The Frontier.
PUBLISHED XTBRY THURSDAY BY
TUB FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
*W. D. Maths**. Editor.
The democrats of Nebraska are still
wondering who shall have fhe disposal
of the federal patronage.
Ir Cleveland eelects a few more repub
licans to assist In the cabinet, they will
prove valuable assistants to Grover the
groat. ___
Trr Chadron Citizen enters a vigor
;r' one protest against the sensational
writers who are trying to get up another
Indian scare.
Senator Mullkm Is at home enjoy
ing a few days vacation. He Is looking
as hearty as over, and it would appear
V as If legislative labors tytreed with bim.
We are wondering what position
Cleveland Intends giving Weaver for the
assistance rendered In the last campaign.
He had ought to have a foreign mission
at least. _
An act has passed the legislature of
Pueblo, Mexico, to do art ay with bull
fighting. Now let the legislature at
Lincoln pass some good laws and we
will be satisfied.
It is reported that General Bragg
doesn’t particularly love that legislature
for the senator it made. The trouble
with the general was his bank account
was not big enough.
Tn« birch has made many a boy dance
lively, and now comes along science and
ahdSrs that "birch sap produces largely
intoxicating llqnor." Everything will
be explained after a bit.
Forty yean ago a can of tomatoes
sold for fortv-five cents. Under the
"odious McKinley law” with "dear tin”
they were plentiful at soven and eight
oents per can. What great robbery if is?
Gov. Boras declines to become a
member of Cleveland's cabinet. If
Cleveland desires to have an Iowa demo
crat, we would suggest that he offer the
position to John C. Keeley, of Sioux
City.
Tun Boston Traveller says a soap
manufacturer was asked why he confined
himself exclusively to newspaper adver
tising. Uis answer was: “People who
don’t read the newspapers are not apt to
wash," _ _
By refusing to combine with the demo
crats and electing a member of that
party to the United States senate, the
republicans in the state legislature done
the nght thing. It has been claimed for
the past two years, by the independents,
that the republicans and democrats were
In league together. By their action in
refusing to enter the unholy combine
this slander has been refuted and a great
deal of the independent political thunder
has been disposed of. Now let the
republican members live up to the plat
-form upon which they were elected, and
give us some needed ledlslation, aud the
republican party, the party of principle,
of loyalty and of patriotism, will be
stranger than ever in the years to come.
Anns the death of James A. Gar
Sold, James G. Blaine paid the follow
ing tribute to his memory In an address
In the house of representatives: “With
unfaltering front he faced death. With
unfaltering tenderness he took leave of
life. Above the demoniac hiss of the
•ssissin's bullet he heard the voice of
God. With simple resignation he
bowed to the devlne decree. As the
end drew near hie early craving for the
sea returned. The stately mansion of
power had been to him the wearisome
hospital of pain; and he begged to be
taken from its prison walls, from its
oppressive, stifling air, from its homeli
ness and its hopeliness. Gently, silent
ly, the love of a great people bore the
pale suffeier to the longed for healing
of the sea, to live or die, as God should
will, within the sight of its heaving bil
lows, within the sound of its manifold
voices, With wan, fevered face ten
derly lifted to the cooling breexe, he
looked out wistfully upon the ocean’s
changing wonders—on Its fair sails,
whitening in the morning light; on its
restless waves, rolling shoreward to
break and die beneath the noonday sun;
on the red clouds of the evening, arch
ing low to the horizon; on the serene
and shining pathway of stars. Let us
think that hie dying eyes read mystic
meaning which only the rapt and part
ing soul may know. Let us believe that
In the science of the rededing world, he
heard the great waves breaking on a
farther shore, aud felt already upon his
- wasted brow the breath of the eternal
morning."
▲ Republican to Load Thom.
Tn intimation* given out by tbe
; Inter Ocean the other day are more than
confirmed bp the Chicago Herald’*
advice* from -Washington. Our inti
mation* were simply that Judge Gresham
Was gohig to occupy a place in the
cabinet of Mr. Cleveland. Tbe Herald,
- after receiving them with a sort of “I
know better” smile, came out yesterday
• with the announcement that Gresham
was to be Mr. Cleveland's secretary of
. state.
: We presume the Herein is right in
toe placing our distinguished towns
man. And presuming that it Is so, the
Inter Ocean heartily congratulates Mr.
Cleveland and the democratic party In
having secured an able man to take the
leading place In the cabinet.
It mny be a little unpleasant to some
of the old moss-grown bourbons to
think that their president t ad to come
into the republican ranks to secure a
man for bis premier. Perhaps D. M.
Dickenson may want to deny that Judge
Gresham is a republican, but we think
Judge Gresham is better authority on
that subject than even the ex-postmas
ter general. It is true that republicans
thought last November that Judge
Gresham went wildly astray, and some
of them called him a democrat, but he
himself, when interviewed, was careful
to say that, tbongh be voted for Cleve
land, he was "not a democrat.”
ive Deneve tie tout tne trutn. it
would be hard indeed (or a man breed
as Judge Gresbam baa been in the
republican party to become a democrat
on such short notice. It will take time
and cultivation to make him a sound
democrat. No doubt it will be pleas
anter to his personal feelings to be in a
party whose official head is Cleveland,
than to attempt to work with one whose
official head Is Harrison. But after
I March 4, Harrison will be ex-president,
and will no longer be in any man’s way
for that high position, and the doors
always swing open when a wanderer
desires to return.
Of course Cleveland has other designs,
but ho will never make of Gresham the
supple nartlsan that Gray and Boles
have become. He is composed of differ
ent material. To be the successor of
his chief in the greatest office the world
knows will be a great temptation, and
will probably make him as good a demo
crat as he can be; but even that will not
make him pass muster in the line with
Voorhees, Hill, Vest and the rest.
Again we congratulate the democratic
president and the democratic party that
they have secured the consent of a
republican to pilot them over the shoals
they are likely to encounter in the next
four years. But we warn democrats
that they are placing another man in a
position to make himself stronger than
the party they are trying to serve, and
four years from now, as in the case of
Cleveland in 1888 and 1808, they may
be compelled to abdicate to him as they
did to the gentleman from New York.
Still they have chosen well.
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BLAINE’S ENEMIES.
Blaine had 1 no enemies. While in
public life many fought bitterly, through
Jealousy and other causes, but since his
demise they are coming around one by
one and paying tribute to his memory.
The following paragraph from the Mem
phis Avalanch, brings out an explana
tion from Murat Halstead:
"Murat Halstead still has his nerve
with him. In his comment on Blaine’s
death, for instancet he says that those
who condemned Blaine ‘when he was
confronted by deadly antagonists, while
speaker of the house, did so upon insuf
ficient evidence.’ Yet Murat himself
condemned him on that evidence. The
dear, delightful,. blundering old field
marshal will now have to do some more
explaining."
In replying to the above, Mr. Hal
stead says:
"This paragraph has a peculiarity
that suggests to me - to say a few words
in review. I do say that I assailed
Blaine at the time on insufficient evi
dence, and had hardly made the fight
against him until the understanding
came to me that I bad been to swift in
my condemnation. There were three
republican editors who, at Cincinnatti,
in 1870, attacked Blaine and have been
regretful ever since—Joseph Medill,
Richard Smith and myself. As for my
self, I feel that I did Blaine a wrong
then in being so perpendicular I leaned
backward. He was so pleasing a man
that I resisted his fascinating qualities
too strenuously to be quite fair to him.
The saying was he was irresistible and
that stimulated opposition and animated
antagonism. Perhaps the paradox does
not seem to you wholly irrationale or
incredible. Take the Mulligan letters,
and when Blaine had read them in the
house there were two stories told with
out ceasing, that for a time broke the
wonderful force of his vindication.
One was that he did not read tbe right
package, and another that the impor
tant letters were missing. Both are
confessions that Blaine was wronged by
bis accusers. The mugwumps never
ceased to say that tbe missing letters
would be supplied. Blaine ran for
president. Some scraps were scratched
from the pigeon holes, but they weak
ened the case against Blaine Instead of
strengthening it. There were no miss
ing letters of the least consequence, but
his enemies multiplied them in their
minds. If Mr. Blaine had been an
alleged lawyer forty times, what he was
charged with could have been made
virtuous as 'fees.' He was most rudely
attacked by lawyers and poets. The
latter colored misinformation with
fancy. The former distorted truth pro
fessionally. 1 gave for a little while too
much credit to the indictments of fancy
and the arguments of distortion. Is
your experience so happy that you do
not know how it was, or is, yourself?
I have loved James C. Blaine and be
lieved in him for 15 years. His death
to me is a personal loss.
Shall an episode of error in the esti
mation of evidence condemn me to
silence when he is in his grave, and it is
in my heart and head and hand to do
him justice? I think not.
O’Neill Market Repot.
The following is a correct market re
port for this week:
mors, V1WM.r.75
Steers.2.50
Fat cows.U0OS.00
Butter.M
|«s
Wheat.•
Oats.
Rye.
Buckwheat........
Ear core.
Shelled..
O’NEILL BUS1 NESS DIRECTORY
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
OCALCft IN OiOAftS, CTO.
J)R. 3. P. GILLIOAX,
PHY8IOAN AND SURGEON.
Day and night calls prompt!/ attended to.
Offloe over Blglin’s furniture store.
O’NEILL, NEB.
JJB. C. D. B. D8AMA1I.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
3'NUILL, - NEB.
£^H. BENEDICT.
LAWYER,
Offloe In the Judge Roberts building, north
of Barnett h Frees' lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
g W. ADAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will praotloe in all the courts. Special at
tentlon given to foreclosures and collections.
Is also
COUNTY ATTORNEY,
J)R B. T. TBUEBLOOD,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Diseases of the Eye and Ear and flttlnfl
fiascos a specialty. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m.
and x to Bp. m,
Ornoa oven “THE EMPORIUM."
J^VLUDI BBOS.,
CARPENTERS ft BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material: furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
^ BOYD,
. BUILDERS.’
E8TIMATE8 FURNISHED.
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DENTISTRY
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Offlue juid salary on Fourth ■ treat
Mat of Holt County Bank.
Deyarman Brothers,
PB0HBIBT0R8 OF TBS
Checker LiveryJeed&SaleSlable
O’NEILL NEB
. Finest turnouts In the city. Good, care
tut driven when wanted. Also run the
O’Neill Omnibus Line
Comzrereial Trade a Specialty
Hare ohanree of MoCaffertr's Hearse. All
Orders will receive oireful and prompt attend
R.R.DICKSOi'J&CO..
euoofraona to
T. V. OOLDEN A CO.,
Title Abstracters/Conveyancers,
TAXIS PAID FOE|NON-RK8ID*NT8.
FARM LAypa •
• AND TOWN LOTS
FOB BALI OB IXOHANQB.
Farm Loan* Negotiated on the Moat
Reasonable Terms.
O’CONNOR & GALLAGHER
DMLIRd IN
WIDEN
LIQUORS
Of all kind*. A specialty mad* of
FINE CIGARS;
If too want a drink of good liquor
do oot fall to call on u*.
Martin’* Old Stand, 0'N*tll, 0*0.
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PROPRIETORS OF
| - CENTRAL- ~
Livery Barn
O’NEILL, NEB.
NEW BUGGIES ^3
W NEW TEAMS.
Everything Firpt-CJapS
Barn Opposite Campbell’s Implement House
FRED ALM,
BOOT' AND SHOE SHOP,
Custom work and repairing—Doc.
Shore’s old office.
O’NEILL, ^ NEB.
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RAILROADS.
TRAINS DEPART:
OOIHO VAST.
Passenger out, ; 0:85 a. m.
Freight east. - * 10:45 a.m.
OOIHO WIST.
Freight west, • • 1:45 p. x
Passenger wfcst, • 5:15 p.m
Freight, • - • - 6:44 p.m
The Elkhorn Line Is now running Reclining
Ohair Can dally, between Omaha and Dead
wood, Jree to holden of lint-class transpor
tation.
Per any information call on
W„ J. DOBBS, Agt.
O’NEILL. NEB.
EMIL SNIQGS,
General Blacksmith,
O’NEILL, NEB*.
Wagon and Carriage Repair
ing Done to Perfection.
Plow Work and Horse Shoe
ing a Specialty.
Hard-Made Shoes Made to art Order
We stop Interfering and successsully treat
quarter Cracks and Contracting Feet, and
cure Corns, where our directions are strlotly
followed.
Carry a Line of Carriage, Wagon and* In
stook. Work done on short nonce. XI-PU8
FRED C. ©ATZ.
•DUU9DC
Fresh) Dried and Sail Meats.
Bugaroured Ham. Breakfut Baoon,
Hta, Sploe roll baoon, alt kind* of homim
OTTKILL, NEB
A SALOON
Where the beat
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND CIGARS
Can Always be Had
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PAT GIBBONS, Prop.
NO. 3424,
First National Bai
Paid-up capital, $60,000 , 0%
Surplus,'$2o,0000
Authorized capital, Sloo,ooo
THAD d. BERMINGHAM, pJ
d. P. MANN, Vioe-pres.
ED F. GALLAGHER, Ca&hicb
FRED H. SWINGLEY, Asst'S
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Most 7]
Terma. Issue Time Certificates Bearing
Buy and Sell Foreign & Domestic Exchange/
DIRECTORS:
M. CAVANAUGH T. F. BIRMINGHAM j pi
ED F. GALLAGHER THAD J. BIRMINeu,.1
F. W. THOMAS, President. G. W. WATTT ttc ,
JOHN McHUGH, Cashien
THE ■ STATE > BAI
O’NEILL.
I - -:
Authorized Capital, $100,000.
Paid up Capital, $30.(
DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSlM
HOLJ III GOUNTY III BAI
o’neill, Nebraska.
DAVID ADAMS, President. D. L. DARR, C«
Wm. Adams, Asst. Cashier.
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSAC
Still
Agents for the Cunard, North German Lloyd, American and Red
American Steamships. Buy and sell drafts drawn on principal citU
Europe and America. Accounts of firms and individuals solicited
Collections Made and Remited on the Day of Papes
Pioneer hardware draie
GARLAND STOVE8 AND RANGE
I CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK OF /
Hardware, Tinware,
Gopper & Granitewa
IW NORTHJNEBBASKA. AND MAKE A SPECIALTY OF
ELI BARBED WIR
IN IMPLEMENTS IlCARRY
The famous JOHN DEERE Plows, Culti
vators, Flying Dutchman Sulky Plows, Peru
City Cultivators. >
LISTERS and DRILLS
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save you some money.
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