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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Bryan and Nebraska.

Chicago Record-Herald: The Pass.
ing of Bryan" is an old theme, so
very old that it can hardly be han
died with confidence now in spite of
the new interest that has been given
it by the Nebraska convention. Much
depends, of course, upon the outcome
of the campaign in the state. If the
republicans win with. county option
Bryan may claim that the democrats
made a fatal error in scorning his ad-
vice and refusing to indorse county
option. Upon the political value of
the local issue outsiders should be
slow to pronounce judgment.
But Bryan seems to have lost much
of his power as a party director in
Nebraska, and there can be no doubt
that this will please large numbers
of democrats in other parts of the
country. For with all his personal
popularity and strength he has lost
prestige through his defeats, and there
is an eager desire to be rid of his
leadership. Such being the condition
the most will be made of the Nebras-
ka rebuke, which is encouraging to
the larger revolt. But there may be
several chapters left Of that old story,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Heart Stories On Farm.


Dustin, Neb., July 29.-Editor News
In the Bonesteel drawing a few years
ago, a Rock county woman drew a
farm near a new and thriving town
Her husband had died a few months
before and left her four children and
a mortgaged farm. She was in deli
cate health. When the fifth baby came
her health was entirely shattered. She
got an extension of time from the
land office and in the meantime plan.
ned TO move onto the land and hold
it as soon as she was able. All her
relatives, there was large and pros.
porous family, called her insane for
even thinking of going up into a wild
and unsettled country, an invalid, with
five children, to undertake the hard.
ships of pioneer living on the reser.
walton. They advised her to sell her
claim, pay the mortgage on her land,
move to town and educate her chill.
dren. She refused, though she was
too weak to assist her oldest son, IL
years old, with the housework at
will only be few years until I'll have
help in plenty" she said. George is
old enough now to plant garden and
enough corn to take care of COW
and some hogs and chickens. Jennie
can manage to get the meals and wash
the dishes. ! am at least able to plan,
If l can't do much. / will never have
this chance again for myself and my
children. All the government land
will soon be taken, if / give this up,
1t will mean to go to town and buy
a dashboard. Am / not as able to
live on the claim as to wash?" But
what if you move up there and don't
live?" they asked. There will be a
protection for my children" she said,
land what would become of them if
we moved to town and did not live?"
In six months she was offered 81 900
for her right. She refused it saying.
IF the right is worth that much what
will the decided land be worth when
1t is improved and cultivated" Her
relatives set up a howl for her to take
the thousand dollars and go to some
sanitarium and be cured. mo, the
doctors will get the money in six
months" she said "and | and my
children will be out the money and
the land-and perhaps the children
a mother" She was only able to walk
about and take the crudest care of her
baby and manage the children, but she
began to get a covered wagon ready
to take her and the family to the
Rosebud, Some of her relatives talk
ed of restraining her on the ground
that she had lost her mind through
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
RrYan,s Bier.

Chicago Evening Post: And thou,
Nebraska The Peerless Leader, whom
the constituencies paragrapher al
ready has made the Beerless Leader.
fell from his estate yesterday in the
convention at Grand Island and there
were only pitiful 1873 delegates to
do him reverence.
The silver speech that was wont
to set conventions on a roar moved
only to silence. What's the matter
with Nebraska; or, If better, what's
the matter with Bryan? He has been
ceaseless in striving for Office and in
striving to please. Must Lincoln needs
ask Oyster Bay if the strenuous life
can be overdone?
Champ Clark and Henry T. Rainey
Will keep the ancient faith. but what
aVails it with the home state faith
less? And on such a little matter. a
mere difference of town option and
county option. He who stood to fight
again after free silver, free trade and
government ownership, to meet de.
feat on an issue hardly worthy an
exchange of shots on a skirmish line
On license issue the delegates
took liberties with one whose demo.
cratic word has been law. County
option! Was there a delegate pres.
ent depraved and fippant enough to
quote the old couplet:
All, County Guy, the hour is nigh.
The sun has left the lea.
Harmon and Gaynor and Marshall,
In the face of mornings news of
cheer cannot one of you let fall a tear
on Bryan's bier?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
THE Passing of Bryan" And they
may be painfully exciting to divers
, democratic politicians.
Bryan's Predicamert.

Sioux City Journal: The situation
/ in Nebraska is peculiar in that the
state convention were held before the
primaries at which candidates are to
be nominated. Bryan's county option
proposition was showed under in the
democratic convention, so far as the
platform is concerned, committing the
democratic party against that policy.
But democratic candidates who favor
county option remain in the primary
running. There is a county option
candidate for governor as we'll as for
United States senator. More direct
~ to the point, there will be legisla-
tive candidates in both parties who
favor county option. Although the
state convention is supposed to be the
supreme court of party law, the pri-
mary gives Bryan chance to appeal
TO the popular vote. He can still use
his influence in favor of democratic
primary candidates who favor county
option, and this he is going to do. In
way this will be boiling the plat
form, but Bryan has a chance to argue
that the rank and file also may bolt
the platform by nominating candidates
that take the Bryan view of the option
issue.
The same situation with reference
to county option exists In rhe republi-
can party. The party supreme court
has declared for county option, but
there are candidates already in the
running who are on record as opposed
to the party attitude on this issue. II
is good guess that the republican
legislative candidates from the Omaha
districts will be opposed to county OBJ
ton, platform to the contrary notwith-
standing.
In this mixed and anomalous situa-
ton Bryan feels free to offer advice
as a moral reformer rather than a
party man. He advises democrats TO
nominate county option democrats for
the legislature. He advises republi-
cans to nominate county option repub-
licans for the legislature In fact he
urges that all parties shall have coun-
ty option candidates in each district.
The opportunity for an out and ont
bolt on the part of Bryan will not
come until after the nominations have
been made by the primaries. II a pro
option republican should be nominated
against an anti-option democrat Bry-
an might advise the election of the re-
publican instead of the democrat.
That would be the bolt direct. II is
unlikely Bryan will make it. After
the primary he may turn his attention
TO national issues and let the local is.
sue work out itself, Or he may con.
tinue his indirect bolt by arguing for
county option, with the platform and
most of the democratic candidates
committed against 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Nebraska Democrats.

Sioux City Tribune: The much ad.
vertised Grand Island convention hav.
| ing come and gone, we may now
measure it with some degree of ac-
| curacy as to what it was, what 1t did
and what results are to be expected
| from it.
From first to last it was fight over
the liquor question. 1t was on the
one hand an attack and on the other
hand a defense of the saloon system.
Mr.. Bryan's bold attitude taken many
months ago against right of the brew
ers to dictate the party politics, to
use the party in defense of their bust
ness. forced the convention into the
attitude of a jury before which the
saloon system was on trial.
The great jury of nearly a thousand
men were to decide whether the demo-
cratic party in Nebraska should put
itself in the attitude of defending the
brewers or whether it should leave
them open to the attack of whatever
proportion of the people are wanting
to vote them out of the towns and
villages. Declaring vehemently with
every breath that the liquor question
ton itself, in every thing it did from
start to finish, proved that there was
no other issue there except the one
question, the right of the farmers to
vote the saloon business up or down.
Every shrewd move made in the ar
rangement of the unfair anti-Bryan
program, every struggle against tho
unfair program, every speech and
every motion pro or con was in effect
either an attack or a defense of the
brewers.
They can't put you in Jail for that
offense," said the lawyer to the man
behind the bars. But l am in JAIL"
answered the prisoner. And so it was
at Grand Island. The liquor question
was there overshadowing every other
issue and every man of the several
thousands gathered in and around the
big tent knew it and felt The tremend.
Gus force of It.
1t was not only the boldest and most
powerful convention ever assembled
III -NNpiuShu' puI was
cruel in its treatment of Mr.. Bryan. 1t
had the right to vote him down, which
it did. 1t had the right to choose its
attitude either for or against county
option. 1t was its bushes to reject
Mr.. Bryan's advice and to turn from
his leadership to that of Hitchcock or
Baldwin or Shallenberger, if it wanted
to, but it had not right to tolerate the
bitter personal assault made by some
of the speakers on Mr.. Bryan. In
Furnishing him 1t helped to make per-
manent the bitterness that now splits
the party and threatens its defeat.
Bad feeling between the factions is
more irreconcilable and more perma-
nently fixed since the convention than
before. Conventions ought to heal
old wounds. But this Grand Island
convention made opportunity for bit
ter debate and hard words that will
not be soon forgotten.
1t seems as If Mr.. Bryan's attack on
the brewers should have been answer.
ed by the defense of the brewers if
any defense or answer was necessary. |
But to answer his attack on the brew
ers, by attacking him personally and |
holding him up to the scorn and ridi-
cule Of the party and the public must
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Platform Reform.

Lincoln journal: Reform OF the
political platform Is well nigh as great
n need as the political platform OF re-
form II is the prime qualification of a
politician that he be able to feel and
fall in with the tendencies of the
times. But in the matter OF platforms
the politicians unanimously fail.
The times tend to brevity. The
three decker novel has shrunk to the
300 pager, thence to the novelette,
thence to the short story. A literary
product for public consumption were
better unwritten than lengthy. Mag.
nzines are beginning to pay contribu.
tors in proportion to brevity, rather
than length. Multum in parvo is be.
come n passion-everywhere but in
party platforms.
There the contrary rules. You can't
find the pound of good meat in the
Nebraska republican platform except
by wading through the ton OF verbage
In which 1t is packed. The democrats
did almost as badly-beng better by
only a "stickful."
Must il be so? We can all remem.
Der cases where it was highly desir.
able from party standpoint. that the
platforms be unread. Length served
n specific If not holy purpose then
But now such intent does not exist
Platforms are meant to be read, but
who has the time and fortitude to read
them!
The Nebraska populist platform is
in one important respect the best of
all. 1t is only quarter column long
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
TiIden Beats Newman Grove.

Tilden, Neb., Aug. 1.-Tilden won a
one-sided game from Newman Grove.
batting Prevo out of the box in the
fourth inning. This was the rub
game, Tilden taking the first game,
score Hip, Newman Grove winning
the second game, score 2-5.
Score by innings:
Tilden ........2 0 8 0 l l 0 8 *-15
Newman Grove.1 0 0 0 0 0 L 5
Batteries; Newman Grove, Prevo,
Nunely and Mckay; Tilden, Kingdom
and Stewart. Struck out: BY Prevo,
l; by Nunely 8; by Kingdom, 5. Bases
on balls: Prevo, /; Nunely, 2. Home
run: Ryan. Umpire, C. F. Smith.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

form emission as conclusive on him,
and outline a program irrespective
OF partisan politics.
The significant feature OF the re-
publican gathering is its decisive vote
OF approval and confidence in Presi.
dent Taft and the work of congress
along the line of his recommends.
tions This test vote of more than
two to one developed I'm the very be.
ginning by the selection OF perma.
nent chairman, and was reinforced by
the platform recitation of the benef.
cent and wholesome government en-.
joyed by the nation under republican
rule, and is not in any way deprecated
by the tail.end motion offered by Con.
gresham Norris, after two-thirds of
the delegates had left, approving his
own conduct in combating Cannonism
in the house.
The republican convention has also
endorsed the demand for county OPP
ton which had been registered in the
form of instructions on nearly one.half
of the delegates, and has gone one
stel further in recommending the
submission of constitutional amend.
ment for the initiative and referendum
although this subject was not an is
sue generally in the local caucuses
and conventions. The practical effect
of the republican declaration on these
two subjects is to make the republican
organization an auxiliary to the coun-
ty option league and the direct legis-
lation league. These questions will
have to be settled. however, by the
oters in the respective legislative dis.
tricts.
Ii is hard to take the populist plat.
form-makers seriously knowing all the
conditions that have left but shad.
ow of that former party and that rem
nant dominated completely by Bryan
democrats in masquerade. The popu-
lists have announced that they will
support no candidates not committed
to county option. If the populists
meant what they said they would this
year join with the republicans, but
they will not practice what they are
preaching. The populist organization
is nothing but a fake maintained by
the democrats to fool few voters into
accepting the democratic ticket false
ly labeled.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Will Bryan Heed Watterson?


Omaha Bee: That is a spectacular
appeal Colonel Watterson makes to
Mr.. Bryan to sink his personality and
let the democratic party follow lead
ers who have records of victory in.
stead of defeats. 1t will be interest
ing to sea what effect it has upon the
deposed leader. From a democrats
standpoint it is a sane and reason.
able plea, for who more than Mr..
Bryan has urged the force of MAORI.
ty rule?
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan as the demo-
cratic party's nominee for the presi-
dency was bolted by a large number
ed this ultimatum:
The man who leaves the demo-
cratic party today must understand
that if he comes back he must come
back in sackcloth and ashes. Not only
that, but he must bring forth works
meet for repentance"
Mr.. Bryan was young man and
new leader to lay down such a Sc
we're condition of surrender Colonel
Watterson was one of the old guard
who bolted Mr.. Bryan and laid him
self under the painful necessity of
knocking his head on the floor to the
Peerless Leader before he could re-
gain admittance to the party he had
served before Mr. Bryan's day of ser.
vice. 1t matters no more now than it
did then to republicans whether the
eTring brothers come back or not, but
it will be interesting to see if Mr.
Bryan heeds the invitation of Colonel
Watterson to take a back seat.
Colonel Watterson puts it very
mildly when he says that Party lead.
ers, no less than military leaders,
must at least once in awhile win
battle" He doubtless in saying this
makes mental contrast between
Bryan and Harmon, who Bryan is try.
ing to read out of the party because
he was one of the Cleveland cabinet
and was noticeably absent from the 16
to l army in 1896
With all the singing rebuke his
partisans and neighbors have admin.
istered to Mr.. Bryan in Ohio and in
Nebraska, 1t is no more severe than
some excavations he has given to
older party leaders. For a man who
has never made good on a single pal.
amount issue which he has saddled
upon his party he has Jared very well.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
The Platform Conventions.

Omaha Bee: The platform conven-
tions of the various political parties
held under the provisions of the Ne
braska primary law have done their
work according to plans and specifi.
cations foreshadowed by the various
county conventions that selected the
delegates.
On the democratic side, the effort
OF MIR, Bryan 10 force a declaration in
favor of county option failed ignomin.
iously, and for the first time since
his leadership was established the
democrats of his own home state have
refused to follow him. What Mr.. Bry-
an is to do will be disclosed shortly
in an official statement from him, In
which he will decline to take the plat.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
TIE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJolRNAl FRIDAY AUGUST 5 1910

sickness and trouble. Her body was
weak, but there was no sign of mental
decay, except her obstinate persist.
ence to move onto her claim. One of
her brothers, won over by her pluck
and persistence, went up to the res.
ervation with her and found she had
drawn a great prize in the government
lottery. The land was level as n floor
and would grow anything planted, as
the soil was of the best quality. II
was within mile of town. He put
her up a tworoomed house and a
barn, fenced patch of land and put
in some corn. wheat and garden for
her. With the help of the children,
she got along the first year and made
a good living The second year. she
was still in poor health. but hired a
man to farm the place at so much per
month. She sent the children to
school, cleared several hundred dol.
lars and paid the mortgage off on her
husbands estate. The next year she
was sent east to a hospital and for
months her life was despaired of. but
she held on, always saying, at is cas-.
Ter for sick woman to manage a
farm than a washboard."
Today she is in moderate health
owns $4,000 farm on the Rosebud
and has a family of children growing
into useful citizens, credit to their
mothers industry and heroism.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Hoskins 62, Norfolk 18.

The Hoskins sluggers had the time
of their lives Sunday afternoon when
they defeated a pickup team from
Norfolk by the enormous score CT 60
to is. The battery for Hoskins was
Zeimer and f. Zeimer, Norfolks bat
terry was Marquardt and Klug and
Winters. Dan Klug was replaced by
Winters after he sustained badly
injured finger as the result of a ball
hitting him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Gallant in Defeat.

Aberdeen Is. d. News: William
Jennings Bryan has met defeat at the
hands of the democrats of Nebraska,
for the first time since he became
political factor in the state, away
back in 1890. But the gallant manner
in which he fought what he must
have known from the start to be a
losing battle wins him admiration for
his courage, If not for his good judg-
ment.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

On the old issues that Mr.. Bryan
has had to meet, Nebraska is as re-
publican as Iowa. Bryan, by sheer
force, by compelling faith in himself
as a christian citizen and a patriot all
the time, has kept it doubtful
state" The first move of the new
leaders is one that substitutes expedi-
ency for principle. 1t lowers, there
fore, the party standing and diminish
es its chance of winning. If the party
wins upon the expedient it still has
no issue and no ultimate hope of sue
ceeding. If they do not believe they
can do better for the party than Bryan
has done, then their intrusion is par
ty disloyalty and they stand impeach-
ed already.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Offer PRAYERS for Rain

West Point, Neb., Aug. Especial
to The News: Prayers were offered
in the churches of Cunning county Sun
day for rain. The continued dry
weather, with the intense heat prevail
ing is causing some uneasiness in the
minds of the farmers, who fear danger
to the corn crop.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Perdue a Practical Man.

Nebraska Teacher: Superintendent
Perdue is man who enjoys the high
est regard of the school men of the
state. He has been city superinten.
dent, county superintendent, and in
fact, has had experience in all lines
of public school teaching. He is a
practical man, well qualified to do i'm
portant work in the state superinten-
dents office.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Hogreve Hearing Next Tuesday.

Wayne Democrat: A preliminary
hearing in the case of State VS.. Henry
Hogreve, the Altoona blacksmith who
is charged with numbering his wife
will be held before County Judge Brit.
ton Tuesday afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
F. A. Berry will appear as attorney
for the defense and County Attorney
Davis prosecuting.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

Dallas, S. d., Aug. Especial to
The News: A hot game of baseball
was played here yesterday afternoon
between Herrick and Dallas, Dallas
winning out by the narrow margin of
3 to 3.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
To Redistrict Us.

Omaha Bee: All the Nebraska plat
forms this year promise legislative
redistricting based on the 1910 cen.
sus. There will be no dissent to this
except from those sections of the
state which have more representation
in legislature now than belongs to
them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Earned a Vacation,

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: Mr.. Bry-
an has been the political leader of
his party in Nebraska for twenty
years. Well, he has earned a rest,
and he is welcome to it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
AinsWorth Minis Two.

Ainsworth, Neb., Aug. Special to
The News: Two games of ball were
played here Sunday afternoon
Ainsworth, IL; Newport 3.
Ainsworth, Il: Mabelo, 8.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Too Modest.

New York Herald: Chicago is pre-
pairing to annex all the towns within
100 miles. Why this discrimination
against the remainder of the state?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05
Mistake the Man,

Denver Republican: Optimists in
his party welcome the Bryan defeat
as ending his dictation. They do not
know Mr. Bryan.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

-Four years ago a German. Bohemian
settler bought REIMBURSEMENT near
Stuart Holt county, for $25. He had
thousand dollars to invest in land
and Improvements and the land men
told him the quarter section lay in the
sandhills and was not worth fifty cents
an acre as decided land. The soil was
deceptive and light and wonld no more
furnish nutriment to corn than a
stretch of land in the Sahara desert.
The settler. undaunted, put up some
good buildings, fenced, and set out
ten acres of trees which he hauled
from the Niobrara. He turned over
sixty acres of soil and planted corn,
oats, garden and several acres of po-
tatoes. 1t was wet year and the
the place the first year. The next
year every acre was under cultivation.
the buildings all painted, and from the
sandy soil, of the so-called desert,
grew corn and cereals in an abund-
ance. The German was a practical
farmer, not afraid of work. and knew
what it meant to fertilize, and to let
air and sunshine into the soil. Today
he could buy out a big bunch of cheap
land.venders, who would rather sit at
their desks and talk cheap land" than
to take off their cuffs and pillow the
dollars out for themselves and their
country.