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An early start and a defi
n te plan goes far toward
assuring success to the
young man or woman
starting out in life No
need of being atingy
neither should you be a
spender The sensible
and easy method of creat
ing a fund for your future
needs is to open an ac
count with this bank de
posit whatever you can
each week or month
Stick to it and in time
your success will be as
sured Better start now
you will never regret it
First
National
Bank
McCook Nebr
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postoffice McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For United States Senator
E J BURKETT
For Governor
- C H ALDRICH
For Lieutenant Governor
M R HOPEWELL
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For Secretary of State
ADDISON R WAIT
For Auditor
SILAS R BARTON
- For Attorney General
GRANT G MARTIN
- For Land Commissioner
E B COWLES
For Treasurer
- WALTER A GEORGE
For State Superintendent
JW CRABTREE
For Railroad Commissioner
HENRY T CLARKE Jr
For Congressman 5th Dist
j GEORGE W NORRIS
For State Senator 29th Dist
JOHN F CORDEAL
For State Representative 65th Dist
FRANK MOORE
For County Attorney
f CHARLES D RITCHIE
For Commissioner 3rd Dist
WALTER N ROGERS
If our old friend and early settler
1 B Korns of Indianola is correct
we are O K He asserts confidently
that Red Willow county is Republican
The fact that small boys as young
as six years indulge in cigarette
smoking in the city indicates that
someone is not regarding the laws
made for the protection of children
who being too young to know the bad
effects of cigarette smoking should
be protected by the older ones from
the destructive habit to health and
development
Marion Plummer of McCook -writes
Dahlmans life story wherein he say
My father settled In DeWitt county
Texas in 1845 and there I was born
and raised with a rope in one hand
spurs on my heels and a six shooter
on my hip does not jibe very well
with his speech at the state fair
where he said that his occupation in
his young days was to hoe cotton and
attend Sunday school Ive voted the
democratic ticket for thirty seven
years but I cant go Dahlman Lin
coln Journal
The friends of county option in
this senatorial districtt may cast
their vote for John F Cordeal the Re J
publican nominee on Nov 8th with
the- full assurance that he stands
pledged to support such legislation
The fight on governor this year
should not blind the voters regarding
John H Powers Veteran Populist
Leader Defines The Issue
To the peoples Independent party
of Nebraska
Dear Friends Twenty years ago
you made me your standard bearer
by nominating me for the office of
the governor of the state of Nebras
ka Up to that time we had been
The Farmers Alliance a school for
learning the rights and duties of the
people of our state and the true
principles of government The result
of our studies and discussions was
the adoption of a code of principles
which became the platform of the
party The basis of the alliance or-
ganization was a constitution and by
laws which all the members subscrib
ed to and with which all cordially
agreed One of the obligations read
as follows We will vote if permit
ted for truth and righteousness among
all the people and for such men and
such only as will resist the oppres
sion and extortion ofc railroad and
money corporations and all others
either corporation or individuals who
by chartered privileges vested fights
or any other means are placed in
circumstances where they can oppress
their fellowmen
These obligations were understood
by the advocates of saloons and in
toxicating liquors as meaning prohi
bition of the liquor traffic and they
opposed the triumph of the new party
by every means in their power Now
after twenty years a similar condition
exists county option is the real ques
tion now before the people of this
state
How this is brought about is little
consequences I suppose the effects
of its adoption in other states is the
cause
The makers and importers of al
coholic drinks with the saloons
speak easies and their deluded and
enslaved patrons the drunkards and
tipplers and the office seekers who
hope to get into office by their sup
port almost unanimously oppose coun
ty option Which simply means the
right of all voters in the county to
vote on the question of prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
county instead of only the voters in
the towns as the law is at present
Brothers friends the line is clear
ly drawn Mr Dahlman the candidate
for governor on a platform which de
clares against county option and who
declares he will oppose its adoption
by veto if he should be elected and
the legislature enact it into law Mr
Aldrich nominated on a platform in
favor of county option who declares
he will use all honorable means that
he ean for its enactment into
law
Let us choose this day for whom we
will vote
Our party has no candidate for gov
ernor in the field If you believe that
intemperance and its attendant evils
is best for Nebraska vote for Dahl
man
But if you think that temperance
and righteousness will build up true
and lasting prosperity in our beloved
state cast your votes for Aldrich
May our heavenly father help us
to choose the right
- JOHN H POWERS
Too Much Personal Liberty
Victor Wilson who was largely in
strumental in the passage of the eight
oclock closing law and who is one of
the most influential Democrats in the
state finds it impossible to support
Colonel Jim Murray now better
known as Omaha Jim for governor
and states why thusly
Stromburg Neb Sept 26 1910
Editor World Herald
Dahlman is simply an impossible
candidate for governor with me I
have known him personally and pol
itically for fifteen years and no truer
composite of people opposed to the
regulation of society by law can be
framed than he He wants to do pre
cisely as he pleases without regard
to his neighbor and fear of his neigh
bors displeasure not joy in his hap
piness is his controlling motive
Dahlman really believes in no regu
lation of the liquor business whatever-
he may publicly say to the con
trary He wants to buy and drink
liquor whenever and wherever he
pleases Boys he said to a select
crowd of rounders on a certain Sun
day night during his primary cam
paign If I had my way there would
be a saloon in every business block
in every town in the state I dont
believe in walking more than a block
or two at the furthest to get a drink
and a drink after eight oclock tastes
twice as good as one in daylight
And he believes in the same freedom
for gambling He -would play poker
nywhere except for the curious
crowds and the betting ring at a
horse race is his glory
His idea of personal liberty carried
the attitude of those -who aspire to tl to its logical conclusion means no law
legislature for should an anti county
option legislature be elected the coun
ty option forces will have lost the
fight in Nebraska Before casting
your vote for a candidate for the
legislature this year know where he
stands upon the important questions
now before the people of Nebraska
Bartley Inter Ocean
liberty by law that liberty which is
best expressed by the old maxim So
use your own mental physical and
material powers as not to injure an
other That maxim which is a le
gal one hundred years ago is the sole
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enters society he surrenders all his
rights and receives in return- such
rights as society deems best for the
good of the whole Those rights
constitute our personal liberty and
are so recognized by every authority
legal and historical Without them
we would have either anarchy or de
spotism Consequently Mayor Jims
flaunting of the words personal li
berty as his principle of action indi
cates the densest ignorance of their l
meaning His battle cry should be
Down with restraint Down with
regulation Down with regulatory
laws What laws are not regulat
ory Down with govern But
no that would be anarchy
Look out Jim theres a pit at the
end of that lane and its well nigh
bottomless
The trouble with him is his idea
that the code of the early range free
wild and lawless wherein might was
right and which melted away before
the advance of civilization is suffici
ent everywhere even in the thickly
settled communities and cities He
enjoyed himself best on the range
and he thinks that he and others of
his kind would enjoy themselves bet
ter in the midst of society if given
the same barbaric freedom that pre
vailed there But the vast majority
of men know that absolute individual
freedom is impossible in society and
Jim himself would know it but for
the ignorance which he himself con
fesses yet lacks the manhood to de
plore I hope people who have not
heard him speak will attend his meet
ings for a sorrier spectacle in a can
didate for the high office of governor
will doubtless not present itself in a
generation
Respectfully
Signed V E WILSON
Personal Liberty
It would be just as pertinent for
Jim Dahlman to be discussing Theo-
sophy or Cannibalism or Aviation
or Race Suicide or the Polarization
of Dr Cook as for him to be gali
vanting around the state in this cam
paign talking about Personal Liber
ty
The only issue he sees in this
campaign is the saloon issue which
he interprets to be Personal Liberty
That he sticks to this text is because
he knows most about it He has 22
saloons right in his hometown that
are all subscribers for preferred stock
in the Dahlman campaign They are
all over the state financing his fight
To smite the hand that furnishe
the dough would be base ingratitude
besides it would be a violation of the
Dahlman instincts Whatever may be
thought of the issue is must be ad
mitted to be a better one than the
record of the last legislature of Jims
party It would not do to discuss
that not with both hands for one
must be employed to hold the nose
Nor could he profitably allow the re
cord of the previous republican legis
lature come up for that one was the
best ever made in Nebraska It was
a session that yielded full obedience
to the demands of the people and
the partys pledges It gave to the
state an unprecedented quota of pro
gressive legislation
What is this Personal Liberty that
has been lugged in It means to
Candidate Jim nothing more noth
ing less than liquor liberty
strains hindrances impediments re
gulations taken off the traffic
But this can not by any fair or
logical interpretion of the party plat
forms be regarded as the issue The
republican state platform declared for
county option the democratic state
convention REFUSED TO DECLARE
AGAINST IT BY AN OVERWHELM
ING VOTE OF G37 TO 153
County option merely enlarges the
unit of control from city to county
It gives a vote of saloon regulation
to all the voters since it is
tion atrecting all County option is
popular rule Whoever opposes it
must deny this great principle the
basis of a republican form of gov
ernment You Mr Republican if
you be a county optionist and you
Mr Democrat if you be an anti-county
optionist must agree that Mr Dahl
man in talking Personal Liberty is
talking on an utterly irrelevant sub
ject The only kind of personal li
berty involved is whether or not the
farmers of Nebraska shall be allow
ed to have a voice in saloon regula
tion and that Is epitomized in the
doctrine of popular rule Fremont
Tribune
It takes about all the grace the av
erage sinner can accumulate and con
serve during the week days to keep
him in his pew during an hours ser
vice Sunday when seated on a-level-floor
auditorium behind a wilderness
of toques
of any kind jHe has no conception ofi cunning sugar scoops exquisitely
exalted and expanded duchess satins
zebra feathered - and willow plumed
not to enumerate the multitudinous
mongrels of the marvelous millinery
art to be seen in an average church
audience these sad days A bald-
foundation of our personal liberty headed man is the noblest work of
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consider THAT the monopoly of the
editor of the Reporter who is an
expert at that business and beside
whom the editor of the late Red
Willow County Standard was an
all re- cent amateur
Second that I am not running for
county attorney against Mr Dodge sc
their malicious attacks are directed
against the wrong person
They both accuse me of issuing
false statements concerning the costs
in criminal cases during Mr Dodges
term
That statement was a certificate
issued by me in my official capacity
sworn to by me and sealed with the
seal of the county It would have
been a criminal offense for me to do
that if those figures were false and
it is Mr Dodges duty as county at
torney to prosecute me He is elect
ed to prosecute the wrong doers and
if I did wrong as he says WHY
DOESNT HE DO HIS DUTY and
prosecute me It is not too late Mr
D6dge come on
Pontius even says that I have gone
through records not my own but that
of Rodgers I claim the right to
go through any records my own as
well as others including Pontius and
Dodge and publish them to the vot
ers But I did not get a single figure
from the clerk of the courts office
It was not necessary because my
own records were good enough The
claims filed in my office and signed
by the three commissioners and the
commissioner record are the best evi
dence The warrants drawn up by
myself and paid by the treasurer
are also very good evidence Mr
Pontius flight to read the statute
so he -would know what the duties of
the different officers are and what
records are to be found in the re
spective offices It might not be as
embarrassing as it was in the matter
of charging for the printing of com
missioner proceedings when the only
excuse he offered was ignorance of
the law Ignorance in this matter
This is the rule of the store
The drape of the coat the
curve of the sleeves the hug
of the collar the set of the
trousers must be approved by you
And we say in closing that no
other clothes in the world will sat
isfy you in these particulars plus
wear and price as will our Fall
and Winter weight
Stem Bloch Smart Clothes
Prices from 20 to 30
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When Pontius prints insinuations
picked up at the street corners or
furnished him by his RELIABLE
AUTHORITY he is printing records
but when I publish cold figures tak
en right from the records in my own
office I am meddling with other peo
ples affairs
And now the truth about that cer
tificate It was demanded of me the
same as anyone can demand a copy
of a deed or other records and the
fee paid that the law requires If
either of the two will take the trou
ble to look up the county clerks fee
book they will find that the certifi
cate was paid for and the fee ac
counted for to Red Willow county
Mr Dodge would have had the same
privilege as Mr Ritchie had in ask
ing for a certificate
Mr Dodge says that the amount of
costs that he printed were obtained
from the records of the district clerk
who will neither lie nor deceive any
one I fully agree with him on the
latter statement but if he or his rec
ords dont lie then Dodge certainly
did because the clerk of the district
court in his official capacity has is
sued a certificate swearing that my
figures were right Read the certifi
cate and then hide yourself behind
the clerk of the court will you
please
The facts are that Dodge looked
over the clerk of the courts records
and in his incompetency did not suc
ceed in getting one half the costs be
sides having a desire to have the
figures as low as possible was not
very careful in getting figures
Dodge says that Cordeal McCarl
did not prosecute in the case State
vs Hall Well they drew up all the
papers in the case for Dodge and
as that was all that was done in the
case they are entitled to all the
credit in it
He denies that Mr Darnell prose
cuted in the case State vs Brown
He ought to remember that Mr Dar
nell was here for some time and that
a collection was taken up at McCook
suggests IGNORANCE on other by parties interested in the prosecu
Sons
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To the Voters of Red Willow County
As Mr Dodge the county attorney
and his campaign manager the editor
of the Indianola Reporter have seen
frantic efforts to insure Mr Dodges
fit to continuously attack me in their
re election I submit the following
reply to their attacks
First I will not indulge in throwing
mud or slander as they did as I
points
He further says that by issuing
those figures 1 meddled in other peo
ples affairs Well well looking
through the records in my office and
telling the tax payers what has be
come of their money has become
meddling with other peoples affairs
tion to pay him I remember that
very well because I contributed my
self It was individuals who paid for
the work that Dodge should have
done had he been either competent
or inclined to push the case He
fails to say anything about E B Per
ry prosecuting the celebrated Riley
case All the credit of that convic
tion belongs to Perry and the people
at Indianola who employed him and
who insisted on prosecutine when
Dodge wanted to dismiss the case
The officers at Indianola will testify
that Dodge advised them not to get
Riley back here for trial when they
had him located at Benkelman
Mr Dodge speaks about the jury
costs and that the commissioners
drew the jury to try civil as well as
criminal cases He is right But at
those two terms of court not a civil
case came before a jury Two crim
inal cases in each term and all four
claimed by Mr Dodge in his state
ment If it had not been for these
cases no jury at all would have been
necessary at either term As to
whether the jury costs in above cases
and also the board and expense for
the prisoners ought to be in eluded
in the costs or not we will let the
voters and taxpayers decide for them
selves They know that the money
is gone and that they had to pay it
Maybe it should be added to the
county clerks expense account
Pontius printed a number of mis
leading malicious statements in re
gard to the 2500 allowed by the
Doara to C D Ritchie for
up the special tax notice
drawins
Here are a few questions for Mr
Dodge and Pontius on that subject
WHY did Edward Sughroue who
mtroaucea and first spoke about the
special tax
proposition go to Mr
Ritchie as the first
very
one and em
ploy him to draw the resolution and
notice Gray andJLof ton were willing
that Mr JDodge should prepare the -
notice but it -was Mr Sughroue -who
insisted on some one drawing ud the
notice that knew how and it was
Sughroue that talked the other com
missioners into employing Mr Ritch
ie Mr Sughroue is a very consci
entious man- who wants to do right
and wants to be sure that he is right
at all times Mr Sughroue wanted
that special tax notice drawn up ab
solutely right without any flaws
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