The Frontier.
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JAMES IT. RTOQS, Editor and Prop.
OKO. D. RIOOS, A»aoolate Editor.
Tub Republican state central commit
tee meets today at the Millard hotel In
Omaha. The executive committee will
meet at the same place and date at 4:!I0
p. m.
Mr. Jh.lson of Stuart has received
the honor of being elected chairman of
the board of supervisors. Mr. .lillson is
a good, sensible man and we opine will
make a good chairman.
Lieutenant Governor Majors is
spoken of quite prominently in conncc
tlon with the nomination for governor
next fall. Tom and his hickory shirt,
made famous by the continued absence
of the conventional neck scarf, would
be winning enrds for Republicans to
hold.
Tiie Republican party takes off its
hat to Senator John Sherman of Ohio
and congratulates him upon his success
in the senatorial contest. The Republi
can party also takes off its hat to cx
Governor Foraker and cautions him to
slide easy and prepare to take the scat
of Rascality Brice, which will undoubt
ly be made vacant at the end of his term.
Tub annual meeting of the Nebraskn
Press association will be held in Frc -
mont, beginning January 20. As enter
tainers Fremont people are ulways sue
cessful, and the fact that Fremont's
ablest editor, Mr. Rosa L. Hammond, iH
on the programme for a song should in
duce all the editors-in the state to attend.
Mr. Hammond's voice is said to be of
the dreamy, poetical variety.
Thk anniversary of the ever memor
able blizzard of January 12, 1888, was a
pretty cold day, but fair and balmy com
pared with the one of away back. Holt
county has pretty well recovered from
that terrible blow, however, and is now
' on the high road to prosperity. Give us
two or three years more of such crops as
last year, and we will show you a rich
and prosperous country.
Judoiro from tho number of rent estate
foreclosures advertised In the Kansas City
papers, the good times which Nebraska and
other western states are enjoying have not
struck our neighboring state, Kansas, with
any particular degree of force.—Omaha Re
publlcan.
Will the Republican please tell us when
Kansas City was moved over into Kan
sas. Perhaps the state of Missouri
might not object, but then Kansas would
have to be a party to the bargain.
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*'Since 1821,” says the New York Her
aid, "when Mexicans rid themselves of
Spanish rule, they have had three regen
cies, two emperors, Iturbide and Maxi
milian, one proviucial government,
twenty-six federal presidents, ten cen
tralist presidents, ten dictators, ten con
stitutional presidents and six conserva
tive presidents. Sixty-eight new gov
ernments in seventy years, one almost
for every year I”
The "Kids" say they have not “given
the subject enough thought to furrn an
opinion either tor or against” the candi
dacy of Mr, Joseph Bartley for state
treasurer. In other words they have
not yet consulted Mr. Klnkuld to know
what he would have them say in the
premises. If by some hook or crook
Klnkaid is not a candidate for congress
he will probably be gracious enough to
allow them to favor Bartley’s candidacy.
Lincoln Journal: Congressman Bryan
is receiving the hearty denunciations of
all classes of people on account of his
clumaey speech in opposition to the
resolution authorizing the government
to transport contributions for Russia
across the ocean. Every sentiment of
humanity calls for the chartering of a
ship to carry the grain to the starving
just as soon as it is known that such an
act would not be considered by the czar
an official reflection upon his ability as
a ruler.
H. C. McEvony owe* his nomination
and through that his election to “Pack”
Reed and bis friends, who went to Me
Evony at a critical moment, lmt when
that official had appointments to make
he gave the best plum at his disposal to
a Democrat, and one, too, who was a
candidate before the Democratic con
vention last fall for the nomination for
aheriff. True, a change has been made
and a Republican is now deputy, but
that does not let the sheriff out. In all
honor he should have recognized Reed.
Wonder what Mr. R. and his friends
think of it anyway?
Nils Tuller, who has been deputy
sheriff for a month or two past, resigned
on Monday and Elmer Mcrriman was ap
pointed. As near as Tue Frontier can
learn the action of Mr. Tujler was the
result of influence brought to bear upon
him from certain quarters and not alto
gether Mr. McEvony’s own work. The
appointment of Elmer Merriman is very
satisfactory to a large number of Repub
licans. He is capable and deserving,
and The Frontier congratulates him
upon his good success and McEvony
upon his good judgment in finally ap
pointing a Republican deputy. Now if
he will do a little more house-cleaning
in the vicinity of the jail he will merit
still more the congratulations of the
people.
Ir tho editor of The Fhontieu "boodled"
any one during tin- campaign uro not those
whom he “hootllod" cumiHy reprehensible?
Tim partaker of iho theft Is as had as tho
their or the giver of a lirlhu ns hart as a
hrlher. lint neither are reprehensible, as
Till'. Fiuintikh did no "boodllntf."—Tiik
Fiioxtikii.
In these days of modern pohtles the suo
oessfnl politician must size upclrcuinstanecs
oooly and Impartially, lie must olnoli tho
strong points and fortify tho weak ones. If
heean Hud a man of doubtful Inllueme who
may he bought for fti or ifin It Is polltle to buyt
him. This in no way reflects on the politi
cian. It Is polities. Hut It does reboot on
tho receiver of tho ‘'boodle" and portrays
Ids depraved nature and mercenary motives.
Tlio man most abhorred by respectable peo
ple Is tho one who sells Ids vote and influ
ence. Tho editor of Tine Front, received
money from candidates, both Republican
and Democratic. This assertion wo tiro pre
pared to substantiate.—Item.
The Item insists that tlio editor of Tim
B'ltONTiKit is a "boodlcr” and tliet lie*
was "bondlcd” dining; the last campaign.
It further says that we received money
from both Kepublicnn mid Democratic
candidates. This it claims to be able to
substantiate.
Ail we have to sav in connection with
the subject is that not one Kepublicnn
candidate of last fall gave us one doliur
or one cent cither before or since tlie
election aud ibe money we received from
tho Democrat mentioned by the Item
was for some special paid matter, and
we tire prepared to prove, if it should go
to court, that the Item kids received the
same amount we did for the publication
of the same identical matter. If it was
boodiing they are equally guilty and the
words of denunciation aimed at us apply
with equal force to them.
Tlie editor of this paper is not afraid
of the truth in this matter, nor any
other which the Item has made so much
fuss over, and we would be willing to
have all our acts put to the test in any
way that will be fair and just to all. If
the kids will prove "each and every
charge" made against us before a prop
erly constituted court ol justice or in-s
quiry we will make it interesting finan
cially to them to Ike tune of $50.
Elsewhere in their ‘'organ" they say
that we are n "liar ami a blackmailer.”
Let them make their charges more spe
cific and we will bring a suit that will
give them an opportunity to prove "each
and every charge” made against us and
make a little money on the side. We
know the Item plant, which is owned by
Mr. Sei&k, is probably worth all claimed
for it, but auy one acquainted with the
facts knows the kids have nothing get
at-able, yet we are willing to take our
chances to give them an opportunity to
save their reputations for truth and va
racity.
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MUGWUMP ORGANS ON THE NEW TORE
STEAL.
From the Cleveland Lender.
The Mugwump papers of New York
city, the Times and the Tost, exerted all
their influence in the November election
for the success of the Democratic ticket,
and it is only fair to attribute to them a
share of the responsibility for the recent
outrage of stealing two seats in the sen
ate. Had they devoted their energies to
the work of overthrowing Tammany
rule a larger vote would have been
called out, more Hcpublicans would
have been elected, and by larger major
ities, and Hill would not have dared to
tamper with the returns. Now these
disguised Democratic or can a advise that
the Democracy be allowed to enjoy the
fruits of their crimes unmolested.
The Post says of the action of the can
vassing board:
That it was a bold theft cannot be denied.
Neither can It bo denied that the canvassing
board perpetrated It In defiance of tho deci
sions ot tho supremo court and tho court of
appeals, Both courts duclnrcd the so-called
Mylod return, upon which the state canvass
ing board declured the Democratic candi
date elected, to be illegal and erroneous. The
lower courts granted a writ of mandamus re
straining the state canvassing board from
canvassing the Mylod return, and the court
of appeals affirmed this order. The board's
conduct constitutes a clear case of con
tempt of both courts, und a clear case of
breach of faith, for when the election con
tests were referred to the courts of appeal
for Dual decision, bojh parties agreted to
abide by thu result. The Democrats, through
the state canvassing board, have broken
their word and have stolen a seat in the sen
ate to which they have not the shadow of a
legal or moral claim.
Alter matting tne above emphatic de
nunciation of this crime, the Post advises
Republicans to allow the non-eletccd
members of the senate to organize that
body as they please, to go on and gerry
mander the state, and “instead of at
tempting any foolish plan for prevent
ing an organization of the senate," to
prosecute the canvassing board.
The Times says that the Republican
party “is not only overthrown, but
the enemy has the power of so
shackling it that its immediate rise
seeris impossible.” Then it devotes
nearly a column to the abuse and vinifi
cation of the Republican leader, Mr.
Thomas C. Platt, sheding tears of lamen
tation over the report that this gentle
man will recuinmeud that “the Republi
can senators shall refuse to perform
their public duties until the Democrats
shall concede to them certain partisan
advantages, or agree not to avail them
selves of certain partisan advantages.”
HORRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE.
From tho Fremont Tribune.
If by some hocus-pocus a special ses
sion of the legislature should be called
wouldn’t the Independent members
present a sorry spectacle, though, when
they showed up at the state house
again? When they went home last
April, lugging away from the capital
all the waste baskets, pocket knives,
spittoons, and the like they could carry
off they were also loaded down with
great lug, corrugated chuckles which
came from thinking how they were
going to knock seven kinds of tar out of
the Kcpublinan party by and hy. and
tear the lining out of everything which
stood up against them on the Newberry
bill. Perhaps half the members ran for
a county office last fall, and the worms
are already fattening on their political
carcasses Their period of transitory
glory has parted forever. To witness
these skeletons and decaded remin
iscences stalking about the capital
again, summoned thither by Jim Boyd
to Michiganize Nebraska, would not be
a spectacle for the timid but would be
something to the lover of the sepulchral
and grinning gaslliness worth going
miles and miles to see.
The two legislative hails would each
be a chamber of horrors filled with dead
men’s bones.
THE CITIES OX TOP.
From the Sioux City Journal.
It will be worth while to watch the
progress of the gerrymandering of New
York by the legislature now in session.
It will re-district the state, both the
congressional and legislative districts,
and to that end, according to the state
constitution, will first take a census.
There will thus be a double chance for
the Democratic party to serve its patisan
interests, and it may be trusted to im
prove it to the utmost. It is hard to
predict to what partisan excesses this
coming gerrymader may not go, but the
general effect of it can be now set down
with absolute certainty. The Democrat
ic gerrymander in New York will be
determined hy the purpose to make
supreme the influence of the cities, and
particularly the cities of New York and
Brooklyn. It is in those cities that Dem
ocratic strength is massed, and every
point will be strained in order to give
them undue representation. It is to he
frankly admited that the present ap
portionment in Mew York is favorable
to the farmer population and to the
stute outside of the large cities. It is
not hard to point out specific cases
where the former has considerable ad
vantage under the Republican method
of districting. The rural population in
Mew York is Republican, as it is quite
generally in the north. When by the
thefts and high-banded usurpations of
Gov. Hill the Democratic party secured
control of both branches of the legis
lature it was determined that all the
disoriminations possible in apportion
ment will be made in favor of the cities.
The vast Democratic majorities of the
tough wards of Mew York will be given
much greater representation than an
equivalent population of farmers.It
has heretofore been necessary for the
whole state above Harlem bridge to
give a Republican majority of 60,000 or
70,000 in order to overcome the Dem
ocratic majorities in New York or
Brooklyn. Under the Democratic ger
rymander that will now be promptly
forthcoming the task of the rural pop
ulation will be enormously increased.
The Democratic party naturilly finds
its strength among the toughest popula
lions of the north. It is very generally
true—although, of course, there ure ex
ceptions—that the toughest precinct in
the toughest ward in ull the cities and
towns between the oceans is the pre
cinct that returns the biggest Demo
cratic majority. If you should take
the election returns of eveiy state, and
should blindly mark those precincts
which cast unusally large Democratic
majorities, you would have a pretty
good list of the toughest precincts in
the United States. It is these precincts
that will he given undue representation
in the Democratic gerrymander which
is now being devised in Mew York, and
the same result always fellows Dem
ocratic apportionments.
HARRISON FROM AWAY BACK.
From Pomaroj's Advance Thought, dem.
President Uarrison is not an immed
iate evolution from nothing, but a man
with an honorable and fnr-reaching line
age. lie was born at North Bend, O.,
March 20, 1833, and thus started out as
starts a bud from a tree to be an entity
or individual on his own account. One
of his ancestors was a general in the
English army under Oliver Cromwell
and signed the death warrant of King
Charles I, who stood god-fathei to aline
ot dogs now recognized as King Charles
spaniels. On the swing-back of the
Stuarts to power, General Harrison was
no longer in it as a fayorite, and in 1660
was hanged, and thus put out of the way
as a disturber of Kings. His family
wholly or in part fled to America, and
one of those who thus escaped, adher
ing to the Uarrisonian line of thought
and action, was one of the signers of
the declaration of independence. His
son. William Henry Harrison, was elect
ed president of the United States in
1840, and died in the white house, or
presidential living resort in Washington,
one month nfter his inauguration. His
grandson, Benjamin, is now president t
the United States, and will probably be
named or nominated as his own suc
cessor, though ht may find the way so
up hill be will not serve more than one
term. At the same time, the Harrisons
are hardy stayers and stubborn retainers
of their very positive lines of individual
ity, even as they are of very good re
pute. __ _
THE DEMOCRATIC WAY.
From the Kearney Hub.
The Democeatic theft of the New
York legislature, through the assistance
of the courts in giving Certificates of
election to defeated Democratic can
didates, is so brazen as to be almost
beyond belief. But nothing is too bad
or bold for that prince of political
rascality, Dave Dili, to plan, or for
Tammany to execute. If the scheme
is fully carried out, and the legislative
and congressional districts are gerry
mandered to insure Democratic suprem
acy, the Empire State will be a first
class pluce for honest men to emigrate
from.
BBO. WATSON ON WALL STREET.
from the Coleridge Blade.
Since Edward M. Field’s "nervous
system broke down” and ho was found
guilty of stealing a few hundred thous
and dollars, it is said that there are
quite a number of prominent Wall street
men who are showing similar symptoms;
and three or four have already depnrted
for Philadelphia for special treatment.
It is the opinion of the Blade that about I
ten years in the penitentiary at hard \
labor would have a quieting effect on j
their nerves, and it might have a ten
dency to prevent the spread of the dis
ease.
ITS OWN OBSCURITY.
From the Atkinson Enterprise,
The O’Neill Item refers to Atkinson as
an obscure hamlet in the western part of
Holt county If the Item wasn’t even
more otscare than it would have its
readers believe Atkinson to be the insin
uation would deserve a severe rebuke.
The Publio Lands. |
From the Denver Republican.
At the end of the last fiscal year there
were 579,664,683 acre of public land un
dis posed of. This was exclusive of
Alaska, the Indian territory west of the
96th meridian, and of course, all the
state land. Of this amount less than
half had be surveyed. i
Nearly all of this land lies west of the
Missouri river, and the greater part of
it within the so-called arid region. The
amount disposed of during the year was
8,151,939 acres, a smullcr area than the
quanty disposed of in any one of the
five years immediately preceding. The
falling oft in the number of acres dis
posed of shows that the land office is
teaching the limits of the desired land.
The people are just as land hungry as
they ever were, but tillable land cannot
now be readily found. Much of the un
surveyed area lies in the Rocky mount
ains and will never be available for
agriculture. - A great deal also at pres
ent arid, and, of course, it does uot
invite settlers.
This brings the government face to
face with the problem of making as much
as possible of the arid land available for
tiliage. As long as it remains in its
present condition it will not be taken up,
and the settlement of the Far West will
be retarded. In the interest of people
looking for home, and also of arid states
and territories, some measure should be
adopted to reclaim whatever of the arid
region may reclaimable.
as we have frequently said in these
columns, the most practicable way to do
this is for congress to grunt the lands to
the states and territories upon condition
that they undertake the work of reclama
tion. It would be folly to expect con
gress to appropriate this money for the
construction of the requisite ditches aud
reservoirs. If this arid region were to
wait for its reclamation until congress
appropriated this mouey, it would re
main arid until long after thi3 generation
shall have pussed away. If congress
grants the lands to the states and ter
ritoiies, they will do the work of
reclamation and not a dollar will have
to be taken out of the national treasury'
in the construction of a single ditch or
reservoir.
No healthy person need fear any dan
gerous consequences from an attack of
la grippe if properly treated. It is much
the same as a severe cold and requires
precisely the same treatment. Remain
quietly at home and take Chamberlain’s
cough remedy as directed for a severe
cold and a prompt and complete recovery
is sure to follow. This remedy also
counteracts any tendency of lagrippe to
result in pneumonia. Among the many
thousands who have used it during the
epidemics of the past two years we have
yet to learn of a single case that has not
recovered or that has resulted in pneu
monia. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale
by P. C. Corrigan, Druggist.
Don't be deceived by J. P. Mann’s big
advertisement. If you want good goods
at bed rock prices go to Roy & Mc
Gowan, Scottville.
-THE—
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EMPORIUM.
Will not move for several weeks yet
Trade is too good to pull up now,
and besides we must dispose of a
thousand pair of boots and shots
first, if you want boots and shoes
at manufacturer’s prices , we have
them for yon, by the pair or case,
any way to suit your circumstances,
You will positively save money if yon
buy of us. No shoddy stuff at high
prices, but the BEST at the lowest
PRICES.
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Of heavy fine wool underware that
•sold at wholesale.lor $ 2.30 now' are
down to $2 to close. This is a rare
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