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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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