The Frontier
PUnl.IfmKO KVKRY ruunsiJAY I1Y
JAMES It moos. Editor and Prop.
OIO. D. RICOS, Associate Editor.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
Pursuant .to rail nf the It«'put»lloiiii fftitrul
Onuunttleo of Holt county, tho Holt county
Republican convention will bo held utO’Nellt,
Nob., on the 12th clny of Hoptoiulior, IWll, at
the hour of 10 o’clock n. in., for the purpose
of placing In nonilnutlon candidates for
county ofllcori. and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly come
before It. Candidates are to he placed In
nomination for tho following odices, viz:
Sheriff,
Treasurer,
Clerk,
Judge,
Superintendent of Instruction.
Surveyor,
Coroner,
dork of the Illstrlct Court,
And also to elect eight delegates to tho
state convention and eight delegates to tho
judicial convention.
Tho Republican electors of the county are
hereby requested to meet In caucus at their
usual places of holding election on Saturday,
Septelabor fi, 1MH, at 2 o'clock p. m. and elect
delegates to represent, their respective town
ships In said county convention. The repre
sentation Is based upon thu vote cast for the
Hon. L D. Richards for governor, one delo
g.tto being allowed for every twenty votes
oast or fraction thereof and one delegate at
large.
Tho several townships and wards are en
titled to delegates ns follows:
Atkinson.It)
Coiiloy. it
OlnvciAiid.2
lihRinborH. it
ltolnlt. 2
Uiistln.2
Knimnt.. 2
Ewing. #
Kriuniti. it
Fnlrvlow. 2
U rattan.it
Green Valley. it
Inman. ><
Iowa. 2
l.iikn. 2
MfiUuro. 2
O'Neill, First ward.. 4
O'Neill, Hocoinl ward ii
O'Neill, liiru warn. »
1‘iiiUliK'k. •!
I'UniHutit. View.2
Kook I'liIlH. I!
Saratoga. I*
Soott. I*
Shields. 2
Swim. 2
Steel Creek. 4
Stuart. ft
Sami Cieok. 2
Sheridan. 1*
Verdigris. II
Wyoming. 2
Wlllowdalo. 2
1)8
Total
A. 1 HOMMKHSlIArHSKH, l 1111111111111.
O. W. Mkai-h, Secretary.
‘‘You must not make an
Idol of J. P. Mullen.”—J.
P. Mullen in the Independ
ent Convention.
TnK caucus calked.
Hour county’s fair Sctember 23-20.
Be sure and attend.
TitE old political pot only lms a few
more days in which to sizzle and fry.
In no other county In the state are the
crops any better than In Holt, ’ltah for
Harrison I
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TnK prospects of O'Neill getting a
“gusher” soon are now very good.
Hurrah for Harrison I
At the state fair the enthusiastic
visitors all declare that Holt county's
Hog Palace is “ono of the fittest.”
The Labor day celebration in Omaha
Monday was an overwhelming success.
This is a great year for the laboring
man.
Remember the dates for the county
fair, Sept. 22, 23, 24 and 25. And above
all things remember to attend and bring
something to exhibit,
The Medical Jierietc quotes skeletons
as scarce and higher. A man’s bones
will bring a good price this year. ’Rah
for 1891. ’Tie a great year.
Thb Frontier speaks for O’Neill's
prosperity and growth and feels con
fident that it we all move togethei
success will crown our efforts.
An exhibition of the power of the
body over the mind was given in
O’Neill Saturday night to a somewhat
limited yet thoroughly disgusted
audience.
Skckktahv Campeem. says that the
preliminary arrangements for Holt
county’s "greatest fair on earth” are
well under way. Tarry a few short
weeks and you’ll see something.
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"The Democrats of Holt county are
making a still hunt.” said a gentleman
the other day. It would be interesting
to know what they are so industriously
hunting for. They are out of it.
To tiie Republican convention: Nom
inate a clean ticket, and have the offices
distributed over the country as well as
can be done conservatively, and with a
stalwart and manly fight the pennant is
ours.
James E. Boyd, who was lately buck
ing the gubernatorial wheel of fortune,
is now engaged in tho theatrical busi
ness, having just opened his elegant
new theatre in Omaha. As a theatre
manager he is somewhat of a success.
The fight for the Republican national
convention really lays between Chicago
and Omaha. Minneapolis is considered
out of the race. Nebraska is entitled to
that gathering. aDd as the chief city ol
the west, Nebraska’s Omaha should
have it. _ _ _
Ip Boss Mullen will attend the Repub
lican convention Saturday he will be
given, gratuitously, a few very valuable
pointers. His method of running i
convention, or at least the method he
used, whether it be of his inyention 01
just an ordinary infringement, is for one
man to get into the chair and conduct
the show while the rest of the delegate!
applaud. Great Mullen, that.
A WORD OF ADVICE.
This is the last issue of The Fhok
tirh before the county convention and
we feel called upon to give another word
of advice to Republicans in general and
the delegates iu particular. The latter
especially have a duty to perform of a
very important character. You will
practically decide the destiny of the
party this fall. If you place a strong
ticket, a dean ticket, a well-distributed
ticket,before the people of Holt county,
success is practically assured. If you
"bunch” the candidates or place men
against whom much can be said detri
mental (from a political point of view
only do wc refer) you invite defeat; not
intentionally, of course, but that fact
docs not alter the case uud makes the
other fact of probable, if not certain,de
feat, all the more apparent.
TlTen again, candidates should not be
selected because of personal strength
wholly but because of their general de
sirability and fitness for the positions.
Wo trust that all these things will be
taken into consideration, that harmony
will prevail and that of all things good
feeling and confidence will exist all
through the campaign in the rank and
die of the party; to tne end that success
will be ours. Hut let us light like Re
publicans, make no unholy alliances, do
no courting of other parties and keep
our records clean.
Atkinson "Enterprise: Tim New York
l'rtas says (hut the thrifty housewife
when she cans her fruit this full will not
complain that she can buy twenty
pounds of sugar for a dollar because of
the action of the Republicans in putting
sugar on the free list. No but the dairy
maid needing tin milk pans will register
a kick because of the unfairness which
compels her to pay an increased price
for the same because the duty on tin
was increased.
Kven before the passage of the Mc -
Kinley bill the shout went up from
every free-trade orator and editor in
the land that the price of tinware would
be greatly increased because of the in
crease in the tarilT on tin plate. Hut
we ask in all candor,are their predictions
verified? The price of a box of tin plate
has increased somewhat, pushed up by
the Welsh monopolists of the industry,
but the increase to the consumer in
America hns not been prcccptiblo. For
instance, a (ptart cup costs the manu
facturer a fraction of a cent more after
the ruisc in the price of tin plate than
before, but that fraction was not added
to the cost to the consumer and you can
still buy that quart cup at the same
price which prevailed before the “in
famous” McKinley bill was passed. The
same could be said of nlmost everything
in the line of tinware and we venture
the assertion that it is the ense with the
tin milk pans of which the Enter print
speaks. The Democrats and whatnots
have continually missrepresented the
tin industry in all its phrases but the
truth will be eventually known by all
and the policy of the Kepublienu,party
fully vindicated in due time.
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Tub primaries held in O'Neill and
Grattan township Saturday afternoon
were, in the main, harmonious and the
delegations selected were a compromise
between Messrs. McEvony and Mack
for sheriff and McBride and Skirving
for clerk of the courts. They are all. or
nearly all at least, favorable to Mr.
Kinkaid for district judge, the lattei
gentleman watching his own interests
in his usual vigilant manner. So far as
heard from now the delegation selected
throughout the county are pretty solid
for the judge also and what we had ex
pcctad from the beginning will trans
spire; that is, Judge Kinkaid will go out
of his own county with apratically solid
delegation.
When this administration took con*
trol of the government the land office
business, among many others, was in
a very loose shape, and it required from
three to four years to get a patent.
Now the officers of this land office in
form us that there are patents in their
office for land of proofs made in May
last, so closeis the business kept up to
date. The comparison is very gratify
ing to Republicans and should he to
all who are interested in the land busi
ness at least.
The boys up this way better be watch
ing out if they want to continue in
single blessedness. Down in Argonia.
Kansas, the town where the ladies, dear
creatures, are running the municipal
machinery, the girls have inaugurated
a new innovation in the matrimorial
line and are proposing to the gentlemen.
One marriage is said to have taken place
under the new dispensation and others
lire likely to follow. The blamed thing
mav spread up this way and then look
out!
The Sun is very much disappointed
that the Independants refused to accept
the proposition of the Democrats to fuse
with them this year and says that, in
view of the noble service rendered the
new party by the Democrats last year,
they are very unfair, so to speak. I5>
this complaint the Sun admits what was
pretty generally understood, viz: Thai
an effort at a combination was being
made, at least the Democrats had madi
proposals looking to that end.
The reporter of the Omaha Iite whe
writes up the state fair said the little
pigs use 1 in Unit county’s Ilog Palace
were made of corn. The reporter is
evidently a devotee of King Gambrinus
and he better write one more discription
of our Hog Palace and quit. None oi
the state papers gave the Palace the
dircription its elaborateness deserves.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report p
ABSOLUTELY PURE
CHIC A M OF EDITORIAL THOUGHT
Fukmont Flail: In the nation’s gal
axy of great men there are not many
names that stand out more prominently
than Maj. Wm. McKinley, authbr of the
tarilT bill.
^ Keaiin'Ey Hub: Wonder if Pettifogger
Edgerton and Jay Burrows will read
General Van Wyck out of the party for
that declaration in his Malvern speech
that Judge Reese is an able, honest,
faithful judge, a true man in all the
relations of life, and a Republican
without guile ?
Stolen: The clearest and most forcible
reason for being a protectionist is sum
mod up in the words "Because I am an
American.” It is perfectly natural that
an Englishman or an English sympath
izer should subscribe to free trade
doctrine. . For an American to do so is
past comprehension.
Fhkmont Tribune: Tho Tribune, has
observed no political variations of late
winch would cause it to change its opin
ion, expressed two or three months
ago, that it would l>e good politics and
good sense for the Republicans of Ne
braska to nominate M. B. Reese for
judge of tiie supreme court.
VVakkkibi.I) Republican.: Judge Reese
is the choice of tho rank and file of the
great party to which ho belongs for su
preme judge. The Republican party
will have no apology to make to
the people by reason of his nomination,
or no man in the state has a cleaner or
better record. Retire Cobb and nomi
nate Reese, and we shall have no mis
takes to regret.
Omaha lire: These howling calamity
orators who would inllate the currency
in order that the per capita of circulat
ing medium shall be increased, should
go to Argentine Republic. That unhap
py republic has “money” in circulation
equal to $200 per capita—enough to do
the business of the country on a cash
basis. Nevertheless, a gold dollar down
there is good for about $3 of flat money,
and times are desperately hard.
Hastings Nebraskan: Jay Burrows
fired a gratuitous insult at the farmers
of the state when he made the statement
at the meeting of the board of transpor
tation in this city Tuesday that “no
farmer in Nebraska could confine him
self to farming and keep out of the
poor house.” That sort of talk is not
likely to set well with the eighty farm
ers of Saunders county who a month
ago had $1,000 or more each on deposit
in tho banks of Wahoo.
Atkinson Graphic: There seems to
be a general disposition among the Re
publicans in this section of the county,
and we trust the same feeling animates
the party throughout the entire limits of
Holt, not to premit the interests of the
party to become jeopardized by local
entanglements. In the exercise of its
wise discretion the nominating conven
tion on the 12th should guard against
bunching the candidates in one locality.
We haye good and available men in all
sections of the couuty, and the success
of the ticket should be made paramount
to the claims of individuals who may be
seeking the indorsement of the conven
tion for all of the positions named in
the call. With the proper spirit govern
ing its counsels, the convention can
name a ticket that will command the
confidence of the people, both within
and without the party lines. The
Graphic anticipates the most favorable
results.
Ditto in Holt County.
The Custer leader: The sub-treasury
scheme promulgated in the Cincinnati
platform is receiving the condemnation
of the more intelligent class of Indepen
dents themselves. The Texas state Al
liance repudiated it recently, and some
of the prominent Alliance lenders in
Kansas are outspoken in their denunci
ation of such a wild and visionary
measure and this strong opposition now
threatens to split the Independent party
in Kansas. In short, the Independent
leaders in Kansas, aside from Peffer and
Simpson, believe that the indorsement
of this wild cat idea will bring about
the complete overthrow of the People’s
party. Yet Custer county Independent
nominees continue to "stand square on
the Cincinnati platform,” shaky as it is.
Free Coinage.
Ora Weekly Quiz: What possible ben
efit can free coinage of silver be to this
nation? Will it increase the circulat
ing medium of the country? No; and
the result will be disasterous. With a
free coinage law upon our statute books
foreign silver will be pouring in upon
us. For every 85 cents worth of it re
ceived Uncle Sam would have to pay
out a round gold dollar. Did that g#ld
dollar remain here, as under the oper
ation of the present law, the result
would not be so bad. But the gold paid
would not remain here. It. would be
sent abroad to pay for the silver re
ceived from other lands. Our present
law requiring the coinage of 4,500,000
ounces of silver per month practically
consumes the output of our mines, so
that we now have practical free coinage
so far as our mines are concerned, and
that is as far as any good can come to
us from free coinage.
Our present silver law is practical,
sate and wise. Any tinkering with it
will only cause disasterousi results.
Industrial Conditions of the United States
. and Canada Compared.
American Kconomint: Consul Charles
D. Joslyn, in a report to the State De
partment on the industries of Windsor,
Ont., says that as a result of the new
tariff, fewer acres have been sown to
beans and bailey. This means, of course,
that American farmers will be called
upon to supply the beans and barley
formerly grown in Canada. We learn
also that horses which sold for *125 a
head before the new tariff law will not
bring now, more than $75 a head. Our
tariff, then, plainly has reduced the
price of Canadian horses. Before the
new tariff the Canadian sold his horse
to a dealer for $125, who brought it to
the United States, paid the duty, and
sold the horse for say $200. Now, how
ever, the tariff bus been so much in
creased and the provisions against fraud
in the importation of breeding animals
ho strengthened, that the speculator can
not afford to pay more than $75 for the
same horse. He takes the tariff out of
the Canadian, and the American pur
chaser of the Canadian horse gets it
just as cheaply as before the duty was
increased. It is plain who pays it.
The report touches upon prices and
cost of living. Agricultural implements
cost 15 per cent more than they cost in
the United States, while furniture of
inferior design and quality costs 20 per
cent more, “When I removed to
Windsor,” says Mr. Joslyn, “I was
much surprised to find that living ex
penses were higher than at home. All
kinds of meat, flour and corn meal are
slightly higher, while groceries are at
least 20 per cent higher. As to the
grade or quality, meats and all canned
goods are much inferior to our own, ex
cepting mutton. As to the latter, I
have never found anything to compare
with Canadian mutton.” He ccntinucs:
All kinds of cotton goods are 50 per
cent higher here than in Detroit. The
liner grades of woolen cloths are about
25 per cent cheaper here, but the coarser
goods, either in the cloth or made
up into goods can be gotten
from 10 to 15 per cent cheaper in the
United States.
The condition cf things relative to
rents is somewhat peculiar. For $25
per month a house and grounds can be
had here which would rent for $50 in
any town in the United States of equal
size. In Detroit, for instance, such a
place would rent for five times the
amount. But a better house can be had
in Detroit for $15 or under than can be
got in Windsor for a like amount, The
average laborer, therefore cannot, rent
a house in Windsor any cheaper than,
if as cheap as, in Detroit.
As Windsor is situated just across the
river from Detroit, Mich., no very great
difference could be expected in wage
rates in Windsor and Detroit. Yet Mr.
Joslyn finds that while this is practically
true of unskilled labor, there is
a decided difference in the
wages of skilled labor in the two
places. "Wages paid to skilled labor,”
the consul writes, “are higher the mo
ment the border line is crossed and the
more skilled the labor the more marked
the difference in the rate of wages paid.
I cannot forbear the remark that our
country puts a premium on intelligent
labor.”
As a result of these conditions he finds
immigration of a most desirable class
flowing to the United States in a steadily
increasing stream.
The total value of the personal and
household effects taken to the United
States by emigrants during the said four
months of 1890 was $30,691.80. It
should be borne in mind that these rec
ords do not show all the emigration,
but only of those whose effects amounted
to $50 and upward, and from Decem
ber 1 only those whose effects amounted
to $100 and upwards.
The greater portion of these emi
grants. as I have already said, were
farmers, and were desirable additions to
our wealth producing class. I do not
recall one of the farmer class who could
not read and write. Every one went
directly to some farm usually already
bargained for or rented.
Of the laborers nearly all were skilled,
intelligent and fairly educated, and gen
erally had enough household effects to
to start comfortable housekeeping.
Facts seem to be against the “refo rm.
er's" theory, which holds that our tariff
makes the cost of living so excessively
high as to counterbalance other advan
tages. Actual experience and obser
vation always point to this grand truth—
viz., that no place on earth affords so
many comforts and opportunities to
enjoy them as this protected country in
1 which we live.
[ carry the largest stock of Hardware, Tinware, Copi,
Granite ware in North Nebraska, and 'make ^
a specialty of Superior Barbed Wire.
We have the new powerful binders, mowers and rakes of
the famous "Walter A. Wood, also the genuine parts and
“Wood” brand of twine, all choice. Walter A. Wood is
not only an inventor, but a rare mechanic with the inborn
faculty of putting bright ideas into common-sense shape.
The intensely American style of his machines mavafl
others look clumsy and foreign. He is one of those
earnest men who do not say much; but his machines do,
in the field. We have pamphlets explaining them in pi»jp
words, and would like to have thoughtful, thrifty men send
for copies and come and see this fine group of machines
IN IMPLEMENTS I CARRY THE BEST MADE
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Harrows, Challenge Planters, Flying Dutchman,
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^LISTERS AND DRILLS.*
Call and see me before you make your purchases as 1 can
save you some money.
NEIL BRENNAN, O’NEILL Neb.
First National *BanK,
O’NEILL - NEBRASKA.
Paid-iJp Capital, $5o,ooo. SUrplUs, $2o,ooo,
Authorised Capital, $100,000.
UNDIVIDED PROFITS, $4,096.
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ED. F. GALLAGHER, Cashier.
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Most Favorable
Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest.
Buy and Sell Foreign & Domestic Exchange.
DIRECTORS:
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E. W. Montgomery. Ed. F. Gallagher. TnAD. J. Berminguah.
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o'heill, Nebraska.
McGREEVY & HACERTY, Proprietors
WILL DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
MAKE FARM LOANS. BUY AND SELL
FARM and TOWN PROPERTY.
JOHN J. McCAFFERTY,
-^DEALER IN——
HARDWARE
Tinware, Farm Implements,
JURvir ure, Woodenwre, Wgons, Corn-Shellrs.
Coffins and Undertaking Supplies,.
O’NEILL, HOLT CO., NEB.
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When wanting L
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