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PAGE . PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1916. Cbe plattsmoutb journal PtBUSHKD SKMI-WEEKLT AT PI.ATTSJIOITII, NKBRASKA. Entered at Tostoffice at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, IL'DSCniPTIUX PlllCEl -" H-H -H-H- j. THOUGHT FOR TODAY J. The man of wisdom is the J man of j-ears. "ioung. :o: A successful fool never realizes it. :w : A little chilly after the rain yester day. :o: When Texas recognizes a Mexican there is a funeral. :o:- The man who talks too much about his duty isn't doing it. :o: Swapping compliments is just like swapping counterfeit money. :o : Anyway, there wasn't "another woman in Adam and Eve's case. :o; There are mighty few people who first try out the advice they give to others. :o: After many tests under government supervision in Germany, salt has been found the best preservative for but ter. :o: After reading what the tailors say a gentleman should wear, one begins to be glad that one is merely a male of the genus homo. . ;o: Judge Oldham ran away ahead of everybody for delegate at largo from the ftate. Judge Oldham is a runner when he gets started. :o: There ae just two classes of Roose velt men in this country. The ones wh are afraid he will be nominated and those who are afraid he will not be nominated. . :o: There iz some curiosity to know if the reward for the capture of Villa is to !e paid in Vill i money. Even in the kale of Carranza, it would hardly be worth the effort. :o: Some people cannot help but find fault about the weather. Why, there are those who would growl if it rain ed silver dollars because thy got bumped on the head. :o: The cost of violet dye has gone up 3,000 per cent and few would worry over a million per cent rise in the cost of that purple they sometimes give us in the serge suits. The artists who draw the fashion pictures for femininity probably lack a sense of proportion. If they don't, it seems to us as if parents don't give their girls enough to eat. :o: The race again this year for state senator will be between Andrew Sturm of Cass county and John Mat tes of Otoe, who made such an excel- ' lent record in the senate. :o: The smoke of battle has cleared away, and the defeated do not fell very well, while the victors feel en couraged and are getting in shape for the fray, which will be a hard one. :o: We are glad to note that L. G. Todd pulled through for float representa tive on the democratic ticket. "Goody" is a perfect man, and possesses the ability to hold the position in genuine good form and to the entire satisfac tion of his friends in both Otoe and Cass county. :o: The appointment of Louis D. Bran deis to be judge of the United States r.upreme court has not been confirmed by the senate for some cause or other Mr. Brandeis is one of the ablest at torneys in the country and would re fleet credit upon the nation. Maybe that is just what the prejudice is. :o: Goodness, how people's heads swim when they read the news from Mex ico! One day Carranza won't co-oper ate; the next day he will lend full aid. and vice versa. One day Pershing is close on the heels of Villa; the next day Villa is fifty miles away in an im penetrable jungle. Ditto vice versa The army may not be meeting with much success, but the newspaper cor respondents are making the biggest failure- If a censorship isn't put on the news for the purpose of making it consistent, at least, people will quit taking the papers. Publisher PER VEAU IX ADVANCE Begin your fly swatting early. :o: "We told you so" is again heard. :o: The rural route couth of town will not be changed. :o : Tomorrow's clouds cannot obscure today's blue sky. :o : Den your Easter duds tomorrow and look as beautiful as possible. :o: Some fellows are not so popular this week as they thought they were last. :o:- Now is the tims to paint up and dress up, and make our home look pretty. :o: Old Ben Baker is the republican nominee for congress in the Omaha district. :o:- Confidence sometimes make a man say there is no question about it, when there is. ; :o: The armed liner that fights and runs away, may live to fight some other day. :o: lhe printer who set it up as 'messed" troops was wiser than he thought. :o: The invention of a leatherless shoe comes just in time to help out the bootless veteran. To change human nature, if such a thing were possible, would take much of the fun out of life. :o: Slowly the conviction grows that military strategy is largely a matter of explaining accidents. :o: Carranza is like a fly in a glass of sodawater. He is in the fuss, but he did not start it and cannot stop it. :o : -Anyhow, the "Death of Villa" sounded good as long as the rumor asted, but the rumor suddenly grew stale. :o: The habit of exhibiting automobiles on Main street should be prohibited. The back streets are good enough for that purpose. :o: Xo matter what else mav be trans piring in the world's affair?, a woman is apt to regard a wedding as the most important event. :o: That new paper money engraved for the Mexican government by the United States is probably already picking up lots of germs. :o: Of course a woman's place is in the home and all that sort of thing, but if she is the, gadding sort no equal suffrage is needed to take her out. :o: It looks like John A. Maguire for congress again on the democratic ticket. His nomination may be the proper caper, but we seriously doubt it. :o:- Old Japanese prophesy: "When men fly like birds, the great kings will go to war against one another." How easy it is for the newspaper boys to write old Japanese prophecies now! :o . By way of making the young things snort, some mean man horns in to say that a beautiful girl can wear black shoes to advantage, but the other kind needs white shoes to attract atten tion. :o: The democratic party of Nebraska nas provea itseii greater than any leader, especially when one tried to lead it far out of its well chosen path. No better democrats on earth than those in Nebraska, and they are ready to follow any leader as long as he is honest and truthful and stands by the principles of the party. :o:- If it were not for the people of these United States who are continu ally agitating the war question there would be no thought of war.. The most of these disturbers would feather their nests by a war at the cost of mil lions of lives of the young blood of the land. The United States doesn't want war, and tinder the safe guidance of our noble and untiring president, we are not going to have war, if he can help it. THE DEMOCRATIC VERDICT. Mr. Bryan has presented his case against Senator Hitchcock and others to the rank and file of the democrats of Nebraska and their verdict is be fore him. Mr. Bryan was a zealous and indus trious prosecutor. He campaigned for a month. He made a hundred speeches. He sent out tens of thousands of let ters over his own signature, and cir culated his paper, "The Commoner.'' broadcast. He had able and active as sistants, who like him were spenking and writing letters and mailing circu lars. He had all the time and oppor tunity and help and facilities required for presenting the case fully and com pletely. It was not a packed jury or a prej udiced jury before which Mr. Bryan pleaded his cause. It was a jury com posed of the plain people, in whom Mr. Bryan so justly" reposes confi dence. It was a jury consisting of those same Nebraska democrats in every precinct of every county in the state, who have long and loyally sup ported Mr. Bryan, and to whom, in a just cause, he has never appealed in vain. The jury has declared, by a very de cisive verdict, that Senator Hitchcock is not guilty of the charges which Mr. Bryan, as an ardent volunteer prose cutor, filed against him. It has at tested continued faith in him as an honest man, a sincere democrat and a faithful representative a representa tive not "of Wall street," as Mr. Bryan alleged, but of Nebraska. Like wise by a decisive verdict the jury has declared that Mr. Neville should not be punished merely for being Senator Hitchcock's friend, ami that he is a very competent and trustworthy man to be governor of Nebraska. It is very evident that the demo crats of Nebraska believed that Mr. Bryan was neither truthful nor fair in his prosecution of Senator Hitchcock and in his attacks on Mr. Neville. They resented his conduct, as calcu lated to weaken the party in the cam paign it will soon be waging for its candidates and its principles. The evidence of their resentment is the surprisingly large vote cast against Mr. Bryan himself for delegate at large to the St. Louis convention. No effort has been made or intended to defeat Mr.' Bryan for this honor. Only three candidates had been presented lo run against the slate of four which he had selected. It was felt that no fight should be made on Mr. Bryan, since he was entitled, by reason of his long and distinguished leadership, to represent Nebraska democrats, in the national convention. But his bitter and angry onslaughts on good and worthy democrats, his seeming pur pose to hamstring the party and to embarrass the President, resulted in a spontitneous and unorganized move ment on the part of the rank and file, which apparently, at 'this writing, came very near resulting in a vote to leave Mr. Bryan at home. This feel ing was manifested even in Lancaster county, Mr. Bryan's home, where he has lived for almost thirty years, and where no democrat ever had such united and loyal support as has been given him. A true political leader is one who leads the people in the direction they want to go. This is especially a req uisite of democratic leadership, since it is the essence of democracy that the people should rule. Mr. Bryan has tried to lead Ne braska democrats in a direction they do not want to go. He has tried to drive them against their will and judgment, by holding over their heads the threat of party defeat unless they would submit themselves to his pur poses. They have had the courage to ignore that threat, and to make their will so plain that Mr. Bryan cannot misunderstand it. The. fight is over. The supreme court of democracy has spoken. The World-Herald has stood for man'y years shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Bryan under a banner on which was inscribed his slogan, the democratic nlogan, "Let the people rule." It stands under that banner still, and so, it trusts, does Mr. Bryan. From this day on democratic eyes should be turned to the front. The primary campaign, with its unfortunate re criminations, is of the past. The next duty is plainly 'marked. The demo cratic party is greater than any lead er its principles and purposes more important than any candidate. The furtherance of these prposes and prin ciples in the approaching campaign is the duty now at hand. To that end unity should displace factionalism, and leaders of both factions should join forces, forgetful of personal dif- ferances, to help carry out the will of the rank and file by maintaining the party ascendency in state and nation World-Herald. :o: We are glad that Attorney General Reed pulled through for renomination by a respectable majority. This shows that the democrats of Nebraska al wayo try to reward a faithful public servant, although a desperate effort was made to defeat him. t J:"::":':":" -- - - I N : t: JOHN MURTEY of Alvo, Neb., who was unanimous nominated for Representative of Cass County on the Democratic Ticket last Tuesday. Ig. Dunn got it good and plenty. v :o: "Owing to the general use of rugs, father no longer steps on carpet tacks in the middle of the night." But he sometimes wishes he hadn't stepped on a rug, rf the floor 'is properly pol ished. :o : Some republican papers are talking about the democratic mix-up in Ne braska. Now they would be more honest if they would think about their own mix-up. They are in so many sec tions of the state a great deal worse mixed up than the democrats. Don't call our pot black when your kettle is far blacker. :o: John H. Wunderlich, renominated for sheriff on the democratic ticket, feels very grateful to his friends for the splendid vote he got last Tuesday. He feels that he will win out at the general election this time, and so does the Journal. Mr. Wunderlich feels that the endorsement he received at the ballot box Tuesday is sufficient indication of the fact. No better man for sheriff in Cass county. -:o:- There are some German sympa thizers in this country who are in clined to censure President Wilson, claiming he has at all times favored the British and French in their war troubles. They find fault with his warning to Germany not to shoot up ships in which American passengers are sailing. Last week England paid the Americans who lost cargoes of food stuffs off the coast of Denmark, and paid to the meat packers of this country between fifteen and twenty millions of dollars, all as a result of a strong protest made by President Wil son. This looks like his protests with the British is, having better results than with the Germans. :o: General Pershing has twelve thou sand men in Mexico, mostly engaged in protecting the lines of communica tion. Suppose Carranza were to cut the communications, what then. There are nineteen thousand troops on the border, there to preserve order and prevent raids into the United States. Every one of them would be needed, and many thousand more, to fight the Carranza armies and rescue Persh ing's regulars. There are but four thousand mobile troops in the entire United States beside those now on the border, unless every fortification is denuded of artillerists. In case of a war with Mexico there are not enough men in the whole force to look after the border alone. If this isn't a prac tical lesson in the lack of prepared ness, we are at a loss where to look for one. :o: Several second nand Ford cars for sale cheap and in good order. W. W Wasley, Agent. Telephone 53. Residence Tel. 502? $100 Reward, $100 .The readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh beinj? greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment.. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur faces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Medicine that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it f atlg to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENET & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggist. 75c. PRIMARY VOTE ON GOVERNOR. The Lincoln Journal, wc say it with sorrow and regret, is hopeless. It has had so many chances to reform, and dodged them all, that the conclusion is inescapable that" it doesn't want to reform. It prefers to be bad, and ap parently it revels in its shame. For the last two weeks or so of the late almentcd primary campaign the Journal devoted itself to an experi ment, in suggestive therapeutics. It gave ecstatic columns of valuable space, news and editorial, to inform ing its readers that a pronounced movement was under way which was not under way afall, but which the Journal hoped and believed would get under way if th.e voters could be made to believe that it was already under way. "Wet" democrats, it declared, were leaving the democratic party in droves and batallions to nominate Miles -as.' the republican candidate for governor. And "dry" republicans, contrariwise, despairing of nominating a "dry" in their own party, were in vading the democratic primaries to help nominate Charley Bryan. The wish, as all discerning readers could see, was father to the thought. The Journal wished such a game of cross purposes to be started, for reasons which, we fear, it will never frankly divulge. And it believed that by daily suggesting the thought it could hyp notize a sufficient number of voters and lead them, in a dazed condition, to carry out its fiendish purpose. The primaries are over. Miles isn't nominated. He i- defeated. Mayor Bryan likewise is defeated. How does the Journal explain it? Why, as blandly as a cat that has just licked up a saucer full of cream, it avers that Miles was defeated be cause "wet" republicans deserted him to vote for Neville In a day or two, presumably having caught its second breath, the Journal will solemnly add that hosts of "dry" democrats left their own party to vote for Sutton It doesn't even faze the esteemed Journal to affront the intelligence of its readers with an explanation of a distasteful result that is the direct contrary of what, -only the day before election, and for many days prior thereto, it assured those same readers was actually happening. For the benefit of those who want the facts let them be briefly set forth: There were a number of ultra-wet democrats, in perhaps a half dozen communities, who succumbed to the Journal's mesmeric efforts and voted for Miles. There were likewise a number of ultra-dry republicans, in a somewhat larger number of counties, who let themselves be hypnotized by the Jour nal into leaving their own party and voting to nominate Mayor Bryan as the Democratic candidate. For the most part, however, the ultra -wets were for Miles, and the ultra-dry for Sutton. Sutton's nomi nation represents the triumph of the Anti-Saloon league bosses, and is the evidence of their dominance over the republican party. Neville was nomi nated by a union of both "dry" and "wet" democrats who believed him the logical and best candidate. He was not nominated on the liquor issue. The ultra-wets were displeased because he is a teetotaler and stands for strict regulation and law enforcement. The ultra-drys were displeased because, on principle, he ia opposed to prohibi tion Had the liquor issue been con- nun. I iiij.mwii i,sia..a h!!drsca Cry W WA mil I rv. ?bc Kindlon Have Always Bought, and wljieli has heen iu use for over CO years, has borne the signature of jtrs and has been niado under his per- s .AC'f--- sonal supervision since its ir.fanev 4cJuZZ. Allow no one to deceive you i:i tl: is. AH' Counterfeits, Imitations and 'Tu.st-as-jrood ' are but Experiments that triilo with and endun;rcr tho health of luiauts and Children Experience against Experiment What Is CASTORS A Casfoiia is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, 3Iorphino nor other N:;rcoti3 f;u!stance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys V"oni;.j r.i:cl allays I'everislmess. I"or more than thirty years it; 3:as been iu constant use for the relief of Constipation, I"iatu!eney, Vind Colic, all Teething' Troubles and Diarrhu'a. It regulates tho Stomach arjd Idwc!s, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's l'anaccar Tho JSIothcr's Frieud. in kite Bears the S3 h Use For Over 3D Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COM F A V. NEW YORK CITV. .-.UyL f. foCL-u-B .T Kr.yyjjpAg- ip...... ' trolling: Neville ou!d have fallen be tween two stools. But fortunately it was not. The eat bulk of the voters who united to nomir.r.te Neville did so regardless of thoir own attitude to wards prohibition and regardless of his attitude. They were content to let prohibition be voted up or down under (.he initiative and referendum. They were for Neville for other and suffi cient reason? reasons which, we are confident, will lead thousands of re publicans to join, in the coming: cam paign, in the efTort to make him gov ernor of Nebraska. These are the facts. The Journal knows them to be the facts. Why not let the truth be proclaimed Mr. Sutton, if he proves to be the republican nominee, as now seems to be probable, will be found to be a one idea candidate for governor. 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The Burlington's through esrvice Coast routes via Denver and Scenic Colorado or through the Northwest direct or via the Denver-Casper-Big Horn Basin line give the holder of a Burlington Coast ticket a combination of loutes that includes the scenic, the highly developed regions and the attractive cities of the West. NEW ARRANGEMENT FOR YELLOWSTONE PARK: . . The Cody, East and Scenic entrance to the Park will have excellent automobile srvice to the Lake Hotel. This is one of the World's scenic aulo tours via the Government Sho- shoni Dam, through the Forest Reserve and over Sylvan Pass during Park season. Pacific Coast pas for Fletcher's CASTOR I A always Signature of Keith Neville will be the democratic nominee in the broadest meaning of the terms. He will have neither "wet" bosses nor "dry" bosses. He will be his own master, r.o he was in the pri mary campaign. He will battle for democratic principles and policies, for the upbuilding and advancement of Nebraska, for constructive and practical statesmanship. He will be deserving the support of those voters, republicans as well as democrats, who resent dragging the liquor issue into' politics, who would leave that issue to be Fettled by direct vote, who desire a clean, economical and businesslike ad ministration, and who would like to see Neville's snap and vim, his enter prise and sagacity, devoted to the furtherance of Nebraska's varied and important interests. "World-Herald. :o: Letter files at the Journal oflice. sengers may go into the Park via Cody, resume 'their rail journey out via Bardiner, paying extra only for such Park side-trip accommodations as they take. If you will inquire you will learn how Bur lington thiough coast lines offer you the greatest inducements. V; E. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent. L. W. WAKELEY, - General Passenger Agent, 1CQ4 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.