11 1111 1 ' 1 m 8 Doe't YOU 8 8 forget that most of the bargains we are I Dor Summer i will be just good for next Summer as they were this. Call and look at the lovely Waists, House Dresses, Children's Dresses, Ladies' White Dresses, three numbers of G.-D. Corsets and Summer Wash Goods at from yz to y2 Former Price! 0 8 8 8 I 1 It will pay you to look for the "YELLOW TICKET!" s Plattsmouth, It would appear that the bull moosers are rather cheeky in ex tending the olive branch to the regular republicans. It should be ice versa the bull nioosers are tli': bolters and are the ones thai should appeal to get back in the regular party again. :o: We mentioned in this column yesterday that school would open Tuesday, September 3, the next day after Labor day, but it won't. The board of education having decided to postpoite the opening until the Monday following Sep tember 9. o. Senator Morchead's address lo the Grand Island convention had the right ring lo it. It was the plain, matter-of-fact sentiments of a business man, not the spread eagle platitudes of a self-seeking politician. "I'll attend to the state's business," said Senator Morehead, "and if I am not on the job in the executive office, it will bo because I am on the job at some of the state's institutions. The men I will appoint, if elect ed, must give tho state a dollar's worth of service for each dollar they draw from the treasury. Fit ness, not political service, will be the test. I shall expect to ad minister the state's business on the same lines that I have ad ministered my own business." And men who know John Morehead know thai he will "make good" on lus every promise. :o: Congressman Stanley of Ken- lucky handed Roosevelt and his side partner, George W. Perkins, a few hot ones in the house Wed nesday. Mr. Stanley is chairman of Iht steel trust investigation committee, and he spoke many truth in reference to Perkins' connection with the Roosevelt campaign eight years- ago, and charge that he (Roosevelt) aided the stel trust in every way pos sible.. Among other things, he boldly deeolared that Perkins escaped! a prison, cell through the interference of, Roosevelt, ih"n president of the United Slates. The sainte Perkins is new support Roosevelit, and says he can have all the money he wants to run his campaign.. How do you like the man who is now endeavoring to deceive (she people through false pretenses, claiming to be a friend of all sorts of reforms able, aided? imagin- DOVEY (Si. SON The "Confession of Faith" may be summed up in the query, "What's the constitution between bull moosers?" :o:- Hy some oversight the mailer of dress reform for women was unintentionally omitted from the bull moose platform. :o : It is said that some of the bull moosers at Chicago proposed to leave one word off the name of the new party. If that is the program why not style it the "bull" party? :o: p Chilly nights in August causo one to think how foolish it is to, seek the mountains when you can build a fire hero night and morn ing jusl as easy at home and not gel, smoke in your eyes, either. :o: ' It will be. noted that Represent ative Fitzgerald's bill providing for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation proclamation makes no distinc tion between northern and south ern negroes. A few days after the April pri mary Chester II. Aldrich declared: "I am going to put this man Morehead on record!" Morehead and every one of his friends await with impatience for Chester Aid rich to make good. Any fair pre sentation of Morehead's record, either as a public ofllcial or a private citizen, will be mighty good campaign material for More head and the democratic ticket. But what about the Aldrich record, both as a public ofllcial and as a private citizen? Let private lifo records be omitted, and attention paid to public records. Since Chester H. Aldrich has been gov ernor the following things have occurred under his administra tion: Five killings at the peni tentiary and more escapes than ini any other two years of the state's, history. Change after change in the management of the Soldiers' Home at Milford. The seduction; by a negro of a white inmate of the B'eatrice Institute for the Feeble Minded, and no effort made to ferret out the facts and punish the beast. . State warrants, dis counted for the first time in four teen years. The par capita cost of maintaining state institution. increased. John Morehead wel comes the closest scrutiny of his record and publication of all the facts. ' How about Governor Ches ter If. Aldrich? mm I 1 I v offering you in Nebraska. 8