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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1911)
Historical A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF CHEERFULNESS Printed primarily for people who look upon life cheerfully and hopefully. Also for people who ought to do so. The promoter of all good things and good people, of which first Nebraska is chief and of which second Nebraskans are mostly. DOLLAR A YEAR VOLUME S CURRENT Have you registered yet? It mat ters not that you registered last fall, or that you voted last spring. If you do not rejister this fall you can not vote at thy election on November 7, nor will you le allowed to vote at the primaries next spring. And next spring's primaries is when we east out preferential vote for president and congressmen, and elect the delegates to the congressional and national con ventions. No one unregistered this fall will be allowed to vote next spring unless a new voter in the state. The primaries next April will be un usuallv important. The voters elect the delegates to the national conven tions now. not the politicians in con vention assembled. It is not going to be so easy as heretofore for the ''fed eral brigade" to secure a delegation pledged to the great pic dispenser at Washington. This is giving a lot of encouragement to the LaFollette sup porters in Nebraska and other insur gent states. Just a year ago we heard that Bry an, because of his advocacy of county option, was a dead one in democratic councils in Nebraska. We who have seen Bryan buried a thousand times, only to be resurrected in due. season, jnst leaned back and laughed. Last Saturday night Bryan wound up a campaign tour in Nebraska, speaking to larger crowds than ever and re ceiving more applause and attention than ever before. A whole lot of sparrow shooters arc wasting their ammunition trying to wound the eagle. We have said it before, and we re peat it: Democrats may not be able to elect a president with Bryan's sup port: it is a cinch that they can not elect a president without Bryan's sup port. It is very interesting to note the enthusiasm manifested by Col. John G. Maher in the Harmon propaganda. En thusiasm is the keynote to Col. Ma tter's character. He is just as en thusiastic in selling Texas land, or in boosting a preferred make of type writing machine, or favorite brand of automobile. Whatever the colonel goes into he goes into all over. But his ef forts to create a wave of enthusiasm in behalf of Ohio's governor are avail ing little. Either Harmon is not a favorite or the people refuse to be en thused this early in the game. But the activity of Colonel Maher is pleas ing to sec. Corn in and about Holdregc is mighty short this year. We say this with regret, but it is the truth. Yet there is a reason for it and the reason is the negligence of the farm ers. Right in the midst of these al most barren cornfields is a cornfield with splendid stalks, large ears and a promi-sc of fifty or sixty bushels an acre. Why the difference Difference in methods of cultivation. The poor fields were cultivated in the old way the field with the big yield was culti vated along scientific lines. In other words, the "Campbell system," so called, although it was practiced a The Kind of Clothes that Men of Good Taste like to select from Clothes that possess all the merits men most desire. Quality goods for discerning buyers. Rare Selections in Suits and Overcoats--and a rare bargain opportunity, price considered. FARQUHAR K . j COMMENT thousand years before Campbell was born, made fifty bushel corn in a sec tion where the average will not ex ceed ten bushels. Yet a lot of farm ers will pooh-pooh new methods and insist on retaining the old. The historic old building at Ninth and Farnam in Omaha, so long the headquarters of the Union Pacific, will soon be empty. The railroad's offi cials and clerks are moving into the magnificent new headquarters building .-it Fifteenth and Dodge. Now if the walls of the old and soon to be desert ed building could only talk and tell tales of the old days in Nebraska poli tics! Wouldn't it be interesting to listen. Time was when governors and congressmen and senators, and mem bers of the legislature were made at Ninth and Farnam. No man could be REGIS No matter who you are, when you voted or when you registered last, if you have not registered this fall you can not vote at the election on November 7 or at the presidential primaries next April. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 Is your last opportunity. Tie a string around your finger as a reminder elected to legislative or executive office in Nebraska without the official "O. K." of the big boss who happened to be reigning in Union Pacific head quarters. For a long time John M. Thurston, nominally general solicitor, was the big chief. But Thurston fin ally succumbed to political ambition himself and went to the senate. His tory records few such sudden and complete collapses as that marking the downfall of Thurston. For years he was a political idol in the twinkl ing of an eye he was practically langhed out of public life. Vut a change has come, not only in politics but in railway management. The railroad managers of today are ontent to manage the railroads, leav ing politics to the people. Men like Mohler are interested in politics only to the extent of having fair-minded men elected to office. No longer are CLOTHIER 1325 O STREET LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 27, the railroads "worked" by cheap poli ticians, and no longer do the railroads use the lawmaking bodies for selfish ends. The people wouldn't stand for it again, and it is doubtful if there is. an up-to-date railroad manager who would consent to a return of the old. regime. The new "Union Pacific head quarters building in Omaha will see more genuine railroad work and less political fixing than the old headquar ters building. For all of which let us be dulv thankfuL We like the spirit manifested by Manager Eager of the Nebraska Uni versity athletic business. Minnesota beat the Cornhuskers by a decisive score. There was some disposition in certain quarters to complain of rough play on the part of the Gophers, but Manager Eager objected thereto. Like the good sport he is he advised the Nebraska rooters to take their medi cine gracefully, and admit that the Gophers took the measure of the Corn huskers. Football is not a mollycod dle game, and those .who, play it cer- 0 tainly ought to be willing to take all the rough play they have handed to them without making complaint. It is possible to be a football hero and a gentleman, but. after all, when young men get mixed in a football scrim mage the savage that lies -so close to the surface in all of us is liable to crop cut. Hence slugging and eye punching and neck twisting and knee ing. The only thing to do when a fel low is guilty of that sort of dirty tac tics, and the referee fails or neglects to see it, is to give the fellow plenty of his own game. But if you are go ing to play football, take your medi cine without squealing. Manager Easrer's stand is the correct one. It was discovered in the district court of Douglas county last Monday that a couple of dead men had been summoned for jury duty. I And why not! A dead man could render about as sensible a verdict as a'- jury com posed of men who can meet all the tests imposed upon them. Yes, we registered at the land draw ing in Gregory. And all we got was a mighty bad cold, contracted by rid ing in illy ventilated cars, and a bit of experience. After all. the experi ence was worth the money. It was inter esting to wateh the crowds. We saw very little drinking and absolutely no drunkenness. Neither was there any vice on display at either Gregory or Dallas such as made Bonesteel infa mous. So far as all surface indications showed, it might have been a Sunday 4 - (Continued on Page 2) 7P 1911 MEN AND Unless all signs fail a lot of men who anticipate participating in the presidential primaries next April are going to be disappointed. They will neglect to register, which means that there will be no way for them to be permitted to express their choice. While providing for a primary to ex press choice for president and the election of delegates and national committeemen, the legislature neglect ed to make provision for those .who failed to register at the previous fall registration. From every registration center comes the same report laek of registration. ' All former registrations are null and void. If you do not register next Saturday, October 28, you can not vote at the election on November 7, nor at the general primaries next YET? April. It would be well for every voter to bear this fact in mind. Men who can do so but fail to hear R. A. Long at the Commercial Club next Monday noon, or at the First Christian church in the evening, will regret it. Mr. Long is not only a suc cessful ehureh worker, but a success ful business man. He is the head of the Long-Bell Lumber company, one of the largest lumber corporations in the southwest, and known the country over for his business ability. But de spite his busy life he finds lime to de vote to other things than the mere making of money. He knows how to. spend money to the best advantage, lie endows colleges, builds hospitals and aids struggling congregations. Just now he is making a tour of the west in the interest of the Church Brotherhood work. On Monday. Oc tober 30, he will speak at the Com- SELLS THE BEST 1528 A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE MEDICINE Bat a broken spirit drieth the bones. That's what the Good Book says, and well bank on it, sure. Wnx Macpin's Weeklt works to make cheerful the hearts of its readers, and thus do medi cal duty. Fifty-two consecutive weekly doses for a dollar. GUARANTEED NUMB 3g MATTERS mereial Club's noonday luncheon, at the First Christian ehureh in the after noon, at the Brotherhood meeting, and again in the evening at the Brother hood banquet. To hear K. A. Long is a liberal education in Christian civics. The Folk machine is busy m Mis souri, and some of its cogs are whin ing because Champ Clark's name is often mentioned. The Folk boomers insist that Clark ought to stay out of the race because Folk was in it first. To this Clark retorts that he never began a conversation about his candi dacy, never spent a penny on it, and never had any headquarters. Folk and his backers have been systematic ally planning a Folk boom for three or four years. The editor of Will Maupin's Weekly happens to be a Missourian, born and bred, and claims to know something about Missouri and Missourian. He is willing to wager a four-dollar dog against a couple of two-dollar eats that for evry Missouri democrat who is for Folk for president there are six Mis souri democrats who are for Clark for president. About the biggest farce imaginable is the one conducted by the govern ment in'' this land drawing matter. Fifty thousand people registered for the drawing pulled off this week. Every one had to travel to Dallas or Gregory to register. The Northwest ern railroad got not less than $750,000 out of it. The people who registered spent not less than $1,500,000 all told in paying their expenses. Onr in twenty eonld hope to draw a claim. One-half the successful ones will be nnable to meet the conditions imposed by the government. But the North western railroad gets the money, all right; and it has its unoccupied ter ritory opened up for it. And Uncle Sam imposes conditions almost impos sible of fulfillment. "Where is the Garden of Eden now supposed to have been located f" was a question propounded to the Lincoln Journal a short time ago. And the Journal proceeded to expose its im mense stock of ignorance by saying' it did not know and making a few wild guesses. Bless its dear old heart, the Journal ought to know that the Garden of Eden was located some where in that section bounded on the north by the Niobrara river, on the east by the Missouri river, on the south by the northern boundary of Kansas and on the west by a line drawn about 200 miles east of a rocky range of mountains. And the more you study up on the richness and pro ductivity of this region, the more fully you understand the darn pboolishness of Adam and Eve in taking any chances of being driven therefrom. Very naturally the Omaha Bee and its manager object to the Lincoln Star's expose of the "Omaha Land Show." This so-called land show is promoted in the interests of a con pie (Continued on Page 3) UNCLE SAM SAYS GEO. W. 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