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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1908)
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Entered at Broken Itow , Nubraska , for tran'mlsulon lit the United < iale < mail * at rcoml Inns ran- * LlHKBEKT ft MYHKS , Editor and Publisher WILL M DUNN , - Managing Editor Candidate For Game Warden. Jesse Fandy of this city , in his can didacy for State Game Warden , stands with the united support of the people of this city and county. The Repub licans of this county would , of course , much rather see one of their own par ty get the place but knowing that the plum must go to a Democrat the Re- pulbicans are uniting readily and unanimously in supporting Jesse in his candidacy for the place. Mr. Gaudy's long residence in tin state and county and his hard con scientious work for Bryan and bib party made hrm a man who is deserv ing of recognition if these two things can make a man deserving. No Dem ocrat in this part of the state 1m worked harder or more eanestly foi "the interest of the Democratic part } than has Jesse Gaudy. During the campaign just passed Jesse spent a Very large part of his time and a lib eral amount of his money in trying to c irry this county for Bryan and the State ticket. The carrying of this county , which lias lor a numiier 01 years been giving majorities to lie- publican candidates , for Bryan and a part of the state ticket is due in a very large measure to the work of Jesse Gaudy. Governor Sheldon was considered to be a very popular can didate in this county but Jesse Gaudy and his forces were able to almost de feat him. Sheldon carried the coun ty by five votes when the Republi cans thought that it would be nearer five hundred. BE A BOOSTER. The Republican wants to see every thing in Broken Bow boosted. What is'good for all one is good all our citizens and we should cultivate more the spirit of boosting for the other person. It takes this kind of spirit to make great cities and to carry on great enterprises which result in ben efits to the people. Begin today to make Broken Bow a large city ; Sup port our home merchants , local in dustries and our educational institu tions. In fact , let everyone be a booster for just six months and you would hardly realize the great im provements which would be accom plished. Bank Guarantee. Beatrice Express : In a certain fi nancial journal for October , fifty-eight banks are advertised for sale , and of the number twelve arc in Oklahoma and ten in southern Kansas , The other thrirty-six are scattered in nine teen eift'erent states. The twelve in Oklahoma as well as the ten in south ern Kansas are under the influence of the new banking law of the former state , and evidently for that reason want to sell put and get out. Care ful , conservative bankers don't want to continue business under a compul- soiy guaranty law which compels them to be responsible for the busi ness of injudicious or reckless men who under the protection of the un safe plan , are placed on an equality with the best and strongest. Oklaho ma and neighboring bankers show what they think of the law by making an effort to sell and leave , and bank ers everywhere would want to quit if , such a law became general. State Journal : Meetings of promi nent citi/.ens may prod the oflicers of the law and grand juries acting under the'eye of the public prosecutor may return indictments against rioters ga lore ; but what is the profit of it all if petit jurors refuse to hold guilty men guilty. This is the situation at Springfield , .111. Either public sym pathy with the rioters or individual fear of them has paralyzed the jury system , and the entire panel was late ly discharged by prosecutors hopless of securing convictions before the jury material at hand.Villa \ Ten- * - * > ! > ' < mr ilj Publicity in Divorces. Brooklyn lOagle : There are three parties in every divorce case. The first is the plaintill' . The second is , the defendant. The third is the pub-1 lie. The public , by which the courts , are created and to which the courts I are responsible , is entitled to know' the facts developed by any court in tlie trial of any suit for divorce. Pub licity permits criticism and prevents collusion. It assures honest trials and fair decisions. To say that free access to the records encourages sen sational and indecent journalism is equivalent to saying that a press cen sorship if advisable in a free country. Responsibility for publishing what cannot be published without outrag ing public decency will seldom be as sumed , and when it is assumed public opinion can be trusted to so express itself that a repetition of the otl'ence will be unlikely. Hadlcy's Reward. State Journal : If the defeat of Sheldon and the state officers serving with him is notice to future officehol ders that it is politically unprofitable to serve the people , we have an anti dote in the case of Hadley of Miss ouri. As Republican attorney general of his state Hartley joined with Gov ernor Folk in giving the state an ad ministration of law enforcement. He affronted the crooks just as Folk did. and fought off the pirates of politics as Sheldon did. Missouri rewards him as it rewarded the man who fought the grafters of St. Louis to a standstill ! , by going out of its way to elect him governor. If the result in Nebraska is a backset to clean govern ment , the result in Missouri is an in spiration to it. Missouri has "shown" us. Mr. Bryan at Home. Kansas City ( Mo. ; Journal : It is now believed that Mr. Bryan has carried his precinct , his town , his county and his state , and The Journal is glad that he has. At a time of such crushing defeat and final repudiation by his country it should be a precious consolation and solace to Mr. Bryan that his neighbors and immediate friends demonstrated their personal regard for him as a fellow citizen and neighbor by casting their ballots for him. him.A A town the size of Lincoln should be proud of a citizen who is of sufli- cient influence and standing to be come the nominated candidate of one of the great political parties for the highest ollice in the world. And Mr. Bryan has had this honor three times. It is appropriate that the people of Lincoln should cast their votes for him as a mark of appreciation of this fact. It is highly proper also that in such a case political considerations should not intervene to prevent this testimonial of comuiunitv feelinir from those who know and daily associate with the man. The presidential candidate who has aspired to the goal through years of effort , who lias just finished a nerve- racking campaign of tremendous en- ergr , and then in a day sees the over whelming defeat of his life's ambition , is a pitiable object. It is enough to well nigh crush the most indomitable spirit. Therefore it is good to know that amid the wreck of his hopes Mr. Bryan can find a soothing salve in the loyal support given him at home. Bryan the citizen , the husband and father , the neighbor and friend , is not the Bryan of the political arena. In his status as a private citizen Mr. Bryan will continue to enjoy the re spect and consideration of his own people and of the entire world. Republican Recuperation. Chicago Inter Ocean : The victory is greater for Republican principles and for Mr. Taft because it was won in the face of a profound demoraliza tion of organized Republicanism in several great states. It shows the power of recuperation that the repub lican party possesses when compelled to face a real emergency. The victor ) " was won against an opposition , unit ed and confident , as it lias not been in three proceeding national contests. Watching Lawson's Game. Washington Herald : The postal authorities are looking into Mr. Thomas . Lawson's melwods of em- plnping the United Stalesmails. Mr. Lawson will be pleased to sell them a few gold bricks , as they go along , we doubt not. Don't you know some young man or young girl who wanlb to get a schol arsliip in college ? Victory For Progressive Government. Kansas Oitj Times : Mr. Taft is not only the best of the sevi-r.il candi dates nominated for the presidency , but he is the best man. in natural ability , in broad experience , in speci fic trailing , and especially in familiari ty with the problems and aspirations o"f the time , that the country now pos sesses. Therefore , the congratulations that are due to Mr. Taft to-day are a mere incident in the result of yesterday's election. The whole nation must be regarded as unusually fortunate , not so much because of the election of Mr. Taft as because of the expression of will that his election implies. For , after all , it is not alone the kind of man , chosen for the presiden cy that denotes national intelligence and foresight and stability , but also the tilings he represents in an imper- sol wav. Omaha and Lancaster. State Journal : Comparisons of the vote on governor and railway commis sioner in Omaha and in Lancaster county give food for thought. The railroads were exerting themselves most particularly against Commis sioner Williams. The vote at Have- lock , a railroad town , sufficiently il lustrates this. Havelock gave Bryan a majority of G3. but William's oppon ent received a majority of 1(58. ( Oma ha and Douglas County , where there is some railroad strength , gave Cow- gill a majority of 1,660. But it went against Sheldon with 2,663 , a thous and more. "Whence this extra blow to Sheldon ? Lincoln , where the rail road vote is large and the brewery vote comparatively small , gave Wil liams a majority of 591 , Sheldon 1 , 642. nearlv a thousand more. This is an exact reversal of the drift of Oma ha , Who but the brewers could have contributed the thousand votes that Sheldon lost in Douglas county after the railroad vote against him is ac counted for ? Evidence of Distrust. Kansas City Star , ( hid rep. ) : But the most remarkable showing of dis trust in Mr. Bryan's statmenship lies in the fact that his party has made substantial gains in every other particular. The loss on the presiden tial ticket is the only discouraging thing the party can find in the re turns. In eight states lost by Mr. Bryan , democratic governors have been elected , and he has shown a sur prising weakness in nearly all part of the contry , even to a decrease in in the normal democratic plurality" in the south. The republican plurality in the house has been decreased and there will be a gain on the democratic side in the senate. Bryan Weak. Washing Post ( ind.j : lu Miunes- seta a Democrat has been elected gov ernor , but Bryan has lost the state. In Ohio a Democrat has been elected governor , but Bryan has lost the state. In Indiana a Democrat has been elected governor , but Bryan has lost the state. In North Dakota a Democrat has been elected governor , but Bryan has lost the state. In Montana a Democrat has been elected governor , but Bryan has lost the state. In New York the Democratic candidate for governor ran 150,000 ahead of Bryan , fn Nebraska the democratic candidate for governor ran far ahead of Bryan. ' Throughout the south Mr. Bryan received a smal ler vote than in his two previous campaigns. There is the story. Have a Clean Field. York Times : Republican members of the legislature are in for a winters work. Our democratic friends have a good many promises out and it is up to them to do something , and tin- re publicans will not be disposed to in terfere very much. Let the political wonder-workers have a clear field. They have the governor and both branches of the legislature. They can make all kinds of laws. If Ne braska does not beat Oklahoma to it now it will be because Shalleuberger is not as good a statesman as Has- kell. Gets Both Sides. York Times : While Elmer Thomas and Dr. Carr were circulating , under fraudulant ' favorite pretentious , Bryan's ite hymn and a few lies about Sheldon and urging temperance people to vote against him , the liquor people were sending word to their friends to knife the governor. It was an appeal to bigotry on one side and cupidity > i nther. and both were more sue E. E. THOMAS. Elmer K. Thomas shows his culi- : ier by writing an apology to Governor Sheldon , explaining that he did not know what he was talking about when he made his vicious and mendacious attack on the governor. If Mr. Thomas were the earnest champion of the cause of morality he professes to be he would have taken steps to ascertain the truth before sending out , he circular , It was a deliberate stab ; n the back and as such will always stand against Thomas' record. Omaha Bee. Below the Average. Fremont Tribune : The Democrats of Nebraska have won a legislative victoiy and it is not likely they will know just what to do with it. Many of the members of the new body were nominated without the least suspicion they would be elected. It is wholly probable many who have been elected would not have been nominated had their success have been forseen. The personnel is likely to fall a little be low the average. It will be time enough to judge its work after it has done something. It is the one best guess it will not make as good a record as did the present one at the last ses sion , but the people may not care whether it does or not. They certain ly were unappreciative this ti me. at least. Teachers' Saleries. Lincoln Star : A subject touch ed upon by a number of the speak ers at the teachers' meetings , and particularly emphasized by Chancellor Andrews and William J. Bryan at the banquet last night , is that of saleries. The teachers themselves cannot , with becoming grace , refer to their own remuneration or openly demand more pay except as each teacher deals with his individual case. But distinguished educators and students like Chancellor Andrews and Mr. Bry an can well champion the cause of the teachers , and it is well that they have spoken at this time. That something should be done to give the instructor of boys and girls as good wages as those paid to the men who build our houses or shoe our horses is a fact that will be admitted by every person familiar with the duties and responsi bilities that rest upon the teachers. Oklahoma. Kearney Hub : The election re turns might make one pause before proposing to Oklahouiaize Nebraska. Bryan , Haskell , Owen et al had a merry time of it fixing up a ' 'model" government for the new state , and with several whoops and hurrahs suc ceeded in putting a Democratic sad dle the two senators , governor , state officials , etc , with the bank jniarantv law to point to with pride whenever anyone whispers O-k-1-a-h-o-m-a- ! Well , they are still in the saddle , but the Republicans in what appeared to be a hopeless fight fought them tea a standstill , came near carrying the the state for Taft , and came so near getting the legislature that Senator Gore was scared out of several years growth. It is not democracy or any thing akin to it that is on trial in Oklahoma but just Haskelism with a line fringe of Bryanism , and if the republicans of the state don't clean it all out within the next four years it will be because all the signs fail. The Southern Vote. Atlantic Constitution ( dem. ) : Many business men the south over , most of them adherants of the Democracy all their lives , dared to support hopefully and openly the candidates of the Re publican party , because their convic tion led them that way. The Consti tution is endorsing their action only to the extent of saying they were right in giving that expression to their true convictions. That south ern vote which ; in firm belief , wrenched itself away from sectional political tradition , and it was a large one , was significant , ft means that the time has come when the voter of the south is going to demonstrate his faith by works and not let conviction wait upon a cpbwebbcd tradition which a new nationalism has decreed but must be dropped. A Misunderstanding ? Columbus Tribune : A queer con dition of affairs came to light in the afterglow of the campaign , lu one section of the county , when.the church members are thick , all were working for Shallenberger , ami in the districts where the saloon element were in the majority , they were Avork- ing for the same man. Must have n " " " "mlerKtanding somewhere. THEY DO SAY That we are all made of the same mud , hut on some , the mixing ing- was bad. That the COSTKK COUNTY RE PUBLICAN is a hummer since it is all priuted at home. That many a man's reputation or wisdom is due to his ability to keep his mouth shut. That a young1 man seldom discovers he is love until the girl in the case puts him next. That the man who will spit on a floor or the sidewalk should be taken to one side and kicked. That some people keep up an appearance of being aristocratic at the expense of the merchants. That if you > re sure the world owes you a living , pull off your coat and collect what it owes you. That it is easy to locate an educated fool and a jackass by the same rule listen for the noise. That some men must be blinder or else their wives keep the wool pulled pretty well over their eyes at all times. That the man who docs not take his home paper , brings his produce to market after the price has dropped. That you can always tell where a lazy man lives by the trash allowed to accumulate around his yard. That you should keep your eye on the newspapers and sec which of the merchants want your custom and are suBiciently courteous to invite you to call. That some church members are so stingy , they wont go to church when the sun is shining for fear their shadow will ask for a penny to put in the contri bution box. That "The Younger Set , " the story now running in THE RK- PUBUCAN , is a good one and should be read by everyone. It has a fine moral and happy end ing. Read it. That there is talk of organiz ing a Red Men's lodge in Broken Bow. It is a good order , even if the war whoop and war dance is endulged in whenever a Pale face is taken in. That the man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain of the stupidity of his helpers , of the ingratitude of mankind nor of the inappre- ciation of the public. That the married man who calls on a certain single woman when a light in the window ishows that the coast is clear had better beware. The neigh bors are talking of telling his wife. x That any business is moro re spectable than what is termed loafing. A young man had better sell pop corn on the corner than hang around public resorts , murdering- time and his reputa tion. That the REPUBLICAN is mak ing a good reputation for itself among the people. This is what the people arc saying and from the way tha subscription , list is growingwe will have to believe it. i Tint thrici' blessed is the man , w who keeps his side walk free * from snow. How man } ' men will be entitled to a blessing of this kind in Broken Bow this winter ? ' The majority will no doubt get the reverse side of the question. Thai if you wiint to get rich you should work like fury for sixteen hours a day at least ; run back and forth to your meals ; hurry your wile into hysterics if she doesn't have your meals ready when you got there ; sleep as r little ah possible and live ; grasp every dollar that is in sight and dig for some which you think are covered up ; pinch your pocket book ; shrivel your soul and over- f 4 \ work your body and you will make money. By doing this you will be rich when you are old , if you live.