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When you see a man walking down
street wearing a 7x9 smile and looking
as happy as a Missouri girl at a hoe
down, he is a democrat. Kearney Re
view. P. T. ISaknum, the great showman,
is believed to be on his death bed.
Having done more than any man living
to amuse the world, nobody wi.l be
amused at his departure.
It is hoped that Mr. Connell will now
have time to look after that Platts
mouth river appropriation aud to an
swer the letter bent him by the leading
republican of this city on that subject.
Mk. Bryan will not yet have passed
the thirty-first mile post in life when
he shall have been sworn in as con
gressman. He will be one of the
youngest, if not the youngest member
of the 52d congress.
The republican party loses five U.
S. senators as a result of the late elec
tion. Evarts in New York, Spooner in
Wisconsin, Farwell in Illinois, Moody
iu South Dakota and Installs in Kansas
will all have to walk the plank.
No newspaper in Nebraska ever had
greater influence in shaping the poli
tics of the state during a campaign
than the World-Herald had during the
past camoaizn. This is but a just ac
knowle.ltriuent of a well-known and
recognized fact.
The complete downfall of the p. o. p
in Nebraska is sad to contemplate.
For the first time in the state's history
it stands as the third party in its num
ber of representatives m the .state
legislature. Cass county's senator will
be lonesome indeed.
Jay Gould has bought up a con
trolling interest in the Union Pacific,
and a pool is talked of between Gould,
the Vanderbilts and Rockafeller to
control through traffic from coast to
coast. If auccessful it will be the
greatest confederation on earth.
William II. Vaderbilt's wealth
at death was estimated at two hundred
million dollars. It is estimated also
that if Adam had received $25,000 a
year for taking care of the Garden of
Eden, and had been paid regular wages
ever since, he would not up to turn
time have been paid such a sum,
There is a good deal of excitement
in military circles over a threatened
outbreak of the Indians of the north
west iust now. and regular troops are
concentrating with all possible rapidity
in and about tne itoseDua agency iu
South Dakota and at Mandan, North
Dakota, to forestall any movement of
that kind that might be attempted
Through able efforts of the Herald
and a half dozen other republican coun
ty organs Cass county has at last swung
into the column as a democratic county,
with a democratic plurality on the
whole state ticket of 112 to 470. This
must be very consoling to the said or
sa.na. and illustrates the wonderful
power of the local (republican) press,
It is interesting to note that Gov
ernor Hill and Senator Gorman have
had a conference, the purpose of which
was to shape the policy of the demo
crats in the next house. They are
both interested in clogging the wheels
to prevent any genuine tariff reform,
and are afraid ot the results of the
late victory over protection. Western
democrats want no such leaders.
It is more than suspected and is al
totrether probable the talk indulged in
by certain parties at Lincoln of contes
ting the election of Boyd for governor
originated with and by the prohibition
element both outs'de and inside the
Alliance. The scheme seems to be to
get Mr. Powers installed as governor
in the hone that a prohibition statute
may be pushed through the legislature,
If this scheme develops into a certainty
it will find strong opposition to its con-
sumation.
"Ttikre is a place for all liars and
the man who sent that dispatch to the
New York Voice, stating that Omaha
km in the hands of a mob election day
will go there," observed Rev. Joseph
T. Duryea incidentally as he convened
a meeting or tne tjongregauonai uiui
isters of the city at the First Congrega
tional church last night. 1 he occasion
was for the purpose of discussing plans
by which the congregations of that
denomination throughout the state
which are not provided with pastors
could be assisted. Omaha World-Her
ald.
Taxking about government post
office buildings, why shouldn't the
chances of Plattsmouth be pretty good
in that direction in the near future?
TVrv ether large town in this district
i already provided. Lincoln, Omaha
Vfthraska City each have a build
and for .Beatrice tne mu ua
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ing.
passed
now is there a single gooa
mi i ain XfYlV
this town should not De
provided in a similar manner? Bett
:.n.Mn have promised to work for it
Beth
a if Tirr ftonnell will do nothing, it is
ZTiLmmt: TTMeted when Mr. Bryan gets
there he will do what he can for this
there newm halfhearted eflort at
IS THERE UOfE OF UNION?
J. Sterling Morton has written a
timely letter to the World-Herald, sug
gesting unity of action between the
democracy and the independent party
on common ground. He premises that
both organizations have persistently
fought the protection hydra; both
have likewise protested against the ex
travagance in state management, and
high taxes as a necessary result, and
he suggests that a demonstration of
substantial unity be made on Jan 8,
891 Jackson's day for the purpose
named. . .
While The Journal would ne ever
so glad to see some substantial progress
made in that direction it is well enough
to look facts in the face and not to ex
pect too much to come of such a sug
gestion. In the coming legislature the
independent or alliance party uaa
elected a clear majority of its members.
Granted that that result was Drougnt
about in the main as a protest against
republican methods, the chief element
of that contest in the case of the alli
ance campaign was not the enormities
of the tariff, which, to democratic eyes,
is the chief corner stone or an political
Villainies, but it was a fight for farm
ers' rights against the ext rtions and
the corruptions or tne railway powers
in the state. The farmers nave aiscov-
ered that nearly if not quite all of the
public men of republican raitn nave
become subservient tools ol the rail
way force in politics, and that this
force has also to some extent per
meated the democratic party, and we
are of the belief that the only ground
of union between the two elements of
opposition to modern republicanism is
the substantial agreement to com
pletely overthiow and disarm this venal
force in state politics. If there be any
considerable element in the democratic
ranks that in a business or political
nnv lives or depends upon the tavor or
the railroad managers, no hope of unity
can reasonably be entertained. Oil
and water cannot be successfully
mixed. The revolt of the farmers was
no ephemeral affair. It was the result
of deep-seatea and abiding disust and
discontent. It means war, war to the
knife, and the knife to the hilt at the
heart of as infamous a conspiracy
arainat the people's rights as ever
emenated from the counsels of dishon
eat and venal men, and it must be
renocmized and its justice admitted as
a basic principle of action by demo
cratic leaders before any hope of union
can be entertained.
The railroads, as business enter
nriaao OVA ffTAUr. It 11 Illlf UeilCiilUbUia.
as political centers their managers and
attorneys are conspirators against the
public welfare to just as great an ex
tent as the monopolists wno iatteu up
. . . A. J. .
on the spoils of taxes fastened upon
the people by their tools and creatures
in congress the McKinleys, Reeds and
Quays of national politics. In their
trail may be found only the wrecks of
ruined reputations and dishonored
lives. Railway and tariff monopoly
politics are tarred with the same suck
an infamy of greeu. ineir uiuiunw
purpose is the same an overpowering
iristocracy of weaitn to oe gotteu i
any cost. Mr. Morton is gifted witn
great wisdom, and we take it that he
knows this to be true, and he must
know also that the necessity lor tne
nnmnlete overthrow of both of these
elements of danger to popular and just
crovernment is equally great if a com
ntftte reform is to be effected. The de
mands of the farmers is bottomed in
the principles of eternal justice, and
much as it might be desired, in a parti-
zan sense, to have them join tne
democracy, it is well to recognize
things as thev are and prepare to meet
them like patriotic men.
This newspaper is not tne organ or
spokesman of the farmers, and has no
affiliation with the alliance, but views
this situation from a democratic stand
point and with a full realization of
t.h difficulties of the situation. We
desire to see that union brought about,
because to make fish of one evil and
fowl of another would not be a possible
combination.
A gain of 61 democratic congress
men from the northern states at the re
cent election does not indicate that the
force bill if passed will secure a repub
lican majority in congress, ror witn a
pain of 25. as the republicans claim by
that bill from the south, their party
would still be in a minority of 92,grant-
ing that there would be no substantia
chancres in the other congressional
elections at the next election. But
Inst let the present congress go ahead
and commit that folly as advocated by
the president today, and the party
which fathers the scheme will not be
left with a corporal's guard of a follow
ing in congress from all the northern
states. The American people want
no federal censorship or controll of
elections. Thev believe still that this
is and ou&rht to continue to be a "gov
ernment of the people by the people"
as well "for the people," as Mr. Lin
coin said. No officials, appointed by
the president, can usurp the functions
of the election boards elected by the
several precincts. The boards elected
by the people may make mistakes, but
they are far more apt to be honest than
government officials, responsible only
tA a political head at Washington. The
force bill, depend upon it, will not be
passed, and if it is passed it will sound
the knell of the republican party for
ever.
TTnnTTTR county cast the smallest
vntj of mit county in the state, yet she
waa the last county heard from. She
HOW M'KINLKYISM WORKS.
Catting own Was;ee of Workman in
creasing IMvldanda of tbe Klch.
Tne news columns of the Chicago
Tribune (rep.) give abundant evidence,
since tne election, what effect on
wages the McKinley bill has bad. It
had, the other day, half a column of
news beaded "Developments of the
last few days," "Some reductions of
wages under the McKinley bill." From
the dispatches given we learn that: (1)
The spoolers in the Merrimac miiis
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have had their pay reoucea id ceuta
per day, the wages of the drawing-in
girls reduced, and there is apprehen
sion of "a general cut down" in wages.
(2) The armature winders of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company, at
Lynn, Mass., have struck to resist a
reduction of wages. (3) Seventy girls
at Ashland, Penn., have struck on ac
count of a reduction in wages. (4) The
Cleveland Malleable Iron Works re
duced wages last week. (5) There are
strikes in the iron mines of Michigan.
This is quite a respectable list aud
could be indefinitely increased by cull-
ings from other republican sources
Oh the other hand, from tbe . same
sources, we learn. (1) That the stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany have voted to increase the capital
stock from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000;
that the lust six months have been the
most profitable in the company's his
tory, and that profits for last year were
over 30 per cent. (Z) mat tne y&tna
ron Company has increased its capital
stock to $500,000 and declared a divi
dend of 198,000. (3) That the Bethle
hem Iron Company has voted to in
crease the capital stock from 3,000,000
to 5,000,000 and made 25 percent pront
last vear. (4) That tne xnomas iron
Company has declared a dividend of 25
per cent.
The comparison between the results
to the laborer and the manufacturer as
shown in the above ought to be suffi
cient to convince even the most pur
blind high tarffice how McKmleyism
works. Protect manufacturers irom
all foreign competition and then by
means of trusts and combines the man
ufacturers can "protect" themselves
against American workmen and labor
ers, and the gathering of taxas from
sixty-three millions of people will go
merrily on to the music of MCivimeyisra.
THE HERALD SQUEALS.
To TBI business men of Plattsmouth : Isn't it
better to support one good daily, paper than to
have an exense in the form of a second one.
Plattsmouth Journal.
The business men ol riattsmoutn nave aireaay
emphatically answered the above in no uncertain
tones hence the squeal. Plattsmouth Herald.
What are you kicking so much about,
then.
The overwhelming victory won by
the opponents of "protection" in last
week's election is, of itself , so impres
sive that it calls for no comment. The
McKinley bill, the force bill, the steal
ing of Montana's senators, the stealing
of seats in the house, the brutal insol
ence of Reed, the shameful submission
of the republicans to his dictation; in
short, the whole programme of force
and fraud was condemned by a tidal
wave of popular disgust against the re
publican party U it works.
There will be less than ninety repub
licans in the next house, and despite
the erection of mining camps into
states, and the theft of the representa
tion of Montana, the republican ma
jority in the senate is reduced to two
or three, and it came within a hair's
breadth of disappearing entirely, me
shameful and audacious attempt to
bribe the American people with their
own money to vote to substitute a
plutocratic for a democratic govern
ment has ignominiously failed, and the
party lending itself to it has been
literaly kicked out of power. New
York Standard.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, from
which the Plattsmouth Herald was
wont to quote so extensively in ad
vocacy of the Mciuniey scneme oi
robbery, now demands of the repub
licans in congress the immediate re
vision and reduction of the McKinley
tariff. It calls upon them to undo the
blunders incorporated in that monstros
ity, on behalf of western repuoiicans.
The Chicago Tribune has tasen suo
stantiallv the same stand, and both
admit that the people have so strongly
condemned the measure that the only
just course left is to submit to the wish
of the people. These declarations are
coupled with the expressed hope that
thus the new democratic congress will
then be left at sea with no cause to
fieht the tariff. It is a shrewd scheme,
but it will not;work. The tariff lords
have the party bv the throat and will
never let go.
Says an orean which favors im
mediate revision of the McKinley bill
by the republicans: "If the bill is not
revised bv its friends this winter its
enemies will accomplish that task next
year." Certainly, and why not? The
The enemies of the bill have sent
enemies of the bill to congress for that
very purpose. When the people chose
enemies of the bill to represent them in
Washington, they did not asK tne
fripnd of the bill to revise it in some
new but still very friendly way. They
are not likely to express much confidence
in any revision of tbe bill by its friends
when they go to the polls in 1892, if
they have any such revision to pass
upon. And that is one reason why the
friends of the bill will prefer to take
their chances with it again rather than
risk a revision. Ex.
THE WOMEN DID IT-
It is said in the earliest record of
man's history that Adam laid the blame
of his misfortune . upon woman. Said
he: "The woman whom thou gavest
to be with me, she gave me of the tree
and I did eat." It is interesting to
note, at this time of sorrow any trouble
among republican leaders, their efforts
to explain the causes of the late ava
lanche that buried their party out of
sight. Tom Reed, the late czar from
Maine, has given perhaps tbe most
truthful and at least the most uuique
explanation of the cause of any repub-1
lican leader, which is that "the women
did it." Iu an interview he is quoted
as saying:
I am inclined to think that the most
important factor in the result of this
election was the women of the country.
It is the women who do the shopping,
who keep the run of prices, who have
the keenest scent for increased cost.
They heard In every store the clerks
behind the counters explain how this
article or that could not be sold here
after at the former price because of the
McKinley bill; they went home and
told their husbands and fathers, and
their stories had a tremendous effect at
tbe ballot box.
. Tom Reed is certainly entitled to
credit for candor and honesty in this
matter. Woman's influence on her
husband's vote no doubt had some
weight, notwithstanding men generally
delight in the idea that tbey do their
own voting. When democratic news
papers and stumpers were detailing the
facts that prices on protected goods
were rising, many men were puzzled
and knew not what to do, but when the
women who did the shopping confirmed
these statements from the retail stores,
it was a clinching argument against
the McKinley tariff. They were con
vinced that the consumer paid the bill
"hence these tears."
CARPETS GOING UP.
A few days since a contemporary
made a great flourish of the report
from one of our dry goods firms that
they had received notice that certain
qualities of carpets were reduced in
price. It is presumed tnat tnat con
temporary will take no notice of the
following Item of news respecting tne
increase in prices:
New York, Nov. iy. me carpet
manufacturers, it appears, have found
it necessary to increase their prices
materially in order to meet the increased
cost of production, owing to the ad
vance in the duty on raw materials.
John Sloan, of the firm of W. &J.
Sloane, said today that although the
price cf carpets might have been raised
this fall somewhat, owing to the fact
that for some time manufacturers
bad been selling at a loss, the new
prices which will go into effect on De
cember 1, are largely due to the increase
in the price of carpets: he explained
that it varied; Brussels carpet naa
been advanced 10 per cent; ingrains
from 5 to 8 per cent; tapestry carpets
only about 4 per cent, and the higher
qualitiesTrom 8 to 10 per cent.
Justice Miller saw President Lin
coln for the last time at the inaugural
ball given in honor of his second elec
tion. The president turned to him
with great cordiality and said: "How
are the justices and their gowns?"
Judge Miller replied that they were all
right, and President Lincoln went on.
'Miller, you were brought up on a farm
weren't you?" "Yes," replied the
judge. " Well," said President Lincoln,
"you must have seen tne oreaKing oi
land and the burning up of timber in a
clearing. You have seen the heavy
bark fall off from a half-decayed log,
while out from under the bark would
come great winged ants, which would
waddle off with the runniest Kind oi
clumsy dignity. Do you know, judge,
I never see ore of you justices with
your gowns on but I think of these ants
which we used to see on tne larm in
clearing."
: r rZ. -
The organization of UH incoming
legislature will be a theme orrnterested
speculation until mat Dooy meets.
There are said to be but fiye men
elected to the house who have ever
served as legislators before, and among
these are Frank E. White of Cass, John
C. Watfon of Otoe and Church Howe
of Nemaha. Mr. White is an excellent
parliamentarian, has had two terms of
previous experience and is very niseiy
to be the choice or nis pany ior
speaker. Mr
Watson willlorobably be
his party's nominee, while the alliance.
which controls the house, will prooaoiy
select C. D. Shrader of Logan county
for that place. The man who is best
posted on the question of railway tariffs
is likely to mate tne most reputation
during the coming session.
Mr. Windom finds that in one de
partment alone, that of pensions, there
will be a deficit of $76,000,000. How
this is to be met with a decreased
revenue and tight money market Mr.
Windom does not know just at present.
From his standpoint there is but one
way of escape and that is increase in
the public debt by the issue of more
interest bearing bonds, but such an act
would be the last nail in the repulican
coffin. To give a premium of 25 per
cent for the privilege of paying off
bonds within a few months of issuing
more bonds to increase individual bar
dens, although government receipts are
reduced; to plunge the nation deeper in
debt and the people deeper in expenses
these are a few of the acts of the last
congress. World-Herald.
NEWSPAPER DEFAMATION.
It is a common thing among news
papers of the same town to quarrel,
and it is common for rival editors to
level their sharpest jibes at their con
temporaries. Within the limits of
gentility and truthfuluess this is all
right, and the public not only ap
preciates but commends it as tending
to develope enterprise and spirit. The
hired editor of the Herald of this city
!03s not seem content with this course,
however, but is so desirous of main
ing the supremacy of his own organ
that he does not hesitate at the use of
calumny and slander toward The
Journal and its editor to make good
his point. In yesterday's Herald he
gives vent to a very bad temper,
and in the midst of a boastful effusion
says:
Talking about poverty reminds us that we have
not been the subject of public charity at any
time, and have not extorted money from our
central committee as a price for our support of
the republican ticket, as Mr. Pherman ban done
with his democratic friends.
Like the charge made against Mr.
Farthing, the above might be called
"important if true," but unfortunately
for the reputation of the writer thereof,
"there is nothing in it." The man who
values his reputation a a gentleman
would make no vuch charge without
evidence to sustain it, but it is no ,
exaggeration to say that theie is not a
scintilla of evidence in existence to
prove that TriE Jovknal or ts editor
even made a demand upon the central
committee for a dollai, much less "extorted-'
anything from it even for the
printing of tickets, bills or other job
work used in the campaign.. . (The
Journal is not bound to i ) a
negative, yet we could do soby5?ery
member of the committee, if need )e.
A newspaper that will maliciously
coin falsehoods like the above extract
to bolster itself up must be in a bad
way to feel compelled to resort to Buch
a course of defamation. Tell the
truth, Bro. Knotts, and "Shame the
devil."
WELCOME, OUR DEFENDERS.
Wednaadar-a Dally.
The Journal, in common with all
our citizens and in their behalf , extends
a most cordial greeting and hearty wel
come to tbe Nebraska and other vet
erans assembling here today in their
reunion. Having earned the title of
their country's benefactors, the city
and everything in it is at their disposal.
Plattsmouth is proud of them; proud of
the share her sons bore in that great
struggle for the preservation of the
union, and is also proud of their com
radesthe men of Nebraska and of
other states who, with them, bore the
burden of their country's trial. May
the meeting at this time be one of un
alloyed pleasure and of gaeat profit.
The People Itelgn.
St. Louis Republic.
Harrison and Reed, Quay and Dudley,
Mailed Hand and Blocks of Five, are
buried beyond resurrection. The coun
try has passed through a great cricis,
and it is once more demonstrated that
no despotism of money or torce can
crush the free spirit of America. Yes-'
terday'sQwork means peace, prosperity,
union. It is the dawn of the twen
tieth century, full of hope for united
America, North, South, east and West.
The lines of civil war sectionalism are
broken at last. The country is once
more fully united, and from Massachu
setts to Texas all Americans who are
not radicals or plutocrats may well join
in the "Te deum laudamus" of patri
otic thanksgiving.
What Blackburn Says Blaine Declared.
Senator Blackburn tells an almost
incredible story of Mr. Blaine's attitude
toward the McKinley bill. Mr. Blaine
came into a consultation with Senators
Allison, Hale, and Blackburn, and the
McKinley bill being mentionsd he de
nounced it in a torrent of invective,
saying: "mis Din is an iniamy auu an
h a 1 t m J
'outrage. It is the most snameiui
r meagUre ever proposed to a civilized
people. Go on with it and it will carry
our nartv to perdition. Pass thi s bill
and in '92 there will not be a manin all
the party so beggared as to accept
your nomination for the presidency.
The high tariff devotees delight to
tell ignorant people that the effect of
the protective tariff is to enable Amer-
i ican manufacturers to pay higher
; waees than tbey do in Europe. They
also affirm very stiffly that tne nign
tariff does not increase the price of
manufactured goods to the American
consumer. They never attempt to ex
plain how the manufacturer can or
does afford to pay higher wages and
still not increase the price of his good3
to the consumer. They assume that
people are too ignorant to reason that
far along. The fact is wages in Amer
ica is governed by the law of supply
and demand and the amount of finished
product it can turn out just as it is in
Germany and elsewhere while the
price of goods to the American con
sumer is governed by the amount of
tariff it bears and price fixed by the
tariff-created trusts and combines. In
otheCwords, the protected manufac
turers rob the people to the extent of
their ability and use the tenff as the
means by which the robbery is effected.
Real Estate, Abstract, Loan and In
surance. Money to loan on Farms at
a very low rate, without TOmmission.
26-tf B. W. Htebs.
Plattsmouth, Nsb.
home the thing an be accomplished
only cast 72 votes.