The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY.
W. D. Mathkws, Editor.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The republicans of thu Sixth congressional
district of Nebruska are hereby notified that
tliero will bn a republican delegate conven
tion held tu the city of Kearney, on Tuesday
the 2# day of Aprrll, for the purpose of
electing two delegates and two alternates to
attend the republican national convention
at Minneapolis.
Also to designate the time and placo for
holding the congressional convention of this
district for nominating a cundlduto for con
gress, also to transact sueli other business us
may regularly eoiuo before It.
The basis of representation Is the same as
that fixed by the stuto central oommltlec<
for the state convention, but no county shall
have less then two delegates, as follows:
CouiiTV No. Dut,.iCounty No. Dbl.
Hoyd. 2 Key a Paha. a
Bluln ... . 2
Brown. 4
11 u ITalo. 10
Box Hutto. 0
Banner. a
Cheyenne. 5
Cherry. 6
Custer. 12
Dawson... 7
llouel. 3
Dawes...... 7
Garfield. 2
Grunt. 2
Greeley. 2
Howard. 4
Holt. 0
Hooker. 2
The central committee recommend that no
proxies be admitted, but thut each county
elect alternates, and In the ubsenco of both
delegates and alternates the delegates pres
ent cast the full voto of tho delegation.
J. E. Evans, Chairman.
North Platte, Neb.
W. W. Bahnev, Secretary.
Kearney, Nob.
Kimball
Keith. 2
Lincoln. 0
Logan. 2
Loup. 2
MePnerson. 2
Rock .,.... a
Sherman. a
Shorldun. It
HcottsHluff. U
Sioux. 2
Thomas. 2
Valley . 4
Wheeler. 2
Total.130
Iowa is for Harrison.
Joe Bartley’s boom is growing.
The days of caucuses and conventions
approach.
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Be careful in selecting candidates for
the city offices.
‘'OcnVAL,”as he was called by the
boys years ago, should be called into the
fight again.
Tns Frontier favors, equal taxation.
Tho rich should bear an equal propor
tion to the poor.
Tint Butte Banner evidently has a
printer at the case and press, as it is
much improved all around.
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Jack McCall is not a candidate for
governor, but he has lots of friends who
would throw their hats up for him if he
was.
Scotty must have felt pretty good
over the manner Dsc Wells* song was
received by the audience the other
night. _ _ _
The Burwell Enterprise is a a neat
paper, thoroughly republican, and
worthy tho nice patronage it appears to
receive.
The World-Herald favors Boles for
president, so it is safe to predict that
the Nebraska delegation will not be
very Bolesetrous, .
If a country newspaper should work
a fake off on Its readers once a week it
would soon be tabooed, but the World
Herald is a dally fake and Beems to
prosper._
The Ord Qqix says that "prohibition
is good, but the Ktulev institutes arc
better. A little law within a man is
more powerful than a library of law
without.”
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Probably the World-Herald misrep
resents when it says that Gov. Thayer
will make another effort to wrest the
governorship from Mr. Boyd. The gen
eral is not crazy, we hope.
. Omaha is in Nebraska, not Nebraska
in Omaha, aa many country papers ap
pear to think.. This talk of fighting
every man who aspires to office because
| he happens to live in Omaha is all fool
ishness. *
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The Nellgh Leader should not refer
to the Norfolk institute os tbs "Kscley."
There are but three Keeley institutes in
Nebraska—O’Neill, Blair and Beatrice—
a and the public should not be misled in
to believing these imitators to be gen
L nine. _
f Dr. G. L. Miller before the demo
i: oratic state central committee: “lean
say that I have it not over three days
. • old, direct from Grover Cleveland, that
the blunders committed by the present
democratic congress haye never been ex
ceeded.”
A Washington dispatch gays there is a
move on foot to bring out Senator Man
derson for president. We take *it that
this is a move to weaken Harrison’s
strength and we do not believe it will
work. Mr. Manderson should consent
to »thing of the kind.
Tot Fremont Tribune wisely remarks:
; “The supremacy of the party and the
glorious principles it contends for are of
£ vastly more importance than that any
.. member of the party should have re
« Tenge for any real or fancied wrong.
Peace and victory must be had.”
"Unable to make warp and woof of
their own, they have conflned them
selves to trying to shoot boles through
the cloth we have made," is the way
Tom Reed describes the democratic sit—
, nation on the tariff. Reed seems to
, give the democrats more worry as the
v leader of a minority than he did as a
“despotic C*ar” In thechair.
Tine Keeley gruduntes are practical
probitionists, not theorists. In politics
the boys arc democrats am! republicans,
leaving the aide issues alone.
In its latest circular the committee of
seven of the Columbian party says*
"Clevelandism aud democracy are two
distinct things. Between Cleveland and
democracy there is a great gulf fixed,
and thut is what is the matter with
Cleveland now.” This is not btrioily
true- *What is the matter with Cleve
land now is that between Cleveland and
the democratic nomination there is a
Hill, not a gulf.
Ex-Sisnatoh Ingalls said in his
speech at Topeka last week: “1 am
tired of Jthe ‘IrisU-Americau, the ‘En
glish American' the ‘Scandanavian-Am
ericau' the ‘French-Amcricau’ the ‘Ger
man-American I’ Welcome Irishmen!
Welcome Englishmen! Welcome Scan
dauavian! Welcome Frenchmen I Wel
come Germans! But welcome only as
Ainerican-Amcricans." Mr. Ingalls may
he out of politics, but he still knows
how to strike the popular chord of pa -
triotism.
Wk are pleased at the honorable and
sensible course taken by some of our
liquor dealers in refusing to sell to men
attending the Keeley Institute. The law
is very plain and very severe with re
gard to selling liquor to this class of
men; a saloon keeper takes great
chances when he ignores it. Public sen
timent is certainly with the institute,
and a dealer who deliberately fights it
and endeavors to induce its patients to
drink is indeed very liable to get
into trouble. A word to tne wise ought
to be sufficient.
Capt. F. M. Douuington, of Chad
ron, was in town last week sizing up the
political situation, and expressed himself
as satisfied that be was in the congress
ional race in good slAipe, with fair psos
peels of securing the republican nomi
nation. It nominated Fred Dorrington
will make one of the best canvasses
ever madq in Nebraska, and wo believe
would win. He is a magnetic man, takes
well on first sight, and the more he
moves around the district the more
friends he has. The republicans have a
number of available men who would be
winners, and under the circumstances
whoever is selected no mistake will be
made.
The men who know David B. Ilill
most intimately say the harshest thiugs
about him as a public man. Dr. 0. S.
Carr, of Elmira, Hill’s home, spoke to
the democrats at Columbus, Ohio, Mon
day night and divided public men into
three classes, as moral, unmoral and im
moral, as statesmen, politicians and
demagogues, as reformers, cnnformers
and deformers of the body politics. The
doctor said he had long known Hill,
and, being of his own party, he had
tried to put him in the second class men
tioned, but he had been unable to lift
him out of the third class. There is a
mVked distinction between the esti
mates put on Hill by those who know
him intimataly and those on Harrison,
or Blaine, or Reed, or McKinley,' or
Cullom, by people in their own homes,
without regard to politics. To regard
Hill as a groat man it is necessary to get
a long distance away from him.
Tns writer is a personal friend of
senator Arthur Briggs, of Omaha, and
ought not to give him away in his polit
ical or private aspirations, yet the temp
tation is too great in this instance The
Senator came up to O’Neill last week,
and as plain Arthur Briggs commenced
tot feel around the political soft places
in the endeavor to cause to be born a
little boomlet for himself for United
States senator to succeed Paddock. • Ar
thur is a modest little cuss and an old
bachelor, and laboring under the old
chestnutty delusion that is is necessary
to make friends first with the women
and babies he applied himself assiduously
in that direction until finally he really
became convinced that all fair females
were stuck on him. This is where he
overreached himself, and he is today a
political ruin. Arthur was quite- plain
and even grnngery in attire when he
first came, but in a few days he assayed
the airs of a dude, wearing button hole
bouquets, waxing his moustache and
parting what little hair he lmd on his
head in tne middle. In fact ho was a
lullah, and the men soou grew to hate
him. He was trespassing on their pre
serves. but they got even with the pre
tentious Omaha senator, busted his
boom all to pieces and sent him home in
disgrace. Arthur had loafed around the
Keeley club rooms a good deal and told
some big stories about his ability as a
hunter. This interested Geo. Merritt
and tho writer, and we proceeded to
pump him, and as we are both familiar
with the pump gun we soon ascertained
that in reality Briggs wonldn’t know a
prairie chicken or duck if he met one on
the street. Merritt casually remarked
that young chickens were now about
big enough to eat and young mallards
were beginning to fly a little. Briggs
took it all in and was anxious to go out
for a hunt. To make a long story short
we got our outfits out, same as though it
was in August instead of March and
went over on Dry creek. It was a little
chilly of course, but Merritt had a bottle
of Keeley medicine for himself, tl.e
writer some peppermint and Briggs some
of Andy Gallagher’s best budge, so we
managed to keep interested. We as
| ourod the senator that we must divide
the party and go nimbly nnd afoot. So
we headed the Omaha nimrod into the
sand hills, telling him he would surely
find sand hill cranes any way. The gal
lant senator, arrayed in corduroys, rub
ber boots, with gull a.ul dog, was soon
lost to sight but to memory, oh dear.
Merritt anil the writer then found coin
foil aldo quarters at Eryolileb’s and
awaited results. In about four hours we
became alarmed. It was growing colder
and night was coming on. We started
out to llnd Briggs. We found him, but
oh, heavens, what a sight! Oh, for a
kodak! His clothes were in rags, his
bools tom to shreds, his gun gone, ditto
the dog, cactus and sand burs adorned
his person, and his hands and face
bleeding profusely. Evidently the sen
ator had taken a tumble to the racket,
but he was game, you bet. He said be
had killed eighty-nine chickens, twenty
four ducks, eleven cranes, fourteen
geese, and better than all a magnificent
elk. Well, here was a liar that would
shame Ananias. We wauted to know
where his game was and he said be had
it all in a pile over in the bills, all but
the elk—that be only wounded it and
after a bard fight the noble animal had
taken the gun in his mouth and run off.
Diligent search failed to find the small
game, but we did strike a bloody trail,
and following it for a mile found a year
ling steer iu the brush on the qreek in
the agonies of death. One sight of
Briggs caused it to give up the ghost.
The noble senator was so excited that
we feared to tell him the truth, so we
permitted him to call the steer an elk,
had it hauled to Erychleb’s house, prom
ised that it should he brought to town
and shipped to Omaha. Senator Briggs
was taken to his hotel after daik, re
paired and refurnished as far as possi
ble, and the next morning he unosten
tatiously took the varnisued hurry cars
for home. He certainly looked sad and
forlorn, but probably was happy, at
leas’ he promised to come up and see us
next fall when jack rabbits and hears
were ripe.
We received the following letter the
other day:
South Sioux City, Neb.. March 12.
W. D. Matiiews, O’Neill, Neb.,
Dear Sir:—?,. M. Baird, of iheTimes, showed
mo your letter to him, from which I learu
that you are connected with the lveeley In
stitute at O’Neill. I at one time knew W. D.
Mathews in Lena, Illinois,—a printer and
known as Doe Mathews. Are you the same
person? Yours respectfully,
Elias Stamm.
Yea, verily the same, Uncle Eli, and
yet it is hard to realize that we are the
same “Little Doc” you knew as a boy
nearly a quarter of a ceutury ago. Your
letter brings to mind many pleasant and
many unpleasant recollections. Once
more we feel the beneficent influences of
a dear Christian mother, attend the Sab
bath school regularly with Uxicla Eli
Stamm as teacher, and how well we re
member his explanations of the ques
tions that came up. In fact among all
our adult friends when a hoy, none is
held in more high esteem than Elias
Stamm, and though many years have
passed we feel that we should recognize,
ills honest old face in a moment from
the photograph so indelibly impressed
on our mind. Not only in the Sabbath
school hut in the daily walks of life
Uncle Eli was the boy’s friend. During
the trying times of war, when father
and brother were down south, and
mother and the little kids were strug
gling along as best they could such men
were onr friends, and the pleasenr. smile
is before us now and the words, “Well,
Doc how is everything at home?” or
“Had a letter from your father lately?”
and sometimes it was a five or ten cent
shin plaster that gladdened our boyish
heart and mado us feel that Uncle Eli
was indeed our true friend.
Since then we have passed through
many trials and troubles, experienced
many pleasures too, aud the days of
boyhood revived by this letter are good
to think about. Made an orphan when
very young, wo knocked around the
world considerable, at times forgot early
training, and it is not strange that we
did not become a saint w;hen it was so
much easier to become a sinner. It is
not near so hard work to raise a crop of
wild oats as tame oues—the crop is
easily sown and requires no exercise of
care and judgment. However, Uncle
Eli, we have never forgotten what is
tight, and now that we have settled
down as a staid “old man,” with wife
and five children to look after, we can
afford to retrospect a little, commiserat
ting the wrong and felicitating the good
wc have done. Sometimes we think the
good predominates, that if not a Chris
tian in the ordinary me.auing of the
term, we at least have the conscience of
one who has at least tried to do right,
and that when it comes to a final settle
ment with Him who alone decides the
future, the judgment will not be of the
most severe character.
But come over, Uucle Eli, and we will
have a good, oid-fusbioned visit, anti if
your arms and legs are well fastened,
you will at least be physically safe.
TEE REPUBLICAN CLUB.
. (Continued from hint week.)
After listening to one of these tin
plate singers the other day until I shed
tears for the working man and his din
I ner pail, and I really think I could have
j filled the pail with tears, I stepped into
Mr. Brennan's, one of our hardware
[merchants, and inquired of him the
CHICAGO ■ CLOTHING ■ HOft
lie Fair VVitli Yourself and
. SEE OUR SPRING STOCK OF MEN’S AND BOYS CLOTHE
HATS, CAPS, GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES.
No Firm in north Nebraska has Stocked Up as we have this season. It pres
opportunity for economical buying that nobod v can aford to miss our imense store thin *
presents. A Sight Worth Seeing the way we have Stocked Up. for the S?
trade, and that LOW PriCOS we will give you this season on Clothing is worthy'
patronage of every customer in Holt county. Our immense stock was bought direct *!
the manufacturers, which enables us to do just what we advertise and will prove the g. ^
you come and see us. When need of Over Alls, Cheap Pants, Wor£
Shirts, Jackets* Cloves, Working Shoes, anything to wear, do not!
our store. Come right in. Come to us for your Spring Goods and you will come outaW
PEP H^OClC Prices at the CHICAGO CLOTHING Hoils
MCBRIDE BUILDING SOUTH P. O., O’NEILL, NEB
J. E. SMITH, Manager.
prices of tin at this time, March 1, 1893,
and he replied as follows:
Tin never was cheaper than now. Be
fore the McKinley bill wg sold 8 qt tin
pans at 35, 30 and 15 cts; at Ibis time 10
cts. Pint cups before McKinley bill 7
to 10 cts; since 5 cts. Milk pails before
McKinley bill 30 cts; since 15 cts. Din
ner pails ten years ago $1.35; now 75 cts.
Two qt pails four and five years ago 30
to 35 cts; now 15 cts.
Prom there I went home and weighed
my tin ware, and I think I have about
as much as the average family, and
found 35 pounds including the wire, the
solder, the bails of pails, &c.,—35
pounds all told, and some of it I have
used in my house and also in the hotel
business for twenty years. I was so
tilled with grief that I could hardly fig
ure, but then I did, and how mrich do
you think I have? Or how much would
I suffer if I had to buy this f.ll now. To
begin with let us suppose that the tariff
is a tax (this is hard for a republican)
but we will give the democrats a chance
and see how they will come out. If it
is a tax it would cost us 3 3-310 cents
per pound more than if admitted free
and my 35 pounds of tin would cost me
77 cents, and as I do not buy my tin every
year I wfll strike an average. Borne I
have had twenty years and most of the
rest will last from three to ten years. A
fair average is seven years. That would
be 11 cents a year imposed on me by this
brutal tariff. Just weep once more for
the tin pail, if you please. But there is
the sugar—tax is off 3ugar—and we will
figure the democratic way and on every
dollar’s worth or twenty pounds of sugar
we buy, we make 40 cents. So rn order
to get even with McKinley we will have
to buy six pounds of sugar, and just
think that the republicans insist on hav
ing the next president.
While we are paying a tax of 5-13 of
one cent on a dinner pail which will last
us five years. But. my dear friends, the
tariff is not a tax and if you will study
the matter carefully you will soon dis
cover that your tin pail soug-aud-danco
man has been prevaricating, that the tin
humbug is all a lie. If you do not be
lieve it weigh your tin and figure your
self, and when you have thoroughly
mastered the subject you can safely bet
the last dollar you have got that even
one of the free trade campaign stories
are just as thin as the tin plate story.
The aim of every Amerioan citizen
without regard to party should be to
vote for such measures ns would best
advance the prosperity of our country,
to give employment to the unemployed
and to open up our mines and forests to
help build up every new industry which
will give aid to the working man with
out imposing additional burdens. Eng
land is a standing menace to the pros
perity of'the United States, and has
been since the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers on the bleak coast of Massachu
setts. In our troubles with foreign coun
tries and in the war of the rebellion her
hand has been always working to down
America and her people, and in con
gress her money is a potent factor in
passing laws in the interest of her man
ufacturers. Why there are so many
people in this country who hate En
gland so cordially that will constantly
vote for her and against Americans in
name of party, i3 beyond my compre
hension. The closer the subject of the
tin industry is studied the plainer is
shown the fact that it would be suicidal
to admit tin free. To maintain the pres
ent tariff will soon give au impulse to
the various industries related to its man
| ufaeture, the mining of iron ore, lead,
j limestone, coal and tin. The lumber
end brick industries will receive the
stimulus resulting from the home man
ufacture of tin plate, the increased con
sumption by this new army of laborers
will bring a home market for all the
products of our western farms and at
increased prices. Let us bid farewell to
the belief that we have to look to En
gland for markets. Let us build up our
own homes and befoie another century
passes by England will be among the
has-beens.
At the close of his remarks Col.Towle ;
was loudly applauded and congratulated
upou the able manner in which he had
handled the subject.
Mr. Neil Brennan, who was to have
addressed the members upon “The Ef
fect of Free Trade in Ireland,” was suf
fering from an attack of la grippe and
was unable to appear. However, at the
next meeting of the club, March 19, Mr.
Brennan will be on hand. In addition
to this the program has been made
doubly interesting by the announce
ment that the Hon. L. T. Shanner will
address the club upoa ‘-The( Iron snd
Steel Industry.”
Eepublicans, Attention.
There will be a meeting of the Tlcpub
licau Central Committe in the Republi
Club rooms at O'Neill, Neb., on Satur
day, March 26th, 1892, for the purpose
of calling a convention to elect dele
gates to attend the state and congress
ional conventions to be held in April,
1892, and to take action on any matters
pertaining to the good of the party.
G. C. Hazelet,
Chairman Central Committee.
Irrigation.
To the Editor of The Frontier:
We have iatelv been provided with
numerous articles on this subject and
it is one that has deep interest to the
residents of this county. All of those
articles have advocated irrigation by
ditches or a ditch supplied by water
from the Elkhoru river, and the writers
do not seem .to realize the absorbing
character of the soil through which that
water will haye to be conducted in this
county, aud that such a ditch would
have to be[cemented throughout to make
it possible to retain any,water for any
distance. All the conduits leading
from the main one to accommodate the
citizens must also be lined with cement.
The sandy and gravelly nature
of the soil is of such a resislable char
acter that breakages would be frequent
from its shifting nature, that large and
constant losses would occur with the
probability at times of having to dam
the source and empty the whole ditch
for repairs, and likely at a time when it
would deprive the patrons of the neeaed
supply and be fatal to the crops.
Another fsature of the scheme is that
in some localities the hilly nature of the
country is such that it would be impos
sible for some farms to be supplied with
water from this ditch at a point that
would enable it to be led and properly
distributed on land that would be culti
vated, and I am of the opinion that irri
gation from the streams by ditches in
Holt county is a subject that though it
may sound well in the papers is entirely
inpracticable and illusory.
A possible way to irrigate here would
be to have a well sunk on the most ele
vated part of the cultivated land on the
farm, have a cemented reservoir of suit
able size built on the surface and
banked with, earth at the sides, the
water to be raised by a fifteen-foot wind
mill with a large sized pump, and then
at the proper time for flooding with the
reservoir lull of water and the pump
kipt iu operation, let the water from a
gale in the reservoir aud couduct it by
trenches over the land to be irrigated. I
think by this means each farm might be
provided with the facilities for irrigation
and if the lay or surface of the land cul
tivated is such that all of it can not be
flooded, that which can be flooded will
produce enough mure to make up aud
perhaps exceed the product of the whole
without irrigation, and avoid total fail
ure that might result from hot winds and
excessive drouth. e. n u.
For sale, by D. P. O'Sullivan, living
one mile west of O’Neill, two good
brood mares, both with foul, aud one
good young horse. Wyi sell reasonable.
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