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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
CANNON AND BOYD.

CANNON AND BOYD.
The principal opposition to Speaker
Joseph Cannon comes, of course, from
Democrats-men who are opposed to
him politically-and from disappoint-
ed congressman who failed to secure
appropriations for government build.
ings. The bills introduced providing
for appropriations for postofice build
ings runs up into the hundreds of
millions every session of congress and
Cannon has proved his good sense by
opposing drain on the treasury that
would make the surplus disappear
quicker than it did under the rule of
Democracy in 1893, if a strong and
fearless man like Cannon were not in
the speakers chair. Columbus people
will always have q kindly feeling for
the venerable Speaker of the House
and for Congressman Boyd. The
action of Uncle Joe Cannon made it
possible for Columbus to secure an
appropriation Of $4,000 for a post
Office building.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
LATTA'S RECORD.

Chairman Stephens boasts about the
record made BY Mr.. Latta in the last
legislature. Let % see how he voted
on reform bills wanted by the com
mon people.
He voted against the Child Labor
Law, house roll 8.
He voted against the Direct Pri-
mary Law, house roll 4O5.
His was the only vote against the
Pure Food Law, senate file ga.
He refused to vote on . bill to pre-
vent railroads going into the Federal
courts and enjoining the state from
Collecting taxes, senate file 81.
He refused to vote on . bill to pre-
vent discrimination, senate file "a.
Mr.. Latta was pledged by his party
platform to favor every one Of these
needed reforms. IF . 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
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

What the farmer wants is q crop
guarantee. He wants to feel safe be-
fore he votes for Bryan. He does not
want to take any chances of reducing
his hank account in order to get q law
guaranteeing his bank deposit. In the
fall of 1896, when the country was
under the rule of the party Mr.. Bryan
now claims to represent, Platte county
farmers were hauling wheat to Colum-
bus and selling it for - cents .
bushel; oats for 8 cents, corn II cents,
and for the hogs they brought to mar.
ket they received 1925. At the same
time the market price for eggs was 6
cents, and for butter 8 cents. And
now some Of the farmers who marketed
their products ut the prices stated
shove sre asked to step up to the hat
and deposit money to assist in return
ing to power the party that brought
calamity upon the country in 1893,
1894, 1895 and 1896.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
PROPOSED Constitutional
AMENDMENT.

The following proposed amendment 70
the constitution Of the STATE Of Me-
braska, ~ hersinafser get fortn In 1ua.
% 9e,ersi election (. =: s.id tuesday.
November ard, 4. y. 1Soes !
A JOINT RESOLUTION to propose ar
Amendment to Section 9. Article 8 OF
the Constitution Of the State Of Ne
=" - Sesolved ana Enacted ~ the Lss>
isiatnro Of the STATE Of Hebraska:
Section /. (Amsndmsnt) That at the
general election for state and legislative
ceeding the first Monday in November.
1908, the following pr"vis'"- y" poo
and submitted to the electors Of the
state as an amendment to se.,.n &C. :. ar. -,
SECTION :. (Idueational Funds, Invest
nont.) All funds belonging to the state
for educational purposes. the interest and
income whereof only are to be used, shall
be deemed trust funds held by the state.
and the state shall supply all losses
thereof that may IN ANY any nanasn soreyer
inviolate and undiminished: and shall not
be invested or loaned except on .nited
States or state securities. or r 1s,ered
school district bonds of this stair ana
such other securities as the legislature
NAV from time to time direct ARD such
Of are hereby solemnly pledged for the
purposes for which they are granted and
set apart, and shall not be transferred 10
anv other fund for other uses.
Section 2. (Dallots; Adopt.on) That
Mt said election In the year 1907. on the
bsllot OF each electOr voting th"reat th"re
shall be printed or written the words:
"Eor proposed amendment to the Consiit''-
tion with reference to III" ir~n-'~'""
the permanent school fund" and against
said proposed amendment to the constitu.
zion with reference to the investment OF
the permanent school fund" And if
majority Of all voters at said election
shall be for such amendment, the same
shsI n,, Be see H"1i, 70 i Ss ADOPTED
I Geo. c. junkin. Secretary Of State.
Of the state Of Nebraska. do hereby Ger.
tify that the FOREGOING proposed amend
ment to the Constitution Of the State OF
Nebraska II q true and correct copy Of
he original enrolled and engrossed bill.
q passed BY the Thirtieth session or the
legislature Of the State Of Nebraska. as
appears from said original bill on file IN
this office, and that said prOposed
amendment n submitted to the qualified
voters Of the State Of Nebraska for their
adoption or rejection at the general cleo
ton to be held on Tuesday. the Sd day
Of November. A. D. 1878.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunt3
Of the State Of Nebraska. Done at Lin
coin. this 18th day Of July. IN the wear
Of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Eight and Of the Independence
Of the United States the One Hundred
and Thirty third. and Of this State the
GEO. c. JUNKIN. d
OeaD SECRETARY Of 0teeA U
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

himself to be talked out Of his claim,
which might have Melted small fortune
for two paltry town lots. 1t was another
case OF Agent; the claim sesn: was paid
for being good talker, and convinced
Murphy his good fortune was lemon.
But later years proved other mistakes Of
the early engineers 1t was found that
mistake had been made in building over
the Medicine Bow range via Sherman.
Twelve miles OF new track would shorten
the distance, and lessen the grades. A
tunnel was necessary to the change. and
some other difficult railway construction
but all this was accomplished in time,
and now the trains run over the new
route. past new Sherman. Not living
creature is left at old Sherman, nor bar
ely sign of life. except the Ames monu-
ment, and the graves Of lesser folks, who
died there in an effort to make town
out Of mountain siding. Travellers
may now catch fiseting glimpsss Of the
Ames monument, several miles away
from where the road now passes. but no
longer will it receive the attention that
was its during the twenty minute stops
at the old sherman. Railroad men will
remember the Ames brothers, and their
work until airships supplsnt the lOcOmO-
tive, sonnet hing we are never likely to
see, but the rest Of the world will forget.
as it forgets the many pioneers who
made the great West possible And their
monument has become what most other
monuments become in time; q something
left to solitude and deal things. of which
the active life Of the busy world takes
small notice. important and we'll beloved
as were once the men for whom it stands.
-AtchisOn Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
THE BANK GUARANTEE TRIED
BEFORE.

BktOkE.
Mr.. Taft's assertion that Mr.. Bry.
ans scheme of guaranteeing bank
deposits was tried years ago in the
state of New York and that it proved
. failure, has induced . New York
correspondent to uncover IN interest.
ing chapter Of financial history.
The bank deposit guaranty plan was
in effect in New York from 1929 until
1912, and its results were far from
satisfactory. The facts Is to the laws
operation are clearly set forth in .
work entitled 'The History of Bank.
Ing" by John ]. Knox. It was called
the New York safety fund system, and
the bill passed BY the Legislature in
1929 provided that all new banks and
such Others then existing Is might be
willing to avail themselves of the law
BY rechartering pursuant to its provis-
ions should pay into the state con-
troller and treasurer one-half Of / per
cent on their capital stock annually
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

The politicians who are trying to
unite the Democrats of Platte county
on Latta have tough job on their
hands. LAtta's record while mem.
Der of the State Senate is too rank
even for . Platte county Democrat to
swallow.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

That plank in the Denver platform
declaring for publicity of campaign
contributions before election has
already been repudiated by the man
who dictated it. Mr.. Bryan has not
answered the question, "Where did
that $500, 900 come from the Demo
cratic committee is spending?'
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

With . candidate for governor
whose wealth is estimated in six fig
ures, . candidate for congress who is
said, by good Democrats, to be the
richest man in the Third district, why
should farmers and laboring men be
asked to donate a five or ten dollar
bill to the Bryan campaign fund? Let
the men who are after the offices pay
the bills,
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A WEAK CANDIDATE.

The day has passed in politics when
the "csack of the party whip" Is loud
enough to line up the voters for IN
Objectionable candidate. Political
ties rest lightly upon the voters. Even
in national politics one hears of Bryan
Republicans and Taft Democrats.
Republican papers are demanding that
candidates for congress pledge them
selves to vote against the reelection
of Cannon for Speaker, and other Re.
publican papers insist that the Speaker
is right in the course he has taken in
handling the most unruly body Of law
makers in the world. In Oklahoma
a faction Of tie Democratic party is
opposed to the reelection of Governor
Haskell on account of the scandal
connecting him with the Standard Oil
Company. In Texas the Democratic
party is divided into two factions
Baily and anti Baily Democrats. In
Wisconsin party lines were almost
obliterated the last time LaFollette
was . candidate for Governor, and had
it not been for Democratic votes he
would have been defeated at the polls.
More care is now taken by both
political parties in the selection Of
candidates. An Objectionable candi-
date causes dissatisfaction, and where
the vote is close he is liable to be
defeated.
Both parties have placed in nomi-
nation in Nebraska good men, with
one exception. The denomination by
the Republicans of Attorney General
Thompson does not add strength to the
ticket. He lacks force of character,
or inclination to perform the duties
connected with his Office. While the
Attorney Generals of Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma and Texas have
taken up the fight against the Lumber
Combine, the Attorney General Of
Nebraska has remained inactive.
Although the Supreme Court of the
State has reversed the decision of
Judge Post, referee in the Lumber
Combine cases, yet the fact cannot be
denied that the Attorney General has
remained conspicuously and persis-
tently inactive in the discharge of his
duty in prosecuting members of the
Combine.
Why, then, should the Republicans
of Nebraska vote to retain q man like
Thompson in . position Of trust and
responsibility?
Although the Journal is . Repub-
lican paper, it is not 80 intensely
republican as to be unreliable, or 80
bitterly partisan Is to advocate the
reelection Of q candidate whose past
record furnishes ground for the belief
that he-like the referee whose de.
cision was not sustained by the
Supreme Court of the State-enter-
tains, for some reason, not yet made
public, sympathy for the men COM
posing the Lumber Combine.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

Chairman Dickinson, assisted by
the other members of the county COM
mittee and all the privates in the
ranks, purpose to make a strenuous
campaign for Taft in Platte county,
and reduce the Democratic majority
possibly wiping it out entirely.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

The Democrats of Platte county are
standing nobly by the publicity plank
in the Denver platform. They have
published the names of the men who
contributed that $76.75 to the cam
paign fund.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

If the amendment to the constitu.
ton providing for an increase in the
members of the supreme court, receives
. majority at the election in Novem.
Der, it is hoped that the Governor, in
making appointments, will not be
governed by partisan consideration.
The time has come for non-partisan
judiciary.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

The following u taken from the
speech delivered by William Ran.
dolph Hearst 1t the notification of
John Temple Graves, Independence
party candidate for Vice President At
Atlanta, Georgia, last week. Hearst,
at . great sacrifice of business, sup
ported Bryan in 1896 and 1900, but
is bitterly opposed to him today, and
is supporting the candidates Of the
Independence party:
We fought and lost, and I was not
tired OF fighting; but apparently Mr..
Bryan was. I was fighting for pstrio-
tic cause, he was fighting for . personal
victory.
In 1904 he handed down his flag and
made . compact with Parker that he
would support Parker and Ill that Par
ker represented if in return Parker and
al that Parker represented would sup
port hum.
Do you doubt it? Can you doubt it?
Look ut his action in denouncipg
Parker before the convention.
Look at his action in supporting Park
or after the convention and practically
supporting him in the convention.
Look ct the twenty thousand dollars
which Mr.. Ryan, Mr.. Parker's sponsor,
contributed to Mr.. Bryan's Senatorial
campaign fund.
Look 1T Psrker's attitude now, and
Ryan's attitude now, and Rockfeller's
attitude now.
Look at the $500. 900 campaign fund
in one lump that Mack admits having
received. but forgets how be received.
Look 1T the kind OF trust-owned pa
pers that are supporting Bryan now and
the private cars that are rendered him
now, and the private cars that used to
snap at him and now fawn on him.
Look at this man Haskell, whom
Bryan made chairman Of bis committee
on platform and treasurer of his cam
paign fund.
This man Haskell, known and exposed
in court Is q political psymastsr of the
Standard Oil, is asked by Mr.. Bryan first
to make . platform the Standard Oil
will approve of and then to collect from
the Standard Oil the material expression
Of their approval.
Look at Bryan himself. Look at his
modified principles and altered attitude.
Look 1t his half gratified longing to be .
Lazarus at the dinner table OF the rich.
Look ct his pitiful pride in that humble
position and his chuckling crumbs that
are dropped him.
Look at his ever-changing effort to
please and his succession Of varying
sentiments until he finally finds q cot
that seems to satisfy the wise men Of
Wall street.
Mr.. Bryan, I say. has hauled down his
flag and surrendered; how could fol-
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

until q fund of 3 per cent was created.
Out of the fund, as created, the
losses to depositors in failed institu.
tions were to be paid, and when the
fund was reduced below the standard
8 per cent on the capital stock of all
the contributing banks, it was to be
made good by further assessments.
The bill provided further that the
bank safety fund should be the subject
If special supervision, and to this end
three banking commissioners were ap-
pointed with power to make regular
examinations at intervals of four
months and special examinations
whenever they saw fit. All told, the
measure was considered the acme Of
perfection, as indicated from this state
ment of the senate banking committee
in reporting the measure:
The committee fatters itself that
it has hit upon . measure that will
possess the valuable recommendations
of creating q complete and infallible
security to creditors and that will i'm.
part q solidarity to the currency and
to the bank paper Of the state not
equaled by any in the world"
But these bright hopes were not
realized. The first result of the bill
was . speculative craze for starting
new banks subject to its provisions,
which was made easier because the
stocks of such an institution found q
ready sale throughout this state and
elsewhere among investors who had
heard of the wonderful safety fund
scheme. Agencies were organized
throughout this country to promote
the sale of these securities, and incl.
ons" were cut for the political and
personal friends of individuals engag-
ed in the speculation.
Next came IN era Of contests for the
control of Institutions 90 established.
The commissioners appointed under
the safety fund law became alarmed
and remarked that the new incorpora-
ton exceeded the limits of reasonable
investment.
As early ~ 1882 the bad effects of
the scheme became felt. A large in
crease Of currency followed the estab-
lishment of the host Of safety fund
banks, which encouraged over-trading
and was considered one Of the causes
of the financial crisis of 1834-5.
In 1886 specie payments were sus-
pended and affairs speedily went from
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
THE FATE OF TWO PIONEERS.

THE FATE OF TWO PIONEERS.
The work Of building the Union Pacific
railway, which, with the Southern Paci-
dc. formed the first Pacific line. was
largely due to the efforts of Cakes and
and Oliver Ames. In commemoration
Of the Ames brothers and their service
to the road. the company in later years
decided to erect substantial monument
to their memory at Sherman, WyO.,
where the road went over the Medicine
Bow mountains, 1900 feet above sea
level, and at the time the highest point
on any railroad in the world. The mOnu-
ment was built with massive pedestal,
a. substantial, apparently, As the famed
Egyptian pyramids; it would stand long
ss q tribute to those pioneer railroad
builders. From the mere station it was
in the beginning, Sherman never grew
very much. and the monument remained
the chief attraction to travellers that way.
The town grew alittle. but slowly. But
great a. was the building OF the Union
Pacific. and the men who made it go"
the civil engineers employed made few
mistakes. And even after the road vac
in running order, mistakes continued, at
least one OF which concerned the AIMEE
monument. The government. more H.
beral then than now. gave the Union
Pacific each alternate section Of land for
twenty miles on either side Of 2OO-foot
right-of-wsy. On one Of these sections
it was supposed the Ames monument
vas erected, but it is related that an en-
terprising local surveyor made the dis
covery that the monument stood on
government land. Immediately follow
ing this discovery, . shopmaa named
Murphy made entry on the quarter
which held the monument. That was
erssping opportunity, all right, but the
Irishman failed to improve the opportun-
ity after it was in his grasp. He started
to, but weakened. He wrote immsdiat-
ely after seeing that his papers were re
gularly filed, to the Union Pacific head
quarters at Omaha, telling them to move
their old monument of his property, or
he would use it as q bill board. The
officials were Mortified, and Immediately
sent an expert civil engineer to the scene,
who accomplished nothing but to verify
the findings Of the local surveyor. Then
q claim agent was sent ont with instruc-
tons to buy out Murphy's nights to the
land. even II it cost several thousand
dollars. Here was where Murphy per
mitted opportunity to slip away, and 90
eallOping over the prairie; he allowed
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

bad to worse until 1871, when ten out
of ninety safety fund banks failed and
revealed the fact that the fund accu.
mulated was VIGOROUSLY insufficient to
pay the debts of the suspended banks.
The law was repealed the following
year, and it was not for fifteen years
afterward that the situation was
Strengthened out.-Lincoln Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

Platte county Republicans are lin
ing up to cast their solid vote for Taft
and Sherman. And the revolt among
the German Democrats indicate that
the Republicans will have enthusiastic
allies in the contest.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23
HOT SHOT FROM HEARST.
Bryan the Human Ostrich-Swallows His Own
Words-The Rag Picker of Politics.
A Political Shoplifter-The Fearless Prestidigi-
tator Of Modern Politics.

low him into the camp Of tho enemy?
How could I who. at least, he'd fought
desperately and dsvotsdly. become .
political merosnary fighting on this side
and then on the other without principle
and for . price?
When in all OF Mr.. Bfyan's vacillsting
course with it, ignomtnious conclusions
could find IN inspiration for further
devotion or IN opportunity for honor
able spprovsls
Where could I find the stability of
statesmanship, and consistency Of con-
scienti0us convictions the heroism born
Of high ideals and patriotic purposes?
I have come TO regard Mr.. Bryan - =
trickstsr, trimmer, traitor.
Do You think that Mr.. Bryan il .
statesman advocating permanent poll
cies based on eternal truth and justice.
l say he is . very ragpicker Of politics
who, with bis little forlked stick of self.
interest, picks up this policy here and
that policy there, without regard to their
source or their use or their ultimate dis
position, without regard to their fitness
or even their cleanliness, and slsps them
into the basket on his back he calls his
platform.
He is political shoplifter, who takes
feloniously and surreptitiously the poll
cies that belong to others and then rush
es franticslly forth shouting stop thief
after some unconscious wsyfarer who
has not stolen anything.
I said in Indiana that Mr.. Bryan was
the fearless prestidigitator of modern
policies, who makes his principles dis
appear and changes his policies in full
view OF the audience; . Snowman at q
county fair executing . shell game with
bis political opinions.
But Mr.. Bryan 10 more than . show
mamie is the whole show.
He is the astonishing ventriloquist
who throws one voice here and another
voice there, and oil the time is sitting in
. different place With . different natural
voice and different national character.
He has no mustache With which to de-
oeive, but he deceivss you nevertheless.
He is the marvellous contortionist who
bends forward and backward with equal
convenience and walks upon bis feet Or
upon his hands with equal facility.
He is the astonishing juggler who
keeps the whole Of the surprising oollec-
ton Of conflicting principles in the air at
tho same time. but balances Belmont,
the union labor breaker, in ono hand and
Gompers, the union labor leader, in the
other.
He 10 the human ostrich who swsllovs
his own words in regard to bosses and
who IL able to retain upon his stomach
even the Taggarts and the Rogers Sulli-
vans Of politics.
He 10 tho world.renowed loose skinned
man Vho can reverse himself in his own
integumeut 90 that you cannot tell
whether he is coming or going.
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happen if they fail to elect him Pres
ident. The issues of 1896, and 1900
have been temporarily shelved or
entirely repudiated, and new theories
advanced in the attempt to gain favor
for the discredited prophet of 1896
and 1900.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-23

On q silver basis the Democratic
National Committee received in one
lump $65O,OOO to be used in electing
Mr.. Bryan to the Presidency.