y The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
TBS FRONTIER PUINTINO COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN, Editors.
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Mr. Cleveland's success in killing
bear may induce him to go gunning for
the tammany tiger..
It may yet be necessary to employ
professional sluggers as assistants to the
sergeaut-at-arms of the house.
Victor Hugo would speak of tho
populists as a party of many talkers and
few thinkers; a party for little people of
little minds.
Plattr county is ruled by five super
visors.' Holt would be vastly richer in
wordly goods if she had adopted that
system years ago.
Great Scott! Can this be true?
George Gould, eon of the lamented Jay,
■aye: "Fully half of the existing de
pression grows out of the unjust treat
ment of the railroads by legislation.”
"Another good man gone wrong” is
a term frequently employed since Tiik
Frontier exposed Judge Roberts.
According to our way of thinking it
would be more appropriate to refer to
him as a "bad man found out.”
People with philosophical minds are
pleased to argue that everything is
(treated for a purpose. This may be true
but we would like to know for wbat
particular purpose Mat Smalls ever
created the Premont Dally Herald.
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The Sioux City Journal says the Ken
tucky editors have taken umbrage at the
action of Judge Bradley in the Breken
ridge trial. This is probably the first
time to the knowledge of the oldest
inhabitant that they ever took anything j
but whiskey straight.
The republican tariff policy was never
more tersely stated than m the national
platform of 1803—"That on all imports
coming into competition with the pro
ducts of American labor there should be
levied duties equal to the difference be
tween wages abroad and at home.”
' If an employe has no legal right vo
quit work when in so doing he will
cause loss, embarrassment or damage to
his employer, the converse of the prop
osition should also be law, that an em
ployer has no right to discharge when
in so doing he will cause loss, embarass- j
ment or damage his employe.—Sioux
City Journal.
It is not surprising to learn that the
administration favors the bill providing
tor the disposal of all public lands to be
hereafter opened to settlement at auction
to the highest bidder. That would
effectually shut out the poor man, and
would therefore be in keeping with
what has always been the policy of the
democratic party.
We owe an apology to Judge Roberts.
Last week when we said the fee book of
his office failed to show that he ever
took a final proof, we were mistaken.
Upon looking over the book again we
^ find that he took six proofs, but none of
them were included in our list of last
week, and the entries bear unmistakable
evidence of having been made subse
quent to our last issue.
From the way the independents
- answer every question and solve every
problem by referring to the Scott trouble
one might infer that he is their only
stock in trade. They have talked it so
v incessantly that the poor pop’s untutored
mind can see him in clouds and hear
him in the winds. Their souls the devil
never allowed to stray as far as justice’s
walk or milky way, and the natural
sequence is that they are prejudice blind.
' Matt Daugherty, of Keith county,
and chairman of the republican con
gressional committee, is considered by
many as a possible candidate for con
. , gross from this district. Matt is well
qualified for the position; his republi
canism is of the proper stripe and he
would prove a hard-working champion
• of the people’s interests. However, we
have not learned as to whether Mr.
Daugherty would consent to be a candi
date.—North Platte Tribune.
The truckling policy adopted by Reg
ister Mathews almost immediately upon
his appointment seems to have availed
him nothing. By breaking faith with
his own party and playing into the hands
of the enemy he did not lengthen his
official days an hour or a minute. If he
had stood loyal and true to the men who
secured for him his appointment he
could now retire from public life with at
least the respect of his party, in
stead of its contempt and regret that
be was not removed long ago.
Tiix Lincoln Call, after reading a
severe rebuke to Editor Rosewater, for
making another of his spasmodic thrusts
at the "country press,” offers the follow*
ing resolution and moves its adoption:
Retohed, Bv the weekly press of Ne
braska, that E. I water is an ass.
The Call is a little slow. This same
resolution was made, almost unanimously
adopted and spread upon the flies of the
. country papers years ago. It is now in
order to simpl/ re-afflrm the same and
point with pride, mantled with modesty,
k , to our records. *■ ■„
• It comes pretty straight from Michael
Barrington that the rcasan the indepen
dent politicians are opposed to irrigation
is the fear that the enthusiasm awakened
may endanger the success of the legis
lative ticket next fall. That is to say
that tho irrigationists will out-number
tho pops and Send representatives of ex
perience and ability rather than inde
pendent heelers who have no particular
ability in any line other than playing
upon the discordant strings of popular
uneasiness. And yet Kautzman has the
effrontery to accuse us of making u
political issue.
Rosbwatbr has no leisure time for
the country press. The country press
collectively and individually care about
as much for Kosey as a certain mechan
ic’s damn. They are under no obli
gations to him and have no fnvors to
ask. They do not read items of news in
the "Pride of Two Continents” that they
might not find in some other paner, and
the editorial comments are of an in
ferior grade. A paper that knows the
Bee’s propensities for pandering to the
moneyed side of things is justified in
rolling its assertions in the sawdust of
allowance. Away with him.
Strange that when a question of vital
importance to a community or county is
being agitated that men cannot for the
time being lay aside politics and preju
dice and work side by side for the good
of all. The attempt of the independents
to mix politics with the irrigation ditch
is a senseless piece of foolishness and
can only have the effect of injuring the
cause. They started the political ques
tion however, and whatever Injury re
sults from It will be chargeable directly
to their door. Time is not far distant
when more will be required of them
than to simply cry “Scott!"
John Harmon has at last been ap
pointed register of the O'Neill land
office and in the very near future will
assume the responsibilities of the
position. Tint Frontier congratulates
John and the democratic party. The
“man of destiny” could have made no
better selection for this place, or one
that would have given more general
satisfaction to the partisans of the
district. While The Frontier has no
eartly . use for a democrat—politically
speaking—we have a great deal of repect
for a partisan of John’s stripe. He
fights openly, manly and above board
and takes defeat as smilingly as he
welcomes victory.
The Fremont Tribune is authority for
the statement: “The State Board of
Transportation and the Elkhorn road
have compromised their differences in
the matter of hay rates by splitting the
difference in the schedules pioposed by
each.” We do not believe the board did
justice to our section of country in this
matter. The original rate was fixed by
the road without solicitation, as it said,
for the benefit of the shipper, and was
raised only to squeeze a little revenge
out of somebody because the Newberry
bill was passed. If the railroad or the
state board ever had any desire to bene
fit producer or shipper now is the proper
time for the ghost to walk. The Fron
tier is opposed to false bids for public
support, come they from its own or any
other party. Promise is good fodder
for hope, but stern, every day reality
demands something more substantial,
especially when it might be had by a
little stiffening of the vertebra.
Oca county officials to a man refused to
take any stock in the Irrigation company.
Those fellows need no irrigation to success
fully work their present farms.—Frontier.
The above is of course intended as a
slur at the farmers’ movement and the
well known alliance opposition to cor
poration combines and trusts. It is
about as sensible a thing as that paper is
capable of saying. Those half-fledged
goslings never open their mouths but
that they put their feet into them and
array opposition to that which they at
tempt to extol.
In the first place we warned them that
if the Scott gang or their immediate
strikers took the lead in the irrigation
movement the people would look upon
it with suspicion. We are unalterably
opposed to the Scott gang being pushed
ahead in Holt eounty to again bleed the
people they have sacked through official
capacities. It will take but a glance at
the names of the incorporators to satisfy
anyone that with very few exceptions
they are composed of the gang from the
Meals shortage to the Scott embezzlers,
and close friends.—Independent.
Who, may ask, first settled this county
and by hard and persistent efforts
brought it to its present state of ad
vancement? Was it you or your
strikers, you relic of nomadism? Who
have you always found at the head of
public movements and undertakings for
the good of the general people? Has it
been you or your party of reformers,
you prince of indecency? By what
right do you, Jim, whose other name is
Jam, set yourself up as the censor of
old timers in these latitudes? Fact is
you are a fraud: a counterfeit; an im
personator; a monstrosity; anything but
a manly man. Otherwise you would not
seek to retard the consummation of a
project that would be the wealth of the
people whom you profess to so dearly
love. When you say "the people will
look with suspicion,” do you mean the
independentsT Remember Holt county
has over 2,700 voters, of which but
1,202 are independents. Don’t delude
yourself with the idea that you are the
people.
Opposed to corporations! Dear reader,
the type in which that article was set is
corporation type; the man who set it is
a corporation serf: the press upon which
it was printed is a corporation press; the
editor who wrote It is a coporatlon edi
tor and the article Is a corporation article:
the whole Independent outfit belongs to
a corporation and its stock is watered
moro than $5,000, and still this noble
bird of the swamps is opposed to irriga
tion on the corporation plan. - What a
perfect hypocrite! But to credit him
with a little sincerity: How would you
construct an irrigating ditch? Wait for
the state to build it? Wait for the
United States to build it, or wait for it
to just grow? Probably the latter.
If you and your ilk are so allfired
smart why did not you or they advance
some better measure if you are opposed
to corporations? Trouble is you are
afraid that irrigation will come; are mad
because you did not head the movement,
will get none of the credit, and know
that with the ditch will come universal
prosperity, and with prosperity will
come the end of your party, which can
exist only in deserts or semi-arid re
gions—something like a crane.
x uui mm uuuufc ocuiih aim luums
friends being at tbe head of this is
worse than yourself—rot. Suppose they
are? (Which they are not.) Suppose
that Scott, Meals and 'Moshier were at
the head of this thing and succeeded in
getting the ditch through. Would the
water be any the less wet? Would the
benefits to be derived from irrigation
bo in anyway diminished?
And again: The stock is for sale. If
you and those of your kidney do not
like the way things are running, why
not buy the stock and conduct the cor
poration to suit yourselves? If popu
lists held a controlling intetest the cor
poration would be all right, forsooth, a
populist can do no wrong.
We do not like to bring politics into a
matter of this kind, but if it must be
fought out on thoso lines, tie loose the
dogs of war. It will be republicans,
democrats and prohibitionists in favor
of progression, and populists in favor
of turning tbe county over to the
coyotes.
It is but justice to say that the Jew
does not speak the sentiments of his
party. We know of many independents
who are strong irrigationists, but they
are cursed with a hoodoo.
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 $1,600 from the people of the
county. The supervisors who by their
votes perpetrated this outrage are:
Conger, Crawford, Dennis, Donohoe,
Eckley, Qreig, Hodge, Jillson, Kelly, H.
B., Kennedy, Miller, Phelps, Schindler,
Slaymaker, White and Waring.
By employing more help in the treas
urer’s office than is necessary and more
than was employed under 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
tax payers.
By allowing the 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
$3.50 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 bo 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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O'NEILL, NEB.
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIOAR8, ETO.
JQB. J. I*. GILLIGAN,
PHY8ICAN AND StTItGKON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Office over Blglin's furniture store.
O'NEILU NEB.
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LAWYER,
Offloe in the Judge Roberta building, north
of O. O. Snyder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
w.
R. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Agent for Union Trust Co’s land in Ilolt
county.
Will praotlce in all the oourts. Special at
tention given to foreclosures and collections
J)R. B. T. TRTJEBLOOD
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Diseases of Rhe Eye and Ear and fitting
glasses a specialty. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m.
and 2 to6 p. m,
Offloe first door west of Heinerlkson's
Tyi'UXL.EX BROS.,
CARPENTERS & BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material! furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
BOYD,
BUILDERS.
ESTIMATES FURNISHED.
GEORGE A. McCUTCHEON,
PROPRIETOR OP
| - CENTRAL
Livery Barn
O’NEILL, NEB.
NEW BUGGIES .£9
WnNEW TEAMS.
Everything Firgt-Clapp.
Barn Opposite Oampbeirs'Implement House
A. J HAMMOND ABSRACT CQ
Successors do
R. R. DICKSON A CO.
Abstracters of Titles.
Complete set of Abstrect Books.
Terms reasonable, and absolute ac
curcy guaranteed, for which we have
given a $10,000 bond as required
under the law.
Correspondence Soliced
O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY NEB.
HOTEL
--Evans
Enlarged
Refurnished
Refitted
Only First-class Hotel
In the City.
W. T. EVANS, Prop.
A SALOON
Where the beet
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND CIGARS
Can Always be Had
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PAT GIBBONS, Prop.
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20
years
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...Best is Cheapest
The flncgt and largest stock of goods in
the hardware and implement line in the
Elkhorn vallley is found at ...
Neil Brennan’
NEIL BRENNAN
Jr J ? e pl°™* ndin£ and walking
cultivators; Disc harrows. “
Moline wagons and buggies of all kinds.
David Bradley & Co. famous disc cul
tivatois—best m the world.
Stoves. Garland stoves and ranges
the world s best. The grand old Chart
er Oak stoves and ranges. Gasoline
stoves—a world beater-the famous
New Process.
Boss Churns, Western washer, Planet
Jr., drills and garden cultivators, rub
ber hose.
Oils. Gasoline always on band. Lint
seed and machine oils of all kinds.
Supplies. Blacksmith supplies, iron,
steel, spokes and fellows, hard wood
lumber.
Cnttlery. I keep cuttlery of the very
best brands and in endless variety.
Guns. Sportsmen’s headquarters. Pish
ing tackle, powder, shot, loaded shells
guns and revolvers—best made.
Tinware and graniteware, a grand sup
ply always on hand—prices beyond
comparison.
Seeds. I keep the best garden seeds in
the market. All fresh and new.
THE COLUMBIAN
HOTEL
Has recently been remodeled and every room
furnished with a new suit of furniture, making it
one of the most complete and capable hotels
in the northwest. A good sample room in con
nection. First door west of Neil Brennan’s
hardware store.
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V-Pres.
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier.
THE ■ STATE - BANK
OF O'NEILF.
CAPITAL $30,000,
Prompt Attention Given to Collections
DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
EMIL SNI66S,
PRACTICAL
HORSESHOER
Cal’’
And general blacksmithing carried on in connection,
riage work in either iron or wood executed in the most sk1
style possible. First-class plow and machine work tha c
be relied upon. No new experience used in any branc .
work. All my men are skilled workmen.
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cultivators of all descriptions. Everything guarantee
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