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U w , X-"tr - P"- i 'i- F1p"3frvi "7- "kA '--: v '!.- nV V V? - "A J " -",4-)--'iyVf '.. --;, - - v? . m - . . 1 V ij - r.. f . h. o. t- - . - - . . l IS &r. sH. i- . .- E8TABUftHSD.MATll.187S. Columb'os, Keb - EmttthePoo;Colali.lWri 'aacoad-class anil nattar. " PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Colnbis Jonrial Co., (1NCOBPOBATED.) tebxs or siasoBrrno: O yafct. by aaaiLroat pcacokl... Hixmoaiaa. .aa " WEDNESDAY. OCT. 2S.19M. RXBZXJSX X A1S9TT, Ztitir. ' BBKEWALS The date opposite yoarnasae on - osx paper, or wrapper shows to what titae yonr tmbscription ia paid. Thus JanOS ahows that -payaeat baa been received op to Jan. 1. IMS. fesM to Feb. 1,1905 and so on. When pajmaent ia auuKthe date, which answers as a receipt, will be changed accordingly. DISCONTINDANCES-Besponsible rabacfib- eta will continue to receive this joeraal antil the 'pabliahera are notified by letter to diacoatinBe, when all arrearages must be paid. If yoa do not wish the Journal continoed for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yoa should previously notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDBESS-Wbea ordering a change in the address, rabacribars should be aure o give their old aa well aa their new address. Republican Ticket. NATIONAL President THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Vice-President CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS. 'Presidential Electors F. A. BARTON, Pawnee. A. C. SMITH, Douglas. A. C. ABBOTT, Dodge. T. L. NORVAL, Seward. W. P. HALIj, Phelps. M. A. BROWN, Buffalo. H. H. WILSON, Lancaster. J. G. ROBINSON, Donglas STATE. United States Senator ELMER J. BURKETT. Governor J. H. MICKEY. Lieatenant Governor O. McGILTON. Secretary of State A. GALUSUA. Auditor E.M.SEARLE.JR Treasnrer PETER MORTENSEN. Superintendent J. L. McBRIEN. Attorney General NORRIS BROWN. Land Commissioner H. M. EATON. GONGRES&IOflAL. Congressman, Third District j. j. McCarthy. Legislative. Senator HUGH HUGHES Representative JOSEPH HENGGELER. Float Hepreeentative FRED L. HOARE. GwtmiH. Attorney It. W. HOBART. Supervisors. Diet. C and 7 O.C. SHANNON. Dkt. 5-JOHN SWANSON. Dist 4-EMIL SCHOEN. Dist2-FRED DASSENBROCK. David B. Hill is a bachelor. The most narrow men in the world are those who do not admit that others hare the same right to be narrow that -they themselves have to be liberal. One cf the meanest men on earth is he who is always aronnd with a lot of facts in his Test pocket. Jnit when Judge Parker has nearly established a reputation for safety and sanity, in the presumption that he already had a reputation for honesty, comes along Elihu Root and shows that the dear Judge has misrepresented most all of the figures on which he based his heavy arguments. Tough luck. If there is a republican legislature elected this fall there' will be no change ia the revenue law.. If a dem ocratic legislature and a governor is elected there will be a change in the revenue law. John Bender is the man you must elect to the -legislature if you think there should be a chance la the revenue law. Humphrey Demo crat. We wish to endorse unqualifiedly every word of the above. If yoa want a return to the old inadequate, broken backed revenue system, vote for Ben der. But before you do it, read what Judge Sullivan - says about it, at the top of this page. A CANVASS. The Chicago Tribune has made a stisan canvass of 'tl presiden tial situation, by sending representa tives to, every, state in the union. The result of this canvass is as fol lows: "- Fee Roosevelt. 251. For Parker.-159. ' "" ' Doubtful, 66. Total electorial vote, 47ft. Xeeeasary to choice, 239. " - In the doubtful column are placed Colorado. Delaware, Idaho, Montana. Nevada, New York, Utah and West Tirginia. Kothing is conceded Parker but the "solid south". ."- V'.-.Y-v - ..WOULD McKILLIP DO BETTER -.....:-:.- , . IS CONGRESS? ,""-;. ---:.- The following contribution fi " -.-;- ... - .'..the. Journal's 'correspondent in Mc- KiHip's home town, hits the nail on the head: '- ''.The summer is past, the winter is ;"-here. ' The'levy of village tax, the same as vanlation increased! No sitae streets! All members of 'village boanr claim to be imps, kicking the revenue law! Our village tax will be at rhat it was -last year. it! Jum because the Tillage lid no adjast the levy. usher af that board (P. MaCilUn.WwJats toco to Congress. ad in the Beanie's in to v COUNTY ATTORNEY. of the deaocratic paper is Platte ooanty, in order to bolster ap their weak candidate for. county attorney, bare saade some ridiculous They claim that 90 per cent of the criminal trials of the county during the past two years have resulted in oonviotion. This is not true. Scarcely 60 per cent of them have resulted in conviction, and in no instance has the present county- attorney tried a case without assistance. Every voter in Platte county who has ever seen the present county attorney attempt to handle a case in court, will vote against him if he places efficiency above partisanship. The Platte Center Signal in a re cent issue, praised Mr. Latham be cause he had collected 800 in fines. Why did thi paper not criticise him for failing to collect $1000 which was dne tbe.county, instead of $800. What are the facta about this $800? Of that amount, $600 was received on the bond given by John Hale, bound over to the district court in the sum of $800 for highway robbery. Hale de faulted, and suit was begun on the bond. The bondsmen resisted, and the board of supervisors, fearing that their county attorney would be unable to sustain the action on the part of the county, weakly compromised for $600, when the whole amount, $800. was in the bank of one of the bonds men, and a good cause of action ex isted, and the amount of the bond, $800, should have been collected in full, making the total collections from Ines $1000 instead of $800. And thus $200 of the taxpayers money was lost because their county attorney was not qualified to advise the super visors. R. W. Hobart would have saved the oountythis $200 and he would not permit the supervisors to vote the people's money away illegally to pay democratic newspapers for printing the supervisors' proceedings. The question of county attorney is a business proposition. The voters ot Platte county want a man to look after their legal rights who is honest and who is capable of prosecuting a suit without drawing on them to hire an assistant. We have no desire to say anything of a personal character against Mr. Latham nor anything that wiU affect his business when he turns his office over to Mr. Hobart. And in fact there is little need to say anything at all. Platte oounty voters know there is not an attorney in Platte county better qualified to look after their in terests than Mr. Hobart, and they will elect him by a good safe majority. ENCOURAGE IT. Platte oounty land is worth from $50 to $75 an acre. In order to make interest on the money invested, farm ers must increase the products of their land, both in crops and in live stock. Scientific methods of soil culture, best varieties of seed, improved breeds of live stock and poultry must take the place of slip-shod farming, and the "scrub", in stock and poultry yard. The farmer who fails to recognize this, and who does not keep abreast the progress of the time, must drop out of the race. That many farmers in Platte county are already awake to the conditions confronting them is evidenced by the growth of the Platte County Poultry and Pet Stock Association, which will give its annual show next month and by the interest manifested last Wed nesday by in the Poland China sale in Columbus. "Good breeds" and "scientific methods" will be the war cry of the future. This tendency needs encouragement. Columbus, like Hastings and other cities in Nebraska, should have a sale pavillion arranged especially for sales and exhibitions. It would bring out side people to Columbus, aiding our business men and advertising our city and county. It would encourage the oounty stock and poultry organizations and by strengthening their organiza tions, stimulate the industries they represent and increase the productive wealth of the county. Why cannot Columbus have a sale pavillion? Is it not worth while for Columbus business men and the farm er,s organizations to talk the matter over? A TRAVELLING MAN ON MICKEY. B. L. Morgan, a travelling man reprsaenting J. R. Snyder of Omaha, called at the Journal office this morn ing for several oopiee of the Journal containing Gov. Mickey's letter snow in his attitude toward Nebraska traveUing men. Mr. Morgan lives at Fremont and is secretary of the republican committee. He has made a careful investigation of.Gov. Mickey's attitude toward the travelling men and he says the talk against Mickey on that score is all "roc." Mr. Morgan calls on bis Co Iambus traders every two weeks and is weU known here. He is confident that Gov. Mickey's letter, aa publish ed in the Journal, will win back every republican travelling man wfco had been poisoned against the governor by the nampaign lie. and he is doing vacytning within his power to see that the " beys" know the truth before Koveafber 8th. MORE TROUBLE. The warlike spirit of Russia has found another expression and of course to the detriment of Russian prestige. An armedjieet of the Czar fires on an unarmea "inking fleet, carrying the flag of Great Britfaa, and kills some British subjects. Anything more inexcusable or mote foolish can hardly be iuangiaed. Eng land would like nothing better than an opportunity to jump in now and in the anal polishing off of the of the great The probable outoeme wfM ha an other substantial addition to the Buss- t in the way of 1 indemnity, the of some mere faithful subjects to the salabrkms fSiberria of heaUMcy for the Guar in the way of an object irfnia a aa j rival. .' taeeeaa k-k H 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 I'll 1 1 i 1 1 You All Know Him. "As a whole we believe the i .-"L -C..A OTritU 4-Iia svKiAvt- sv7 wMnhinff all nmnpftv a nave mxu xrauicu wim mc wujwi w j.m.uu6 trMrJ in. the state and. to impose upon all taxable property its due share of the public burden. That it may fail in some instances does not require us to condemn it as a whole'-r Chief Justice John J. Sullivan of Columbus, Nebraska J on the Republican REVENUE LAW: H-s-H-H-X't immimninnm i m-m-i mi n n n n i FRED HOARE. Fred Hoare.the republican aandidate for float representative for Platte and Nance counties, is a Platte oounty product. He was born in Lost Creek township in 1878 and has been a con tinuous resident of Platte oounty since the date of his birth. He received his education in the public schools of Platte oounty, the high school of Genoa and the Fremont Normal, and has taught six years in Platte oounty schools. At the present time he is engaged in farming. Fred Hoare is a young maaof clean personal habits, wide-awake, indus trious and progressive. His genial disposition and unquestioned integrity have won friends for him wherever he is known. Fred Hoare is a ball player and he is especially popular among the younger fellows, both in Platte and Nanoe counties, where he has played ball for several years. Fred Hoare wiU be elected to the legislature not onlv because of his popularity and unimpeachable char acter, but more especially because tne voters this year know that a vote for Hughes, Henggler and Hoare is a vote for Roosevelt, while a vote against them is a vote against Roosevelt. Hughes, Henggler and Hoare have three votes, which they will cast for a United States Senator pledged to stand by Roosevelt in his enforcement of the law against trusts. The op ponents of Hughes, Henggler and Hoare. if elected, would cast three votes for a United States Senator tied to Parker and his policies. It is not n question of persons. It is simply a question of whether the voters want a continuation of Roosevelt and his policies, or whether they want Roosevelt and his policies defeated. Let every friend of Roosevelt's ad ministration impress upon the minds of his friends, that if they want to continue the policies of Roosevelt, they must go to the polls and make a cross after the names of Roosevelt electors. McCarthy, Hughes, Henggler and Hoare. 'columbines. P.J.B. For some of the real article ia the line of prose poems, we would refer yoa thia week to the writ ing of our correspondent from Roate S; all of which ia another evidence that yoa can't keep a good man down. The Rood things that are aaid about a candi date by his own aide are necessarily in exact proportion to the evil that is said of him by the other aide. If both aides would go a little easier the resultant average would be just the aameand eternal truth would be relieved of a considerable strain. We cannot see anything wrong about kicking a man in the ribs in a football game, provided of course the umpire is not looking, for a fractured rib is soon healed and leaves no blemish. But the practice of biting off ears and gouging out eyes is one which we cannot endorse, because it permanently mars the countenance and moreover is contrary to statute. 'Having aone us the honor to peruse the re marks which we made in oar harmless way about Mr. Berge and his Columbus speech, the editor of the Central City Democrat ia moved to take a shot at us. He opines that the writer of this artless prattle "is greatly disappointed be cause he waa not able to add several ribald stories to his evidently large stock from Berge address, and says Berge is a ladies' orator. W had one governor who was long on that sort of thing. His name was Dietrich, and Barnn ought to be satisfied with one of his own kind without finding fault if the better element bap pen to have a candidate in the field." We are informed that the author of thk masterpiece of human kindness ia a minister of the gospel. Just wherein he finds his evidence that we are possessed of a large stock of unseemly anec dotes, or wherefore he is prompted to catalogue us aa one of a kind with the late Mr. Dietrich doth not from the lesson appear. It ia a kindly and brotherly paragraph which this charitable gentleman dishes up to us. The total inability of many of our spiritual advisers to distinguish between good-natured josh and ill-natured per sonalities is one of the chief beauties of the modern-day orthodox religion. XEETXKTHUUL Who shook his turnip-top on high And rent the air with loud del ? Who swore that he'd debate or die ? MeKillip. Who aaid. "McCarthy doth not dan To come right out upon the aoafa And meet with Patrick of KiMare"? Howard. Who said. "I earn not where it be: Just come oat and debate with aw And watah m nuke yon climb a tree"? MeKillip. Who said. "I've heard about enough Of this Pop.Demo.Pf ohib gut I guess I'll call this little blur'? McCarthy. Who aaid. Til meet you in old Platte, Your native heath, my young friend Pat. And find out just where you are at"? McCarthy. Who scooted to the forest dim. Hiked in his hole and doused his glim. And pellerf fee ftWJ after him? MuKiliip.. It seema to aa to be trifle oat of accord with the harmony of things that obituary notices should be all east in the Sams ajokl and ail oaa tne same agues or. eposes, mnwaqara pro. grassive newspapers keep the form est an, sad merely change Barnes, dates, number of children, etc., to suit the individual case. Thk business about "kind fitber, loving hatband, apright citizen, gone iff hja giset flsward, crown of glory, sterling integrity, power or good, bereft family, all efforts to save," and so on. ja good orm all right.botinnaaycaeeaiiaalighinaccvat If we are to oca s stereotype, wfcr ot ha to one that will come neater go the average case; and which employs figsues of aaiaah which the aver age bereaved comrades saveftajpnhandt AWGgSPI?L? axotbks ooon n,AVBft T4XW B?9 SAW- OPT. Jim Jimjonea.tkeCnafc Boose Kswter.Chiwks in and Quits Loser- Assbtsd by TWw Doctors General inttsfaatfaa. The old familiar Jim Jiiajnaee. 1 sixty yaws, shafted off hat nighc. fay oslatjyes 44 acquaintances. The was well toown tow flitjaena. having resided for many years. Me .had aawsawid traits of His efeanse was due to atoanage of the breath. The doctors could hate saves him fora while longer, hat naalisss) that he ws a urnen to ms nsrauwonciag wise, so wlfaoat my. yng anything aboat It theyaUowad hjaj to wink oat. The deceased was a good faloar on fh treat net very poacby around the honss. At one ttne hs worksd at the profesaioa of horss- raaer ana mat as anaaMwr ataial in a livery stable, but of lata years he has devoted hbasetf (oueptafiBgocsereawap. AttafssnnMhasms alwaya loaaMy enltant whan ha won and sera when Se lost. ThegwstsJ eaarisienrof theeossr BMuutykifast she wto of the assays can no enjcrslitttelrfssjetaheroldaadtJasbaya eaaaaasaasM of their eaimlasn. Pact futeacat. ifrM ;i 1 1 1 m i i.l i i i 1 1 1 n M I law to be a good one, and to J Repiblku Muageiert. Books of the Auditor show the State's Finances. -STATE OP NEBRASKA. Of flea Sf Auuiiut- .of Public Accounts. Lincoln. Neu.. Oct. 18. I9M Hon. John M. Mickey. Governor, Lincoln. Neb. txax AU. Complying; with your request of October 17. 19W. I trnnaamlt herewith a ct i Ur.ed copy of tan condition of th rioatiu- debt of tba atate on January i. iMi. "id on September 1. HWt. Amount oi flot...f debt January a. 1!M)1. 1.7. vjj.70. To this floating debt should be uta.vd the amounts of bouse rolls No. 437. being the miscellaneous deficiency bill, ana No. 478. betas; the miscellaneous c i.ns bill, thesa betns; debts Incurred 0, tlw former ndmlnlatratlon. and -i.nountlas; to" tl8X.735.S7; maklngr n total cf l.n.8.7. Amount of floating- debt on September 1. 1U04. tc.083.29fi.Sa: betas a net Increase of $lSl.6.t. m m , In addition, to the above deficiencies there wero wolf bounty claims to the amount of fl.00 on tUe In thla office, for mlilch tha twenty-seventh legisla ture fuikd to make nn appropriation. 'Itu. were subsequently paid by the tw-iity-alchtn legislature. These claims a it, :is. a legacy from our predecea j,o.a ui.d are properly chargeable to the ruiii.fr administration. Luiis tba years 1M1. 1903. 1903 and 13i. we have made appropriations for pv-rniunciit improvements, a list of which U lieruio ettachod. l or 1"j01c . !.. fne:roof wins at Hast ings .........- aw.S0w.S8 tor purchase of state fair Kfou;.di and buildings 35.000.00 StoMliilp'. at Norfolk 3.500.00 Muslims asylum, new kitchen 5.000.00 2 luring:) asylum, new water- woiks. pump, etc 600.00 tjeuevu waterworks conatructlon 1.300.00 los industrial school, new uHl 11 ... WW.WU llebuil!".g penitentiary 75.000.00 Nornvil school, waterworks construction 3.400.00 Statu -apltoT waterworks con- Miuetl.n 4.600.00 PuixhAi of land, Beatrice ... 15.000.00 Tot:d 1193.500.00 For 1903: New normal school at Kear ney ................8 60.000.00 Building at state fair grounds 3.000.00 wo oiiapel .building at Peru.. 43.600.00 Additional hind at Hastings oi.yl.im 15.000.00 Insane hospital at Norfolk ... 100.000.00 ItoM-iUd at Lincoln, building barn .v 5.000.00 Soldiers' and sailors' home, "Grand Island, erection of stoie building. Quartermasters building, laundry building, it- 16.009.00 Soldiers' and sailors home, Mttford. new hospital 20.000.00 Institute for feeble minded youth, cold storage plant 2.600.00 Institute for feeble minded youth, now kitchen 1.000.00 Deaf 2nd dumb institute. Oma ha, waterworks construction 0,600.00 Board of public lands and buildings, street paving ad joining capital 10,000.00 Penitentiary building; furnish ing same. . and erecting- 240 a teil cells, and sewerage ... 128,603.00 s'oMkrs' and sailors home, Mil'ord. power bouse, etc.... 13.608.00 Tt?l $411,683.00 This makes total permanent tmprove :nentc for the four yirs of 3605.063.00. S!at cf Nebraska Office of Auditor of i'uMlc Accounts. .: I. George An i l.ea. deputy i audit v of public accounts :or W'v state of Nebraska, do hereby cerffy that the above and foregoing, to whl.h this certificate la attached. Is a lru complete and correct copy of tba outytxndL-ig floating debt of the state of Nebraska on January 3 1901 a true' cor rect and complete copy of the amounts appioprttted under bouse rolls No. 437 and 178 during the Twenty-seventh session of the legUlat'jre; also a true complete and correct copy of th "outstanding- floating debt ot the State of Nebraska on Septem ier 1. 1W4; and a!o a true and correct copy of sbprcprlations made for perman ent Improvements by the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth legislatures, as the same appear on tba records and flies of ibis effl.-e. Witness my hand and official seal this 18th day of October. 1904. (Signed.) GEO. ANTHE3. Deputy Auditor Public Accounts. (Seal) The wy to assist Roosevelt Is to elect congressmen who will uphold his policies; and elect n legislature that will select a Roosevelt United States senator. Half-way measures will not do. INVITE COhtPAKISON. Much of tfre discussion of tee com paratitje expenses of tb different ad ministrations Is chlldisd because the real merits ..of the quitter are not readied. The people of Nebraska are less coecerpsd over the totsl amount of retepue collected tnen they are over the honeaty'and skill of Its adminis tration. They do not expect their pub lic institutions to be run en the scale of expenses that prevailed during; the hard times period. All they ask Is that the work be dons well and without extravagance. If the wards of the state lucres1 In number, they are willing to nWt tbe additional outlay. They onlv insist that tbe tax collec tions be limited to necessary expenses, and that tbe institutions be conducted without Uvlshness or scandal. In this respect tbe record of Governor Mickey's administration Is so much superior to that made by the fusion bits that no -direct. comparison is pos sible. The state could not afford to return jo the disorganization and tur moil that prevailed, from four to eight years ago if the support gf (fee Institu tions were made as a free gift. A com parison of cost that doss not include aa ectiaoete of the aualtty of tbe ser vice is -virtually worthless gs g guide to the voter. Bute JonnuO. Candidate Berge. In n speech at Omaha, deslared that he was In lavor of Ukjag the railroad terminal tax away from the couaMee and school districts of tbe atate, vhf U is now distributed, and giving It all to the city of Omaha. How do the people like to bare their revenues traded off for Omana Vaesf -mi TM way to rote for Reoasvelt la to vote the republican ticket straight One crass at the top of the ballot will f o It. and yen win make rat htlstakt. aaaTCaMnWaTMBBWSaWraaBa-a Ft flniarsnf TSovbTl is TfaTSSlrlSgt Of the Parker and Oaris cUbatOwaahe. gad in an address before that body tflwrai'h ha threatened tore si his ob Moss an atteaspt was an to p the cfb on record for Berne. Mr. Poyd, like tmatirPaawargtIn loajler-, Miar-ao Mt agonist rota for Peawcrnte MM i?opnlsssahopl4roto for Psawnrpts. hat that Pmoan nJiopld wvM Arc Sto-peTJMa. This Ma eirexapae of the ''fnsion"whieh we hare to fe- thia tfOTE FOR ROOSEVELT By Voting the Straight Republican Ticket, Limmw i i i i u 1 1 1 ujjjjj Ftsibiists Increased State Debt Official Reports Quoted--5tate Books the Best Evidence. During the fusion administration the state debt was increased. They made no concealment of that fact at the time. They put it in their official re ports, and said that a new revenue law was necessary to stop tbe deficit and provide for the gradual payment of the state debt The official statement of Auditor Cornell Is the best evidence. It is on page 7 of bis last published annual re port, just before be went out of office. Ho said: "At the close of the blennlum. enclns November SO. 1898. the liabilities of the state were S1.729.81S.47; at the close of business November SO. 1900. the liabili ties were 1.782.485.11. To this should be edded tho deflcencles created during the blennlum and not jet provided for by appropriation, estimated at about 8125. 060. making a total of $1,907,485.11. Not trlthstandins the fact that state funding bonds amounting to 'sl53.267.3a hae been paid off. tlvi lndbu dne:s of the state shows an Ir.cretso ai $178,370.71." That is wbal tbe auditor said when the fusion administration was about to closo. John M. Gilchrist was his chief bookkeeper. ,Tbe figures were correct except tbe estimate of deficiencies, which turned out to be $182,735.97, makinc the total increase In the state debt in the 'last two years of fusion administration $235,607.61. These are the figures from the state records 3 made by the fusion stato officials. Now tlicy have been wilfully mis statins the facts during this campaign In an effort to show that tbe fustonists wero roducmg instead of increasing the stato debt. If a candidate will falsify tbe records In order to get into office, what will he do to thoti when he gets In? Fosiooists Wanted New Law ci Increasing State Debt dc rannded New Revenue Law. In the official statement of Auditor Cornell Nov. 80. 1900, being found on page 7 of the printed report, this state ment was mado: Cash In treasury..... $ 4S5.070.69 Collectable taxes Revenue. 1901 lovy. -.Ol-.ouu.in 1.208.9S5.00 Tctal $4,208.355 87 Deficiency $422,130.69 Following this he said -.page 8): "This indebtedness can never be met under our revenue )aw as it is now en forced hence a Drobable increase in liabilities without any prospective as sets. Such is the condition that con fronts us." Here are other Quotations from the name report, showing tbe demand of tbe fusioniBts at that time for a new revenue law: The persistent effort of the county authorities to shift the burden of state taxes by lowering- the assessed valuation of property within the counties has re suited In decreasing the revenues of the state." "Under the present conditions, the variation of one mill limits the power of tho (state) board; herce the name Equal isation Board is a misnomer. The board should have the poer to change the as sessed valuation." "The Inequalities resulting from the present construction and enforcement of the revenue law relating to assessment and taxation is ngltating the minds of the people. Immediate legislation Is de manded." "Admitting the fact that the revenues are not sufficient to meet the outstand ing obligations and current expenses of tho state, would it not be better to enact a law that would absolutely tax all kinds of property?" In Governor Poynter's message to the legislature on January 3, 1901, h ?a!d: The Treasurer very Justly remark that a thorough revision of the revenue la sr? should be made, or an amendment authorising a levy of seven mills for the general fund Instead of five, since the present levy does not keep up with the appropriations, thereby Increasing, rather than reducing, our floating Indebtedness. To my mind a Just assessment is pref erable to an Increased levy." So they admitted that the debt was growing under their administration, and that the .only remedy was a change In tbe revenue system. Now they try to fool the people into tbe idea that tbe debt was not grow ing; that the new law was unneces sary, and that they will go back to the old conditions if they can get back into office. Are such deceitful politicians to be trusted? WHY LOCAL TAXES INCREASE. In commenting on the new revenue law. Governor Mickey in bis recent public statement bits the nai) on the bead: "It Is but fair to add that most of the aritlclsm which is now being directed against the revenue law Is based upon the unnecessarily large levies made by soma local levying bodies, such as county, town and school boards. The aw was npw spd the boards In many instances were not accurately Informod aa to the aggregate assessment roll with which they had to deal. Falling to de crease the levy In Inverse ratio to the Increase of the assessment, the local tanea In such communities are higher than the requirements, and much higher than they win be another year when the working of the law la better under stood. In some districts the levy this year la tho same as It waa last year. In spite of the fact that the aasesment Is doubled and even trebled. Such dltricts wtU have raised funds far In excess of their present needs, creating a surplus, and next year's levy can be reduced to the sstnlanua. or can be cut out alto gather. Thla is a matter which will only embarrass for the present year, and Is Incident to the newness of tbe law and Uia consequent lack of knowledge con-rtlr- - weovl-'-y-" TOO brvtaTTwb endurance. It may aaent strange to onr rendira that Tfce Begister, in this issue, has esponssd tk oante of republicanism, in no far aa the legislative and state ticket ia oonoerned. The reason is that the writer, like many others, is diagnsted with the tirade, cartooning a4 fi)ifyj)p of the governor of tbe ssost entfgbtned state of the onion. The people ejeefpd Jiliaand be be oamt my aroyatehor, and should be ahQWA.tha respect dne hs position. tie d4 not ake tbe present revenue law it waa drafted and enacted by onr legislature, and whatever may be said of others of that body Oass county fnrnfskarl nbnTa reproach OoTMiceky is being held up to the public gaae by the democratic press is aaohh asanner that decency seems to have bean dethroned. Has it ocme to this pasa that a man cannot be ex alted because ha worships the Nazar ene? Vhiaatpohntnforonrandnr: aace. Bo npablioan paper that comes to onr desk nat aa unkind word for Mr. Barge. Thia is manly. Because aoitiaan of Vapiaaka is nominated for osnon ia no Ucoase for foal mouthed paMrs to attack Ms clmracter. That's mikt malrrt decent men tired. lie-hawnnBeglster, mickeyand the travelling MEN. .. OolumbnsNebntuni,Ootbberl3, 190J. Governor J. H. Mickey. ' Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: - Will yon ' please state for publi cation whether yon ever .referred to the travelling men as n "set of bums" or whether yon ever made any sim ilarly slighting reference to them ; and if yon ever made any reference to them whatever, will yon state aa nearly as passible what yon did say? This request is prompted' by a re port that is being more or leas gener ally circulated among the travelling men of Nebraska for tbe purpose of securing yonr defeat. Please return this letter with yonr answer. Yours very ttuly. F. H. ABBOTT. October la. 1904 F. II. Abbott. Columbus. Nebraska. Dear Sir: Yonr letter of the 12th instant was received in my absence. In reply to your inquiry will say that 1 have nover referred to the travi Uing men as a "pot of bums', noi have I ever made auy rcferenco to them as an organization that could, in any way. be construed as derogatory. My. re lations with them, in every way, have been very pleasant and I havo nover even thought cf them in a slighting manner. Yours very truly, JOHN H. MICKEY. CLEAKFOOT BALL. There 1b always more or less oppor tunity in a game of foot ball for rough and nngentlemanly plaving. It has been said that the game of last Satur day showed features that might better have been omitted. We believe in red blood but we belipvo in the kind that displays itself in fair, tquare and manly conduct. Tbe thing, above all else, that is to be coined from a Btrenuons game of foot ball is Keif-discipline; the ability to "grin aud bear it", to come up smiling, take defeat without blubbering, to win witbont blustering and boasting, and to deport one's self in a gentlemanly manner under trying circumstances. The teachers in our schools approve of the game only when conducted on these lines. The boy who forgets to honor himself, his team and his hich school by manly conduct is not a tit member for a fnot-ball teum. We believe in our high school team; we have faith in the good intontions of our boys, and wo want them to win upon luerit and merit only or go down in honor able defeat. Governor Mickey mibllv acks tbe fusion spell-binders why they did not appear before the state board of assessment and equalization and give that body the benefit of their marvel ous knowledee of tax matters. The same crowd which held itself aloof when the board was grappling with weighty revenue problems, showed by its silence then that it either was indifferent or possessed no ideas worth communicating to the board. Now that the campaign is on, how suddenly this crowd has awakened to the importance of the "revenue ques tion," and each agitator has suddenly developed into a revenue expert. It is the old trick of the opposition sitting idle when there is work to be done, and getting busy only when the work is completed, and the time has arrived when they ,can tell what shonla have been done, and what they would have done hod they bad the power. Ex. A canvass of the situation in Buffalo county on the revenue law, which hat been the main issue of the fusion cam paign managers, shows that the tide has turned in favor of sustaining tho new revenue law. Many hundreds of tax-payers whose property has in creased in value will really pay less taxes. Many others whose valuations have been considerably increased ad mit tbat they have got the Etuff, and are not complaining. In some in stances tho increased tax has been caused by excessive township or school district levies, and almost invariably the state and county taxes which is the real test is lower than in TJ03. As a matter of fact tbat revenue law bugbear has boon pretty effectually disposed of. Kearney Hub. Prohibition Bally. About one hundred and fifty people assembled at the Congregational church Friday night to hear the Hon. Clarence F. Swander, prohibition candidate for governor, on the princi ples of the prohibition platform. The meeting was opened with music by Prof. Poole' string quartet and closed with n vocal duet by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Erskine, which was well re ceived. Bev. W. N. Halsey introduced the speaker, after making a fow remarks tending to illustrate that when a man votes for a prohibition candidate, be is not wasting his vote provided he believes in the policies for which that candidate stands. Mr. Swanson is not an orator, but he is a clean-cut, ready speaker, and he held the cloee attention of his hearers tbropghopt his address. Ho won tbe confidence of his audi ence in the beginning by telling them that he held no prejudice against either the democrats or tbe republicans because his father was a republican and his mother a democrat. He then proceeded to discuss the prohibition platform, speaking in sub stance as follows : "The reason why the prohibition lets hay e a distinct platform is that the drink question s greater from amoral stand point and greater front the standpoint of dollars and cents than all others. We should legislate for the soul as well as for the pocket book. The churches cannot keep up the work of righteousness and Christian ity alone. They must have the help of political parties". The speaker then took np the finan cial side of the question, calling atten ion to the large amount of money tbat mast be spent in the thirteen Colum bus saloons. He said in part :' In 1903 the people of the United States drank l,G0o,851.4ol gallons of alcoholic bev erages. If spread on the ground, it would cover Atot acres one foot deep. II coBoneu in n reservoir, wuiiu i float the entire American navy. - Pat ' PIOMY IS WEftLTHr-Bt'Y wtE :gESrt jj ; C ie Radiant Home ; - Silt Burner IXaTaTefB'fBMbSMaBaa9aa7 -.'-' u - wGafaaaialBafPaaVaaT I HPplfi UNEQUALED RnHMw-1aUarwlawawK . - W - 7" nfxaaw) tsnaV iiBVLlBBwnr&naVLaVaS Via tWB1?2'5Cj ArjA f T?f 7 M mf II- Rothleitner & Co. Announcement We are making a specialty oi Ladies' ready-to-wear garments, and still retain the agency and exclusive sale ol the most reliable makes. We are now receiving the latest styles in Suits and Jackets. We fit you perfect ly, no "hand-me-down" appearance to our suits. Very few know how to make the little alterations often necessary to adapt a garment to the figure, without spoiling the effect, but we have a compe tent dress-maker, skilled in that line, and you will not be annoyed by unfavorable criticisms about the fit oi your garments if bought of us. F. H. Lamb & Co. in beer bottles, placed end to end. it would form n chain extending twenty four and one-half times around the earth. If poured out on the ground at the rate of one gallon per minuto. it would require 30o.j years to exhaust the liquor drank in lOtt. The direct cost of this liquor was l.roo.000.000. The indirect cost of it in jials, court o. penitentaris and insane aryluniH amounted -to $2,"00. 000, 000 more, mak ing a total of more than three and one-half billions". The speaker next took np the Slocum law to prove that the business of selilng liquor is wrong. He aaid: "This law says to the raloon keeper : Thou shalt not sell thy goo ds to a minor, it is wrong. But thou may'st sell to a young man any dny after he is twenty-one. Thou shalt not sell to an Indian, to an idiot or an incane man. The government thus provides better legislation for its wards than for its citizens." The point was mado that the law says the judgment of one temperance man is better than that of thirty raloon men. for it requires thirty names on a petition for a saloon while one name is sufficient on a remonstrance. Speak ing further on the legal aspect of the question Mr. Swander declared: "According to decisions of the su preme court, saloon men have no in herent right to sell liquors. And no legislature has the right to barter away tbe public health and public morals. Restrictive legislation will never drive out the saloons. Saloons have increased under restrictive laws. And a tolerant attitude toward tho ovil makes it easy to do wrong and hard to do right." Speaking of tho governments attitude toward the ques tion he said: "The aovernmeut is friendly to the liquor traffic. It places it on a legal basis and protects it. The government itself sells liquor over MTfln of its own bars in seven out the eight national soldiers' homes in the United States, making an annual profit of i.200 which it turns into the national treasury." Referring to the ufo of license money for school purposes, the speaker said, "There are 2.j0 schools in Nebraska, maintained without licenso money. Topeka. Kansas maintains his public schools without license, and pays his teachers more than Lincoln rays, with an annual contribution of 40,000 in license. The drinking class, their wives and children and the merchants whose bills agaius drunkards, are unpaid, pay the license". The address was closed with a re ference to the position of the two political parties on this question. He said: "The democrats pasfed eleven prohibition laws and repealed four of them. The republicans passed nine, and repealed twelie. Only three re main on the statute. books!" Re?. H. H. Millard was called upon to pronounce the benediction at the close of the address. fatiee to Taxpayers. You are hereby notified that aii taxes for the year l'J04 will become .1 oa the 1st day of November V.m. PraoBal taxes become delinquent December 1st, following, and draw 10 per cent interest from date oi tieiin qaency. The new revenue law provides as follower After the 1st day of Feb raary following, the County Treas urer shall collect all unpaid taxes by Distress and sale of said propetty. Please five this matter your prompt attention aa I desire to avoid making any extra costs. Respectfully Yours. w3t. D. A.Bechar,Connty Treasurer. Acknowleclged to be the Finest Finished anil Most Fconorriical Hard. Goal Stove ever made, giving largest amount n of heat for the quantity of fuel consumed. Quick in action and always un der perfect control. . -ftOPOSED UONSTITUTIONAi, rlM&NDMENT. Tht following nM r-"l iinn'tiilim-nt ti. .mil rnmi-iititiD fr ilit- rru-itui nf, llir n-iitiiriiii, f the SJ.'itf'f Sflir.i-k:.H.- (n-innftrr I f.ni., in full, m hiilimittt-il tit tin- t-Jtc.iirsof tlii- Slntr f Nwlfiikn. t N itfl nxn lit t!j t-i'iii'ril 'Icrtiou to U l.ttlil'liictli, Nir.;tn!) r .. !. l'4!l: (Si:vvrE Fit: X. 111.) A Kill for a .loin Kf-olutiori nttiRnrpudintr to th- ,Iti-tnr fif lli- Matt- to vt- at tin- nit iliTtioti of nifiiilx-rK of t!ii J-i;iIn?iiro or or niniiii'-t a roimnt!on to itim. aim ikI ttuil cli.tiir th Constitution of tli-St.it.-of iirirt-.lt!i fn aivorti-itite uitli At tiini J. Artii-N l', 4" tht I'onMitution of thi-St.tteof Ni-lirankn. Ite it .Vii tin' .4-;is'uimv ( .so i' Xthriiikit? 1. That it i-v lfinl txuv-r-nry In r.dl a ron vpntiim to ivvi- ani-ul ami ftiuijct tin? Con stitution of tho Statta of Nebraska. -. That thi-!ytir ar- nt'oiiiiiifniliHl to tofo at tli jit'jt rlit'tion of nii-mla-ir. of tlie l.i'i'is-latun- for or aaii-t n conn-ntton to ri'iiw. mucin! and rlian;t tho Constitution of tlmhtato of Ni-bnv-ka. 3. That at Mich nt-it ejection of ut'iiilfn of the IjcKiHl.ttiin on the Killot of wioli elector tntinifat hiirhflt-fiinn. lrcitl t prinfwt r writ ten in onch inantH rth'it tliH.Jetijrcan iinlriti liifl preference uniler tlu- Jaw the wonl- "I OH ralliUK ii contention to reii. mnetid ami chanjre the (Vri'-titulion of tlu- State of Nf l.r.w ka." and A(JA INS I' callum a cnaient iili to r tiiwe.amend and than? tlieCoa-timtron of tho "State of Nebraska': and if. a niiijnrit lotim; at oaiii election fhall voto for .1 convention, tin. Ieiiflaturechnll. at it next w-rioii, provide. I7 law for Calling tJieaiue. 1. lien. W. Mih. Secre?arv oT Stato of tho State of Nebraska, do hereby cejtifj that Jhw foregoing proj'OM'il amendment to the Constitu tion of the Stato of NebrnIfti. smd proTiiii'ii; for n Contention fort he reti-ion of said Con-tit tit ior of the State of Nebrn-kn. i a trui- and correct copy of the orit'in.d enrolled bill pa-s.il lo tlie Twentj-cii;!iili f:ion of thi; Legislature of tlrf State of Nebraska, a if apiM-an inmi Kii.l origi nal bill, on tile in my i.lhce. and ih.it wife pro Med amendment and reviioiof thoCoii-titu-tion of tho SlaU- of Nebnt-k i-uhmitled to the iilialifted totern of the State of Nt bra-ka. for their adoption or rejection, sit the ceiieral 1 li c tion to Is held on 'iuesd.i, tho sth daj of jto. ie tuber. A. 1. I'.ill. In testimony uherefif. I hn-unto yet 111 hami ami atliteil the (treat Sa! of tiro St.it.- of Ne braska. 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