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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1912)
OUR SPRING OFFERINGS We have never offered better values in Clothing. Nor has it ever been our pleasure to offer neater gar ments. The season's styles are unusually neat in color, desirable in fabric and excellent in fit. At $10-$15--$20$25$30 we are offering the output of the world's best makers of clothing. Hart, Schaffher & Marx, Hirsch-Wickmire, ''Fashion," etc. They have never been better. They appeal to men of taste and buying judgment And the red-blooded youth who wants a bit of the extreme in his we have just what he wants. Hats and Furnishings As usual our lines are the largest and most com plete. The best hats from the best makers. Prices from $2.50 to $6, and the best values. ARMSTRONG CLOTHING CO. GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor "Eatml u Mcaad-clau matter F.brumry 3. 1911. k. paataffica t Lincoln. N.bruka, nd.r th. Act of Match 3, 1S7S." ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR Now who was it that greased the . Roosevelt rails T And the next holiday is Easter. Boil your eggs! The LaFollette boom seems to have merely been recuperating. ' Yes, there'll be overflows, but bet ter have 'era in March than in May. My, but didn't the "string fiends" Wax fat on that penitentiary murder and chase ! Now that the thief chase is ended a lot of us know how it might have been better conducted. . Let's see, wouldn't it be a good idea to insist that the man who is elected governor of Nebraska and attend to the state's business t We'd be afraid to print what Theo dore Roosevelt thinks of North Dako ta today. Our rights to the mails are worth something to us. Let's see, North Dakota, where Ted dy lost out, is the same North Dakota where Teddy performed so many of those broncho busting feats, is it not? Sixty million bushels of wheat and 225,000,000 bushels of corn! That's the mark we have set for Nebraska this year. Now watch her go to it. The candidates have all filed, but there is yet more necessity for testing your seed corn than for throwing po litical fits in the interest of any candi date. The same fellow who was whining this time last year because we didn't have sufficient moisture is the same fellow who is hollering his head off now because we have too much. Nebraska republicans would be hav ing a lot of fun with the democrats over the Harmon-Wilson-Clark scrap were it not for the Roosevelt-La Pollette-Taft scrap among republicans. Senator Gore explains how the re publicans reduced the tariff on sugar by saying that every time President Taft eats his weight in sugar he saves the price of a shave under the Aldrich law. New Mexico came into the Union as a "reactionary state." Already legis lators have been arrested for bribery in connection with the senatorial elec tion. Arizona came in as a "progres sive," and elected a senator without a ripple upon the surface. Of course the Panama canal exposi tion at San Francisco will be a big thing, but if you want to see the real thing in expositions you'll have to wait until 1917 and attend Nebraska's semi-centennial exposition. This is fficial. THE QUICKER THE BETTER. Mayor Armstrong's recommendation that we proceed immediately to build a decent city jail should be acted upon without delay. And we don't want any long-winded oratory from city euncilmen about it, either. Hot air wen't build a city jail. If it would we'd be able soon to erect the "biggest and best in the country, using the cwoncilmanic supply. The present city jail has been a burning and bugful disgrace to Lincoln for more than twenty years. Mayor Armstrong used momt pretty warm language in describ ing the conditions at the present jail, but he might have used warmer had he not been somewhat hampered by the law appertaining to and touching up on the use of profane language. THE BRYAN BANQUET. Mr. Bryan has every reason to be proud of each recurring celebration of his birthday. It is given to few men to live to hear such splendid tributes as those paid to Mr. Bryan and mighty few men have ever deserved them more. The Bryan birthday ban quet last Tuesday evening was in many respects the best of them all. Only once in a generation are people privi leged to listen to such an array of talent as appeared upon the toast list then. There was big, bluff, eloquent OUie James of Kentucky. There was polished and positive George Fred Wil liams of Massachusetts. There was the eloquent and forceful blind senator, Gore of Oklahoma. There was Con gressman Robert Lee Henry of Texas, who chased the money trust into a corner. There was Frederick Town send Martin, multi-millionaire who is devoting his life to the service of his fellows. There was senator Pettigrew of South Dakota who severed every po litical tie to stand forth for honest conviction. And last and best of all, there was Bryan himself, earnest, hon est, convincing and eloquent the ac knowledged leader of progressive thought and the greatest force in civic righteousness the world has known in a century. As a general thing candidates for office are cowards. They hesitate to take a stand. But when such a resolu tion as that presented by E. O. Garrett to the meeting Tuesday afternoon is adopted it merely shows what a set of damphools can sometimes do while sensible men are not looking. Gar rett's resolution was that every candi date for state office be compelled to de clare who he is for for president a fool resolution that would have been voted down if men had taken a second thought. What difference does it make who Morehead or Metcalfe is for for president! What difference does it' make whether Maupin and Harman are for Wilson or for Clark T If candi dates are to be bound by the grand -stand resolution introduced by Gar rett, then we insist that " each candi date must tell what church he affiliates with, whether he has corns, bunions, or ingrowing toe-nails; piles, fistula or ringworm; whether he ever had a relative hung for horse stealing, or whether he ever beats his wife. The charge oft repeated that the Harmon supporters are behind the Clark movement may be true in part, but only in part. There are a few of us Clark men who never were for Har mon, but who have been Clark men for years. ' It tickled us amazin' to sit and listen to Carroll S. Montgomery of Omaha telling us "progressive demo crats" what we should do. He was talking to a lot of Clark men who were fighting under Bryan's banner when Montgomery was managing Bourke Cockran meetings and acting as Nebraska agent for the Palmer & Buckner outfit. Yet of such is made, in part, the element that is charging the Clark men with playing double. It makes some of us laugh and some of us use strong words. It was rather amusing, by the way, to watch a lot of good democrats try ing to evade the primary law and get around the initiative and referendum. Perhaps the solution of the problem that was finally adopted was best. The fact remains that with the Wilson and Clark forces divided the Harmon ites would su-ely win and they may anyhow. Mr. Harmon's campaign is in the hands of a past master of po litical organizing, while Mr. Wilson's campaign is being managed by writers of open letters. We believe that there are more Wilson men than Harmon men in Nebraska, and that Clark is the second choice of more democrats than there are Harmon and Wilson men combined. But we regret that all the fuss and wrangling should have taken place on an occasion when men were gathered to do honor to democracy's great lead er. It was calculated to put Mr. Bry an in an awkward position. And many men, lacking Mr. Bryan's diplomacy, would have been embarrassed to a great degree. Of one thing you may be sure enough "blackwash" was mixed at the Lincoln hotel meeting to keep the republicans supplied during the whole campaign. Were it not for the fact that the republicans are also shot all to pieces the Lincoln hotel meeting would have pretty nearly cinched the defeat of democracy in this state. Will Maupin 's Weekly has held for some time to the opinion that Mr. Bryan will be the nominee of the Bal timore convention. If it isn't Champ Clark it will be Bryan a propositipn that we are prepared to make a wager upon, say a four-dollar dog against a couple of two-dollar cats. Mr. Bryan has been very careful not to indicate any choice from among the presidential aspirants in his own party, but' last Tuesday night he came about as near to it as a man could without actually committing himself. And when he mentioned the name of Ollie M. James of Kentucky he men tioned the name of a man who is the peer of any of them. But one . argu ment could be advanced against James, and that is his geographical location an argument that should have no weight with thoughtful men. One of the best things Mr. Bryan ever uttered was his , remark to the effect that if men thought he had made a good fight in three campaigns when he was a candidate, let them nominate a progressive candidate whom he could fight without the suspicion of personal interest, and then see how he really could fight. Br. Bryan was fifty-two years young last Tuesday. You'll search history a long time before you'll find another man who has exerted such an influence upon the thought of the world in the same length of time. The editor of this newspaper worked with and for Mr. Bryan many years, knows some thing about the great commoner. And his love and admiration for Bryan has only grown stronger with the passing years of association. Measured by any standard William Jennings Bryan is the biggest man in the world today, and one of the biggest men this coun try, or any other country ever pro-" duced. Whether or not he is ever president of the United States mat ters not. Perhaps it is best for Bryan that he was defeated. But this fact remains, the name and fame of Bryan, private citizen and thrice-defeated can didate for the presidency, will be re membered ages after some men who have held the presidential office have 'been utterly forgotten. Here's hop ing that Bryan may be spared to us for many years to come. , The world needs such great leaders as he. MEN AND MATTERS. (Continued from Page 1) his signature to the act making Ne braska a state. Of course we wrote it "Andrew Johnson," but the intelli gent compositor got it wrong, and the dumbheaded proofreader, which is us, didn't catch it. We think a whole lot of Andy Jackson and we beg his par don for getting - him mixed up with Andy Johnson. Senator Morehead is making a quiet dignified yet energetic campaign for the democratic nomination for gover nor, and minding not a bit the silly lies being circulated against .him by overzealous supporters of some other candidates. Senator Morehead has wisely refrained from butting in on the candidacy of presidential aspir ants. His record as a fighting demo crat makes it unnecessary for him to go about explaining what a good demo crat he is. He is a progressive demo crat who was fighting for democratic principles years before some of the young squirts now criticising him knew the difference between a diaper pin and a tablespoon. The editor of Will Maupin 's Weekly has known John Morehead for more than twenty years, and knows that there is not a demo crat in Nebraska who has gone fur ther or worked harder for the tri umph of progressive democratic prin ciples than he. It illy becomes men professing to be democrats to charge such a man with playing double mere ly for the purpose of landing a nomi nation for governor. We opine that the Taft forces have put one over on the Roosevelt forces in Nebraska. It took Taft's friends a long time to wake up, but just now they are making up for a lot of lost time. It seems to have dawned upon a lot of would-be 'office-holders that their scheme to ride Into office on a , wave of Roosevelt enthusiasm isn't panning out worth a darn. Not being, a member of the Modern Woodmen it isn' any of our business of course, but just the same we opine that Toastmaster Meiers was guilty of an exhibition of bad taste, as well as bad judgment, when he injected the Woodmen trouble into, the Bryan,! east. There is time and place for everything, but the Bryan banquet was neither the time nor the place to inject such a sub ject. We don't know a blooming thing about the recent raise in rates by the Woodmen, but we do know that the men who are charging Head - Consul Talbot, with nlaviner an unfair erame are off their base. Talbot couldn't play crooked if he tried. There is not a man in all this .country who is Mr. Talbot's superior in the matter of squareness and honesty. - The Wood men are up against the same proposi tion that other and older fraternal or ders have had to face. The Royal Arcanum went through it a few years ago. It is a cinch that the rates must be raised if the order survives and tle death claims paid. Let that fact be admitted to start with, then let the Woodmen get together, amicably and in good faith, and ascertain just what is necessary to be done. AFTER KINKAID S SCALP. Various efforts have been made to lift Uncle Mose Kinkaid's political scalp, but to date it remains intact. Now comes James A. Donahoe of u IN em, who thinks he is the democrat cut out for the job. Mr. Donahoe has ucucve tuat jl any uemucrai can put the kibosh on Uncle Mose it is this same James Donahoe, for Donahoe is a mighty fine, upstanding young demo crat who knows why he is a democrat and is able to tell it. As a member of the ; state senate three years ago he demonstrated his ability as a debater and as a leader of men. . It is an en couraging sign when young men of Donahoe 's caliber get into politics. It means that the old guard, composed of men seeking selfish ends, will have to give way to men who seek the common good. We don't know whether Don ahoe can beat Uncle Mose or not, but we do know that if Donahoe is sue- ueHHi.ui Liie dixT.n win ne pnMiitiui by a fine young man.