PtrRuaitxn every thitrhpay by THE I'HdNTlEB PHINTINU COMPANY. ' • W. I*. Matwkws, Editor. fur-President: , BENJAMIN HAKKIHON. of Indiana. Per yloe-VrosUlent: WIIITELAW ItEID, of New York. !.,;s COUNTY CONVENTION. The county central committee met as per the call of the chairman, in the re publican club rooms, in O’Neill, Neb., on Saturday, July !>, 1802, and iieued the following call: The republican elector* of Holt county are requested to send delegate* from the neverul towuslilp* and wurd» to meet In con vention at the court home In the city of 'O’Neill, Neh., on Saturday. July HO. 1HIB. at 10o'clock A. M., for the purposo of placing In uoinluatlou candidate* for the following clltces: Oae county attorney, i Two representatives. Also de leant it* to the elate, congressional and senatorial conventions. The several townships and ward* uro en titled to representation ita fellow-, being bant'd on thi' veto east for lion, George II. Hastings. attorney general In 1»IK), giving one dologate at large and one for every twenty volt'* anil one for ovory section. It Is rooomineded that the caucuses In the different townships and wards l>o held on Saturday July at. IHtrj. at 'J o'clock c. u. A rueelli .Jng of the central committee will hu held on that day. all the members are re quested to he present. The time will hu stated hy the chairman In the convention: The various townships anil wards are en titled to representation as follows! Atkinson....IftfO'Nelll, Ikl.. I tot,ley..... 2,1'addock... il evelaml..... 2|IMcusinitvlow. 2 inliers. 4 Hock Vails. ill. SlHaratoga. II jslln.gisoolt. « vnmet. S Slilelds. I! Swing. ft.Swan. 2 ynnels. Il| Steel Creek.4 Pali vlew. y stiian.ft Ural Ian.II'Sand ('reek.. Valley. B Sherldan. II III Verdigris.II omliig... 1! llowdalc.. 2 ritiro.2 lelil, 1st ward.. . 4 Total.....IB jjulll. 2d ward.a| . II. t'HONIN, 11. 6. HAr.gl.KT, Secretary. Chairman. .The county convention has been called July 80. WItbvenson is still waiting to hear Jniu Grover. cTV'mi this issue Tint Frontier enters ■pon its fourteenth year. - - ■ i 5 --- ■ Tint congressional convention for this 'district will be hold In Chadron on 'August 10. The World-llerald saya that Boyd's Mends have induced him to become a MUdidate for re-election. What is to h# done with his vetoing record? The amount of farm mortgages re leased in Holt county during the month uf June exceeds the amount of those fled $37,001.08, and chattels released ex weds those filed $7,000.80. Not much 4$pipalgn fodder here for calamity CRomaic is receiving good Mfiport from a large number of the re-. Mbllcan papers throughout the state will make a strong candidate. The JMthple realise that a good man is needed Ms fail to head the ticket, and they M|ow that Judge Crounse is that man. "w JTiik manufacturing industries in jOfcvcl&nd Ohio, have more than doubled y the last 10 years. The number of Muds employed In 1890 is almost three flliuee as many, as were employed in 1880 mid the amount of wages paid in 1800 is .408,080 as against $8,503,983 in 1880. is Is protection. is a curious fact and one worthy M careful consideration," says the In Retrial World, '‘that every civilized .mtion on the globe, except the United pates, has immigrants by hundreds of thousands.’’ Yet calamity leaders with d§ wiser look and more discordant screech Pan the owl would have us believe the American laborer tho most down-trodden OSeature in existence. i iWiien James H. Riggs was appointed ‘pstmaster it waa upon the recomen lllon of representatives of all factions, ’ Pd were he a gentleman who had the pinclples of republicanism and fairness TPhued In his heart would have con anted these same representatives re garding a successor, instead of boldly Wpd defiantly selling the office for a 'elated price, payable in coin of the palm- | __ >Tmr O’Neill postofflee fight is to be deplored. It is a aorry circumstance When a few men will prostitute the in Influence, which is theirs by virtue of positions the people have seen fit to give ' them, to foist upon these same people a postmaster who does not give satisfact ion and is not a representative man. This political piracy has endangered republican success in this county, bee that proper credit is given where credit is.due. ’< --* '•"-— \ Tscsi is trouble over the change in the O'Neill poetofflee. and Ths Froktibb regu late several large-etxed kicks. Probably Doc Wanted It again.—Fremont Herald. * : Considering the fact that the genial gentleman who has’ license-to shape the destiny of this page has been revelling in the luxuries of the effete cast for the past three weeks and knew nothing of >» tier’s kicking of the same. 8aYu the London Graphic: “Knglinh mcn will watch Cleveland'* campaign with' cordial sympathy, for not only li his tariff policy in accord with the Orthodox economic school of England, but his party platform wisely condemned the arrogant and irritating foreign poli cy of its opponents." This surely is a great recommendation for a presidential candidate to go before the American peo ple with and ask support. History em phasizes the assertion that anything that pleases England is invariably opposed to the best Interests of the' United Btatcs. j Enoi.tsn papers and American free tradeis find in the Homestead unpleas antness mighty charms to sooth their savage breasts. They deride the idea of the protected workingman being forced to hold his situation with a Winchester, and of course credit protection with bringing about such a state of affairs. While the difficulty at Homestead is la mentahle indeed, we cannot see -any reason or justice for ascribing the cause to protection. If the managers of the Homestead works are opposed to organ ized labor, they would be opposed under free trade as well as under protection. If they are grasping and unpbilantbropie enough to deny workingmen a fair per centage of the profits under protection, so would they be under free trade, if the workingmen refuse a reduction undei protection, nod resist efforts to destroy their amalgamated association, so they, would under free trade. We don’t be lieve there is a man in the United States that posscses an ounce of common sense who believes, honestly, that the Home stead trouble Is due to protection. Ouu enterprising correspondent from Shield* sonds In the following presidential s I, E I H D N A N I> F I HL1) BDLKIFDNDKIUIIS Oommoiice with the large “W" In the center and ztg-xug to the corner and see how many times you cuu count their names In the above siiuure.—Independent. "Sambo Sunflower” makes some sav age passes at cuteness. If bo is pos sessed of more discretion than valor he will spend bis days communing with nature in tbo neighborhood of bis native hills and tickle the bosom of this virgin soil with a walking cultivator for per adventure if he were to wander into a strange community some one would •teal him ■ and paste him up in curio hall among the flying fish, horned toads and two-headed calves. If the independents will commence at the large "D” in the center and zig-zag In any direction they choose they can see below the fato that will be theirs in November: •xva.ta A .Y / £3# D EFEAT. Jefferson and Jackson on the Demo cratic Platform. The platform. adopted by the demo cratic national convention at Chicago opens with the following paragraph: Tlio n'prf'Nentuti VPs of tho democratic party of the United States, In national convention assembled, do reaffirm their alleftlanoe to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exempltltod by the long and Ulnstrons line of nine of Ills successors in democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland. Our greatest historians do not for a moment allow the right of tha demo cratic party of the present day to claim either Jefferson, Madison or Jackson as its founders or as the exponents of its doctrines. In the history of the United States there have been four democratic parties. The first, the party of Jeffer son and Madison, was developed by the issues arising after the revolution, issues chiefly due to conflicting-conceptidns of govermental power. The second and third existed in the days of Jackson; Thljr were the southern free-trade de mocracy founded by Calhoun, and the national democratic party, of whieh Jackson was the leader, Jefferson the prototype, and which was more opposed in principles and doctrines to the Cal houn wing than it was to the whig party itself. The last is the Cleveland free-trade parly of to-day, the legitimate successor of the Calhoun democracy, having as little right to trace decent from the party of Jefferson and Jackson as it hag to call itself the successor of the party of Washington and Hamilton. We have spoken of this at such length merely to call attention to the hypocrisy of democratic leaders in alluding to Jefferson and Jackson as their patron saints, when they know themselves that on the issues of the present they are oc cupying a position entirely opposed to that held by the illustrious patriots whose names they invoke. For the purpose of showing this moro clearly, we have gathered and giye below the opinions and sentiments of those great leaders on the principal question treated of in tho democratic platform and the position in regard to -hat question which the democratic party takes: We denounce Protection as a fraud,— Umoctaiie fatatfonn. v ios we lay on all urj which quires un to establish at homo, with Hie pat riotic dotormliiatlou of every Rood cttltou to use no foreign article which can be made wltnlnourselves, without regard todllTerenoe In price, secures us aRalnst a relapse into forelRn rle|>nnd«ncy.—Thomas Jefferson. Although other subjects will press more Immediately on your attention, a portion of them cannot hut he well bestowed on the just anil sound policy of securing to our rnanu* fucturcs the success they have attained and' arc still attaining, and to our navigation, the fair extent of which Is at present abridged by the unequal regulations of fortlgu govcc meiits. Jlesldos the reaxonablouess of saving our inunufactures from the sacylBcos a change of elrcumstaaeus might.' bring on them, the national Interest requires that, with respect to such articles at least as be long to our defense and our primary wants, we should not be left in unnecessary depend ence ou external supplies.—James Madison. Heaven smiled upon us and gave us liberty and Independence. The ‘same providence has blessed us with the means of nutlonal In dependence and national defense. He has filled our mountain^ and our plains with minerals—with lead. Iron and copper—and ftivou uh ti cliiiiatu und Mill for the urowluir of leruji ami wool. 'Hume being the trreateftt materials of our national ciofeupe, they ought to have extended to .them adequate und fair protection, that our munufneturers and la borew mav bo placed lti a fair competition with thoMrof Kuropo and that we may have within our country u supply of those leading and Important articles go necettattry In war. I will ask what U the real situation of the agriculturist? Where has the American farmer a market for his surplus produce? I toes nut this dourly prove that there Is to much lubov employed In agriculture? Uom mon sense at once points out the remedy. Take from agriculture in tho United Hlutes Hue,oho men. women and children, and you will nt once give u market for more bread stuffs than ail Kurope now furnishes us. In short, wo have been too loug sulijeot to the policy of Hrltlsh merchants! itTstimo vie ild . should become a little more Americanized, ami Instead of feeding tho paupers und la borers of Kurope feed our own, or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all he rendered paupers ourselves.— Andrew Jackson. We derlare. it to be a fundamental princi ple of the democratic party that the federal government /uu no constitutional power to impose and colled tariff' duties, except for the purposes of revenue only, and tee de mand that the collection of such taxes shall be timtied to the necessities of the govern ment, when honestly and economically ad ministered.—Democratic Platform. Tho power to Impose duties ou Import! originally belonged to the several states. I ho right to adjust those duties with a view to the encouragement of domestic branohoi of Industry Is si; completely Identical wltl that power that It Is difficult to suppose thi existence Of the one without the other. Thi states have delegated their whole uuthorlti over Imports to the general government without limitation or restriction, saving thi very inconsiderable reservation relating tc their Inspection laws. This authority huvlm uitlrely pussed from the states, the right to exercise It for the purpose of proteetlou doei not exist in them, and consequently. If it bt nut, posessed by the general government, I must be extinot. Our political system wouh thus present the unomaly of a people strip pedor the right to foster their own industry and to counteract tho most selttsh and do struettve policy which might bo adopted bj foreign nations. This surely cannot bo thi oaso; this Indospenslble power, thus sur rendered by the status, must be within thi scope of the authority on the subject ex pressly delegated to eor.gross. In this con elusion, 1 au confirmed us well by the opin Ions of Presidents Washington. Jefferson Madison und Monroe, who h»vo ouch re poatedly recommended the exercise ofthli right under the constitution, us by the unl form practice of congress, the continue! ucqulosence of the stales, and tho genera understanding of the people.—Andrew Jack Jefferson. Madison and Jackson have criticised the assertions and evposed the absurdities of the democratic tariff platform far better than we could have done. Hereafter, when we wish to riddle the fallacies of the free trade “reformers,” we shall often have oc casion to appeal to the writings of the great founders of our government, men who, despite their differences of opinion on purely partisan questions, ever united in advocacy of the policy which means the furthering of American interests and the upbuilding of American indus tries. Every quotation from the works of these post-revolutionary patriots will add another nail to the coffin of the un American Cobdenite.—American Econ omist. POLITICAL POINTERS. We Wonder. In the Sixth district Jim'Whitehead is not going to have a walkaway for the honor of beiug defeated by O. M. Kem. Dorrlngton of Box Butte, wants it and Judge Kinkaid of Holt, would not re fuse it. Kem will bo renominated and that tells tells the whole story.—World Herald. _ Hammond’s Opinion. Dr. Mercer is reported to have with drawn Irom the contest for the nomina tion for governor on the republican ticket, immediately after the meeting of the central committee held in Omaha a few days ago. This must be a mistake. Dr. Mercer could not withdraw from the race, because he wasn’t in It.—Fre mont Tribune. Ton Are Bight. An exchange in the western part of this congressional district says that Kem, if nominated, will not receive from three to live thousand votes of what he did two years ago and that Judge Kinkaid will be the nominee of the republican convention, being the most popular and surer of polling a larger vote than any one they could select.—Butte Gazette Quite True. The friends of Ed. A. Fry, the hand some, though somewhat prematurely bald editor of the Niobrara Pioneer, are urging him as a mascot in connection - with the state senatorship from Knox county. It is a genuine pleasure for the Tribune to endorse this movement in behalf of Mr. Fry for in this age of re form he would prove himself all tbat heart could desire. Mr. Fry is a pio neer reformer, who began in the great work long before he was born and he has a cyclone cellar full of the best brands of reform constantly on tap; he is also a republican, and like charity, that covers a multitude of sins.—Fre-I mont Tribune. Creunse The Man. With General f.owln out of the ques tion, the most available man, and one who would have the least factional op position,. is Judge Lorenzo Craunse, now assistant secretary of the treasury and who years ago represented Ne braska in congress. Crounse has a very clean record, and while he is not a ram pant anti-monopolist he has been in touch with the farming and laboring elements in this state in their demand for fair treatment at the hands of capi tal. Crounse is not magnetic, but he is like Harrison—a man who would com mand the respect of air classes and would inspire confidence among the people if elected that while in the ex ecutive chair we would have a clean, :apable and safe adminiaU' tion.—South k~iaha Daily Citi|“ • Tn first impulse of every honeol nen when approached with e bribe Duet be to recent the lneulteo forcibly thet the would-be briber drewe back before he hae gone too far to retreat It ie tble natural inetlnot which ren ders bribery the moit difficult of crime* to detect and prove It may have been euppoeed that a bridge insecure in its temporary found ations would give some sign of weak ness and that at all events, it would not tumble into complete ruin in the flash of an eye. But the old proverb that no chain Is stronger than its weakest link has often a new and dreadful illustration. Insanity la often dilflcult to deter mine but it is certain that some bet ter directed effort to learn the condi tion of those brought up for commit ment should be mode- There are cases in whlc^i insanity may be evi dent to any one but there are many in which only a physician sallied in mental disease can determine Care lessness in so important a matter is unjust to the state which maintains the asylums and to the persons who are committed to them. A contemporary calls attention to a neglected branch, of education—the art of reading aloud. "The average school boy or girl cannot read an or dinary artiole in a newspaper in a way to mako ft interesting. They hesitate and stammer over the simplest. words do not mind their stops ’ and generally demonstrate that reading aloud' has become one of the lost arts,” But there is a possible reason for this neglect and that reading aloud is no longer regarded as an indispensable accomplishment It is very strange that some farm ers are exceedingly particular about the best methods of growing big crops buying the best implements with all the latest Improvements for their cul tivation, growing the largest crops possible and havesting them in the best manner, and then paying no at tention at .all to the sort of stook to , which they feed them. It la an anom aly in our farm practice, something that cannot be explained on any rea sonable or sensible basis and yet we see it done every day. The majority of miners are hard working men, with no romance about them, and as law abiding and orderly as average citizens; the bad people who congregate in ‘vamps'' are like the same classes elsewhere; except that they are a shade rougher and coarser and dirtier. The "bad man I with a gun” is a cowardly wolf with no trace or shade of chivalry in his composition; the neatly dressed, quiet cool, gentlemanly John Oakhurst of Bret Harte’s stories does not exist Crime is not romantic; in fact it is tiresome and commonplace. Hitherto nearly all the effort* at training nurses have been directed toward the gentler sex. In all the large cities of the country, special attention has been given to fitting young women for expert work in the hospital and sick room, but the male nurses have been supposed to depend upon what knowledge they could pick up. It is stated by the Medical Record that whenever an Intelligent young man commits himself to the vocation of nursing, as several have done in Now York, he at once becomes thorough and enthusiastic. That good nursing is the most powerful ally the doctor has. Is no longer a disputed question. That strong male nurses are indispensable is acknowledged. Ouk English brethren are very con servative In their orthography, re taining the u In such words as honor, labor, etc., and keeping up the use of double consonants to a much greater degree than is the case in this coun try; but they have done at least one good thing In this line and that is the dropping "oleo” in the word oleq margarine. The word is printed sim ply •margarine." This is an excel lent condensation, which ought to be adopted on this side of the water. Long words impair the force and lingual power of a language and any move toward shortening them with out injuring their euphony and mean ing should be welcomed. There is something sordid and ab surd in the idea of a man giving him self up to the absorbing pursuit of accumulating money and delegating to his heirs the satisfaction which must result from its creditable expen diture. Money has no value, at least in the broader sense of that term, aside from what It will bring to the possession in the way of pleasure or the happiness which it can be made to bestow upon others. And this idea is receiving more than a mere ethical recognition. The world Is gradually coming to the belief that the posses sion of great riches carries with it a certain obligation to humanity which cannot be wholly disregarded by per sons endowed with a fourths acquisition of distinctive tale money. etaal across Central America in time, and that will be as, •nonfigures demonstrate that ~il will b^* profitable undertaking. No matter how vast it may bo. or what, amount Of money it may require thj canal will hi built as soon as it canj demonstrate! to investors to profitable invistment The remarkable developments dm „ ing the past few years in utilizing the mysterious force called electricity have diverted attention temporarily from speculation as its nature and sourca The phencmena of heat, light and sound hav« been satisfac torily explained, but thoie of electricity still shrouded in mystery. The key to all knowings u the ability to read intelligently, jn view of the facts of life among tb> pupila the first care of tbo schools slould be to tench that art and its hatdmald, writing as thoroughly as possible in the briefest time, so that if the pipit's school course is cut short he will at least carry away with him the instru ments of sclf-edacatioh. There is more danger in bad liter ature] than in anything else except bad whiskey. The question of sup pressing that kind of literature is one that is frequently agitated by moral reformers. Interference by law and law enforcers is recommended by* soma To see that the mind of the child is kept pure is the duty of tho parents. No father or mother can shirk it . f The first year of a president’s term Is spent, in getting broken into the. harness and disposing of the office seekers By tie time his third year has begun he cannot help looking for ward to the day—which seems so near—when he will have to give way to another. He thinks of the little he has dona of the many, things he would like to see dona makes up his mind that four years is too short a term, and begins to feel the necessity of a re nomination and to work for It. It requires a good deal of moral courago in a legislator who has con cern about his political future to re sist the pressure of forces which threaten him with dofeat if he does not consent to do their bidding. There Is many a man to whom the support of the moral sentiment of the com munity or the approvat of his own conscience seems quito intangible by comparison with the threat of well organized and unscrupulous move ments to defeat him at the polla Large open spacos for public recre ation grounds aro recognized as a necessity of city life.* This is shown by the fact that, well equipped as London has been in the way of public parka in comparison with our- own cities, the park area of the British metropolis has been doubled in three years' since the organization of the new form of municipal government the London county council. The same tendency toward a liberal pro vision for parks is manifest in nearly all leading cities of the world. The great advance that has been made in the conveniences and com forts of city life within the period of one generation is a frequent subject of comment. There are now public means of conveyance bo tween aijnost all sections, and the relations between the residence and business portion of the metropolis has been all but revo lutionized. The telephone has an nihilated space in the matter of con versation. and progressive civilisa tion has manifested itself in many materia! minor but kindred ways. No rtusos can learn to write easily, rapidly and legibly with char acter in the result except by much and continuous practica. The schools ought to give such practical as a few private cchoola da Instead, they set the boys and girls the task of labori ously imitating and engraving copy W a certain time each day. and when their schooling is over the best they can do as a ruffe is painfully to draw an uncertain Imitation of their copies as they remember them. They have no faculty in writing and there is neither character nor dignity in - what they do. The effort long ago set to, make gentle society let go even its grip upon the slender and flexible aspara gus, the steaming corn cob, the sin ewy drumstick, or the artichoke’s fleshy scales. The formality of the knifo and fork was never adapted to tho fullest enjoyment of any of these culinary joys. The glory of each is better exhausted with the help of the fingers; and this being so. they will, cleave to them in greater regard foi the broad politeness of the reosoi than for the hypersensitive subserv! ience to impelling fashion, whlcl lives always in dread lest It may not keep abreast of society’s every freal^ What can knife and fork do toward o traoting the delicious juices of asparagus stalk, or the flavor of t’ fowl's phalanx or what toward han] ling the crisp shaving **f the potaU Absolutely nothing. They wore nj made for such terries. are everywhere his mind he tremor of a lead but man can noJ ing from posslbl can only wait anl date ourselves with as much gra Tub great decl whiteflsh in some f casloned alarm but this will undou by the efforts of th| which are taking the waters that hal The whole country 1 the great lakes for be interested in the commissioners are < It is the usual thil sicians as impractic and exhibit theutnu! sanitary science andl The result is usually of the community adjoining waters ne tide if not above greatly increasing ■ t mud is poisoned created compared wit! cesspools were harmlJ Tiik directors of thj Jahd^fKe- otfcTaCT chancery, and the Ac' in London have repel that the fortuities asd i Britain which are said heirs in this ediuntry a ical. In spite of this smooth-tongued are still making a lit ble American Aby pri them in securing *t Natciik and. m healthy mind pie: an ' abundance, of! finite variety o| dlj to carry the min