CDSTER COUNTY REPUBLICAN ,
, VOL , . XXVIII * BROKEN BOW , OUSTER COUNTY NEBRASKA , THURSDAY , JULY 29 , 1909 NO , 8
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I FUSIONISTS HOLD
MASS CONVENTION
To Select Delegates and Central Com *
* mitlcc.
Moore Committee Chairman
Convention Passes Off Comparatively
, Peaceful Endorses Work of Last
Lcsislaturc ,
The Democrats and Populists
of this county held a fusion cou-
ventionfin the court house Mon
day afcf2 p. in. A scattering
representation of the faithful
ones got together to do the regu
lation amount of scrapping and
select a central committee and
elect delegates to the Democratic
and Populist conventions Ross
Moore' called the convention to
order and Robert Farley was
elected chairman. Ed Foley , sr. ,
was chosen secretary.
The chairman appointed W.
J. Taylor , C. W. Beal and Alvin
Daily as a committee on resolu
tions.
The question of the election of
the delegates to the sr/ate con
vention came up and they voted
to elect them by ballot. Jesse
Gandy was elected a delegate to
the populist 'state convention and
instructed to secure five other
men to go with Jiitu as delegates.
lie named C. T. Orr , Geo. Head-
ley , R. J. Mills , D. W. Lanter-
inan and E. Foley , sp. , as addi
tional delegates.
The convention elected the
following men as delegates to
the Democratic convention : W.
J. Taylor , C. W. Beal , M. S.
Eddy , C. Mackey , Alvin Daily ,
' W. B. Eastham , M. C. taring-
ton , J. W. Hauey , and J. J.
Tooley.
The following were selected as
the precinct comuiitteetnen for
the coming year :
W. J. Root Sargent.
Robt. Farley West Union.
J. J. Tooley Victoria.
M. S. Eddy Kilfoil.
Jerome Taylor East Custer.
Wm. Gilmore West Custer.
A. J. Watkins Wood River.
John Staab B'rwyn.
R. J Mills Westerville.
Ross G. Moore was the unani
mous choice of the convention
for chairman of the committee
and he was empowered to fill va
cancies and select the cotnmit-
teetnen in the precincts not represented -
re/sented / at the convention.
The committee on resolutions
reported the following resolu
tions which were adopted by the
convention.
RESOLUTIONS.
Wo , the democrats and populists
of Castor comity in mass couvontiqn
assembled , once more proclaim our
faith in the doctrine that all gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed
and that governmental affairs should
be eo administered as to secure th
greatest amount of good to the
greatest number.
We charge that the republican
party in congress has perverted this
principle , turned a deaf oar to the
demand of the people for a down
ward revision of the tariff , have
pasBod through both houses a turitT
. bill making a sweeping increaao ii
tariff duties at the demand of the
powerful manufacturing and monioc
interests of the country , adding un
utcesaary and useleta burdens to
the people that the beneficiaries especial
special privileges may add stil
more to their ill-gotten gains.
The national platform of the re
publican party promised an "im
mediate revision of the tariff" anc
William Howard T-ift , the chosen
leader and spokesman of that party
repaatedly told the people on the
platform and in private interviews
lint the promise of "revision1'
noant a ' 'revision dowrwartl. "
Wo therefore charge the party in
lowur with having deceived ths
)0oplo. That thpy won the iiipport
of the voters ot the ojuntry by
nnd fraudulent ivprosentalioiiB
lave forfeited their right to further
upport from the mmHos who Iwvo
alrtady borne uitli patience the
ninlons imposed upon them by the
lenefloiaries ofppeoial privilege.
In line with the national demo
cratic platform of 1908 , we raitei'ate
our demand that all trust made ar
ioloa nnuulao uro 1 in this country
anc' nil articles shipped abroad and
old for less than they can be
) ought for m this country shall be
) lacad on the free list ; that there
hall bo a general reduction of im-
> ort duties to the point where the
revenue derived therefrom shall ba
auiiioieut only to defray the ox
JBUsesoftbo governmsnt economi
cally administered and wo oongrat-
ilato the country that the record of
he democratic partIn iho present
eesion of congress has generally
jean in keeping with the tariff
ilodges of lha platform. A few
letnociats have betrayed tie party
ind the pooplojtreachernusly repudi
ating our promises by favoring
cannouiBU ] cuj the trusts.Vo un-
lesitatingly condemn tbuia though
hey claim to bo democrats.
Supp'y ' and demand should regulate
n'icea of Bold and garden and the
government should take immediate
Bteps to prohibit gambling in grain
under heavy penalties.
We congratulate the people of
Nebraska upon the election of A. 0.
Sballeuborger governor of the state.
lia administration , thus far , has
) eon characterized with ability , wis
dom , coinage , statesmanship of , a
high order and distinguished him
10 a mini peculiarly fitted for the
responsible position he holds
Strength to the arm of this worthy
servant of au enlightened state and
may hia oucct'ssors emulate his zeal
\a3 courage in behalf of good gov
ernment.
While not pleased with all that it
lid or tailed to do , we congratulate
the people of the state upon the
mount of good work done by the
Hst legislature. Among other
things they gave us laws guarnnteo-
ng bunk deposits , restoring to the
people the right to elect tlioir own
assessors , providing for tha physi
cal valuation of railroadf ; placing
the olorlc ot the supreme conrt on n
salary , requiring him to account , for
till fees that come into his hands and
i law compelling the closing of all
saloor.B at 8 o'clock at night and
keeping them closed until 7 o'clock
in the morning. They made liber
al appropriations for the education
al institutions of the state ; provided
liberally for the wards in our nsy-
lumfi for the unfortunate ; provided
as liberally as conditions would ad
mit for tuo efficient administration
of all the departments of Iho state
government ; provided for a largo
deficit luft them as a legacy from
the preceding legialatura but not
ono dollar was unnecessarily spent
or appropriated.
An immense debt of $2,000,000
has recently been paid. But this
was donj under the operation of a
rovoniio law passed by a republican
legislature which exempted the rail
roads of the state from any consid
erable cart in the payment of said
debt but extorted from the people
in the form of higher taxes the ex
tra revenue needed in the payment
of this debt. For proof of this , ex.
amino your tax receipts for the four
or five years past aud compare them
\\ilh your former tax receipts.
Wo pledge the nominees of the
reform forces of the county , if elect
ed , to discharge the duties of their
respective oflices , courteously , in
dustriously , faithfully and economi
cally and that their demeanor in of-
Continued on page 8.
REPUBLICAN
STATE PLATFORM
Approves Policy of President Taft
Criticises Democratic Legislature.
The Republican state conven
tion m K in Lincoln last Tues
day and adapted the following
resolutions :
Speaking for the Republicans
of Nebraska as , their delegates
in state convention assembled ,
and reaffirming the clec-
arations of our national
ind state platform of 1908 , we
congratulate the country on the
magnificent Republican victory
which has given us for our chief
executive that firm and courage
ous statesman , pre-eminently fit
ted for his exalted office , William
Howard Taft. When we assein-
aled one year ago we were facing
a presidential campaign in which
our opponents , with customary
uraggadocio , paraded a false con
fidence in their cause and pro
claimed loudly that the Republi
can ascendency was at an end ;
but again at the ballot bos came
the indutable proof that so
strongly eutrenched-in the hearts
of the people are the principles
and achievements of the Repub :
lican party , and so discredited
are the fallacious doctrines and
so distrusted the leaders of the
Democratic party , that the third
defeat of the Democratic stand
ard-bearer was more signal and
decisive than before.
We see only encouragement
for future Republican success in
the conditions confronting us in
Nebraska to-day. In spite of the
treimnduous handicap by which
we .were required to combat a
distinguished Nebraskan appeal
ing to home pride to support him
'or president and notwithstand
ing the flagrant deception by
which the Democratic president
ial electors masaueraded on the
ballot a secondtitne as Populists ,
the Democratic leader , for whom
was confidently predicted a 25000
majority in his home state , was
previously disappointed io find
that he saved himself Nebraska
by a bare 4,000 plurality. The
election at the same time by sub
stantial majorities of the entire
Republican state ticket , with
only two places excepted , gives
us the right to regard the result
as a Republican victory.
We approve'commend and un
qualifiedly endorse the stand
taken by President Taft in the
matter of tariff revision. We are
counting on him to see to it that
the party's platform promise of
revision is redeemed by the en
actment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people , and we would
approve the exercise of his veto
on any bill that does not conform
to his construction of the plat
form pledge which he has said
means "revision downward with
in the limitations of the protec
tive principle. " We look to our
senators and representatives in
congress to sustain the president
in this position , and we com
mend them for their efforts in
support of the. party's pledges
and the president's politics.
We approve and endorse the
Brown resolution adopted by con
gress submitting to the several
states for their action a proposed
constitutional amendment em
powering the federal government
to levy and collect taxes on in
comes.
The Republican party in this
state stands upon its record.
While providing for a generous
maintenance under economical
administration for the various
state institutions we extinguish
ed a state debt of more than
82,000.000. We abolished the
evils of corporate dictation in
politics and abrogated the free
pass system under a Republican
administration. Passenger ,
freight and express rates have
been reduced and an elective rail
way commission provided for
speedy adjustment of differences
between shippers and carriers
and the regulation of the same.
We provided for a more just and
equitable assessment of all kinds
of property for taxation and the
assessment of railway terminals
for local purposes and ienoved :
the bar against recovery of ade
quate damages for personal in
juries.
We commend the consistent
course pursued by the Republi
can minority in the last legisla
ture in resisting with energy
and ability the unwise and un
constitutional measures of the
Democratic majority.
We point with pride to the
records of the judges who for
many years have been elevated
to the bench in this state as Re
publicans , but who as judges
have known neither personal
favoritism nor political partisan
ship , but have fearlessly and im
partially declared the law and
held the scales of justice even
between rich and poor , high and
low. Republican , Democrat , Pop-
uliat , Prohibitionist and Social
ist alike , We denounce the
eleventh hour pretense of devo
tion to the idea of noupartisau-
ship by the late Democratic leg
islature after running a riot of
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partisanship for three months
&nd ruthlessly legislating Repub
licans out of office by the whole
sale in order to make room for
Democratic office-seekers. If the
passage of their so-called nonpartisan -
partisan judiciary act was in
tended to charge by innuendo
that Republican judges are not to
be trusted to perform their official
duties without political bias ac
cording to their oaths of office ,
we resent the imputation. It ill
becomes the Democrats to prate
about a non-partisan judiciary
when the record shows that , when
they had elected two of the su
preme judges a few years ago ,
they left no stone unturned to
elect the thiro and make the
court consist wholly of their own
partisan judges.
What is here said with refer
ence to the administration of the
courts applies likewise to the
administration of the state uni
versity. This noble institution
has grown and prospered under
the efficient management of reg
ents elected as Republicans , free
from the intrusion of political
partisanship or the application
of political tests , in sharp con
trast with the time when under
a fusion board its management
was notoriously partisan
The reasons , therefore , are not
hard to find why , for more than
a third of a century , but for one
brief trial period , the pedple of
Continued on page B
CHANCELLOR AVERY
HERE MONDAY
Addressed Junior Normal Students and
Spoke at Temple in Evening.
Chancellor Aery , of the Unil
versity of Nebraska , was in the
city Monday and gave a chapel
talk to the students of the Jun
ior normal in the morning and
spoke in the Temple theater in
the evening.
A reception was given in his
honor after the evening address
by Mr. and Mrs. Great and their
daughter at the Great residence.
The former university students ,
members of the school board and
the faculty of the Junior norma
were invited. Refreshments
were served and a pleasant so
cial time enjoyed.
REPUBLICANS IN
MASS CONVENTION
Choose Twenty Delegates to State Con-
vcntion.
ELECT COUNTY COMMITTEE
Adopt Resolutions for County Option and
Denounce Fraud and Extrava
gance of Democratic
Party.
On the call of Chairman
George the Republican voters of
the county met in mass conven
tion at the court house Saturday
at 2 p. m. In the absence of
Chairman George , who is in Bos
ton , Alpha Morgan called the
meeting : to order. J. D. Troycr ,
of Callaway , and Al Fonda , of
Oconto , were nominated for tem
porary chairman and both de
clined to accept. Alpha Mor
gan was then nominated and
elected. W. M. Dunn , of Calla
way , was elected temporary sec
retary. On motion the temporary
ary organization was made per
manent.
The chairman appointed the
following committees :
Resolutions Joseph Ilacfele ,
II , B. Glover and A. R. Humph *
rey.
rey.State
State convention delegates
Elmer Cannon , G. O. Waters , J.
D. Troyer , John Amsberry , Al
Fonda.
County central committee N.
T. Gadd , L. II Jcwett , Carl An
derson , Albert Schafer , H. S.
Waterbury.
On recommendation of the com
mittee on delegates the following
delegates were elected to the
State Republican Convention- :
Nc George , Joseph Haefele ,
Dall Campbell , F. E. Van Ant
werp , Kred Wilson , Harry Sher
man , Don R. Leach , Fred Delano ,
John A. Amsberry , Frank Jacho ,
S. H. Jewett , N. T. Gadd , Dr.
Mathews , I. P. Mills , G. F.
Christy , Wm. Warren , C. O. Lind ,
Dr. Hanna , II. S. Waterbury and
Mamy Myers.
We your Committee to submit
names of the County Central
Committee report the following
names :
Arnold-Ira 1' . Mills.
Ansley U.ina Savlilu.
Algernon-Carl Anderson.
Uroken Uow No. 1-Alplia Morgan ,
tirokcn Uow No. 2-M. U. Montgomery.
Ilerwyn-Smlth Waterbury.
Olllf-W. .1. Ulce.
Ouster No. l-Joe Ilaefele , McKlnley. * *
Custi-r No , 2 -chas. I . Hammond.
Ouster Kast f
[ ) eilglit-H. M. Ualrd , callaway.
Douglas drove Wilbur M. Spear.
Comstock \V. M. Stephens.
Kllm No. 1-S. C. Waldrou.
Ellm N02-S. 0. Waldron.
Klk Creek-Hans J.'Nielsen.
Qarllcld-1'.iul Hautnont.
Orant No. 2-Chas. Matz.
Hayes-T. T. Winchester.
Kilfoil A , Sommprs.
Lillian No. 1 i - Oeo. T. Christy.
Lillian No. 2 (
Loup No. l -will i P. Ttew.
Loup No. L' I
Myrtle-R i : . Delano , Arcadia ,
Sargent No. l i Joseph Heard.
Sargent No a f
Triumph Wm. Warren.
West Union No 1 1-11. Q. Oaylu.
West Union No. s /
Westerville Tom Wilson.
Wayne-Alt Johnson , Gothenburg.
Wood Ulver A. Fonda.
Victoria-Frank iirechuuhl , Anselmo.
N. T. Q A Di ) ,
L. It. JKWKIT ,
C. M. ANDBJISON ,
Al.llttllTSllAl'EU ,
H. S. WATKIIUoKY.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Republicans of Custer
County , in mass convention as
sembled , to congratulate the
country upon the election of Wil
liam H. Taft to the presidency.
In him we recognize a brainy
and fearless statesman , a man
whose judicial mind and train
ing will understand conditions
and apply remedies , and we con
fidently look to him to bring
about such conservative legisla
tion now pending in congress as
will vindicate time-honored Re
publican principles and time-
proven correct application of
principles to conditions [ so that
the pending tariff legislation
will express to the country a tar
iff bill in keeping with platform
pledges and along the lines of
true Americanism for which the
Republican party has always
stood.
On the question of tariff in so
far as it effects schedules , we ex-
presa ourselves for and in sympa
thy with the reductions in the
pending bill advocated by the
senators from the Middle-West
ern states , via : LaKolletto , Nel
son , Dolivcr , Gumming' ? , Craw
ford , Bristol and our own sena
tors , J. 13. Burkett and Norris
Brown. We believe with them
that a tariff should be levied in
such a way thaj : the burden of
taxation should fall equally on
all , and to that end we favor a
high rate of taxation on life's
luxuries and a corresponding low
rate on life's necessities. And
we especially congratulate our
senators , Burkett and Brown ,
and our Congressman , Judge
Kioksud , for their effort to in
sert the western idea of tariff
into the pending tariff bill.
We congratulate the pcop'c of
the State of Nebraska in that
through the foresight of George
L. Sheldon and the Republican
legislature of 1905 aud 1907 , the
slate is now out of debt. The
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OLD SETTLERS
PICNIC NEXT WEEK
Plans for Greatest Ever Held In Custer
County.
Every effort has been made to
make the Old Set.Uer's picnic
next Wednesday the gfetttc'at one
ever held in the county- and * a *
banner crowd is expected. Ex-
Governor Abbott will deliver the
principal address of the day and
a number of short talks ott early
experiences in Cuater county will
be made by local men who were
early settlers in the county.
A base ball game will be play
ed between the Broken Bow and
Merna teama and the Lewis
Stock company will put on a
play in their large tent in the
evening. The day promises en
tertainment for old and young
alike. v
HELPS SELECT
CORPORATE JURIES
Judjce Humphrey Assists Railroad At
torney Pick the Men.
It is a mittcr of common
knowledge among the attorneys
of this city that County Judge
A. R. Humphrey has been as
sisting Attorney Bishop tor the
Burlington railroad company in
the selection of juries for the
trial of cases in the district
court. Judge Humphrey has
been using his knowledge of the
people of Custer county to assist
Attorney Bishop in getting
juries that would be iavorable to
the railroad company. His ex
perience as an attorney and
county judge have no doubt
been very valuable to the -rail
road company in selecting jur
ies , and doubtless he has saved
the railroad company consider
able money.
But , has Judge Humphrey been
pursuing the proper course when
the people of all parties are de
manding that our judicial system
shall be free from corporate in
fluence ? Is he doing his duty to
his constituents when he assists
a corporation attorney to select a
jury when a constituents interest
is at stake ? Last , but not least ,
can the Republicans of this
county afford to nominate as their
candidate for County Judge a
man who pursues the course fol
lowed by Judge Humphrey ?