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THE SKIRVING CASE.
Now that tlie testimony is all in the
hands of the Jury and It is probable that
a verdict will be rendered before this
issue will be out, we presume It will not
be out of order for The Frontier to
express Its views upon this case.
Our readers are all familiar with the
fact that this paper generally has views
upon questions of public moment, and
having views, is never backward about
coming forward with them.
It is generally oifr custom to criticise
the action of this board, not because we
have anything against the board in par
ticular, but because they seldom do any
thing for which they are not censurable.
In this Instance we think they werewrong
for even entertaining this caso for a
moment. The charges preferred were
not of sufficient magnitude to justify
t ouster if they were all proven. And
then again the complaining witness
should have been required to give a
bond for the costs, in case his allegations
were npt supported by the facts, as we
now find they are not. It is the worst
kind of imposition upon the tax payers
of this county for the board to set here
for a week hearing frivolous charges
preferred by a partisan-blind tool
who probably never saw the inside of
the office he alleges is corruptly admin
istered. Of course he is not entirely to
' blame, as be has been urged on by the
'old gang commanded by Boas Harring
ton, who last fall said there "would be
trouble" if this officer dared defy his
mandate and assert his rights as a free
born American citizen.
This case was not instituted because
these populists feared (or cared) that
the office was not administered accord
ing to Hoyle or law. It is a matter that
the county is not interested in to any
great extent. The fees do not go to the
county and the couuty has nothing to
lose or gain by the manner in which it
|v is conducted. The people who Save
business before the clerk are the ones
who should do the kicking and there is
not the slightest doubt but that wo
would have heard from them long ago
if things were not progressing in the
proper channel. The fact that this
office is held by a republican is what
hurts those fellows and they have
planned mj|py kinds of schemes to get
possession. ‘ Notwithstanding that an
army of the faithful are now employed
in the court-house, other brothers are
still out in the wet and some place must
' be prepared for them, and that quickly,
r lest they drown. This is the true cause
', of their proceedings and not the allega
tions made in the complaint.
Gentlemen, wben a man cannot draw
a breath of this glorious Holt county air
without first consulting this piratical
gang of star-chamberists it is time to
pause for just a moment and ask some
body In what direction we are drifting.
Wn are told that John Trommer
ahauaser has again assumed control of
the Ewing Democrat.
The Jew logically proclaims that be
cause it only costs 22 cents to produce a
gold dollar therefore is only worth 22
cents. Great head has that man Gutz
man.
; — »effie —- .
The free traders are getting their
breath back and are beginning the hope
less task of trying to explain the result
in Pennsylvania without condemning
free trade.
“Whehb,” asks the mush-pated Jew,
"has there been any ill-advised and los
ing litigation?" Egad! My duke, when
i- and where has Holt county, up to the
present term of court, ever won a law
suit?
Ex-Spbakkb Reid summed up the en
tire situation in the house when he said:
"If the maj ority party here would ac
cord to members their constitutional
right to transact business in accordance
with the constitution we should cease to
hare trouble.”
Habungton has dubbed Crawford
"the watchdog of the treasury.” The
title is good and has been well earned.
He sleeps beside if with about the same
fervor and from the game motives that
Wv the common ordinary dog eyes a nice
ham joint. He wants it all himself.
Gvkzman denies that the supervisor
system costs over $50,000 more per year
than that ot the commissioner, but he
doesn’t produce any figures in support
of his denial. The records Bhow that
the- first four years of supervisor rule
average over $50,000 more per year
than the last four years of commis
sioner rule. There’s no getting around
this statement.
Uutzman would have hU readers be
lieve that It is necessary to call si grand
jury before a man may be arrested
for larceny. It may be that the Jew’s
readers arc a set of blank chumps, and
then again it may not be. That, he has
any readers, however, is an indication
that they are non compos mentis.
The democrats in congress have lately
been classified by democrats as jackasses,
fools, incompetent demagogues and
anarchists. While not endorsing the
entire quartet of epithets, truth com
pels us to acknowledge that it would
not be difficult to produce evidence that
would convict on the firs: three counts.
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The Jew is an ignoble pettifogger.'
He compares Mr. Bethea's force of clerks
to that employed by Mr. Butler in 1802.
Why did he not make comparison with
tho force employed in ’08? The amount
of work in this office grows less with
each succeeding year and the amount of
help should (and has up to the present
administration) decreased in a corres
ponding ratio.
and now it is wnisperea about toe
state that Custer county's pop treasurer
has gone wrong: that the dollars in his
vault are many thousand less than indi
cated upon his balance sheet. Congress
man Kem is said to have borrowed some
$20,000 from him. Again *we say that
the ways of the independents are not in
a direction opposite to those accredited
to the republicans and democrats.
Mr. Cleveland is said to have lett
Washington thoroughly disgusted with
congress. From the best obtainable in
formation'congress has been disgusted
with Mr. Cleveland for quite a while,
and the people with both. It might be
advantageous to the country for Mr.
Cleveland to extend that hunting trip
indefinitely; maybe congress can do
better alone. It cannot do worse than
it has done under his manipulation.
Mu. Vandbrvoort must have had the
Holt county populists in his mind when
he said: "One of the greatest obstacles
the people’s party has to contend with is
not the name, nor the platform, but the
band of the eye-rolling Pharisees who
stand on the pinnacle of the roof and
thank Qod they have been in the move
ment lo. those many years. They bar
the door to recruits, create dissension,
advocate schemes that drive away the
masses and soar when their sores will
let them from one bobby to another in a
wav calculated to paralyze progress.”
Why did the Sun withdraw its bid Ifor
printing the delinquent tax list? Ho,
ho!—Graphic.
Gregg Roll says there is a combina
tion. A combination between Kautz
man and McHugh! My! now birds of a
feather will flock together. We are re
minded by this that last year The
Frontier asked permission to withdraw
a bid but met with the reply that any
thing once filed with -the board at once
became public propei ty and a part of
the records of Holt county, and conse
quenty could not be withdrawn. And
still further: We published four columns
of proceedings under an arbitrary ruling
of the board, and this year the Sun
prints but two. Is it possible that a
paper must be a perfect tool to get fair
play before this board? In a matter of
business why should the sups, have
any pets? The county of Holt loses
money by this paternalism.
It has now leaked out that when the
settlement committee asked to count the
public funds Treasurer Mullen went
down to one of the banks and brought
up $11,000. After that had been counted
he asked "if that was enough,” and was
answered in the negative by the com
mittee. to which he replied that he
would take the $11,000 back and get
some more. In about an hour he in
formed the committee that he had some
more money, and they went in and
counted $11,000 a second time, and
again Mullen asked, "Is that enough?”
and again received the answer that it
was not; and again he took away the
$11,000 and againn brought back more
money which was again counted, mak
ing three different lots of money that
they counted, or more likely, making
one lot that they counted three times.
Shipping tags were hanging about this
cash in great profusion, which unusual
circumstance was remarked by the com
mittee and explained by Mullen, who
said that it was shipped in for this pur
pose as the banks did not have it on
hand. A like circumstance was thought
sufficient grounds for impeachment
when Barrett Scott was treasurer.
Heigh ho! what’s this? A Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Record, a
journal of cuckooish tendency, and, ex
cept to his Hawaiian policy, always lau
datory of the administration of President
Cleveland, tells sad stories concerning
the demoralization of official life. Nor
does he deal in generalities; be makes
his charges specific. He says, for ex
ample, that ,Tosiah Quincy, the eminent
ly good Josiab, has secured a govern
ment contract for his friends, with a
share of the profit for himself. That
Secretary Carlisle's coachman, footman
and bouse servants are placed on the
treasury pay rolls. That the very
clothes they wear have been purchased
by public money. That the stylish
covered landau in which the secretary’s
wife drives when on her rounds of
fashion in foul weather and the open
l victoria in which she rides when it is
fair Lave been bought with funds that
properly belong to the United, Stutes.
That the fine Kentucky steed driven by
the secretary’s son has been bonght by
the same means and is maintained at
the public cost. And Hoke Smith has
glued bis colored cook’s husband to the
pay rolls while on the other hand he has
been chopping off pensioners to even up
matters.—Fremont Tribune.
INDEPENDENT STEALS.
At every meeting of the board of
supervisors they steal from the county
$186, by charging for the day before the
board meets and the. day after it
adjourns. •
By awarding the printing of the tax
list to the Independent ‘they have stolen
over $1,500 from, the people of the
county.
By employing more help in the treas
urer’s office than is necessary and more
than was employed und'er a republican
administration, they are wrongfully
spending the people’s money.
By employing more help in the clerk’s
office than is necessary and more than
was employed under a republican
administration, they are robbing the
taxpayers.
By allowing tho sheriff two deputies
when he should do all of the work him
self, they are heaping additional.burdens
upon the public.
By recklessly plunging the county into
ill-advised and losing litigation that are
increasing taxes.
Employing John Morrow for a year at
$2.50 per day as assistant expert, which
was clearly a violation of our statute.
By calling a grand jury last fall they
heaped thousands of dollars of addi
tional debt upon the county, and the
benefits derived were absolutely nothing.
Being the plurality party they are re
sponsible for the continuance of the
supervisor system, which costs the
county over $50,000 more every year
than that of the commissioner.
Before election Joss Mullen promised
that all the help ho would ask would be
one deputy and one clerk. Therefore,
all the help he employs above that num
ber is a steal, according to the words of
his own mouth.
Awarding the contract for publishing
the proceedings to both the Sun and the
Independent is a steal that will amount
to considerable.
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