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Beginning Sat. morning, March 9, any winter Suitor Overcoat
in the store goes on sale at $5. But that isn't all of the story
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EVERY ONE HAS BEEN SOLD.
Sat'day, March 9, $5 will buy any Winter Suit or Overcoat in our Store
Monday, March 11,$4 will buy any Winter Suit or Overcoat in our Store
Tuesday, March 12, $3 will buy any Winter Suit or Overcoat in our Store
Wednesday, March 13, $2 will buy any Winter Suit or Overcoat in our Store
Thursday, March 14, $1 will buy any Winter Suit or Overcoat in our Store
Boys' Long Pants Suits, ages 15, 16 and 17, are included in this remarkable sale.
This is not a sale of "Odds and Ends'' Every garment was in stock during the
past winter. Every garment up to date in fit, finish and fabric. All from such
makers as Hart, Schaffner & Marx, Hirsch, Wickwire & Co., and others. We put
this sale on to make sure of not having to carry a single garment over to the next
season. This is our settled policy, and conditions at this time compel us to take
this radical step in order to carry it out.
NOTICE: Goods purchased at this sale will not be taken back or exchanged.
We cannot handle these goods twice under these conditions. We must also make a
small charge for alterations on garments purchased at this sale.
ARMSTRONG CLOTHING COMPANY
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
CURRENT COMME-NT
Being both an Innocent Bystander
and an Unprejudiced Observer, "Will
Maupin's Weekly is in a fairly good
position to calmly and dispassionately
discuss a few things political. It
sees in all this fuss and fume on the
part of the Harmon supporters, and
all thus fume and fuss on the part
of the Wilson supporters, a mighty
good chance for one Beauchamp Olars,
better known as "Champ," to walk
away with the democratic nomination'
for president. While the Wilsonites
are calling the Harmonites "reaction
aries," and the Harmonites are de
nouncing Wilson as a "near-democrat"
and a man who doesn't have any idea
today what he will believe in and ad
vocate tomorrow, neither Wilsonite nor
Harmonite can lay a finger upon a spot
on the democratic record of 01'
Champ Clark.
The man who gets a majority in
the republican convention will be nom
inated. The man who is nominated
by the democratic convention must
secure a two-thirds majority. This
newspaper is of the opinion that the
fight between Harmon and Wilson will
have become so fierce between now anu
June 25 that neither of them can come
within gunshot of getting two-thirds
of the votes. Neither side will yield
to the other, and after they've chawed
away on the grindstone without avail
for about twenty or thirty ballots, the
delegates are going to rise up and ex
claim, "A pox on both your houses 1"
and away they'll go to rally around
the standard of the stalwart democrat
from Missouri.
There's no getting away from the
fact that Champ Clark is the first
choice of a mighty big minority of
democrats, and the second choice of
a still larger majority. He has never
sulked in his tent, a charge brought
against Harmon. He has never bolted
his ticket, a charge brought against
Wilson. And he has never forgotten
that he is a democrat a . charge
brought against both of them. He
was fighting for progressive demo
cratic principles when Wilson didn't
know the dieffrence between the initia
tive and referendum and the Austral
ian ballot. There hasn't been a demo
cratic campaign in thirty years that
Champ Clark was not in, clear up to
his neck. He has been connected
prominently with every bit of reform
legislation enacted by congress in the
last twenty years ,and he is today the
most prominent figure in American
politics, speaking of men in public
office.
There is no getting away from the
fact that under Speaker Clark the
first democratic congress in fifteen
years is making a good record an
almighty good record compared with.
the records of some democratic con
gresses. Of course it hasn't, done all
that some democrats hoped for, and
that '8 a blessing to the republic. But
it has done a lot more than the repub
licans expected it to do, and still more
that the republicans didn't want to
see done for political reasons. The
passing days reveal Champ Clark loom
ing larger and larger upon the presi
dential horizon. If the democracy of
this republic can not win with Champ
Clark it can not win at all in this
good year of 1912. Maybe it can win
with Harmon or with Wilson. There
are a lot of democrats who believe that
democracy's chances of success will
be made better by the nomination of
Champ Clark of Missouri, and their
numbers increase with every passing
day.
We hurl, with scorn and contumely,
right back into the teeth of the
scurrilious and narrowminded slobs
who gave it utterance, the charge that
Col. John Maher hiked to Texas on
the morning that the Wilson cohorts
were to meet in Lincoln,, fearing to
face them. The charge of .cowardice
can not lie against the man who shoul
dered his typewriter in the days when
his country needed defenders and
charged across Chickamauga park
right up to the tent-flaps of Jigadier
Brindle Fred Grant. Unlimbering his
trusty machine, Col. Maher has faced
the fierce Sioux Indian at Wounded
Knee, blazed a trail of redhot English
across the prairies and defied the on
sweeping cohorts of the man from
Princeton. ..Col. Maher fleeing! Col.
Maher turning his back upbri an
enemy ! Far be it from so.
Can this from the Plattsmouth Jour
nal be true: "Lincoln has lost out
again, the state teachers association
voting by a large majority to go to
Omaha next fall. Lincoln boosters be
lieve the epidemic pf typhoid fever has;
something to do with it, but outside?
observers can see that the holier-than-thou
attitude which prevails so ex
tensively in the capital city is the real ,
cause."
William Colton of York has filed for
the republican nomination for railway
commissioner. Mr. Colton represented
York county in the legislature.of 1911,
where he made a good record.. For
nearly thirty years he was a promi
nent business man in York, managing
his affairs with signal success. Men
of the Colton stripe ought to be wel
comed ino the field whenever the state
is looking for good men to fill its im
portant offices.
Nebraska is getting pretty "hog
gish," eh? Week before last 102,603
hogs were received at the South Om
aha market, breaking all previous rec
ords for that market and excelling the
week's record of every "other market
save that of Chicago. The South Om
aha Stockyards is an institution of
which every loyal Nebraskan should
be proud, and which has added untold
millions to the wealth of the state.
Speaking of John H. Morehead the
Beatrice Daily Sun says: "The demo
crats would do well to nominate a mail
of the standing of J. H. Morehead of
Falls City for governor. He is not of
the ordinary politician type, is not a
pot hunter and would be the right'
man to give the state a strictly busi
ness administration, and without ques
tion that is what we need.
Will Maupin's Weekly is disposed to
look with more than casual favor upon
the candidacy of Franklin C. Hamer,'
who seeks the republican nomination;
for state treasurer. Mr. Hamer is a
native son of Nebraska. . He is ' a
thorough business man, successful in
his private affairs, and possessed of
just the kind of knowledge needed by
the man who is entrusted with the
immense financial affairs of this great
state. Progressive, alert and energetic,
Mr. Hamer is to be numbered among
the upstanding young men of Nebras
ka who are putting their state in the
forefront of progressive American com
monwealths. ' ; i
4 So, too, Will Maupin's Weekly looks
with favor upon the candidacy -. of
Floyd Seybolt, who seeks the demo
cratic nomination for state treasurer1.
He is not a native Nebraskan, but he
came here when he was so young that
he didn't have to slough off any man
nerisms in order to appear . as one to
the manor born. He is another up
standing young man who has won his
own way to the front, and he,' tofl
has had the business training that pe
culiarly gifts him for the position
he seeks. With two such virile" young:
men as Hamer and Seybolt pitted
against each other for Nebraska's most
responsible office, the taxpayers could
rest well satisfied that whichever won
the state would be the winner.
The gathering of the Wilson cohort
in Lincoln last Tuesday was not quit
so spectacular as the meeting of the
Harmon cohorts at Columbus a week
or so ago. Neither was it so large.
But it resembled the Columbus meefe
ig in that it developed a considerable
Clark sentiment. On the surface thex
appears a sort of armed neutrality be
tween the Wilsonites and the Harmos
ites, but some time during the next,
five weeks there's going to be a "biisfc
in' out." ,,, ., ,s
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