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V 4 t PAGE I. PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916 Cbe piattsmouth journal PI IILUHKU SEMI-WKEKI.V AT IM.ATTSMOI TH, SKBIUSKA. Entered at 1'ostolSce at riattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION miCK: 1UJ0 THOUGHT FOR TODAY Certainly in our little sphere, V it is r.ot thj most active people to whom we owe tne most. J It is the lives like the star?, V which simply pour down on us -I-V the calm light of their bright and faithful being, up to which we look, and out of which we J pathcr the deepest calm and V courage. Brooks. v '..- A number of new cot tapes poinp up. :o: Keep the friends that are your :o: Winter i trying awful hard to "lir.per in the lap of Spring." Only two moe weeks to hustle, boys, if you want to be nominated. :o: Dignity may sometimes stoop to conquer, but it never stoops to provel. :o: . Mr. Bryan (not Charley) will speak here April II. He has always drawn a poexi crowd in Flattsmouth. :o: There is a bip difference between boosie- and "buster" in politics cne works to hoo-t the party, the ether to Lust it. :o : A man learns a little as he prews older and isn't so much afraid he will miss fr-methinp by not cominp down town at nipht. :o: What has become of Stoccker's l- r.i for governor? It has pone pi rr rr.t rir.cr an..!.ir the things th.it Wt-n "died a 1-jrniii.' " :o: IIx-Se:iator V. nkctt would prove the ric'r.t man for vice president on the repi.Uican ticket if Justice Hughes is r. rr.ir.ated for president. :o : If the democratic newspapers of the s-U.e a-e any indication of the strength cf Keith Neville for eover ?.. r. he will cirtai-ily have a walkaway for the nomination. :n ; It is said that I. G. Dunn, candidate f-r United Sta- -enatnr on the dem ocratic ticket, is attorney for the Wil low Springs B.-ewing company and r.ow runnir.p on the prohibition ticket. :o: There is this dirTerer.ee between the two principal candidates for governor on the democratic ticket if Keith Neville svts the nomination he can be elected, and if Charley Bryan is suc cessful he can't; that's all there is to it. :o: With pasoline retailing at twenty cents whereas it was selling at ten cents a few s-hcrt weeks ago, members of congress are perfectly safe in swat ting the Standard Oil company when ever they f.nd a spare moment. :o: Stories about the dye shortage are being carried to such a ridiculous ex-t'-r.t that a St. Louis guy fears we v ill have to chancre the colors of the American flag. Good newspaper cor respondents down there in St. Louis. :o: Rurbank's edible cactus, is said to 1-e a success, and one never knows whether one has eaten it or not, as many cf the mysterious compounds ere encounters taste as thouph they were made of cactus or something like it. -:o"- The Panama canal is to be opened ?. gain April 13 and the date of the i pxt closing remains somewhat indef inite, depending on the way the slides i -crave along the Culebra cut. There er.courr cement, however, in the statement of an eminent geologist that the?e slides can be conquered. Meanwhile, tho-e who used to shout lor a sea level canal are having a good time vindicating themselves. 'O : A. E. Paling, son of our friend, Wal ter Paling of Greenwood, who was a candidate for float representative on tne democratic ticket, has withdrawn from tr.e race. Mr. Paling is a very bright young man and would have filled the position with great credit to hi? constituents. But with thrco can . Lates In this county and only enc in Otw county, there w.uM not have I f-cn the least .show for the nomination to land in this county. I'Kll V 12 A It I. AIIV.VMK NO BUNCH AND JUDY. Just as Keith Neville gives assur ance in his character and personality that democratic success at the polls this fall will give us a clean, upstand ing figure as chief executive, so does ! the candidacy of W. B. Banning of Union guarantee a like creditable per sonage for lieutenant governor. Mr. Banning offers the very best prospect in all the list of aspirants for this place. He, too, is clean, ca pable and business-like. He has won his spurs as a legislator and demon strated his comprehension and appre ciation of the obligation of a public trust. There would be no sobbing and sing ing, no falsetto demagogy, no clown ish posings of person nor shrieking specularity of vocalization, with W. B. Banning presiding over the senate. Under his ministration that body would be the staid and decorous insti tution it should be. What if Mr. Ban ning's hair is blonde? He begrudges the barber nothing. And he speaks the language of the common man. His deportment is never that of the com edian or the tragedian. He leaves the show business to the stage and its ex ponents. Mr. Banning is a modest man, who ha been content to let his neighbors an 1 acquaintances discover his vor tue. which they have done, rather than set them to rhyme and sing them ! ii.iivi.. xiv iia.i Ail inr i(...rt:ttia impress upon the legislation of the state, and in his home community is honored of all men. He ouuht to be nominated and elected. Lincoln Star. :o: It is time to be thinking about our summer amusements. At least we can talk about them. There are thirty-ei-rht letters in the A 1 menhir, alphabet, or ahr.i 1 1 one. let ter to each inhabitant remaining in that country. Time to think about how much im proving each property owner is going to do this spring in order to make his home more beautiful. -,i Perhaps the best test of a man's citizenship is to ascertain whether more of his pennies po fen safety matches than for newspapers. :o: The United States senate has con firmed the appointment of Joseph W. Woodward to be federal judge in Ne braska. Now it is Judge Woodward. :o: If the standpat republicans come into power again, will they attempt to help out the depleted European population by fathering "infant in dustries" in this country? :o:- Some of the colleges won't let their graduates write commencement essays on the war, as it would arouse parti san feelings, but the choice of the state flower is a good quiet subject that can be treated without a row. The Republican party doesn't know whether after June its head is going to lock like an elephant or a bull moose. If a moose, then the 1912 tribe of elephants will refuse to rec ognize the call and fall by the way side. If an elephant, the 1'J12 bull moose won't know the bellow and will refuse to gang with the clumsy ani mals. There's no way of escape. :o : It looks very foolish for the demo cratic party V get itself in the shape that it is at the present time. It is not the fault of the masses of the par ty by ny means but it is truly the fault cf those who try to rule and if r-tharwise to ruin it. If Charley Bryan can't be the democratic nomi nee for governor, his leading support ers would prefer to see the party ruined. :o: In a speech opening his campaign for re-election in Massachusetts, Sen ator Lodge mads serious objections to the policy of the Wilson administra tion with reference to taxes. No sur rrise about that. The income tax has always been objectionable to repub licans like Lodge. Their policy has been to tax the poor to support the government and pass the hat around to the rich for the support of the re publican campaign. The Wilson ad ministration enacted the income ta: l iv; and now th rich he'n support the government instead of the republican part v. Lodge doesn't like it, but the ' people do. uuvn vw vifivt BAD IF NOT FOR BRYAN. No sooner does a democrat, or a re publican either, for that matter, get his political wires crossed with those of Mr. Bryan and refuse to take die tation from the hands of the great commoner, than he becomes a shame less ally of Satan and an agent of everyone and everything that is per nicious. For months past the few Nebraska country newspapers that have sub missively accepted Bryan orders as their gospel have been wont to refer to Senator Hiicheock as "the Standard Oil senator." This was arbitrarily done. There was no proof to offer that the senator had any interest or sym pathy for Standard Oil, but those who sought to so characterize him needed no proof. Unfortunately it was just as impos sible, for a time, to prove the con tiary. To deny the impeachment sim ply invited its repetition, and jcon- inccd nobody. But Senator Hitchcock has just in troduced in the United States senate a resolution demanding an investiga tion of the prices of gasoline to deter mine why that now popular com modity has doubled in price to con sumers within a few months. This is 'going to embarrass some what the Bryaie slander mills of the country press, who can hardly assume that Standard Oil seeks any t-uch in vestigation, or tesults which may fol low what seems to be in the inevitable showing. It is in the same country papers that one may look for denunciation of Arthur Mullen as a brewery creature who is in the habit of hanging about the state capitol to prevent restrictive liquor legislation and in behalf of spe cial interests. And yet members of the 1C0'. legislature know that no man did more to secure the passage of the 8 o'clock closing law than Arthur Mul- 1 1 A e:i, ana surc;y no cr.e w:u ruggesi ;hat he did it in the interest of the saloon men. It is to oppose Arthur Mullen as car.Jidate for national committeeman that Mr. Bryan's crafty lieutenants have brought out James C. Pahlman, who. as mayor of Omaha, was among those who bombarded the state house to prevent the 8 o'clock closing meas ure from becoming a law, and who has ever since permitted the sale cf liquor in tea-cups after hours in Omaha in defiance of this law. And it is to brat Senator Hitchcock, denounced as the brewery candidate for senator, that the.-e same Bryan lieutenants have brought out I. G. Dunn, attorney for an Omaha brew ery, who was also among those who bombarded the capitol to prevent the S o'clock closing measure from becom ing the law of Nebraska. Sometimes it seems as if the cam paigns of the Biyar. i are, because cf i heir shift'ness in ruthless political combinations, made up ehielly of in consistencies, but it is submitted that this effort to boat Hitchcock and Mul len with Dunn and Dahlman is about the most glittering gem in the Bryan diadem of glaring inconsistencies. In democratic ranks it has come to be quite well understood that, no mat ter what one's impulses and views are as to the lienor traffic, if he fails to take Bryanic orders submissively, he is an ally of the brewers and the spe cial interests. The smut begins flying his way. Lincoln Star. :o: The election passed off very smoothly- Now for Piattsmouth and Flatts mouth interests. :o: Now is the time to withdraw, while the withdrawing is good. :o: Too many of our motorists seem to thii.k they arc running submarines. . ;i i ; Every citizen should be for Piatts mouth then let us show it by our work. :: It seems that the submarine com manders have quit making formal re ports. The saw and hammer and brick and stone trowel can be heard in every di rection in Piattsmouth. Building in every section of the city. ... . ;, . . Vhile they can't be officially warneu off aimed boats they might be shamed off. Don't play with matches while fitting on a powder keg. However, this department hasten . to join the shoe manufacturers in th movement to keep the short skirts short. We are not in the shoe busi ness, but out interests are itlentical we are in the paragraph business. :o : It seems to be hard to tell just where Bryan stands in speeches, so contradictory has he become. But we all know his principal effort is to pet j his brother Charley nominated for. governor, but herein is where he fails as he generally does when he tries to I do too much. jtore anyone m tne great crowd leit ior Villa is being taken bit by bit. :o: Lvcry woman can J:ecp a secret going. :o: The Hay bill seems to be just strav preparedness. :: Either way, Turkey seems destined to be treated like a crippled stepson This is also the season when a town man would like to be a farmer if h didn't have to farm. :o ; Livestock interests demand a thor cugh investigation of the alleged combine of the packers. :u : if Mr. Bryan can get any the best of Vie Wilson in the talkfest going on, he is welcome to. Wilson is about as able to hold his own as Biyan is his own. And yet. rcirardljss of President. Wilson's views on the subject, there continues to be some risk in the mat ter of tiaveling on armed belligerent nations. ships :o:- Henry Ford's peace junket cost him -100,000, and an expert could have arranged a more effective adver tising campaign for less: money. Not that it is likely Mr. Ford arranged the trip for that purpose, but in the matter of geneial results, that is all it amounted to. :o:- Mike Kime's withdrawal from the lace for float representative on the democratic ticket leaves but one can didate for that position now in Cass county L. G. Todd, and he can be nominated, but the three candidates wouldn't have each gotten a look in. Tod 1 should go to work now and get out his voters. -:o:- The American great spring driva will be started in a few weeks when the lifting and beating of carpets, to tal inability for a man to find himself -.- anything else around the house, and rn atmosphere of general disturbance of tempers and nerves as well as liv ing arrangements, will be the rule in .hc United States. :o: High tribute, vas paid Irish men and women for the part they have takr-n in the development of the United States by William H. Taft, in :mi address delivered in Chicago at th: St. Patrick's day banquet of the I.i-h Fellowship cb.ib. "There has been an easy amalgamation of the Iii-h with our American life," said Mr. Taft. "They hail added much to the composite Americ e from various European stock?. They have softened the American wit. They have added to American tenderness. They have increased the spirit of good fellowship, added to our social grace, increased our poetical imagi nation, made us more optimistic and added to our sunny philosophy." :o: GETTING BUSINESS OF NEW PEOPLE. One reason why the advertising game is .such a leading factor in mod ern business is that population is so constantly changing. Years ago peo ple used to settle down in one place and live there all their lives. Having grown up in a place, they knew all the merchants from way back. They had some idea as to who was enterprising and alert, and who was slow and indif ferent. Advertising was useful then, but not so wholly necessary as now. But many mei chants are still trying to do business as if these conditions still existed. Nowadays the popula tions of most towns is very fluctuat ing. If a store is satisfied merely to keep the old customers, it finds that a certain proportion die off each year. A far larger proportion have moved else where. Meanwhile a constant influx of new peop1 come in. It is a common remark, even in small places, that the town is full of new faces. When a new family comes in, they immediate ly want to know where to trade. They know nothing of the history or reputa tion eif the merchants. The first thing they do is to buy a newspaper and find out what stores are advertising. As a usual thing they open up accounts with merchants whose notices they have read. A man may have done business for a lifetime in his old loca tion, all of it honorable trade. He may have given good value all these years and have an established circle of pa tronage. The newcomer knows noth ing of all this. Indeed he is a little suspicious of old established firms, knowing that sometimes they live too much on old reputations. Business re lations made with newcomers through advertising usually prove permanent. The man who advertises realizes the necessity of making good the prom- ises he puts into print. He pets the cream of the new trade, and wins the friendship of new people, who to less enterprising merchants are wholly strangers. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For State Senator. I will be a candidate for the demo cratic re-nomination for state senator from the district composed of Cass and Otoe counties, subject to the wil of the voters, at the primaries on Ajri ISth. JOHN MATTES, Nebraska City. For County Sheriff. We are authorized to announce the candidacy of John Wunderlich for re t omination for the office of sheriff of Cass county, subject to the will of the voters at the primaries on April loth For State Senator. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for state senator on th repub liean ticket from Cass and Otoe coun ties, subject to the will of the voters at the primary election. ANDKEW P. MORAN. For County Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for sheriff of Cass county on the democratic ticket, subject to the will cf the voters at the primary April 18th. G. H. MANNERS. For County Attorney. I wish to announce to the voters of Cass county that I have filed on the democratic ticket for the office of county attorney. I will appreciate your support and if elected will do my cst to fill the office faithfully. J. A. CAP WELL. For State Senator. I hereby announce thut I will be a candidate for the office of state sen- tor at the primaries held on April ISth, subject to the will of the repub- ican voters of the district, composed of Cass and Otoe counties. A. F. STURM, Nehawka, Nebraska. Fcr St;!te Representative. I hereby ar.nounce my candidacy for the office of state representative sub let to the will of the democratic vot ers at the general primary on April 18. Your support will be appreciated. JOHN MURTEY, Alvo, Nebraska. For County Treasurer. I hereby announce my candidacy for e-nomination to the office of county treasurer on t;o republican ticket, subject to the wil? of the voters at tne primaries support cf th predated. on April ISth. The e voters will be ap MAJOR A. HALL. For Count j- Treasurer. I desire to announce my candidacy jor the ofiee of county treasurer on the republie .n ticket, subject to the wishes of the voters at the primaries April ISth. I will appreciate the votes of my friends. ARTHUR L. BAKER. Fcr Float Representative. I will be a candidate for the office of float representative from the dis trict composed of Cass and Otoe coun ties, subject to the will of the demo cratic voters at the primary on April 18th. The support of the voters will be appreciated. L. G. TODD, Union, Nebraska. For District Clerk. I hereby announce to the voters that I will be a candidate for the of fice of clerk of the district court at the April primaries, subject to the wishes of the republican voters. JAMES ROBERTSON. For Float Representative. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Float Representative, be tween Otoe and Cass counties, sub ject to the will of the democrats at the primaries on April 18th. C. J. Mullis. For County Assessor. I will be a candidate for the nomi nation for the office subject to the wishes of the democratic voters at the primary April 18th. The support of my friends will be appreciated. P. E. Ruffner. For County ssessor. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of county assessor on the democratic ticket at the forthcoming primary election on April ISth. Your support will be appreciated. Al. D. Despain. For County Treasurer. To the democratic voters of Cass county, I desire to state that I will be a candidate at the primaries on April 18th for the office of county treasurer and would appreciate their support. W. R. Bryan. Notice of Withdrawal. In the interests of promoting har mony in the democratic ranks for the corning primary election I have de cided to withdraw as a candidate for s float representative. I desire to thank , my friends for thrir assistance and ' appreciate very much their kind words in my behalf. A. E. Pailing. V5 -7 A, ft 0 ., Biographical Sketch I was born in Otoe county, Nebras- ka, February 13. 1873, and have lived in this cc unty all of my life time, and have been a dcmociat and voted the ticket since attalninp my majority. I raduatcd from the law department of the state university in the class of IS'.N".. Immediately upon giaduation I war, a .nutte.i to tne bar. and nave een continuously engaged in the practice of law in this county since a hoit time at er admission. At the resent time I am the senior member .- ii.. v: ,.e T i. p n.: i. u. m in u oi iw i:; suii v xieuu-e, attorneys. I served as city attorney '-'. ' . v't,' -r f Nebraska City from 1j04 to lf0G. many of the leading democrats of the n the fall of 100;". I was elected coun- district. I was not a seeker of the of y attorney of Otoe county, and upon free but when a petition was filed, I icing renominated was elected with- FCR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER t i 4 i W. S. RIDGELL The entrance into the race of W. S. Ridgell as a candidate for state rail road commissioner was the signal for an outburst of enthusiasm ntt con fined to any section of the state. When going to Lincoln three years ago as fire commissioner his ac out. If a complaint before the board, was limited. He made good as fire 'ommissioner and has given the state valuable service as reports from his office published at various times prove. The above cut is a very good picture of him and in that head of his is contained more practical ideas than is stored away in the heads of all the theorists in government combined. His nerve is unbounded for giving expres sion to those ideas and carrying them is why the people are all for Mr. should he become a member, is just and right, immediate relief will be af forded and given and it will be up to the opposition to do the technical fighting. One might say he would be only a minority member, but listen, friends. On a board composed of members fearful of violating some technical point, if there be one mem ber of nerve, the others are not going to oppose it, because such timid men are too fearful of public opinion. In his views he is fair to all sides. In any controversy he would do nothing that would be unfair to either side in FISTULA Pay After You Aro Cured A mild system of treatment, that cures Piles, Fistula and other Rectal Diseases in a short time, without a surgical operation. No Chloroform Ether or other Reaeral anasthetic used. A cure guaranteed in every case ac cepted for treatment, and no money to be paid until cured. Write for book on Rectal diseases, with testimonials of prominent people who have been permanently cured' DR. TARRY Dee Building Omaha. Drs. P3ach & Kiach, Ths Dentists The lar-cst and best equipped dental oHices in Omaha. Socialists in i charge of alfwork. Lady attendant. Modee Prices. Porcelain tilling, B just Tike tooth. Instruments carefully sieniizcu auer ump. jj end for free sample of Sani-I'vcr Pyorrhea Treatment. g 3rd Floor - 'K ' . Z i S'Jj- of D. W. Livingston out opposition from the other party. The newspapers of the county, includ- ing the republican newspapers, will bear me out in saying that my admin- istration of the office of count attor- ney was highly satisfactory. I was importuned to run for a third term. but declined to do so. I was married in October. 1000. and have a wife and two children. In the last ten years or more I have been engaged in some of the most important litigation in this county and in this part of the state. I l y uecame a canuiuaie lor congress in this district unon the insistence of accepted. a controversy before the board, but when it comes to exercising reason able common sense he is there with the goods and is not at all backward in pressing his views to a successful conclusion. That is why he is popu lar with the masses of the people, who like a man that has common sense and posses the nerve to exercise it for what is right and just and that is why the people are al lfor Mr. Ridgell. The democrats of Cass county should not forget that we have right in our midst a candidate for delegate to the democratic national convention at St. Louis. He is in the person of L. F. Langhortt, present chairman of the county central committee, and a gentleman who has performed laud able work for his party. Mr. Lan horst is one of our best citizens, and should be honored by an election as delegate at the primary April 18. Let us all put our shoulders to the wagon and boost Lou Langhorst by giving a big vote on that date. Ha deserves every democratic vote in Cass county. Louisville Stays Dry. From Wednf sday's Dally. At the election held in Louisville yesterday the question of whether or not that city should have saloons was submitted to the voters direct and on the result the drys won by a majority of seven. Louisville has been an off and on the water wagon several dif ferent times in the last few years and last year it was voted dry and from the reports received from that city will continue to be without saloons. Card to the Voters. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the nomination for County Terasurer at the primaries to be held on April 18, 1916. With my service as deputy under W. K. Fox for the past two terms 1 think I am qualified to perform the duties of this office. Your vote for mc will be highly appreciated. Respectfully, MIKE TRITSCH. Sales bi.'ls done quickly at the Journal. Paxton Block, OMAHA J- " i . "i-: ' V S. . ' ?. . . . t.,. f 1 1 t M A I P i