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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1910)
! efti ! CUISEJOil QOUiNTY liJfll'UULlOAN OUSTER COUNTY REPUBLICAN $1.00 Per Yonr. All xubicrlticri arc considered permanent nd If they wish to discontinue are expected to pay all arrearages and notify publisher. at Flrtkea How , Nebr.iska , ( or trans- United Statea malli at second clans raua. D. M. AMSBIiRRY , Editor and Publisher ADVERTISING RATES. Where matter Is iet on wood bane electrotype a flat price of twenty cents per InchiMnirlecol * mn , for each Itinertlou , two or more Itiuertlons licenU per Inch. Special position , ulnula In. nortlnu 20 ccntH per inch. Metal bane , electron * two or more times , IScentn per Inch , Payment first of each mouth. Local ailvertUlitif fire ccnta per line each In rtlon , , Notice of church church f lrn , noclableR and ntertalumentu nhcre money U chareed , one half raten. Death notice * free , half urlcr for publUhlnir obltuarlei. i Card of Thankfl , (0 centn. I < cgnl notices at rates provided statutes of Hebraska. Society notices and resolutions , -halr.uea ! Wedding notices free , half price for nut of presents , What Ic The Difference ? * What is the difference between the saloon keeper who sells in- tftxicunt to hid neighbor und hbs IMK family of their living and thu man who aids und assistH the saloonkeeper loon-keeper in establishing his businesst Are they not both c- qunlly guilty morally ? Then plouHe ntdte after due considera tion the difference morally be tween Jnu. Dahlmun who says he will veto any bill for county op tion and the man who supports Duhlmau nnd his ticket ? Some Elections Figures. , The official vote of the Sixth congressional district for J. R. Dean and W. J. Taylor , Dem-pop candidates gives Taylor 2679 fusion votea and Dean 2558. In tlie fusion camp Taylor received 121 majority. The democrat vote in the district gives Dean four majority. Both candidates having been nominated it is to be seen which one gives way for the other. They both now claim they will make the race , but it is not at all likely they will. It is probable that the leaders will force Taylor out of the race. In Ouster county the home of both candidates Taylor received 336 votes and Dean 325 making it a close race. A Chance to Practice as You Preach , All thoscgood democrats who so oft I'll have said they believed in voting for the man rather than for any certain brand of pol ities will have an opportunity to test their sincerity this Full. There are not a Few democrats of Ouster county as well as incv- ery other county in the state that advocates temperance and county option. Diililinan , the democratic nom inee For governor , neither advo cates or preaches the Former and openly declares if elected he will veto any bill that may be passed by the legislature For county op tion. Upon the other hand Aldrich - drich months before the repub lican state convention declared himself in Favor of county option and the enforcement of the day light law. In the republican candidate , those who believe in county op tion have u man who took the Hirst step in this direction in de claring for tlmt principle , while in Dahlman they have a candi date declares himself against and received his nomination for governor on the democrat tick et solely on that issue by the aid of republicans who favor the sa loon business. There is never any disgrace in being defeated battling for pros perity the president and protec tion. Kansas City Journal. At the end of its first year the new tariff is found to hold the record as a revenue producer , in spite of its reductions of duty on articles other than luxuries. Democratic orators will fight shy of tariffs. St.Louis Globe Dem ocrat. Senator Dolliver of Iowa says : "There is not the slighcst feel ing against President Tatt any- were in the country that I know of. On the contrary , we all admire and respect him. The republicans will win this fall all the line. " A farmer in the Ninth district wrote his Congressman as follows : "The farmer never had bettor ttmrs. lie never got more for his stuff than he gets now. Why a pig's tail is worth more now than a vrhole hog was in Cleve land's Mine.1' Bristol ( Tenn. ) News. * "Never Again. " Foss nf Mtsssachusets and Ha vens of New York , the two Free Trade Democrats , who broke in to Congress last session because of republican quarrchi in their respective districts , say "Never again , " to democrat appeal to run for re-election. They well know that they couldn't couic within forty rows of apple trees of bein > { elected to Congress this-- fall. Want No Free Trade. Pron'incnt Southerners are serving notice on the Northerners who rule the democratic party that a democratic ticket in 1912 pledge' ! to Free Trade , or even near Free Trade , will get the marble hand at the polls in the Southern states. The south now needs Protection quite as much as does the North and the South will have Protection for its labor and its capital if it has to vote the republican ticket to secure it. Piqua ( O. ) Call. Broom Duty and Price. The democratic party managers put a wrong estimate on the intelligence of the American people if they expect to have accepted as good sense the tomtnyrot argument that the republican Tariff law is responsi ble for the increased cost of brooms. "The tariff on the broom corn in a broom , " they say is one fifth of one cent ; but since it was imposed the price of a broom has gone up ten cents. " The average man would naturally regard this as showing that the tarig has nothing to do with the cost of brooms. BIG AUCTION SA of Men's ' and BOYS DURING FAIR WEEK AT MEVIS & CO. . EAST SIDE OF SQUARE Attend This Sale if You Want These Goods at Your Own Prices. COL JUD KAY , Salesman [ J- MEVIS ( & CO. Republican Results. The Des Moines Capital sajs tlut : Millions of dollars will be saved to Iowa shippers by a sec tion of the new intestate com merce law which wont into effect Thursday , August 18. This section , "It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge any greater compensa tion as a through rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates , ubji-ct to the provisions of this act. " The thoughtful voter will not fail to note this evidence of the wisdom of President Taft and the republican Congress. ' 1 o the millions of dollurs 01 benefit which Iova shippers will receive will be added other millions saved to shippers all over the Great West. The Persistent freetrader. The Des Moines Capital says : The opponsnts of Taft are in a great measure Free Traders. The opposition to Taft is backed by rich importers and the agents for foreign manufacturers who desire a | frec entrance fdr their goods into the American market. The Free Trader is the most persistent standpatter in the world. lie is always at work. He never sleeps. If he does , some more radical Free Trader springs up in his place. The Free Traders have it infer for Taft. They don't like to see the money piling up in the United States treasury. They prefer direct taxation as a means of revenue. The Free Traders have the public at a disadyantage. The public has not really discovered their purpose. The public may uot discover their purpose until free trade and aoup houses are again establinhed. Cotton Weaving1 in Japan. Some interesting facts relating to the development oi ! Oriental competition in the spinning and weaving ol' cotton textiles are set forth in the current issue of the Textile Manufacturers' Journal. The hostile critics ol ! the cotton schedule of the tariff of 1909 might , if their minds arc open to conviction , sec in the orient a condition and a prospect that do not tend to support the conten tion that the tariff on cotton is too high. Official statistics show that in Japan there has been sine 11)00 ) an increase of 239,007 spindles , while the increase in pounds of yarn spun has been 94,171i81 : pounds. Of the 7-1 , 223 operatives employed in the 'Japanese spinning industry 58- , ! KJO , or nearly 80 per cent , are females. Their average wages per day are 14 dents , while the average daily wnge o the male operatives is 22 cents. At this rate how long will it be , with a constant increase in shipments of English textile machinery to Japan , before the"Yellow Peril" become industrial rather than pol itical ? Judging from thft pres ent indications the time is near at hand when there will be nobody loft in the United States to contend that the tariff on cot ton fabrics is too high ; that is , nobody but free-traders , who would be only to Avell pleased to find the cotton weaving in dustry of the United States coin pletely wiped out by the Jap anese competition. Sherman Exonerated. The attempt to besmirch Vice- President Sherman and Senator Curtis of Kansas in the matter of the Oklahoma Indian con tracts died a bornin' . This is the Congressional committee's report : report. "The committee has heard and carefully considered all of the testimony submitted and is un animous in the opinion that there is and was no warrant for any person to use the names of Vice President and Senator Charles Curtis in connection with any improper relation with any Indian contract whatever.1 At the last minute Senator Gore , whose testimony at the opening of the investigation sought to connect the two states men with the fraudulent con tracts , addressed a letter to the Send Tour Abstract Orders to ' J. Cr. Leonard , Bonded Office in Security Stnte Bank Kuiiding > ii' in in nu niMniiai > ii nit IB A SiKBING HEN is n pining lieu a Inyinx lien , Hcim Hint rKn't h'njr ' wilti cotil ntttid me Keiittnlly so busy fi/btiittf lieu tht-v ( 'otTt have tune to lay. You c ( ( isilv ' ki-L-p your poultry nnrl poultrv hnm- free frrm lire with One co.it to cnoos will < u > it. The effen lsis. . Corts Jltile ami at tlic litne prcscrvis the wood. Sold by Phone 79 L. Turner L br. Co _ _ - - ta g , maHam m-im Rale Bulletin TO THE EAST : Besides everyday special tourist rates to east ern cities and resorts , as we'll as diverse route tours of the Eist including au ocean coast voyage , there are special rates Aug ust 4th to 7th inclubive , for the Knights Templar COnclave - clave at Chicago , and from July 28th to the 31st for Uie Knights of Pythias Encampment at Milwaukee , and on September 13th to the ! 7ih inclusive for the Grand Army Reunion at Atlantic City. ESTES PARK , COLORADO : Just north of Denver , Colorado's finest recreation re 'on soon to be a National Park Ask for full descriptive b oklet. HOIV3ESEEKERS EXCURSJOMS : 1st ami 3rd Tuesdays to vest and northwest localities. Get in tounh with the undersigned and let us help you plan the most attractive and comprehensive tour at the least cost. H. L ORMSBY , Local Ticket Agent. Broken Bow , Web , L. W. WAKELEY , G. P. A. Omaha , Hcb How to Get Rid of ! he Flies ! * If you will call upon us in Broken Bow we will show you how this is clone. We have the largest stock of SCREEN DOORS AND SCREEN WINDOWS in Broken Bow. , / We can furnish you in any standard size screen door or screen window. D1ERK-S LUMBER & COAL CO. Phone 23. J. S. Molyneux , Manager. i Congressional committee reques ting "that the committee make an authoritative statement that no evidence has been presented tending to establish improper conduct on the part of either Vice President Sherman or Sen ator Curtis respecting the subject of this investigation. " And thus whit looks like an attempted assassination o f character for partisan purposes utterly fails. Hammond Praises Taft. With the statement thae Presi dent Taft was one of the most able and sagacious of the execu tives of the United States , John Hayes Hammond made avigorous defense of the administration at the annual outing of the ; Cuya- hoga County League of Republi can Clubs last Saturday. Mr. Hammond justified Mr. Taft s first IS months of adminis tration on the ground that if he had plunged into a republican civil war his four-year term of office would have been barren of results and not one of his cam paign pledges could have been carried. "The people have come to re gard President Taft as a man of indomitable courage and inflex ible determination , " he said. "In eariy part of his administra tion it used to be frequently asserted that President Taft did not understand the political game. It is quite true that he does not play 'good polities' according to the concepts of pothouse politicians , in that he docs not subordinate questions of national importance to those of party expediency , or even to those of sclf-aggrandizmcnt , but have impressed it on the minds Cives in Leak Isra by Racsevelt's CAM hi'.iri tha sols aeiewnS cj tils Afncar. Hunt. Hunt.B B - , AGENTS WAr4TED NOW in every C'ty , Tovft ar.d Village to 'inndlo Colonel Kocscvelt'a Great Book : HA LES sov SOKS 153 Fifc'rt A/cnue w Yorkj of all critics that the President has a masterful grasp of politi- affairs and political methods. " Mr. Hammond asserted that all talk of a new party was absurd , as such a movement would die at its birth for lack of popular support. He declared that there was no possibility of any man save Mr. Taft receiving the nest republican nomination for president , and scouted the ideaof the democrats obtaining control of Congress , on account of their failure to offer the people any definite program ,