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MONDAY, AUGUST, 28, 1916. PAG t SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PLATTSMO UTH I II. if M it O oc CI h; tr w h. fi h. n a v fl h w it et r. d. a- o' v. O si rr tl w P 11 Cbe plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED SESII-WEIiKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postofiice at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher St BSCRIPTIO PIUCEi 11.50 : PEK l'KAR IN A1)?ANCB TTTT THOUGHT FOU TODAY How easv it is for one benev- - J. olent being to diffuse pleasure V around him. and how truly is a - kind heart a fountain of glad- v ness, making everything in its v J. vicinity to freshen into smiles. Washington Irving. ! :o: Next Thursday is the date. :o: And we all should be prepared. :o: "Nebiaskans love Nebraska ?" Why, of course they do. :o:- "Spot cash"' is always a very at tractive spot to everybody. :o: The right kind of a home is a half-way station between heaven and earth. :o: Sir.ator Hitchcock will begin his campaign about the middle of Sep tember. :o: Have we room for the many stran gers that will be within cur gates at right time? ' :o: Most men think you are eager to hear their opinions, but they abso lutely know they don't want to hear yours. :o: If there is anything made more -vcr than a circus it is a hardshell :ia.-or. idea of who is going to heaven. :o: What has become of the old-fashioned merchant who "threw in" a pair of black cotton hose with the new pair of shoes? :o: The dispatches said, the day before yesterday, that the Bulgarians had captured Kastoria, and the Greek children were crying about it. :o: The republican party in Nebraska is not working altogether in har mony, and the democratic party is in the same fix. The fact is the voters are getting tired of hoses. :o: There is not the slightest doubt about the prosperity of Nebraska peo ple. The fact that they are not say ing much about it but let appear ances tell the story, proves this con clusively. :o: The bonds for a new school house at Havelock were defeated by seven votes. I'ietty close shave. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." A fine school building is the pride of any well regulated city. :o: The voters do not want to forget that great good man, John Wunder lkh, the democratic candidate for sh.ei iff. No better man on earth, and he shoultl be elected. Talk to your ntighbor about Mr. Winderlich. Let every democrat push for his election, and he will succeed. The taxpayers of Cass county don't want to forget that Mike Tritch, the p-esent deputy treasurer, ir one of the most competent officials that ever served the people. The treasur er's office is the most particular of fice in the court house to fill success fully, and Mike Tritch is just tha man fitted for the job, and he should be elected. :o: Candidate Hughes asserts that tne democratic party is without a principle. Even if it were in accord ance with the facts, such a condition would be preferable to being affiliated with a man who is condemned by numerous of his former friends for unprincipled campaign abuse of one of the greatest presidents this country vver boasted of. THE TRAGEDY OF HUGHES. 'Where is Hufrhes gone? The Hughes of 1008?" inquires the Times That is what democrats and repub licans alike are asking themselves the democrats with astonishment a.:d delight, the republican? 'th bewiitiet ment and disgust. The Hughes that New York used to 1 i.nv, the Hughes whvri the World M pported in IP-Ob and iJG8, has ait; i,"Hared. In his pia-r we have a Hughes of the renro-e-Cannon-Gal-1'iiger type, whose mi.i I never arises above the petty partisanship of re publican organization politics. The speeches he is delivering in the west might be made by any ordinary clever young republican candidate for the state legislature. No other candidate for president within the memory of living men ever ran downhill so rapidly as Mr. Hughes has done since the day following his nomination. It is both the campaign sensation and the campaign mystery of the country. Wherever men talk politics, the one question is, "What has happened to Hughes?' Nobody has answered that question; yet it admits of an answer and the explanation can be found in Mr. Hughes Chicago speech when he said: "As I was on the bench 100 per cent a judge, I then became 100 per cent a candidate." That is where the Hughes of 190S has gone. He has disappeared in the Hughes of 101;, who is 100 per cent a candidate. The country thought the republicans were nominating a great leader who was still 100 per cent a judge, with all that it implied a leader who was wise, just, fair, learn ed, honest in all his statements, up right in relation to all the great is sues of the campaign and fearless in his discussion of them. Instead they suddenly find a man who has changed himself from 100 per cent a judge into 100 per cent an office-seeker;, with all the disingenuousness, with all the evasions, with all the dodging and twisting and deliberate misrepresenta tion that usually characterize the 100 per cent office-seeker. Hughes, the judge and statesman, has been swal lowed up in Hughes, the candidate. That is where the Hughes of 1008 is gone. The Hughes of 1010 is merely a partisan aspirant for office. He as sails President Wilson, but he has no policies of his own. He abuses his op ponent, but he offers no constructive program. He has even forgotten the courtesy that ought to exist between opposing candidates for president. In the midst of the greatest crisis known to modern history the most im portant issues in Mr. Hughes' mind are the substitution of a democratic director of the census for a republican director of the census, the appoint ment of a son of Battery Dan Finn to a place in the customs service and the failure of the president occupied with matters of the first magnitude to keep all the petty pork out of a river and harbors bill. It is like abus ing Abraham Lincoln because the streets of Washington were not bet ter paved during the civil war and de claring that in consequence his admin istration was a failure. In 1008 there was a ring of sin cerity in the Hughes speeches and a' fervor of conviction. There is neither sincerity nor conviction in the Hughes speeches of 101 G. But the Hughes of 1003 was not 100 per cent a candidate for office. He was 100 per cent a leader of the people of New York, ir respective of party, to re-establish popular government. Tha Hughes of 1016 is not 100 per cent a leader or 10 per cent a leader. He is trying to pussyfoot into the presidency under the guidance of the old guard repub licans. He takes his political advice from them, just as he takes his cam paign fund from Wall street. He takes his campaign information from them. He makes the kind of speeches that they tell him he ought to make. They warn him not to try to present constructive policies of his own lest he be compelled to defend them, and he obeys. That is the Hughes of 191G That is the 100 per cent candidate who is assailing the 100 per cent presi dent. The World cannot rejoice at the ex hibition that Mr. Hughes is making of himself. This country always needs wise, sagacious political leader shin. It needs it in both parties. It needs a republican who can do for the republican party what President Wil son has done for the democratic party. It needs men who are 100 per cent leaders of political thought and po litical principle, and we used to re gard Mr. Hughes as such a man. To discover that he is only 100 per cent office-seeker, and that he is ready tc subordinate everything else to that ambition, brings to the World a sense of keen personal loss. We feel that something very fine, very inspiring, has gone out of the public life of the United States. We feel that the American people are poorer because a Hughes who was once 100 per cent a judge has turned his back upon his record and his tra ditions in order to become a Hughes who is merely 100 per cent a candi date. New York World. -:o: The pork barrel is doomed, and ought to have been doomed years ago. :o:- If you enjoy humor, associate with tatesmen. Many of them are great jokes. :o: The real sort of a fellow is the one who knows where to get a drink in a dry town. :o: The worm that caused the apple to fall is now getting its just dues in the cider press. :o: A young lady remarked to us the other day, that cold potatoes and love don't amount to much warmed. That's so. :o:- In the naval war game off the At- antic coast the attacking fleet is still iding. Well, as long as it does that the landsman can see nothing to worry about. It is a queer sort of religion that makes a man so narrow that he hates and fears all outside his own creed. He should be mighty sure that his road to heaven is provided with ter minal facilities. -:o:- WILSON'S BELITTLED "WORDS." Like others of Mr. Wilson's critics, Mr. Hughes finds faults because the notes to Germany contained nothing but words. What else should notes contain? Massassoit sent a sheath of arrows to the Puritan colonists in Massachusetts, and the colonists sent back a horn of powder and a bag of bullets. Should Wilson have imitated this witty exchange, sending his notes wrapped round a shrapnel shell or impaled upon a bayonet? Criticisms of Mr. Wilson's attempts to settle an international dispute by legal means come with the worst pos sible grace from an ex-judge. The United States supreme court, of which Mr. Hughes was lately a member, is one of the most powerful tribunals on earth. The vote of the old man in this court in a case of constitutional importance is literally able to coun terbalance the will of a majority of the American people. Yet the su preme court's decisions contain noth ing but words. Read them through from end to end there is not a bayo net in them anywhere. An army, a navy and police force stand ready to execute the court's will, but these forces are lost in the vast sea of American humanity, which submits even to unpopular decisions because it honestly prefers to have disputed questions settled by law rather than by force. Mr. Hughes' prestige as a judge did not come from thin air, but was wished on him by a multitude of his fellow citizens, who preferred words to blows. For good or ill the world is ruled by words words in sacred books, in poems, in laws, in newspapers and in men's mouths. San Francisco Bulletin. When the band begins to play, :o: Death is a one-sided game but every body has to play it. :o:- There is nothing that fools the peo ple all the time like politics. The man who is running for oflice always makes the mistake of figuring on "encouragement" instead of votes. It is always good for some smart Alics to get a good dose of their own medicine, effect. It has a sort of a "cooling' :o:- The weeds grow so large that they have to chop them down like trees. There are some in this town that will need the ax if they are not cut soon. :o:- Don't go away from your homes next week and leave your doors unlocked, You can't tell who will be prowling around while you will be down town -:o:- Speaker Champ has been waking up the natives in the rock-ribbed rcpub lican state of Maine. The democrats have some hopes even of that state. carrying Park your automobiles as soon as you arrive in town. Don t leave them at the curbing any longer than to un- oad your passengers. Bear "this in mind and save trouble. :o: There are some men who are will ing to be the traveling secretary of the society for the prevention of the propogation or English sparrows, rather than to have no oflice at all. -:o:- 'Democratic Expenditure Attacked by Senate Kepuulicans, says the leadline. And if the republicans were n power the line would be just the same with tne party names trans- posed. o: The spectacle of the railroads plead- ing with the administration for the "life of lrbitration," is enough to in- spire all sorts of thrills. You can't fool the railroad presidents. They know arbitration lies bleeding in the streets of Washington. :o:- And now Louise Closser Hale says Barbara Fritchie didn't wave the flag from the upstairs window and sav "tnoot it you must this old gray head," or anything like that at alL Mrs. Hale says Barbara was sick in bed and didn't even see the soldiers fU ...11 i i... i, i ! vi, 1Cu uonr oc B"". and have Barbara get up for that one day, at least, if it's only to have a ' J relapse the next. It s a good story, J' gone too long to be brushed aside now I I hv a nervous chill. THE LORD'S ANOINTED. The reason why everything that President Wilson does must be wrong is carefully explained by Mr. Hughes: I "You could no more build up this country by the application of demo- cratic doctrines than you could go flying through the air in the olu- I fashioned flvinir machines of thirfcv r - I years ago. j Therefore President Wilson, being i democrat, is mentally, morally and physically incapable of doing any- imngngnt; out .ur. nugnes, oeing a . v.tsUU.vu, o i.wut.isi v ",mj I thing wrong. The present chief justice of the United States supreme court, being a Ixjuisiana democrat, is ipso facto a fool and a sectionalist, but a former associate justice of the United States supreme court who recently resigned in order to accept the republican nom ination for president is one of the great lawgivers of all ages. People like Mr. Hughes and Mr. Crane and Mr. Penrose and Mr. Can non and Mr. Mann and Mr. Barnes are the Lord's anointed. They were raised up by an All-Wise Providence to be the ruling class of the country. The Lord intended them to govern because He gave them republican minds. Bat people like Mr. Wilson were created to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. If the Deity had wished them to meddle with government He would have made them republicans. J Mr. Hughes has proved himself the j George F. Baer of politics. He Vnr.vs exactly into whose hands Divine Pro- vidence placed the welfare of the working classes and of everybody c'ie. New York World. PROGRESSIVES FLOCK TO PRESI DENT "WILSON. To substantiate his claim that "the drift of progressives to the support of President Wilson has become a I stampede since their meeting in Indianapolis," Democratic National chairman Vance C. McCormick made notn,j- narfiai i;cf f A - nrominent Bull Moose leaders who have said tney will vote the demo- cratic ticket. By letter or telegram I to President Wilson and himself, or in public statements, the men named j by Mr. McCormick a few repub licans, too have indicated their pur pose to oppose Mr. Hughes. The swing to Wilson, Mr. McCor mick said, is most pronounced in the Etate of Washington, but reports from the Pacific coast indicate that prac- tically the entire progressive vot? of several of the states there will be cr.st for the president. Mr. McCormic".: eads his list with the names of John AT. Parxer ot Louisiana, progressive r.ominee for vice president, and Bu;r: . , rrn Colli v. wbn nominntpil Rnns'i'. velt in the progressive convention this year and that of four years ago. Besides Matthew Hale, progressive leader of Massachusetts; J. A. H. Hop kins, state chairman of New Jersey, I and John J. O'Connell, chairman of the New York county Bull Mooseers, Mr. McCormick includes the follow ing: Hugo Wintncr, New York attorney, progressive candidate tor supreme court in 1912; Michael Schaap, vice chairman of the New York state pro gressive committee; W. H. Nichols of Vermont, member of progressive exe cutive committee; J. C. Porker, editor of Xefax Magazine, Philadelphia; Paul T. Mueller, editor and proprietor of the Chicae-o AbendDost and Chicaco l feonntagnost, tne most lntluentiai German publications, politically, in the United States; John L. Sullivan, editor 0f St. Marys (Ohio) Leader, who with drew as republican nominee for sec retary of state in 1912 to join the progressives; Randolph Wr. Walton, Columbus. O.. progressive candidate for attorney general of Ohio in 1914; Henry L. Wallace, foremost progres- sive of Michigan, and John F. Smith, chairman of the Michigan progressive state committee; Clarence Holbert, progressive state chairman of Minne sota; Casper Schenck of Des Moines, progressive candidate for United states senate two years ago; Judge Albert D. Nort0n of the Missiuri court .i. t. r,.,mon lot appeals; rormer Congressman T u r tt i John C. Houk, progressive state chair- e man of Tennessee. iur. .MCLOrmiCK gives me ionowing list of "conspicuous" progressives in the state of Washington who have declared for Wilson: Ole Hanson, candidate for United States senate in 1914; Edgar C. Sny- der, state chairman; H. C. Pigott, editor of Seattle Saturdav Nieht: . T ,. . w -w-i ill i 11 tt letcner, wno were an on tne progressive local ticket in iyi4; Henry Albert McLean, candidate for congress; C. J. France, chairman of the pr0gressive state convention; Dr. Carl Ewald member of the Seattle riorr. rnrnmissinn ? I . H. Molton. a councilman, Seattle; J. G. Gregory, an editor; M. C. McCabe, lawyer; J. T. Gilberts, former socialist editor of the Seattle Herald; Glen Hoover, socialist candidate for congress; J. II. Justice, George H. Virtue, R. H. Allen, Mrs Nellie Burnside, Mrs. Helen M. Stev ens; Mrs. Lillian Beloto, president of the Seatle Suffrage club; Mrs. W. S Griswell and Mrs. F. L. E. Clark; W. E. Sheldon, a noted Christian Science heal aler, formerly a republican and then leading progressive; Austin E. Grif- a lead fiths. former councilman at large of Seattle and candidate for congress; Georee W. Dilling, former member of the Washington legislature and mayor Seattle. In California, Mr. McCormick says, Francis J. Henry, as vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Progressive league, has enrolled thousands of pro- gressives under the president's ban- ner, while in Idaho the following have lined up for the president: P. Monroe Smote, candidate for congress in 1914; Hugh M. Elroy, candidate for gov- ernor; Clarence Van Dusen, candidate Net Contents 15 Fluid Pramq .J i'io ATi-nnoL-aPERCFSX y AVeetaLlelpaiahaiiiDrAS- OiUilAALX"!S"AW i Jt J tvo moi H litest ionfJicafiil' mss andBcst.ContaiiBBe5? I OpitnraiorpJinic iiar Not Narcotic. JirrllrUrSiitt JaixSetd J'rpptrMiit - Wrm SKt - 1-fHftfdSnmt' wyii, . i-5 Hill ; it. w 3336 'a5.i ft !Jfa5 Exact Copy of Wrapper. 1 for state auditor; C. O. Broxon, can- didate for state treasurer. Uregon progressives named are William Hanley, candidate for gover nor; Norman S. Richards, attorney of Portland, and candidate for congress in 1912. Mr. McCormick intends to publish many other names as soon as the authors of letters and telegrams to himself permit the use of their names. New York World. -:o:- 0no cect of censorship is an in creased appetite for reports of the in Cresting but unconfirmed variety. -:o: It is reported that Billy Sunday re- ceived no Pa' for his late ta,ks on temperance in .Nebraska. Don t you believe it. Billy Sunday got paid, and well paid for his speeches, and it came out of the republican campaign fund. Billy is working for the money and nothing else. Some of the scientists have figured it out that early in December a big meteor is going to fall into the sun, with the result that the impact will increase the sun's heat several thou sand times. This will melt all the ore, burn up all the wood and boil all the water out of our various well estab lished oceans, and we had better hurry up and get our Christmas shop ping done. :o: Now it is being urged that Mr. Hughes, while governor of New York, vetoed a measure to give a state pen sion of $8 a month to veterans of the civil war, as was done in Massachu setts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and some other states. Going to the su preme bench for a candidate seems to have provided the republicans with one who has no record to defend. Lincoln Star. - llll 1916 CROP INCREASING -Western Farm Values!- YVYOMING IjUVEavlY MENT IRRIGATED LANDS NEBRASKA AND LULUKAUU If you or your sons expect to get ton, I urge you to get in touch with me T-Y acuvnv mat is responding to the excellent 1916 crops Mmm ;:tz;r:nans . v. d. niwAnu, immigration Agent, C. B. & Q, R, r, 1004 1'ainam Street, Omaha, Neb. For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years BASmi TMI CtNTtUR COMHNT. NEW YORK CITY. "Home Coming" Thursday. festivities start :o:- MOTORING IN COLORADO. From Friday's Dally. W. H. Heil and wife, residing west of this city, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Group, are enjoying an automobile trip out in Colorado, where they are having one of the times of their lives, and taking in the sights. The party enjoyed a visit at Fort Col lins on their way out, and will spend some time in the vicinity of Denver at the pleasure resorts of that lo cality. COMPLETES FINE CORN CRIB. From Saturday's Dallv. William Kief who has been down in the vicinity of Nehawka, completed a nne new douDJe corn crib on the farm of William Schlichtemeier, re turned home a few days ago and yes terday departed for Glenwood where he will assist in the work of the $10, 000 concrete barn being built at the in stitute by the firm of Peters & Rich ards of this city. WANTED Man and wife for farm work. Will occupy same dwelling with me. Lady to care for house. Call Murray Tel. Exchange. E. R. Queen, Plattsmouth, Neb. 8-21-tfw. FOR SALE A good, gentle driving horse, harness and top buggy, at a reasonable price. Address Bob 514, Plattsmouth, Neb. 3td 2tw Cure for Cholera Morbus. "When our little boy, now seven years old, was a baby he was cured of cholera morbus by Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Reme dy," writes Mrs.. Sidney Simmons, Fair Haven, N. Y. "Since then other members of my family have used this valuable medicine for colic and bowel troubles with good satisfaction and I gladly endorse it as a remedy of ex ceptional merit." Obtainable every where. Read the want ads in the JournaL a it I f m ft i m. i 320 acre Free Mondell. Lands going fast. An excellent selection yet for you near Douglas, Wyo., on Burlington main line. Watch for autumn announcement opening 12,000 acres Denver Unit, Big Horn Basin, next to wonderful Govern ment irrigated locality at Powell. Write me about it Bumper wheat crops and favorable live stock condition are creating wide spread demand for these deeded land. hold of good lands aloncr n...i..- at once ahead of the landseekers' 6