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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
State Auditor Barton.

Fremont Tribune: The renomina-
ton of Silas r. Barton for state aud
itor was uncontested on the republi-
can ticket. 1t is not strange that this
was So for the very good reason that
during the past two years Mr.. Barton
has filled that important public place
to the eminent satisfaction of all the
people.
Auditor Barton went into Office well
equipped for the performance of the
duties he had to perform. Service
there has demonstrated his purpose
to correct insurance evils that have
crept in until they threatened the in
tegrity of the vast interests involved.
He has shown judicial temperament
in treating the assessment of com
mon carriers and a clear knowledge
of their affairs and deserts. On all
the boards of which he is a member
he has acted with discernment and
wisdom. He has been a faithful
servant and thousands of his friends
over the state will give enthusiastic
assistance in his election.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

That the man McMurray who has
figured so largely in the Indian greed
investigation down in Oklahoma, has
certainly been doing fairly well out
of his job. AS an attorney for the
Indians he has had several contracts,
among these was a yearly income of
$4,000; a contract for special SER
vices at a fee of $4,000; yearly ex-
pense account given him running up
into the thousands; $4,000 allowed
him by law firm as contingent fee,
and in addition to all these contracts
which are now in question, he seeks
to obtain 10 percent fee amounting
to 100000 on the sale of $30,0OO0 900
worth of asphalt and coal lands. Mr..
McMurray bears eloquent testimony to
the fact that all the Napoleons of fl
nance are not located in Wall street.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

The Rev. DR.. c. G. Morgan, the
Presbyterian minister from England,
who refuses to speak on the same plat
form with President Taft at the Wi.
mona, Ind, chautauqua, because Mr..
Taft is a Unitarian, must imagine that
he is living in the Seventeenth CEN
fury. Any effort to turn back the
clock of time in this land of largest
civil and religious liberty will receive
nothing but the ridicue it deserves.
DR.. Morgan needs to put vinegar in
his eyes and wake up to SPLENDID
christian brotherhood of the Twentieth
century in which he lives. While Mr..
Taft's religious views may differ some
what from DR.. Morgan's, the English
divine should understand that the
president of the United States is
broad enough in his sympathies and
fair enough in his judgment to have
borne most eloquent testimony, time
and time again, to the great work that
is being done by the evangelical mis-
sionaries in the orient-and no man
knows what is being done in the far
east and who is doing it, in the inter-
est of civilization, better than Presi-
dent Taft.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Thus far the population Of two
states, Rhode Island and Oklahoma,
have been counted showing a remark
able growth in each state. The state
ment is made that not so much is ex-
pected of Iowa, as this state has lost
heavily to other western states and to
Canada. Portions of Minnesota, Wis
consin and Illinois have suffered from
a like cause. The high price of farm
lands and the tendency of well-to-do
people towards small families are the
two principal reasons for this falling
away. OF all the southern states, Tex.
as will make the best showing, but
Georgia will also manifest a credit
able growth as will also the two Caro-,
linas. The south will continue to be
the most American section in that
it will show the presence of fewer
immigrants from abroad than any 9th.
er portion of the union.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Dr. Wilmer himseT prominent
southerner, writes in southern pub
LEGATION, criticising the people of the
south for their attitude toward the
negro and declaring that they think
with their prejudices instead of their
brains on this question. He goes far.
Their and acknowledges that under
meath much of the talk about the in
feriority OF the negro lies an ill.con.
cealed fear OF a greater capacity than
we have been allowing him, and a
fear that he will make good beyond
our expectation or desire" This is
a most significant admission to come
from such source.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Men who are close to the president
say that he is intensely concerned
about placing the government upon a
more economical basis and will make
this one of the special cares of his
administration. A prominent bust
ness man of international reputation
is authority for the statement that
the president is convinced that %
percent of the annual appropriations
represent extravaganza and waste.
This means that the people are pay
ing S250000,000 in taxes that could
be eliminated if unnecessary appro-
priations were cut out. For this state
of affairs both of the great political
parties are to blame. Neither can at
tack the other in fairness and have
clean hands themselves. The truth
is that extravaganza has become a ma
tional habit and in public as in private
life we have been reckless in expendi-
ture, II is easy to spend money when
1t is easy to get, The country has
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
Why Not Smoke EN-?

Beemer Times: Now whose bust
ness is it if Mrs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
does smoke cigarets. The only an.
swer to that question is get about
500 of those popular eastern ladies to
doing the same thing and the very
bunch who are now bowling about
whose business it is, would be the
first to make it their business, to stop
it. 1t is a wonder to us that all the
young ladies in Beemer haven't be.
gun the use of the cigarets simply
because it is new fad. Come right
down to brass tacks why shouldn't a
girl be allowed to smoke them or any
other kind of a weed if she wants to.
There is no law in this state prevent
ing the lady from going up to the bar
and getting her glass. How does it
come she had this privilege so long
and yet not made use of it? The
ladies have perfect right in any sa-
loon in this country and should be
given the same respect she is given
in any other public place of business.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
Ashamed of Omaha.

Anoka News: There is perhaps nc
place on earth so immoral and lawless
as Omaha. In its bold lewdness ii
stands without peer in America, and
beggars description in permissible
language. a public reference to its
loathsomeness is only eXcusable be-
cause of the shocking political tobog.
gan slide from Bryan to Dahlman in
this great commonwealth state
noted for its sobriety, decency and
intelligence, having less illiteracy than
any state in the union. Omaha has
made itself conspicuous and obnoxious
in political circles and has gained at
least temporary advantage. 1t must
either be endorsed and the virus
spread or repudiated at the ballot box
this fall. A vote for Dahlman is a
vote for Omaha and what it means
and a vote for Aldrich is a vote for
Nebraska and what it does and should
stand for.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

premium is placed upon immodesty
and upon personal office.chasing by
the primary It's anybody who has
the nerve to file his candidacy and
ask for votes. Under the convention
system, on the other hand, the dele
gates representing the people-and
the delegates are. for the most part,
honestly and wholesomely representa-.
tive, after all-very frequently bring
cut the men best fitted for positions
to be filled, without the self.imposi.
ton of these candidates., and very
frequently force men to make the
race, because to the conventions those
men seem best qualified to represent
the party involved.
The convention, again, will engage
in the most heated of controversies,
and in nine cases out of ten the boss
es will be defeated. Mr.. Bryan's de-
feat at Grand Island was merely an
instance of boss being repudiated.
And there's one other point. Under
the primary there is no body of repre-
sentative citizens to stand sponsor for
any candidates offered. Under the old
system, the entire convention. com
posed of representative citizens, stood
sponsor for the men it named. To-
day any sort of an individual may be
nominated for governor in Nebraska,
just because he has nerve to push his
name in, and there's not a soul to
stand responsible TO the people for
the candidate.
Verify, the primary is not the dream
of perfection that the State Journal
used to make us think it would be-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
THE PRIMARY AND THE BOSS.

The State Journal is afraid that
the primary law will be repealed by
The Nebraska people. That papes ID
afraid that Nebraska citizens, disgust
ed by the impracticability of the bun
glesome law that has been thrust
upon them, will rise up and wipe the
measure off the statute book. 1t is
afraid because it sees visions of boss
es getting into power through the old
convention system.
The theory that bosses are shorn
of power by the primary is the best
Joke yet. Could anybody view the
result of the democratic state primary,
nominating Dahlman upon his freak
platform, without concluding that
done in that candidates behalf? Can
anybody note the small percentage of
voters who attended the primary,
without inevitably concluding that a
chain of bosses, one in each precinct
in the state, could have controlled the
result of that primary to a fine de-
gree? But percent of the voters of
Norfolk outside precinct went to the
primaries. A man with an automobile
could have got enough friends out to
have nullified that percent. And SO
it would go all over the state.
The cities have the balance of pow
er in the primary. Gangs of voters
herded by the ward bosses can run up
majorities that the farmers, staying
at home, can't cope with.
The primary is a law that plays
into the hands of the bosses.
And there are other features of the
primary which are meeting with dis
approval. We are not going to discuss
the expense.
For example, the primary law in
stead of serving to bring out the best
the community has to offer for public
office, tends by its very nature to keep
the best man back, and to boost less
capable citizens oftentimes into oh,e.
The man of high calibre, the man
whom you would choose to run your
state, is a man of fine sensibiltes
and one of modesty. He is not a man
who goes out hunting political office.
But that mantle man whom the
office would seek out, under the old
convention system, for his worthiness
to fill it, is left at home under the
primary, tending to his own business
1t is the man of brass. the self-seeker
and the professional Office hunter who
thrives under the primary system. A
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
The Rules of the Game.

Omaha Bee: Il make no charge of
fraud against anyone and am only ask
ing to have recount of enough of
the ballots to satisfy the thousands
of loyal democrats who now feel dis
appointment, because of fear OF my
defeat, that if | shall finally be counted
a loser | will have at least been fairly
whipped under the rules of the game
as laid down by the laws of the state"
Governor Shallenberger.
When man takes a hand at the
gentleman's game he is supposed to
pay up, if he loses, just as cheerfully
as he would expect his opponent to
liquidate if he, himself, had the win.
ming cards. But there are certain
rules of the game which are designed
to make sure that the play is on the
square. 1t is not permissible, for eX-
ample, to carry a fifth ace up the
sleeve. 1t is not polite to hold the
cards below the table where the other
player cannot see them all the time.
The discovery of marked cards would
also justify declaring all bets off.
The game of politics, of course, has
its own rules developed by the exigen.
cies of the case, but they are supposed
to be grounded on the same code of
sportsmanlike morals which govern
other gentlemen's games. So in the
game of politics it is not credited fair
TO vote the same man more than once,
nor to vote under some one else's
name, nor to vote on faked-up free
holders certificates. Such vicious and
unsportsmanlike practices have been
occasionally INDUCED, but they do not
show on the count because the play
ers are skillful in marking the ballots
correctly and fairly accurate in the
tally.
In other words, recount offers a
defeated candidate and his friends
about the same assurance that he has
been fairly whipped under the rules
OF the game as would an inventory of
the chips after the table has been up
set.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
NORFOLK WEEKLY NEws,ouRNAl FRIDAY SEPTEMBER

been prosperous and not only have
our needs cost more but our wants
have immeasurably increased. Presi-
dent Taft will do great and com
mendable work If he succeeds in cut.
ting down the national expenditures
without impairing the efficiency of the
departments. Besides it will have a
healthy effect upon the habits of the
people If the government leads the
way in living more thrifty and econ
omically.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
TAFT'S PLEA TO PARTY.

The plea of President Taft to the re.
get their differences and unite in a
solid front in support of the princi.
pies for which republicanism stands,
and in support of a continuation of
progressive legislation and redemp.
ton of the party platform OF 1908, is
a document that should be given heed
by every citizen Of this country who
has the welfare of the nation at heart
The Taft administration is only half
finished. If the pledges made by the
republican platform of 1908 are to
be carried out in full as the people
wanted them to be carried out when
they elected Taft, then the president
must be given a congress that will
work with him toward the redemp.
ton Of those pledges, and not one that
will block the desired legislation and
even overthrow the protective princi-
pie that the republican party stands
for and restore the free trade of the
Cleveland day.
The administration has given a
downward revision of the tariff and
has provided a tariff board that will
still further outline reductions in the
schedules that need pruning. And
IL the people want downward revision,
hn IN xxyli 81, hnx mt
it is to elect a republican congress
that will work with the administra
ton. The election of a democratic
house would either mean the over
throwing Of the protective principle
or blocking all legislation with a re-
suit of nothing done, whatsoever.
President Taft points to the cor
poration tax, the improvement of the
interstate commerce bill so as to give
the government greater supervision,
the postal bank savings bill (Which
Democratic Congressman Latta of the
Third Nebraska district tried to de-
feat, the conservation measure, the
statehood bill and any number of
other important measures. The re-
cord is the greatest that has been
known for so short time, under any
president in our history.
On top of that, Taft's administra-
ton is saving millions of dollars in
the expenses of the government, by
introducing new, economical methods.
If there had been a democratic con-
gress, none of the above program of
legislation, demanded by the people,
would have passed. The action of
Latta in opposing the postal bank
bill shows how the democrats would
have tried to block every measure
that came up.
Common business judgment would
seem to dictate, therefore, that the
achievement in the next congress de-
ponds upon its being republican.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
Home Course
In Domestic
Science
Xlll.-Washing Day
Made Easy.
BY EDITH G. CHARLTON.
In Charge Of Domestic Economy. low,
State College.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

"DLUE Monday" might lose some
of its terror for the average
~ family If the weekly washing
were changed to some other
day. Steam ladened rooms. odor Of
boiling suds. an untidy house from
kitchen TO attic and pickup" meals
all day, combined with the accumula-
ton OF duties and cares since Satur-
day. make Monday a disagreeable day
for every one. Whoever established
the custom of setting Monday aside
for a wash day" made life just lit
tie harder than necessary In scores OF
homes. And yet so firmly established
has the custom become that 1t takes
genuine courage to break away from
1t and wash on Tuesday instead.
When you think about 1t, how much
more suitable Tuesday is for the work
than Monday, which, following u day
of rest, finds the whole house more or
less disarranged.
1t is rarely possible and sometimes
quite unwise to attempt to outline any
housekeeper's work for her One must
know conditions and be familiar with
the life Of the family before being
really competent to arrange the rou-
tine Of domestic affairs. But for the
benefit Of the woman who has every
thing to do for her family and who
perhaps is not wholly satisfied with
her present plan let me present this
program for at least Monday and
Tuesday:
Monday.-Put the house in order.
Plan the meals for Tuesday and do
extra baking for that day. Get the
laundry ready for washing. That
means look over the soiled clothing
and do the necessary mending. Tears
and broken seams increase in wash
ing. Take out stains. 1t is much cas-
Ter to do this before washing than
after. and there is more time the day
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

No one who has studied the ques-
tion desires to see the ranking privi-
lege abolished. 1t is right and proper
that congressman should be able to
conduct official correspondence and
send out public documents of real
value without paying postage thereon
But when a congressman sends COW
or a piano by mail or transports his
household goods at government ex
pense il is time to call halt.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

before than when the washing is in
tubs and other things are ready for an
early start; also be sure that soap,
bluing and other supplies are on hand.
Tuesday.-The special work for this
day will be the washing. but it should
not be carried on to the complete dis
arrangement Of the family life. Good.
substantial meals should be served
promptly. as on other days. and the
wife and mother should not be so en-
shaved by the washtub and wringer
that she has no thought or attention
for husband and children. There is no
reason why she should be If the wash
ing has not beyond all reason piled up
her work so that it requires almost
superhuman effort to accomplish It.
While preparing breakfast the laundry
fire may be started and the water
heated. After breakfast and after the
dining table has been cleared the
washing can be commenced. and If it
Is performed in an intelligent way
from start TO finish it ought not to in
terfere to any great extent with the
ordinary comforts OF the day. The
clothes were sorted and some Of them
put to soak the day before That
means long stride toward an early
completion.
The Order Of the Wash.
One reason why there are so many
indifferent laundresses and so much
inferior laundry work is because little
or no attention has been given to diff
ference in fabrics. Cotton. linen. silk
and wool are practically treated in
the same way. The same kind of soap
Is used for all. They are washed in
water OF the same temperature. Some
times they are washed in the same
water. They are given the same
amount of rubbing and equally indif-
ferent rinsing.
In sorting the clothes arrange them
IN five piles as follows:
Table linen and fine muslins.
Bed linen. towels and handkerchiefs
previously soaked In ammonia and
water If used for cold
Flannels.
Colored cottons and stockings.
Soiled towels and cloths.
No one questions that soaking the
clothes loosens the dirt and makes the
washing easier, but only white clothes
or fast colors can be treated in this
way, and II is not well to soak all
kinds Of white clothes in one tub. AIT.
er soaking In cold water to which a
good naphtha soap or washing pow.
der has been added lit8e or no rubbing
VIII be necessary before putting the
clothes in the boiler. Kerosene used
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
Holt Republican by 500?

O'Neill Frontier: The nomination
of Dahlman is such bitter dose to
some O'Neill democrats that they re.
fuse to accept him and swear by the
shades of democracy's departed glory
that they will never vote for him. One
democrat is so bitter in his denuncia.
ton that he says Aldrich will carry
Holt county by at least 500 majority.
OF course republicans have always be-
lieved that the republican ticket
would carry the county by good
safe majority, but hardly looked for
the election to be made so unanimous.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

walked and that William M Evarts,
the New York lawyer, boosted he
never took exercise when he could
help It, and yet lived to be SO years
old He also points with pride to the
late Chief Justice Fuller who never
took any regular kind Of outdoor recre.
alton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Indian lawyers are the men who
have the corporation lawyers beaten
by three blocks when it comes to get.
ting the cash for services not rem
0ered.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Detroit, Mich, hasn't been making
boasts but the census figures give it
nearly half a million population. The
new industry of auto building has
pushed the Michigan city to it's pres
ent place. 1t manufactures more tour
ing cars than any other place in the
world
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

The standpipe seems to have about
as hard a time to keep filled now as
it did earlier in the season before the
city took back the pumping game
Apparently there was some truth in
what Bullock said about more water
being used.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Connecticut had slight earthquake
the other day. New York is due to
have one about the time the republi-
can state convention is held, if Roose-
welt attends.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Senator Aldrich is to retire from po-
litical life, but is making plans to en-.
joy his old age with his friends. He
is to build home in Warwick R. l.,
which will be of the "old.fashioned
country home type" 1t will be three
stories high, about 300 feet long, and
will cost 100000.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Pittsburg is disappointed over the
result of the census. 1t hasn't the
number of people it supposed it had,
The trouble is, says the Minneapolis
Journal, it has too large a sprinkling
OF people who don't count for much.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Mr.. Bryan will make no cam
paign speeches in Missouri this year
and the democrats are more hopeful
of results. In his three battles in that
state it changed from a $4,000 Bryan
majority TO a majority for Taft.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Postmaster General Hitchcock says
that $2,9,OO,OOO was saved in his de-
partment through the economies in
augurated by the present administra-
ton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

Judging from the efforts the Mis-
souri, democrats are making to dis
credit Governor Hadley's administra-
ton, he must be making very good
record.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

All the trunk telephone lines be-
tween New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Washington and other eastern
cities are to be placed underground.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

The mayor of Ottumwa, Ia, was
found guilty of permitting gambling
joints to run and of imbibing too free
ly of the flowing bowl" He was
dismissed from office.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02

OF course, they feel for the dear old
corn, but there's one class of people
who wouldn't have cried their eyes
out if it had frosted. They're the hay
fever squad. They're crying their
eyes out, in fact, because it hasn't
frosted.