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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1892)
The Frontier. J PUBLISHED KVKKY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY. W. D. Matiirws, Editor. For President: BENJAMIN IIAUUI80N, of Indiana. For Vice-President: WIIITELAW HEII), of New York. 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 0, 1892, and issued the following call: The republican electors of Holt county are requested to send delegates from the several townsldps and wards to meet In con vention at the court bouse In the city of O'Neill, Neb., on Saturday. July ill). 1HII3, at lOo'olook A. M., for tho purpose of placing In nomination candidates for the following offices: wiit- umiiiij imuriirj, Two representatives. Aim) delegates to tlio state. eong-resslonal and senatorial conventions. The several townships and wards are en titled to ropresentntlon as follows, belntr baaed on tile vote east for Hon. Unortto II. Hastings, attorney general In l«uu. giving one delegate at larito and one for every twenty votes and one for every section. It Is recommednd that the caucuses In the dltTerent townships and wards he held on Saturday July SH, 1sirj, at. 3 o'clock e. m. A meeting of the central committee will be held on that day. all the members are re guested to be present. The ttmo will be stated by the chairman in the convention: The various townships and wards are on titled to representation as follows: Atkinson.ill Con Icy. Cleveland. Chambers. Delolt. Dustin. Knunet. Kwlnx. Frani'ls. .'I Fnlrview. IS l) rattan. II Green Vtilloy. II Inmnn. II town.. 2 Mo.Cluro. 2 U’Nelll, 1st ward.. . 4 O’Neill, 2d ward. II [»’inoiii,;iu. Paddock. Plonsantvlcw Hock Kails... Saratoga. Soott.. Shields. Swan. Stool Crook .. HI nan. Sand Crook... Sheridan. Vordlgrls. Total If. H. I'llON IN, U. C. I1A7.GI.KT, See rotary. Chairman. CONGRESSIONAlTcONVENTION. Thu republican electors of the Sixth con gressional district of the state of Nebraska are hereby requested to send delegates from the several counties ootnprlslnit said district, to meet in oonventlon In tho city of Chudron, . Wednesday, August 10,1*08, at 8 o’clock e. m .. for the purpose of placing In nomination n candidate for member ot congress for said district, and tor the transaction of snob other business os may come before tbe convention. RBPREtIKNTATION. The basis of representation Is the satnu as that fixed by the statu oontral committee for . the state oonventlon, nud Is ono delegate for every 100 voters or major fraction thereof cast for Hastings tor attorney general and Is us follows: County Haulier. HlaluwrrrVr:'. ’Box Hutto Boyd. Brown. Buffalo.'.. Cheyenne..... Cherry. Cutter. Duwos. . Dawson.. ... IHiuel. Uorfleld. Urent.... Ureeiey. Holt. Hooker.. Howard . .. ...1 Crunty I)ol Klmbitll. 2 Keya l’aha. 4 Keith. ;i Louaii. 2 Llmtnln;. II Loup. 3 M(ft*erson..... 1 Rot'k. 4 SeottsltlulT...a Slierltlui).....s Shormuu.4 81oux. it ThoniUH.2 Valley. 5 Wheeler. 2 Total nr. nr. UAHNKr, Sscrotary. . J. I1.. I*.VANS. Chairman. v- 'Jo* Bartley is resting easy. the ticket It worth at least five thousand extra votes. “Qeneral” Stevenson predicts that Illinois will elect democratic electors, f ‘'The “general” it not much of a prophet (tt at home. Tbb democrats down in the third are talking of ^Billie Mungor for congress. V-, They will not elect so good a man. ^J^ujger is Utile better than his party. Tub Frontier advises harmony at t. tike primaries neat Saturday. We can ' net afford to get into a racket of any V kind at this time, no matter if you do think there is cause. Keep cool and be , harmonious. Judge CnouNsK should be nominated for governor. Then there would be no question about success. The republi cans cannot afford to nominate a man for the head of the ticket because he is a good fellow and stands well with the hoys. A-vote-getter is what is wanted this year, and Judge Crounse is the man. \ The republicans should choose a can ,• nKuate for auditor who has been in no way connected with the present man agement of that office. There arc plenty of good clean men in the party outside of Lancaster county. Eugene Moore would be a winner at the polls, and in the office would be popular with the eastern people. The thirteen ballot box stutters who are now wearing strides in the New Jersey penitentiary are the men who , made Abbett governor of New Jersey. But no one has heard of Abbett resign, ing since these criminals were convicted. Watch out for New Jersey to go repub lican next November. With a fair vote she will do so. j It does not make any difference how many times lie is defeated, so long as he lives, Cleveland will go on* being the only j£mocratic candidate for president. "ifc^’"“•the only one elected in over thirty that will make him a perpet ual candidate. Other aspiring demo crats ylio look longingly towards 1898 might as well take notice. ;V A new substance lias been discovered Hint bus nine times the power of extin guishing fire that wnter has. Some of this stuff ought to be made up into n cocktail for David It. Hill. It might also aid Dana's digestion ot the over indulgence in crow which he is just now giving way to. The United States Senate is giving evidence that it docs not propose to see the government starved by the demo cratic house. The democrats nrc striv ing to get away home, so as to go cam. pnigning, and apparently they do not care much whether the government is provided for before they go or not. We spent two weeks in "General’’ Stevenson’s country, and learned a good deal about the man. He has nfliliated with nil parties except the republicans, running for congress once on the green back ticket, and during the war was a sympathizer with the south nnd a mem ber of the Knights of the Golden Circle. I)f course he expects to get tlio soldier rote, iiut it will not be where he is f n n vv n Tim writer desires to state that he was in no wav connected with the post otlice alTair, thrt lie knew absolutely nothing i^bout it until he received a let ter from his wife while at Peoria, 111., and that he wax very much surprised thereat. We make this statement be cause the report has been circulated that wo were in the deal, in fact that we were in Washington, when as a matter of fact we were not east of (Jhicngo. Tub present congress is going to ap propriate just as much money as the “billion dollar" congress did. The only difference is that they have worked with no regard to the needs of the public business, but simply with a tegard to make a record of economy before the people. The result is that the public business is crippled with injudicious cuts where money is really needed, and still the record is one of more money si ent than in the previous congress. - -» ■* John W. Foster, the newly ap pointed secretary of state, has been con fidential advisor to the secretary for two yenrs pnst. He has been an influential agent in the preparation and negotiation of the treutics recently enacted, and is cognizant of the reciprocity policy and the diplomatic relations of the state de partment. Men of all parties arc agreed that it is one of the best appoint I ments that could be made. (Aid it was confirmed by the senate without even I being referred to the committee on foreign relations—a distinction usuallv accorded only to the nominations of ex-senators. ---► The present reform board of super visors is rather a costly body for the people to maintain. There used to he kicking when the republicans had con trol, and the self styled reformers pro posed to revolutionize matters, cut down expenses and manage the uffairs of the county iB a noticeably economical man ner. Have they done itV No. Why, in the matter of pay to themselves the first half of the year shows over $15000. And $13,000 more expense has been made by this board so far this year than was made the first half of last year. The Frontier will present some figures later for the consideration of the people. »•». Grandpa Van Wyck spoke in O'Neill yenterday to a fairly good house. When he commenced to harangue his listeners he saw Shorl-lmnd Reporter King tak ing notes and the idea of being reported verbatim worried the old man consid erably and he assured Mr. King that he would esteem it a great personal favor if ho would not have his speech publish ed in full. A synopsis would be all right, yes, yes, yes, but not the whole thing. This has a tendency to show that the grearter part of his talk was rot and could not stand th<? test of truthful criticism. Otherwise why not have it circulated as widely as possible and make converts in the remotest corners ot the state? Van is a hypocrite and he knows it better than anybody. Tub one new feature of the presi dential campaign of 1893 is the peoples party, which makes its first bid for fa vor in a national election in the platform of the Omaha convention. Practically the same olements, it would seem, con stituted the union labor party of 1888. The platform is one of the most re markable ever adopted by any party. Apparently it is the product of an offi cial "lecturer” for some secret associa tion, especially intent upon working off what.he considers the telling points of his address upon a public neither so im pressible or confiding as his usual audi ences. Its style is so tragic and its pres entation of subjects so obscure as to make it an obstacle rather than an aid to whatever prospects the party adopt ing it may have had. Extravagance of statement and indefinite lietcrogeneous 1 ness of subject appear in it ut their very worst. Only a few times in our history lias there appeared a man able to combine argument, invective and the accurate statement of principle in the samo instrument, and the evident at tempt to imitate their work by persons utterly lacking this peculiar power, has produced that strange jumble of extrav agence, nonsense, and inaccuracy which this party has adopted as theVifflcial ex position of what it desires itself to be esteemed. The inevitable effect is to impair judgment in the confidence of men who thus advertise themselves as desirous to be accounted foaming ranters rather than calm and dispassionate form ulates of principles. > Geo. B. Kkiu.in, attorney for the Storm Lake loan and trust company, is well known in Holt county and h pop ular with all. George has always been a rod-hot democrat and the following article taken from the Storm Lake Trib une will he a pleasant surprise: "The political situation in this section Is most llatterlng to the republicans. We could name quite a number of democrats who in past years have been earnest and active party workers, but who in the pending campaign will cither vote for Harrison or will take no active part in the campaign. Different reasons are given, but the most cheer'ng one is the satisfaction felt toward the present ad ministration. When men change their political affiliations, there is often a de sire to avoid publicity on ncount of the annoyance of former party associates, who are inclined to make life unpleasant for a season. But one of this number referred to who has not held his opinion in reserve is Geo. B. Kerlin, the affable and geneial attorney for the Ballou State Bunking Company of Bioux City, lint who resides in Btorm Lage. Mr. Kerlin has generally regarded Mr. Har rison's administration with admiration, and has stood second to none in recog nizing Blaine’s splendid management of the state department and his reciprocity measure; but still he clung to democ racy, and had Boise received the nom ination for president and the conven tion had not unmasked itself in favor of free trade, he would still be marching in the democratic columns,, notwithstand ing his satisfaction with the manner in which the present administration has dealt with foreign and domestic affairs, and especially ns compared with the Cleveland administration. Mr. Kerlin has been one of the most prominent and zealous young democrats in the county, but has now placed himself squarely on the republican national platform and will support Harrison and lteid.” WAGES ATHOMESTEAD. The democratic pi ess has not lost an issue since the riots at Homestead in using that calamity as an appeal to passion. It has been set forth as the due result of protection. The demo cratic congress sent a committee to the scene or trouble to harvest campaign materials. Protection is only a sclume for the oppression of the workingman> they profess, and here is a typical in stance. | The committee of congress began its investigation. What it learned with re gard to wages amazed the manager of the investigation, the committee chair man. What the wages are at Home stead may be inferred from an article in the Iron Age of June 30, giving the wages paid in a well equipped mill in western Pennsylvania, working under the Amalgamated scale. Ther.mills at Homestead are said to pay the highest wages going. The Iron Age gives the wages of rollers, working eight-hour turns, ns $13.31 per eight hours in the seven-inch mills, $19.76 per eight hours in the 10-inch mill, $14.93 in tlie guide mills and $7.78 in the bar mills. The heaters are paid in the same grades of work$0.90, $9.88, $7.47and $5.83. The blast furnace helpers are paid $3.75; ladlemen $2.75 te $5.75, converters $4.50 to $8.50; and rail stiaighteners$10aday. Is it any wonder that the chairman of the investigating committee was amazed? The democratic party has a remedy for this state of things. It is to adopt free trade, shut up the American shops and have the work done in England. How much do men earn there? English pay for the first class, the rollers, is $2.50 a day; lor the heaters, $1.60 for the blast furnace keepers, $2.00; for the ladlemen $1 to $1.15; converter men, $1.45; rail straighteners, $1.35. Un skilled labor in the American mills is $1.50 and in England 62 cents. Men iu the mines where the raw material is got out get $2.25 in America. The English get there ore in a country where able bodied men are to be .had for 36 cents a day. The democratic party proposes to throw this country open to a free trade scale of living, in which the condition of labor does not admit of honest and ibdustrious men owning their homes. Homestead is not so bad an illustiation of protection after all. Its men have money in the bank and own their own homes. It is a good theme to think over, and the more Americans think it over the less they will care to send their trade abroad or adopt the English con dition here. POLITICAL POINTERS. Barkis is WLin’. For senator of Thirteenth district W. D. Mathews of O’Neill.—Garfield En terprise. _ Jos’s Great Head. Jo« Bartley drifted in from Akinson yesterday to see how his boom for the treasurership was standing the dry spell. Bartley declared that the rumor that he had tied up with Tom Majors and George Bowerman was absolutely with out foundation, and furthermore ex plained that such a move would be the height of folly, as it was exceedingly doubtful whether or not Majors could turn over the goods in case he bargained to do so, as Majors bailed from down in Wortham’s country and it could hardly be supposed that such a deal could be carried out even if he desired it. As for Bowerman, he declared that he wouldn’t tie up witn him anyway. He said that the auditor's office, as run for the past four years, was responsible to a greater degree than any of the others for the disrepute into whioh the repub lican party had fallen with the farmers of the state aud that the nomination and election of Bowerman would probably mean the retention of Tom Benton in the office as deputy and a continuation of the present state of affairs, lie said be was running ag the candidate of the northern and western portions of the state, and that when it came to a ques tion of geographical qualification he was ’way ahead of the other fellows.— Omaha Bee. ’_ nothing the Hatter With Cronnso. A good deal has been said about Hon. Lorenzo Crounse ns a candidate for gov enor on the republican ticket, and it is a subject on which a good deal more might be said. In the event that Judge Crounse should be nominate)! and he would accept the honor, as he doubtless would, the party would haye a candidate that could lead the hosts to victory as Gherman swept with his army from Atlanta to the sea. Judge Crounse is a man of experience, who has made an honorable and consistent record in public affairs—one that would no1, need to be explained or apologized for; his record would be a chief factor of his strength. Besides this he could make a campaign second to no man in Nebraska. He is a speaker and a debater who is the peer of any. Van Wyck with his paternalism, his sub-treasury scheme, his flat foolish ness, his free trade theories, his income tax tom foolery, his foraging-on-the-ene my-government-ownership-of-railwa y s utopia acd other corroded sophistries, would be dripping blood in every turn in the road if Judge Crounse should get after him. Mr. Crounse has taken little hand in recent campaigns, but he is no back number. He is abreast of the times and the political knights who might enter the lists against him would be made to do some mighty lively dancing if they escaped with their hair.—Fremont Tribune. O’ N hi LL15 USIN KSS DI RECTOR Y n. pierce. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Real Estate and Insurance. E. II. BENEDICT, LAWYER, Office In the Judge Roberts building, north of Barnett & Frees' lumber yard, O NEILL, NEB. W. ADAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will practice in all the courts. Special at tention glvon to foreclosures and collections. Is also COUNTY ATTORNEY D It. B. T. TRUEBLOOD, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Diseases of ahe Eye and Ear aud littinfl glasses a specialty. Office hours U to 12 a. in. and 2 too p. in, Office over “THE EMPORIUM.” J^JULLEN BROS., CARPENTERS & BUILDERS. Estimates taken and material! furnished. Jobbing promptly attended to. C. SMOOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OKIARS. ETO. BOYD, BUILDERS.' ESTIMATES FURNISHED. D It. C. D. B. EI8AMAN. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, .vnkill, NEB. £1 X. HOPKINS, M. ». PHYSICIAN AND SITBGEON. Office over niglln's furniture store. Calls promptly attended day or night. HOTEL EVANS. FORMERLY EUROPEAN. Enlar g ed. Refurnish ed -AND BEFITTED. Only First Class Hotel in City. W. T. EVANS. Prop. First National Bank, * O'NEILL - NEBRASKA. Paid-Up Capital. $5o,ooo. Surplus, $2o,ooo. I Authorised Capital, $100,000. THAD. J BERMINGHAM, Pres. J. P. MANN, Vice Pres. ED F. GALLAGUER. Casiher. FRED H, SWINGLEY, Asst. Casht*' L°aned °n Personal Security on the Most FavoraM .Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest Buy and Sell Foreign & Domestic Exchange. DIRECTORS: **' Cavanaugh. T. F. Bermingiiam. J. P. Mani “* ** * Montgomery. Ed. F. Gallaoiiek. Thad. J. Berminoiiam. \ H°LTT50UNfYiriANK' °™»«. n«bms1m. n"K> DAV,D ADAMS, ; ~~ | W"' Ai>ams> Asst. Casihk^DARR’ Cas,,i«»-j‘| STATE - BANK OF °*NElIiri. Authorized Capital, S|00,000. Paid up Capital, S3Q.OOO. Tinware, Farm Implements ,h’ZrWmm,K "**■ <w£sr OWfiILL,HOLTco Nm .. . GARLANDSTOVfc .... 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