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CC9S71! r Krabumbd Mat 11, 187f . Columbus gcmrual. Colambao, Nobr. Eatand at the PoatoSc. Colaabu, Nobr., m mobo-cum sail matter. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Cflubis Joirial Co., (INCORPORATED.) mn of BTTBsoarrnoa: OBeyear.br vniwfal. 91M Six Tana WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13 UQ& nxsniex i. auott. urn. RENEWALS The date opposite roar name oe yoar paper, or wrapper shows to what time roar subscription is paid. Thus JanOS shows that payment has been received np to Jan. i, 1806, FebOS to Feb. 1, 1906 and so on. When payment is made, the date, which answers as a receipt, will be changed accordingly. DISOONTINUANCES-Kesponsible anbacrib ers will continue to receive this journal antil the publishers are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages most be paid. It you do not wish the Journal oonunnea lor anouier year af ter the time paid for has expired, yoa shoald prerioasly notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDRESS When ordering a change in the address, subscribers should be sure to give their old as well as tneir new address. Kepnblican State Comreition. The republicans of the state of Nebraska are hereby called to meet in convention at the Andi torium in the city of Lincoln, on Wednesday, August 22, 1900, at two o'clock in the afternoon. for the purpose of placing in nomination candi dates for the following offices, viz: One United States Senator, One Governor, One Lieutenant Governor, Three Railway Commissioners, One Secretary of State, One An iitor of Public Accounts, One Treasurer, One Superintendent of Public Instruction. One Attorney General, v One Commissioner of Public Lands and Bnild- ings. And for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it. The said convention shall be made up of dele gates chosen by the republicans of the respective counties of the state, apportioned one delegate at large for each county and one for each one hundred twenty-five votes or the major fraction thereof cast at the last election for Hon. Charles R. Letton, republican nominee for judge of the supreme court. Said apportionment entitles Platte county to -12 votes in said convention. It is also recommended that the delegates to said convention be instructed to vote for or against the endorsement of the constitutional amendment relating to the creation of a State Hoard of Railway Commissioners, to the end that the action thus taken may determine the 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 be allowed and that tho delegates present from each of the respective counties be authorized to cast the fall vote of their delegation. The various odd numbered senatorial districts are also notified that they will at the same time by their delegates choose members to represent them on the state committee for a term of two years. It is also urged that the counties which have not already selected their county committees and perfected the local organization for thecam paigu of 1906. do so at the first county conven tion held subsequent to the issuing of this call and report at once to the state committee. It is important that the uniform credential blanks which will be famished by the state com mittee to each county chairman be used for fur nishing credentials of the delegates to said con vention, and that the name ef each delegate, his post office address, and ; recinct in which he re sides, be plainly written thereon. Credentials should be prepared immediately after adjourn ment of the different county conventions, duly certified by their officers and forwarded at onre to State Headquarters, at Lincoln. By order of the state committee. Wm. P. Wabnkb, Chairman. A. B. Aixnr, Secretary. Dated at Lincoln. Neb., Hay 5, 1906. HOWARD'S TRUST-BUSTING. The editor of the Telegram after much beseeching from us, has at last been drawn into a discussion of local trusts, those trusts which are directed by home people and which reach directly into the pockets of Platte county tax-payers. We have always criticised our talented contemporary for doing all of his trust-busting at long range, insisting that trust-busting like charity should begin at home. Editor Howard has uniformly in sisted on "jailing" in advance of trial every corporation man in the state except his friend "Bob" Drake, presi dent of the Bridge Trnst, whose legis lative victories he has honored by sending congratulatory telegrams and BRO -MAN mar 9 Demonstration Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this eek, we will give a practical dem onstration of the many dainty ways in which you can prepare "Bro-man-gel-on." This Dessert is pronounced by the high est authority, the best "Jelly Powder" made.. Pure Food Commissioners endorse "Bro-man-gel-on" as pure and wholesome. A sample FREE. Come in and try it Only 10c the package. Makes enough dessert for six persons. Prepared by adding hot water and cool ing in ice box or other cold place. II II HENRY RAfiATZ & CO. 1 ksS5? TBI R 5S-I Vj"f M . Leu ii Utedbv BBaa milllonj Gammer? 4 Baking J L Powder J aaaw Osnltaa with I his friend Pat Crowe, the chivalrous lover of little ponies and gentle tor turer of innocent children, whose great name he has perpetuated in se veral most beautiful prose-poems, It is not strange therefore, that the names of all the local lumber dealers in Nebraska should be placed on Editor Howard's "criminal" list with out the ceremony of a court trial. It may be that the farmers of Platte county look upon the men who load their wagons with lumber as crimin als, just because Editor Howard calls them criminals, just as they will look upon Bob Drake and Pat Crowe as heroes because he has extolled their virtues. However, we are glad, as we have said before, to have the discussion of trusts brought home and we are glad for an opportunity to defend our statements which Editor Howard calls "the Rockefeller argument in behalf of the lumber trust." In the article criticised by Editor Howard we said, referring to the lum ber dealers: "If they are violating'the Nebraska anti-trust law they should be prosecuted." The Telegram editor says this is Rockefeller argument. Perhaps he wishes in this compliment to repay Rockefeller for the 5 cent rebate which he received on his gaso line from John D. on an advertising contract last year. Again we are criticised for asking this question: "If the local lumber dealers of Nebraska are all criminals for belonging to an association which has as one of its objects the mainten ance of prices, what are the imple ment men etc., whose organizations exist in part at least for the purpose of promoting the financial welfare of their members?" We still want light on this question. Perhaps Editor Howard would classify the implement men with his friend Drake and the newspaper men with his friend Crowe. However, pending an answer to this question we shall undertake to p ove that there has been a newspa per man in Platte county who has operated a printing trust which is a more gross violation of the Nebraska anti-trust law than is the Retail Lum ber Dealers Association, and whose profits were two hundred per cent greater. And in fairness we shall insist that Editor Howard demand the enforcement of the criminal law in both cases alike. The plain truth about the lumber trust is this. Lumber in the United States is getting scarce and the 'de mand for it in a period of Republi can prosperity is keeping every mill in the country working ovef-time. The forests of the "country partially through land frauds, have fallen into the hands of a few large companies which practically control the supply. These big supply companies enjoying rebates from the railroads and not the local dealers, constitute the real lum ber trust, and some of the big retail line yards, holding interests in these supply companies and enjoying the same rebates, are a part of the trust while the local dealers and the public alike are victims of the system, which wmmmmm - GEL -ON iSfes& can be reached only through the In terstate Commerce commission and the Federal Bureau of corporations whose arms have been strengthened by President Roosevelt. Norris Brown is doing his duty in enforcing the laws of Nebraska! But let us not' blame him for failing to reach the source of the evils which is outside his jurisdic tion. Nor should we brand as cri minals without trial the local dealers who are victims of those evils. WEIGH THE EVIDENCE. No one political party can prove title to all the virtues of mankind. The masses of both great parties are equally honest in their motives and possess standards of virtue equally high both in private and political life. But a fair investigation of the records of the two parties both in Nebraska and Washington, forces the conclu sion that the republican party has been more wise in its choice of lead ers and that the accomplishments of republican administrations have come nearer to republican promises than have the accomplishments of demo cratic administrations come to measur ing up to democratic promises. For tunately the evidence is at hand to prove these statements, and the people of this great state will do well calmly and deliberately to weigh that evi dence before they listen again to the voice of the demogogue and the sham who is always on hand at times of popular unrest like the present to pass himself off for a reformer and secure to himself the benefits of corruption and dishonesty which he condemns in others. The farmers of Nebraska hardly need to be reminded of the ten cent corn and farm-mortgage foreclosures under the Cleveland administration, the last democratic administration at Washington. And yet the same democratic leaders who promised re form under Cleveland, today are pro mising reform under Bryan. They complain of railroad and other cor poration evils and charge heir exis tence to republican administrations, when all the evidence they have of these evils has been placed in their hands by the voluntary investigations of a courageous republican adminis tration. They clamor for a more rigid entorcement of the federal anti trust law, in face of the fact that this law was declared unconstitutional by Cleveland and a democratic attorney general was vitalized later by Presi dent Roosevelt and a majority of re publican judges on the supreme bench, in spite of the dissenting opinion of all the democratic judges. The masses of the people were honest in their beiief.that Cleveland would ful fill the promises of the democratic prophets. Those prophets proved false then. Can they be trusted now? Not only in Washington but in Lincolu have the people been betray ed by the same democratic prophets. The populist movement overspread the state in the nineties and the peo ple were honest in the'r demand for higher railroad assessment and more economic state government. They sent to .Lincoln the same people who today are loud in charging that the republican party in Nebraska is the "railroad part'." And these people made the same charges then. What happened? Why the populist voters were betrayed. Their "re formers" lowered the Crounse (repub lican) railroad assessment to the low est point it had ever reached; they accepted more favors from, the rail roads in the way of free passes than had ever been accepted; and they gave the state of Nebraska the most expensive administration, considering things actually accomplished that the state ever had. ' in snort tne evidence shows that if there ever was such a thing in Ne braska as a "railroad party," that party was the fusion party, led then by the same men who assume leader ship now. Can these same demago gues fool the people again? The Journal has faith in the honesty of the majority of the voters in all par ties and that majority, if they weigh the evidence will never again turn over this state to the party which has always been long on promises but short on fulfillment The republican party of Nebraska has cause to congratulate itself on the high character of the candidates who have announced themselves for state offices and for the office of United States Senator. Without exception, the prominent candidates are men who will not only unite the party vote but who will invite large support from the other parties. President Roosevelt's special mes sage to congress reporting an unsavory condition of affairs in the Chicam packing houses has caused a sudden halt in the export trade of the United States in canned meats, and a conse quent depression in the live stock markets of this country. The extent of the alarm which is felt by the stock growers of the country was made manifest last week at the meeting of the Western Stock growers association at Alliance, which passed a resolution calling for thorough and immediate action in the matter. It is natural for people to take alarm at conditions which threaten the pocketbook. But in this case, it is more than likely that President Roosevelt's investigation will result in a very short while in purifying the packing houses of the country to a point which will increase our export trade in meats beyond all previous figures. Markets may be depressed for a few short months, but in the end, the stockmen will be the chief beneficiaries of President Roose velt's action in the interests of health and cleanliness. There is no such thing as a 'rail road party" in Nebraska, never has been and never will be. It is true that under the fusion administration a "railroad" engineer held the throttle of the assessment engine. But it is an insult to the hundreds of honest democrats and fusionists to charge for that reason that the fusion party was a "railroad party." It is true that the railroads of Nebraska are in poli tics, as they ought to be and as every body else ought to be, whether cor poration or individual, in proportion to their interests. They are in one party the same as in another to pro tect and promote their interests. And as a matter of fact there is little differ ence of opinion among the rank and file of both parties on the railroad question. Most people are willing to give the railroad exact justice. All they want is a ' square deal", in re turn and they will be satisfied they are getting a square deal when the new republican railroad commission gets busy and makes a just and equit able reduction of local freight rates in this state. Charles Weston and George L. Sheldon appear to be the strongest candidates for the republican nomin ation for governor.' Both are excel lent men. The friends of the one are in general the friends of the other. The ability and integrity of both men are unquestioned. It should be simply a question of relative fitness to deter mine the contest. And applying this standard Mr. Weston has the advan tage. He is older, and has had the experience in affairs, which is neces sary to temper the judgment and give the gravity essential to the best per formance of the functions of the chief excutive of a great state. Mr. Weston is a university graduate and has had experience as a lawyer, ranch man, and banker. He served as re gent of the Nebraska University for six years and state auditor four years, thus adding to his education and his experience as a professional man and a man of af lairs, a most intimate knowledge of our state government and state institutions. Indeed it is doubtful if there is a citizen of Ne braska better fitted by temperament, character, education, business exper ience and knowledge of the state's needs than is Mr. Weston. All this can be said of Mr. Weston without a word of disparagement of Mr. Sheldon whose honest and brilliant record in the state senate, coupled with an ex cellent character, and high education al qualifications place him in the first rank among the public young men of the state. Mr. Sheldon is peculiarly fitted for a leading place in the legisla tive councils, as Mr. Weston is for the executive chair. The state needs both men and we hope that places will be found for both in the public service. Dressmaking. Having opened a dressmaking shop we are prepared to do all kinds of sewing. 422 Corner 8th & Falcon. Phone 1413. Mrs W. E. Beitzel and Miss Julia FlaxeL Seal Etsate Loans. We are prepared to make loans on all kinds of real estate at the lowest rates on easy terms. Beoher, Hocken berger & Chambers. Announcement. Mr. Eugene Condon and Mrs. J. C. Walker of this city will open a news and stationery store in the new Friedhof store next door to the old creamery on or about June 15th. The new firm will sell confectionery, cigars, music and other things belonging to a first-class news store and invite their share of the public patronage. Mr. Condon is in Kansas City this week buying goods. NOTICE OP SALE. In the District Conrt of Platte County, Ne braska. In the matter of the estate of Leonard McCoae, decerned. Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of Hon. Conrad Hollenbeck, Judge of the District Conrt of Platte County, Nebraska, made on the 12th day of May, 190U. for the sale of the real estate hereinafter describe l, there will -nwuavuwiniaioooroi uie i;ourt House in Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska, on the 16th day of June, 1906, at 1 o'clock p. m., at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing described real estate, to-wit: Lota Thirteen, (13) Fourteen (11) and Fifteen (15) in Block B in the Village of Monroe, in Platte County. Nebraska, on which is situated a livery barn and a small warehouse. Said sale will re main open one hour. William Wkbstkb, Administrator of the este of Leonard McCone, deceased. May 18. 1906. g-11 Paint "Mixed oa the Premises" The best architects always specify: "Pure White Lead and Pure Linseed Oil in origins 1 be mixed packages, to on the prem are two tea make sure no used in the ises.n There sons: first, to abstitnte is place of Pure White Lead; and second, that the paint shall be mixed to suit the particular wood and the climatic conditions of the loCcilitv If architects whh scientific knowledge and professional reputation are so careful to make sure that only the nest materials shall be used, is it not quite as incumbent on the noose owner w u a much for himself, when not employing profes sional aid? v Painters of reputation never quarrel with these specifications, because they realize the materials called for are necessary to a satisfactory job. If a painter is con scientious, he will of his own accord use nothing but White Lead which is known to be pure. 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