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1 r. r PAGE I. PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916. Cbe plattsmculb Journal PI BLISIIKO SKMI-TVKEKI.Y T I'L ATTSHOt I II, MIIIUASKA. Entered at I-ostoHice at IMatt.-mouth, 2Ceb.. as s-econd-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SI BSCKIPTIO.V I'l'llCKt fl-'O I'l.ll IMU I.V ADV.WCB THOUGHT FOR TODAY. We ought to be guarded J against evjry appearance of J 2- envy, as a passian that always I cen THE WILSON CANDIDACY. "It is idle to .-peak of the Wilson can didacy as if there were news in it. That the democrats have no other candidate for president is a fact universally ac- i t-t- -. i rn. . tea. i ne pai iv smiicis or laiis if. Occasionally one of the European didate or was deeply concerned in the kings pops up and pats the Lord on ! success of the candidate. implies inferiority wherever it Vjthe record of the present occupant of resides. riiny. !itke White House. Mr. Wilson has not January look out. thaw is on. Hereafter :o: Foliter.oss, like charity, should be gin at home. :o: We are all ought to bs. for Plattsmouth or -:o:- needed even to seek the nomination much less to fitrht for it. It is the tes timony of all of his political foes that he is stronger than his party, and a party tht should refuse to renominate a president stronger than itself as a I vote petter would court political de struct ion. "The publication at this time of the so-called Palmer letter, doubtless with the president's consent, must be inter preted as 31 r. Wilson's way of an- r.ouncing definitely that he will run again, lr.is letter mignt almost nave been written three years ago in an ticipation of a political use for it when the campaign of 1910 should approach But this Palmer letter was primarily written to dispose of the single term plank in the Baltimore platform. That plank is generally The fellow who can think of it le- ;toncedi,(I tc,iav to be umvi.se in its proposals, for it is surely unwise to plate in the constitution a rijrid lim itation on the people's right to elect a man under any circumstances to the presidency for more than one term. In his campaign for president in 1012 Mr. Wilson had nothing to say on the subject. Kut before he could be in augurated he tuck quiet advantage of the opportunity to kiil the movement in congress, the P.-.lmer letter being the vehicle of his unofficial message The kitchen rtew-pot. instead of the ;t vjs frjCnds jn thrt bedv. The letter political pot for wom.n, seemed to be' 'contains an acute discussion of the No citizen can be a good citizen and oppose progression. :o: "Let us have peace" in Plattsmouth, one way or the other. Seme rules work both ways, while others won't work any way. :o: fore the other fellow thinks of it is the one who will win. :o: R. L. Metcalfe'j paper raps two faced hypocitical democrats about right. Met knows them. :o: To a married man about the only z. ivantage in a l-ap year is th? fact that he gets a day's house rnt for nothing. :: the head and praises Him as if He were a small boy. :o: Retail trade has to play The game recording to the spirit of the times and the business customs of the period. There was a time when few merchants paid much attention to show window- displays. Their windows were small r.arrow-par.ed affairs, often no bigger than what you can see in an old dwell ing house. A few fly specked and hop-worn goods were kept there month after month. .Many merchants rarely washed their windows. A mer chant might be able to get along very well in those times without dressing up his windows. When his idea of at tractive displays came in, the mer chants who put in handsomo plate eh.ss and those who took pains with their showing gained a great advan tage. It cost money to do it, but their competitors simply had to do the same thing, or create a very unfavorable impression. The merchant's attitude toward advertising is ju.-st the same. In the old days a store could do a good business without it. But today a s!"ore that doesn't advertise as much out of the spirit of the age as the store with old-fashioned windows and no attempt at display. :o: the verdict of the cvstern states on euff rage. :o: "Lit well enough alone," and "don't rock the boat"' as good cam I aign cries were never more appro priate than this year. :o: Many a man who talks loud and big when he is uptown knows where to lead in when he irets home. Instinct d'-es thrit much for him. :o: There are men who will fight year in and year out for an ideal, sacrifi cing his money i.r.d friendship, who lack the courage to refuse to tip a flunkey. :o : If you have a dollar on your inside packet, ar.d u want the worth of it in a genuine democratic lovefeast, buy a ticket to the banquet on Thursday nltrht, February 10. :o: Every democrat in Cass county, who can possibly do so, should make arrangements to attend the banquet in this city on Thursday night, Feb ruary 10. A regular democratic love feast. :o: The democrats are talking awful Icul about doming house this fall, i.n 1 when it starts it is hard to tell wh re it will land in both state and county, ar.d there are many iepubli can; in tho same notion. :o: The question is asked as to what has bc-come of the man who used to say that when he got an automobile would drive not more than fifteen miles an hour. Well, it is safe to say that by this time a good many of hi r.eighbors are afraid to ride with him, ijt-cau.-e he wants to go the limit fifty miles an hour. :o: It seems to be Charley Bryan's pro gram t get r II V.12 prospective state candidates to pledge themselves on th prohibition question, 2nd if he thinks the coast U clear or. the question, thc.i he will file for governor. Poor fellow ! If he should happen to get the nomina tion ther will be no shov for r dmo- presidential o:T:ce, written in the vein of a political philosopher no le-s than in that of a party leader, which re minds one of Mr. Wilson's college lec tures on constitutional government while still in his "schoolmaster' period; yet this phase of the letter makes it worthy of permanent preser vation as part of our political litera tu.e. The thiid term issue was not touched upon; if the people Mr. Bashful Bachelor, if you really war.t to be some woman's meal ticket or life, but lack the nerve to ask her to take the leap into the rough waters of the matrimonial sea with ycu, cheer up, for the coy maiden of your choice may take advantage of her rights dur- mg the year of 1910, which is, as all old maids are probably aware, leap ear. and ask you to share her joys ard sorrows, particularly the latter. Some wi e guy, who wrote for an en cyclopedia, describes leap year as "a ear which leans over, as it were, one ay more than an ordinary year. A ear which contains 300 day as dis tinguished from an ordinary year. . hic h includes cniv "',. days. Every ear, the number of which is divisible four is a leap year, except when it happens to be any number of hundreds not divisible by four. Thus, 1 ?S 1 was a leap year but not 19 '0, this omis sion of one letp year in every four "enturies being necessary to correct :he error which aiiscs from the excess :f the addition of one day i;i four year- ( i. e., six hours I to the year over the true length of the year i. e., oC j d ays, " hours and 1.? minutes.)" So, girls, get busy, for it you don't capture him during the year 1010 you won't Nebraska democrats have grown weary of being dictated to. They were willing for years to follow Mr. Bryan's plans when thoy thought they were original with him. But they will not follow those plans when they know that Mr. Bryan has delegated his Ne braska leadership to his foolish broth er in whose judgment and good pur pose fcw men who know him will have any confidence whatever. Nebraska democrats will know, too, that Mr. Bryan's campaign will be a blow at Wood row Wilson's candidacy, for ro man could be a real friend to the Wil son candidacy and pursue a course in Nebraska the only effect of which can be disruption to the party and the do- feat of the democratic electors next November. Omaha Nebraskan. :o: Another snow and some colder. :o: Money, it seems, makes the peace movement move also. :o: Progress has resulted in so many tow ways in which to get killed. CI re cce be lieves that be lligerents should do their fighting at home. Always patronize t lie business man who makes Plattsmouth his home. A READER'S EDITORIAL. :o. When the son begins to sow his wild oats, it is time for father to thresh. :o: You are for the town when you pat ronize the people who arc permanent residents here. "I am a republican, born and bred, bat 1 rni witli Wilsc-i orproviding for t.'c national i ." use," said an Omaha man who had climbed the winding stairway to the editorial sanctum. "And I am with him on his stand for pone.', too., The two posit tor-s are not inconsistent, as some people foolishly eoaigo. ;vo matte r Mow peace-loving t a nation is, it may .some clay be com- peiieu to ngnt or surrender evrytinng it holds dear. And it is prepared to put suci a frght as to make the ma rauder 'Link twice :.ud count th.? n, t iji.--i e he wades in the chances are he won't wade in. If it isn't ready it invites the attack in the first place, ard a lickin" m the second place. 'But I didn't cc r.e up to argue t!i question. I came te- say that, thoiis.h IV1 a republican, and though I'd like to see Ilii-'hs on:- n:xl President, I' :i glad to see the Woi id-Herald i v, iii him, too ard then to innke a sugges tion to you. You n; iy t; !;c it for what it's woijh. And her.'; it is: "I fir.d thrit much of the opposition lo providing for our naii r. .! saf-.My is based on the cot. Ard I want to give you a little cempari ;on that will .show what the cost tcailv ; uiou:.t s tc. "I drhe a Ford runabout. Two or three morths ago I was p airg 3 ser.ts for gaso'ii.e. Now I am irui.vs ft -'- ",- -v ..-r -j-vTvi. f&!j t ! : i m3k 1 HBEFSHRn -."- ' A , t ccr.vL-zszn CEX2 ' ' 1 -: ' I- ii rr-araUCD ETi3- -:c:- A man is sometimes his own worst enemy, but in spite of that, may be his own best friend. : o: :o:- A FOOLISH QUESTION. e.-tabiished a tradition, or unwritten .r another chance until 1920, and ...... i ' ,s.v , against tnrce terms, it is up to Nome other girl may hae him by then. them to safeguard it as they have in the past. "The charge cf bieaking a pledge cf the platform upon which he was elected, in ca:-e Mr. Wilson runs again for the pre.-: icier cy, may be pressed by- some; yet the l eading of the Baltimore plar.k shows clearly that he was f ledged to nothing in ca.-e the con stitutional amendment providing for a .-ingle term failed of adoption. Those. who would sanctify the plank in ques tion must base their quarrel with Mr. Wilson on the accusation that he smothered in congress, three years ago, the movement lo carry the plat form declaration into effect. Sensible citizens of all parties, however, real ize that the plank was forced into the democratic platform by Mr. Bryan in a characteristic mood of political ir responsibility, and that Mr. Wilson served the whole country by nailing it high up in the museum of political fu tilities at his very first apportunity." Springfield (Mass.) Republican. :o: Our friend, J. H. Sweet, the talented editor of the Nebraska City Daily Press, would like to go as delegate to the CI. O. P. national convention from the fir.-t congressional district. Mr. Sweet is one of the ablest republican editors in the state, and should be hon ored by being selected as a delegate. There is one thing certain, he will surely curry out to the letter the in stitutions of the republican voters at the primaries. We sincerely hope Bio. Sweet will be honored. Men who say positive things in a loud voice are r.ot contradicted because it is too much trouble to do so. :: Why has the Indian in front of the tobacco stores disappeared? Have cigarettes tiriven him to the woods? :c: Villa is not only outside the pale of the law, as C'arranza says, but he is outside the range of Mexican guns. :o: We believe President Wilson is mak ing a prac mistake in not coming to Omaha on Ids swing around the circle. :e: lircat iJritnm should deal more gently with Sweden. The Swedes will fight when they get their dander up. and don't you forget it. :o: 19 1-2 cents, or cry nearly twice as much. The additional co-i to r.ie amounts t: a little in.:o tha:i a month. But call it S.l. If every olher it!' of the Oo.ooo au . nu bile owners in Nebraska were paying no moie ad ditional tax to the oil oef pus than 1 am. the tax on Nebraska would b-; .,';ntt,o.')i a month, or .Si.Oooio ) a year. 1st it is costing the majority of them more than it is costing me. Touring cars i'-'.' i.iore gas than runabouts do. Big cars use More gas loan liuie ore?.1 Ar.d I have t.-.kun ro account of the! many stationary engines, tract.-rs and other devices for ti e use of gttsolirse. Taking all t!.?.-c ir-'.o eon.-I.!c-'-:uion, our oil is costir.g Nchrusha at the rate of ?.",'.v't.(itn a jc-us more ths.:. it tli 1 a little while ago. "And v.e piy ti..t tax a p. .it of it for business, but much of it for pleas ure with never n whimper.' There tlzHiU Ironic:-BijcstioiitLcrri :"? - r ricT ::Aiic;oTic. J.' l.-i.ni'' ".' J- l.r,l S.'fJ -f A?.-:, -7? Vi-!'!m iWnrr XL c ' ' Z " I 5 A 1 loss of li-1" t c:...-Tii:''Tia,tC-"2 Tor Infants and Children. Mlm Know That Oeniiine Castoria Always Bears the ature of Signature y . r: a i a if m LW Use For Over hirty Years 1 gizS Hill P 1 1 Esat Ccy of Vr.ipper. THC cihtauh connnv, Kt tobr cctt. Ano'lier sno come. arrives, and more to Next Wednesday is groundhog day. Then we will know v.-'.at we shall see. -.: :o: tt.-mouth, boost ' tre no mass mee ings' to denounce , Every der-oerat should bear in mind and be on hand Thursday night, Feb ruary 10, and be on hand bright and early, prepared to take in the whole The fi ct that voters w ill have the riirht to ask a candidate where he stands on the prohibition ejuestion does r.ot mean that in the selection of state officers the majority of men will be governed by a man's position on that (. -.est ion. Some extreme "drys"' and some extreme "wets'' will do it but the great mass cf voters will be more sen sible. If we picked state ofliceis solely on the wet and dry isst'i; then we would very likely to secure a sorry lot of c.!;ri;.ls. Nebraska voters can express their opinion on prohibition through the initiative and r&fei.ndtun just as .Mr W. J. Bryan s,:id was the better - ;-y in the day v.Iu-n lie was a candi date and did not want the liquor oues '.i :i I'r.ccted into th? campaign. Toen :hvy c; u pick th'.- r stato Ouiekds with cgaru to their special jualifications ten the offices i-- whi.-ii they aspire. Everyone knows that this is the ;.e'"isi-ib!e course for those ho are in terested in good government. Bryan 'a: a winter h'iv in Florida ar.d a sum;, r home in North Carolina lie o-.s rover manife.-. 1 rent, oneem in purely state qu-stions in Nebraska. N.Srasl.ans who mu-.. spend ;J! their time 'tc are int? t-teJ in their state jo", i nmer.t aril eo.iceiriod in the ef toit to secure t-ta:o oilici ils who are iur.l.';ied for pac'--i:l.i.' duties. Mr. Bryan cannot get through this campaign on the plea that his political plans are the outgrowth of devotion to principle. lie will have to explain why he has never wanted the liquor question a3 an issue between candi- Mr. Bryan says he never had any intention of following President Wil son on his trip through the midci! west. No one has cause to dispute Mr. Bryan's utterance in this regard. :o: Judge J. II. Dean has announced himself as a candidate for judge of the supreme court on a nonpartisan ticket. Judge Deun was appointed by Governor Sheldon to fill a vacancy, and served something over a year. He is a democrat and proved the "right man in the right place," and will do so again, if elected. :o: Billy Sunday says: "I believe in pre paredness with a capital P. You bet your life. Even though I am not a democrat, I'll stick with President Wilson, for whatever he does I believe in having the best navy we can get the biggest battleships and torpedo boats that spit out l-"0 tons of explo sives a second. In these either be Am ericans or sail to Europe one of the two." Good for Billv. All true Amer icans will endorse every word he says. :o: "The war will end on July 2, 11)10. On October 12, 1910, San Francisco will be bombarded and destroyed by a hostile fleet." Gunnery Sergeant Thomas CI. Sterrett, United States marine corps, thinks him something of a forecaster, free from any advance knowledge, but from the fact that he is the seventh son of a seventh son, with no girls between, and his com rades in the marine corps think him something of a forecaster. Sterrett first gained fame when, in 1892, he predicted a new railway station for Kansas City, Mo. In 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1913 he foretold with unerring accuracy the overflow of the Alle ghany's banks and the flooding of no campaigns k.ur.cr.cd against it we simply pay ar.d go or. our way. Ne braska hardly notices the difference, though it amounts to about I per . ta of rs.r p'-pt.'s. . . "Ar.d horo's my point. The moder- We are to h:: 2 five good shows in F( brua ry. If you are f-s 2 for Plattsmouth. The ool man i wo: :: in grc r t shape. ; ( t : To err is human, but to fail to profit t by i h'mr.i al. o. n ; If you . havo beer, fclhwing the i travels of the Ford peace party, you must be convinced by this fme that most of the members are there atvause Mr. Ford is paying for the trip still getting in his t; Th e getting much longer. 'Mav his tribe ir.crer.se." :c :- tl::ht acres, you art alioru to spen'a i mwnys ut - t J -1 five do!I in buying corn ! and testing SJgne cf Crfa&ffi&cJ&C -i1 -. -! Jf.)Tvict .vi" . Pj l.u.u'laHwntnwn spot inn. druggist sells it. 25c and 50c. ate provision for the national defense favored by President Wi'son, army n ."! navy c smbi sec', would cost us, ; d d't'iomd, abeut i'l.-'D per capita. It is only :.bo;l one-third what our addi tional .-o.-a f i g-. saline amounts to. "'We forgot aboj the gj.oiire. We I pat th:.! ihr- t.: 'iiftion of cvo-V oil vs.? greater in 1 1, 1 1 than in 191 1. We know the sir.pl v is ample, and that the co t of production las ir.cre.iscd wy little if at all. We have a distinct net :on v.e aie ie r:g root-eel. i; it v.e subu-.it to it, fee-! naturedlv. The no! ;.nv o! us c'r. is t ie u bit. "But when we are asked to pay only one-third as much money to provide for tiie peace and safety of our coun try, the protection of our homos, the upholding of our id:. Is, the defense of our independence, as we pny in higher price for gas for joy-riding, a lot of us ro up in the air and swear by the Al mighty we'll never stand for it! And lot of us some wiio own auto mobiles, too; two or three of them go cut on the stump and write for the newspapers, and raise merry hell about tne increased cost of gasolin? Oh, no! About the cort of providing for the peace and safety cf this re public, which amounts lo one-third as much ! "If we, as a people could be brought to think less of patriotism than we do of joy-riding, what kind of a country would we have in a generation or two? I thought maybe you'd like to write an editorial r.bout it. Good-by." And here is the editorial, for which we are much obliged. Woi ld-lli aid. :o: Senator Mattes has signified Lis in tention of attending the democratic ; banquet in Pl.itts.mouth Thursday, February 10. Where democrats con gregate there you will r.lways fir.d Senator .Mattes ready to do his part. Villa has not yet been captured. .Not an empty sto;" room m town, and lias not been for a year. :o: It is a fine thing to cultivate polite ness, but do ncc pracrce on the book rgent. :o : Lc it- ike war, is a etisease. and some people catch it as often as they are exposed. :o: There are very fc-w disappointed candidate'- who have the nerve to con ceal their disappointment. :o: Os.e of the redeeming features of this winter's bail gowns worn by our society class, remaiks a young lady- friend, is that there does not eem to be any waste ! material. . :c: The democratic banquet will be good place to spend an enjoyable even ing and heat- some good talks. And a one-dollar William pays the bill. Come, and be highly eote; t. lined. -:o: That man Estabrook is leaving no stone unturned in his efforts to capture the Nebraska delegation to the repub lican convention. But will he suc ceed? That's, the question. :o: Intet state passengec rates in eight of the middle-wcs-torn states will be increased on March 1st. Tne increase will be from one-half to one cent per miie. lms win prot aoiy oe naneu with delight by automobile manu facturers. Cities r.re demanding a great leal when they insist that President Vil son make Mexico as safe to live inas the Unit -i States. These fellows cer tainly have a poor opinion of the cov clition of things in our own country. :o: The wonderful cuccrss of the first year of the federal reserve banking law is seen in the $2,000,000,000 gain in banking deposits of the country. Such increase is tir.r.r.rr.llelcd in his tory. The Wilson ndiminstration may well take pride in having effect ed this financial freedom for r. coun try that was tied hand and foot to Wall street. . :o: The democratic party could be in a better condition than the republicans by the time the election rolls round if they pursue a wise course. But from present indications this they are not going to do. There is one man that can be elected, but Chat ley Bryan h cks a good deal of being the man, and the democrats will fisid this out to their sorrow if he is ever nominated. He is not popular enly with a few democrats in Lincoln. He was elected mayor of Lincoln only on a com promise with the saloon men of that city, so wo are told, 2 id at the same time claiming to be o simon-pure pro hibitionist, and now wants to run for governor as a prohibition democrat. No such stinking hypocrisy for us. For Sale. oO Single Combed Rhode Island lied Cockerels. $2.00 ea"h. 'Phone No. 3513, Plattsmouth Exchange. A. O. Iiamge. FOR SALE. FOR SALE 7-room house, 2 lots, barn and outbuildings; 3 blocks from Columbian school. Inquire of Homer Shrader. ll-3-tf-d&w Dtg. ftlsch a RSach, The Dentists Tb largest fi-al t-esr cpiipp" 1 oeiuai oinces m Omaha. Experts in cti.iro- of all work. Lady' attendant. Moderate Prices. Porcelain f-.iimirs just like toots. Instruments ciirefoily sterilized alter using. 3rd FLCGH MXTCn BLOCK, OMAHA Mr J ment embodying w hat I have said. 1 1 Read the want ads in the Journal. Uq filonoyTill Cured Ftatula and All Rectal Diseases cured with out the knife. Permanent cures rusrenteed. Write fer Free Illustrated book on Rectel Diseases and testimonials of hundred of cured patients In Nebraska and Iowa. nn . E- RP TARRY - 240 Dee Dldg.. Omaha. Neb. il. 'looking after some matters ot miiitif-i 11 w.s. Fsin 3 M l A Hi its 2Zy .u..i. E.minli.n Ir... W- 4 v ' 1