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tSTWip! rsP I J. sr-fj& i fniMMa Mat it, 1878. Coliunbuai Webr. stand at tfe Colmmbu, Nebr., aa PDBliBHED WEDNESDAYS BY ftluriis Journal Co., (MOOBPOBATED.) 1 OF BTJBBOMrTIOH: Oa7ar,braMrfl,Boatace prepaid $1.60 His BOBWi . .75 Tinas ! WEDHHDAY. MAY 30 1906. I. ABBOTT, Zltttr. BENEWAL8 The date opposite yonr name on vner paper, or wrapper shows to what time yonr abaTpUon la pafiT Inns JsaOB show, that nanaent has bees rewired np to Jan. 1, M05, KbOB to Feb. 1, 1906 and bo on. When payment la nade. the date, which answers as a receipt, wm be changed accordingly. DISOONTINUANCEllposibleBnbscrib ars will cootisae to receive this journal until the BBblishersare Botffted by letter to discontinne. when all arrearages mast be paid. If yon do not wish the JoaraaTeontinned for another year aJ terthe time paid for has expired, yon should prarioesly notify as to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDKESS-When orderinR a ehaase in the address, snbHcnbera should be sura to ie their old as wall as their new address. iepuBlieai State Convention. The republicans of the state of Nebraska are horcby called to meet in convention at thnAndi torinm in the city .of Lincoln, on Wednesday. August 22, 1906, at two o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of placing in nomination candi dates for the following offices, viz: Ono United States Senator, One Governor, Ono Lieutenant Governor, Throe Railway Commissioners, Ono Secretary of State, One An litor of Public Accounts, One Treasurer, Ono Superintendent of Public Instruction, One Attorney General, One Commissioner of Public Lands and Build ings, And for the transaction of such other business as may 'property come before it. The said convention shall bo made up of dele gates chosen by the republicans of the resiective counties of the state, apportioned one delegate at largo for each county and one for each ono hundred twenty-five votes or the major fraction thereof cast at the last election for Hon. Charles B. Letton, republican nominee for judge of the supreme court. Said apportionment entitles Platte county to 12 votes in said convention. It is alsolreoommended that the delegates to said convention be instructed to vote for or against the endorsement of tho constitutional amendment relating to the creation of a State Hoard of Railway Commissioners, to tho end that the action thus taken may determine tho attitude of the party relative to said amendment and n ay be made a part of the ballot. It is further recommended that no proxies lx allowed and that tho delegates present from each of tho respective counties bo authorized to cast the full vote of their delegation. The various odd numbered senatorial districts are also notified that they will at tho samo time by their delegates choose momlers to represent them on tlio state committee for a term of two years. It is also urged that tho counties which hnve not already selected their county committees and perfected the local organization forthecam paigu of 1906. do so at the first county conven tion held subsequent to the issuing of this call and report atonco to tho state committee. It is important that tho nnirorm credential blanks which will bo furnished by tho btate com mittee to each county chairman I w used for fur nishing credentials of tho delegates to said con ontion, and that the name ef each delegate, his post office address, and reeinct in which lie re bides, bo plainly written thereon. Credentials should bo prepared immediately after adjourn ment of the different county conventions, duly certified by their officers and forwarded at once to State Headquarters, at Lin-ilu. Hy order of the state committee. Wm. P. Wakneu, Chairman. A. B. Aixkw, Secretary Dated at Lincoln. Neb.. May 5, 1KH. IT PAYS THE FARMER. Iowa has largest agricultural college in the world. The plant includes 1200 acres of land and splendidly equipped buildings representing an investment running well up into the millions. To miaintain this college the taxpay ers of Iowa spend more money an nually than the people of Nebraska spend on the whole University of Ne Nebraska including the agricultural college and all other departments and affiliated schools with an enrollment twice as large as that of the Iowa school. And, yet it has been proved that the Iowa school of agriculture, in one year, through its influence on the selection of good seed-corn alone, has made for the farmers of Iowa more than the entire cost of that state's magnificent plant. The Iowa problem was figured out by a profes sor in this simple way. He estimated that if in any corn field in Iowa, the farmers comld secure a good stand, of corn aud get three stalks to growing in every hill, the total production of corn in the state would be increased 35 per cent In order to get the even stand of three stalks in each hill, he taught the farmers how to sort their seed so that the planter would drop just three grains every time. Then he showed them an easy device for testing the fertility of the corn on every ear used for seed. Thousands of farmers were reached by the seed corn special, the farmers institute and the county experiment station esta blished on the .poor farm in many counties. The result is an increase of about 30 per cent in the com pro duction of the state. If the farmers of Nebraska would take out their pencils and figure out what such an increase ia production would mean to this state, they would be aroused to the importance of asking the next state legislature for an additional ap propriotioh'for needed improvements on their farm at the state university. Iowa has demonmonstrated that agricultural education pays purely as an investment Nebraska . is" demon atratiag the eme fact, but it is in need of sore woney fbrdemonstra tioa purposes. REFRIGERATORS... m t BOTH PHONES GOOD ROADS. The editor of this paper had occa sion while in Ames, Iowa the other day to ride over several miles of clay roads kept in condition by the King drag. And the experience inspires another appeal to the merchants of Columbus to make an organized effort to improve the roads leading to Columbus. Average Iowa roads arc harder to keep in condition than average Nebras ka roads owing to the heavier soil in Iowa. Yet the roads around Ames were as smooth as a pavement, and the people there say that the King drag treatment which is responsible for that condition is comparatively inexpensive. Take the Meridian road leading to Columbus from the north for ex ample. Although that road is well graded, its condition now makes it difficult to drive over it faster than a walk on account of the deep ruts. Other roads arc in the same condition. People insist on cheap rates and prompt service on the railroads. They seem to forget that a very large part of the produce of the country which constitutes the freight of the railroad, must first be hauled over country roads on wagons. Would it not be logical for the public to get their own roads in condition while they are demanding better service from the railroads? Millions of dollars arc spent in this country on roads every year, thou sands of dollars in Platte county. Much of this money is wasted because of our hit-and-miss system of road re pair. It is time the supervisors should take up the King drag proposition, and in co-operation with business men and farmers try to place our road business on a careful and efficient business basis. Let Columbus start the ball. One of Theodore Roosevelt's great est achievements has been to punc ture the armor of senatorial dignity and get our hide-bound conscript fathers to calling one another "dam liars". When men call each other liars they are usually ready to do things. Our senators have proved to 1)2 no exception to this rule. It is a pleasure to call the attention of Journal advertisers to the fact that their offers will be read ina half hundred more good Platte county homes on June 1st than on the first of the present month. The Journal is "oinj: to ncarlv five hundred more homes in Platte county than any other county publication and that number is increasing at the rate of three a day. Omaha is forging to the front as a grain exchange. More favorable freight rates and a demand for a more direct shipment from the place of production to the large distribut ing centers have combined to cut down the grain business of Chicogo and to build up that of Omaha. This is a condition which will benefit directly the farmers of Nebraska and will result in bringing into closer har mony Omaha and the inland towns of Nebraska. It is time for people to ap- nrerjate the tact that what helns Ac braska helps Omaha and what helps Omaha helps Nebraska. The republicans of Platte county should hold an early convention this year. This should be done in the interest of the Platte county candi dates for state office, and it should be done in the interest of the local cam Used by aw5- Calumet L Baking S Powder f VsaSaaw Compiles with tho Puro 'JL T FootlLnwaof crerjr 8tU.f mmt The Same Old Guaranteed "ICEBERG" we have carried for years. 100 used in Co lumbus. Ask your neighbor. ICK UNDERTAKING """ paign. Republicanism is stronger in Platte county today than it has ever been. The campaign last fall de monstrated that a republican ticket can be elected if republicans will drop factionalism and work in harmony. With more careful organization and systematic work, a majority of the republican candidates can be elected next fall. Let us meet early and get to work. "Every person who shall sell or give away and malt, spirituous or vinous liquors on the day of any general or special election or at any time during the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, shall for feit and pay for each such offense the sum of one hundred dollars." This is a section of the Nebraska statutes to which the Journal directs the at tentiou of those people, democrats and republicans alike, who gave away booze within a stone's throw of the voting booth. at the hist city election in Columbus to influence votes for the democratic candidates. Take out your pencils and figure how much your vote-debauching would have cost you had the grand jury "got busy ' and enforced tHs law against you. The election in Oregon next week will be watched with interest by both political parties. A governor and two congressmen are to be elected, also a legislature which is to choose a successor to Senator J. IT. Mitchell, deceased. Oregon two vcars ago elected a democratic governor by a small majority but gave President Roosevelt a majority of over 40,000. Senator Mitchell who was implicated in the notorious land frauds of Ore gon was a republican. But he was punished hy a republican Secretary of Interior. It would look as if the peo ple of Oregon would be inclined to vote with the party which has had the courage to hunt down and punish fraud and corruption as President Roosevelt's administration has done impartially in every instance. Rut it remains to be seen whether they will reward the party which has been the instrument of justice in the Mitchell case or ungratefully punish that party for the misdeeds of one of its irresponsible members. If the people of Oregon choose the course of short sightedncss and ingratitude toward the republican party what assurance is there that the people of other doubtful states will not assume the same ungrateful attitude toward the party of Roosevelt punishing the real avenger of their wrongs in their eagerness to get at the guilty parties? The most serious factor in the rail road problem is and always has been the speculative element. As long as railroad earnings go to pay dividends on from 40 to 60 per cent of watered stock, rate regulation and all other public remedies will fall short of the mark. Happily, however, the forces are at work in several directions to squeeze the water out of over-capitalized stock, and strange as it may seem the chief force has been set in motion by the railroads themselves. Jim Hill, the Railrord King, is build ing a new railroad and stock will be issued covering the actual cost. If that is to be the rule of future rail road construction the public will soon have the data necessary to arrive at correct canclusions as to "reasonable values" and "reasonable rates". Government railroading in Panama, Alaska and the Philippines will also throw valuable light on the same question. Taking into consideration this future outlook, together with the fact that the United States already has the cheapest and most efficient railroad service in the world, we can not complain much at our progress with the railroad problem. OTHER EDITORS., "The democratic Bpider in Nebraska is busily engaged in trying to coax the populist fly into the web-woven parlor which it has spent several years prepar ing for the .expected guest. The local democratic organ openly declares that "as an organization the popnliet party has about reached the point of dissolu tion," and suggests a program for the democrats by which "the road may be made easy" for the former allies to tra vel in the democratic fold. This pro gram includes a few sops to the popu lists in the democratic platform, a few tickets of admission to populists to oc cupy the rear seats in the convention and recognition on the ticket in the shape of one or two minor offices, which the democrats do not much care for. But why the populists of Nebraska, if they must lose their populist identity, should play fly to the democratic spider will still require explanation. The offi cial head of the democratic party is still Judge Alton B. Parker, with Tom Tag gart as engineer at the throttle of the machine. It is safe to say that here in Nebraska at the last election twice as many populists voted for Roosevelt as for Tom Watson, and if it comes to choice of leaders they will prefer to continue to follow Iieosevelt. The Roosevelt program of legislation is more attractive to populists than the pro gram formulated by the opposste demo crats in congress on which they are to appeal to the country. When it comes to state matters the republicans, although, porhaps not fully up to ex pectations, have accomplished more in the direction of reform in Nebraska since they resumed control than was accomplished in the whole period of fusion state government. The demo cratic spider is likely to And that it is sadly mistaken in addressing its wel come to populists as "the men who are already democrats in all but name." Omaha Bee. Fremont Tribune: In the interests of harmony and a proper political en tanto cordialo it ib hoped the democrats who liavo been declaring, evidently in preparation for the fall campaign, that the president hnd surrendered to the railroads on the rate bill will take coun sel of wisdom and quit railing at him on this false charge. That they will do go is well assured by the fact that every democrat but four in both houses of congress has supported the measure for which tho president has stood. It will be in very had taste, as well as danger ous politics, for the democratic press to utter a wholesale condemnation of the democratic members of congress, kkAkAAAAkkAkAkkkk PERSONAL and PERTINENT YyyyyyyYYYWYYY The editor of the Telegram has much to say editorially about the moral dis aster which is sure to follow those uni versities which accept the tainted money of Rockefeller. There was a timo when we were inclined to discre dit these "t'tintcd" editorials. But come to think of it we hnve len in the wiong. We had foryetten that our con temporary spoke from first-hand know ledge on this subject, that he himself had greased his boots with the hated oil direct from the Rockefeller oil pipes, and tainted his breath from tho rebates received by him on Rockefeller oil. We really had forgotten that advertising contract made by tho Telegram last year with the Standard Oil Company by which tho former was to receive a re bate of five cents a gallon on gasoline in exchange for a little lump of adver tising. If the Rockefeller rebate carries u taint to the morals or the recipient, no one knows that fact from experience better than our contemparary. And this leads us to suggest his name to the Interstate Commerce Commission as a witness qualified to tell how the Stan dard Oil Company subsidizes the press. Up-to-date they haven't found a witness competent to testify on that point. That he would be happy to take the stand and like Lawson, tell the story of the tive-cont rebate when he was "one of 'em", nobody doubts, for we all know that his moral senses must have been shocked by the receipt of that tainted rebate as they were when he took from the taxpayers of Platte county 815 a thousand for $3.7o blanks and made a two years supply nt that rate. His valuable testimony before the Interstate Commerce tJommiseion just at this time when Standard Oil is under fire, cer tainly should entitle him to some high office. And we want to pause right here to suggest his name for Oil In spector as the most appropriate and suitable recognition of his services. Editor Phelps of the Ho wells Journal has the same kind of n fight on his hnnds that every editor has, who calls a spade a spade and refuses to use the white wash brush on prosperous or popular law-breakers. Because he had the courage to insist on the Sunday closing of saloons, he has been threatened with all kimls visitations. His enemies have threatened him with bodily injury, worked systematically to destroy his advertising and reduce his subscrip tion list and they have even gone to the limit of starting another paper to run him out. But their plans will fail and Phelps will win out in the end as will every editor who stands up for the right thing and uses reasonable business eco nomy. The enemies, who fight a man for being agressive for law and order are always moral coward and generally physical cowards. They will fight only in the dark and then only with the arms of the criminal. Tho editor who will permit himself to be frightened either by fear of bodily harm or by the dread of financial failure into subjection to that clement of the community deserves failure and Harry Phelps has shown that he is not built that way. When an editor is fortified by law and bv the conviction that he is right every knock becomes a boost. For every sore-head who drops his paper, ten better men will add their names and for every inch of advertising space he loses two inches will be forth-coming. The day is past when country editors have to bend the knee to special interests in the communi ty and in the end the editor who proves that he is no quitter and stands for law and the Bouare deal as Editor Phelps is doing will win out. Here's to Harry Phelps. We don't know him but we like the way he fights. VACATION (i SEE AMERICA FIRST Spend year vacation la Colorado which is brimful of attractions where the exhilaration of the pure dry air enables you to Uve the geauiae outdoor life where sane is plentiful where the streams are tin mini, with trout, and where you will see the most famous mountain peaks. i and canons in America. 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