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KENNEDY STRONG WITHM PEOPLE Republicans Believe Him The Man to Reunite Party. NOMINATION MEANS ELECTIBN Sentiment Prevalent Among Nebras ka Republicans That John L. Ken nedy Should Be Nominated for United States Senator. “His nomination means his elec tion,” said a prominent Nebraska re publican, the other da^, in discussing the candidacy of John L* Kennedy of Omaha for the nomination for United States senator. This thought seems prevalent among Republicans over the state. They feel that Mr. Kennedy is the logical candidate to nominate at the primary election on April 18th. His qualifications for the senatorshlp, based on his excellent record in con gress, his knowledge of the needs of the state and the nation, his ability to handle important matters of nat'onal affairs and his logical location, tends to make liim the* man. whom the repub licans can depend on to defeat the Democratic nominee at the election this fall. His public and private record is clean. He has proven his ability to serve his constituents. He has proven his loyalty to the Republican party by his faithful service in 1911-12. His nomination will lend strength to the Republican ticket. In discussing bis candidacy and the platform on which he stands, Clark Perkins, the well known editor of the Aurora Republican, says: “Mr. Kennedy's statement in sup port of his candidacy, made public sev eral weeks ago, is a model of brevity, sincerity and common sense. He makes no attempt to take advantage of popu lar sentiment on purely local ques tions, although his active campaign for woman suffrage last year should be sufficient proof of his moral soundness and of his courage in defending his convictions. He confines himself very properly at this time to purely nation al issues, whose relative importance, in his estimation, is indicated by the order of their enumeration: The tariff, permanent tariff commission, merch ant marine, the navy, the army, Mexi co. irrigation and rural credits. With extraordinary tax burdens imposed up on the American people by a Democrat ic administration in time of peace, with a constantly diminishing treasury balance, with the cost of living con tantly increasing in direct contradic tion of the Democratic promise to re duce it, Mr. Kennedy predicts that the tariff will be the paramount issue in the coming campaign. ‘Inequalities there have been under the protective tariff system,’ he says; ‘some rates have been high, others too low; but the principle of protection is absolute ly sound, and under it we have great ly prospered.’ “Mr. Kennedy favors a permanent tariff commission of five or seven mem bers, one retiring each year, whose function shall be the gathering and classifying of facts and figures rela tive to trade conditions, and which, upon request, shall furnish to congress the results of its investigations, so that tariffs may be laid upon founda tions carefully and intelligently ascer tained. He argues for a restoration of American ships to the high seas, not necessarily by granting subsidies to private lines, but by the creation of conditions favorable to the develop ment of shipping interests, on the the ory that ‘a farmer could not success fully manage his farm if he were de pendent upon his neighbor’s wagons to haul his grain to town; and this na tion cannot give to its citizens their proper share of commercial and indus trial growth without providing Ameri can vessels to carry abroad the prod ucts of their energy and enterprise.’ “On the question of preparedness he favors a navy powerful enough to pro tect our commerce and our coasts, but questions the wisdom of sinking too many million's in obsolete dread naughts which the submarine and the aeroplane seem to have permanently displaced. He favors a system of mil itary training in the schools and col leges, under supervision of the gov ernment, which, while purely volun tary. can reasonably he depended upon to provide a potential force, trained for defensive, not aggressive, warfare ample for ary need. He criticises severely the vacillating policy of the Wilson administration with reference to Mexico, which resulted in wanton waste of life and property. ‘We should have taken a more active—a more ielpful—interest in Mexican affairs,' he declares, ‘or we should have kept entirely out of them.’ “Mr. Kennedy favors a more liberal policy toward farmers owning and oc eupving land in government irrigated districts and the establishment of a system of rural credits, at reasonable rates, to enable the farmers to develop more fully the agricultural resources of the country. His platform is, in short, a businesslike document which _ cannot fail to convince the reader that it means exactly what it says. After carefully considering the qualifications of other gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in tl;e same connec tion, John L.. Kennedy’s candidacy ap peals to The Republican as the strong est that can be offered to the Repub lican voters of Nebraska in the sena torial campaign of 1916.” A PUZZLE. “Father, you were born in Califor nia, you say?" “Yes, my son.” “And mother was born in New York?” “Yes.” “And I was born in Indiana?” “Yes.” “Well, father, don’t it beat the Dutch how we all got together.” Try Chase’s first—it pays. SINGS AT MUNICIPAL CONCERTS The following articles were clipped from Kearney papers. The man) friends of Miss Florence Depew will be pleased to know of the splendid recognization the talent of this Lour City girl is receiving at Kearney, which is one of the music centers ol Nebraska: The musical artists of the Kearnej State Normal figure largely in the program to be given at the municipal concert at the Kearney opera house next Sunday afternoon. One of the features of the program is an instru mental duet by Mrs. Rose-Clark Price and Mrs. Morrison, of Seattle, Wash Ington. Two pianos will be used in the redition of this number. Mr. Hazle ton, of Omaha, Nebraska, appears as a tenor soloist. Dr. J. H. Stoutenevei will sing a solo and Miss Florence Depew will sing a group of songs Miss Depew is a new student of sec ond semester and possesses an excep tionally pleasing soprano voice. All students of the school are urged tc attend this concert. A large crowd was present at the sixth municipal concert, given at the opera house on Sunday afternoon. An excellent program had been arranged for the occasion. The prelude was given by the Kearney Cadet Band, an organization which is improving with each appearance and which on Sun day was again compelled to respond to numerous encores. Miss Florence Depew made her local public debut by offering two selections. She has rare talent, a strong soprano, which was highly appreciated. Etta Haase Morrison and Rose Clark-Price offered something new in a double piano num ber which was a treat. Dr. J. Howard Stoutemeyer, of the Normal faculty, gave several vocal selections and his initial appearance befqre the local public to the latter’s delight. W. E. Hazleton, of Omaha, also appeared on the program with several vocal num bers that pleased. The program as a whole was one of the best of the series. Guantanamo, Cuba.—That the dis tinctly American sailing ship has dis appeared from the high seas is evi denced in the fact that only fifty per cent of the force of United States marines on duty at this station could tell the names of the seven masts, at an examination recently held here. These “soldiers and sailors too,"— members of the United States marine corps, keep themeselves keenly alive to things nautical, as well as military, and that only half of the force could name the seven masts is due entirely to the fact that there are now no seven-masted schooners flying the American flag. The Thomas W. Law son was the last of these. Fore, main, mizzen, pusher, driver, jigger, and spanker, are the names in ofrder, running fore and aft, of a seven-masted ship. WYOMING OIL FOR NEBRASKA. With the completion of some im portant links of railway in Wyoming along plans of construction followed by the Burlington, we are beginning to realize the possibility of the great Wyoming oil fields being placed in reach of this state for power and fuel purposes. There are refineries now in >ne or two points in Wyoming that are furnishing partially refined oils for the mountain states surrounding them. This feature in oil interests may be de veloped so that we may have the re fined products laid down from Wyom ing fields cheaper to us than we now receive them from southern and east ern fields. Since the Burlington has linked up its Colorado and western Nebraska lines with its central Wyoming lines, the oil traffic on that road has become a factor of the largest interest. The Burlington is moving oil from the Wy oming oil fields already in large vol ume and it is safe to anticipate that within the next year or two, traffic ar rangements will be so fixed and settled that the Burlington can deliver crude oil throughout this state at a rate lower than we can secure oil from the southern Kansas and Oklahoma fields. There is a waiting market of the largest kind through central and east ern Nebraska for crude oil. Trans portation rates from the southern fields are just high enough now so that the consumption of crude oil in com petition with coals, cannot be made profitable in this state. If the Wyom ing oils can be brought into this terri tory so that consumers can secure them cheaper than they can now se cure Kansas oils, the problem of cheaper fuel oil and power oil in this territory will be solved. Nebraska is largely at the mercy of high non-competitive rates on south GIVES THE PEOPLE A SQUARE DEAL W. M. Federmann, a Leading Druggist of Kansas City Stands By Hit Convictions W. M. FEDERMANN “I have always believed,” he said, “that a druggist’s first duty is to the health of his customers. I tell my peo ple frankly that a safe, gentle. Inex pensive laxative such as Rexall Order lies, kept In the home, will pay the big gest dividends of any Investment ever made. I recommend It as the best family laxative, because It is put up In tasty candy tablet form that appeals to men, women and children alike, and Is as delightful and pleasing to take as It is healthful.” Wm. Graefe. We are Exclusive Selling Agents for this Great Laxative. I GREAT INTRODUCTORY FACTORY-TO-HOME SALE E.P.DAILY OF THE WORLD’S BEST I SALE STARTS I FURNITURE CO. PIANOS AND PLAYER PIANOS Monday Nebraska At Prices That Will Make Buying a Duty March 20 A Large Shipment of Fine High Grade Pianos and Players To Be Sold During This Factory-to-Home Sale at Introductory Prices Deducting a Special Advertising Allowance of From $90.00 To $175.00 And Two Years’ Scholarship in Music Free This is the Great Modern Home of the Waltham Piano Co. It is one of the largest and best equipped of its kind, having an annual capacity of 10,000 pianos. Don’t Miss One Word of This M e have taken the factory representation of the \V alt ham Piano Co., t lie large Milwaukee piano manufacturing concern of 25 years estab lished reputation as makers of high grade pianos. Over 51,000 of their pianos are found in the homes of satisfied customers all over the United States. Hundreds have been sold in Ne braska, may right here in Sherman county. ONW LISTEN! We will sell this famous high grade make direct from the factory to the home. The first carload at factory prices, deducting an advertising allowance of from $00 to $175, to the first six buyers, and giving a complete Scholarship in music—2 years’ lessons—to each purchaser. Why We Can Do This All big manufactures, not only of pianos, but automobiles, farm machinery, and most every thing in use today, spend thousands of dollars each year to advertise their product. The Wal tham Piano Co. have appropriated $25,000 for advertising and to push the sale of their goods in Nebraska this year, $1,080 of which goes to us for use in our large territory. But instead of spending this amount in magazines and jour nals, and paying big commission to Agents and Salesmen, it will be given to the FIRST SIX BUYERS IN THIS SALE, in amounts ranging from $90 to $175, which will apply the same as a cash payment on any Piano they select. Word About Price and Quality In Pianos, as in almost any article, it does not pay to buy a cheaply built article. Very un fortunately, however, many agents have sold poor pianos obtaining a good round price—a price ample to secure a standard article. The Waltham Price is fixed by the factory, and every direct factory representative is enabled to sell at this low price, much below the prices asked by the average dealer for goods that cost even less to build. Hundreds of Waltham Pianos have been sold at the regular prices, and they are the biggest values on the market. But you save $90 to $175 from these prices and get 2 years’ music lessons free if you purchase one of the first six pianos. 11 f ■ . ■ These Elegant Instruments to Be Offered the First Day of the Sale Every Instrument Brand New Guaranteed Ten Years E7~-Z: ■ I LIBERAL ALLOWANCE MADE FOR OLD PIANOS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE E' STORE OPEN EVENINGS E. P. DAILY FDRNITURE CO. Loup City, - - Nebraska I -... I RAILROAD FARE PAID AND FREIGHT PREPAID TO OUT-OF-TOWN BUYERS 1^===1 em crude oil into this state. If the competition can be secured through the Wyoming fields within this state with Kansas oils at the south, the Wyoming oils to the northwest can ! give a market that will compel j far lower prices than we are able to se cure now through the non-competitive conditions which exist Manifestly, therefore, it is up to this state.to cen tral and .eastern Nebraska to lend all possible encouragement to the larger development of the Wyoming oil fields and to shipping facilities from that ter ritory into this. The showing of the market that can be secured here ought to go directly to the lines of railroad running from the Wyoming field into Nebraska and also ought to go directly to the largest producers in that terri tory. There ought to be a definite showing made of what this state can give as a market. There is a bill pending at the pres ent time in congress that will go far toward increasing the output of Wy oming oils and at the same time cause those oils to seek a larger market. The larger part of the known oil lands in Wyoming are under government re servation. All around and through the few developed fields are vast tracts of government lands held in reserve. The bill referred to in congress is one that provides for the development and op erating of these government oil lands through a royalty proposition, the title to the oil lands not to be estranged from the government, but the public to be given the benefit of oil production through the letting on the part of the government, private parties develop and handle oil production -on a royalty. It is estimated that if this law passes, that there will be immediately such an impetus given to oil development in the Wyoming fields, that there will be a movement on at once for large mar kets and when that movement comes, Nebraska is the greatest open field for oil consumption at rates below coal roads, that can be found any where in the middle west.-—Trade Re view. INTERVIEW BY CONGRESSMAN DAN V. STEPHENS. On Present Critical Situation Between the United States and Germany. Congressman Stephens of Nebraska, introduced the first bill introduced in this congress looking toward preven tion of war with Germany on account of the submarine question. His bill provided that American citizens should not be allowed to travel on belligerent ships or ships loaded with munition of war. because to do so menaced the peace and welfare of the nation. “No one citizen or groups of citizens can justly claim rights that imperil the interests of all the citizens,” said Mr. Stephens today when asked about the status of his bill before congress. “This bill simply prevents foolhardy ■ citizens from plunging this nation into a wicked war to vindicate a right they • claim to travel in the war zone on a | belligerent ship under a belligerent j flag. The claim becomes the more absured when one understands that under the law.these so-called inno cent merchantmen can legally carry cannon for their defense. For an American to claim the right to travel on such a ship under a belligerent flag is in my judgment to claim the right to sacrifice his own country to his own selfish ends. “The situation,” said Mr. Stephens, “is critical and the regretable features of it lies in the fact that the need of this legislation did not impress con gress until the president and the Ger man government came to a deadlock. But in view of the facts as since de veloped it is evident that congress should have passed this bill long ago and saved the president from this % most extraordinary hazardous posi tion. “The present law allowing mer chantmen to arm for defense was de signed to protect commerce in days when pirates infested the seas and became obsolete with the passing of those freebooters a half century ago. Nfo merchantman carried guns for de fense before the European war broke out. It is apparent, therefore to any one that merchantmen are armed to defend themselves from attacks of sub marines. That being true an armed merchantman becomes a warship cap able of defending itself and has in structions to defend itself from at tacks of submarines. To claim that American citizens should demand the right at the price of war to ride on such ships is indefensible. “Here we are building submarines as rapidly as we can for our own de fense and at the same time defending an obsolete law that would destroy half their value or more in case this nation would be involved in war with a nation having a superior navy. We would be in exactly the position Ger many and Austria are now in. Our fleet would be driven from the sea. Our only means of injuring the enemy would be to attack her commerce with our submarines, but we would be stopped from doing so because we had established the right of merchantmen to arm and carry passengers. We would not dare sink a merchant ship without warning and we wouldn’t dare warn it lest it sink us with its defense guns, and if they didn't sink us we would still be helpless because we couldn’t take off the passengers to a place of safety as we now demand. We would be so hampered in our struggle against the enemy that it is a moral certainty that we would repudiate the law that some people are now ready to go to war with Ger many to enforce. ‘‘The only safe course to pursue is to let European nations settle their own troubles, and keep our citizens at home. Merchantmen who want pro tection should go unarmed and I am ready to fight for their defense but if they arm themselves for defense let them defend themselves. “Many crimes have been committed in the name of national honor. In her name Europe is bleeding at every' pore. Shall we follow in her foot steps and snuff out the last light o hope left burning in the world in th • k. name of a great illusion, a sham cr*_* of patriatism that leads to death/* “I vote No, even though I vote alone.”