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PLATTS MOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1014.
Cbe piattsmoutb journal
Published Seml-Wookly at Plattemouth, Nebr.
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There is no aDatenrent ' in the
news from Europe.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Women are far nearer
nature than men; so near
indeed, that one suspects
that the inventor of the su
ji.Tlieial proprieties was
not Mrs. drundy, but her
hu-band. Edward Verrall
Lucas.
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If yuu aren't a fault-mender
you have no riyht to be a fault
finder. :o :
Traveling- in Europe is almost
as dangerous now as in Yellow
Park. :o:
And you will also be asked to
'forget tlie war and remember the
primaries.
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Matt tiering is improving each
'shining hour." for his chances
for 'congress.
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Tin.' war news is so pretgres
ve that it is dittieult to keep up
with it editorially.
One week from today then
comes the "tug of war" with the
ballots.
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The railroads are showing
commendable promptness in put
ting the new freight rates in
force.
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Now is the psycological mom
ent for Mr. Bryan to leap to the
front and deliver his celebrated
lecture entitled "The Prince of
Peace."
Hogs are soaring. iou pay
from 3 to 5 cents more per pound
for pork now.
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Have you stopped to consider
what the war in Europe will do to
the Panama-Pacific exposition?
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After all the United Stales may
be compelled to eat its surplus of
wheat because it has no merchant
marines.
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Everyone, apparently, concedes
to (Jermany the distinction of the
world's greatest army, but the
sea is large and damp and some
thing may happen there.
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It is a hard matter to knock
out Gumshoe Bill Stone in Mis
souri. He has been renominated
for United States senator by a
large majority, lie is a friend
of the common people.
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Only oik- iiinnr Sunday until
the primary. The last Sunday
i always the best to "get in
your work," boys We know
whereof we speak.
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They say ligures won't lie, but
we are a little suspicious of the
statement that the European war
is costing irfty-four million dollar.-
a day.
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The di-iat' gration of the ?o-eiali-.f
mo finent in France and
iermany .-hows that the Jove of
cuniry is -tronger than po
litical theories.
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The people who growl about
h i( weather are usually the same
ones who kick because it is too
dry to ripen the corn crop.
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The discovery of a serum cure
of bubonic plague is announced.
If one would be immune to all
disea.-es he mu-t become a walk
ing drug store.
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The people of Ihis country
spend millions for cooling
drinks in hot weather, but it is
too much trouble to stop the
horse to give liiru a drink at the
watering trough.
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The Metcalfe band wagon
did not head the procession four
years ago when Jim Dahlman
was the democratic candidate
for governor. Neither did he
resist getting out and canvass
ing the slate against the demo
cratic standard-bearer. Met
calfe, jf nominated, will be de
feated worse, than Dahlman was.
Mark that prediction, will you?
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"Put it Hack" Porter, he who
was at one time secretary of state,
and who has been trying to
"get in' ever since he was "put
out." is now going over the stale
in the interests of George Berge,
said the other day that if Govern
or Morehead was nominated he
would be defeated at the Novem
ber election, ami by democratic
votes. Porter knows this is a
false statement, and in making it
he is nol helping George- Berge's
..'iiahce in the least. The rank
and file of the democratic voters
ar for Governor Morehead, be
cause they know he is "safe
and sane" on tverything that
interests the lavp.-iyjrs of Nebraska.
Henry Ford, the automobile
manufacturer, was good to his
employees when he divided up
his profits with them. Be is
good to the public when he
brings automobiles down to the
poor man's price.
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The opportunity of the demo
crats of Cass county is next Tues
day. It is with them to nominate
a ticket that can be elected in No
vember, or nominate one that will
partly or all be defeated. Which
-hall it be? The democrats are
the fellows to decide.
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The competency of any of the
candidates running for nomina
tions in. Cass county is not to be
questioned from any quarter.
Any of them would conduct the
business entrusted to them in
office as frugally and sensibly
as they would their own private
business. All of them are hon
est and faithful to a trust.
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Honestly, democrats, do you
think it would be good politics to
defeat Governor Morehead at the
primary? He has given the state
one of the best administrations in
the history of Nebraska, and it
v.oubj prove suicidal to throw him
overboard and place the party
press in an unenviable position of
explaining away such action of
the party.
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Some democrats insist that
the defeat of the democratic
party in Nebraska this year
would be to discredit the admin
istration of President Wilson.
If this be so, then would it not be
equally as discreditable to Gov
ernor Morehead's administra
tion to defeat him for a renomin
ation for a second term? And,
not only that, but would his de
feat embarrass the balance of
the democratic state ticket?
Democrats should consider this
before the primaries, Tuesday,
August 18.
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Americans can now appreciate
more fully the wisdom and Ghris
that spirit that have actuated
President Wilson's efforts to
maintain peace on the American
continent. The United States
might have made war upon Mex
ico and found justification in the
judgment of the world, but who
among us that does not feel the
keenest sense of pride in the fact
that this country was big enough
and wise enough to avoid a war
with Mexico? All of which is due
to the level-headness of our noble
president, Woodrow Wilson.
Chicago claims to be the clean
est of the largest cities of the
United States. Not so! Platls
mouth is it.
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While the other two candidates
are mussing among themselves,
and occasionally slurring the
best governor Nebraska has ever
had. Governor Morehead goes
right on sawing wood, visiting
various sections of the state, and
making new friends wherever he
goes, lnere is not the slightest
doubt as to his re-nomination.
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W. B. Price is making a strong
campaign for the democratic
nomination for congress, and
from reports over the district he
is liable to down the silent stales-
man. Mr. Price is an able gentle
man and will make a reputation
in congress that will reflect
credit upon the people of the
First district. The children of the
district will even know the name of
their congressman, because they
will all learn that Mr. Price is
there. He will prove a moving
spirit in that body and be a man
among men.
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All that was mortal of Mrs.
Wilson, "the first lady of the
land," was laid away in the silent
tomb at her childhood home in
Home, Georgia, Tuesday. The
While house will not be the same
to President Wilson any more.
While it will comfort him to re
ilect that the dear companion of
his youth was spared to see her
three daughters grow up into fine
young women and to see her hus
band chosen to the highest post
of honor within the gift of man,
he will vainly wish that he was
back with her and the three girls
at Seagirt, leading a life of care
free companionship with each
other. The fact that the presi
dent has kept this sorrow to him
self and has gone about his
serious work without a murmur
or a hint as to his domestic worry
is striking evidence of his self
resistant, his devotion to the
public weal and his fine sense of
propriety and responsibility.
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Hon. John J. Guslin, present
representative of Cass county,
was in the city Monday evening
and gave the Journal a very
pleasant call, and we found him
the same genial John Gustin.
And, by the way, we owe Mr. Gus
tin an apology, and right now is
the proper time to make it. A
few weeks since, in mentioning
his filing for re-election, we
stated that he was somewhat late
in coming out and had waited too
long for doing so, and intimated
that he should not have done set.
Mr. Gustin filled the bill two
years ago as well as any man ever
sent to the legislature from this
county, and with the experience
of one term will enable him to do
much more good in the next ses
sion. His many 'friends in the
county have been very insistent
in his coming out this time a
great deal more so than they were
two years ago simply because
he has performed his duties
faithfully, and they know he will
do so again. It has been custom
ary to re-elect a member of the
legiNature where he has made
himself acceptable to his con
stituents, and the Journal feels
free to say that Mr. Gustin has
done this. ,
WOODROW WILSON.
Sorrow's crown of sorrow is
pressed down upon the brow of
Woodrow Wilson.
In the midst of a turmoil ol
labors for the clamoring interests
of his own country, for the salva
tion of Europe, for the welfare of
all humanity, he is called upon to
suffer a loss the most irreparable,
a grief the most poignant, that
can come to man. The tender
sympathy of all mankind will be
with him as he stands by the bier
of his wife and helpmate. It will
abide with him as lie turns, iro.i;
lis own desolation, to play what,
part one man may in abating and
avoiding the threatened desola
tion of a world that looks Lo him
a the brightest and most hope
ful star in its firmament.
President Wilson has the con
solation of knowing that his wife
vvent from him after his life and
hers, had been crowned with the
highest honors. He lias the con
solation of knowing that, before
she went, her's had been the
woman's glory of standing by her
husband's side while he was giv
ing to his country and to the rate
services that were priceless and
that will enshrine his name in the
hearls of good men and women
throughout the ages. The wife
and helpmeet could die with a
smile upon her lips and sweet
pride and a vast content within
her heart.
Ellen Louise Wilson did not die
until she had been privileged to
see her own country set high upon
an eminence, with its light of
hope and of example shining as a
beacon to the sorrow-laden mil
lions of countries lhat are op
pressed with war. She did not die
without knowing lhat it was
thanks lo him, her husband, that
the United States occupied this
proud position.
How doubly ghastly would the
world seem today had President
Wilson allowed this country to
become involved in war with
Mexico.
What an opportunity would
have been lost for the United
Stales to stand before the na
tion, in the hour of their direst
calamity, as an example of what
a real republic means; what gov
ernment of the people by the peo
ple and for the people means!
What an opportunity would have
been lost to point the contact
between peoples whose relations
with each other are governed by
autocrats and autocratic cabinets
and secret pacts and a people
dedicated to friendly relations
with all nations, entangling al
liances with none!
Where are the censorious
critics of Woodrow Wilson s
Mexican policies? What would
be our national feeling of shame,
of humiliation, oT regret for an
opportunity forever lost, if the
United Slates had today 200,000
men marching through blood and
carnage in Mexico? What, if
these critics could have had their
way, would there be left for the
race of man to take pride in and
to hope for?
Bleakness is on the brow of
Woodrow Wilson, and cankering
care eats at his heart. But, in his
great loss, he is solaced by the
knowledge of a great service
rendered. Ami the prospect of a
service greater still to come, the
need for the summoning of all the
splendid talents with which God
has endorsed him that he may do
battle for peace, for stability, for
civilization itself, will serve as
an anodyne to stay and strength
en his soul as he turns from the
grave of what he held most dear
on earth. World-Herald.
Local lews
"'rora Tuesday's Dany.
G. H. Shreve of Elmwood was
hero today for a few hours looking
at In some matters at the court
house.
Mrs. Kate Binlner and son, Leo,
came in last evening from Oma
ha, where they have been visiting
for a short lime, and drove out
to their home near Mynard.
Miss Dora Yallery returned
Sunday from a three week's visit
at South Omaha where she was
delightfully entertained at the
Sheehy and Richardson homes.
Her friend, Miss Alice Sheehy ac
companied her home for a visit
with the Yallery family, near My
nard.
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vv . .v. iUimoru, assessor o
siovc i-reek precinct, came over
this morning from Elmwood to
look after ome ninth rs in the
county court for- a few hours.
John Wuudeillch. of Nehavvka
candidate for sheriff, was in lfi
l ilv yesterday afternoon and to
day looking after his interests and
visiting his numerous friends.
W. B. Porter was among the
passengers this morning fo
Omaha whore he was called lo
look after some matters of busi
ness for a few hours in that city.
Tom Ruby, wife and children,
and Mrs. (ieorge Benueii of
Peoria, Illinois, were among the
passengers this morning for
Omaha, where Mrs. lienpen will
take treatment at one of the
hospitals for a time.
Dr. !. If. Oilmore came up
this morning from his home at
Murray and departed on the early
Burlington train for Omaha,
where he was called on some pro
fessional business.
Mrs. Thomas Sullivan relumed
home this morning on No. l from
Chicago, where she has been
spending several months at the
home of her dauphler in that
city.
(I. W. Campbell and daughters,
Mabel, (ieorgia and Tessa, of Bel
grade, Neb., motored to this city
and will spend two weeks in this
vicinity visiting realtives and
friends. Mr. Campbell having five,
brother residing near this city.
Mr. Campbell was a pleasant call
er r.t this office.
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THE CKKTAUR CO MM NT. NtW VOn CITY
Roy Cele nKtored in yesterelay
from his farm home south of this
city for a few hours to look after
some matters with the merchants.
Mrs. J. M. Dunbar of Avoca and
Mrs. J. M. Palmer of Nehawka
came up yesterday afternoon for
a short visit at the home of their
brother, Sheriff C. D. Quinton and
family, in this city.
From Wednesdays Dailv.
Henry Ilirz, sr., was in the city
yesterday for a few hours looking
afiei some matters of business
with the' merchants.
Paul Roberts of Cedar Creek
came down tin's morning to spend
a few hours here looking after
some matters of business and to
visit relatives.
I). V. Foster of Union was at
tending to business matters and
visiting his daughter, County Su
perintenelent Mary Foster, in this
city this morning.
Miss Edna Rhodes, of North
Platte, who has been here visit
ing at the Fred Mumm home for
a few days, departed this morning
for her home in the western city.
Mrs. Frank Harnell aiul son
nnd daughter or JNortn Piatw
Nebraska, who have been lnr
visiting at Ihe home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Mumm, returned this
morning to their home, going on
the early Burlington train.
('.. F. ValU ry an
erger returned Ihi
No. G from Furnas county, Nebr.,
where I hey have been for several
days bulking over land in that Ut
ility.
County Commissioner C. F.
Heebuer eanie up yesterday after
noon Horn hi;, liome near .Ne
hawka to look after some matters
with the countv board.
Sam W'augli of Lincoln was in
the city for a few hours yester
day visiting with his friend, Kd
win Fricke. returning to his home
in the stale capitol on the after
noon Burlington train.
Ir. J. F. I'.rendel of Murray,
was in the city today fr a few
hours, enroufc to Omaha, where
In' was called on some profes
sional business.
Mrs. William Hoferer and little
daughter ef near Cfeighton, Ne
braska, are here for a short visit
at the home of Mrs. Will Rum
mell, a sister of Mrs. lllloferer's,
west of the city. Mr. Rummell
has just returned from Creighton
and his sister-in-law accom
panied him home for a brief
visit.
Morgan Waybri-hl, who has
been here for some weeks past
visiting at the home of Judge and
Mrs. Allen J. Beeson, departed
this afternoon for his home at
Los Angeles, California. The
visit here' was greatly enjoyed by
Mr. W-rybright and it was with
'ireuret iaat he returned to the
coast.
ili,:;;,:;:':; JUDGE G. J. HUNT OF
BRIDGEPORT, NEBRASKA,
VISITS OUR FAIR CITY
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This morning Judge d. J. Hunt
of Bridgeport, Neb., one of the
candidates for the office of chief
justice of the Nebraska supreme
court at the coming- primaries,
came in t visit our city for a few
hours. The judge is one of the
ablest jurists in Ihe western part
of the state and has in his lo
cality an immense popularity
among his friends ami neighbors,
lie is the only candidate freun the
wetsern part of the slate that has
no representative on the bench,
and if Judge Hunt is selected for
the position the peetple of Ne
braska can rest assuried that they
will have a man of unusual ability
on the beach. He is just in his
prime anil can bring tet the su
preme court viger and force of
his years ami be able to carry on
the amount of work on the bench
in a manner that will do justice
lo the people ef the state. Mr.
Hunt called at the Journal office
while here and we can cheerfully
.-tate that if it was within our
power to nominate Judge Hunt
would get en the non-partisan bal
lot this fall as one of the candi
dates, and if he is so selected the
voters of the state will do them
selves a great gooel by selecting
him for the office of chief justice.
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West and one North of Plattsmouth, Neb.,
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time. Automobiles and Carryalls will convey Passengers to and
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