The Frontier.
FUBUSURD EVERY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN. EDITORS.
Ah appropriation of (200,000 has been
made for the benefit of drouth sufferers.
It is an expanded fact that those who
hare objected the more strenuously to
the change of venue law &r? men who
stood in most imminent danger of be
coming entangled in its provisions.
Thk county attorney and sheriff of
Holt county should join in asking the
governor to offer a reward for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderers of
the Hills. Both of these officials are on
record as saying that they have no
doubts that the men are dead.
Mbh who thought that Neil Brennan
should be defeated for county treasurer
because he had a hand in making the
three-fifths law, and who used that ar
gument against him in the campaign,
had gall of quality fine enough to ask
him to go to Lincoln and work against
its repeal when the measure was threat
ened. Consistency is surely a Jewel, and
gratitude an unknown quantity.
Tub Frontier would like to see the
state appropriate a sufficient sum of
money to put in a system of irrigation
covering her Semi-arid counties. It
would be no greater hardship upon the
whole people than it is to appropriate
1800,000 every year to offset the effects
of hot winds and drouth. In fact it
would eventually prove a benefit.
Counties once Irrigated would be self
supporting always and furnish more
than their share of surplus to the com
mercial centers.
Thr serpent that hibernates in the
basement, beneath Bhylock’s headquar
ters, in its last issue of hisses published
a quite lengthy article commenting upon
what this journal has done, and what
failed to do. Our space can be filled
with matter more to the advantage of
our readers than answering or noticing
such vituperation. Any man can lay
down premises, weave syllogisms and
arrive at conclusions, but if his premises
are folio his conclusion* are alio false.
No truth can be deducted from an hyp
ocritical proposition, no matter how
wily the reasoner.
The Frontier it always willing and
anxioua to make amends when it unwit
tingly publishes an error. In our issue
of March 7 we stated that the board of
supervisors had allowed the deputy
county treasurer $100 more per year than
was authorized by law. This was a mis
take. The facts in the case are that the
board allowed the treasurer’s “chief
clerk" $100 more per year than is author
ised by law. We made no error in the
amount misappropriated by the populist
board for a populist administration, the
error was simply in naming the benefi
ciary.
uuk more or tegs esieemeu menu,
Hugh O’Neill, oocuplee n liberal portion
of our local space this week with an ar
ticle denying certain things said by us in
the issue ot March 7. In fact it seems
to us that Mr. O’Neill consumes more
space than is necessary under the cir
cumstances. We simply gave him credit
with the authorship of several commu
nications published in the Beacon Light,
and in doing so we fail to see wherein
any great wrong was done the gentle
, man. If he is not guilty, to so plead
. would be sufficient. We did not say
that he had any of Scott’s money, but if
he wishes to take advantage of the op
portunity to deny it—as he does in his
article—we are perfectly willing. Some
men have an abnormal tendency to look
for shoes that are sure to pinch their
toes. _ _
Wbis the board of supervisors were
skirmishing and laying plans to storm
the stronghold of the county treasurer's
office, when Scott was the incumbent,
the editor of the Sun went to the treas
urer and turning up both itching palms
proffered his services and the use of his
columns in defense, the consideration to
be the publication of one semi-annual
statement. We quote from a commu
nication written by Barrett Scott and
published in these columns last fall:
Tou offered to support me in my trou
bles with the county board after they
had been lighting me for more than six
months if I would give you the publish
ing of on« of my semi-annual statements.
I refused to buy you then and I have
never been sorry for it. You had the
contract at one time from the county to
furnish stationery for my office, you no
doubt remember. You undertook to de
liver two-thirds to three-fourths the
number of sheets of paper or envelopes
you filed your claim for.
You also remember one time I bought
500 stamped envelopes for you to print
return cards on. You returned them
twenty-five stamped envelopes short.
This is Mr. Scott’s own language and
we have no reason to discredit it, espec
ially when statements made therein are
corroborated by other county officials.
That he delivered short-count on sta
tionery furnished, at least three former
county officials can attest. The Sun
man is considerably further advanced
in crookedness than.the papers he criti
cises and we do not wonder that be re
fers to them in such a patronizing and
disdainful tone. He feds above them—
in his line—and loathes them toy their
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Some funny things do happen now
and then in this old humdrum world of
ours, nnd a man not a pessimist can
often find things at which to smile if he
only keeps his weather eye open. Dur
ing the campaign last year Mike Har
rington and Tom Golden made all of the
welkins in Holt county school houses
ring with the populist tale of woe and
swore by their flowing beards that the
only way to snatch the county from the
depths of the demnition bow wows was
to elect every man on the populist ticket,
and especially senator and representa
tives. Their men were chosen. Last
week Mike Harrington and Tom Golden
tramped the streets of O'Neill with a
subscription paper to raise funds to send
a lobby to Lincoln to work against the
repeal of the three-fifths law, which the
populist senator and one representative
were advocating. But that was not tho
most amusing part of the spectacle. The
climax was reached when men of O'Neill
who had voted for these same fellows
went down into their yawning pockets
and brought forth hard-earned money
to defeat the work of their representa
tives. _ _ _
It may be all right, yet it looks to us
to be hardly the proper thing for the
governor to veto a bill simply because
be considers it unconstitutional. The
governor is not supposed to be a consti
tutional lawyer. We have a supreme
court to pass upon those questions and a
bill passed by both houses of the legisla
ture, impeded by nothing but consti
tutional objections, should be sigucd.
Its constitutionality would be tested
upon its first application, and it then
found to be not legal there would be no
harm done. If found to be all right, the
good there was in it would certainly
come out in the enforcement. But once
silenced by veto it is eternally lost. The
governor assumes an ability that he
may not possess when he delegates to
himself the decision of these important
constitutional points. In the constitu
tionality of the change of venue hill,
now defeated by veto, The Frontier
has always entertained serious doubts.
We were of the opinion that it would be
held unconstitutional by the courts, yet
we were in hopes that they might have
an opportunity to pass upon the fine
questions involved, and settle them.once
for all.
Clerk Bethea objects to the Item
among the "independent steals’’ wherein
we say that he hires more help than is
necessary and more than was employed
under a republican administration. He
has called our attention to his books,
which show that during the year 1898 a
republican clerk paid out for help
98,828, as against 92,498.14, paid out by
him for the year 1894. He says further
that he did more work during the year
1894 than was done by his predecesor
in 1898. This assertion "of Mr. Bethea’s
is perhaps true. We do not know to
the contrary and therefore have no right
to dispute it. But we insist that at the
time we said he was employing more
help than was employed by Mr. Buttler
we were correct. We were in his office
ana counted me numuer oi cieras ana
are satisfied that the statement was cor
rect. That he subsequently discharged
p part of them does make our statement
untrue. We have no particular fault to
find with Mr. Bethea’s administration,
further than that he is not living up to
ante-election promises made by inde
pendent hustlers. They Baid good clerks
could be hired for 130 or 830 per month.
If this 4s true why do they not employ
them? If not true, then somebody
dealt in false pretences, and that is all
we have said.
SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
The following extracts are all from
the Beacon Light, while under the man
agement of its present editor, the man
who never encouraged mob law or other
anarchy:
O, you miserable, degraded pukes,
can you give any just cause why you
Should not be tried and punished in the
court of last resort in the "Niobrara
District?”
It is due to the public to say that "we
got back,” and strange as it may appear
there are a few thieves and thugs lying
around yet who have not been baptised
in the Niobrara.
This miserable old thief ought to thank
his lucky stars the people have been
kind and considerate enough to allow
him to go unhung, and the officers that
persist in allowing him to roam around
and curse men.
We want to tell this gang that the im
press of the honest manhood of North
Nebraska that Is behind the Beacon
Light is higher than any court that
could be induced to cater to the whims
of a gang of thieves, who may thank the
patience of an oppressed and outraged
people that they have not met their
doom at the ends of ropes.
And now the report goes that a young
man has said that when Dave Adams re
turns to O’Neill that some people will
leave town very quick. If that y. m.
would stick bis ear around a corner
some time and hear a group of robbed
and defrauded depositors discussing
Dave Adams, he would arrive at the con
clusion that there was more probability
that a thief would go backwards up a
telegraph pole.
The people have said by their ballots
and actions that they had no more use
for these infamous boodlers, and gave
them warning to pack up their traps
and leave, and they are urgently re
quested by all honorable residents of
Holt county to take their poor, truck
ling, lying sneaking, character assissiaa
ting mangy editors with them when they
emigrate to that salubrious climate where
David Adams basks in the sunshine
among centipedes and horned toads, safe
from the clutches of Nebraska laws and
a prospective rope in the-hands of men
who he. a member of the gang robbed.
INDEPENDENT STEALS.
From The Front ii% 18M.
At every meeting of tbe board of
supervisors they steal from tbe county
$186, by charging for tbe day before
tbe board meets and the day after it ad
journs.
By awarding the printing of tbe tax
list to the Independent they have stolen
over $1,500 from tbe people of the
county.
By employing more help in tbe 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 tbe clerk’s
office than is necessary and more than
was employed under a republican ad
ministration, they are robbing tbe tax
payers.
By allowing tbe sheriff two deputies
when he should do all of the work him
self, they are heaping additional bur
dens upon the public.
By recklesly plunging the county into
ill-advised and losing litigation they are
increasing taxes.
Employing John Morrow for a year at
$2.50 per day as assistant expert, was
clearly in 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 tbe 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 be 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.
A GOOD BEGINNING FOB 1895.
The former steals of the pops are
entitled to these additions:
By refusing to accept $50,000 and set
tle with Scott’s bondsmen the super
visors certainly beat the county out of
that amount.
By vitiating Scott’s bond the pop su
pervisors defrauded tbe tax payers out
of an amount equal to Scott’s shortage,
as the bond was worth the amount and
could have been collected.
Every cent paid Mike Harrington is a
legal political steal. He has done noth
ing but the duty of the county attorney,
and they both have received pay.
Every cent paid the legal committee
is a steal, as the work they are doing
belongs exclusively to the county attor
ney and should be performed by him.
Awarding the publishing of the tax
list to the Beacon Light this year at its
own figures is a steal almost aB large as
that perpetrated in the same way last
year.
Paying the treasurer’s chief clerk
8100 more per year than is allowed by
law must be a steal. When republicans
did the same thing the pops pronounced
it a steal and said that if they were
elected they would not do anything of
the kind.
W lion I tin onnnkn nlnvlr fllnn n 1.311
$700 for making the tax list, that also
must be a steal. It is a steal because
the populist board of supervisors re
fused to allow Ed. Buttler pay for the
same work; and the legal committee
even now say they are going to litigate
with Chever Hazelet and recover from
him the amount allowed by a former
board for this same work.
When County Attorney Murphy went
to California to take a deposition it was
an expense that was entirely unneces
sary.
County Attorney Murphy was sent to
Mexico on two junketing tours. They
were both devoid of results, other than
spending the people’s money.
Frank Campbell’s trip to Mexico cost
a neat little snm. He was there to rep
resent the great state of Nebraska, but
did not arrest his man, neither did he
have him in custody for a moment. He
did, however, advance Cunningham a
considerable sum of Holt county money.
This expense was not necessary, there
fore if not a steal, was at least gross
extravagance.
When the county board paid an
Omaha attorney to defend Henry Mur
phy in the case brought against him for
false imprisonment, they surely perpe
trated another steal. They had no
more right to pay for Murphy’s defense
than they had to pay for the defense of
Barrett Scott, John Skirving. Chever
Hazelet, Hank McEvony or even the
three commissioners from whom they
now seek to recover $1,500, claimed to
be short on the sale of those old bonds.
The board paid Judge Roberts for
acting county attorney while Mr.
Murphy was visiting in the east last
January. Both Roberts and Murphy
are certainly not entitled to pay for the
same work.
Office rent and fuel allowed the county
attorney is a little out of the usual
order. When the last county attorney,
who, by the way, was a republican,
asked for these trimmings he was po
litely informed that he could occupy a
portion of the sheriff’s office.
The editor who was "not a farmer,”
and therefore did not know what posi
tion to take upon the seed and feed bond
proposition, was however, an irrigation
ist, and knew that the county should
not be bonded for that purpose. $150,
000 for irrigation would have left no
room for so many relief committees.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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DEALER IN OIQARE, ETO.
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