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REPUBLICAN TICKET
NATIONAL
For President
William H Taft of Ohio
For Vice President
John S Sherman of New York
STATE
Governor
Geobgk Li Sheldon of Nchmvka
Lieutenant Governor
M R Hopewell of Tckamah
Secretary of State
Geokge C Junkin of Smithficld
Auditor
Silas R RAkton of Grand Island
Treasurer
Lawson G Brian of Albion
Superintendent
E C Bisnor of- Lincoln
Attorney General
William T Thompson of Central City
Land Commissioner
Edwaed IJ CowLESofFairbury
Railway Commissioner
J A Williams of licrce
Congressman 5 th Dist
George W Morris of McCook
Senator 29th Dist
JohnC Gammill of Stockville
COUNTY
Representative Goth Dist
Fkank Moore of Indianola
Attorney
1eentiss E Reeder of McCook
Surveyor
Charles W Kelley of McCook
Commissioner 1st Dist
Frank S Lofton of Valley Grange
DONT FORGET
The attention of our readers is
again called to the two constitutional
amendments which will appear on the
official ballot on election day One of
these amendments will permit the in
vestment of our permanent school
fund in Nebraska school precinct and
municipal bonds and thus avoid the
necessity of sending the money out of
the state for investment as we have
been compelled to do in the past The
other will bring about a long needed
re organization of our supreme court
by substituting four additional judges
for the six commisioners now consti
tuting a part of that court The com
missioner system is wrong in princi
ple and very unsatisfactory to all par
ties including the commissioners
themselves The system is a make
shift but it will have to be continued
until the court is enlarged as it is ut
terly impossible for three judges to do
the work Recognizing the necessity
for these two changes in our constitu
sion all of the political parties gave
both amendments their unqualified en
dorsement at the primaries In order
however to insure their adoption at
the coming election every voter should
be careful to vote FOR both amend
ments DONT FORGET
DECREASE IN VALUATION
The secretary of the state board of
equalization and assessment has just is
sued an interesting and illuminating
map of the state showing counties with
average assessed value per acre of lands
as returned by county assessors after
equalization by county boards and as
equalized between counties by the state
board of equalization and assessment for
190S The result in the aggregate shows
that Governor Sheldon and the board
have actually DECREASED the valua
tion approximately three quarters of a
million dollars Set this incontroverti
ble fact besides tho Democratic state
ment that tho Republicans have arbi
trarily boosted valuations of farm lands
lor assessment purposes
jmtd
Clouds and ths Weather
When two weather prophets disa
gree does It argue error or Incompe
tence In either No says he author
of Storms and Storm Signals In
Yachting The data upon which they
base their predictions do not always
bear one Interpretation Thus
Because the clouds Indicate weather
In a different manner according to the
geographical location of the observer
and also because they are In them
selves but byproducts of the weather
and are not causes weather predic
tions from clouds at sea should be tak
en with plenty of reservation of judg
ment To say for instance that at a
red sky nt night sailors delight is
very tuneful and possibly truthful
where knowledge Is conspicuous by Its
absence but a red sky at night may
mean almost anything from a surplus
of moisture in the air meaning prob
ably rains to a volcanic eruption 2000
miles away which has sent great
clouds of dust into the air causing the
red color bj retlection and refraction
of the light rays
The Eyes
Long almond shaped eyes with
thick and creamy lids covering half
the pupil and with a forehead that Is
full above the brows there you have
the eye of the mau of genius The
speakers own eyes answered that de
scription strikingly but he was far
from being a mau of genius being In
fact a magazine editor
Protruding eyes he went on
show menial and bodily weakness
Eyes close together denote cunning
Those far apart denote liberality Thin
lashes without nnj upward curve to
them and thin brows poorly marked
are signs of melancholy and indeci
sion Mne eyes oi a voluptuary move
slowly under heavy lids Those of a
miser are small deep sunken and blue
set In a bony and perpendicular fore
head The most beautiful eyes large
brilliant and clear glancing and Hash
ing with a rapid motion the most
beautiful eyes denote elegance of taste
gayety some selGshness and a great
interest in the opposite sex New
York Press
Like Father Like Son
Four-year-old Clyde was a precocious
youngster very talkative and a close
observer He and his father were
strolling through the meadows one
morning when Clyde observed for the
first time some tadpoles in a pond lie
waded iu and cried out Oh father
what are they
Tadpoles sou the father replied
Please father lets take them all
home with us then come back and
find the mamma and papa and well
have the whole family in our pond at
home
The father explained how impossible
this would be and as they walked on
a few steps a large ugly frog hopped
across their path Clydes father said
Look son Perhaps there is the pa
pa
Clyde was very thoughtful He look
ed at the frog then at his father then
at himself and exclaimed
Well father was there ever so
much difference between me and you
Delineator
Curious School Customs
Mexican schoolmasters show thair
appreciation of a pupils efforts in a
curious manner The diligent student
is allowed to smoke a cigar during the
lesson When tho whole class has giv
en satisfaction permission is given for
a general smoke and even the little
Mexicans are allowed to light a ciga
rette for the occasion Needless to say
the schoolmaster himself smokes a
cigar of a size and quality proportion
ate to his superior position But the
scholars are not allowed to drink this
privilege being accorded to the master
only On his desk he always keeps a
bottle of liquor Avhich when empty
occasions much dispute among the
parents of his scholars as it is consid
ered an honor to be able to fill the
schoolmasters bottle London Stand
ard
Cutting It Short
A British lieutenant in the Secoud
battalion Lincolnshire regiment who
was called Leo Quintus Tollemache
Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet
Tollemache Tollemache gave notice by
means of advertisement that he re
nounced the names of Quiiitus
Plantagenet Tolle
maehe and should henceforth upon all
occasions and at all times sign and
use and be called and known by the
name of Leo de Orellana Tollemache
only
Canadas Inland Sea
People at home who have only seen
Hudson bay on the map have mainly
regarded it as a patch of polar desola
tion forbidding and unexplored In
reality it is nothing of the kind It is
a huge inland sea as large as the Med
iterranean reaching down into the
center of the Canadian continent
Milling
Dumb Money
Little Elmer Mamma this nickel
you gave me this morning must be
counterfeit Mamma Why do you
think so dear Little Elmer Well I
hear papa say that money talks and
Ive had this money a whole day and
it hasnt said a word Chicago News
Modern Art
Art In our time seems like an iri
descent oil spread about on the sur
face of the muddy waters of our civ
ilization it and life dont mis Lon
don Saturday Review
A Patient Sufferer
Boy to tramp Dont you get awful
tired of doin nothin mister Tramp
Terrible But I never complains
Everybody has their troubles Phila
delphia Inquirer
ROOSEVELT BACKS TAFT ON UNIONS
Chicago Tribune Saturday October 17tb 1908
In a characteristic letter received
yesterday by T J Dolan general
secretary treasurer of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Steam Shovel
and Dredge Men President Roosevelt
set forth again his opinion of Mr Tafts
position on the union labor question
The letter which is a reply to one
sent President Roosevelt by Mr Dolan
in which the latter said the union or
ganization was proud of Mr Taft as
an honorary member of the organiza
tion and because of his well known
friendship for organized unionism was
made public by Mr Dolan
In the letter to the president Mr
Dolan said that he regarded Mr Roose
velt as the best friend organized labor
ever had in the White house and that
as such the labor men had no fear he
would support any man as his succes
sor who showed any inclination to be
unfair to organized labor or any other
class of workingmen
The letter to the president was in
connection with a two column article
praising Mr Tafts friendship for or
ganized labor which appears in the
current number of Steam Shovel and
Dredge the official publication of the
organization
Points to Tafts Isthmian Record
President Roosevelts letter to Mr
Dolan follows
The White House Washington D
O Oct 15 1908 My Dear Mr Dolan
I have your letter of the 13th instant
and am much pleased with the copy of
the article for your journal which you
inclose Indeed you may rest assured
organized labor that they should fail
If Mr Taft were not elected the chief
sufferers from the chaotic business
conditions that would follow would be
the working men All of our citizens i
would benefit by Mr Tafts election
but the working men most of all
Sincerely yours
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To Mr T J Dolan general secretary-treasurer
International Brother
hood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Men
510 Fort Dearborn Building Chicago
Illinois
Says Union Men Like Taft
The letter and the article in the Oc
tober number of our journal speak for
themselves said Mr Dolan in the aft
ernoon We have long known of Mr
Tafts fondness for and interest in
organized labor and particularly as it
applied to the members of our organ
ization Chicago Tribune Saturday
October 17 1908
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
On the cover page of this months
card the chairman of the committee
said In your official capacity as
head of the construction work on the
canal project you have earned the re
spect and confidence of all who worked
under you or had dealings with you
and it is as a mark of that respect and
confidence that I hand you this card in
our brotherhood In accepting the
membership card in the brotherhood
Mr Taft said among other things I
am glad to have at your bauds this ex
pression of confidence in my efforts to
do justice while I was in office As to
the work upon which many of your
members and 1 were engaged In one
capacity or another we all endeavored
to facilitate the greatest construction
work of modern times I am espec
ialy gratified for this compliment be
cause your organization and its mem
bers evince a liberal and impartial
view in thus tendering me this recog
nition because in the administration
of work on the isthmus I did not al
ways decide in favor of your conten
tions In accepting this compliment
of your organization I shall always
cherish it as one of the evidences that
there are some men whom I have con
vinced through my official work of my
desire to do the square thing for every
body
Some politicians are trying to make
it appear throughout the country that
Mr Taft is opposed to organized labor
and its principles but close study of
his record will convince the most skep
tical that he is a fair and just man to
all interests whether labor
that if I did not believe that Mr Taft j tions or any other organizations
would occupy just the position toward
organized labor that I have tried to oc
cupy and in which you and I believe
then fond though I am of him I would
not back him
As you know I have never for one
moment hesitated to oppose organized
labor on any point where I thought or
ganized labor was wrong but just as
little do I hesitate to stand up for or
ganized labor when I think it is right
The administration can well afford to
stand on its record of positive achieve
ment for organized labor and as re
gards the isthmus of Panama where
we have had most to do with organized
labor that record is Tafts
The following sketch of Mr Tafts
life will probably be of interest to our
readers
Mr Taft has had exceptional train
ing for the high office for which he is
a candidate The story of his career
is worth repeating for the emphasis
with which it brings out this point
Mr Taft was born at Cincinnati Ohio
September 15 1857 He was the son of
a successful lawyer Alfonso Taft who
was a member of Grants cabinet as
secretary of war in 1875 and 1876 and
then until the end of the term as attorney-general
The elder Taft went
as United States minister to Austria
i -I OOO owl iifc Hnncroppn1 tr Pnccin
You yourself know well what the i 2 - nnBt llo rnirai
United States government has done as
regards the workingman on the isth
mus thanks largely to Mr Taft the
Record of the government at Panama
is that of a model employer both as re
gards wages and hours and as regards
the housing and care of the employees
Danger in Attack on Taft
I do not believe that the laboring
men of this country have ever had in
office a stancher friend than Mr Taft
The attack upon him by certain self-
constituted political leaders of organ
ized labor if successful would in the
long run gravely damage the cause of
organized labor for these men are try
ing to persuade the people of this coun
try that organized labor has interests
apart from and hostile to the interests
of the great mass of the American peo
ple and such an attitude if persisted
in would inevitably in the end result
disastrously to organized labor itself
error
I believe they will fail in this effort i
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in 1S87
William Howard Taft had his earli
est training in the public schools of
his native city where he laid the foun
dations of that broad knowledge of his
fellows and acquired that instinctive
sympathy with all classes of people
which has ever since distinguished
him Graduating from Woodward high
school in 1874 he immediately entered
Yale university and completed his
course in 1S78 He studied law at the
Cincinnati college and was admitted
to the bar in 18S0 For a while he
served as law reporter for a Cincinnati
paper and to this fact may be due his
peculiar sympathy with and under
standing of newspaper men At a re
cent banquet given him by the Chicago
Press club he told a droll story of be
ing held in contempt by the judge of a
Cincinnati court for an unintentional
in reporting one of the judges
to misguide their followers and to do
T f d ag
y
wrong to the American people and it f tllQT1 ovtoi
is above all things for the interests of L v
himseil to the practice ot law untl
March 1SS7 whii lie was appointed
by Governor Foraucr judge of the su
perior court of Cincinnati to fill a va
cancy caused by the resignation of Tud
son Harmon At the expiration of his
term in April 1SSS he was elected to
the same position for a period of five
i years He resigned in iveoruary isyu
to become solicitor general of the
United States by appointment of Pres
ident Harrison It was while filling
this post that he formed the intimacy
with Theodore Roosevelt that has sub
sisted to this day
In 1S92 Mr Taft was appointed U
S circuit judge for the Sixth judicial
circuit and ex officio member of the
circuit court of appeals A year later
he received an honorary degree from
Yale university
In 1900 Mr Taft having served Lis
long and thorough apprenticed in
the responsibilities of office eamo
prominently into public notice as the
appointee of President McKimey to
the newly created office of president of
the U S Philippine commission On
journal appears the portrait of the I juy 4 1901 he became the first civil
most distinguished member of our or- j governor of the Philippine Islands and
ganization As the members of our or- hjs performance of the difficult and
ganization are all well aware Mr Taft delicate duties of this important post
was made an honorary member of our gave him a high place not only in the
brotherhood in recognition of his fair
ness to our members in all his dealings
respect of Americans but also in the
affections of the islanders During his
since he has been secretary of war 1 tenure of office he was called to Wash
He had direct charge of the construe 1 higton to testify before the senate and
tion of the Panama canal the greatest i house committees on insular affairs
engineering work of modern times j and was then sent by President Roose
and in all his official acts and personal velt to confer with Pope Leo XIII re
relations with members and officers of specting the purchase of agricultural
our brotherhood on that work he has i lands belonging to the religious orders
always shown himself fair and just
When contractors on government
in the Philinpines His conference
with a committee of cardinals at Rome
work showed a disposition to in June and July of 1901 was successful
gard or violate the eight hour law Mr in reaching a general basis of agree
Taft started prosecutions against these ment and impressed the church au
contractors through the United States thorities in Rome with his fairness
attorney generals office
When an effort was made this year
of mind and uprightness of purpose
In December 1903 Governor Taft
to cut wages at Panama Mr Taft used left the Philippine service to become
his influence to prevent it for his j seCretarv of war assuming his new
knowledge of conditions on the isth 1 duties December 1 1904 His earliest
mus convinced him that the prevailing j mission in this new work was to visit
wages were at least fair and just and j panama where he acquainted himself
mat there snouiu tie no reduction in thnrnnsrlilv with the conditions on the
pay on that work Since Mr Taft has
been secretary of war he has had a
fairness We have the utmost confi
dence in case of his election to the
presidency of the continuance of the
Isthmus and all important problems
connected with the building of the
great many dealings with organized canal In September 1905 he made
labor in its different branches and he j a tour of inspection in the Philippines
has always shown a spirit of absolute The following year he went to Cuba
as peacemaker between the different
factions there and acted for a short
time as provisional governor In
fair and just policies toward organ- March and April 1907 he again visit
ized labor that prevailed while he was ed Panama Cuba and Porto Rico to
secretary of war
The committee which presented Mr
Taft with an honorary membership
card in our organization was composed
attend to American interests in those
countries In the fall of the same
year he visited the Philippines for the
purpose of opening the Philippine as-
of members of our order from different sembly All this experience gained in
parts of the United States and they re 1 the actual performance of the most
ceived a very cordial reception when important duties of government will
they called on Mr Taft at his home in j prove of inestimable value to him in
Cincinnati and presented him with his j case he is elected president As a
card He accepted the card from the matter of fact no man ever aspired to
committee in his easy kindly way the office who had a better equipment
which made them all feel that he was in all the essentials of character and
a man who could be trusted with the training International Brotherhood of
peoples interest
In presenting the Steam Shovel and Dredge Men
FOR THE PEOPLE
Congressman Norns is being opposed for re election to congress
by Mr Fred W Ashton of Hall county This Mr Ashton repre
sented Hall county in the state senate during the I97 session of
the Nebraska legislature and a search of the record has been made
to learn where he stood on many of the important reform measures
The following are the facts
He voted NO on the PRIMARY LAW
H R 405 Senate Journal p 1 169 Passed 30 to 3
He voted NO on the ANTI LOBBY LAW a law to clean
the corporation and other lobbyists out of the state house
II R 18 Senate Journal p 1196 Passed 23 to 9
He voted NO on RAILROAD TERMINAL TAX LAW
S F 261 Senate Journal pp 879 and 1029 The pass-
age of this measure meant an increase in the railroad taxes
in practically every county in the Fifth congressional district of
more than a thousand dollars
The LAW GRANTING EQUAL PRIVILEGES terms
and facilities of transportation sidetracks etc from railroads to
all shippers H R 286 Mr Ashton dodged He answered
roll call the day the vote was taken but DID NOT vote for the
measure Senate Journal p 1355
The LAW REQUIRING RAILROADS TO SELL 1000
MILE BOOKS good in the hands of any holder the measure
urged and worked for by the Traveling Men of Nebraska H R
220 Mr Ashton dodged He answered roll call the day the
vote was taken and was not excused but DID NOT vote for
the bill
He voted NO on the bill to RESTRICT BREWERS S
F 76 Senate Journal p 935 Passed 25 to 4
He voted NO on the bill relating to the SALE OF LIQU
ORS making the place of delivery and payment the place of
sale S F 7 Senate Journal p 295 Passed 25 to 3
He voted NO on the bill PROHIBITING SHIPMENT OF
INTOXICANTS unless the words INTOXICATING LIQU
ORS were placed on the outside of the package S F 6
Senate Journal p 294 Passed 25 to 3
He voted AGAINST the COUNTY OPTION measure
S F 128 Senate Journal pp 416 417
He was charged in open session of the senate by Senator
Patrick Democrat with being an agent and lobbyist for the
brewers
Does any honest progressive citizen of the Fifth congressional
district desire to be represented in congress by a man with such a
record Does he show any indication of being in sympathy with the
people
Congressman Norris stands for the Roosevelt policies for the
people and the enactment of reform and progressive legislation The
people generally regardless of politics should see to it that Congress
man Norris is not displaced by a man with such a public record
CAUSES A FAINT SMILE
The voters of the Fifth congressional district will scarcely
accord a smile to the canard originating in the Hastings Republican
dealing with a castle in the air or a palace up in Wisconsin pro
posed to be built by Congressman Norris in the near future This
fulmination conies too near election day tobe serionsly considered
In addition The Tribune has an absolute and unequivocal denial
from highest authority
OUi NEXT STATE SENATOR
Dont overlook the legislative tickets
Vote for John C Gammill for state sen
ator and Frank Moore for representa
tive
Sustain the Roosevelt policies by vot
ing for Taft
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