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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President,
Wm. H. TAPT.
Eor Vice President,
JAMES 8HEBHAN.
For Governor.
GEORGE L. SHELDON.
For Ueatenant Governor,
M. R. HOPEWELL.
For Secretary of State,
GEORGE G. JUNKIN.
'For Aaditor of Pnblic Accoonts.
SILAS B. BARTON.
For 8tate Treaaarer,
LAWSON G. BRIAN.
For 8tate School Saperinteadent,
K.C. BI8H0P.
For Land Commissioner,
EDWARD B. COWLE8.
For Bailway Commieeiftner,
J. A. WILLIAMS.
ForCo&craasman.
J. F. BOYD.
For State Senator,
JAMESA.FIALA.
For Representative 25th District.
JOHN SWANSON.
For Kepreeeatative 24th District,
W. 8. EVANS.
For Coaaty Attorney.
C. J.GARLOW.
For8aperTiaora.
GEORGE ROLLIN, Creeton,
C. A. PETERSON, Walker.
GEO. H. WIN8LOW, Colnmbas.
Let well enough alone.'
Farmers who voted for Cleveland
in 1892 thought they wanted a change
but they didn't Don't repeat the
experiment next Tuesday.
Farmers now get high prices for
lands and farm products, and at the
election November 3 should not risk
a change from Republican rule.
A lowering of land prices $10 an
acre would amount to $230,400, in
each township. . One Taft vote in the
corn field on election day might lose a
precinct.
Every republican farmer who does
not get his vote into the ballot box on
November 3 casts half a vote for
Bryan and half a vote against himself
and his home.
Nebraska farms and Nebraska farm
products are high priced now under
Bepublican rule. Bryan's election
would change this condition, for there
would be a period of doubt and un
certainty during which industry would
lag and food prices and land prices
go down.
Farmers should "not forget that
under the last democratic administra
tion, after Bryrn was in Congress and
helped to pass a democratic tariff bill,
times were hard and prices of land
and farm products were low and that
while Bryan has abandoned free silver
he has never abandoned his tariff doc
trines which brought disaster to the
country and reduced the value of lands
and the price of farm products.
William Allen White, in his write
up of Bryan in Collier's says: "He is
untainted and unspoiled, and his illu
sions keep him gentle and patient, and
biave. But, at the core, he is still an
agitator, whose mission is to arouse the
people, not to rule over them. He is
indomitable, but not just He is
strong, bat not wise. His heart
right, but his head lacks training.
And the times demand justice not
enthusiasm. Mr. Bryan's election in.
November would stop the clock of
reform, because of his lack of intellec
tual streagth. He has his place in
the growth of the people, but his place
is that of an adjudicator. Bryan s
Democracy has all the negligee enthu
aJafui of a mob, and all the childish
aeauage of a mob."
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FOR THE FARMER TO PONDER.
Tekamah, Neb., Oct 20. A very strong follower of
William J. Bryan came into the implement establishment
of one of Burt county's thriving towns one day last week
and purchased a lumber wagon for which he paid $70
cash. After paying for it he remarked: "Let's see, didn't
I buy one of these same wagons of you a little over four
teen years ago for $60?" The dealer replied, "I think
you did."
"That shows what the trusts are doing to the farmer,"
said the purchaser.
The dealer studied a moment and said, "If you re
member you hauled me 600 bushels of corn to pay for
that wagon, too, don't you? Now, if you will haul me 600
bushels of corn this week or next I will let you have this
wagon, give you a new two-seated carriage, a new two
seated spring wagon, a cream separator and give you back
the $70 you just paid me." ? .
The farmer had nothing more to say. He went out
and hitched his team to the new wagon and drove home
to get another load of 60-cent corn.
TO THE FARMERS OF
PLATTE
COUNTY.
The boast is made by prominent
Democrats that Bryan will receive
twelve or fifteen hundred majority in
Platte county. Do you know of any
good reason why you should assist in
verifying this prediction?
Do you know of any good reason
why you should cast your vote for
William Jennings Bryan?
Do you know of any good reason
why you should not vote to protect
your own interests?
Every prophesy made by the Dem
ocratic candidate in past campaigns
has proven false.
In 1892 Mr. Bryan told you that a
dose of his tariff reform would increase
the price of your farm products. It
was tried, and the worst panic in the
history of the country paralyzed the
commercial interests of the land, clos
ed the factories and the mills and mil
lions of toilers were thrown out of
employment and you were compelled
to sell your corn for ten cents a
bushel, your wheat for thirty-five cents
and .your .hogs for $2.25.
In 1896 Mr. Bryan danced upon
the political stage again with a new
issue the free coinage of silver. He
predicted that the election of William
McKinley and the adoption of the
gold standard would continue hard
times. He said "we ask no quarter;
we give no quarter. We shall prose
cute our warfare until there is not an
American citizen who dare advocate
the gold standard," for the reason that
"the gold standard is a conspiracy
against the human race." Time has
proven his prophesy false. The gold
standard was adopted by the Repub
lican party, and later by the Demo
cratic party, regardless of the protest
of the Democratic candidate.
In 1900 Mr. Bryan predicted that
the Republic would pass away, the
Fourth of July would cease to be
celebrated and that the spirit of
Empire would be upon us if the peo
ple failed to elect him President. He
was defeated, but you, the farmers of
Platte county, continued to prosper,
your land kept right on increasing in
value and you continued to receive
good prices for your products.
In 1904 militarism was Mr. Rryan's
theme. In his mind he saw the coun
try drenched in blood; mighty armies
contending on the field of carnage and
sad eyed women weeping at every
cottage door throughout the land
mourning for those who had fallen in
battle. "I would rather," he said, "go
down to eternal oblivion than be in
strumental in the election of Roose
velt," and then he proceeded on a
whirlwind tour of the state on a special
train, paid for with money furnished
by Wall street, begging the people to
support Parker for President But
the prediction. Was he a false prophet?
Yes. Like all bis previous prophesies
the things he predicted did not come
to pass. During the past four years
of what is termed "Rooseveltism" the
farmers of the United States have
prospered. The world has never wit
nessed such prosperity among the
agricultural classes. The farmers of
Platte county never had more pros
perous times; they never had such
bank accounts before; they never re
ceived better prices for the products
they raised; their farms never increas
ed in value so fast; they never had so
many luxuries and conveniences;
Uncle Sam delivers the daily papers
and mail at your very door; you are
in touch at a moment's notice with
your home town and the commercial
centers of the country. The telephone
and rural delivery have made country
life pleaaaater and home happier.
Have you any particular desire to
change from the party that does things
to the party that promises things?
The Journal believes that the farm
ers of Platte county are men of good
common sense; men who are unwilling
to vote for a change simply for the
sake of a change. The lamentable
failure of the Democratic party for
the past fifty years ought to convince
you, farmers of Platte county, that
the defeat of Judge Taft next Tues
day would mean a decrease in the
price of every bushel of corn you raise;
a decrease in the price of every bushel
of wheat marketed, and less money
for hogs, cattle, butter and eggs. And
when such conditions are reached the
price of your land will decrease in
value. Past experience ought to con
vince you that the Democratic party
is incapable of governing this country
intelligently and carry out the policies
of Theodore Roosevelt
You have a grave responsibility
placed upon you next Tuesday. You
can vote to continue your present
prosperity, or you can vote to place at
the head of this government a theorist
and an experimentalist whose prophe
sies have proved false for the past
eighteen years and whose election to
the presidency, backed by a Demo
cratic congress, would inflict upon the
country a period of commercial and
industrial depression and depreciated
values.
Be on the safe side and vote for
Taft and Sherman and the policies of
Theodore Roosevelt
DEMOCRATIC DUPLICITY.
Mr. Bryan, in his speeches, and
nearly all the men who are on the
stump for him, have attempted to
prejudice the minds of voters against
Judge Taft by alluding to him as the
candidate of the corporations and men
of great wealth, and in the face of the
Haskell exposure and the fact that the
Clarks, Belmonts, Crockers and a
score or more of other men, whose
wealth ranges from ten to one hundred
millions of dollars, have contributed
to the. Bryan campaign fund, the Dem
ocratic candidate and his spellbinders
continue to charge the Republican
candidate with being the representa
tive of special interests. The fact of
the matter is Judge Taft, as the heir
to the Roosevelt policies, is opposed
by the interests which the Democrats
insist are supporting him. Only last
week an attempt was made by the
head officials of the Burlington rail
way to induce their employes to vote
for Bryan. Other allied interests are
also using their influence in favor of
the Democratic candidate. In the
eastern states Democratic speakers are
promising laboring men that the duty
on Canadian flour, meat, butter and
eggs will be removed and these pro
ducts admitted free of duty, thus
cheapening the wheat grown in PJatte
county and the butter and eggs
brought to market by the wives of
Platte county farmers. These same
Democratic speakers tell the factory
hands of New England and other
eastern states that their wages will not
be reduced, for the reason that the
mills in which they labor will be sup
plied with free raw material includ
ing wool and hides when the Demo
crats revise the tariff. In Nebraska
Democrats are telling farmers that
they are being robbed by a Repub
lican tariff law, that when the Demo
crats repeal the Dingley tariff act
they will have cheaper shoes, clothing
and hardware, and in some places
aiiempis nave oeen made to make the
farmer believe that they will recive
more for their products than is now
paid if Bryan defeats Taft. '
Promisee are cheap. But the Dem
ocratic party cannot fool the people
again. The Democrats elected Cleve
land in 1892 on a platform made up
of promises not one of which was
ever fulfilled. "Let well, enough
alone!" Take no risk in another
change. Do not allow yourself to be
buncoed into voting for a candidate
representing a party that was false to
every promise made in 1892; that has
brought nothing but disaster to the
country in the past fifty years when
ever it attempted to legislate upon a
great national question.
AFTER UNCLE JOE.
One of the hottest political fights
ever waged in the country is now in
progress in Uncle Joe Cannon's dis
trict. The Gompers faction of the
Federation of Labor and the. Metho
dists have combined their forces
against Uncle Joe. The Methodists
are opposed to Cannon for the alleged
reason that as Speaker of the House
he declined to be bullied into support
ing alleged reforms in the liquor law.
The Gompers faction is opposed to
Cannon because he is a Republican.
Cannon has been in congress for years
and is one of the oldest members of
the house in length of service. He
has always been conspicuous for the
part - he has taken in guarding the
treasury against the annual raid of
congressmen who desire appropriations
for public buildings, and for this rea
son there is much dissatisfaction with
the Speaker for the interest he has
displayed in protecting the public
money from districts that have the
public building craze. Cannon de
serves to be re-elected. He has been
a true friend of the people, and the
stand he has taken and maintained,
regardless of the attacks made on him
by the Democratic leaders and the
assaults of Gompers and the Metho
dists of his district, stamp him as a
man who is not afraid to perform the
duties of his position without fear or
favor.
FREE RURAL DELIVERY.
The Democratic national platform
charges the present administration with
extravagance. Mr. Bryan was a mem
ber of the Fifty-second Congress, and
of that Congress Senator Gore said that
it "exceeded the Republican one bil
lion dollar Congress by forty millions;"
and this in the teeth of the fact that it
was elected "on retrenchment and econ
omy, the free coinage of silver and the
repeal of the McKinley law."
What were the appropriations of the
sixtieth Congress? $1,008,804,894.
What would the Democrats curtail if
they were in power? The postoffice
appropriations.
Approving the Panama canal and
favoring its speedy completion, un
mindful of the heroic efforts that Presi
dent Roosevelt and William Howard
Taft have made to push the completion
of this colossal undertaking, unmind
ful of the frightful expense and the
Democratic discouragements that have
dogged every step of its progress, the
Denver platform specifies the extra
vagance of the administration in add
ing 23,784 officeholders, at an expense
of $16,156,000, in the past six years of
Republican administration.
It was unkind of the Denver plat
form writers to make such a general
statement Had they gone further in
to details, the' American farmer would
have been grateful for the facts. A
very casual investigation would have
shown that six years ago this country
had only 8,466 rural routes. Today
it has 39,270, serving sixteen million
farmers. That means over thirty
thousand increase of office-holders in
six years right there. Shall Congress
curtail that expense? The expense of
the postoffice department alone has in
creased over seventy million dollars in
five years.
It has been said that Mr. Cowherd,
when he was in Congress, introduced
the bill establishing the free rural de
livery. He did not In 1890, when
John Wanamaker was postmaster gen
eral under President Harrison, he was
instrumental in establishing what was
known as the "village service deliv
ery," giving free delivery to all towns
of less than ten thousand inhabitants
that previously had not enjoyed such
delivery. With the election of Mr.
Cleveland and a Democratic Congress,
of which Mr. Bryan was a member,
that system was abolished. Its abol
ishment aroused the people in the ru
ral districts and Congressman Sperry
of Connecticut, a Republican filed peti
tion after petition from the village
folk and farmers of his district asking
for the extension of free delivery. By
1897 eighty-three of such routes had
been established. In 1900 the coun
try had 1,276. By 1902 it had 4,301.
.The next year it doubled, and the fol
lowing year it doubled again. By
1903, the nation had 15,119, and by
1905 the number was doubled again.
Certainly President Roosevelt has
given the farmers their share of the
officeholders. And it would be well
for the farmer to ask, will the Demo
crats curtail the rural delivery if they
are given the power as they curtailed
the village delivery when they had the
power? St. Joseph Gasette.
"MY REGOffl IS A SUFFICIENT ANSWER."
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TO MILE WEST Ml ROCKY
Ton want Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman elected, nnd they cannot ba
elected unless the Republican National Committee bus sutlicieut money
to pay the legitimate expenses, of the campaign. It costs money to
maintain an organization. It requires money to pay for printing, post
age, salaries .or stenographers and clerks at hcaidquartens, traveling expenses-
of speakers and numerous other details that go to make the
campafgn end successfully. Congress, as you know, has passed a law
making it unlawful for us to solicit money from corporations. We
must depend upon the attributions of individual rotors. If every Re
publican In this Western Division would contribute one dollar to the
campaign fund, we will be able to do all the things that the voters
want done; we will be able to elect Taft and Sherman. Will you help?
If so, please send one dollar to the chairman of your State Finance
Committee, whose name appears In the list following, or send It direct
to me and you will receive the official receipt of the Republican Na
tional Committee. Respectfully,
FRED W. DPHAM,
Assistant Treasurer.
Contributions may be sent by check or money order to any of the
followiag named chairmen of the various State llnance commltteea:
Colorado. Hon. Whitney Newton. Denver.
Idaho, Hon. Frank F. Johnson, Wallace.
Illinois, Col. Frederick H. Smith, Peoria.
Iowa. Hon. Lafayette Young, Des Moines.
Kansas. Hon. Frank E. Grimes, Topeka.
Michigan. Hon.. John N. Bagley, Detroit
Missouri, Hon. O. L. Whltelaw. 409 North Second street, St Loula.
Moutana, Hon. Thomas A. Marlow, Helena.
Nebraska, Hon. John C. Wharton, Omaha.
New Mexico, Hon. J. W. Reynolds, Santa Fe.
North Dakota, Hon. James A. Buchanan, Buchanan.
Oregon, Dr. H. W. Coe, Portland.
South Dakota, Hon. O. W. Thompson, Vermillion.
Washington, Hon. James D- Iloge, Seattle.
Or to Fred W. Upbam, Assistant Treasurer. 284 Michigan avenue.
Chicago, Illinois.
Summary of Wages Earned
la Thirteen Different Trades la the United State and Europe.
Great
U. S. A. Britain. France. German?. Belgium.
Blackamttha' weekly wage ...$ 16.52 $ 0.74 $0.12 $6.03 .....
Boilermakers' weekly wase... 15 05 0.C3 8.14 6.10 $4.21
Bricklayers- weekly wag.... 20.26 9.80 6.36 6..J7 4.0a
Carpenters' weekly wage.... 17.70 10. M 7.64 6.44 S.2
Compositors' weekly wage... 22.33 8.0T 6.31 7.05 4.77
HrfcVrrler.' weekly wafe... 13.74 6.00 4.!3 4.07 2.07
Iron moulders' weekly wage.. 17.::0 10.1S 7.46 6.30 3.94
Laborera- weakly waga .38 5.70 6.40 4.46 S.0.
PtaaKra- wlXTy wf ge 21.70 9.iC 7.35 5.62 3.84
Stonecutters' weekly wage... 20.70 9.i7 7.09 R..8 3.35
8toamapa' weekly wage ..' 22.89 10.39 7.24 C64 4.22
Total $236 61 $118.31 $0O.r0 $79.30 $40.30
Avtraga weekly wage $ 18.20 $ 9.10 $ 6.9 $ 6.10 $ 3.68
IN OTHER WORDS
la the United States for every $1.00 a man earns In the IS trades
He earna 50 centa In Great Britain
He earns ........38 cents la France
u. .,Pn 34 cents In Germany
He earn! i:.::.. ; 20 cents fa Belgium
Taking the 4 European countries and averaging them for every $1.00 the
American workmen earns under Republican protection.
TnE EUROPEAN' WORKMAN EARNS 36 CENTS.
TAFT AW) EMPLOYERS' LIABIL
HTf. His Decision in the "Voight Case"
Forerunner of Present Humane
gtatute.
Aajrlking service to humanity which
William H. Taft rendered in his judic
ial career Is retailed by Eugene F.
Ware, former Commissioner of Ten
sions, in a letter to the Kansas City
Star. Mr. Ware refers to what was
known as the "Voight case," which was
decided by Judgeraft In 1897. Judge
Taffs decision, although overruled by
the United States Supreme Court, is
really the pioneer 6f a section of the
present employers' liability law, which
was passed through the efforts of
President Roosevelt and a Republican
Congress, and approved April 22, 1008.
Voight was an express messenger
who, to get his Job, had to sign an
agreement releasing the express com
pany from liability in case he was In
jured or VJDe1. The axpree eompanr
LATTA SHOULD BE DEFEATED.
Chairman Stephens boasts about
the record made by Mr. Latta in the
last legislature. Let us see how he
voted on reform bills wanted by the
common people.
He voted against the Child Labor
Law, house roll 9.
He voted against the Direct Pri
mary Law, house roll 405.
His was the only vote against the
Pure Food Law, senate file 64.
He refused to vote on a bill to pre
vent railroads going into the Federal
courts aad enjoining tke state from
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bad a contract with the railroad ex
empting the railroad from liability in
the event of injury to an express raw
senger. Voight was severely injured,
and sued the railroad for damages on
the ground of gross negligence, argu
ing that the railroad company could
not make a contract evading its re
sponsibility. Judge Taft gave Voight a Judgment
of $0,000 aad costs, holding that the
express company had no right to make
such contracts; that they were oppre
sive, unreasonable and unjust, and
were against public policy, and further
that the railroad company owed to the
express messenger the same publie
duty which it owed to a passenger.
The path blazed out by Judge Taft
was followed in the new law referred
to, which provides "That any contract,
rule, regulation or device whatso
ever, the purpose or intent of which
shall be to enable any common carrier
to exempt Itself from any liability
created by this act, shall to that ex
teat -be void."
collecting taxes, senate file 87.
He refused to vote on ,a bill to pre
vent discrimination, senate file 34. v
Mr. Latta was pledged by his party
platform to favor every one of these
needed reforms. If a state senator
violates the pledges of his platform, in
his state legislature, what would that
state senator do in congress?
Voters are requested to verify this
record by comparing it with the offi
cial report of the secretary of the sen
ate: Go to your court house, or to
mv lawver. and ask to see the senate
journal of the last session of the Ne
braska legislature. Juigar nowara.
GEORGE WINSLOW.
.It is not good business policy to
allow one arty to perpetually reprev
i.t the rouuty on the board of super-vt.-ors.
1h itriiiibility should be
divided in the inter st of the tax pay
v?. Too many opportunities are open
f- r j Ik" and the chance to make a
little "easy money" is frequently takes
a-i vantage of when the biaid ia atade
up of men of the same political faith.
The Journal dots But mean to infer
(lat the gentiemrn comprising the
present board of supervisors of Platte
county are not honest aad honorable
man. The writer is calling attention
to this question in a general tense, ted
it applies to Platte as well as to other
counties. Every man on the b ard is
a Democrat, and there is a sentiment
among the voters that the election of
men of the oppoeite political faith
would not be a bad policy to adopt.
The friends of George Window are
using this argument in his behalf.
Mr. Winslow is a republican who has
the ability to serve the public fully as
well as his Democratic opponent. The
o i Iy objection et raised against him
by Democrats is that he is a Repub
lican, to which Mr. Winslow pleads
uuilty. But his political affiliations
should not be considered seriously, and
will not, by men who believe that the
time has come to ray more attention
to the general welfaie of the county
than to the political interests of
individuals.
CHEAP POLITICS.
Early in the campaign Mr. Bryan
assumed, at least charged, that the
trust?, the railrrads and other big cor
porations were financing the republi
can campaign as they had financed
campaigns in the past. Although he
did not recall the fact, he might have
added plausibility by reminding the
country that the Silver trust financed
his campaign twelve years ago.
But as the campaign progressed the
only evidence of money in consider
able quantities was on the democratic
side, which had far more than in any
former campaign, of the last twenty
years, while the republicans were
known to be "short." The evidences
of abundance on the one hand and of
lack on the other were so marked that
the country could not be deceived.
Now Mr. Bryan seems to admit this
relative success in securing funds, but
ays that since it has appeared that he
is going to be elected through natural
tendencies, the republicans have had
an eleventh-hour rally in contribu
tions and are preparing to "buy the
election." This is the usual "noise"
of the candidate who sees that he is
beaten. There has been nothing in
the attitude of Mr. Taft nor in that of
his campaign committee to give Mr.
Bryan the slightest warrant for aseum
ing,that they have enough money to
buy an election, much less that such a
thing would be considered.
The country wants to believe Mr.
Bryan to be a big, sincere man, but
he is straining credulity harder in the
campaign than in any of his foimer
contests, although he started out with
higher prestige than ever before.
Kansas City Times (ind.)
BIG TALI.
In spite of the panic and the poli
tical campaign, and the ever present
complaints, which possibly help, there
h no doubt that this is the most pros
perous nation in the world. The pan
ic which began here last year was
world wide, but recovery commenced
quicker in this country than elsewhere,
and extended farther. At the begin
ning of the panic our purchases of im
ports fell off at once, but the export
trade went on for some time uncheck
ed, which gives the biggest balance of
trade in our favor ever made in the
history of the country: $666,000,000
for the year ending June 1st last. No
other country in the world ever before
had a margin of trade even remotely
approaching that of the United States.
Thus commerce adjusted the financial
situation; not politics. By the great
balance of trade we secured increased
credits abroad, which provided the
gold necessary to tide as over the finan
cial crisis. This country produces more
coal, iron, lead, petroleum, cotton,
wheat, corn, silver aad some other
products than any other country in the
world. Here are the greatest number
of miles of navigable rivers of any
ountry in the world; the greatest rail
way mileage. There is idle land in
the country which could provide .cot
ton enough in a year to-supply the
needs of the world. No countrv is so
rich; in fact no threevountries-. la no
other country is the average maa so
well housed and fed aad paid for his
efforts, and no other land offers equal
opportunities of advancenieat. The
fact that the United States has the
most liberal and just form of govern- j
ment in the world haa had something i
to do with our vast prosperity. Natur
al resources aad the pioneer-blood of
those who started taecouatry, aid im
migrants who have appreciated it have
done the rest Atchisoa Globe.
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