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About Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1894)
ii i ' &'m mlftM ml 1 1 It Complaints! c. Wescott & Son. Had a complaint The other day about one of our Overcoats not a common oc currence, either. About C2ijjCj jgsS How's Your Figure? Trim? Straight? Well de veloped? Then don't spoil it with "ready-made" clothes which were cut to fit every body. Wear clothes that fit that were made solely for you. How's Our Figures? Salts, tailor-made. - - - 315 to 20 Pants. - - 4 to 86 Overcoats, S10 to $18 Made to measure to fit you perfectly ; su perior material, latest styles. ADD OUR FIGURES ' TO YOUR FIGURE, And the Result Will Delight You. WESCOTT & SON, ONE P HICK AND AO 3I0XKKY UUSINhSS. Ttift Plattsmouth Journal MAILT AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN-, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. One copy oiib year. In advance . by mail. . .15 00 One copy six months. In advance, by mail, 2 f0 On) copy one month, in advauce, by mail, 50 One ropy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every ifiernoou except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. single cpy. one year fl 00 jingle copy, six months V) Hibllaiivd every Thursday. Payable in advance Entered at the pokioOicoat Plattsmouth, Ne-b'-ita. as second-class matter. A republican' organ is tired of having "Dryan, McKiegban aud Kern'' in congress. Shouldn't wonder. They are and have been thorns in the flesh of :iU cormptionists. and monopolists. Since the election it is understood that the Ii. & M. management is boy rotting newspapers that opposed its political policy in the late campaign. Apparently it only wants the patron age of those who agree with it in poli tics. . TrtE republican newspapers have be come convinced that Governor IIol comb is a pretty good man. Iu effect they are taking back all their pre-election clatter. Not a word from them now intimates that they ever had any idea that his election would injure the state's credit. The great French engineer, DeLes seps, is dead. lie it was who built the Suez canal, beginning it in 1&59 and finally completing it i& 1869, connect ing the waters of the Mediterranian with those of the lied Sea. He also began the digging of the Panama canal, but that work has thus far failed. Talk about your hungry crowd, but the fact that the republican leeches have been choked oft tor the past two years, has sharpened their appetite to the keenest edge. There are thirty ap plicants for sectary of the senate, and no less than two hundred fellows in training for other positions in both senate and house. Beatrice Demo crat. Frank II. Wilson of this city seem ingly stands an excellent chance of se curing the chief clerkship of the house, which wonld be a compliment to Cass fZ Get E c county and the selection of a very com petent, ready and capable man. In fact we know of no man in the state who is better Otted by natural and ac quired ability for a place of such res ponsibility as that of chief clerk than Mr. Wilson. Besides, he is a typical republican. The average republican seems to be very hard to please on the commission? ership question. About one-half are kicking at Frank Dickson for not sup porting or voting for Mr. Davis, and the other half are kicking because Mr. Eickhoff didn't vote for Mr. Todd. It is a fact, however, that if either side to this controversy w ere to receive any benefit from the selection of either of these two gentlemen the favor would probably have been at the expense of the county, while the selection of Mr Patterson helps nobody in particular, but the whole county in general. The Chicago Times has recently changed ownership, has been enlarged to a regular sixteen pace edition, has put on a new dress which makes it equal if not superior in the beauty of its typographical appearance to any paper in Chicago, and is now the model newspaper in the best of all newspaper towns in America. Its price to mail subscribers is $4.50 for a seven days a week daily, per annum. In principle the Times is purely democratic, and it will doubtless take front rank in circu lation and influence. It is the paper for the people. A joint resolution, proposing an amendment to the constitution, pro viding that the president shall not be eligible to re-election, has been intro duced by Congressman Bryan. Itisin accordance with the principles of the platform upon which he made his race for senator. The same idea was fav ored by Mr. Cleveland in his first letter of acceptance, and ought to be placed in the organic law of the land. A president ambitious of re-election bas always been a detriment to good gov ernment. Geo. W..Leidioii, late candidate for float representative, is being pushed for the wardenship of the state peni tentiary by his friends. The Journal earnestly hopes Gov. Ilolcomb will make the appointment. Ve know of no better or more capable man for the place. $25 in U. S. Notes Given Away. We have had made for us a number of skeleton keys after the style used by Uncle Sam. A cabinet containing $25.00 in U. S. notes is now displayed g in our show window, this cabinet has a lock and only one key will fit it. The 1 person holding this lucky key will be presented with the 525.00 absolutely free. A key will be given free to every purchaser buying $1.00 worth of . goods at our store ; $2.00 two keys, etc. To glance at these keys they all 4 look alike, but on closer examination it will be found that they are all slightly different, and only one of those distributed .will open the door ot the box. The locking and sealing of this box with the S25.00 inside was conducted by such responsible and solid business men whose signatures appear below, and is a guarantee of the straight forwardness and genuineness which character izes all our dealings. . We, the undersigned, have locked this box, containing $25.00, and placed the key among the other keys to be given away as stated by C. E. Wescott & Son. We have also put our seal over the lock, and no living soul, not even the Wescott's themselves can tell which the right ke is that will open the g box. Signed, Samuel Waugh, Cashier First National Bank. jj W. K. Fox, Postmaster Plattsmouth. J. C. Eikenba ry. Sheriff Cass County. Geo. A. Hay, Register of Deeds. Everybody can't get the correct key, but everybody can take advantage of nearly a $25,000.00 stock of new and desirable Clothing, Furnishing . Goods, Hats, Caps, Shoes, etc., at lower prices than was ever sold in this city O" - or any other city, and if you happen to get the right key you will not only get the best bargain you ever got in Clothing, but you will be $25.00 ahead the Bargains. Get the Keys. CL :C Wescott do Son. 3 Wescott & A DEMOCltATH: CO EMISSION Kit. It was a strange outcome of the struggle over the appointment of the county commissioner to fill the Dutton vacancy that :i democrat should be selected by the appointing power, but. there is often "a wheel within a wheel," that the general public is not aware of. In the result, however, there is a general acquiescence, be cause the selection is recognized as a good one, and the part which Judge Ramsey took in the affair is certainly very creditable both to his judgment and conservatism. To begin with ho made an offer to the two republican officials to the effect that if they wonld agree upon a man either upon Mr. Todd or Mr. Davis or upon some one else that he would join them in mak ing the election unanimous; but if they could not agree he would stand by and vote for Mr. Patterson, and hoped that one of them would come tc him and elect his choice. Leastwise they could not blame him for standing out for his Orst choice. This was a fair and rea sonable position to take, and he was. jj very much astonished to find that on the second baliot taken Saturday after- A noon Mr. Eickhoff voted with him for Mr. Patterson - and elected him. The public reasons given by Mr. E. for casting this vote are not known. but the private ones are well under- stood. Mr. Todd was known to have . . . , .i .... J been opposed to making the county ) tl .. . . , j pay the cost of repairs on the "atte river bridge at Louisville-and this- was enough, although there were other J and weightier ones. J The practical question that comes up now or in the near future is, does the appointment made hold until the next annual election. On this authorities are divided. County Attorney Travis has been looking up the law and auth orities on the subject and holds that the selection of Mr. Patterson to fill the Dutton vacancy holds until thf election and qualification of his suc cessor, which can only be accomplished after the next annual election. This was also said to be the opinion of Mr. Polk, the county attorney-elect at first, but since then he has changed hia mind. However this may be determined there is no question but the appoint- Son. ment made is :i first-class one, and that i the interests of the county will be well served while Mr. Patterson is a member of the board. WM. I.. WILSON CONFIDENT. The following letter from '.'hairman Wilson to a friend in Tacoma, Wash ington, has been made public: Washington. I. '.. Dec. I. l4.-.vv vf.au Haz.aru: I ainvery grateful forthetind words you send me in the name of my democratic friends In Washington. I appreciate thefrper sonnl and political friendship and shall iry s earnestly to deserve it in private life as in pub lic service. I do not allow myself to repine over my own reverre. and, as to the general disaster, I am confident that the people will soon learn that the democratic party did not deserve any such chastisement at their hands and 'Will como back to us as pushioimtely us they seem to have left us. This country does not belong to the tiuthiud monopolists and no vingle battle citn give it to them. An army may be defeated, but our cause, as the old Koman, Allen Thurman, said cn his recent birthday, is the cause of free institu tions, und is therefore invincible. V. L. WILSON'. Tde appointment of county com missioner to fill the Dutton vacancy, it is held by good lawyers, can only last until the present term of Mr. Dutton expires,'because the statue specifically says that such appointments shall only hold for the unexpired term. An illus tration is given thus: Suppose Mr. Falter had been elected for the next term and he had died as well as Mr. Dutton betore he was to take bis seat, then there could be no question that the l'resent vacancy could not be held to extend over the term for which Mr. ,( , t , ., ., . , Falter was elected. On the other hand ,f the nt appontee B,l0uId qua,fy and &g the newly eIected member wouM not appear for qualifying, the appointee might hold over until the election following. fnE announcement is made that Senator Vorhees is preparing a speech, to be delivered soon, in tavor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The - fact is significant. No man in the senate more clearly follows the drift of public sentiment oris truer to it than the great Indiauian. He favored the repeal of thepurhasing clause of the Sherman act more as a tribute of respect to the opinions of President Cleveland than upon bis own judgment, but now he proposes to stand by his own convictions and push free coinage. He will be able to lead the party in the same direction. Linings Going! Button-holes Played Out 1 Even the Fabric Seemed Worn Out! 3 That was enough to dis courage any clothing man, wasn't it ? BUT it turned out thaf he'd EE N wearing it ten years. "sTo did. n't grid's liim. lca.cl-r: ixis rn.crj.e3r Olx, nc ! vcre cTjLld. do "wa.3 to sell 2xlm anctlier. Tliat is aJ-1 tlxe redress trie ? SON'S clotliing resillsr care TRY IT FOR' YOURSELF. Weseott & Son. Rockwood Block, Plattsmouth, - - Neb. 1 ,,K i ksiion of h:i e miiiv i i The question of free or of subdividea ship building is the subject of a lengthy editorial discussion in the maha Bee, which deserves foiup comment. The position taken therein is that the pres ent policy of prohibiting the registra tion of foieign-built ships is a failure because is has reduced the use of American-b iilr flops in forei-rn waters t almost nothing. The pi oposition uow before congress, the lice sa s, "ot course" w ill receive "the united oppo sition of the republicans."' Why "of course?" Plainly because such a course would striltif y the action of that party during the entire time since it came into power for more than thirty j ears. Under that policy other nations have s ept Amti ican ships from the sea be cause of their ability to make them cheaper and better. The Bee is afraid that a free ship bill would close Ameri can shipyards and "take the bread from the mouths of American labor, etc. That is a familiar cry. It's a wonder the Bee don't throw its type setting machines out of doors and put the printers back to work at the cases again. Is it not taking "bread from the mouths of American labor" by the use of advanced methods of gettingout a newspaper? Why consult the men who are sticking to the old methods of building wooden sailitg thifs, when it is seen that practically that methods of shipbuilding has been superceded? Is it not true in other lines of manufac ture American methods have been so cheapened the manufacture as to drive out foreign competition? Look at the business of shoe manufacture: Today there are seven immense establish ments, In London, as big as any iu that city, in advertising and selling nothing butAmeiican-made boots aDd shoes! The adoption of machines for making shoes drove thousands on thousands of journeymen shoemakers out of that and into other employments, or into the manipulation of the machines; but the result is the cheapening of shoe-manufacture several times over and the con sequent supplanting of that businessby American manufacture of shoes in nearly all parts of the world. Would it have been better, for the sake of the shoe-makers, to have continued the old methods at double the pitfcent cost of production? We doa't believe it. Neither do we believe in the subsidy plan, which always breeds corruption and immorality in business. Give American genius an even chance once, j and tell ti e ship-builders they must . rely on their own resources, and there j need be no fear of ti e ieMi!t. New methods will steedily supplant old oijfs, and high-priced American labcr will assert its superiority in the cheap--ness of its product, as it lias done in every other direct ion where it was thrown upoL its .wn lesourcts. Give u? free ships, and soon the world will discover that Arrerican t hip) arc's arc able tooutstrip tin world iu the qual ity and cheapness of their ships audi pay double the old world wages. Tbrt Hee sh'mid not be frightened bj a shadow. Ihurston's I'rinciplea. Wuild-IIeraM: He has the advan tage of reputation, eloquence and per sonal popularity, mul lej.rtsenis the. extreme sentiments of the republican, party. He is for high taiiff, a forces bill, national banks of issue, and be lieves that the republican party can do no wrong. He professes friendship to silver, and yet bis advocacy of it is so equivocal and his plans so full of "ifs" and"ands" and "buts" ns to be of no real service to the cause of bimetallism. His intimate connection with the rail road interests has so biased him asrainst regulation of rates and kindred legisla tions as to make him objectional to those who believe in laws controlling corporations. The very ability of Mr. Thurston will weigh against him in the minds of those who fear that it will be thrown against the interest of the peo ple. W. D. Meuuiam, of Clarinda,Iowa, the tax title purchaser, was in town over Sunday looking after his interests here. It seems that be is pretty smart, and his smartness doesn't all consist ir buying up tax titles for a song. P reason of the failure of the Citizeas, bank the fact was disclosed that he had on deposit in the bank nearly $20--000, which escaped taxation, of' course, by having it out of the juris--diction of the local (Iowa) assessor,and of course the bank officials here would never tell about a little thiDglike thaU It was a sharp trick, of course. Since the St. Louis Republic has de generated into a gold-bug organ its editorial page has lost much of its life and vigor, and it is not to be wondered that its course contributed to the loss of that state to the democrats during the late campaign. Preaching pluto cracy and democracy doesn't mix well. , i. 4 1 It (-: I r it ' "'V, ,1 j. ) V ! . V i f