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I'HM NOlMtYH/K WKMICTiY NUWS-.TniMIRNA fr 1 < MM DAY. RRPTMMHMH. fi. The Norfolk Weekly Hows-Journal The Mows. ICHlulillnlu'il. 1SR1. Tlio Jnurnnl , KMnltllnliml , 1877 THU HU8 PU8LI8HINQ COMPANY W. N. IIIMN N A ' I'nvtlilcul nio'M'iiir ) ICvrry Krlilny Hy mull pur your. Jl.&O. ICtitorril at Ilio luiHliillloo nt Norfolk , Nol ) , nn Hi'coinl clium miittor. Toh'iiliono ! < : IMiiortiil Dopiirtmont No. ! 2. HiiHlnoHH Ultlco ami Jolt lloomn , No. II 22. ic FOR JUDGE. Nebraska will try out lla now pri mary nysloin on Tuesday for the first tlnio. The polls will bo open from 9 n. in. until 0 p. m. Tlio most Important nomlnntlon to bo mndo IB that for flupromo jtulRO. Judge Sodgwlck Bhould bo rcnomlnat- oil by ropubllcona from nny loglcnl viewpoint. Ho 1ms mndo nn excellent Judge for six years. Ho Is a mnn youiiB onoiiRh to continue In vigorous execution of hla duties for another term. There Is no reason for turning him out of ofllco now and It would bo to the InBtlng Bhamo of Nebraska re publicanism If ho were to bo ousted for the sake of a few office-seeking poll tlclans wbo liavo Btlrrod up a campalRii against him In the hope that they may , by making another mnn judge , Innd np polntmonts. The ofllco of supreme Judge In Nebraska IB too Important and too snored to bo juggled about In the nlr by a few aspiring political vaudo vlllo artists. Judge Sedgwlck IB a fair mnn nnd ho has been a fnlr judge. Ho lina brought credit upon the ropubllcnn party nnd for Us own sake the repub lican party should put him back on the bench for another term. Judge Reese , tlio only opposing candidate for the nomlnntlon , Is pnst eighty years old nnd hla age , before lie had finished the term , would bo a serious handicap Judge Sodgwlclc Is In the prime of health nnd all In nil nu excellent chief justice. THIRD TERM EFFORT. It will probably bo good news to President Roosevelt that the Lewis ton , Idaho , commercial club has with drawn Its resolution demanding that the president reconsider his dotcrmln aUon not to make the rnco ngnln for the presidency. For , In the words of Henry Wnttorson , It Is no compliment to the president for thcso third torn boomers to continue doubting the president's word and thus attempting to mnko It appear that ho was Insln ecru when ho announced , on the night of election , that under no circuin stances would he bo a candidate for or would ho accept a ronomlnntlon. The Lowlston Commorlcal club the other day mndo a bid for notoriety by adopting resolutions demanding tha the president run again. Now th Bruno club has revoked those resol utlons. It nppcnrs that the first set o resolutions were drawn up by a mln orlty of the club. When the other ; heard of It , there was a row. So the resolutions wore rescinded And to those who passed them in th first place these words fresh from th typewritten of Henry Watterson mlgh hnvo been referred : The very suggestion Is an Insult t Mr. Roosevelt , It Is an Insult , because cause it assumes that he did not mean what ho said the night of the election of 1904 , nor any of the many renssor tlons ho 1ms made since then. It 1 nn Insult because it assumes him n false nnd treacherous friend , who pur poses by Taft's candidacy butchery and betrayal , and his own advantage not a square deal. It is an insult be cause it assumes the president no' ' only to bo a scoundrel but a fool. TUBERCULAR CATTLE. town's experience with tuberculosis and milk only tends to strengthen the argument mndo and oft repeated In these columns that Nebraska ought to adopt an Inspection system for the protection of Its citizens from tuber cular milk. The News hns before now expressed the opinion that the Norfolk - folk city'council could do no more beneflclnl thing than to provide for local Inspection until the state gets ready to protect Its citizens as It should. It hns been demonstrated In Iowa thnt most of the tuberculosis comes from tubercular herds of dnlry cows. The northern hnlf of thnt state Is the dnlry portion of the state nnd like wise the tuborculnr portion. Iowa will probably ennct leglslntlou nt the next leglslntlvo session to mnko rapid tests and to stamp out tubercular cattle. In Iowa there Is a society for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. Over a year ago that society started out a specialist who has been lecturing all over the state on ways of prevent ing the disease. Ho has covered the state and Is now lecturing a second time In the same places. The society has made excellent progress In fight ing the disease. The society now an nounces that It Is satisfied most of the tuberculosis comes from milk of tubercular cattle. There Is Httlo knowledge of how many people die In Nebraska every year because the state takes no steps to stamp out the tubercular cnttlo and protect the citizens. The most hopeful discovery made by the Iowa society Is that the fresh air refitment la producing good rosultn ml most of the people sleeping out of oorn arc recovering. OUR NEW READERS. The NOWB toilny reaction 001 now ogulnr BubHcrlborB In northern No- iniHlm , nioHt of them In Madison nnd Morco countU'B nil of thorn In terrl- ory tributary to this city as a com- norclal center. The News trusts that hose new renders may become perma nent friends nn time goes on. After Isltlng them each day for some time , The NOWB hopes that KB Borvlco may lie BO nntlflfnctory that they will not do i without It. And from pnst experience ) with other now warm friends , this end I will bo attained. A word of Introduction mny not bo > out of order. The Norfolk News has : > i > on running aa a dnlly pnpor for twenty ty yearn. It was nineteen yours ago the first day of next December that the paper wan taken over by the present ont management. Until four years ago The News waa a purely local dally , reaching only Norfolk. At that time a ampalgn of expansion was begun and i noon edition Installed by moans of which The NOWB might reach nil of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota with the world's telegraph lows and news of this territory , many hours ahead of nny other papers. The success of this experiment has been more than satisfactory. The growth has boon rapid and substantial over since. Today The NOWH has throe odl tloiiB n day , roaches practically every homo In Norfolk , nine out of ton of the farm homos on five rural routes out of Norfolk , nnd several thousand homes out through Madison county nnd the rest of northern Nebraska nnd south cm South Dakota. The News Is always twenty-four hours ahead with dally market reports i. It Is always ahead with news of this territory. It scores many Important news "bents" In vitally Important Items. Among the telegraphic reports given to News renders twenty-four hours nhend of other papers , have been : The fall of Tort Arthur , the Slo cum horror , the death of the pope , the San Francisco earthquake , the doatl of Edward Rosowatcr , the Thaw trla disagreement , the Bancroft lynching nnd many other equally and less 1m portant reports. This Is mentioned merely for the snko of showing our now readers what wo nro going to defer for them. The News hns tried to do Us shnro townrd developing this now northwest It expects to continue. Through The News the northwest has gotten ac qunlnted with Itself much bettor thni 11 would hnvo been possible through pn pers fnr nwny , not Interested directly In this territory. Every community , I Is believed , hns felt some benefit. The News hopes thnt Its now renders may become permanent members o Its northwest family. THE FARMERS' GREAT EARNINGS Who could doubt that the United States Is to continue In Its prcson unequalled prosperity , In view of th fnct that the American fnrmcr thl yenr tins earned n thousand million dollars more than he did a year ago And who , Indeed , would covet n monopoly on the world's oil supply or thread supply , so long as the flel for farming remains open to bestov Independence , health , happiness an tlio respect of one's neighbors upon one's shoulders. According to a preliminary roper on the present season's crops , whlcl will bo published In the next Issue o tlio American Agriculturist , the Amer Icnn fnrmer hns enrned this yea $1 , 000,000,000 more than Inst An wo all thought ho was doing pretty well last year. The Increased earnings of the farm are due not to an Increase In crop production , for the crops are estimate at ton per cent less this year than last , but to the Increased prices for over commodity which tlio farmer 1ms fo sale. sale.And And so It Is apparent , from the fac that the crop Is less but the earning greater than a year ago , that after al this general prosperity Is being ovenl distributed. Contrary to the outer of the demagogues , every class of clt- Izen In the United States is getting slice of the melon of prosperity. Anc In splto of the cries of alarm lest will In a few years three or four men wll own us nil , body nnd soul , these fig ures Indicate that after all the Amer lean fnrmer , nnd with him the rest o the mnsscs , nro holding their own nnd then some. When the farmer Is prosperous , th balance of the nation is bound to b likewise prosperous. The farmer | s the foundation of our prosperity nnd with this Immensely Increased enrnln for the fnrm In the present season there Is every prospect for a cor responding increase In the nation' general business prosperity. With a thousand million dollar more this year than ho earned last the American farmer Is going to b able this winter to buy a piano for th parlor , nn automobile for his own con fort , now carpets for the floor , now clothes for the family , now stoves t ooli on and now furniture for every oom. Ho Is going to bo able to nnt- sfy hla every want nnd the merchant i turn will enjoy a busy season. In rdcr to manufacture the things that ho farmer will want , the laboring mil will hnvo nil he can do nnd nt oed wagon. It IB no wonder that the bank do- ofllttt In Norfolk today are the high- st they have over been in the city's iBtory. It Is no wonder that the titterings of Wall street nro having o effect upon the prosperity of the ounlry nt largo. For today the west rn farmer owns his own land , free from debt. Ho has been loaning money to the cast all of these years and this , year ho Is going to have still nero that ho can loan If ho desires. Us harvest Is n good one nnd what It acks In quantity Is moro than made tp for In price , no that It matters little o him how the wind mny blow down around Now York his winter coal nnd clothes , his telephone and now machinery , nro assured nnd content ment rests upon his brow. "Tho farmer was never In so healthy a position as ho Is today financially , socially , politically , mentally and spiritually , " says the report in the American Agriculturalist. "The In crease In the value of his real cstnto ins been prodigious. Ho owes less money than ever before. Ho has greater nssets thnn ever. Agnln , the fnrmer's wants nro greater. Ho Is In the market for moro and better breed Ing stock , farm Implements , household goods nnd other merchandise. " This report of the farm's great abundance this year only affirms that which was Issued Borne weeks ago by Lord & Thomas , advertising agents of Chlcngo , who hnd mndo an exhaustive - tivo Investigation Into crop conditions. And as a result of this prosperity for the fnrmer , nil lines of business will . . . . . _ . _ . t t . . _ _ ! _ _ _ n . _ unquestionably prepare for an except- tonally busy fall. A WORD FROM BANCROFT. The aftermath of the Bancroft lynch ng , which took place Monday morning of the pnst week , has developed the fact thnt a good many more people approve the hanging because of past axlty of the law In Nebraska , than dis approve It. Omaha papers nnd the Lincoln Journal demanded that the lynchors bo hunted down nnd punish ed for flist degree murder. But those lynchcrs will never bo punished. Public sentiment ns a general thing too strongly upholds them In their mob violence for the reason that nlrcndy too many brutal murders In Nebraska have gene unpunished. The murder of his entire family by Rash , the fiend who was acquitted on nn Insanltj plea and who was dismissed from the Norfolk hospital because ho was no Insane , is but nn Instance. Many people believing Mrs. Llllle guilty o the murder of her husband point to her pardon ns an example of how mob violence finally broke out. The Lincoln Journal severely cen sured the lynching nnd demanded tha the lynchors be punished. Rev. Byron Beall of that city answered the editor lal and defended the lynching , In vlev of present conditions In Nebraska. The fnct Is referred to ns Indicating the sentiment of many classes. Of Interest , too , because It comes from a Bancroft mnn In the midst o things , Is this letter written to the Omaha Bee , In reply to n Bee editor ial : Now thnt the excitement of the re cent lynching hero hns pnssed away , a few words from one who was Innocent of any knowledge of the act before hand might cause you to direct your editorials where they may easily do more good. I am fully convinced now thnt Hlg- gins would hnvo been lynched no mat ter what prepnution wns tnken. He was shadowed from the time he left the Omaha jail until he reached Ban croft , nnd hnd nny resistance been offered It would have meant more lives lost for the sake of a brute with a criminal career. The trouble Is the costs to this coun ty. It hns over been thus. Just one mnn In recent yenrs arrested In this locality , no matter what the charge , has been , held for trial and received a sentence. That man wns sent up for six yenrs. He served two , was paroled by Governor Mickey and skipped the J country In a few days. This Is an other reason for the lynching. I was born In Cumlng county In the early ' 70's. When a boy my mother often told mo about staying alone , and for days seeing nothing but In dians going past on the warpnth , but never wns there a time In the early days when the law was so badly Ig nored ns the present. Is It any won der the people are rising up ? I stood on the depot platform , saw the train slow down thnt carried the lad with a criminal career on his last life's journey , but returned to my of fice before there were any signs of a mob , nnd am thankful for whnt I did not see. I regret from the bottom of my henrt that this blot upon our fnlr community was necessary , but now that the deed is done wo can not agree that the "lynchors bo punished. " Far fro .n It. If I had seen a masked man and "ould positively Identify him , I would accept a jail sentence for con tempt of court rather than testify against thnt mnn. Will the editor of The Bee inform us whnt per cent of those who were charged with murder in Nebraska dur ing the last six yenrs hnd to pay the penalty with their lives ? Is It not a fact that If Hlgglns had been given a rlnl the chances are 100 to 1 agnlnst mnglng ? The fnctfl are wo have lost confi- lenco In Juries. If you have the money oti can get any evidence for n crlm- nal you want. If you do happen to convict him n way of escape Is made easy cither through the penitentiary > r the supreme court. There IB not half the talk hero over ho lynching that there Is over the irtlcles appearing in the Sioux City Tribune , and there Is good prospects ! ' f a libel suit. Those who happened o bo around town Monday and read the Tribune Tuesday evening were simply disgusted to the utmost It IB conceded by nil thnt The Bee ? ave the facts ns ncnr ns could be Ivcn. There was no manufactured 'stuff" to Bell ; Its editorials have been ess radical , but wo still oppose pun- shlng n single mnn for doing what our courts ought to have accomplished eng ago. E. J. Burke. The stale deplores a lynching. No doubt Bancroft people deplore It as much as anybody else. But the state , if lynchlngs are to bo avoided , must punish the criminals. That's nil there Is to it. THE PRIMARY "A LEMON. " From all corners of northern Neb raska como reports of dissatisfaction with the now statewide primary law , and demands for the law's repeal. The system has been tried and has been , found wanting In many respects. The prlmay has not , In practical operation , made good the promises of the framers who claimed for It a mighty reform. One of the prime objections to the statewide prlmnry system ns Just tried out In Nebraska is the burden of ex pense to the taxpayers. The cost to each county will bo as much or moro than the cost of a regular November election , nnd the tnxpnyers must pny the bill. The tnxpnyers nro usually willing to pay the cost on public 1m provoments but If the straw shows which way the wind blows , there Is a pretty well defined feeling that the now system hns not nfforded the re- form thnt wns assured. The theory of the primary law waste to tnko political nomination out of the control of "ring" politicians. The Idea was that In n statewide primary nomination system , giving every veteran an opportunity to cast his ballot for whom ho might desire there would be freer expression of the choice of the public at largo ; that political trades would be laid up in the hospital and that better men would bo nominated than under the old system of caucus. But back of It all , the framers of this t primary law seemed to forget that t the public at large could control the nominations just as simply ant ] easily under the caucus system as under dor the primary ; and perhaps moro so. For under the caucus plan every voter has n perfect right to attend the preliminary caucuses and to tnko a part In naming the dellgatcs who shall attend larger conventions for the pur pose of making nominations. And by helping to send dellgntes pledged to thl'3 candidate or that , the public at large under the old caucus system was able to control the final nomln e ation just as effectively , If not more so , than under this statewide prlmnry The experience of Tuesday In Neb rnska has demonstrated thnt people who refuse to turn out at n caucus to select delegates to a convention , will likewise refuse to turn out and vote nt n prlmnry election. It Is hard for a state to force Indifferent citizens by legislation to tnke a part In the prl mnry political affairs of the commun ity , if those citizens are not disposed In the first place to exercise this pri vilege , And so , Instend of forcing the great masses of voters who formerly paid little or no attention to the making of party tickets , to take n hand under the primary system , Nebraska has nppar- ently been handed n lemon which af fords no mnterlnl fundnnientnl change but which adds very considerably to the burden of the alrendy heavily bur dened taxpayers. And In many ways , the new system has worked to the Injury of the great masses of people Instead of to their betterment. Under the new primary system n county's power In helping to nominate a state candldnto depends nltogether upon how mnny of that county's voters turn out on prlmnry election day nnd put their pencil marks upon the ballots. Under the old caucus system a county wns en titled to a certain voting power In the selection of candidates , that power being based upon the number of party votes that the county could muster nt election time. The new plnn , ns Is readily seen In the result of Tuesdny's prlmnry , hns plnced certain portions of the commonwealth under the dicta torial rule of certnln other portions and has , Instend of wiping out "ring" rule , renlly crented a great big voting rnnchlno In the larger cities which can absolutely crush the rural communities of the stnto so far as their voice In the nomination of stnto officers Is con- corned. For the fnrmlng portions of the stnto did not Tuesday and will not a year from now , go to the polls ; the cities flock to the ballot boxes nnd thus swing the result. Whether by malicious Intent or not , the framers of this prlmnry law plnced the primary election day right In the midst of the 'armor's ' busy season nnd It la not to 10 expected thnt tlio full farming . strength will over , at this time of year , 10 manifest In the primary ballot. On the other hand , however , the city chap who has merely to step around the corner to vote on his way homo at light , will take advantage of the bal lot ns n sort of novelty , nnd will ef fectually silence the voice from out In the country. This complaint thnt the cities hnvo been given absolute con trol of things political by the primary Is berne out by the vote. Reports from Omaha and Lincoln show that "a hcnvy vote wns cast , " Reports from all smaller towns and country precincts , on the contrary , show that "an exceedingly light vote was cast. " In Norfolk about 175 votes were cnst nltogether , while the town's voting strength Is about 1,000. In Crclghton only thlrty-flvo votes were cast and In smaller towns five and six ballots only. only.And And thcso are but types of the re ports which have como from all sec tions ! , proving that the primary has created a "ring" rule by throwing the nomination of state candidates Into the cities. The idea that political trades are 1m- possible under the primary , Is another preposterous feature. It is ridiculous to presume that there can bo no under standing among communities which will bring about the same political barters that are complained of under the ' convention system. And another unsatisfactory feature that has been brought out is demon stratcd by the Bassctt Instance In which n well known democrat went to the ' polls nnd voted the republican ticket. By concerted voting In the ranks of another party , n few voters could easily succeed In nominating a weak candidate on the opposite side fin the purpose of Insuring his defeat and the defeat of his party with him. A law tlmt allows such trickery is on the wrong track. It Is nil well and good to seek out systems which will put the best men In ' ' office nnd which will put down "ring" rule. But It might ns well bo recognized that the primary Is not and will not be effective In eliminating tricks to control politics , so long as politics has to deal with human na ture. And In seeking to wrest party control from factions or "machines , " it ' might ns well be recognized first as last that the public at large had full sway over the old caucus system , If It chose to exercise Its rights , and without - out the ndded burden of another elec tlon's expense thrust upon It every year. year.No No state In the union , has yet found a primary system that was satlsfac tory. Apparently Nebraska has not solved the problem. And meanwhile the taxpayers of the state are paying pretty denrly for their experiment. AROUND TOWN. Judge Welch wns nominated by a safe margin. Tuesday was a dull day with Nor folk saloons. Nebraska has had its primary lesson in the primary. The new primary is not popular with those who have dry throats. It's goodbye to the straw hat , but oysters are once again on deck. The rasping of the ice-saw will soon give way to the scraping of the coal shovel. The school board saved a lot of ab sent marks for circus day In Norfolk by making It a holiday. That man has missed part of the joy of life who has not helped carry the washing a mlle from home once a week. A good many people wonder why such an unpleasant feature as the drouth of Tuesday should go with the primary. Labor day , the day we labor. This Is Just like September weather. The five-year-old boy will get bis' I first taste of the primary on Tuesday , primary day. I If you envy the bankers In getting a holiday every time the national gov ernment decides to take a rest , just bear In mind the fact thnt they get twelve firsts of the months In a year that are hummers. Do you love your teacher ? The conl mnn Is beginning to Invade all parts of town. Couldn't you tell the difference when wo got over Into September ? The "teacher's pot" can stand a lot of guying. There are compensations. The News subscription lint Is today a pretty good directory of northern Nebraska. No candidate ought to have difficul ty In carrying this primary ; they say the vote Is light There Is one man In Norfolk who , when strangers ask him his name , re plies that ho Is "Mrs. 's hus band. " I A Norfolk woman always cautions her children to put on stockings that have no holes In them , for the reason that they might break their legs during the day and thus run the risk of al- owing outsiders to find out , In picking ip the accident victim , whether the family wore holey stockings or did lot. Pierce Call : The Norfolk Dally News mndo a nlco scoop on other dallies Monday afternoon In reporting the lynching of Hlgglns at Bancroft. Owing to the train being Into the News did not get to Plcrco until 3:30 : in the afternoon , but even then the story was read by Pierce people exactly sixteen hours before any other dally gave an account j of the affair , as the Omaha and Lincoln dallies of the same after noon do not arrive until the next mornIng - Ing nt 7:40. : Do you remember what the first day of- school used to bo like ? How you returned to a necktie and shoes and stockings after summer's vacation ? How . you got on deck early to be able to select the seat farthest from the teacher ? How you eyed curiously the new teacher nnd laughed at the way she mispronounced most of the names ? And how you half envied the few who brought their lunches in big square tin palls , with little cups on top , and who remained at noon to eat cold plo nnd drink cold coffee on the doorstep ? It's n great day , the first day of school , but It doesn't last long. The weeks will fly by and the months , and the first thing you know It's Thanksgiving , then Christmas , then Easter and then vacation time again. It's Just the snmo yenr nfter yenr , excepting that each succeeding year seems to wb'rl ' around a little bit faster. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Even fishermen will not believe each other's fish stories. Sweet , trusting dispositions are rarely found In married women. If one man knows a thing , it doesn't take the other men long to hear about It. A woman Is enthusiastic over being married ; not over the man she Is mar ried to. t Instead of going to hell when ho dies , a man should bo born again , and be 1 a woman. "It Is as quiet In our neighborhood , " snld Ed. Bally today , "as a run-down clock. " After a man marries , ho makes the startling discovery that his wife also "loves" a cat The longer wo live , the more we ad ? mire agreeable people , and the leas wo think of a grouch. "Don't go to any trouble , " people say , when they accept an Invitation to dine ; but they expect you to. When a man climbs Into a barber's chair , and looks at himself In , the glass , he thinks he's pretty sweet. Every mother of several children Is pretty well qualified to serve on a grievance committee. One trouble with Independence Is that some men think they must make fools of themselves to show it Every husband Is convinced , as he Is convinced of nothing else on earth , that ho has always done his share. The average man Is more likely to stay up Into enough to see the comet than he Is to get up early enough to see it While excessive rains may detract from the rich flavor of the cantaloupe , they seem to have very little effect on the price. The ambition to wear a corset pos sesses a girl at about the same ago that a boy begins to refer to the down on his face as a "beard. " A lot of fuss Is made over the In ventors and navigators of airships , considering the builder of air castles gets so little attention. i When the foot of a woman's stock- Ing wears out , what a lot of good stockIng - Ing is thrown away ! ( Chart. That long part above the foot. ) The man who Is always right causes a lot of unnecessary disturbance In this world. Why not acknowledge your faults and the rights of others ? A man without a very active Imag ination can bring tears to his eyes any tlmn hv thlnlrlnir nf thn rronf nnrrnnr that will overcast the wide land on the day of his funeral. State of Ohio , City of Toledo , Lucas counts , BB. Frank J. Cheney -makes oath thnt he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co. , doing1 business In the city of Toledo , county and state nforo- sald , anu that said firm will pay the sum of ona hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. 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