| 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. — ■ -— 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 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.