THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
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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.
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Weather forecas's promise more
drought ami heat.
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Tin political outlook In Nebraska
is most refreshing for the “progress
ive tirys. '
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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* VOTE ON COUNTY OPTION *
3ft Republican $
# For .558 *
# Against .276 *
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St Democratic
* For .198 *
4f Against .647 ■#
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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.
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* 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. *
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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.
