The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 20, 1910, Image 4
Ii : alumbus Journal. Columbuii Nebr. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1, 1901; with the Flatte County Argus January 1,1904. Kniitredai the Paatottoe.Colambaa.Nbr..u 'ond-eUM mail matter. tnil OVSUBMBIFTIoa: Use rev, by audi, poetaae prepaid gl.t0 six TTinathe .76 rree mostha 40 WKONK8DAY. JULY 20. 1910. 8TKOTHKK &. STOCKWrXL, Proprietors. JUtNKWALH-Tba data opposite your name on roar paper, or wrapper ahows to what time your abecriptioti ie paid. Thus JanOS khows that payment has bees received op to Jan. 1, 1906, FebOG to Feb. 1, 1986 and so on. When payment if made, the data, which answers as a moeipt, ml be changed aooordinj-ly. Did(XNTlNDAMCJH-Kesponaible subscrib ers will oontiaoe to receive this journal until the publishers are notlied by letter to discontinue, hen all arrearages mast be paid. If yoa do not wish the Jooraal oontinaed for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yoa should previoaalf notify us to diaoontinne it. CUANUK IN ADDUK8H-When ordering a change in the address. kabecri bars ehoald be sure t o gi e their old ea well ae their new address. Rip.Micai GiHRty CinvintiiH. i The republican electors of Platte co unty, Nebraska, are hereby notified to meet iu delegate convention at the Maennerobor ball, in Columbus, Nebr aska, at 2 o'clock Monday, July 25, l'.HO, for the purpose of electing delegates to the republican state convention, select a county central committee, and transac ing f ucb other business aa may properly coma before the convention. The republican electors from the var ious wards and townships arc requested to hold cauouses at their usual voting places Saturday. July 2.', 1910, from fi to 8 p. m., to elect delegates to the county convention. Representation is based on the vote cast for William H. Tart for president in 1908, giving each precinct and ward one delegate at large and one for each fifteen votes or major fraction thereof, cast for said candidate. The various wards and townships in the county are entitled to the following representation: Columbub, Ibtward Columbus, 2d want ColumbuD, 3d want Columbus, 4th ward Columbus twp Rismark Butler Burrows Creston Uranvilltf (rand Prairie Humphrey Juliet Iust Creek IjOUp Monroe Ocouee-Mnn re Oconee Hhell Creek Sherman Jit. Bernard Walker Woodville . I. . 4 .11 . i; By order of Platte County Central It. S. Dickinson, Chairman. Committee. THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The republicans of the state of Nebra ska are hereby called to meet in conven tion in the city of Lincoln on Tuesday. July 26, at 12 o'clock noon for the pur pose of adopting a platform and select ing a state central committee and for the transaction of uch other business as may properly come before the conven tion. The convention shall be made up of delegates chosen by the republi cans of the respective counties of the state at the regular delegate county con ventions, in the manner provided by law, apportioning one delegate for each 150 votes, or fruction thereof, cast at the liWS election for . C. Hell, republican nominee for presidential elector. Said apportionment entitles the several coun ties to the following representation in said convention: AiUuis 13 .lohnMn ; l Antelope n Kearney 7 Manner 1 Keith Blame 1 KeyaPaha :i U Kimball 1 BoxBuMo 4 Kuox 12 HJ"d fi l.ancH8ter W SrowP 4 Lincoln 10 Buffalo 17 !xfaui 1 guf " I 1-oup 2 Butler 9 AlcPherton a J,8? tii Mudibon 14 tdar U Merrirk s 4 liase :i Morrill i l-nerry 7 Nuure 7 Cheyenne 3 Nemaha 11 J;1' :1 Nuckolls 10 -, S Oloe ir. ;umui? Pawnee 10 ueter 1W Perkins Dakota ' Plieliw 10 C l'i,.ve 7 Hawu - Matte 11 J?uel I I'oik s J"a 8 Ked Willow 8 J1? It' Itichardettn II i Douelas i itock :: "u? 3 Saline 14 I EIUm9r 12 Sarpy t". j Jrankhn 7 Saun.lerH if, ( Frontier. 7 Sc.ItV Blufl. f. Furnas Sewnnl 13 (i;"!f;v - Sheriilan ft .orfield 2 Sherman :. Warden sious 3 J;lr a Stanton ft , " 1 Theyer 11 ! u u ' : Thomas I :: 1;' Thurston r. t Hamilton n Valley 7 i Harlan 7 Washington 11 "?- 2 Wayne Hitchcock 4 Webster y "oU. " Wheeler Hooker. 1 york ir, Howard 7 Jefferson 13 Total sV. i: It is further recommended that no proxies be allowed, and that delegates present from each of the respective co unties be authorized to have the full vote of their delegation. In accordance with the rules of the republican stnte committee, credentials of delegates to the convention should be tiled with the secretary of the state rommittee at least five days before the date of said conven tion. The members of the county central committee for each county, who are to conduct the 1910 campaign, must be chosen at the delegate county convention which elects delegates to said state con vention, and reports at once to the state committee. (Signed) Clyde Baknard, Seo'y. Myron L. Learnkd, Vice-Chairman. Dated Lincoln, Neb., June lfi, 1910. Books. For the greater part of Its life a book Is an article of furniture and itands upon the shelf to decorate the ibrary with Its patch of color and glow of kindly associations, but from time to time there occur those crises of lis existence when it is taken down and read. London Athenaeum. NOT A PARTY ISSUE. While political parties declaim in their platforms on any subject they choose, the question of county option is not, and should not be, a party issue in Nebraska. All agree that the sup pression or regulation of the liquor traffic is strictly a local matter de tending upon public sentiment in each community, and that where public sentiment favors license the most strenuous effort to enforce dryness is bound to miscarry and invite law vio lation. It is seldom, also, that com munities divide on party lines on the liquor question, and it is recognition of this fact that leads the temperance and anti-saloon organizations to prose cute their work, not in any one politi cal party, but irrespective of parties. If county option is really a local is sue and not a party issue, no good reason exists for injecting it into the party platforms and attempting t make its support or opposition a test of fealty to political parties built upon principals of government and devoted to the execution of broad policies for state and nation. Every candidate running on the republican ticket in Nebraska this fall, for example, wants the votes of every lepublican whether he believes in county option or opposes it, and us many other voles as he can legitimately get. Any action calcula ted to drive away a large body of re publican voters di.spo.sed to stay with the ticket, is not only uncalled for, but bad politics. Whether we get county option or not from the coming legisla ture deeudd entirely on the action of the eope in selecliug law makers for their respective legislative districts iu other words, it must in any event be fought out as a local issue. " So far as Nebraska republicans are concerned it may be well for them to remember that the only lime the party allowed itself to become entangled iu the liquor question it .suffered its first serious defeat tltatlnt it control of the state government in which it had been entrenched for more than twenty years. Omaha Bee. Odd Street Names. In Clcrkciiwcll. Knxlainl. there is a street called I'icklttl K?k walk. It takes its name from Pickled Egff tav ern, which formerly stood there and made a specialty of serving pickled eggs. An interesting Loudon thorough fare is Hanging Sword alley, which Is mentioned in Pickens' 'Tale of Two Cities." Loudon has also Pickleher ring street. In I.einster is a street culled the Holy I tones and another called Gallows Tret; Gate. Hull has a street with the extraordinary name the Land of Green Ginger. Corydon has a street named Pump Pail, and there some years ago lived Peter Pot tle, a dealer in furniture. The most daring of farce writers might well have hesitated to invent a combination of name and address so improbable as that which really belonged to Peter Pottle of Pump zette. Pail. SL .lames' Ga- Noted Writer to Lecture at Chautauqua Harold Morton Kramer knocked about as a cowboy, a lumber jack and a miner. His friends discovered that he had genius as a writer, so he went to school, secured an education, and became a newspaper man, later a sue cessful novelist. His platform work is highly success ful and his time is much in demand at summer assemblies all over the land. I. Weisa Egery Musicians The leader is the most sensational and sympathetic violinist in America, and is as ; well known in the European music schools as in this country. The Chaatauflws rnattagtnSent can get no greater artist. Jtyss Tucker is a cellist of renown and Miss Dora WeiBs is a "divine" pianist. At 32 CHAUTAUQUA BBBBBBBBBBBBa S' -.'HT f B bbWPK " - -?' o'bH aaBftUav 2. - . 'LbH BLbB l. BBBBBBBBLR-V bbbbbbV . - - Vl.; bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbVbbbPLbIVbbbbbbbbbbH Burr-Hamilton Than July 11, 1804 10C years ago tomor row two men of national reputation faced each other, pistols iu hands, at Weehawken on the Jersey Shore across from New York. ThV two men were Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Those present differ as to which man fired the first shot. Ham ilton's second was confident that Mr. Hamilton did not fire first and that he did not fire at Burr at all. Burr's sec ond was just as confident that Hamil ton did fire the first shot and that he fired at Burr. However that may have been, Hamilton was mortally wounded and died the next day at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Since that day Burr has home a weight of obloquy and calumny such as has been heaped upon no other man, and unlike many another man, in his lifetime he never by voice or pen made answer to charges made against him nor presented either to friends or foes anv arirument or evidence to refuse them. Only in recent years has it come to be recognized that history has done Aaron Burr a gross injustice and that he has been the victim of revengeful power and of studied and persistent duplicity. For an hundred years the makers of school books have denoun ced him as an assassin and murderer and instilled into young minds a pre judice which only research and study in after years can effectually lemove. It is now settled that on the field of Weehawken, Burr only revenged cruel wrongs inflicted upon him by Hamil ton iu a period of thirty years, accord ing to the rules of a code of honor then recoguized a code which Hamil ton himself recognized and restorted to on several occasions. Hamilton was second to Laurens in his duel with Gen. Charles Lee and wished to be a principal. Hamilton challenged Commodore Nicholson of the United States Navy to fight him a duel and was only prevented because friends in terfered. In 1797 Hamilton challen ged James Monroe to fight a duel. Monroe invited Burr to act as bis sec ond. Burr decliued, but volunteered to act as eacemaker, and after much difficulty reconciled the parties and .prevented the duel. So that Hamil ton was not forced into a practice which was at all abhorrent to him. The Burr-Hamilton duel followed the defeat of Burr for governor of New York, which was brought about by a coalitiou between Jefferson, Ham ilton and DeWitl Clinton. Jefferson not only proscribed every man who dared be a friend of Burr, but turned loose every place-man of the govern ment to calumniate him. Clinton subsidized a portion of the press to manufacture and publish falsehoods against him. Hamilton pursued a course far more dangerous he turned loose the whole Federal party of the state upon Burr. It was this and this alone that defeated him. In any con test inside his own party Burr had nothing to fear from either Jefferson or Clinton, or both combined. At Hamilton's suggestion the Federalists put up no candidate, but supported the Clinton faction iu opposition to Burr. Iu a written statement of the reasous why the Federalists should not put up a candidate of their own, Hamilton declared that Burr's election as governor of New York would cer taiuly be followed by his election to the presidency; that Burr "is more adroit, able and daring chief man than Jefferson;" that he would, "if placed at the head of his party, not only re unite the scattered fragments of the Democratic party," but would also draw to it "a strong detachment from the Federalists." He declared that "a further effect of his elevation" will be "to present to the confidence of New England a man already the man of the Democratic leaders of that country, and towards whom the mass of the people have no weak predilection,1 thus declaring the great popularity of Burr with the leaders and the body of the people in those states. New England was the stronghold of the Federal party, but Hamilton in sisted that if Burr were not defeated iu his home state, aud thus prevented from reaching the presidency, "it will give him fair play to disorganize New England" to the detriment of the Fed eral party. Hamilton also pointed out that Lausing, the Democratic candidate whom he urged them to support, was of such personal charac ter that "it is morally certain that the Democratic party, already much divi ded and weakened, will molder and break asunder more and more." Hamilton's enmity to Burr began when Burr defeated Hamilton's father-in-law, General Schuyler, for the office of United States senator. From that time forward Hamilton began a cam paign of secret detraction against Burr I and kept it up for thirty years, al- though during all that tune he More a Centum After tinued to maintain social relations more or less close with Burr and even professed personal friendship for him. It was' not until Burr's candidacy for governor of New York, when some of the mote widely known Federalists came to his support, that Burr receiv ed from them the first intimation he ever had of Hamilton's duplicity to wards him. Burr went frankly to Hamilton for explanation. Burr knew so little that Hamilton soon per suaded him that he had done nothing but what was fairly proper between opponents. Burr accepted his ex planation, and they parted professedly as friends. Thus it remained until proof positive was furnished Burr that Hamilton was then and had been for years pursuing him with calumny and detraction. From that moment Burr regarded him with utter contempt. Burr taxed Hamilton with uttering certain opinions derogatory to his hon or and demanded a prompt and un qualified acknowledgment or denial. Hamilton evaded. Burr replied to Hamilton's letter, sayiug, "I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to value. Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rig id adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum. I neither claim such privilege nor indulge it in others." A challenge and the duel followed. Hamilton was killed and Burr retired to private life. Burr's defeat and the duel ended bis political career. Speaking of the New York gubernatorial campaign of 1804, Henry Adams, the historian, says: "Never in the history of the United States did so powerful a combination of rival politicians unite to break down a single man as that which ar rayed itself against Burr." Jefferson's animosity towards Burr began after Jefferson's election to the presidency, and was born of Jefferson's jealousy of Burr's popularity and the fear that Burr might supplant him as the leader of the party and make him a "one termer." In the matter of the election of Jef ferson to the presidency history has doue Aaron Burr another great injus tice. In that matter Burr is disclosed as a patriot and a man of the highest sense of honor. He has been deprived of the credit, aud Alexander Hamilton has been exalted as an unselfish states man who, with the gift of the presid ency iu his hands, preferred the good and great Jefferson to the wicked and profligate Burr. The simple truth is that Burr, had he desired it and con sented to pay the price demanded, could have been president of the Uni ted States instead of Thomas Jefferson. Burr refused. Jefferson agreed to the terms which Hamilton and a few Fed eralists made and he was elected. In the election of 1800 Jefferson and Burr each received seventy-three elec toral votes and the election went to the house of representatives. The Feder alists had a small majority in the house and it was compelled to choose between Jefferson and Burr. Although the Federalists had a majority in the house the vote was by states, and the Feder alists did not control a majority of the states. On the first ballot Jefferson received the votes of eight states, Burr six and two voted in blank. Notwith standing the opposition of Hamilton, the Federalists preferred Burr to Jeff erson. A scheme was arranged by which Burr could certainly have been president. It was to deceive one man and buy two others. But this could not be done without Burr's approval, and that they failed to gain. Burr would not enter into a contest for the presidency against Jefferson. In a letter to Gen. Samuel Smith under date of Dec 1G, 1800. Burr wrote: It is highly improbable that I shall have an equal number of votes with Mr. Jefferson; but if such should be the result, every man who knows me ought to know that I would utterly disclaim all competition. Be assured that the Federal party can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As to my friends, they would dishonor my views and insult my feelings by a suspicion that I would submit to the instrumen tal in counteracting the wishes and expectations of the people of the United States. And I now constitute yoa my proxy to declare these senti ments if the occasion should require. If there be doubt in the mind of any man that Burr refused the presidency and positively refused to enter into negotiations with the Federalists to make himself president in the place of Jefferson, and that Jefferson did bar gain with them and pledged himself to maintain certain Federalist prin ciples aad to retain in office cer tain Federalist office holders, aad that, through this bargain, Jefferson was elected, let him read the life of Alex con-ladder Hamilton, written by his own ton, John C. Hamilton. But, even then, on the final ballot on which Jefferson was elected, of the fifty-six Federalists in the house, only four consented to barter the presi dency. Fifty-two of them voted for Burr, one voted for Jefferson and three others failed to vote, thus giving their states to Jefferson. In all this Burr played the part of the man of honor, notwithstanding the temptation was about the greatest that can be offered to an American. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the Burr conspiracy and his trial for treason. A jury of his peers selected by his enemies found him not guilty, although they rendered a Scotch verdict. But at this day no historian will venture to assert thit there was any conspiracy at all, or that Burr was guilty of any act even remotely resembling treason. That prosecution was a persecution, and it must be remembered that it failed on the government's own evidence and that Burr was not required to take the testimony of a single witness of the multitude of them he had summoned in his defense. The whole "conspiracy" was cooked up by Jefferson, who refused on the trial, to produce letters which, Burr claimed, contained evidence that would acquit him. In 1800 Jefferson was smarting under the exposure by .fames A. Bayard of the deal by which Jeffer son became president, aud he believed that Burr had iustigated it, abd he determined on revenge. Accordingly he tortured an enterprise which was patriotic in its purpose into an act of treason, and although he failed of a conviction, he cast obloquy on a great name. Burr's enemies were not content with attackiug his public life, but maligned bis private character, called him a libertine and a debauche. Of this, Farlon says: Aaron Burr was a man of gallantry; not a corrupter of virgin innocence, not a desMiler of honest households, not a betrayer of tender confidence. He was a mau of gallantry. Curtis, in his life of Jefferson, says of Burr: He was probably no more immoral than Franklin, Washington or Ham ilton, or other men of his time. He was neither a St. Anthony nor a Don Juau. Judged by the standard of his generation, his vices were those of a gentleman and such as did not deprive him of the respect and confidence of the community. Burr's married life, which lasted twelve years, was of the happiest sort. He was a devoted husbaud and father. On his daughter, Theodosia Burr, he lavished his affections. From her earliest years he hail educated her with a care to which we look in vain for a parallel among his contemporaries. She grew up, iu consequence, no ordi nary woman. Beautiful beyond most of her sex, accomplished as were few women of that day, she displayed to her family and friends a fervor of affection of which not every woman is capable. The character of Theodosia isurr has loug been regarded as we would regard 'that of a heroine of romance. Her love for her father partook of the purity of a better world; holy, deep, unchanging; it reminds us of the affection which a celestial spirit might be supposed to entertain for a parent, cast down from heaven, for sharing iu the sin of the "Son of Morning." His love for her was as great as hers for him aud when he learned of her death at the hands of pirates he fell down before her picture uttering that famous cry of pent tragedy: "By this blow I am several from the human race!" Burr was a gallant soldier and on the field at Quebec carried the body of the dead Montgomery on his back to the American lines. He fought brave ly four years for American independ ence and liberty. Burr was a great lawyer and it is said never lost a case to which he gave his personal attention, albeit these are not arguments. His public life was without a stain. He never betrayed a friend or spoke ill of an enemy. With great ambition, he put aside the presidency of the United States rather than do a wrong to his party chief, or disappoint the wishes of the people yet he has been denounced for a century as a mau without integrity or sound principle. Such is theinjustice of history. Sam uel T.Seaton. ARE YOU GOING TO CHAUTAUQUA You Will Save Money by Season Ticket Buying a Seven full days and flow of soul, of the nation will a feast of reason The greatest men be on the program MRS. BROWN AND 26 BOYS HER CHOIR Thts boya are real boys, but they can ingjMHl pjayjdivinely FURNITURE We carry the late styles and up-to-date designs in Furniture. s If you are going to fur nish a home, or just add a piece to what you already have, look over our com plete line. Need a Kitchen Cabinet? See the "Springfield.' HENRY GASS 21-21-23 West 11th St. Power of Imagination. "The imagination is wonderful." said a college professor. "1 know a Chi cago man who went last summer to Asbury l'ark. He in a quaint way proved my point. He didn't reach As bury Park till 10 o'clock at night, and. very tired, he turned iu at once. As be settled his bead comfortably on the pillow be said to his wife: " 'Listen to the thunder and hiss of the surges. Maria. 1 haven't heard that glorious sound for forty years. No more Insomnia now!' "And. indeed, for the flrst time in three months the man slept like a log. .DUl WUVU UK uatr IU IUK wmwh "c '.- .1 - . ..A .l.tn. I.. ..1 Inll.iil jouuu iuui me uinmr wunu uu "" him to sleep was the noise of a garage in the rear of the hotel. The sea was over a mile away." Detroit Free Tress. lllHffimPlHHI.H flaRHHIFWP?3LBHKilE JULY RATE You can make an eastern trip any day at very low rates lower than ever before. There is such a variety of rate tours embracing so many sections of the East that it is im possible to describe them here. Consult with us. 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