The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, October 24, 1912, Image 4
-The Fiaiismouth Journal Published Semi-Weekly R. A. BATES, Entered at the PostolRce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-clas matter. fl.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President WOODROW WILSON of New Jersey. For Vice President , THOS. R. MARSHALL i of Indiana. For United Stales Senator A. C. 8HALLEN8ERQER. For Governor JOHN H. MOREHEAD. For Lieutenant Governor HERMAN DIERS. For Secretary of State JOHN W. KELLEY. iFor Auditor Public Accounts HENRY C. RICHMOND. ot State Treasurer GEORGE E. HALL. For State Superintendent R. V. CLARK. JFor Attorney General ANDREW M. MORRISSEY. Yor Commissioner Public Lands- WILLIAM B. EASTMAN. For Railroad Commissioner CLARENCE E. HARMAN. For Congressman JOHN A. MAGUIRE. JFor State Senator WILLIAM 3. BANNING. "For Representative JOHN J. GUSTIN. For Float Represent alive CHARLES H. BUSCH. For County Assessor W. R. BRYAN. For County Commissioner JULIUS PITZ. Governor Marshall received a most cordial greeting at both Kearney and Grand island. :o: President Tafl. says the wave of hint) prices will soon begin to subside. Most people hope so. It takes a good, competent man to till the olllce 'of assessor. Re member that. II. W.; Bryan is that Kino oi a man. :o: . Everyone regrets the action of the madman, hut as W. J. Bryan says, elections are not. to be de cided by the acts of madmen. :o: The more the people of Cass county see of John J. Gustin the more they become, impressed wilh the fact that he is an ideal can didate to represent them in the legislature. Ex-Governor Shallonhcrgcr is having big receptions every place lie has visited. Tim people recogni.e in him a man of great ability and one that will reflect credit upon the. slate in the Unit ed Stales senate. :o; The action of "Gentleman Joe" Dixon, campaign manager of Colonel Roosevelt, in taking ad vantage of the attempt upon the colonel's life to make political capital, was hardly in good taste, as be has evidently found out. :o:- Congressmau Maguire has a record for honesty and integrity. The people know right where to find him. If the election of presi dent is thrown into the house ho will vote for Woodrow Wilson. Tho voters can depend upon that. But who will his opponent vote Tor Roosevelt or Toft? He will vote for Roosevelt, of course. -:o:- , Reports continue to come from various parts of the slate that Hon. John II. Morehead is royally welcomed everywhere. The peo ple seem favorably impressed with his manner of approaching them, and the voters rally around him to shake his hand and give cheering words. When the peo ple hear John H. Morehead the misstatements made by his op ponent pass away into thin air. They see a different man to what Aldrich represnts him to he. at Plattsmouth, Nebraska Publisher. If a democratic bouse of rep resentatives can produce 11 and 15-foot coi n, we hesitate to esti mate the height of the corn next year, with a democratic president, senate and house of represent at ives. :o: The way to victory is to work for it. You can't sit back on your oars and expect victory to drop in your lap. The democrats should get, busy right now, and keep busy till the ballot box closes on the night of November 5. :o: John J. Gustin, the democratic candidate for representative, be ing a farmer, will surely be a representative of the people. He is just such a man as will do his duty, and be has the manhood to stand up for what be thinks is right. :o: Senator Manning is now en gaged in louring the county, and he regards his prospects very flattering. It will be a hard matter to li m 1 u man who has made such a record as Senator Banning has made, and he should be re-elected because he is worthy, lie is a good man, and one who stands up for the interests of his con sliuents. He will always be found voting his sentiments on all mat ters that come up, and not avoid expressing his opinion until the last moment before a vole is call ed. He is a man, every inch of him, and never tries to deceive the peo ple. -:o:- There is not a democrat, or even a Taft supporter in the state who should support Secretary of State Wait for re-election. He has proved himself a man in olllce who is too seltlsh in his own welfare to do justice to the peo ple. He has known all along w hat his duty was in regard to the election ballots, but he didn't want it that way. He wanted his way, but the supreme court de cided Mr. Wait must regard the laws of the slate of Nebraska, as other slate officers. This very incident may cause Mr. Wait to wail many years before be serves again as secretary of state. :o: The democrats of Missouri are solid for Wilson and Marshall, and this line-up has been made to a great extent through the efforts of that great and i)oble democrat, Champ Clark. Speaker Clark urges all of his supporters in the primary election to support Woodrow Wilson. Champ Clark is not one of the sulky kind, and lie says, m language strong enough to be understood, that every man who voted for him in the primaries should rally to the support of Wilson and Marshall This means in Nebraska, as well as everywhere else, and no demo crat can afford to vote against Wilson and Marshall in this year of democratic success. :o: Charles II. Busch, democratic candidate for float representative, is one of the best men in Otoo county. And he will make a rep resentative of whom the voters of Otoe and Cass counties will feel proud. He served two terms as county clerk of Otoe county, and he filled the office so accept ably to the people of Otoe as to make him ono of the most popular men in that county. The writer knows what he is talking about, when wo say Charley Buselwis a man, from the crown of his head to the ends of his toes. A per sonal acquaintance with tho gen tleman has given us an oppor unity lo know Mr. Busch. Only two more weeks till elec li'in. IMi'iity of time to get in lint' fur Wili n anil Marshal, tin; winners. -:o: Governor Aldrich was a local optionist two years ago. What side of the question is fie on now? He is such a lliptlopper, one is unable to tell. :o: How long would it take Perkins and the rest lo got back that in vestment in the Roosevelt cam paign if they should succeed in "putting the third-termer over?" :o: Every democrat knows his duty, and if he desires to see the Wil son and Marshall ticket success ful they will pull their coats and work from now till the polls close Tuesday night, November 5. :o: Secretary of State Wait has been "flogged" in his scheme by the supreme court. Now it is in order to give him a more severe "flogging" at the ballot box on the 5 111 day of November. The World-Herald's campaign contributions have reached over $5,000. The democrats of Ne braska owe a great deal to this great paper for its noble efforts in behalf of the national and state tickets. Long live the World Herald. :o: The liquor' interests of Ne braska ni.c-j'.d take no stock in Aldrich. Two years ago he was a county optionist, and this year he will promise anything for a few voles he needs them in his business. He is well up in "straddling," and you want to be ware of his promises. ;o: Bull niooseism is evidently on the wane in Nebraska. And so are the prospects of such can didates as Aldrich and Paul Clark. They certainly would not have the audacity to go on the Taft ticket, after denouncing him a thief and a villain. But. oh, Lord, they have the audacity to do most any thing for a few votes. . :o: Woodrow Wilson has repeated ly declared that the liquor ques tion is not a national issue, but strictly a local issue. By this, he means the people living in a com munity are the ones to say whether the saloons shall survive in their community. This is simply the way everyone should feel about the matter. :o: . If elected, George W. Norris, for United States senator, and Paul Clark, for congress, are pledged to carry out the Roosevelt platform, which is directly and vitally antagonistic to everything that Governor Wilson is for. And Paul Clark, if elected, and the election of president is thrown in to tho house, stands pledged, in a manner, to voto for Theodore Roosevelt. :o:- Hou. John A. Maguire is an in defatigable worker and has put in most of his time here of late visit ing his constituents, and finds many new friends who will vote for his re-election. Congress man Maguire is exceedingly pop ular in the First district simply because the people know that he has done his whole duty and that no new man could do half as much, especially a republican in a democratic congress. There fore, they feel content to "let well enough alone." :o: Spellbinders may orate and cloud the issue until the cows come home, but there are two great problems with which the federal government has to deal in ho next four years, and these are the trusts and the tariff. The parly that proposes a practical solution for these two great ques tions is the party the people will follow. It is very practically con ceded, even by his political enemies, that Governor Wilson will be elected by an overwhelm ing plurality. SENATOR W. B. BANNING. Under the new apportionment law Otoe and Cass counties now constitute one senatorial district, and the democrats have nom inated as t heir candidate the Hon. W. B. Banning, the present sen ator from Cass county. Senator Banning is now serving his sec ond term as senator from Cass county, having defeated one of the strongest republicans in that re publican county. Mr. Banning was born in Wyoming, Otoe county, Nebraska, September 18, 1809, and was reared on a farm in this county, where his parents still reside. Ho was educated in the public schools of Cass county, and in 1890 graduated from the Lincoln Business college and then en gaged in school teaching for se veral years. He then entered in to the grain business at Union, and later added to this the lum ber business. Mr. Banning has made a success of his business ventures, and has a very large amount of business in this county. In 1902 he was elected county commissioner of Cass county, serving three years with marked ability and declining re-election. In 1908 Mr. Banning was elect ed senator from Cass county, de feating one of the strongest re publicans in that county. He was re-elected in 1910 by a large ma jority, and in this election will carry the county by an increased majority. Nebraska City News. :o: Mr. . Morehead invites the closest inspection of his private and public character in his home city and county where he has re sided for 30 years. You have not heard of Aldrich doing anything of this sort. Because, you know, it might result in the revival of that old case at David City of the holel girl,. Cora Durham, and Campbell, I he poor old man of Buffalo, N. Y., and how he was blackmailed out of a farm and the poor girl only got $00 for turning the trick. And there are darker spots than this that charity suggests be veiled. Aid- rich is traveling over the slate making misstatements and mis representing Mr. Morehead as to his senatorial record, but when reference is made to the dark spots in the career of our four flush governor the constitutional amendment pie biters put up a pitiful whine. Poor fellows, how forlornly they cling to a lost cause. Lincoln Herald. :o: : Julius Pitz is gaining friends in all parts of the county. A county commissioner should haye an eye to business, and Julius Pitz has always made a success in his own business affairs, and the people believe that a man who is thus sucessful in his own affairs is most certainly one who will con stantly be on tho alert in looking out for the interests of the peo ple of Cass county, who have faith in his honesty and integrity to do so. Julius Pitz can be de pended upon to do his duty to the taxpayers, as far as it is in his power so to do. :o: Jack Johnson, the burly nigger bluffer, is having the fight of his life and for his life in Chicago just now to keep from being lynched. We do not believe in lynch law, but if there was any cause to put such a law into ef fect, the cause is in the ease of Jack Johnson and the manner in which he persists in holding onto another white woman. It is such cases as this where tho assas sin's bullet would prove just, in stead of upon such men as Colo nel Roosevelt. :o: Colonel Roosevelt has been re moved to his home at Oyster Bay. Every true American citizen is glad that Colonel Roosevelt's life will be saved. :o: Democrats, remember your duly to yourself, your family and to your country, is lo vote for Wilson and Marshall. Remember, Christmas is rapid ly approaching. Do your shop ping early. .o :- The democrats this year have no use for laggards. So get a move on you. :o: The election ballot this year is seventy inches in length the largest ever printed. :o: The election is on Tuesday, No vember 5. Remember the dale and do.;'l forget to vole. :o: Wake up, democrats, the time is growing short. Only a few days now till election. You have a duty to perform, and you know what it is work from now till election day. Now, go at it, and go at it as though you mean it. :o: There's nothing slow about Plattsmouth these days. The merchants are doing a good busi ness, laborers are working over time, carpenters, bricklayers and plasterers are busy, and our mil lionaires are the happiest people on earth. :o: The approaching election don't seem to have any "hooks" on the farmers. . They are buying and selling land just as if tho presi dential election was two veers hence. The money lenders are not tightening up in the last, and chances for a good fall trade with our merchants looks belter every day. :o: The republican politicians have gotten the candidates so badly fumbled up that they don't know just exactly what to do. There is a law to answer their purposes, if they will only follow the law. But some of the state candidates don't care to have the names printed on the ballots according to law. It don't suit their purpose. : : The best that Dixon can do for Nebraska in his latest message, is that Roosevelt will beat Taft here by 28,000. In the primaries last spring Roosevelt boat Taft by 33, "00. Dixon's estimate, optimistic as it is, would thus indicate a loss of 5,000 votes to Roosevelt as compared with Taft. He makes no claim whatever for Roosevelt as against Wilson, in this state. USING HIS OWN HALF BUSHEL. Colonel Bates of the Platts mouth Journal, whose personality is as clean as a whistle, but whoso politics is warped and biased, is still whooping it up for Jawn (Honest) Morehead, who aspires to rattle around in the boots of the best governor Nebraska ever had. Jawn (Honest) Morehead is given front page, full position, in the Journal, and one wonders just what Colonel Bates' bank account looks like by this lime, for Jawn (Honest) should have been charged a good rale for that splendid position, with a hand some cut of the well known finan cier of Richardson county to set it off artistically. Nebraska City Press. We feel very grateful to our friend. Bro. Sweet, for the very flattering words in the first three lines of the above, but we beg leave to inform him that what we have said of Hon. John H. More head comes direct from the heart. When we espouse the cause of a political friend, especially one with such a fine personal record as the democratic candidate for governor we do so because we know him to bo worthy of support, without any remunerative con sideration. For fifty years we have supported the democratic party, and if steadfaslnes to the cause of the party candidates warps ami biases us in perform ing our duty, it will have to go at that. But we object to the editor of the Press measuring us in his own half bushel, which is too often the case'with such fellows as Bro. Sweet. Hurrah for John II. Morehead, the next governor of Nebraska I "Bryan Gieeted by Large Crowds" is another headline which mi?ht as well be left stand ing until the peerless leader uuiLs talking to the people. :o: Don't forget, as you go along, that R. W. Bryan is the most com petent candidate for assessor. Competency is one of the es sentials in this olVice, ami the tax pavers should think of that when they come to vote. :o: . The ousting of the Roosevelt electors, however, has caused much bitterness toward certain candidates for state offices on the republican ticket, and the pro gressives threaten to "get even" at the polls. Well, we are willing. :o: Every man who voles for Hon. John H. Morehead for governor will never have cause to regret his action. Mr. Morehead pos sesses the necessary ability to give people of Nebraska a system atical and business administra tion. And that is just what the taxpayers want. -:o:- The taxpayer who desires to see a competent, reliable man elected to the ofilce of county commission will, of course, vote for Julius Pitz, who has been roared in Cass county and pos conimissioner will, of course, vote citizen who knows him, or who has enjoyed business relations with him. -:o:- John J. Gustin is one of the best men in Cass county, and hs should bo elected to represent tho people of the county in the legis lature. He is pledged to support, the people's choice at the polls for United Slates senator. Ho is a ("ass county boy, and knows how to represent the county as it should be represented. :o : The man who is well posted on the splendid record that Hon. W. B. Banning made in the senate should never think of voting against his re-election. He has always been right in guarding the people's interests. Republicans and democrats alike know he has done this. Then why should any one who voted for him two years ago vote against him this year? It is no second nature for us to warn democrats of the necessity of rallying to the support of their friends. Sometimes we have open ed their eyes to this necessity in past years, and sometimes our warnings have had the desired ef fect, and at other times they have not been so effective. But the parly never had such an oppor tunity for a genuine "landslide" in favor of our ticket as this year. There is no use of the results be ing otherwise, because our standard-bearers, Wilson and Mar shall, are men of good, strong character and also men of ac knowledged great ability, who possess the moral courage to do their duty in the direction of the common people. The state ticket is headed by one of the noblest men in whom God ever placed the breath of life, in the person of Hon. John H. Morehead a gentle man who not only stands re markably well at home and with all the people with whom he has had busines relations, but wher ever he goes new friends greet him. We never had a better slate and county ticket, and take it all -in all, we never had a better op portunity to elect the whole busi ness, with the help of the inde pendent republicans, who are vexed at the condition of affairs that exist in their own parly ranks. Because of this condition in the ranks of the republicans, is no excuse for any democrat not doing his duty now, for if we do not succeed this year in electing Wilson and .Marshall, when will we have an opportunity? Never! Then to work, every one of you, and you will hear the shout of victory on the morning after the elect iou.