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STATE CONVENTIONS.
J'*, Republican state convention, Lincoln,
Octobers.
I)omocratio state convention, Lincoln,
Ootober 4.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
The republican central committee la
hereby called to meet in the republican
club rooms at O'Neill, Neb-, Saturday,
; September 0, 1808, (or the purpose of
fixing a date for the holding of a
republican convention and to transact
any other business that may properly
^ cpme before said meeting.
G. C. HAr.Kt.BT, Chairman.
"There's a name that’s never spok
% en"—Rhody Hayes.
*7 "Lkt the platform go” may soon be
1 come a popular cry with democrats who
fear free trade.
Thb independents certainly owed the
treasurersblp to Rhody Ilayee. They
have ussd him as at catspaw.
Tub Frontier desires to deny thst it
ever threw a vile "asperatlon” at any
one, Mr. Kautzman not excepted.
For once the prophets all gusBcd
right as to the action of the house; but
circumstances made It a mighty easy
guess. _ _ _
Wonder what foreign financiers
think of that little shipment of 810,000,
000 ip gold from San Francisco to New
York?
Senator Hill may find Jones; he
edits the world, a harder man to dis
pose of than Jones; he pays the freight,
proved to be.
Several independent aspirants are
sulking in their tents since they have
learned that even a populist convention
may be ungrateful.
Senator Hill’s speech stated his
position on the financial question much
plainer than Mr. Cleveland did in his
message to congress.
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Thu independents shelved a promis
ing and popular candidate when they
refused to recognise Conrad Grebe's
claim on the sheriff plum.
I M. F. Harrington is a politician. A
man who can so adroitly pull the fleece
over the eyes of the rural delegates is
nothing if not a politician.
fIr It is true that Rautzman is an A. P.
; A., as intimated by the Graphic, how
can he support Idol Mullen? Will he
conveniently forget his oath?
Indications point to some lively con
gressional music on the suspension of
pensions In the near future, and all of it
will not be made by republicans either.
Senator Morgan says he does not
believe the' financial distress'is real.
| Evidently the senator has not tried to
borrow money on his note since bis
return from Europe.
Can’t somebody persuade the New
York anarchists to get in the way of
; that predicted tidal wave? Perhaps a
. few kegs of beer judiciously placed
would do the business.
Gov. Boise would better have stood
by his first announcement. With de
- feat will come loss of prestige and the
end of his political career; and defeat
will certainly come this year.
j'' For the fourth time in as many years
has the statue of independent idolatry
been unveiled to the people of Holt
county. The independents resemble the
Chinese in their joss worship.
Credit for truthfulness, if not for
; courage, is due the democratic con*
gressman who publicly acknowledge
that Grover Cleveland’s will is the only
party platform they recognize.
Sbxatobs Hill ud Vorhees can
- hardly be classed m administration
senators, although they are aiding the
'administration to bring about the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the silver
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Rhodt Hins must have been prom
ised a deputyship. It was his intention
to ask the independents for the treasur
' ershlp but his name was not mentioned.
Harrington had not written it on the
slate.
Ex-Cosgbxssman Howk of Michigan
was wise when he chose the title of his
' latest lecture—“The Nation’s Bread and
Batter.” The nation’s bread and butter
is at this time a very lively and timely
topic.
Huhtuo lawyers is an old Kentucky
sport that has lately been revived.
There is a difference of opinion as to
whether buckshot or 44 calibre cart
, ridses make the best amunition. Both
have made records.
Passion Commissioner Locuben has
a temper that he ought to be as much
ashamed of as he should be of his treat
ment of some of his old comrades. The
man who could write such a fetter as
that sent by Lochren to Congressman
Morse, of Massachusetts, is not fit to b4
at the hssd of the pension office.
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Ciievk Hazei.kt has called Ibe repuh
licau central cominittcc to meet at the
republican club rooms in O'Neill on
Beptember 0. The date (or bolding the
county convention will be fixed at that
time. Wait for it. 'f
Tiiiuck bankers from O’Neill alorie
went as delegates to the independent
convention last Friday. “Down with
the 2 per centers!” How that old
familiar calamity cry rises up to whisper
consistency and koncstv of purpose.
“A Thus Rbfqiimeii,” writing from
Sand Creek, occupies a little ot Tiib
Fiiontikh’s space this week with a
pointed communication. The ideas
expressed by him are entertained by
numerous independents throughout the
county.
"Pjuvate” John Allen, the Missis
sippi congressman, has an idea, or pre
tends to have, that there <s something
humorous in the financial situation.
This is inexcusable, even in a Missis
sippi democratic congressman, from
whom little is expected.
Even democratic congressmen some
times tell the truth. For Instance,
Bynum, of Indiana, says ho was “full"
when he made a radical free coinage
speech at Denver, two years ago; and
Cummings, of New York, says he is a
politician, not a statesman.,
Thebe were five candidates for every
nomination at the disposal of the pop
ulist convention last Friday. And
still some people claim that it is not n
pap seeking organization and the offices
are compelled to institute a sleuth-like
search before they can find a man will
ing to sacri^ce himself for the good of
his country.
Tub Niobrara Pioneer celebrated its
twentieth birthday by printing the edi
tion on green paper, suggestive of a
"green old age." Bro. Fry is an able
editor and a smart man generally, and
we are surprised that be should give
way to unseemly hilarity. Contempor
aries will certainly accuse him of "turn
ing green with envy.”
The Independent promises to keep
standing our editorial of two weeks ago
on the Scott matter. We trust he will.
Give your readers a chance to under
stand the situation, Mr. Kautzman, and
they will in time forget their prejudice
long enough to place the blame where it
belongs; or in other words, with the
board of independent supervisors.
When the farmers’ alliance was or
ganized they would admit to their coun
cil chamber no' bankers, lawyers or
railroad men. The independent party
of today is the outgrowth of the
farmers’alliance of other days. At the
convention last Friday we noticed
among the delegates bankers, lawyers
and railroad men. The sun of their
degeneration is several hours high.
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Elect the most capable and honest
men in the county as supervisors, and
you will still have an expensive
machine. It is a costly congress eco
nomically,administered, but when pre
sided over by a lot of ignoramuses who
seem to care for nothing but to manu
facture political capital at the people's
expense it likens unto an octopus, and
should have its leech-like limbs ampu
tated at the trunk.
BANKERS ON THEIR KNEES
They Beg for Mercy from the Pop
ulist Senators.
The above heading appeared last week
over an article in the Independent!
Banker? up here in Holt county don’t
get on their knees. They simply get on
the delegation and represent themselves
in the populist convention.
Representative Catchings of Mis
sissippi pratically admitted in a speech
in the house that the democratic-pro
gram contemplated a reduction of the
wages of the laboring man, which, he
said, had been steadily rising in this
country until they had reached a point
unexampled in the history of the world.
And he might have added that they
would not have been reduced as long as
the republican party was kept Jn power.
Hhebk is the independent ticket as
nominated by the convention last Fri
day:
Treasurer, J. P. Mullen.
Sheriff, Chas, Hamilton.
Clerk, Bill Bethea.
Superintendent, Prof. Jackson.
County judge, Geo. McCutcheon.
Coroner, Dr. Trueblood.
Surveyor, M. F. Norton.
Considered as a whole, there is no
denying the fact that it is a strong ticket
and is composed of some of the best
blood of the party. But it does not
necessarily follow that the delegates
returned home entirely satisfied. They
were not. It was a slate made and
carried out almost to the letter. We
believe the defeat of Morrow for super
intendent was the only miscarriage. A
great many of the delegates went to the
convention with the idea that every
candidate would be given a square deal
and that the rule of the survival of the
fittest would be applied without fear ot
favor and when they found they had
run against a pre-arranged scheme they
naturally grew warm in the region ol
the collar and many of them openly
assert that they will not support the
ticket. They object.to M. F. Harring
ton putting up a set of men for them..
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Hasn’t cxpenencc, both locally and
generally, proven that tho law compell
ing treasurers to deposit the public
funds in the banka, is an unfair measure?
When it was passed by an independent
legislature did its cbnmpions have the
interests of tho dear farmers at heart?
What justice is there in taking the peo
ple's money and loaning it to banks at 5
per cent, and then when the farmer
comes to pay bis taxes compel him to
borrow the same money from the banks
and pay them 2 per cent.? Is this re
from? Is this legislation by the peo
ple and for the people?
Last week’s Sun devotes two columns
of rank abuse to M- D. Long, chairman
of the democratic central committee, be
cause he sr.w fit to publish his central
committee meeting call in The Fron
tier. We presume Mr. Long desired
the people to see the notice and for that
reason published it in a paper that cir
culates largely among the people, and
the only matter of surprise to us is that
he published in the Sun, whose editor
is even now more independent than
democrat. Another thorn in McHugh's
side is the fact that Mr. Long gets his
job work done at The Frontier’s job
rooms. This is easily explained: he
knows where to get good work.
Ik Mr. Long is deserving of so much
abuse for publishing a democratic call
in the republican Frontier, will the
Sun man please rise on his bind legs
once more and tell us what he thinks of
one of those ‘‘good democrats,” (who is
even now aspiring .to a position In the
O’Neill land office,) holding stock in the
Holt County Independent? The Inde
pendent, Charles, which speaks of
Grover as a “pot-bellied servant, ofv
Shy lock?” If Long is deserving of cen
sure for publishing bis call in Tuk
-Frontier, -what in the name of politics
is a “good” democrat deserving of?
Great way to support a democratic
paper by buying stock in the Independ
ent. Eh, Charles.
“Man’s inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn.” No one
in political life has cause to more deeply
feel the true import of the poet’s words
than County Judge Bowen. The first
independent to carry the populist
gonfalon through a heatsd campaign
and finally successfully and triumphant
ly plant it upon the ramprrts of the
enemy’s stronghold. Elected when the
boasted leaders of his party were igno
miniously defeated, only to be shelved
by a stated combination when he was
getting in shape to enjoy the experience
and renumeration earned in his official
capasity. Mr. Bowen, although an in
dependent, has proven himself an hon
orable man and a conscientious judge.
Mistakes that he has made have been of
the head and not of the heart and he
certainly was not deserving of the
shabby trick imposed him upon by his
convention last Friday.
Last week we promised an article on
the Independent’s denial of our charge
that the supervisor system is more ex
pensive than that of the commissioner,
but upon a more careful perusal of his
article we find that he does not dispute
our figures. He simply seeks to divide
the county and township taxes and
charge only the county levy to the
supervisor system, but that will hardly
be accepted as a refutation of out
statement. We have never charged the
supervisors with all this expense, but
rather the system which gives us tbe
supervisors. The system which’ com
pels townships to levey in the aggre
gate from fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars annually, with few visible im
provements in the townships, is a bur
den, and the tax is no less a tax because
it is levied by .the people themselves.
The county levy is as high today as ii
was eight years ago, notwithstanding
we have an increased valuation of ovei
$3,000,000.
AN INDEPENDENT PROTEST.
Sand Creek, Neb., Sept. 3,1803.
Editors Frontier—I wish to expresi
my emphatic protest against the meth
ods used at the late independent con
vention at O’Neill. 1 am an independ
ent in the sincere meaning of the Word,
and according to the rules and customi
of the organization, but I am opposed tc
cut and dried action on the part of inde
pendent leaders and a gang of O’Neil
ucuiuti aia nucicujf ouiuc ui uui uuo
friends were slaughtered and a rinj
ticket—in part—sprung on the con
vention with printed ballots preparec
before hand.
In my view an independent conven
tion should be controlled by those wh<
believe and practice its principle* am
not by democrat*, republican* or *choo
kid* the latter of which disturbed tin
good order of tho meeting by leavini
their seats to meddle with older members
The like didn’t happen at Atkinson twc
years ago. I want it known to al
parties that we are down on schemiuf
before hand, and as a political party, ar<
unjustly held responsible for the acts o:
individual members in listening to dem
ocrats, and pestered by kids workini
for deputy and clerkships. '
When did McCutcheon and Jim Har
rington join the independents? Or tb<
majority of the O’Neill delegation foi
that matter? That delegation and t
large part of the convention was delib
eratly put up and packed' to beat Betbet
for treasurer, and to slaughter hones'
Judge Bowen fdr a republican whc
intended to leave tb^ county. Thest
are cold facts. Bethea was nominated
on a democratic lie. too, for he did noi
accept until long after he beat Norval,
This is a poor record, to be dictated tc
by bankers, bank directors, democrats,
lawyers and limber legged kids. Nc
wonder people want county division.
Bespectfully, A Truk Reformer.
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Chamberlain, South Dakota.
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O’NEILLBUSINESS DIRECTORY
B. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O'NEILL, NEB.
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIQAR8. ETO.
J)K. J. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Office over Biglin's furniture store.
O’NEILL, NEB.
E.H
BENEDICT.
LAWYER,
Office In the Judge Roberta building, north
of O. O. 8nyder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
g W. ADAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice In all the courts. Special at
tention given to foreclosures and collections
B. T. TRUEBLOOD
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Diseases of'the 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 Helnerlkson’s
JjjJULLEN BROS.,
CARPENTERS & BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material: furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
^ BOYD,
/ BUILDERS.
eSTlHATCS furnished.
A. H. CORBETT
>.will attend to your
DENTISTRY
in first class shape.!
PHOTOCRAPHY
. promptly and satisfactory
executed. •. •. •. •.
East of Holt County Bank, Fourth Street.
DeYarman Bros
CHECKER
•fwwvinif
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Finest turnouts in the city.
Good, careful drivers when
wanted. Also run the O’Neill
Omnibus line. Commercial
trade a specialty. Have charge
of McCaffert’s hearse.
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THE COLUMBIAN
HOTEL
Has recently been remodeled and every roo.
furnished with a new suit of furniture,
one of the most complete and capahla
in the northwest. A good sample ro^Tfo^
nection. First door west of Neil Brennan’s
hardware store.
NO. 3424.
First National Ban!
Paid-up capital, $5o,ooo O'Neill
Surplus, $2o,oooo Nebras"
Authorized capital, $loo,ooo
THAD J. BERMINGHAM, Pres
J. P. MANN, Vice-pres.
ED F. GALLAGHER, Cashier
FRED H. {SWINGLEY, Asst.cLi
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Most i'avoral
Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest
Buy and Sell Foreign & Domestic Exchange.
DIRECTORS:
MOSE CAMPBELL T. F. BIRMINGHAM J. P. MnJ
ED F. QALLAQHER THAD J. BIRMINGHAM
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL? V-p]
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier. ,
THE - STATE - BANI
OF OimiliL.
CAPITAL $30,000.
Prompt Attention Given to Collection!
DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESi
GARLAND STOVES
AND RANGES
HARDWARE.
I carry the largest stock of
Hardware, Tinware,
Copper and Graniteware
In north Nebraska and make a specialty of
Eli Barbed Wire.
In Implements I carry the IT CTPIP^
Famous John Deere Plows, I Q 1 M 1
Cultivators, Flying Dutchman AND
Sulky Plows, ^|—j r T T Cl
Peru City Cultivators. T /1 v 11^ |
Call and see me. I can save you money.
NEIL BRENNAN, OW
EMIL SNI66S,
_ PRACTICAL
--HORSESHOE!
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And general blacksmithing carried on in connection. ‘
riage work in either iron or wood executed in the most s >
style possible. First-class plow and machine work ^*aV'o
be relied upon. No new experience used in any hianC
work. All my men are skilled workmen.
ALbO DEALER IN FARM INPLEMENTS——~l000‘ (
Plano bindei*s, mowers, rakes, Skandi plows, barrows • ^
cultivators of all descriptions. Everything guarantee
beat the best. , V > * o’nkill, NFJ5'
