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A mtti.k learning is no more a dan
gerous thing than a little power.
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Tim notice that the Bun gives Mr.
Harmon upon bis appointment is not of
a character that one democrat should
extend to a successful brother democrat,
but is more like the death wnil of a
discovered Imposter, and is, therefore,
not out of place in this particular ense.
Again are the villainous methods of
the independents and the wanton ex
travagance of their tool, the board of
supervisors, forcibly brought borne to us
by the result of the Sklrving trial. $550
gone glimmering in supervisors' salaries
alone, to say nothing of witness feus
and incidentals. It is outrageous, but
the time is coming when the people now
groaning under excessive taxation, will
arise bright and early some election day
and swipe these peanut politicians from
the face of the earth. It has been
sufficiently demonstrated that Harring
ton’s theory of tho board's "political
and administrative rights’’ is a danger
ous thing.
--
Walt Mason in the Sunday Journal
gives quite an extended list of probable
gubernational candidates, and among
tho number we find the following men
tion of Doc Mathews:
Doc Mathews is also being boomed
for the office, and it stands to reason
that no man could stand against him for
a moment. As the lord high everything
else of O’Neill he has brought that town
to a stage of prosperity seldom achieved
in this world and it is natural to suppose
that he would do as much good for the
state at large, ns governor. It is due to
him that the chicory industry has been
brought to such a successful height that
the farmers of Holt county have quit
raising coffee and Oolong tea. It is due
to him that bard working farmers can
take wagon loads of scalps to town and
get their royalty on them; it is due to
him that the snakes have been driven
from that and adjoining counties, al
though he has never tried to imperson
ate St. Patrick. So many things are due
to his untiring industry that it would be
tedious to enumerate them.
it is true that Doc has been a good
man (or O’Neill, better in fact than
O’Neill gives him credit with, but he
oan never be governor. He has fallen
from grace with a dull, sickening thud
and the high places that knew him once
will know him no more forever. It
happend in this way: There was a
,vacancy in the registership of the
O'Neill land office; Doc wanted the
' .<■. position and with that end in view
summoned faithful friends to his bed
side, where he lay suffering with divers
and sundry pains, and bade them buckle
on their armor and go forth and capture
the appointment dead or alive. And
they went forth and followed the elusive
phantom for many weary weeks and
finally treed it in President Harrison's
private office where it was bound and
gagged and brought back to Doc. who
straightway arose from his bed and took
possession of the office. - Then came
' men grown old in the service of the
party and begged leave to toil as servants
in the vineyard, and newspaper men,
who had cried good Lord and good
devil to suit any and all occasions, came
and on their bended knees asked per
mission to publish land notices, but Doc
kicked them out, said he didn’t know
them, had never seen them before, and
at once distributed his plums among the
democrats, saying “to the victors be
long the spoils.” By these and various
other methods he sought to heel himself
with the powers to the detriment of
A those who had been his friends in ad
versity; but the end has come, and the
downfall of an ungrateful man is hailed
^ with delight by the republicans whom
he betrayed and the democrats whom he
sought to placate. Sic temper tyrannis.
WE WEBE CORRECT.
Our expose of Judge Roberts of two
weeks ago, modified by the correction
of last week, we still maintain is correct,
V notwithstanding the Hun and Independ
ent, both pop organs, rush to the old
man’s rescue and accuse us of falsifying
Let us look over his defense for just a
moment. The Hun says:
Now, let us see if Tub Fbontieb has
been fair with Mr. Roberts. Beginning
with January 23, 1884, we find that Mr.
Roberts charged himself on that date
with taking three final proofs, amount
ing to the sum of $7.50. During 1884
we further find that Mr. Roberts charged
himself with taking fees in final proof
cases just sixtv-four times, the amounts
ranging from 30 cents, for one affidavit,
to $4.30. During 1885 Mr. Roberts
charged himself with collecting fees
fifty-three times in similar cases. In
stead of not being able to find a scratch
of a pen Mr. Roberts’ fee book shows
that he collected fees on 117 different
dates.
We cannot understand how a man
must be made who will sit down and
willfully lie about a small matter of this
kind. McHugh must have known bet
ter because elsewhere in his article he
” says he looked over the fee book. Mr.
Roberts charged himself with fees for
taking final proofs not to exceed Bix
times, instead of 117 as the Hun states.
That this is true there is no doubt and
*V we invite inspection of the records.
, The Sun says further:
Owing to Mr. Roberts’ poor health
he made an arrangement with M. D.
Long that the latter should take the
: ' proof and collect the fee, and that Long ;
should pay Mr. Roberts seventy cents
for each final proof so taken. All that
Mr. Roberts had to do was to ndminister
the oaths.
While it was lamentable that Mr.
Roberts’ health was not the best, we
would like to enquire by what authority
he made arrangements with tin outsider
to divide itp the proceeds'of the county
judge’s office in any such mnnncr. And
how do we know that he did this? VVe
arc now'dealing with the records and
we fail to find a note of any such agree
ment. Rut the land office records do
show that for about six months of
Roberts' term he took 100 final proofs,
while the judge’s records show that he
took but six. These are the facts and
there is no way getting around them
unless you go back of the returns, but it
will be remembered we started this in
vestigation upon the records as kept in
the judges office, and propose to stand
upon them.
Under the Sun's line of reasoning the
county clerk and treasurer could law
fully employ anyone to make out sheriff
certificates and pay them 81.75 in each
case, themselves entering upon their
fee books 25 cents for the use of
their seal. It the man who received the
81.75 subsequently chose to whack up
with the officer who gave him the work
we suppose it would be all right.
In Robert’s case it may be the same
for aught the records disclose.
Mike Harrington, whose opinion no
populist will question, not more than
two weeks ago emphatically declared
that a county judge should account for
all of the fees taken by virtue of ' his
office, were they final proofs or any
thing else. He was after Judge Lowe
then.
We do not care what the judge says,
or what his editors say, as the records
are the best evidence and to them we
appeal in support of our position.
EGOTISM, THY NAME IS KAUTZ
MAN1
Who builds a church to God and not to
fame will never mark the marble with bis
name.—Pope.
The entire first page of the last issue
of the Beacon Light was devoted to a
photograph and biographical sketch of
the life of its editor, the notorious Ham
Kautzman. The vanity, gall and lack
of sense that prompted the production
could only be equalled by the untruth
ful and misleading statements of the
narrative. /
While bis article would tend to prove
that he had led a roving life for the
benefit of his fellows, the fact <s that he
has been chased from pillar to post and
kicked from Dan to Bersheba by indig
nant. communities in which he
sprung those newspaper ventures, until
we find him here in O’Neill plying his
old disreptuable tactics to the disgust of
decdtat people.
His effusion is nothing but a bid for
sympathy. He has been exposed and
re-exposed by the republican press until
at times “it was an effort of moral
suasion over desperation that prevented
him from taking a winchester and killing
the unprincipled scavengers like dogs.”
It is wail for his old hide that his cow
ardice got the better of his desire.
It was not necessary for him to inflict
his history upon the public. His record
is so unsavory that the breezes waft us
nauseating whiffs of it from Iowa, Idaho
and Nebraska, while the stench he is
producing here in O’Neill is a sferious
problem for the board of moral health
and it is thought expedient to fumigate
the city when spring opens up.
He has led the people out of the
bondage of tax slavery, never to again
be permitted.
Was that when he stole a couple of
thousand from the county on the tax
list deal?
We have ignored threats and spurned
bribery, believing that it were better to
fall in battle tor the rights of humanity
than to seek temporary gain through
the influence of money illegally wrung
from the toiling masses .in wlio3e inter
est we have spent twenty years of
constant labor.
Was that a “battle for humanity”
when he jumped a board bill in Stuart
and defrauded a widow lady out of a
laundry bill? .Was it a “battle for
humanity” when he, at the same place,
ran a shooting gallery by day and drank
whiskey and played poker by night?
Was it a “battlo for humanity" that
caused him to be starved out of Oak
dale? Are these fair samples of his
“twenty years of constant labor” ?
We have no desire to follow his
article in its tiresome entirety and re
buke his many egotistical assertions,
but as we glance over the columns of
his braggadocio the thought occurs to
us: If he has for twenty years been a
public benefactor and exposed legions
of venal vampires as he roamed to the
east and roamed to the west and to the
north and the south roamed he, why is
it necessary for him to build a monu
ment to his own fame? Why not leave
that to be performed as an act of grati
tude by a grateful people? If he has
done all that he proclaims with such a
great display of capital I’s bis name
would now be a household word in the
mouth of thousands instead of the good
housewives using it to frighten their
children.
The quotation at the head of this
article covers the case exactly. A mm
Who has devoted his life to philanthropic
deeds and ignited a bonfire wherever he
chanced to touch the earth has little
need to sing his praise in public print.
But it may be all right. No doubt
such characters are necessary to create an
harmonious whole, and we, whose sense
of reasoning is so minute, are apt to ask
why such spirits are created, forgetting
that we are in our scale of sense weigh
ing our opinion against Providence.
If plagues or earthquakes break not
Heaven’s design, why then a Borgia, or
a Cataline or a Gutzman?
His vice is of such a frightful mien
as to be hated, needs but to be seen: but
then you know "what happier natures
shrink at with affright, the hard inhab
itant contends is right.’’
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, Greig, Hodge, Jillson, Kelly, H.
B., Kennedy, Miller, Phelps, Schiudler,
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-adyised and losing litigation that are
increasing taxes.
Employing John Morrow for a year at
$2.60 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 he 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.
By consuming sip days in the Skir
ving trial without requiring the plaintiff
to give a bond for costs the county has
lost at the least calculation $660.
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FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIQAR8. ETO.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ray and night calls promptly attended to.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Agent for Union Trust Co's land In Bolt
county.
Will praotlce In all the oourts. Special at
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nit 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
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HOTEL
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Only First-class Hotel
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John Deere plows, riding and walki™
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Moline wagons and baggies of ail kinds
David Bradley & Co. famous disc col
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Glidden wire. Every spool warranted
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Stoves. Garland stoves and ranges
the world’s beat. The grand old Chart
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Boss Churns, Western washer, Planet
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Oils. Gasoline always on hand. Lint
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Supplies. Blacksmith supplies, iron
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Cuttlery. I keep cuttlery of the very
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Guns. Sportsmen’s headquarters. Fink
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guns and revolvers—best made.
Tinware and graniteware, a grand sup
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Seeds. I keep the best garden seeds in
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