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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consolidations—Falls City Tribune, Humboldt Enterprise, Hulo Record, Crocker's Educational Journal and Dawson Outlook. Entered as second-class matter at Falla City, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12, 1W4, under the Act of Congress on March 3.1ST1*. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year ...$1.50 Six months • Three months - -40 TELEPHONE 226. Announcement. 1 hereby announce myself as a can didate for the republican nomination for congress In the First District of Nebraska. WILLIAM HAYWARD. Announcement. 1 n isli *o announce my candidacy for the legislature subject to the re publican primary. DON GIUDLHY. The “Tribune” is the present coun ty exponent of the higher issues of mora'ity and 'ocial betterment. As ruch we cordia ly invite the co-oper ation and support of all persons who have at heart the Improvement of society and the conditions that surround it. It is clear that we can expect neither encouragement nor help from those in'ercsted in the ex ploitation of the people. Our cause *s th peoples ;aust and very natural ly we turn to the rank and file for needed assistance What eie you doing, fellow worner^to lighten our task and to mane sure the success of our cause? There is a moral warfare being waged. Wh le you may not be called upon to do soldiering yourself you should not be wholly forgetful of the needs of thos* who have freely risked their al' to fight in the front ranks. >t is your fight. Your in tere*is are at stake. Is it more than ♦air to ask that you at least help hold the ropes while we go down to fight? There are more ways than one in which you car make your good will count for good Pay your subscription promptly. To say the least it is not very encourag ng to be held off in definitely just because the bill is so small. You might say a good word for the Tribune to your neighbor, it can do him no harm and may be the means of winning his patronage. An ’ast but not least we would appreciate your patronage fo. anything in the printing and publishing line. It will do you good 10 play at the "square deal' 'in this natter. Give it a fair trial for old limes sake and see it worv Thank you heartily. • • • Weather forecas's promise more drought ami heat. • • • Tin political outlook In Nebraska is most refreshing for the “progress ive tirys. ' • * * The reports of the Grand Island Contention would lead to the conclu sion that the democracy of Nebraska is helplessly In the grasp of the brewers. • * * The republican candidates who have been side-stepp ng county option be eaus< as they argued, it was not pop ular with the masses, will find little com'ort in the action of the Lincoln convention. • • • The Lincoln delegates were in ear nest They fla'ly refused to be side tracked. For once the people of Neb raska Spoke through their represent atives. And as usual when the people speak they were overwhelmingly on «he fide of popular rule and righteous* lies.. County option is clearly the para mount Issue in Nebraska Just now. Even the initiative and referendum is of minor importance as a campaign issue. It moans that the better clas^ of people are awakening to the abuses of the liquor traffic in politics and are determined to drive them out. .And they will not let up until it is an accomplished fact • * * Aldrich and Tobey were the most favorably receded at the convention of the republican candidates, and they werr the two who came out clearly and positively for county option in their announcements. The candidates who would hold the confidence of the voters this fall maj> not hedge. The people are insisting very positive ly that the men who would represent their interests in the public offices mus’ define their positions, clearly. • * * Uncle Joe has been engaged at the thankless and impossible task of but ting popular opinion. Uncle is one of a class of prominent and capable Americans who grew old without growing wiser. He is attempting to •mu. turn the indicator on the dial of prog ress back fully twenty points. He stands as the representative of the reactionary tendencies in our govern ment. C'anonism is the incarnation of bossisnt. It stands for the rule of •he few as against the many. Of course Uncle loe does not so define his position. He is no doubt perfectly honest in the belief that the salvation of Americanism depends upon ills putt ug through the measures which he so ardently champions. He and his kind are mistaken They are old and out of touch with the life that is now being lived. They long ago shut their eyes to progress. They are to-day just what they were years ago only oldei, weaker and blinder. They have our commiseration. It will be a real i lief when they pass out of the sphere of public at t ivity. T1 oughtful drivers will not forget the needs and comforts of their horses these hot and trying days. The) will see to n that their animals have till possible protection from the heat and files. A horse appreciates the cool of the shady side of n tree or building this weather as milch i s ii man. it usually requires but ;ittl< if any added effort on the dri v« r’s part to so hitch his team that .t will lie shielded from the direct ray of the sun. It Is n little matter but will add much to the poor creatures i omtorts, which by the way are like ly to be few enough. A horse is thin skinned am' suffers acutely from the attacks of insects and flies. Id very means possible to protect the horses from these torturing pests should he employed. However the average horsi suffers more in nil probability from thirst than from all other causes together. And yet the most accessi ble tiling usually is water Horses gel thirsty as well as men.and suffer frou thirst as acutely Our road laws are defective in not providing adequately in (Ids respect. There are states •hat make the erection of watering blurt s at more or less regular inter vals along the public highways, a matter of compulsion. In traveling across the counlrv one meets with tlies- watering troughs at regular in ters a Is.and so constructed that a teau can he easily watered without the ne cessity of the driver leaving his seat. They are of inestimably worth to the traveling public, n'ot to speak of the humanitarian features, * * * The hot wave tliat has been sweep ing over mill h of the west and south-west the past week has been i nusually intense. Great damage lias already been don • to tlie corn crop and still greater loss is threatened unless relief in the form of rain comes quickly. Years ago it was to be expected that at least aportion of each summer's labors would be blast ed by drought, the hot wind or the plagif of grasshoppers. But of recent years these visitations have been growing fewer until now they assume the guise of , real calamity. The truth of the matter is that this sect id. lias been wonderfully blest these last years. Wo have been more prosper ous than we knew. As aresult we have become rich and sensitive. Wo are easily frelghtened, at present. Our life has become so complex and our needs so many and diverse that I he possibility of being unable to fully satisfy all of them makes many people tremble at the prospect of loss It Is the bane of the prosperous that they grow proud,forget God mid be come the prey of circumstances. It is because of this fact that calamity is invariably morally beneficial to any community. It is wholesome for the natural man to feel the hand of his God upon ltis person. The difficulty is that in good days we forget and only in days of adversity can we or dlnn’ily be made to take* heed and Give thanks. Therefore a season of loss and some real distress may be most to be desired, much as we nat ural.y shrink from pain and distress. It is good to give Blanks and confess our dependence. It humbles inordi nate pride and saves us from many a sorrow and fall. It is pride and self satisfaction that go before a fall. The Chautauqua committee has spared neither pains nor expense in order to provide Falls City nnd the community with a worthy program. A glance through *he same will con vince any one ilmt they have succeed ed remarkably well, l’utrons jf tlie Chautauqua ttyis season will not only be sure of their moneys’ worth of the best Intellectual things, but they will find the '■ourse a very pleasant and highly refreshing diversion. Of course there w’ll be those for whom it will offer lit’le i n nothing that ap peals. Hut ttnse are for the most part such ns have cultivated abase taste so far as the higher things that make for culfuie r nd refinement hro concerned. It is not expected that those who mak-- a practice of regular ly attending cheap shows ami who get their ideas of refinement and taste from exhibitions that cater only to ihat which is coarse and often vile, in men, will be able to ap preciate the kind of entertain ’nen" offered ly .his years Chautan-I qua course, t’owever, persons who] bav'.» been long at. their daily ffrmd and feel 'he need of some kind of relaxation and rest, will find what they are seeking if they will but give themselves th - needed time to take in *i good port on of the program. It will lift their more sordid inclina tion1’ out of the i Id ruts and start their nervous me hinery to running along new and d cldedly wholesome and refreshing dnes. If you have never tried this way of recovering nervous tone, ihen try it this year. You will surprise -ourself at the salu tary results, it is not rest that most of m need so much as change. The inspiration that comes from list enin'-. to master minds and the tonic of great and goo 1 thought is better than idle rest an) superior to the best doctors’ peresription. Those who mis:; it will u -ver realize the extent -if (heir loss. * * * Bryan utterly failed to even impress tile Grand Island convention with his county option ideas. It was plain tha ' the ((invention wa pack'd from the] star' l»y the iir weis Tlie "dry deleg rate ' were snown about as muehj courtesy and respect as was accorded die nu n who fought for a county op tion plank at the county meeting. One tiling lias been clearly demonstr ated and that is hat the democracy of Nebraska a cl the liquor interests arc identical m so far as the party •■ontro^ is concerned. Clean stand ard democrats will find real satisfac 'ion in liie action of the republican contention. The election this fall in Nebraska. wiU b< a test of strength of the forces of righteousness as tar, hy the brewers. The "dry" dele against t h ■ millions of the evil one. It is strictly a moral issue in which party lines dir appear In the larger problem of right 01 wrong. It is no longer a question ot party loyalty but of n'leginnee o the right and good, it only remains for the republican party to see to it that only high stand ard men are o'din nomination at the coming primaries, end the party will swc< p the sta1 ■ tliis fall as never lie lore Bvery church organization, every society *rr the moral betterraen of the people will lie wholly on the side of the renubhean position. That tlier ■ witl he soma who will hesitate to ’ ote against the old party is to tie expected But 'heir number is be coming less wi'h •'acli election. Men are eyerywber > mere and more rec .'glinting thepr tpricly of easting their ballots for men nncl measures rather ilia" for party bosses. We heartily welcome the 1 dependent voter. Ilis ldv"nt spells the downfall of the par ly dictator anil the passing of many of the abuses of our past political history. The .iass.es are thinking and when the rant; and file once do their own thinking the doom of the intriguer is s" ned. The Cow. T1 » dairy cow, if able to express, hers* if in a way which the human family would comprehend, might well lay ' latin to hi ing man's best friend She might establish such a claim by calling attention to the fact llmt from her product and from her car cass man manufactures more of the necessities of lift' than from any other similar source. She furnish es these necessities to him from in fancj until such a time as temporal things are no longer associated with ids existence, and she does it un grudgingly and constantly. In addition to contributing to man's necessity and Ms pleasure, the pros perity of an agricultural community is more closely identified with her than with any other of the domestic animals. The horse is quite essen tial in tilling the soil, but where nec essity requires it the sturdy son of the cow can „nke liis place, as he has done in early agricultural section on earth. The horse can only fur nish labor and can only return profit to l.is owner when conditions are right for returning satisfactory grain crops. It is a well known fact that the dairy «©w is the salvation of the farmer in times of poor crops as she is able to convert the rough crops which are never a total failure, into dairy productions which always have a cash value. In addition to this she furnishes skim milk and butter milk for the calves, pigs and poultry and fertility for the soil, without which a farm becomes less valuable each year and the whole country less prosperous. The elimination of the dairy row would necessitate an almost revolu tionary readjustment of man’s tastes and requirements. It would mean untold suffering and hardship. Of course she will not be dispensed with but her value can perhaps best be appreciated by contemplating such a loss . She will continue to be man's best friend as long as tin* human family exists and will keep on supplying him with his greatest needs, just as she has done through all the ages.—The National Dairy Union, St. Paul. Minn. Note for the Girls. No man admires a nice woman any more enthusiastically than we do. Nor can any man think less of a foolish one.—Atchison Globe. CONVENTIONS MEET DEMOCRATS AT GRAND ISLAND, REPUBLICANS AT LINCOLN. COUNTY OPTION IS THE ISSUE Republicans Adopt County Option Plank and for a Direct Legislation. Democrats Reject County Option and Endorse Eight O’clock Closing Law. f ^ ^ j|(- -)j£ jfi ^ * •* * VOTE ON COUNTY OPTION * 3ft Republican $ # For .558 * # Against .276 * * # St Democratic * For .198 * 4f Against .647 ■# * ¥ ***•#--******#*■*#*#* The republican state platform re views achievements of the party and endorses the work of its leaders. Favors the creation of a non-parti san board of control for state insti tutions. Endorses county option. Favors redistricting the state for legislative purposes. Endorses direct legislation. The republican party of Nebraska has declared for county option. This fall it will go before the people of the state with its candidates, endorsing that issue as a further regulation of the liquor truffle and pledging the re publican candidate ' for governor to sign, if he is elected. The party also declares that the people should have a right to vote on a constitutional amendment referring to direct legis lation, or initiative and referendum, non-partisan control of state institu tions, and Hie hearty endorsement of tiie activity of President Taft in his NORRIS BROWN. United States Senator from Nebraska. insistence on needed legislation. The county option plank was recommend ed by the committee, as was also the administration plank and the non-par tisan board of control. The direct legislation plank came before the con vention as an appeal from the major ity of the committee. The convention was absolutely in the hands of the county optionists. Little had been heard about direct legislation, but when the appeal from the committee came it secured almost as strong endorsement as the county option plank. Two days of hard work by the men who would have had a compromise or would have had the platform silent on the liquor question did not move many of the delegates from their position. Two hours In the committee on resolutions failed to move the majority of one member from an insistence on a straight plank declaration. Speeches In the conven tion against the measure were listened to with much impatience. The word ing of the f lank which was adopted the night before the convention as a sane and moderate one was Anally forced through the convention by an overwhelming majority, and amid scenes of wild excitement and en thusiasm. All other matters of political import having been subordinated to the one chief issue, the wildest scenes of en thusiasm and energy were witnessed during the dischssion which touched on the subject and during the roll caff which was to decide whether the con vention would refuse to touch the matter or would take a pronounced attiture. At times it was impossible for Chairman Thrown to maintain order. W. W. Young of Stanton coun ty tried to argue in favor of a silent platform, but was interrupted and roasted until he quit the platform, vanquished but smiling good-natured ly. Although the motions which re suited In the test vote were so twisted by parliamentary practice that "no” meant “yes,” and vice versa, the dele gations made no mistakes and the vote was announced by each county with energy and clearness. When Douglas county announced that it cast ninety-four votes against the county option plank, the enthusi asm of that side of the discussion leached such heights that the roll call was temporarily suspended. Likewise when Judge Frost of l^ancaster an nounced clearly that fifty-six votes from Lancaster county were on the county option side pandemonium broke loose. Delegates threw up their hats and cheered. Old men shook hands over the backs of seats. Others 1 pounded the seats. As Inserted in the platform the county option plank read: “For the further and better regulation of the j liquor traffic in Nebraska we favor j the passage of a county option law by the next session of the legislature, and pledge our candidate for governor if elected, to sign such a law on that subject as the legislature may enact.” This was the plank brought to Lin coln by Senator King of Osceola and accepted by the county option leaders, i The Omaha members had stood in 1 committee for Webster's draft which related to the liquor question. Congressman Norris had been turned down for chairman by a vote of 2 to 1. and had come to the plat form at the invitation of his success ful opponent, Senator Brown, and had declared that the utmost harmony and understanding prevailed between him self and the senator. While the reso lutions committee was reporting he appeared a second time, the only di rect parts he took in the convention. He asked permission to introduce an i amendment to the platform as signed by the entire committee, that relating to the national administration. He i read it as follows: "Every protest, against the wrong is insurging for the fight. We are un alterably opposed to the system known ; as 'Cannonism' and are in hearty sym i pathy with the Insurgent movement in and out of congress. We herewith ( urge our senators and representatives ! to continue to use their votes and in fluence along progressive lines in the futu re." Roll call was asked for, but the chairman finally put it viva voce and declared' it carried. ***************** * * * The democratic platform en- * * dorses the last democratic na- * * tional platform and state plat- * * forms of 1908 and 1909. * t) Condemns the Aldrich-Payne * * tariff bill. * * Favors conservation of na- * * tional resources. * * Endorses the signing of the * @ daylight saloon law by Gov- * * ernor Shallenberger and ap- * * proves his administration. * * Favors biennial elections, * * non-partisan board of control of * ftp state institutions and the initi- * * ative and referendum. * -'T' -T' ^ m m m ar* ■* *v Tfv Grand Island.—Nebraska democrats have wrested the leadership of their state organization from William J. Bryan on the issue of county option. By decisive votes they registered their unbelief in his present policies afatr listening to an impassioned appeal from Mr. Bryan, who declared the liquor interests were in an organized attemput to secure political control of the state. The minority plank sub mitted by Mr. Bryan was brief, and his opponents declared was an effort to recede from!) his former radical at titude. But the workers against the county option plang were unappeased and stood firmly against it. Mr. Bryan, speaking from the plat form in behalf of the minority plank presented by him, was greeted by shouts of applause and was listened to in silence. He said in part: “If I have advocated that which is not good for the state let me feel your wrath. If you find I have done any thing that is not for the good of the democratic party I do not ask your mercy. “Who less than I could desire to disrupt the democratic party? Am I not aware what a repudiation at your hands will mean to me? It has been said that I am making this fight be cause I am not a candidate. Nothing could be more untrue." Mr. Bryan here referred to the po litical battles he had waged and de clared that he had been fearless when his own future seemed at stake. Continuing he said: “I have been called a dictator for expressing my opinion. Your candidates here today have expressed their sentiments. By what law am I compelled to remain silent? When I feel that the good name of my state is at stake? “It has been said that I am ag grieved because I have been sold out by the liquor interests of my own state. I have been sold out by these liquor democrats in my own state and saved by the votes of self-respecting republicans who refused to aid in it. I expect to be in politics for many years yet. I expect to aid in the work of the democratic party, and will not remain silent when a band of politi cal assassins attack me." The speaker then attacked the seat ed delegates of Douglas county, de claring that they were not the choice Df the democrats of the couiPy. “I am not willing to admit that this is a final settlement of this ques tion,” continued Mr. Bryan, “and on a moral question I am not afraid to ex press my opinions and stand on it if I have to stand alone.” Plot to Betray the State. Mr. Bryan declared that he had learned on his return from South America of the plan to betray Nebras ka into the hands of the liquor inter ests. He said that the election of United States senators and state offi cials was a part of the conspiracy, and that he felt called upon to pre vent the political burglary of the state "The republican party and the pop ulist party of this state have adopted county option,” said Mr. Bryan in con clusion; “if you do not adopt it, it be comes an issue. Your speakers say the tide is turning toward democracy in national issues; then make your tight cn them, not in defense of the liquor traffic." Mr. Bryan made no comment after the vote and in answer to questions referred to his speech in which he proclaimed his fealty to the demo cratic party and its platform. Amid a tumult of cheers from the former followers of William J. Bryan, Premanent Chairman Smythe of the democratic platform convention today read tiie result of the test vote from the gathering which practically took from Mr. Bryan the democratic leader ship of Nebraska, which he has main tained for twenty years. The vote came on a motion made by Congressman G. M. Hitchcock, a can didate for the senatorial nomination anl in effect was to eliminate the in ASHTON C. SHALLENBERGER. Governor of Nebraska. troduction of platform |)lanks, with accompanying speeches, unless sub mitted as a section of the majority or minority report of the committee on resolutions, Mr. Bryan, seated as a member of the Lancaster county delegation, was upon his feet at once with a protest and proffered an amendment that would modify the intent of the orig inal motion. The temporary organization was made permanent and Chairman Smythe after a brief speech, selected a com mittee on resolutions. Mr. Bryan was among the first two of the com mittee of seven named. Congressman Hitchcock made his motion to re strict discussion. The opponents of Mr. Bryan asserted that if individual introduction of platform planks had been permitted, with a speech or speeches on each one, it would have materially delayed the progress erf the body. While they asserted their wil lingness that he should speak on the minority report, which he was expect ed to Introduce, the action practically prohibited any other speech from him in the convention. Governor Shallenberger received a great ovation. He said the big con vention was a forerunner of victory in November, a democratic governor was so rare in Nebraska that he was not amazed that others, like Mayor Dahl rnan. also wanted the honor. He too loved a fight. He had never won any thing without one. The governoa said that the tariff alone would defeat the republicans in Nebraska this year. He defended the acts of the last legisla ture and said that of the 207 bills passed a republican court had only declared three unconstitutional. He said the democratic administration dha reduced taxes and by bringing in property not previously on the tax list it had saved the people a million dol lars a year. THE PROHIBITIONISTS. Lincoln.—“We rejoice that the is Bue for which we have so long stood is the dominant issue in Nebraska pol itics.” This was all the state conven tion of the prohibition party had to say Tuesday about county option in an official way. In several addresses, county option was spoken of in a dis paraging manner. It was called “a half way measure, based on practical politics rather than conviction/’ D. B. Gilbert the chairman of the state cen tral committee, in a stirring exhorta tion for party loyalty said, “If we can get 50,000 votes this fall on the pro hibition ticket instead of 8,GoO polled at the last election we will do more good than all the county option wind." While the platform committee was drawing up a report the convention listened to several addresses, T. M. C. Birmingham, who has filed for tlMf United States senatorship on three tickets, made the following state ment: “Local option is not sufficient to solve the liquor problem. If all the states in the union were dry and the District of Columbia wet, under our present interstate commerce laws the whole country would be flooded with w'hisky from that territory. Be sides w’e need to make Washington a clean city and at present it is not up with even Lincoln." THE SOCIALISTS. Lincoln.—Representatives of the so cialist party in NebrasTTh passed light ly over the county option question in their state convention, but adopted a lengthy platform declaring for radi cal governmental steps embodying tha community idea.
