| The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY liY
JAMES II. HIOOS. Editor and Prop.
CIO. D. macs. Associate Editor.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
For Associate Jostle of tlio Supreme Court—
A. M. POST of Platte.
For Regent* of State University
II. P. S1IUMWAY of Dixon.
C. II. MAHPI.K of Douglas.
JUDICIAL.
For Judges. Iftth Judicial district—
MOSES P. KINKAID. of Holt.
ALFRED IIARTOW, of Dawes.
COUNTY.
For Treasurer—
HAUHF.1T SCOTT.
If For Clerk—
O. K. HDTLF.R.
For District Court Clerk—
JOHN 8KIRVING. ■
For Sheriff—
II. O. McEVONV.
For Judgo—
D. L. CKAMEIt.
For Surveyor—
W. W. PAGE.
For Coroner—
I)R. 0. E. FORT.
TOWNSHIP.
For Supervisor—
WII.I, GUAY.
For City Supervisor—
For Township Clork—
D. H. CRONIN.
For Township Tiesuurer—
C. C. MILLARD.
For Township Assessor—
PATRICK McCOY.
‘‘You must not make an
Ttlol of J. P. Mullen.”—J.
P. Mullen in the Independ
ent Convention.
"If we are to cling to the old parties
we might as well tear down our sdtiool
bouses, burn our churches and write on
the vault of heaven, ‘Satan has tri
umphed over God,’ and turn all the imps
of bell loose on our country.”—J. IT.
Edgerton tn a tpeeeh at Kearney.
Hurrati for the Republican party!
Now for an earnest pull all together,
gentlemen.
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The young Republican voters of Holt
county are out in full force this fall. I
"Major Dudley,” says tho Spencer
7toe, "Is the Abe Lincoln of Boyd
county.”
The Sun follows the example of that
shyster sheet, the World-Herald, and
•upports Edgerton.
> HAnBAUcm’s forty-five cent wheat
pfc sold for seventy to seventy-three cents
on the streets of O'Neill Monday.
Evrby Republican in the county
should delegate himself a committee of
one to get out and work for the success
of the ticket.
The Independent newspapers are the
only ones that are doing any mud sling
ing in this campaign. That is their
etoek In trade.
Tre Stuart Ledger presented a much
Improved appearance Inst week. Bro.
Werts has considerable of the “get
there” la his make up.
The Frontier's opinion is that Ne
braska would be everlastingly disgraced
if Edgerton were elevated to a position
on tbe supreme bench.
Mullen has induced Cruise to with
draw, and the voters of Holt county
would like to know what Mr. Cruise
would get out of this deni In case Mullen
is elected.
It is an easy matter for a rattle
brained howler to make an assertion
that an official is guilty of certain mis
deeds. but it is another thing altogether
for the charge to be proven.
Doesn't the Sun, poor thing, see that,
in cut Idol Mullen Is elected. Farmers
Watson and Harrington will immediate
ly buy the Tribune and proceed, by a
really unique process of tbeir own man
ufacture, to consolidate the Democratic
and Independent organisations?
Tns Sun is ridiculously frantic in its
efforts to giye space to candidates in
which they may defend themselves
against alleged offences. If the Sun
were aB sure that its assertions were true
as it is that it has space to give out,
then its attitude might be considered in
a consistent light.
Tub Independent candidate for dis
trict judge did not make a good impres
sion at'Chambers last week, if all re
ports are true—and we know whereof
we speak when we say that they are
true. The more Harbaugh shows him
v self off before the people the more he
will lose cast, and we onlv hope he will
be able to convas the entire district.
John Skibving has a clean, creditable
record as a soldier, and when a man
has made a good soldier it goes without
saying that he wiil make a good county
official. A vote for Mr. Bkirving is a
vote for a continuance of the good gov
ernment that has characterized the dis
trict clerk’s office under the efficient
, management of Mr. John McBride.
A GALLANT SOLDIER.
Such was John Skirving, Republican
candidate for clerk of tbo couriH.
For upwards of four years be served
bis country faithfully and well. He en
listed in company F Tenth Iowa vol
unteers, April, 1801, a^d was in the
westorn army. He participated in
a number of the principal engage
ments of the war, among which were:
The battle of New Madrid, Island No.
10, Jackson, Miss., Corinth, Miss., Iuka,
Miss., Champion Hills, Siege of Vicks
burg and Siege of Corinth, battle of
Missionary Ridge and was in Sherman’s
march to the sea.
Mr. Skirving was wounded at tlic siege
of Vicksburg, and has been a sufferer
because of that wound ever since, at one
lime, several years before removing to
Holt county, being obliged to go to
10urope to get relief. At that time be
went to Scotland, of wliick country Mr.
1 is a native. A year or two speut
[here recovered bis health and lie re
turned to America, but is troubled yet at
times from the effect of bis wound. He
was captured ut Lynch Creek, 8. C., by
the rebels and was incarcerated in the
saulsbury, N. 0., Danville, Va., and
Libby prisons and liberated at the full
if Richmond.
Such a record is certainly one of
which any person might well feel proud,
ml John Skirving is the most unassum
ng man in Holt county nnd never has
tnd never will parade before the people
tiis excellencies. Yet he is a mnn wor
liy of the conlidcnce of the people, is
he best fitted and most deserving of any
candidate in the Held for the position of
:leik of the courts and should be elected.
Ewing Advocate: It might be well for
die board of supervisors to meet in extra
session nnd appoint a temporary county
:lerk until Mr. Conger can be elected and
qualify. With the head of the depart
ment leaching school and thedeputy out
electioneering, it makes it rather tough
on the $50 per month men.
This is a sample of the libelous slurs
cast at G. C. Hazelet and Ed Butler by
Demo-Independent pnpers throughout
Ibe county. They are a sample of the
desperate strnights to which the enemy
is forced to resort.
Here is another specimen from the
Atkinson Enterpiiic:
The question that is now agitating the
minds of the people is whether the
county is entitled to the wages that
Hazelet is receiving for teaching the
O'Neill high school, or is the school dis
trict entitled to his salary as clerk. Per
haps he can absorb both salaries.
With reference to the first: Ed Butler
is out electioneering; no one disputes
that fact. But the county is none the
loser because of it, Mr. Butler baB en
gaged the Iicv. W. D. Luther to work
in his place during his absence, paying
him out of his own salary
As to the last: Mr. Hazelet is at the
clerk’s office every morning at 7 o'clock
and works until 11 or 12 o’clock every
night, only being at the school room
every school day from 8 80 until 4
o’clock. Besides this, he pays, out of
his own pocket, the salary of a clerk in
the office to assist in the work.
The fact is the county's businesses
being conducted in the sume methodical,
careful manner as when Messrs. Hazelet
and Butler were there all the time, and
it is not costing the county one red cent
more than it did before. The Independ
ent wiseacres better make another charge
and then quit.
Mr. Hazelet would not now be teach
ing the O’Neill public schools were it
not for a series of circumstances over
which he had no control and for which
he is not in the remotest degree respon
sible. Prof. Bland, because' of some
differences with the board, resigned, and
at the earnest solicitation of the board
Mr. Hazelet consented to teach until
they could secure someone else. The
board has been making an effort ever
since to secure a principal, but it being a
bad time of year, all good ones being en
gaged, they have not y$t succeeded.
Thebe is a growing feeling and in
quiry among tbe people generally to
know where Judge Kinkaid stands—
whether he is a Republican, Independ
ent or Democrat. The inquiry is being
made by a great many men of all par
ties, and tbe fact that his honor is prac
tically the candidate of all parties—at
least nominated by one, a vacancy left
on another (ticket) and endorsements
promiscuously by the other—makes it a
matter of little wonderment that the
question is asked, Where does he stand?
If the judgo is still at heart a Repub
can , as we are led to, and do, believe, it
strikes us that it is his duty to publicly
declare himself for the Republican
ticket. If he is an Independent that
fact should, in our opinion, also be
made known. Or, if a non-partisan can
didate it would be perfectly proper to
acquaint the people with that fact. We
don't know that the people, generally
speaking, object to anon partisan judic
iary, but this is a time when they would
like to know upon which platform can
didates stand and what are their views
upon the various questions before the
public. And we believe the judge would
have a warmer and stronger support
from friends now lukewarm if he de
clared himself.
Tns Frontier accepted Judge Kin
kaid as the nominee of the Republican
party and as such supports his candi
dacy. We have always considered him
a Republican, and do now. We know
there is a feeling prevalent among the
members of the bar and among a great
many other people that the judicial
ermine should be kept clear of factional,
political entanglements, and we believe
that ourselves. Yet, after this is all
said, we also believe that there is noth
ing. and should be nothing, to prevent a
candidate for a judicial position from
espousing i1ie cause of the political
party to which he owes allegiance, and
>ve think that Judge Kinkaid is in duty
bound, wherever it lies in his power, to
assist the party that has honored him in
the past. He need not compromise him
self in any degree in doing it and he
need not get Into any entanglements,
but he certainly could do as much ns the
other candidates for judicial preferment
do for their pnrties.
Land Loan Money Plan.
To the Editor of The Frontier:
According to the vice-editors of the
Alliance Tribune The Frontier baa a
circulation of but 300. I know or care
nothing about this, but the genuine brain
of the county—the vice-editors—seem
to be readers of the old reliable Fron
tier, otherwise they would not have
known anything about my theories as
set forth some weeks ago.
I wish the “Sage of Flow Well Gar
den” would give us the details of his
“land loan money plan.” Not know
ing this may be a confession of ignor
ance on my part but if so I plead guilty.
I judge from the general tenoi of his
statements that the idea is for the gov
ernment to make all the farm loans and
the money UBed to pay out on them is
to be paper money. I can’t figure out
how this would aid the farmers of Ne
braska and Kansas very much unless
the amount loaned per acre is very
large. I estimate that about half the
farms are mortgaged now for—say $5—
per acre and these encumberances would
have to be removed. It is possible to
do this without paying them but it is
not very practicable. France did it in
'03 but many thousands of people met
tragic deaths.
So I don’t suppose that this method
is a part of the “plan.” With this view
of the case I want to make a few figures.
Holt contains 1,500,000 acres and I will
estimate that a million of them are
owned by individuals and on which
there is a mortgage on half of it at $5
an acre, making two and one half mil
lion dollars. This is very burdensome
as it bears ten per cent interest. There
being a population of 10,000 this makes
a debt of $250 per capita. Should the
government come to the relief it would
be necessary to double the size of these
loans to do any good, requiring nn issue
of $5,000,000 besides an equal amount to
the other half of tha people who do not
now owe on their lands.making $10,000,
000 in all. This would make an actual
per capita circulation in Holt county of
$1,000, surely enough to suit the rankest
inflationist heard from. What the vast
total would be if we take in every
county in the state and every state in
the union would make any man dizzy
to compute. But suppose the govern
ment was not so liberal and would loan
only $1.25 per acre. It is easy to see
that such trifling sums would afford no
relief to the man whose land was mort
gaged for $5 already and he would be
speedily shut out.
I am constrained to repeat that the
slush written by the aforesaid sage is
idiotic.
Does he know the result sure to fol
low such a scheme? If not he should
get a correct history of the Argentine
Republic.
Here is a truthful report of their ex
perience with this same identical
method.
It has an area of 841,000 square miles
—about 15 times the size of Iowa—and
a population of nearly 4,000,000 people.
In 1886 the land mortgage scheme was
inaugurated. Any land owner who
wanted to raise money had only to
apply to the mortgage departmeut of
the government and he was given 50
per cent of the value of the land as fixed
by the bank "experts.” Right here
was 'the weak point. These values
began conservative enough but grad
ually rose in two years until it was pos
sible to borrow almost any sura and tbe
amount bad reached the vast sum of
$335,000,000. As money became plenty
all other enterprises boomed. The gov
ernment was as lavish as individuals.
It wns also an era of booming cities.
They plunged into debt heels over head.
Every conceivable kind of public im
provement was boomed. Private enter
prises borrowed money—it was so plen
tiful and all guaranteed by the govern
ment to be good money—and built
railroads, canals, docks, lighting, rapid
transit, factories and everything you
could imagine, on the grandest and
widest scale. The entire republic was
on a Suanciul drunk.
Suddeuly the sleeper awoke. The
dream vanished. A cart load of this
money would not buy a $30 gold piece.
Not a nation on the face of the earth
would take tlicir money based on land
values that were inflated beyond all
reason. Do you now understand why
capitalists put the word gold into their
bonds? It is the only money of the
earth. All nations accept it. Tbe Ar
g mtinc people now have to come down
to legitimate industry and pay off their
prodigious debts. Millions of this is
held by Europran people who will take
only gold. Actual values remain now
as always and arc fixed by the unchang
able and inexorable law that the value
must be based on what it wilt earn. This
is the only true basis and all statutes to
the contrary will result in confusion.
There is no danger of any old party
stealing the land loan plan. But I shud
der at tbe fate nf Ohio Kbould they
shelve McKinley and John Sherman
and replace them with men holding the
visionary views of Farmer Slaymaker.
There is nothing formidable in the
gold question. It is not an issue any
where. Why does he mention it? lie
can go to any bank and exchange at
par all the paper money he can scrape
together for gold. During the pust
summer, in two monbts, $50,000,000 in ;
gold was shipped from New -York to !
London. This is a vast sum and yet It
did net create a ripple in the sea of
finance.
I believe in a slight inflation of the
currency. My plan is much different
from the land loan plan. But this will
do to talk about later. Before closing,
however, I want to impress this fact on
the minds of the writers on tbe Alliance
Tribuue and that is that persons not
engaged in the pursuit of agriculture
have an equal right to live to those who
follow the plow. The ranting abuse of
all other classes weakens your cause. It
is a mild form of treason and if culti
vated would develop into the genuine
article. *,*
Ckuise was willing to be led up to the
slaughtering trough by the Democratic
party, after he had interviewed Mullen
and they had arrived at a mutual ngrec
meal. Cruise then allowed his name to
remain on the ticket just long enough
to inspire confidence in the Democratic
party, and at a wink from Mullen. Wat
son, Harrington & Co. he drops out, and
the company’s official organ, the Sun,
tells the Democracy of Holt to rally to
the support of Idol Mullen. The ques
tion is simply this: Will the stalwart
Democrats permit themselves to be
spat upon by a few traitors whose only
desire is to boost themselves into office.
Mtt. Bartow, the west-end candidate
for district judge, is making a manly
canvas and is gaining ground wherever
he goes. He is in every respect qualified
and will no doubt make an excellent
judge if elected. We believe every Re
publican in the district should get out
and work early and late for Mr. Bartow,
to the end that his election is placed be
yond a cavil. And, furthermore, we be
lieve no one will regret it if he is elected.
Republican papers will fool the In
dependent Enterprise a trip this fall by
resorting to no mud slinging whatever,
now or at the last of the campaign. Mud
has been the stock in trade of the Inde
pendent papers all through the cam
paign, yet they have been loud in their
assertions that the Republican papers
were preparing for a grnnd fusilade of
mud at the last moment.
Republicans in the sooth country
should be sure and attend the grand
rally to be held at Chambers Wednesday,
October 28. No one having the inter
ests of the party at heart can afford to
miss the rally.
The Independent newspapers are now
feeding Chairman J. L. Shanner just
what they accused the Republican pa
pers of doing some time ago—taffy.
The Campaign in Dodge county is
warming up, and the old reliable Trib
une is right in the thickest of the fight.
Harbaugh at Home.
From the Chodron Citizen.
“It would have been better for the
American nation had Grant been still
born .”
The above words were uttered by I.
N. Harbaugh, Independent candidate
for district judge, in a speech delivered
in the Bethel school house a few years
ago. The Citizen has ample proof, and
it will be useless for Harbaugh or bis
organ to enter a denial or attempt to
change the meaning as they have been
doing with his speech at Valentine on
Sept. 17. It was a political meeting,
the one at Bethel school house, and the
name of U. S. Grant was not mentioned
until used in the expression above
quoted. It was uncalled-for, the same
as his remarks at Valentine, and shows
the true character of I. N. Harbaugb,
who seeks at all times and under all
circumstances to assail the honored
name of a brave soldier and loyal de
fender of the nation. Old soldiers can
you vote for such a :.ian? We think
not, unless you have lost all respect for
the memory of the hero of Fort Donald
son; the general who struggled side by
side with you for four long years that
the stars and stripes might continue to
wave over the land of the free and the
home of the brave. Sons of those old
veterans, will you by your votes on No
vember 3, say that I. N. Harbaugh, the
defamer of one of the best and bravest
generals America ever knew, shall have
a seat for four years on the bench of
the Fifteenth judicial district? Weil,
hardly. After November 3 I. N. Har
baugh will sink into oblivion; a fitting
end for a man who is devoid of all sense
of honor.
Why doesu’t the Adrocate tell the peo
ple this year how much the county is
loser through the carelessness, cussed
ness or unfitness of the county attor
ney? Last year the colonel juggled
with the figures until he scarcely knew
whether the county was being bank
rupted or was on the highroad to un
bounded prosperity. But this year be
la as silent as the grave regarding the
manner in which the county attorney
has allowed costs to pile up, and only
one conviction placed to his credit.
How much did those three criminal
cases that Harbaugh caused tit be dis
missed at the lust term of district ixurt
cost the county? How much is the
county looser on the Springs case, which
was allowed to drag along until most of
the witnesses of the state were dead or
forgotton? And how much did some of
those other cases which Harbaugh,
through inconipetency or a desire to
favor the prisoners, either dismissed or
allowed them to go to trial without hav
ing any evidence to present, cost the
Dawes county? Don’t overlook the
record, Bro. Sheldon, in your insane
desire to burden the people of this dis
trict with a judge who has shown him
self during bis short official career ut
terly incompetent to be county pros
ecutor.
Omaiia Bee: The present admintstra
ion is to be credited with a commend
able departure in the matter of allowing
clerks in the departments at Washington
to leave their post of duty to engage in
political campaigning. There has been
a great pressure from men in the public
service to be permitted to go to their re
spective states to do political work, but
an order of the president 'requires that
no clerk in the departments be allowed
to leave bis duty and go home unless on
authorized leave of absence is due him
under the law, and any clerk absenting
himself at this time must lose his salary
for the time he is away. He will not be
paid by the government for work done
as a politican. This has not been the
custom heretofore, and especially under
the preceding administration everv elec
tion depleted the departments of dem
ocratic clerks who could show some
to having political influence, but what
ever the polilicans may think of the re
form instituted by this administration,
it will be approved by the people. The
public business should not be permitted
to suffer from a diversion of the time of
those employed to carry it on to the
service of politics.
Atkinson Graphic: Let us see. Ilis
name is I. N. Harpaugh. He lives at
■Chadron. He is the alliance nominee
for judge of the ISth judicial district.
The Atkinson Enterprise supports Har
baugh. darbaugh’s only distinction is
his ghoulish disposition to malign and
traduce the memory of the.dead, whose
eminent and patriotic sevices during the
nation’s greatest peril made this grand
soldier and statesman the peer of Wash
ington and Lincoln in the hearts of the
American people, yet the Euterprise and
its spoil cohorts seek to elevate to a pos
ition of high public trust, a man who
deliberately attempts to assassinate the
the cherished reputation of a dead hero
the memory of whose name is a hallow
ed legacy that patriots will prize as loug
as republics endure or humanity recog
nizes the services of the great and good
who have labored to ameliorate its con
dition.
They Changed Their Opinions.
1 he Alliance Tribune nnd Atkinson
Enterprise are throwing a good deal of
wet dirt at Mr. Dudley, just now, and
the following, clipped from their issues
of a few months ago, makes interesting
reading at this time:
Alliance Tribune, April 4: Our
county superintendent, H. W. Dud
ley, was visiting the schools in
Paddock, Saratoga and Rock Falls
township last week. Mr. Dudley re
ports the schools he lias visited in good
condition. Mr. Dudley by his euter
prise and knowledge of school work,
has placed the schools of this county on
a footing never before reached by his
predecessors, and we think the schools,
of the county were never before in so
good working order as at present. May
success go with Mr. Dudley and the
schools of Holt county.
Atkinson Enterprise May 1: Mr. Dud
ley is certainly making a record of
which he may well be proud. The first
year, and the hardest, and part of his
second year of his term have expired,
and we have yet to hear the first com
plaint, while we have heard many flat
tering comments of which the above is
a fair sample. Mr. Dudley’s experience
a3 a teacher in city and country schools
together with his excellent qualities as
a gentlemen peculiarly fit him for this
responsible position, and he is well de
serving of the many complimeuts he is
receiving.
Candidate Edgerton.
From tlie Fremont Tribune.
Herr Most Edgerton made use of the
following language in his speech at
Kearney recently, according to the
Journal-Enterprise of that city: "If we
are to cling to the two old parties we
might as well tear down our school
houses, burn our churches and write on
the vault of heaven 'Satan has triumphed
over God’ and turn all the imps of hell
loose on our country.”
Whi-r-r! Buzz!! Bang!!!
What do Nebraska Democrats and
Republicans think of that style of or
atory edming from one who aspires to
a position requiring sober sense and
dignity?
And how do the Independents, them
selves, like it? Do they endorse such
rut as that?
Will Democrats who have no candi
date on the state ticket rush to Edgerton
after he bns lampooned them in such
style as that.
The voters of Nebraska should com
pare this sort of wild, inflammatory talk
with such sensible utterances as those
made by Judge Post in his speech of
acceptance—those sensible, calm, judi
eious words wherein lie said "
form of a ‘^plat
form of a judicial candidate should ,
the constitution, the law and the ! ?
uin n ***.«!. ,.f ..iia . IUC $()j.
cttiii CHtii of office he
takes.” Tlw>
two expressions represent the two*,T
of “statesmanship" now hcfJre ,,
I>eople for endorsement. Them *
not to be auy doubt as to which s'lw8!'!
triumph. “ slloul'l
Blaine on the McKinley Bill
New York, Oct. 16.-An Ohio editor
having written Mr. Blaine that De2
cratic ,. apers were parading him as an on'
ponent of the McKinley bill, he rcnll,
as follows: pllM
Agusta. Me Oct. 14-John Hopiev
Esq., Editor Journal, Bucyrus O • at'
Dear Sir You inform me that Mem!?,
ciatic paper in your town and many dem
ocratic papers throughout Ohio Uccntl.,’.
following paragraph standing in type;
But there is not a section or li„„ *
the McKinley bill that will Jnen ti”
market for another bushel of wheat ‘®
another barrel of pork. "-JanieS Q
Blame to Senator Frye, July li I89,,
This sentence is garbled and ’taken
from its proper connection. It creates
a wrong impression. What I did Si,v U
the following: -
i ao not doubt that in many resnert.
the tariff biil pending in U.7.SR
a just measure, and that most of jul
visions are in accordance with a w ',
policy of protection, but there is not 1'
section or line in the entire bill that
will open a market for another bushel o
wheat or another pound of pork.” '
The letter in which this paragraph oc
curs was written to Senator Frye July 11
1890, and the McKinley biil did not be
come a law until October 1, nearly
three months thereafter. In my letter
to Senator Frye, I objected to the bill
because it did not contain the reciprocity
cluuse, which would provide a market
for wheat, pork and other products of
the farm and for various fabrics. Be
fore the bill was finally passed the reci
procity clause was inserted and a large
addition was made to the free list.
' It will therefore seem, from what I
said in my letter, that the objection
which I made to the McKinley bill was
entirely removed before the bill became
a law. Let me further say that the rec
iprocity clause has given an ample mar
ket for many barrels of flour and many
pounds of pork. Brazil, some months
since, entered into a treaty by which
many American articles are admitted
free. Flour is made free and pork is
admitted at a nominal duty. Cuba and
Porto Rico have reduced the duty on
flour from 85.80 to $1.00, which giyes
us the market, besides a large number
of other articles.
Other treaties for reciprocity are in
progress. Germany, without negotiat
ing a formal treaty, has removed the pro
hibition on pork, and our government,
in consideration thereof, has left her
sugar on the free list. This opens to
us an entirely new market, and $15,000,
000 to $20,000,000 of American pork will
be consumed per annum where not a
pound had been taken for ten years.
The reciprocity provision is prov
ing very successful, especially in farm
products and more particularly in the
case of the two articles mentioned in
the paragraph quoted—flour and pork.
1 am not, therefore, an opponent of the
McKinley . bill, as the Democratic
papers are’constantly alleging. On the
contrary, I have cordially supported it
ever since it was perfected by the in
sertion of the reciprocity clause. Very
respectfully yours,
James G. Beaine.
Santee, the soulless sinner late of
Spencer but now of Butte City, endeav
drs to ^prejudice the people of Boyd
county against O’Neill by calling our
citizens a lot of dead beats, etc. Santee
could not bulldoze the citizens of O’Neill
and therefore seeks to cover them with
the filth and slime that he only knows
how to throw. Abuse from such a man
is a recommendation, however, and ar.v
one should feel proud to be made a tar
get of by him.
The Frontier has a lot of public doc
uments for distribution among the peo
ple, and the same can be secured by
simply catling—no expense. Call ami
get some.
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Holt county, in dele
gate convention assembled, desire to go be
fore the people in this campaign on the fol
lowing platform:
First—We commend the conservative and
able administration of President Harrison,
who has proven himself an American in the
fullest sense of the word, wise in the choice
of counselors, firm in liis opinions of josbct*
to all, regardless of politics or nationality:
especially do we l'eel elated in his selection
of that brilliant statesman and courageous
diplomat, who has by his reciprocity pom’J
placed the United States at the head of the
uations of the world, James (2. Blaine.
unuuiia 1/1 IIIU wunu, OiUllt'SU. Ultliii*-. . f
Second—We heartily approve of the Jesru
lation of the last congress, particularly <»
the McKinley law, whose beneficial eflocu*
are becoming daily more apparent, notahl)
In the removal of tne embargo on America”
pork in Germany and Denmark, ami tjj
opening to our farmers by reciprocity m
South American markets, the shutting ou <
Canadian competition, thereby advancing
prices of farm products. , .....
Third—We desire to go on record in u
of the service pension bill and indorse tn
increased liberality of the last congress i
the Union vetrans. . .. ,.,,,1
Fourth—We favor the election or l mi
States Senators, Post Masters, Land ' J ■
and a State Railway Commission by a dut
v<>teo/ tlie people. , by
Fifth—We are opposed to the dictation .
ations in the selection b> m
railroad corporations <u me - •- -
Republican party of a candidate for sup*
Judge. t|.nt
Sixth—Inasmuch as the law provides '•
ill property shall be assessed at its cumJ '• tii
we favor the agitation of this question “j,
the assessments are so made tluitim
bear their just share of taxation- . .
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Seventh—We favor state «... .... -
Eighth—That we demand of the noi’ 1 ||t,
:>f tills convention st.ict attention » ^
_*ounty business if elected: we fuV, ju.rrs
scrutiny of the affairs of the several ‘ '
and a strict accounting of all punm
and the application thereof. .
Ninth—We believe in rotation In „
that loiig service in office leads to coir
liul tends to centralization. , *
Tenth—Over the actions of tne m
lature we think it best to spread tm
nautlc of churity.
