The Frontier.
PUIlLIRIlKn EVKIIY THURSDAY BY
TIIE FRONTIER I’KINTINO COMPANY.
W. 1>. Matiikws, Editor.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
for President: •
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
of Indiana.
Por ylce-President:
WHITKLAW KF.ID,
of New York.
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For Presidential Electors: J
W. J. BROATCH. Douglas, I A,
I. M. RAYMOND. Lancaster. jAl
ISAAC WILKH. Cass, Klrst District.
K. P. HA YACK, Douglas. Second.
II. A. MILLER. Cedar, Third.
CRNEK BIT HASH. Saline, Pourth.
II. M. NETTLKToN. Clay, Fifth.
CHA8. JOHNSON. Hcolta Bluff. Sixth.
STATE TICKET.
1 For Governor:
LORENZO CCOUNSE. of Washington.
For Lteutenant-Oovernori
J. 0. TATE, of Adams.
For Secretary of ■into:
JOHN C. ALLEN, of Rod Willow.
For State Auditor: ,
EUGENE MOORE, of Madison.
Far State Treasurer:
J. 8. BARTLEY, of llolt.
For Attorney-General:
GEO. II. HASTINGS, of Hnllna.
For Commissioner of Public Lands:
A. K. HUMPHREY, of Custer.
For Superintendent Public Instruction:
A. K. OOUDY, of Webster.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Por Congressman Sixth District:
JIM WHITEHEAD, of Custer.
SENATORIAL.
For Senator Thirteenth District:
J. M. HUNTER, of Holt.
COUNTY TICKET.
ForOountjr Attorney:
L. C.CHAPMAN,
of Atkinson.
For County Representatives:
W. F. EIHELE, of Chambers,
A. J. CLARK, of Inman.
Lincoln, Oct. 0,1890.
To' Oil member* of the Independent
people'* committee*, and to the
voter* of Nebraska:
It having become evident that Mr.
Van Wyck ha* turned squarely
again*! the independent movement,
and i* using hi* influence to defeat
the independent candidates, we rec
ommend that he be not invited to ad
dress independent meeting* nor given
an opportunity to use his unfriendly
influence. Gao. W. Blank,
Ohm. State Central Com.
' C. H. PlIlTLE,
Sec. State Central Com.
Kkm's record will defeat him.
Tun Boss Idol is getting a little pale.
Tun two Holt county J oes are winners.
It was anything to get office with H.
Murphy.
Thu election of Judge Crounse is now
generally conceded.
Tits new* from the country precincts
the past few days is most favorable to
Jo Hunter.
For the third consecutive campaign
the Idol is appealing to the people for
/ votes. Chestnut.
We desire again to call attention to
the letter published in this column con
cerning one Van Wyck.
Thk Ewing and Atkinson republicans
with their excellent bands, aided mater
ially in Saturday’s demonstration.
Walt Mason says Stevenson is called
“general” owing to the generalship he
displayed in getting out of going to the
Th* people of the United States sym
' pathlzSs with the president in the serious
illness of his wife and pray for her re
covery. _* _
Kbk says the republican party left
him. not he the party. Well, the party
, did a pretty good job and is to be con
gratulated.
Denny Lyons is a soldier who detests
* the comrades who repudiate the only
; party that eyer gave them aid. Denny
is no slouch.
Matt Uehrino complimented his re
publican opponent very highly by say
ing; “If you knew George Hastings as
* I know him you would vote for him.”
Matt Dougherty is a dandy and
made many friends in O’Neill. Some
day let us send Matt to congress. He
would he no slouch at Washington.
The Independent says the challenges
' and joint debate have come from the in
dependents. And why not? The only
way the independents can get a crowd
is in this way.
The O’Neill Republican Club boys
area fine looking lot. aod were the ob
served of all observers ' last Saturday
, when' they paraded nearly a hundred
* strong in their new uniforms.
One thing is sure Joss Mullen will not
be elected through the popular mode of
flattering the women and kissing the
■ babies. If he essays this role he will
frighten the women and babies half to
. death. _ _ _
% Pension bills vetoed from Washing
ton, to Cleveland, 183. Pension bills ve
toed by Grover Clevelond, 524. Pension
bills vetoed by Benjamin Harrison,
'none. Now understand, old veterans,
that a vote for Weaver in Nebraska is a
.vote for Cleveland.
The democrat!/ candidate (or the
senate, Mr. Stewbrt, keep* right on
sawing wood. lie needs watching. .
Dave Mekcke h:is a good many
friends up the Klkhorn valley who
would aid him in his congressional fl^ht
if they could. They will at least “pull”
for him.
Yes, The Frontier does dislike to
see the farmers mint money in its Inde
pendent because it has the kindest of
feeling for them and feels very confi
dent they will lose every dollar they in
vest.
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James Wiuteiirai) speaks at Atkin
son on tho evening of October 15, at
Spencer on the afternoon of the 17th
and at Rutle in the evening. Charles
II. Towle will also speak at these meet
ings. ___
Tub Frontier has no patience with
the old soldier who proposes to vote for
Weaver and Fields, which means in
this state voting for Cleveland and
Stevenson—men who.always have been
antagonistic to their interests.
Tub Custer Deacon says “Kern Is
Whitehead's Superior, socially, morally
mentally.' If the Deacon expects any
one to believe this it bad better keep
Kcm at borne, at least not Jot him ap
pear on the same platform with White
head.
Murphy might consider himself “the
champion of the rights of the people,"
but he hasn't the brains and education
to champion anything successfully.
Murphy “might consider himself" a law
yer, but that don’t make him a lawyer
by any means.
And tbe new chairman of the inde
pendent senatorial committee wag there,
and as the wind gently blew through
his whisker', he smiled a cheerless sort
of a smile, and there was a pleading
kind of a come-up to-my-store-and-trade
look in his eyes. Oh, Saturday was a
great day.
Tiib Independent inquires, "Do the
voters care to repeat the experience of
two years ago?-’ Well, it don’t look
that way. Two years ago tho demo
crats fused with the independents, and
it appears they had enough of it. After
electing Day, Mullin and Henry, these
gentlemen invariably gave the demo
crats—mud.
John Hallohan, with the assistance
of his good neighbors, is arranging to
hold a camp-fire at his farm residence
near Inman on the 13th of October, in
honor of his old war comrade and mess
mate, Jim Whitehead, and the com
mander of their regiment Colonel Stone
of Omaha, both of whom will be pres
ent. That a good time will be hod
goes without saying.
John McBride was earnestly urged
to be a candidate for the senatorial
nomination, but for reasons of his own
felt he could not doit. John would
have been a strong man at the polls and
no mistake, and as Jo Huuter will do,
would figuratively speaking have
pounded His ltoyal Highness, the Great
Idol, into the earth so deeply that there
could be no political ressurection.
Tna Alabama independents, or demo
crats for it is the same thing down there,
drove, Gen. Weaver out of the state,
using the most shameful methods, in
cluding rotten eggs. The new party
business is not wanted in the south. It
will not be tolerated either. It is all
right to work in the north where the
republican party is the loser, however.
Cannot our people see that voting for
Weaver in Nebraska is voting for Cleve
land? Tub Frontier hopes so and
believes they will.
Ihk Boyd county delegation to the
republican senatorial convention, pre
sented the name of Samuel C. Sample as
its choice for state senator. This was a
compliment to a worthy, enterprising
citizen and an honorable, honest man.
It was thought best to selet a candidate
from this county, and Mr, Sample and
his friends heartily acquiesced, gladly
made Mr. Ilunter's nomination unani
mous, and promise to send good reports
on November 8. Had Sam been nomi
nated bis many friends in O'Neill would
have given him loyal support.
Said Mr. Whitehead in his debate with
Kem and the latter’s position and vote
on tho Pickier bill: "The Pickier tim
ber culture bill, the defeat of which he
was largely responsible for. would have
furnished relief to thousands of deserv.
ing settlers in securing them titles to
laud they have so richly earned, that
through adverse circumstances, drouth,
hot winds and other matters they failed
to secure the necessary number of trees
upon which to make final proof. I say
had that bill become a law they would
have had no difficulty in getting titles.
It failed largely through him, and he is
responsible for it."
The Omaha Bee’s fight on Dave
Mercer, who is the republican nominee
for congress, Is reprehensible, contempt
ible and cannot be justified on any hy
pothesis. Dave Merser is a republican,
a hard-working republican who is al
ways straight, and simply because he is
not in proper sympathy with Rose
water that gentleman uses his paper to
belittle his candidacy and aid in bis de
feat. Rosewater is a member of the
national committee and as such should
be first to assist every republican can
didate, and he can advance no good
reason for attempting to knife every
[ candidate who does not worship at bis
shrine. But Dave Mercer will be elected
all the same, because there are hundreds
of men m Douglas county who are tired
| of the Bee’s dictation, and will vote for
Dave to show their disapprobation of
such political inconsistency.
JO HUNTEB.
The action of the republican senator
ial convention held in tbii city last
Saturday evening in selecting Joseph M.
Hunter as a candidate for state senator
for the Thirteenth district, vice W. D.
Mathews resigned, will meet with al
most universal approval among repub
licans. We might add that there are a
good many democrats and independents
who are also pleased, because they pre
fer to see a man of Hunter’s sterling
honesty and integrity elected to this re
sponsible position rather than such a
man as Mullen, the chronic office-seeker
and self-styled Idol of his party, the
man who in the convention that nomi
nated him affirmed that be would not be
dictated to by even his own party (in
fact was bigger than hirf party) and
whose first claim is that he thinks the
state cannot get along without bis valu
able services.
Mr. Hunter did not seek this nomin
ation, but when tendered him he could
not well refuse, and modestly said be
woult^do the best he could. And that
is good enough, for Jo Hunter has been
tried and found faithful and reliable,
having served a term as member of the
house four years ago with credit to the
county. He is an old settler and suc
cessful farmer, having settled on the
homestead he now occupies over ten
years ago. He is a farmer of the practi
cal kind, too, one of the farmers who
farms bis farm, and his industry and
close attention to the dnties devolving
upon him have resulted fairly well, all
the disadvantages of a new country
considered, and his relationship with
the agricultural classes has always been
keen and svmpathic. As a neighbor
and citizen not one word can be truth
fully said derogratory to JoHunter.
The fact of the matter is that where
ever known this plain, honest farmer
has the confidence of all,,and that he is
a vote getter will be demonstrated in
the ides of November.
The republican party presents its can
didate for state senator with great pride,
and a feeling of confidence in his ability
to knock the stuffing out of the Idol.
THE FARMERS’ FRIENDS.
The republican legislative ticket is
emphatically a farmers ticket. Messrs
Hunter, Clark and Eisele are not calam
ity howlers who devote half of their
time to politics,but hard-working,every
day farmers, who make a success of
farming. These are the men who will
I represent Holt county in the state legis
I laturc, and not a faction who are bound
that the county mustgotothedemnition
bow-wows whether or no. They
would not be salisded to have it any
other way. Our nominees are sensible
men, wholly in sympathy with the pro
ducer and laborer, and they will favor
and work for just measures of reform.
The independents will not control the
legislature this winter according to
present indications, and there will con
sequently be some hope of doing some
good that is tangible and that will be
appreciated by the people.
The records made by Mullen and
Henry are not at all enviable. They
simply helped to make unusual expense
to the state, and to return them would
certainly not show very good judgment
viewed from a business standpoint. No
man whose sole argument for election
is a calamity howl can be of any practi
cal service at Lincoln next winter. Let
us elect men of more than one idea.
THE CAMPAIGN OPENS.
The political meeting held in O’Neill
last Saturday afternoon was one of
the important events of the campaign
for the republicans, the independents
and the democrats, as representatives of
three parties were allowed to take part
in the exercises. It was the virtual
opening of the campaign in Holt
county and the attendance was .very
liberal indeed.
The large crowd made it necessary to
hold the meeting in the open air, and
the grove at the F. E. depot was the
“scene of war,” a platform, seats and
other arrangements being hastily made.
By mutual agreement Matthew Gehring,
democratic candidate for attorney gen
eral was given a lull share of the time.
This was a decided disadvantage to the
republicans, as it really gave their op
ponents 100 minutes time as against 40
minutes, but we do not think the re
publicans lost anything by their gener
osity.
The meeting opened with a 30 min
utes talk by James Whitehead, who
splendidly presented the republican
principles as enunciated in the Minne
apolis platform.„ The speaker made
several pointed and direct charges
against O. M. Kem as a congressman.
He charged him with voting with the
I monopolists in every case, citing par
ticularly his vote against the Pickier
timber culture bill, for the Texas rail
road bill, and the city of Washington
gas bill, the latter of which he was the
author of. It is not necessary here to go
into particulars, as our readers must
already be familiar with the details. Mr.
Whitehead's time was soon consumed,
and though brief he made an excellent
impression by his unmistakable earnest
ness, the honest expression of his eves
and countenance and his general appear
ance of honorable manhood.
Then came Kem, who was alloted 43
minutes. The contrast in the two men was
so marked that the independents them
selves must have noticed the superiority
in every way of Whitehead. Kem is a
treacherous appearing man. He is not
at all prepossessing. In fact he is re
pulsive, particularly when speaking.
He has what might appropriately he
called a bad eye, when you can see it,
which is not often, as he seldom looks
at his hearers. With eyes nearly closed
he talks like a machine and uses only
the threadbare argument of the calamity
howler. He explained nothing con
cerning his record in congress. He
would commence to, get along a little
ways, and then it appeared purposely
dropped the subject without a defense
that could possibly satisfy any fair
minded man. In fact he studiously
avoided bis record and consumed his
time in coarse and sometimes vulgar
vituperation. We tried not to fsel pre
judice and felt that when Kem had fin
ished his harangue (it could be called
nothing else) that Whitehead was lucky
to have such an opponent. This
thought came to us: Suppose a man
met those two men alone, knowing
neither, and it was necessary to place
bis honor, his money and big reputation
in the bands of one, which would be
choose? It seemed to us that the man
who could not look you in the face,
whose every action denoted dishonesty
and trickery would not be the one. One
look at 'Jim Whitehead would inspire
confidence, when prejudice did not in
terfere. One of these men will be elected
congressman—which do you honestly
prefer? If you think you could nol
trust Kem with your private mnttere
why will you place your public inter
ests in his hands? We cannot believe
the people will do it. The more these
two men appear together the greater
must be the chances of Whithebead’e
election.
Mr. Oehring’s turn now came and he
improved it admirably for his party,
devoting most of his time to the tariff.
Mr. Gehring is a splendid speaker, bis
voice is peculiarly adapted for open air
talking and he was heard and listened
to. His tariff talk was a repetition of
that of all democratic orators. At the
close he paid u high tribute to J. Ster
ling Morton, the democratic candidate
for governor, and took oocasion to pour
a little hot shot into Van Wyck. The
independents who had been cheering
Gehnng suddenly turned cold. The
speaker said he lived in the same city
and in fact was a neighbor of Van
Wyck. He knew him as he really was
—an arrant demagogue who was ready
to jump into any party that would give
him office. “Van Wyck is a falsifier,’
said Mr. Gehring, “for he swears he is
only worth $100,000 when his neighbors
can figure from the records five times
mat amount. And He tells the assessoi
he only owns $50 worth of diamonds,
yet Mrs. Van Wyck wears a pair of dia
mond earrings easily worth $3,500.
And he loans money to the farmers ol
Otoe county at rates as high as 13 pet
cent., and the county records show thal
he has foreclosed more mortgages than
any other man or corporation in the
county.” The speaker’s time expired oi
perhaps some more of the old man's
record would have been shown up. As
it was the independents were given
something to think about with regard
to their candidate.
Mr. Kem now consumed his remain
ing 15 minutes but did not explain any.
thing. As before he would get about so
far along when he would inquire how
much time he had and then change the
subject. Kem must have been a disap
pointment even to his friends, but at a
sign from their chairman yelled them
selves hoarse.
Mr. Whitehead had 10 minutes to
close and the way he went at Kem, or
rather at his record, indicated that he
was warmed up in good shape. He
gave Kem a roasting that made him
squirm and it was evident that a major
ity of the assemblage was with the
speaker. Whitehead ought to have had
a half hour more and he would have
made it count without question. As it
was he acquitted himself admirably and
his friends are proud of him.
All in all the afternoon meeting was a
success and will be productive of good
to Whitehead.
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