The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, August 16, 1911, Image 4
J MBSMSMBSSaMHMMiMIBMBMMMSaSSSBSIBSHHl Columbus Tribune -Journal Published by The Tribune Printing Company Columbus, Nebraska. Admitted at tbe Post office at Columbus, Xebr., as second Glass matter ALBERT J. MASON. Editor. lOLLARD 8. BINNEY, Business Manager. CHESTER J. MASON. Circulation Manager. Netlee t Ssbaerisen. SniCKiPTioN PKicE-One dollar and a half a year, seventyUve cents for six months. Kknewaks The date opioite yonr name on your paper, or wrap per, shows the date to which you have paid. When payment is made the date will be changed accordingly. Discontincanxes Kcspousible subscribers will continue to re ceive The Tribuue-Journal until the publisher Is notified to discon tinue, when all arrearages must be paid. Refuting paper at postofflce is not notice to the publisher. Change in Address When ordering change in address be sure to give tbe old as well as the new address. To Our Subscribers. For the past two or three weeks it has been impos sible, on account of business reasons for The Tribune Journal to be delivered to the post-office on Wednesday evenings as has been our custom and as it should have been. We believe however, that arrangements will now be satisfactorily made that that the delay of a day in our mailing out the paper may be overcome, and that beginning with next week we will be able to appear again on schedule time. One Man's Record. In 1908, a Nebraska man was a democratic candid ate for the democratic nomination for theypresidency. A Columbus man was one of the two or three to originate the organization known as the "Bryan Volunteers." After the national and state conventions had been held, this Columbus man whose ability as a mixer of political medicine was well recognized was jarred loose from the Volunteer movement and placed in charge of the campaign of the democratic nominee for governor and won the election for him by a majority almost twice as large as that of the democratic nominee for president, notwith standing the fact that the latter was a Nebraska man. In 1910, this same man was placedin direct personal charge of the campaign the democratic candidate for the United States senate, and although the remainder of the repupblican ticket was elected by margins ranging from a nominal majority to one of fifteen thousand, his candidate won by almost twenty thousand majority. For twelve years this same man has held the office of clerk of the district court in Plate county. Last Tue sday he was renominated for the same position. He is the nominee of the democratic party. At the primary election many republicans wrote his name on their bal lots, notwithstanding the fact that if the returns should show his nomination, and he should desire to file an ac ceptance, he must necessarily perjure himself to do it. But why should any republican write his name on the republican ticket? What has he done for the repub lican party to merit such reward? He has earned the reputation of winning any election that he concentrates his energy upon. His friends have openly boasted that it was his influence that elected Shall enberger. His friends have openly boasted that it was his influence that elected Hitchcock. Yet both these elections were ceitainly in direct opposition to the candidates and plat forms of the republican party at the time. The Same Old Crew. As far as possible, the same old bunch are again in the running for the county offices on the democratic ticket the only exception being that Otto Heuer has been nominated for county treasurer, because the state law forbade the renomination of the present treasurer. For the other offices, it is the same old story Lachnit, for sheriff, Graf for clerk., Ratterman for judge, Gruen ther for clerk of the district court, Lecron for superin tendent, and Gass for coroner. Lachnit and Gass are one term men, Lecron has been in office four years, Graf eight Ratterman ten and Gruenther twelve years. As far the nominee for treasurer is concerned, Mr. Heuer has been in the court house in various clerical po sitions for many years, and is, in fact, a machine-built man from the feet up. He has received favors from the machine at various times, having been in service almost contiuously during these years at its instance. The present county clerk,, John Graf, was a deputy in one of the county offices prior to his election in 1903, and he has been kept continuously in the office since that time, thanks to the efficiency of the handful of men who make and unmake county officials in Platte county. County Judge Ratterman came to his position in 1901, through the overthrow of Judge Robinson, who had served four years, but was shelved because he insisted on the prerogative of using his own mind, instead of ac cepting dictations from certain individuals. No refer ence is necessary to Judge Ratterman's official record. The "Board of Control" even allowed Judge Hensley's good standng in the bunch to lapse for the time being. As to the county superintendent, Mr. Lecron has served two terms, which is the customary time in ordin ary cases. But all such precendents have been thrown to the winds here in Platte county, where the rule has been to "hang on as long as you can" and the bunch hangs with you. Many good republicans are reported to have voted the democratic ticket in order to help pull some friend's hptniits out of the fire at the recent primary. Some of them put up the argumnt that it was probable that the democratic nominee, whoever he might be, would be ele cted, and that was their only manner of having a say in the county political affairs. This was not withuot reason. But would you, kind friend, ever consider it a favor' to be asked to perjure yourself for the sake of one who works night and day to defeat the very things for which you and yoar organization stand? If you are a democrat, and vote a republican ballot, at the primary, you told a falsehood when you declared you were a republican. If the judges of election did their duty and placed you on your oath, and you still persisted in voting the ballot of a party, the majority of whose candidates you did not intend to support at the election, then you are guilty of perjury, which means that you are entitled to a term by in the penitentiary. The Vato. Within a space of ten days the subject of the veto has leaped the Atlantic. Should the British house of lords forfeit their veto power? Shall the American president exercise his great power? The lords were shorn. Now with President Taft preparing for a wholesale decapitatin of tariff and statehood bills, citizens are already writing the newspapers their views of the American despotism that permits vetoes of representative legislatioon such as Great Britain has now abolished. There is no comparison between the -veto power of the house of lords, or even the veto power formerly held by the British king, and the veto power ot an American president,. The house of lords and the king hold office by birth. The people have no way to enforce a disagree ment with vetoes save by revolution. The American president on the other hand, received his powers from the electorate, and if he desires relection must submit his acts to a popular judgment. President Taft risks his political life on public approval next)year of the vetoes he nis about to write. The voters will have opportunity to replace him with a president more to their liking if these vetoes meet their disapproval. In effect then, the president has only the suspensory veto hereafter to be retained by the house of lords. He can suspend legislation to the end of his term supposing two-thirds of each house of congress does not agree to override his veto. This power of a two-thirds majority to overrule a veto is a second limitation on the veto pow er of the president which did not apply to the lords. A president takes heavy responsibility in vetoing an act of congress. His veto equals the vote of sixty-five The Tribune Printing Company Carries in Stock a Complete Line of MORTGAGE NOTES City Leases, Farm Leases, Subpoe nas, Articles of Agreement, Chattel Mortgages, Bills of Sale, Warranty Deeds, Real Estate Mortgages, Ap plications for Loans, and in fact Lena Is t Every fccrili These are carried in stock. Remem ber, you don't have to go to the both er of having them printed to order if you go to the Tribune shop. They are already for you at any time. No Delay. No Special Orders No Special Cost for Printing CHASIN6 A COOL SPOT ta iF Mk0 NCH5,"BBr S sBrVBBKiaBnnnBBreRi JtgefcDl&l BsSBSesnJ (Copyright. WXL) representatives and sixteen senators that is the difference congress. This was manifested conspicuously in Presi between the majority required to pass a measure in the first place and the two-thirds required to pass it over a veto. Presidents have recognized this fact and have as a rule been sparing of their vetoes. Until Andrew Jack son vetoed the bill for the recharter of the United States bank there had been no great veto. Tyler's veto of a similar bill, Johnson's vetoes of the reconstruction and tenure of office bills and Grant's vetoes of the currency inflation bill include most of the notable vetoes unless we mention the 301 vetoes of private pension bills during President Cleveland's first term. We believe that his tory has vindicated more than a majority of these vetoes. For it can easily happen that a president gets a clearer idea of a country's needs and demand than does dent Roosevelt's term, when he set himself as positively against congress in matters of progressive legisation as President Taft now proposes to set himself negatively. The country loudly approved that presidential self-cnofid-ence. Congress is an aggregation of local interests, and its measures are quite as likely to represent to a com bination of interests as a broad view of national needs. A president, dependent upon general opinion, is less press ed by special interests. Through lack of vision he may make egregious errors. President Taft may prove to have done this in his contemplated vetoes. Of that let him be the judge and take the consequences. But to hold that his vetoes write him a despot and this a de spotic country is to ignore the facts. State Journal. Soiw itj Jy WHPURDNCfPlT SVJ 1 OunrviJrtvki Gaitteivr fanjsnnissnnnnnasBxBswjsnnnnnRSJti BsnnanBsBsnnBnanananfBsnnVEdlBJ bbbbtc - "sZHsbswM IN TIMES GONE BY Interesting Happenings of Many Years Ago, Taken From the Files of This Paper. Forty Years Ago A party of surveyors were said to be surveying a line for a branch of the B & M. to run from Crete to Colum bus. Quite a sensation was sprung in Butler county, when a report became current that a preacher named Doag had fed his wife poison in some bis cuits, as a result of which she died. HI3 IDEA "TIED Twenty Years Ago. Charles Watts and Miss Florence Kerr, both of Monroe, were married. They still live at Monroe. A. Ewing, of Central City, and J. A. Grimison, of Schuyler, received the populist nominations for judges of the district court. Ten Years Ago. John H. Hellbusch died at his home in Grand Prairie township. Mrs. B. P,. Duffy died at her home in Columbus. J. T. Cox had just returned from an extended visit to Europe. Five Years Ago. Leroy Farnsworth and Miss Rose Hagemann were married. Samuel Rector, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Rector, and well known in Columbus and the surrounding county, was drowned while swimming in the Loup river. A genuine small-pox scare- was started among the Japanese people at Oconee. Investigation proved that there was no cause for alarm. fi, JT Vt ,' 1 ff 1 , BLOCKADED WW ffW She (who has Just returned from the seaside hotel It was so very quiet. The only thing one could hear was the moaning of tho tide. He Hi'tv many dogs did the land lord have? Dreams and Facts. We never Lave a fantasy so subtle and ethereal but that talent merely, with more resolution and faithful per sistency, after a thousand failures, might fix and engrave it in distinct and enduring words, and we should see that our dreams are the sollasst fact that we know. Thoreau. For Sale 120 acre improved farm, six miles from Celumbus. $65 per acre. George Masters, Fullerton, Nebraska. Many a Suffering Woman Drags herself through her daily tasks, suffering from backaches, head ache, nervousness, loss of appetite and poor sleep, not knowing that her ills are due to kidney and bladder trou bles. Foley's Kidney Pills give quick releaf from pain and misery and a prompt return to health and strength. No woman who so suffers can afford to overlook Foley Kidney Pills. For sale by all druggists. Methodist Church Notes. These are hot days, but come in early and enjoy our Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning sermon topic for everybody, "Faint not in Life's Bat- te." Epworth League at 7. Lead er. Grace Tavlor. Evening theme for sermon, ' The Unchanging Christ. ' ' Chas. W. Ray, Pastor. x Msr'jte Mountains. Mountains of pure marble have beem discovered in German South Africa, the like of which aro unknown in the) world. Wifely Devotion. "A man must have so much on his dad," is the belief by wnich a wire often supports a cheerful face under rough answers and unfeeling words. George Elliot. Every Household in Columbus Should Know How to Resist it. The back aches because the kidneys are blockaded. Help the kidneys with their work. The back will ache no more. Lots of proof that Doan's Kidney Pills do this. "" It's the best proof because it comes from Columbus. Mrs. A. J. Wilson, 604 E. Four teenth St., Columbus, Nebraska., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have been used in our home and we have been convinced that they are a beneficial kidney medicine. The party who took Doan's Kdney Pills often complained of pain in the back and had other dif ficulties which plainly showed that the kidneys were at fault. His condition steadily grew worse and no relief was found until Doan's Kidney Pills were used. They went directly to the seat of the trouble and so thoroughly dis posed of it that there has been no re turn attack." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doans and take no other. If sticks were what the rose is And rubbish were the leaf. I need not ask your pardon For showing you my garden: 'Twould be what each one knows la Of flower beds the chief If sticks were what the rose la And rubbish were the leaf. If weeds were what green hedge la And plantain were but grass. My lawn would be a fair one And not a skimped and bare one With bald spots where the edge is. I would not say "Alas!" If weeds were what green hedge la And plantains were but grass. If burdock were but clover And sand were candytuft The bees la gladness coming Would till the air with humming Instead of darting over As though In tempers huffed. If burdock were but clover And sand were candytuft. Were parsley morning glories And pigweed hollyhocks. Then nodding, fragrant flowers Would sway through sun and showers Like honey-laden dories Tied up to fairy docks Were parsley morning glories And pigweed hollyhocks. Were dandelions panaies And thistle mignonette. Then would my little tardea Be aa the Vale of Arilen Filled with all scented .fancies In blossom-beauty set Were dandelions pansles And thistles mignonette. If plalntaln wero but blue grass And sand were only turf. Each morn my clicking mower Would only serve to lower The velvet of the new grass; I'd be a singing serf If plalntaln were but blue And sand were only turf. TOO BAD CAUSE TO BE PROUD More people, men and women, are suffering with kidney and bladder trouble than ever before, and each and each year more of them turn for quick relief and permanent benefit to Foley's Kidney Remedy, which has proven itself to be one of the most effective remedies far kidney and blad der ailments, that medical science hasl devised. For sale by all dracgists.1 JssbCJbbsT AlAdS' tTbCt LbbbbsssssssssssBM 3 1 JVwl Ig flaw' MISsbssssssssssssssI F I sJJ ss Remembered Them. "And sir," thundered the investigat ing attorney, shaking his lean fore-, linger in the face of the high official of the insurance company which hap pened to be in line for investigation that week, "and, sir, I ask you to state to this committee in what way, if in any way, you have remembered the policy holder during these years? Tell the committee how, and to what ex tent, if at all. you have shown that you realized that the money of the policy holder was in your trust and to bo administered for his benefit?" Is that a hypothetical question?" asked the official. "No, sir. Answer It plainly and as briefly as possible." "Well, we have remembered the pol icy holders." "Tou have?" "Yes .sir. There Isn't one of them that hasn't received a nice new calen dar the first of every year and as many blotters as he wanted between time. A Remarkable Man. "Who is that distinguished looking Individual whoa everybody seems to regard with so much awe?" asked the stranger. "Who? That man with the Prince Albert coat and the high hat?" "Yes." "That's the most remarkable orator ever known. He has made Fourth of July orations for the years and never once has he said that this is a gov ernment of the people, by the people an far the people." Prof. E. Z. Marck Yes, yon have kaneoed me! Me. a college professor! Yon ought to be ashamed for' doing seen athiag. Monte Karlow No, sir. I shouM rather feel proud of saving done a very wise thing! Mrs. Hasem (who has" visions) I do believe the world Is coming to aa end this week. Mr Hasem Why didn't you tell me that sooner. I paid tbe grocer's bill this morning. His Meditations. The man of the house sits for soma time is. dee thought. "What are you thinking of, papa?" aaks his daughter?. "Trying; to thin of what yon are going; to gst us for Chrlstmasr "No," responds the father. "I was doing say best to forget how much last Christmas cost me, but Tmx afraid the recollection la going: to lap over into this one and cost some sort of a damn er en the festivities for me," A ROUGH WAY Learning and Forgetting. One sad defect about human beings Is that while we are learning one vain able thing we are forgetting some oth er that may be more valuable, for the) m only ao big. "On the Tip ef snaaBBBiesaBBawtvh. IaTf asai A reach ef Ethles. "That fellow Dopea down on the next corner in a scoundrel." declares the druggist. "Whafa wrong; with hrmr asks ths atan who has nought a twe cent stamp. Tve just learned that he la sell Ins as imitation of ay substitute fos Dr. aaullleea'a Patent Couch Medl The Crea. "'- 1 nilBSMJI l ' Tear netghser raises iMiftsns -Iaatead ef flersl tower Pete 1 hear dal San "s w.'o done cracked him over d.? hrid wi:! a rollin" pin an frowed all do kiad:a- wood at aim. Joe Well. I snecka aha war i. kA. J. ...-a. . ... muu were wtMBJav Hay Fever, Asthma and Summer Cold Must be reelieved quickly and Fo ley's Honey and Tar Cominn.) ,;it 2? !V-E M" StWeart 1034 Wolfra bt., Chicago, writes: "I hv un greatly troubled during the hot sum mer months with hay fever and find that by using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound I get great relief. ' ' Many others who suffer similarly will be glad to benefit by Mr. Stewart' . perience. For sale by all rfmrata 'r -