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ffiolumbus journal. Columbus. rCetor. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1. 1904; with the Platte County Argus January 1.1W0. Kntaradattha PoatoBM.Colwbu.Iaabr.,M pnoaA-claaa mail mattur. TBkata oraDBsoBipnov Uuayaar, by buU. portage prapaid 11.60 rtt auwtha ........ .78 rra-Boatka .M WEDNESDAY. OCTOKEIt 20, 1810. 8TB0THEB & COMPANY. Proprietors. UfcNEWAL-The date opposite your name oa yoa paper, or wrapper shows to what time your subscription fa paid. Thus JanW show mat payment has been received np to Jan. i, inn, rabKtoFb.l,lKfiandeoon. When payment Is made, the date, which answers aa a receipt, will be chanced aooordlncly. DiriCONTIMHANCEH-ltesDonsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this Journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearaaes must be paid. If you do not eriah the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for lias expired, you should previously notify us to discontinue it. nHANne IN aDDREHH When orderine a I 3 nance la the address.subscribers should be aure to ctve their old as well as their new address. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For U. S. Senator KI.MKIt J. HUKKETT For Congrefcbiuan, Third District JOHN F. HO YD For Governor II. AI.DKICH I For Lientenant-Ciovirnor M. It. HOPEWELL For Secretary of Statu ADDISON WAIT I For Auditor SILAS It. ItAKTON I For Attorney Uennml GKANT (J. MAKTIX I For Land Connnitwitinpr E. B. COWLES I For Treasurer WALTEU A. CJEOKCE I For Superintendent Inntruclion J. W. rUABTUEE I For Bailroad CouitniMbiouer HEN BY T. CLABKE. Jit iFoi State Senator EDWIN HOABE I For State lleprefcentatiit) FBANK SCI1 BAM I For County Attorney C. N. McELFBESH I For Supervisor. District No. 3 C. A. l'ETEKSON One of the early humors of the New York campaign apjear3 with the discovery that the democratic candi date for governor, Mr. Dix, was re presented at Washington last year by a request for higher duties on wall paper. Mr. Dix is a manufacturer of wall paper. The satire grows grim mer when such supporters of Dix as the New York Evening Post, a free trade paier, excuses him on the round that his company "was only acting with the rest in seeking for its i ue in the expected distribution of iriff favors. That is all the southern lemocrats were after when they broke their party pledge on the lumber tariff yet the Evening Tost was unable to ind words hard enough to express its ntempt tor their Honuuueas. state Journal. S. R. Barton, renominated for state uditor, without opposition, brings as is best claim for a second term in I hat important state of lice a good and faithful record irotu lus lirst term. or eight years Mr. Barton was grand ecorder of the A. O. U. W. of Ne- raska and was well and thoroughly rounded in business methods and in stem. When he assumed the oflice f state auditor he at once began sys- matically and earnestly to give that portant checking oflice the business pliances and facilities and color the lace demanded. How well he has cceeded is admitted by all familiar ith the situation. It has been his igh ambition to give the people of ebraska an independent and thor- ghly efficient administration,without aa or favortism or dictation. Being practical and enthusiastic insurance an, it has been his special pleasure to that the people of Nebraska are tected by demanding that only peudable insurance companies do siness understate cnaner. xiaving n faithful and having madfgood, people should remember bim with I safe reelection. McCook Tribune. LAFOLLETTE ON TRUSTS. "The operation of the federal and ate anti-trust and conspiracy laws been productive of flagrant and ljust inequalities, lhe laws have en circumvented by the most dan- Irous and powerful of the monopolies Id trusts, which, through their con- al of the banks, the money and the lit of the country centered in Wall et, control the natural resources, food and clothing and the high- Lys of the nation. This money pow- in definance of laws, has crushed ipetitors and has built up financial bnopolies in Uie interest of speculat ed against the interest of pro era, wage earners and consumers. le laws uesigneu iu prevent muus- 1 monopoly have been used to sup- the unions and co-operative el- i of wage earners and farmers in Lir struggle to protect the value of la. il .las sin nSr -lra ir labor and me prouuuu ui mc ar against those money muuupu-iea. - foirnf annri aenarate classification ininna associations, monopolies and Istsas shall abolish this pretense shall establish real equality ueiore laws." THE MACHINE CANDIDATE. In the excitement of the canpajgn over state issues the fact should not be forgotten that national issues are also involved. The democrats are making a tremendous effort in this congroaoional district to re-elect J. P. Latta, who bss served a single term and has been re nominated without opposition. He rep resents tbat element in national politics that always protests bat never offers anything better nr originates anything superior. Mr. Latta stands with his party, and bis party stands where it has always stood. There is no such thing as a "progressive" democrat, for the reason that the democratic party never pro gresses. Judge Boyd, the republican nominee, stands for living issues fur progressive legislation. He represents the commercial and agricultural inter ests of the country because the republi can party stands for the commercial and agricultural interests of the nation. Judge Boyd has served one term in con gress and proved bis capacity for doing things. When the people of Columbus asked him to introduce and work for a bill appropriating money for the erection of a government building he complied with the request. The appropriation was made and the building is now in course of construction. The work per formed by Judge IJoyd in the interest of Columbus could never have been accom plished by a democratic representative, and if Mr. Latta is re-elected he will not succeed in securing an additional appro priation for the building, for the reason that he is not in touch with the admin istration. A republican administration is not incliued to enhance the prestige of democratic congressmen. It has not been tbc policy in the past and will not be adopted by a republican administra tion in tbe future to show special favors to democratic districts in appropriating public money for tbe erection of build ings. For years Platte county has been rep resented in the state legislature by de mocrats, and for this reason Oolumbus has never been able to secure a state institution of any kind. The voters of Platte county have sacrificed their material interests for democratic success at the polls, and allowed Norfolk, Grand Island, Kearney and Wayne to reap the benefits derived from a sane and bnbi nesslike policy in the upbnildiog of their towns. Partisan politics demo cratic politics has retarded the growth of Columbus. With its advantages of location and railway connections, Colum bus would have been a city of 12,000 people today if Platte county had taken less interest in keeping tbe democratic party in power in state and national af fairs. Wouldn't it be a good policy for tbe people of this county to vote intelligent ly occasionally, and not go to tLe polls 0 year after year and vote os the democra tic innchine dictates. When any party allows itself to be used as a door-mat by designing politicians, it becomes a men ace to the material interests of tbe com munity. What the democratic party of Platte county needs is emancipation from the clique of politicians who have it by tbe throat. The maobine is for Latta, and every democrat who longa for emancipation should vote against tbe machine candidate. ROOSEVELT TARIFF PLANK. "The tariff law reduced the average rate of all duties 11 per cent By increasing the duties on some luxuries and articles, not of ordinary use, mak ing, however, no increase on any common food product, it turned a national deficit into a surplus. Under its first year of operation the value of imports free of duty was the greatest in our history by $109,000,000, and the average rate of duty was less than under the Wilson law. Unlike that law, its great reductions of duty have not stopped industry or depressed labor of any part of its hire. It gives free trade with the Philippine islands, and it establishes a customs court. Its maximum and minimum rates give us for the first time opportunity with other nations in our foreign trade. "In providing, upon the suggestion of President Tail, for a tariff board, it affords the means of still more accu rately determining tbe difference of the cost of production at home and abroad. "A republican congress is necessary to provide needed appropriations for this board, and to assure business and labor that changes in rates will be made only to equalize the difference of the cost of production and not to reduce rates to the free trade, or purely revenue, basis, favored by the demo cratic party. "To avoid disturbance of business, we urge the adoption by the congress of a joint rule of the two houses rec ommended by the president and lead ers in congress by which the two houses could consider a single schedule or a single paragraph of the tariff without the necessity for amendment which would lead to a general revision. Advances in the cost of living are only the local reflections of a tendency that is world wide and cannot be truthfully said to be due to the present tariff." "They're -Good enouq For Me' att3- aWaVsaaV M6? 'laaaaaTa- . av '-tnm f I BaP-Vi-tX- LaaaaaaaawaaawaaaaaaaaawL .aw Via I I saffei' .BUuuuuuuuuuuQfQHaauuuuVauukw U -MX. .awaaaaa BtBHtBnBmOfrJlFJW&KEffwBu V0U wat ?'Jm auuuuuuuuuuuuw?V7j9 Roosevelt at Omaha, September 2nd, 1910 "Seaator Baikett was oae of the mea oa whom I especially reUea whie I was Ftaideat. both while be waste the House aadia the Scatfe. IwasaNeto what I d accowplstli to Waahtogtoa. only beckwse of the way I was backed by kc Seaator Barkett ad as.we.aave a fvot fre Iowa meat, let om say. Me Deliver." ' WHY NOT? Joe Bartley has asked the demo cratic state committee to give him a hearing in the Hitchcock matter and to allow him to answer any questions it may put to him. Why not grant it? The injection of this Bartley busi ness into the campaign has mystified the voters. Even Mr. Hitchcock will not attempt to deny that it has put him on the defensive, and that it nlaces him before the public in a bad light It does not help him out to thunder that it is Joe Bartley who is doing it Ui course it is bis enemies who are doing it One's enemies are seldom above reproach. The Question is: Do his enemies possess the goods? In a pitiable position indeed are the people of this state if it can be positively shown that Hitchcock got any part of the state's stolen funds which he never paid back to the state. Against him is the fact that, as the nublisher of a democratic paper, he was ever found borrowing money from a republican office holder, whether it was the state money or any other. It would be the salvation of the state from a great calamity if it could be shown that he has been misrepre sented by his enemies. The state needs for its senator a man whose skirts are clean. If it be shown con clusively that Hitchcock's garments are unclean, then indeed is the hope of this state gone. Then why may not the democratic state committee grant this hearing, consider all the testimony and give it to the public in realiable form? Let Joe Bartley be there with his unpaid notes and such other proofs as he may have, if any. Let Mr. Hitchcock be there with his proofs 'if he have any. And let the uunamed Omaha bank er whose identity has been so studious ly suppressed by all parties be there with his proofs, if he have any. If Hitchcock borrowed money of Bartley through an Omaha banker, let us know all about it Any concealment may cloud a just verdict in this case. The people in making up a verdict upon this mysti fying state of affairs, are entitled to all the evidence, for to the people more than to any individual involved, is the integrity of the verdict important Except that it may interfere with his speaking campaign, what reason able excuse may Mr. Hitchcock urge for not meeting his accusing enemies face to face at such a hearing? Lin coln Star (Dem.) NEW APPLICATION OF OLD PRINCIPLES. The new part of Mr. Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" is the doctrine that the Federal government should confine its activities to achievements in behalf of the people. Those who twist their faces into expressions of pained astonishment at the audacity of the Roosevelt creed have presented unruffled countenances when the gov ernment has helped special interests. Much of the Nation's paternalism, so-called, has been wisely exerted. Some of it has been most unwise and wrongful. It has been wise to lend money to the banks when to do so averted business panics. It has been unwise to use the taxing power of the government to foster monopolies. But the use of the power of the Federal government to advance economic efficiency is not new. It is only new and "revolutionary" in the opinion of the standpat critics when the economic efficiency of the whole people is to be the direct or indirect con sequence. In advocating national aid for road building, Senator Bankhead of Ala bama recently enumerated some of the ways in which the national govern ment has helped special interests or particular sections. Without animad verting upon any of the instances, he stated them for their illustrative force. Rivers and harbors have been im proved for the shipping interests. High tariff taxes have been imposed to benefit manufacturers and labor. Rural free delivery has been provided. Millions of the Nation's money was expended in cleaning Cuban cities. The list could be indefinitely extended. ' So when Mr. Roosevelt advocates Federal aid in the reclamation of swamp lands, and when Senator Bank head argues for the same thing as applied to public highways, they are "paternalists" and "radicals" only in the minds of those who desire all gov ernment to be impotent and of those who wish it to be powerful only on behalf of concentrated wealth. Here is indicated, in fact, the line of division in all the field of conserving and developing national wealth. The new nationalism, or whatever it is called, is not oue other thing than just government of the people, by tbc peo ple, for the people applied to any specific thing which needs its applica tion. Its critics are those who are not for the practice of that kind of gov ernment Kansas City Star. THE CITIES AND THE CENSUS. The prominent fact brought for ward by the census figures already an nounced is the rapid growth of the cities. At the very time of pronoun ced agitation against congestion and in favor of the movement "back to the lands," the cities are growiug absolute ly and relatively faster than ever be fore. This is held to ineau that the movement toward the land is thus far a complete failure; that there is much talk but no motion in the direction favored by the discussion. It is true, however, that certain differences in business conditions existed in the two periods that may have some bearing upon the significance of the figures. Between 1890 and 1900 the country entered a business depression that left tbe industrial centers paralyzed for several years. During the panic but few new factories were built Idle workmen were tempted to scatter to the country where if employment was not to be had at least the cost of living was small. When the last decade be gan the industrial revival was already in full swing. There was a short pause in activity in 1907, but it was not long enough nor severe enough to send people away from the crowded centers. Factories have been going up everywhere, calling for swarms of fresh laborers. In the face of this in dustrial activity, which has been the one dominant irrepressible fact of the decade between 1900 and 1910, the census department finds that twenty five cities of more than 100,000 popu lation grew w.o per cent against a gain of 33.2 in the decade ending in 1890. The people are not going back to the land yet, but when the figures I analyzed it does appear that the rush 1 wtjnwu ui iuc task t-su jous iub bw been so great in proportion to the in vitation offered as it was in the clos ing ten years of the last century. State Journal. USE YOUR HEAD. The Lord gave people heads for use rather than for ornament, but life is full of disaster and annoyance because this fact generally is forgotten. Hundreds of people go to untimely graves every week because of the uni versal disposition to use heads merely to place hats on. The other day a Nebraska woman went to a drug store and asked for some cream of tartar. She was a young married woman, with husband and children, and every prospect of a long and happy life. The drug clerk was thinking about the baseball games in the big league, or some other equally important matter, and wasn't paying any attention to what he was doing, so he gave the woman tartar emetic, with the result that she died a few hours later, after enduring horri ble agony. It is superfluous to say tbat the drug clerk is sorry that the mistake happened. The fools always are sorry when it's too late. Hundieds of such stories appear in the newspapers every year. No ac cidents of the kind would happen if people had their minds on what they are doing. How many railway accidents occur in the course of a year- because some switchman or engiueer or other em ploye failed to use his head? They would make a long, long list How many funerals occur in the course of a year because of the fools who handle guns carelessly, and who explain at the coroner's inquest that they didn't know the guns were load ed? If people always used their heads there would be no accidents of the kind. Most of the small annoyances of life and the small annoyances are the ones that drive people to drink are due to the fact that people don't use their heads. They do their work in a careless, slipshod way, thinking of the vacations they are going to take, or of duck hunting, or kite flying, when they should be attending to their prunes. Business men are driven to distraction by clerks who are always making blunders because they don't give their attention to what they are doing; and the clerks themselves battalions of them in this broad land are working for boys' wages, with no prospect of anything better in the fu ture because they don't use their heads. His head is the most valuable thing that any young man owns, and he should put it to the best use possible. If he thinks he has douc his fall duty by it when he combs his hair and raises sidewhiskers he never will go far. If he uses his head wisely, and applies his mind to whatever task he has in hand, promotion is sure and employers will regard him as a treas ure all the days of the years of his pilgrimage. (Emporia Gazette.) A PITIFUL CASE. When a woman finds a man she can master, she seems to take delight in humiliating him before the world. The whole sordid story of the mar riage and separation of "Bob" Chanter, the artist-clubman, and LinaCavalieri, called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and also the most notori ous, is barred to the public. Chanler, whose fortune originally amounted to $1,000,000, has signed over his entire income of 830,000 a year to the singer, and also the fortune itself to be hers for life. He is practically penniless. Of tbe 850,000 a year iuc nie from the 81,000,000, the singer receives 830,000, the remaining 820,000 being held in trust as alimony for Chanter's divorced wife. Today the artist is allowed a pittance of 820 a month by bis Cavalieri, who pays it to him out of what was his own money. Chanler is back in New York city, Cavalieri is in Paris, and with her is Prince Dolgorouki, a Russian of im mense wealth, who has been her con stant admirer for years. It is known that almost immediately after the wedding Cavalieri sent for Dolgoruki, and Chanler was relegated to the background. Only yesterday she was seen lunching with him in the midst of a merry party in a Paris cafe. Stranger than fiction is the fact that before consenting to marry him, the singer forced Chanler to admit the paternity of her sixteen year old son, whom the artist had never seen, and who was born before Chanler had ever heard of the prima donna. Lina Cavalieri had a circle of friends abroad, and they were so "dif ferent" from Chanler. After she married the man, she humiliated him before these friend", saying he was noisy, and impolite, although Chanler was an artist! Chanler was infatuated with the woman, and fawned at her feet like a dog, but her greatest joy was in humiliating him; in flaunting saarnafilHwiffilfflTT Til lP ?TJJt ;l----iifta lvftWMaffilatB 1 aataawaaal yJSxmKKrSSifPKSiS-in v .Jw AJaswasaaaj Never Quarantined The health officer may keep you away from your Mends, but it you have a Bell Telephone you can always keep in touch with them. Ten millions of miles of wire -and five million Bell Telephones connect you with twenty-five millions of people, night or day, in forty thou sand American cities and towns. Universal service as typified by the Bell System today is the result of thirty years of unceasing endeavor to meet the increasing demands of the Nation. I A I r Nebraska Telephone Co. D. J. ECHOLS, Local Manager her Russian lover before him. No professional thief ever robbed a man as cruelly, as unfairly, as dishon estly as this singer robbed. Yet pei ple think it a good joke! Chanler seems to have poor woman sense. Men are usually able to take care of themselves when attacked, but there are many like Chanler who have had two wives, and been cruelly rob bed by both. Atchison Globe. Money borrowed of J. S. Bartley after he was inducted into office in the beginning of his first term might have been pulled out of his private silken purse or from the treasury vault, as the borrower had no means of knowing which was which. All who had money of Mr. Bartley during the days that tried men's souls might plead that the cash came down from Atkinson by mule team and not out of the jack pot so richly fattened by the tax payers of Nebraska, but who shall draw the line? In the case of Mr. Bartley, the horns went with the hide. His small private fortune went with the heavy accumulation of state funds swept away when the clamor for assistance from the state treasury was too over- poweringto be resisted. If Mr. Hitch cock put it back, it is a big white plume in his soiubrero, and we are not of those who would persecute him for having sought financial help when he needed it. No mattvr where he got it. thia fact stands out at least. It would have been much better had he never milked the beast. It now appear so clearly, after all ia said and done, That it might Imve been state money be Been red ih Atkinson. O, Gilbert, I am worried over facts as they unfold All these lettera make me weary, your confefeinn makes me old. Thonh I cannot give my sanction to thia kind of politics. It is true ynnr explanation does not eat- isfy me. BIX. State Journal. ran in wvun tne Argument. The leading question," said Hie colonel. "Is the financial one." -Right. replied the major, "and I was just about to ask you to add $" to that $10 I borrowed from you yes terday." Uncle Remus' Magazine. "Tbe easiest thing I know of." says the philosopher of folly, "la to begin to save np some money next month. Cleveland Leader. THE HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays to the West, Southwest and South offer an ex cellent opportunity for a journey of inspection or pleas ure, during the autumn and winter, through the fast grow ing localities where land is constantly increasing in value. THE CHEAP ONE-WAY RATES TO THE PACIFIC COAST are in effect this year only until October 15. Go early and escape the final rush for sleeper accommodations. Every day round trip Coast rates are in effect this winter; gen eral basis $90.00, and $15.00 higher via Shasta. THE DAILY WINTER TOURIST RATES to Southern re sorts become effective about November 1st. These rates with their desirable routes and privileges, together with the out door and hotel attractions of the Southland, should appeal to many looking to avoid the rigors of a northern winter. I. F. RECTOR, Ticket Afillt Golumbus. Ncbr. L. Mf. UfAKEL&Y. Cea'l. Fassanfler flftant. OmatM. Near. I M;KMift RiniliM I I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in tbe book I I binding line bring your work to I I Z?fe I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 I N t Kr Gi g Btl ra Di is cu ra ye ac in Wf al St ev Fr. r no' J He da: see Ue all H thi not bo so Ha tbi bii boi i Li wa Ry cm roc see T dii jun fell tbc I no 1 the 1