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Again The Frontier ask for the ex.
pert’s report upon McEvony.
k, The premium on gold in Rome la t
per cent., end 17 per cent, in Madrid.
The St. Paul Globe laments the feet
that the price of bread does not decline
in a corresponding ratio with the dociine
of wheat. ’
As a lookerup of reports for Hairing
:V,' ton, in all "farity” It may be said that
County Attorney Murphy is possibly a
| % success,
‘ Senator Siewart, a great sllrer
agitator and ownor of mines, it is said,
makes all contracts and notes running
i, to him payable in gold.
Xr How easily and wbat a small amount
„ tOt the "long green” It would have re*
quired to smother the Sun’s shallow
solicitude for the dear tax payer!
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Representative Holman says state
+■ bank notes are about as valuable for
money purposes as beach leaves. For
once we can agree with "the great ob*
If Jector.” _
Cleveland has announced that no
more appointments will be made until
the silver question it settled. Grover
* v knows how to bring Ehe faithful to the
scratch. __
"Hon. Tobias Castor” now says the
Sun. But when Doyle or some other
good democrat gets the postofflee it will
be "Old Tobe,” a man who has "been no
credit to his party.”
The democratic party now finds that
a national platform which can be con
strued to please everybody, while handy
as a vote getter, is a legislative obstacle
fv alffloult to surmount.
The independent county convention
has been called to convene in O’Neill
Friday, September 1. Friday will cer
tainly prove an unlucky day for some
400 aspiring reformers.
Mona aggravating even than the finan
cial equeeae ii the taunting tone of the
Canadian prou, which invitee frightened
Americana to bring their money over
and depoait it in Canadian banka.
It ia not neceaaary for aome people,
Tin Frontier for inatance, to make
aflldavlta to ita atatementi in order to
command the confidence of the public.
It ia different with aome other people.
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It ib queer that just after Secretary
Carllale'a vlait to Wall atreet, brokers
should be getting a premium for small
bills which the New York banks claimed
to be unable to get for their cuatomers.
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;r'; Sprakrr Crisp will find straddling
the administration and the free silver
horae at one time the moat difficult feat
be ever undertook, and it will not be
surprising if he falls between them and
/ ia crushed. ,
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I* oongreaa intends to paaa a tariff bill
" it should do ao at once ao that the peo
ple may know juat how bad a situation
jp they must face. Nothing can be worse
than the present state of suspense and
.uncertainty.
^ Anything but this dreadful suspense
ifighs McHugh as he involuntary ex
j-f* claims: "Isn’t there somebody at Lin
coln who can attend to Tobe Castor’s
business for him while he continues the
good work for a couple of months?”
'Whbr the silver question cornea to a
vote keep your eyea on republican mem
bera. Their votea will be recorded on
'£■Ute right aide regardleaa of the political
altnation. In timea like theae they are
. X> alwaya the flrat to forget politica in their
' anxiety to legialate for the people.
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“Buck" Kilgore, otherwiae know aa
the "big-foot Texaa kicker,** announcea
that he ia getting up steam for the kick
of hla life, which he propose* to make
X on the floor of the house. Thiamay
mean lively timea ahead or it may be
merely a bluff for good committee as
signments.
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X < Kautehan threatens to chastise Mc
Arthur in the event of the Graphic’s
exposing a little of hia ea rlier checkered
and infamous career. We opine that
the Graphic cannot be intimidated, and
when it comes to chastising physically,
McArthur will be found as diplomatic
* in self-defense as he is truthful in
criticism.
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Nothing will spoil and unsettle s
gopd, strong, self-reliant patriotic peo
ple sooner than protective selfishness
■ like that of the republican party.—Dal
las News.
And nothing will "settle** them sooner
than the foar that the democratic party
will keep its promise for once and re
move that selfish republican protection.
$ To pboplb acquainted with the facti
in the case, the Sun’s tirade of abus<
against republican officials is calculate!
only to inflict them with that weary
‘"ilanguid, tired feeling. It is a fact tha
for a consideration the Sun’s edito:
: * knifed members of his own party am
worked for members of the “republicai
thieving ring,*’of which he baa so mucl
, to any of late.
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For the benefit of the Sun we will
lay that at no time in its history has
The Fhontikh'h subscription list been
as large ns at present, and further; that
The Frontier is read by almost twice
sb many people in Holt county ns the
Sun.
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It does not look to be quite the proper
thing for the Sun to accept compensation
for assisting in the election of men to
office and then denounce them as
“thieves.” But then it shows the charac
ter and possibilities of that sheet. The
Frontier would not knowingly support
a knave for a position of public trust.
Would such a boodle pimp hesitate to
assail and ruin the character of a woman,
if by so doing he tould more efficiently
serve his ring masters? We think not.
—Independent.
Our idea, strengthened by profession
al acquaintance, is that a pimp would
stop at nothing. Since you have asked
and answered the question, Mr. Kautz
mnn, we will not debate the subject but
take it for granted that you aro in a
position to pass intelligently upon the
question. You have evidently obeyed
the divine injunction and become ac
quainted! with thyself.
In one Isbuo of the Independent its
editor refers to the kids as Kinkald’s
tools, and In another issue it says they
are controlled by men who hold a mort
gage. In both of these propositions
this viciously malevolent weaver of
malicious fabrications is mistaken. We
say “mistaken” because it doesn’t sound
well to call a man a liar, but then in this
case it is not necessary as the scourged
outcast in question bears the reputation
of being -a qualified member of that
class, and well he deserves it. The kids
hold a clear bill of sal6 to Tns Frontier
from responsible parties and no mort
gage disturbs their righteous slumbers.
It pleases us greatly to see the Inde
pendent so openly support the super
visor system, for in no better way can
the Insincerity of its reform mouthings
be proven. But Kautzmau is not to be
blamed for the attitude of the paper on
this subject. He is only a brass mouth
picuu to me spcaaing tune mrougn
which nine independent reformers, at
present members of the board, are talk
ing, The Independent dare not expose
the system because it composes tho
system, and is run in the interest of
the system. And taxes are as high with
a valuation of over $3,143,680 in 1893, as
they were in 1884 with a valuation of
$1,507,998.
The following figures are mighty in
teresting, and a much more Instructive
object lesson than President Cleveland
can ever instill into the minds of tlic
American people. They show our bal
ance of trade during the four years end
ing June 30, and it will be noted that vc
kad>an excess of exports over imports
during each of the years 1890,1891,1892,
but that for the current year our Imports
exceed very largely our exports. The
balance of trade was in our favor up to
June 30,1893, when Ur. Cleveland was
president. The figures are as follows:
Ending Excess of Excess of
Juno SO. Exports. Imports.
1890 .S88,lft8,275. „
1891 . S8,564.6U.
1898. 803,975,886.
19*8. about 183,652,981
Associated press dispatches of the
15th inst. say that leading republicans of
the house announce their Intention of
taking little or no part in the silver de
bate, on the ground that they* were
refused a chance to amend the order
regulating the debates. They declare
that they dill not believe that free silyer
or no silver, which were the only two
alternations possible in the Bland order,
were the only two positive solutions of
the situation. They would have been
glad to have secured a vote on another
proposition which they believed wonld
go further than any other to meet and
relieve the necessities of the financial
situation. In view of this they do not
feel called on to take part in the debate.
It is doubtful, however, if they can hold
to the program they have outlined.
A good many workingmen voted the
democratic ticket last fall to get a whack
at the rich men,. and they have suc
ceeded. The rich men are having a
pretty bad time at present. It is esti
mated that the shrinkage in values in
this country since last January is more
than a thousand millions of dollars. A
great deal of this sum, though not all,
by any means, has been taken from the
rich. But what part of their loss has
bsen gained by the poor men, or the
workingmen? Does the workingman
find that the situation which pinches the
rich improves his condition? Does it
profit the workingman when banks sus
pend, when mines close and factories
stop work or largely reduce their opera
tions? True, the rich are getting their
punishment, but how is it with the
workingman? Is he having an altogeth
er comfortable time, and are his pros
pects for the future unusually encour
aging? In fact, does it not begin to
i look as if there were a certain solidary
, of interests between the various classes
of our people, if we may assume that
; there are classes, in consequence of
■ which, when the internets of one class
[ are in]uriously affected, ibe interests of
i all suffer in like proportion, so that
i when one is punished the sinat comes to
all?—Milwaukee Sentinel.
In answer to The Frontier’s charge
that the supervisor system costs the tax
payers over $50,000 more per annum
than that of the commissioner the Inde
pendent devotes a column and a half to
abuse of The Frontier editors and
about a stick full of hog wash argument
to the question in hand, lie cites in
favor of retaining the cumbersome and
expensive system the fact that in four
years they have paid off public debt to
the amount of #50,000, which we will
admit just Tor tho sake of argument.
Our figures prove conclusively that the
system has cost in four years over nnd
above that of tho commissioner for the
same length of time $220,480.13, from
which take the $56,000 that the Inde
pendent claims has been directed into
proper channels and we still have $164,
880,18. Where is it, and for what has
it been spent?
Tite idea of a perfect stranger, like
the W nnderlng Jew, settling down for a
short time in Holt county, and by libel
ous writings attempting to prejudice an
intelligent people against persons who
have lived amongst then) for years and
years, is nothing if not amusing. This
migratory bat makes it his religious
duty to personally attack the editors of
republican papers, instead of discussing
pressing questions of public moment
and disseminating facts through tho
agency of his newspaper. But it is a
happy circumstance that the republican
editors can stand the ordeal unflinch
ingly and rest assured that a campaign
of billingsgate can but result in the
downfall of its instigator. These erup
tions of vulgarity are perhaps a neces
sary evil and will, only tend to mark
more clearly the distinction existing
between legitimate journalism and
vandalism.
And now comes L. A. Jlllson, who
swears that the committee never inti
mated to any expert that they wanted
him to find any officer short, and in the
course of his affidavit he attempts to
quote a conversation had between a
member of the board and one of the
editors of The Frontier. If all the
premises in his oath are stated as cor
rectly as the language used by us, we
uemuie ior me spiritual future of the
affiant. It is true that Bill Bethea
pleasantly asked Clyde King who the
man was, and it is also true that Clyde
King said that whatever he had to say
he would say through the columns of
The Frontier, but when Bethea said
the man was a liar, instead of King re
marking as sworn to: "As to its being
right or wrong I don’t know whether it
is right or not, and I don’t care a d—m,”
he said, he didn’t know whether he was
a liar or not and didn’t care a d—m.
Even a thoroughbred liar can tell the
truth once in a while without the aid of
a county judge or notary public.
A FEW IDEAS.
If the country had shown increasing
prosperity this year does any one doubt
that the democrats would have boasting
ly*attributed it to the change of admin
istration?—Kansas City Journal.
We have seen nothing sillier than the
assertion in some of our democratic
contemporaries that the mills are shut
ting down "for political effect.” Do
not these absurd papers suppose that if
there was money to be made in manu
facturing, these mills would keep run
ning?—Boston Journal.
uutiuK » icpuuiiLnu ivuuiiuiuirtuiun
the price of wheat had gone as low as it
is at present, the fact would have furn
ished a text for columns upon columns
of learned editorial dissertation in the
tariff-reform press, upon tariff robbery
and republican cussedness.—Peoria
Journal.
From the tariff war between Germany
and Russia this country w ill be the
gainer. The articles upon which each
of these nations has put practically pro
hibitory taxes are staple articles of pro
duce with us, and to this country Ger
many and Russia must alike turn for
them.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Inasmuch as the democratic party got
the country into the mire, it would seem
to be more a matter of duty than of
"imperishable glory’’ for the democratic
party to get it out again. One thing is
certain: The democratic party must do
something without loss of time or re
main discredited forever.—Albany, N.
Y„ Journal.
The Chicago Herald comforts itself
by saying that republican legislation
has placed the country where it is now.
But that, is false comfort. Republican
legislation placed the country where it
was a year ago. The fear of what the
democrats have pleged themselves to do
lias put the country where it is now.—
Buffalo Express.
Where are those "tariff barons” who
were denounced last fall by the free
trade democracy as "robbing” the peo
ple and "thriving os the common mis
ery?” Every day has its long record of
"tariff barons” reduced to bankruptcy
by the uncertainty resulting from a dem
ocratic administration at Washington.—
Albany Journal.
What is this? The democrats of
Virginia to hold their state convention
in a great tobacco warehouse? That is
a great blunder. The tariff in which the
Virginia democrats believe is not pro
ductive of great tobacco warehouses—
in the United States. It rears them in
Cuba, but not here. The Virginia dem
ocrats should meet somewhere else.—
Philadelphia Inquire.
Hon. Wm. S. Warner
Cordially Endorses Hood’d
The Best Blood Purifier,
Hon. WilUam, S. Warner
Fond du Lao, Wls.
The following is from ex-Congressman
Warner, a gentleman highly esteemed by
all who know him:
” I can truly say that I oonslder Hood’s Sarsa
parilla the best medicine for purifying the blood.
It did me good when physicians and other modi"
eines failed. It has Increased my appetite and
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
CURES
teemed to renew my youth. This is absolutely
true.” W. S. Warner, Fond Du Lae, Wls.
Hood's Pills cure Constipation by restoiw
lug the peristaltic action of the alimentary eanaL
O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
JJ B. DICKSOX
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Beferenoe First National Bank
O’NEILL, NEB.
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIOARS. ETO.
J. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Offioe over Blglln’s furniture store.
O'NEILL, NEB.
P H. BENEDICT.
LAWYER,
Offloe in the Judge Roberts building, north
of O. O. Snyder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
Jg W. ADAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all the oourts. Special at
tentlon given to foreclosures and collections
JJB. B. T. TKUEBLOOD
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Diseases of ihe Eye and Ear and fitting;
glasses a specialty. Office hours 0 to 12 a. m.
and 2 to 5 p. m,
Office first door west of Heluerlkson's
]y^ULLEy BROS.,
CARPENTERS A BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material: furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
A BOYD,
BUILDERS.
ESTIMATES FURNISHED.
Aj_H^_50RBETT
.will attend to your
DENTISTRY
in first-class shape.
PHOTOGRAPHY
promptly and aatisfactorly
executed. •. •. •. -.
East of Holt County Bank, Fourth Street.
checker
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Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Finest turnonts in the city.
Good, careful drivers when
wanted. Also run the O’Neill
Omnibus line. Commercial
trade a specialty. Nave charge
of McCaffert’s hearse.
EMIL SNI66S,
PRACTICAL
HORSE SHOl
And general blacksmithing carried on in connection
riage work in either iron or wood executed in the mosts
nuge wurK m euuer iron or wood executed m
style possible. First-class plow and machine work t'
be relied upon. No new experience used in any bm1
work. All my men are skilled workmen.
ALSO DEALER IN FARM INPLEMENTS——*■
Plano binders, mowers, rakes, Skandi plows, harrow
cultivatoi*s of all descriptions. Everything guaranty
beat the best. o’neill, Ni;li
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HOTEL
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Has recently been remodeled and ev.™
furnished with a new suit of furniture, nmkin •
one of the most complete and capM.
in the northwest. A good sample roonTh^
nection. First door west of Neil Brennan
hardware store.
NO. 3424.
First National Ban
Paid-up capital, $5o,ooo O Ne
Surplus, $2o,oooo Nei,ra
Authorized capital, $loo,ooo
THAD d. BERMINGHAM, PREa
d. P. MANN, Vice-pres.
ED F. GALLAGHER, Cashier
FRED H. SWINGLEY; Asa™
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Most I'av
Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interes
Buy and Sell Foreign & Domestic Exchange.
DIRECTORS:
MOSE CAMPBELL T. F. BIRMINGHAM J. p
ED F. GALLAGHER THAD J. BIRMINGHAM
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL V
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier.
THE ■ STATE - BAN
OB'O’NEILL.
CAPITAL $30,000,
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DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSIN
GARLAND STOVES
AND RANGES
I carry the largest stock of
. Hardware, Tinware,
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In north Nebraska and make a specialty of
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In Implements I carry the T T PC It
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