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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President
WOODROW WILSON
of New Jersey.
For Vice President
THOS. R. MARSHALL
of Indiana.
For United Stales Senator
A. C. SHALLENBERGER.
.For Governor
JOHN H. MOREHEAD.
JFor Lieutenant Governor
HERMAN DIERS.
For Secretary of State
JOHN W. KELLEY.
Tor Auditor Public Accounts
HENRY C. RICHMOND,
or State Treasurer
GEORGE E. HALL.
For Stale Superintendent
R. V. CLARK.
For Attorney General
ANDREW M. MORRISSEY.
For Commissioner Public Lands-
WILLIAM B. EASTMAN.
For Railroad Commissioner
CLARENCE E. HARMAN.
'or Congressman
JOHN A. MAGU1RE.
For State 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.
Democrats must pet up arid
bustle from now till election day
if they want to win.
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Some men say they don't know
who to vote for, but they could
easily llnd out by consulting the
first politician they come across.
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Now is the lime to huslle, boys.
Heat the tom-toms and rally to
the cause of Wilson and Marshall.
Wake up and pet ready fur the
battle on November D.
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Remember (he ripht man for
I he ripht, place is Hon. W. 15.
lianninp for senator, lie has been
fried and has always been on the
ide of the people in performing
his duties.
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Keep it before the people that
Julius Pit 7. is one of the best
tialilled men in Cass county foi
county commissioner and he
should receive the support of
every man who desires a com
petent man for I he posil ion.
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It looks like Wilson would be a
winner, but democrats do not
want to lay back on their oars in
loo much confidence. Too much
confidence with friends has de
feated many a pood ami deserving
candidate. F.very democrat should
Kel a hustle on himself.
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Hon. Herman Diers, democratic
candidate for lieutenant governor,
is one of (he best men in the
state, and will fill the position
with honor and dignity lo himself
and his friends. He served in the
bouse and senate and has the
ability to make an excellent pre
siding officer.
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The people of Cass county, in
voting for representative, cannot
possible do better than to vote for
John J. Guslin, the democratic
candidate. Mr. Gust in is well fit
ted for the position and talking
with him will soon convince any
one that ho is a splendid man for
I he position. Ho is a gentleman
of good, sound judgment and lias
resided on a farm all his life and
now lives on his own farm near
Murdock. Tho'Journal is for John
.?. Guslin because wc believe ho
will represent the people of Cass
county in the right way and with
credit to himself and tho people
lie represents.
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Wilson is a real and sincere
progressive, lie has proved it by
his course and conduct as a pub
lic ullicer and as a candidate. He
is running on a sane, progressive
plat form.
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There can be a great deal of
food work done before the elec
tion for the national and state
ticket, and the working democrats
cannot afford to let any grass
prow under their feet between nowh.ansa(.t ymir business for you in
f.nd election day. "A word to the
wise, etc.
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l.verjbody, irrespective of
party, sect or creed, regrets the he will prove attentive to the busi
inisfortune that, overtook Theo- ness .affairs of the countv. be-
Hole uooseven ai .uuwauKee. me
whole American people pray that
he may survive the assassain's
murderous assault, ami win
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sneeiiiiv recover.
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The democrats never placed a
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more eincieni anil auie candidate Wilson carrying Indiana, al
before the people of Nebraska for though as high as 3 to 1 is offered
governor t ban Hon. John H. More- as an inducement. There is an
head. He is a gentleman and
scholar and deserves the supportp!i ,oes the nation" in national
of everyone who desires to see
uie auairs oi ine siaie economi-
rally and justly administered.
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Paul Clark's meetings over the
district have been frosts wherever
he went. In order to secure any
kind of an audience at all he has
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to take someone more prominent
than himself witli him. Clark is
i.ot the sort of make-up to en-
Ihuse the people in his behalf. I
Ihe people are not much favor-
ame io coid-niooiieu corporation
auorneys going io congress, any-
bow. I
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Don your hustling clothes,
boys, and don't take them off uu-
III the day alter Aovemher !. II
you will only do your duty for
Wilson and Marshall they will
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carry the democratic banner on lo
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victory, ibis is not the tune for
laggards in our ranks but all
must do battle if they expect vie-
lory when the smoke of battle
clears away after the nigh! of the
filh of November.
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The bull moosers are endeavor-
nig to perpetrate a scheme in
their own interests, which if car-
ried out may prove disastrous to
the democrats of Nebraska. The
democratic leaders should be
smart enough to block their little
game of tlimtlaining the people
of Hie stale out of an opportunity
to vole their sentiments. They
are, evidently becoming very des-
pernio- in the last stages of the
panic.
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Gene Ma field, who for a short
time conducted the News-Herald
in this city, has accepted the posi-
lion as Sunday editor of the Onia-
ha World-Herald. Mr. Ma field
possesses considerable newspaper
ability and there are no positions
on a first-class newspaper that!
be is not Capable of filling. The
Journal is greatly pleased that
Gene has so far recovered from
his recent illness as to accept a
position of this character.
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Paul Clark is evidently a man
who has not a great deal of con-
lldence in his speaking qualities,
In his campaign over the district
no always takes someone along
with him to do the talking when
they are fortunate enough to get
a crowd sufficient to talk lo. Paul
is afraid to go by himself for fear
of a frost wherever bo went. The
people are generally aware of the!
fact t hat his business has always
been that of a corporation attor -
ney and the people are hard
lino up on a man of that kind.
The necessity of democrats
awakeninir to their duty is right
here, and it behooves every one of
jtlieni to get in line and see that
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M.ro hi i-iiih 'i .- tin im .-amr.
II has emne to a pretty pass
when he president of the I'nited
Stall's ha.- to po from place to
place well guarded for fear of au
assas.-ian's bullet. And this is
free America.
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No time for pondering, but it is
time for work, if we want to gee
the democrat ic ticket successful
in stale and nation. We are win-
ri(,rf(
in
this election if every
democrat does his duty.
Study the matter of selecting
a county commissioner very
seriously before you vote on No
vember 5. It is just as important
to jiave a gn0(1 business man lo
county affairs as it is for the
merchant who makes a success to
be a good business man. Julius
pjz is a pood business man and
cause he wi he domif business
for the whole people of Cass
county
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At the various Del msr Hoard.-
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the statement is made that not a
ingle bet has been made against
r Id saying that "as Indiana goes,
elections. It has been noticed
inai Indiana always nas nau a
haliit of being with the winner. In
188 Indiana gave the late Presi
dent Harrison a small majority,
but four years later it turned ovt
o Cleveland and remained in the
winning column. It never lias
been on a loser and this time Hi.
democratic leaders feel that, Hi
situation in Indiana is a pretty
;;ood index for the rest of tin.'
country
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Manv ,.P,mbl jeans will vole for
Hon .Inlin H Mm-olienii Iiopmiisp
they don't like a "turn-coat" like
Ullrich. This alone should en
courage democrats to do every
thinir in their nower for Mr.
Morehcad. Aldrich has deceived
manv of his former friends, who
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Uav that a man nominated hv the
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republican nartv of the state
should not have deserted that
party and gone over to the bull
mooscrs. They declare him a
holler, which, in the fullest sense
of the term, he is. Hon. John II
Morehcad is one of the cleanest
and best business men in the state
and we are willing to wager our
last dollar that bis administration
will be more successful in an
economical way than that of the
present governor, by far
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Republican spellbinders, telling
only a small part of the truth, art
arguing that (he cost to the peo
pie per capita under the present
laritl' is $3. i( a year; figuring on
a basis of $300,000,000 receipts
i coin tariit mines, per year, ami a
I population of 1)0,000,000 people
Hut as in most arguments on the
protective tariff, the important
feature is suppressed in repub-
liean oratory and republican
newspaper advertising. As a mat
lor of fact, the total tax paid by
I be consumer because of the tariff
amounts annually to two and one-
quarter billion dollars, of which
13 per cent goes into the national
treasury and the balance goes to
tho manufacturers or Interests, as
"protection of profits." This
puts quite another aspect upon
the situation and affords abund
ant reason why the people of the
United States should vote for Wil
i
son and Marshall, who are
pledged personally and through
I the democratic party platform lo
proceed with all dispatch to Ihe
revision of (ho tariff downward to
the end that tho prohibitive tariff
duties which, under the Payne-
I Aldrich bill, hold up the hands of
Uio trusts and monopolies which
tolnow are robbing the American
' people.
Democrats, keep step to the
music: "Onward, ripht onward
to victory."
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The American people will re
joice wild me ultimate recovery
of Theodore Rooseell. which is
now assurred.
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Only two weeks from next Tues
lay till election day. And much
can be done in thai time. Re
member t hat, democrats.
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If the Wilson and Marshall
banner is not carried on to victory
it will be on account of laggards
in the democratic party.
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There is certainly victory in the
air for the democrats, if the
democrats will only hustle from
now till election day.
Thanksgiving is coming on
apace, and turkeys will soon begin
to roost high and also in price
so high that most people can't
reach one.
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According to the straw vote,
there is no use to hold an election,
as every candidate on all the
tickets is elected by handsome
majorities.
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Those who profess to be in a
position to know predict, that the
price of hogs will go beyond $10
per hundred this winter and they
will be scarce at that price.
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Keep it before the people that
John J. Guslin is the proper can
didate to support for member of
the state legislature. His neigh
bors, irrespective of party, all
commend him.
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The matter of the cause of the
high cost of living has been lost
in Ihe shuftle in the campaign.
No man has been bold enough lo
lell why (his high cost, of living,
and at the same lime they know.
The democrat who fails to vole
for ex-Governor Shallenberger for
United Slates senator is certainly
not very anxious about the upper
house of congress being demo
cratic. It only takes two or three
democratic senators to make it
that way. A vote for Shallen
berger will help the matter along.
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Senator Morehcad ha publicly
proclaimed that he will, when he
shall have been elected governor,
onlent himself with the com
pensation allowed, him by the
onstitution. This means that he
will not ask Ihe state to pay his
family board bill. Neither will be
forage off the stale gardens at
the penitentiary. Lincoln Star.
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John A. Maguire will lour Cass
county next Tuesday, and will be
greeted at every point by his many
enthusiastic admirers. A con
gressman who has proved so
faithful to the trust reposed in
him should be re-elected by an
increased majority, as encourag
ing reports in his behalf come
from every section of the district.
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Who will Paul Clark (in the
event that he is elected, and the
election is thrown into the house)
vole for Roosevelt or Tafl? Do
you know, Mr. Taft Republican,
that he would cast his vole for
Roosevelt? You can bat your bot
tom dollar he will. He has evaded
this question all along the line,
but Taft supporters should know
that he could not consistently vote
for Taft after denouncing the
president in tho manner ho has.
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Tho following from Governor T.
R. Marshall, democratic candidate
for vice president, rings with
vibrant tones of patriotic states
manship: "My personality is of
slight moment to the voters of
this country, unless Ihey believe
in my party platform and io my
interest, if elected, to carry out its
pledges. I have no quarrel with
lhat man who disagrees with me
with reference to the democratic
platform. He may bo right, much
as I doubt it."
MEASURING THE MAN BY HIS
MOUTH.
An intimation is heard that one
of the arguments used against the
re-election of the governor is
that he has, on occasion, used the
word "damn." It is not as ap
plied to men in general, a griev
ous charge, and has little, if any,
bearing upon the capabilities of a
man for the high office of gov
ernor. However, one can compile some
very effective and forceful state
papers without the use of the
word indicated, and a governor in
reasonable command of language
may manage to get along without
it unless his system is surcharged
with the sort of coarseness that
prompts the use of the word under
any circumstances.
It may be that high authority
has decreed that '"damn" is not
profanity, but there are other
words that it would be mighty
poor taste tq use in polite society
which would also probably not be
judicially regarded as profanity.
However, in the governor's case,
a good many of those who worked
heroically to elect him did so un
der the impression that his pre
tensions and his associations af
forded them some guarantee that
he would avoid such flights of
rhetoric. It is with them some
thing of a matter of good faith
and sincerity of conviction. Per
haps, also, some of them know
that the word "damn," blasphe
mous as it may seem to them, is
a mild specimen of the indulg
ences sometimes enjoyed around
Ihe governor's office. Some of
them may have heard that the ex
plosive fishwife of tradition has
nothing on the governor when ex
pletive and epithet is in seeming
season.
This may be of interest and
importance to the man who voted
for the governor because of his
membership in this or that
church, or because of his reputed
allegiance in spiritual affairs, but
to the citizen and taxpayer it
means little except, perhaps, that
the governor is not always taste-,
ful in the selection of his
language.
If C. H. Aldrich were a good
governor, it would be outrageous
to defeat him because be had
given way to the selection of
coarse language in the expression
of strong feeling. Some mighty
big men have done that, men who
have done great good to their fel
low men and men who have proven
lo be public servants of the high
est value.
The question in the case of Mr.
Aldrich is, has he been so good
a governor that he is entitled to
a second term Has he been so
good a governor that no other
man, however good and capable,
should be allowed to supplant
him. And is ho a better man than
John II. Morehcad? These are
the questions that should weigh.
Is a man who would wobble
around in his political allegiance,
and flop around on the presi
dential question as Governor Aid-
rich has wriggled and flopped,
possessed of the stability and de
termination that should charac
terize a governor of this state?
Is a man who would filch the
name of the republican party on
which to run for re-election, while
supporting a third party candidate
for president, and doing what he
can to destroy the republican
party as a national organization,
endowed with such a fine sense of
honor as becomes a governor of
Nebraska?
Is a man who would coerce
those who owe their positions in
Ihe state's employ into becoming
parts of a political machine built
up for his re-election, and who
would levy an assessment upon
such employes to pay the expense
of his individual campaign, a man
of such aeuto perception of right
and w rong, of such sturdy adher
ence to the right and such im
pulsive rejection of what is w rong,
as becomes a governor of Ne
braska? Is a man who would accept
more than twice as much in com
pensation fur his official service
as the basic law of the state allow.-
him. and who went before '
the legi-lature a.-king for as
much more as his salary amounts
to. one to be considered entirely
trustworthy and beyond all
temptation of graft?
Is a man who would use the
stale's allowances for official ex
penses in the payment of his
private debts entirely honest and
honorable? Who would charge
private and political telephone
bills up to the stale and utz
money allowed for traveling ex
penses in paying his expenses on
lecture and campaign tours, to be
trusted with large interests?
Is a man strictly on the square
who would, in expending a larye
sum appropriated by the state for
specific advertising, dicker around
among country newspapers for
support for his re-election?
The use of profanity, if he does
use profanity, is a question only
of good faith and good taste. It
does not affect his capabilities as
a governor. Hut in one who used
his allegiance to a church to
boost himself into the high like
he holds, the use of profanity is
not an evidence of thorough re
liability and honor. Lincoln Star.
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Hon. John A. Maguire haa been
in congress just long enough to
gain considerable influence with
his asosciate members of that
body, who have been in congress
many years. The next congress
will surely be democratic, and the
voters of the First district should
keep Congressman Maguire right
where he is on account of the
many friends he has made and the
respect and confidence they have
for him, not only in congress, but
also among the different depart
ment officials, with whom lie be
comes associated in transacting
business for his constituents.
Should Paul Clark be elected,
what influence would he have in
his first term? None at all.
While John. A. Maguire would be
right at home in the performance
of his duties, and his influence ;
would be greatly felt by the people
he represents. Under such
circumstances, Mr. Voter, don't
you think it would be disastrous
to make a change at this time?
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Congressman Maguire, accom
panied by a German speaker and
the county candidates, will tour
Cass county next Tuesday, visit
ing nearly every town in the
county, winding up with a night
meeting at Avoca. Everybody
should turn out to these meet
ings. :o:
Make up your mind to vote for
R. W. Hryan, if you want a man
that is competent to fill the olliee
of county assessor. He has been
engaged in farming nearly all hi?
life and is well versed in the
valuation of all kinds of property.
He is a splendid man for the
place.
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Some of the utterances of Gov
ernor Wilson are gems of thought
and at the same time breathe Ihe
spirit of genuine patriotism. They
are enough to assure the people of
the nation that their trust will not.
be misplaced if he be chosen to
he chief execut ive.
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Life is one continuous struggle
for something to eat and wear,
and to live at all. And yet there
are those in every community that
stand up for the very evils that
make such conditions the trusts,
who are robbing the people
through a protective tariff.
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The man who is so selfish as to
trade public printing to news
papers for support for himself
(when the taxpayers of the elate
pay the bills) is not regarded as
a man fit to serve as governor of
a great slate like Nebraska. This
Aldrich has done.
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