WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
F. L. SHOOP, Business Manager
Published Weekly at Lincoln, Nebraska, by The
Maupin-Shoop Publishing Company.
"Entered as second-class matter February 3. 191 1, at the post
office at Lincoln, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879."
ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR
council
Judge Hainer is another gentleman
greatly beloved because of the enemies he
has made.
President Tuft's swing around the cir
cle will probably be known in history as
"the great explanation and apology
tour." . '
Speaker Clarke says the president finds
himself in a pickle. Somehow or other
the word pickle reminds us of Bryan.
What?
If you know of a calamity howler close
to hand, grab him and walk him all
around the exhibits at the state fair. If
he still howls calamity, shoot him on the
spot.
The office of railway commissioner is
really the most important in Nebraska.
But no one would suspect it after reading
the summaries of the vote at the recent
primaries.
What tickles us is to see so staunch a
democrat as Chris Greunther of Platte
county walking away with a republican
nomination. And they told us it was a
"closed primary."
While an ardent advocate of municipal
ownership Will Maupin's Weekly is frank
to admit that there would be "helapopin"
if a private corporation was giving Lin
coln the service now given by the munici
pal water plant.
After springing the "what is whisky"
and "what is beer" interrogations on us,
the pure food department of our august
government now springs this one : "What
is a maraschino cherry?" Heavens !'Do the
astute pure foodists take us for a nation
of drink experts?
This newspaper is not at all proud of
t lie fact that it was a Lincoln lawyer who
opposed recommending a uniform law
prohibiting the employment of children
under fourteen years of age during the
school year. It is proud of the fact that
it was a Nebraska lawyer whose advocacy
of such a law prevailed at the uniform
laws congress bejel recently jn Boston,
Ralph Breckenridge of Omaha was the
lawyer who advocated such an inhibition.
We have forgotten the name of the Lin
coln lawyer who opposed it.
The duty of Nebraska is to bring to the
state progressive farmers to till the 15,
000,000 acres of productive but idle land.
President Taft's Veto of the wool bill
not increase the 1912 clip from hydraulic
rams.
It is not difficult to see that some of
Judge Frost's friends are doing a lot
more whining about the result of the pri
mary than Judge Frost is doing.
Since the Lincoln city council unani
mously turned down the acting mayor,
Dr. Leonhardt, we have raised the doctor
several degrees in our estimation.
Judge Hostettler of Kearney would
confer a favor upon a number of political
aspirants by pausing in his campaign
long enough to tell them how he does it.
Nebraska's corn crop may be a little
short this year, but bear in mind that it
could not be purchased with all the gold
dug from the mines of the United States
this year.
Upwards of 40,000 Nebraskans partici
pated in the recent state primary. Does
anyone imagine that so many voters
would have attended caucuses and coun
ty conventions?
Col. John Maher declares that Clar
ence Harman won out in the primaries
because so many voters thought they were
voting for Harmon of Ohio. The colonel's
joke is rather a caustic comment on the
intelligence of his party associates.,
THE LINCOLN AD CLUB.
The first meeting of the Lincoln Ad
Club since the Boston convention in July
was held at the Lindell Tuesday evening.
Some interesting reports of the trip and
convention were made by delegates who
attended. There were enough Boston
newspapers in evidence to demonstrate
that the Nebraska delegation was about
the livest bunch of boosters in attendance
upon the convention. Every edition of
the Boston dailies had much to say of the
Nebraskans, and there were cartoons in
plenty. The Ad Club quartet sprung a
lot of booster songs) everywhere they
went, and from the time the delegation
reached Boston until it left the members
kept Nebraska to the fore.
. From Chicago east the country was
snowed with literature advertising Ne
braska. The "Booster Edition" of Will
Maupin's Weekly was used to splendid
advantage. The sight of a farmer driv
ing towards the railroad was enough to
start - things. A delegate would grab up
a prepared copy of the Weekly, make
signs to the approaching former and. then
drop the copy at the crossing. In every
instance the farmer stopped and picked
it up. Every hour or two delegates would
pass through the train and hand out cop
ies, and at every stopping place more were
distributed. The handsome edition re
ceived many compliments all along the
line.
Five thousand little bells inscribed
with the words, "King for Nebraska,"
Avere distributed en route and in Boston.
A bunch of delegates attended a ball
game between Boston and Detroit and
nearly precipitated a riot by distributing
500 bells. The great crowd swarmed down
on the delegates to get bells, and it took
fourteen policemen to keep the Nebras
kans from being crushed. And when
Boston won the game there was some
ringing.
Nebraska was honored by having S. R.
McKelvie of Lincoln made president of
the northwest section, thereby making
him a vice-president of the Associated Ad
vertising Clubs of North America. That
Bostonntertained the convention in roy
al style is the unanimous verdict, and
that Nebraska received an immense
amount of publicity thereat is already
manifest.
DEATH OF JUDGE COBBEY.
The death of J. E. Cobbey of Beatrice,
coming so soon after the primaries in
which he was an unsuccessful candidate
for the republican nomination for the
supreme bench, was a distinct shock to
Nebraskans. His illness was of short
duration. Judge Cobbey was known in
.legal circles throughout the nation. So
well established was his reputation that
he was selected by New Mexico to pre
pare the code for that new state. For .
years he edited the statutes of Nebraska
and published them under authority of
the state. He was a devoted Christian
gentleman, an ideal husband and father
and a citizen whose standing was above
reproach. No movement for the public
good wras w ithout his ardent support, and
he gave freely of his time and ability
when called upon to act for the best inter
ests of his community and his state. Ne
braska has suffered a distinct loss in the
death of this distinguished jurist.
THEIR OWN PETARD.
Englishmen who sought to embarrass
the labor unions by preventing them from
paying salaries to their parliamentary
representatives, have been hoist by their
own petard. Heretofore members of the
house of commons have been without sal
ary. When the laborites elected mem
bers they proceeded to pay them out of
union funds. Action wTas brought to de
clare this illegal, and was successful. But
it did not deter the laborites. They have
merely succeeded in securing for all mem
bers of the house of commons a yearly
salary of $2,000. Thus the effort to re
tard the onward march of democracy
Uas merely acqejerate& tk pace, '