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COUNTY DIVISION.
The repeel of the three-fifths lew end
the filing of petitions preying for the
■ubmlesion of the question of division
to e vote of the people, brings end old
question up for new discussion.
Thb Fbohtizb believes thet county
division, under existing circumstances,
would be e bed thing for ell concerned,
yet we reelise thet the feeling; is for a
split which will come in the near future,
end In view of this fact would advise
the people of O'Neill to get together
end secure an equitable distribution of
territory. When we say the “people,”
that Is what we mean: we do not mean
that a half-dozen men should constitu
tute themselves leaders and fix things
up to their satisfaction, expecting all of
the voters to walk up to the doctor's
office and take their medicine. There is
a strong division sentiment in O’Neill
and it must be handled gingerly or bad
results will follow.
The question of divisiou in purely n
selfish one and will be so considered by
M per cent, of the voters. The men
who will look favorably upon it are
these:
Those who live in towns that are ex
pected to become county seats; those
who expect to hold office in the new
counties; those who might expect to be
employed to transcribe records; those
who might think their farm lands would
be worth more money If nearer a county
seat; those who now have to travel 80
miles to the county seat and spoil three
days in making the trip; those who are
tired of this everlasting political broil
will favor division because they will
figure that the offices will then not be
worth fighting over. The spoils will be
Insignificant; then there are the legions
of enemies—mostly victims—of the
First National bank, who will vote for
division In order to spoil Gallagher’s
megnlfloent snap in shaving county
paper with county money; there are
those who will vote for division to spoil
Barrington’s pudding; there are hun
dreds of men who have been libeled by
Keutaman, and they realize that a vete
for division is a blow at the printing
steels now enjoyed by him. They
know that to cut the county cuts his
income; they regard him as a public
calamity and a great many will vote for
division for no other reason.
We mention these things only as ev
idence of how eel fish the whole question
la, anyway.
%at Fsomnan, whose constituency
covers all parts of the county, can take
no position to the interest of all. . Ar
gument that would hold good in one
section could be refuted by facts in an
other.
The people who reside in what will be
Bolt county, have less to fear than
those who will be in new counties. The
new counties will be compelled to pay
their proportion of the debt outstanding
agedaat Holt at the time of division,
besidss the great cost of transcribing
reoorda, while old Holt will pay nothing
but her proportion of the debt and run
ning expenses.
Of course any kind of division will
be demoralising to certain classes of
business, such as law, abstracting,
county depositories, professional poli
ticians and newspapers. Other business
will feel the blow but lightly.
Tax Fboxtub is, naturally, for the
beat Interests of O’Neill, and would not
like to see her citizens deluded by the
belief that they can defeat all kinds of
division, or divide upon illogical lines,
only to wake up some morning and find
the town in four counties.
Tn growth and preparation of chic
ory wilt cut quite a figure in Holt
county’* finance* the coining aeason.
According to the provisions of the bill
the factory will have to pay the farmer
110.00 per ton in order to get the bounty,
thna giving the largest share of the
premium direct to the grower who form
erly received about 08.00 per ton for his
produce.—Amelia Journal, Pop.
O'Nnu, populists and snap-grabbers
have already made county division a
political issue. They have, with but
, limited consultation, made a tie-up with
Stuart and the south country, and con
tracted to deliver the vote. These fel
lows have gone into this move on their
own hook, have excluded those not of
their political complexion, and the
chances are they will not gain any
material strength as the fight advances, j
Ciiauncby M. Dbpew says the repub
licans will not think seriously of adopt
ing a free silver campaign plank next
year. Bob Ingersol likewise rises to
remark that ho did not make certain
statements favorable to free silver at
tributed to him, while McKinley says he
would leuve the party forever if it
adopted a free silver plank. Thus it
will be seen the drift of the people who
are going to do business next year is
not altogether toward silver monometal
ism.—Fremont Tribune.
TriERR are a few things this paper
cannot understand, and one of them is
that Ed Gallagher, Mike Harrington,
Tom and John Golden ct. al., think
they can appoint themselves leaders in
county division matters and tlx up a
slate that the people will vote. The
gentlemen above mentioned have the
right, of course, to tell other sections
what they will do as individuals, but
when it comes to voting the people in
blocks of five they may ascertain that
they have stepped upon themselves.
AVe have noticed among other things in
our brief career that those things that
are good for Gallagher and Harrington
are not good for many other people.
Tiib bolding of the irrigation meeting
in the court-house Monday establishes
the fact that our citizens are fully alive
to their interests, and imbued with the
belief that “if ’twere well that ’twere
done, ’twero well that 'twere done
quickly.” Tub Frontier is indeed
glad to see this activity. It convinces
us that irrigation is a sure thing; if not
from one source, then from another.
There should be, and we believe will be,
no strife over conflicting interests. If
the corporation already organized find
that they can proceed with the work
already mapped out, they will probably
do so. If they And that they cannot do
this they will be as anxious to turn over
their rights for a consideration equiva
lent to the amount invested by them, as
the people will to have them do so.
The farmer, who is mostly interested in
the success of irrigation projects, will
view with satisfaction this increasing
activity in irrigation matters, and will
rise up and call the man blessed who
first gets water upon the land and there
by causes two bushels of grain to grow
where one grew before.
Mr. Bryan's organ, the Omaha
World-Herald, at last admits that there
are tin (date factories in this country,
after denying it point blank through
two political campaigns. It now says
that in less than four years our tin plate
factories have practically crowded out
the product of the foreign mills. The
admission is made by Mr. Bryan with
the avowed intent of proving that the
Wilson act did not, after all, destroy the
country, but that the tin plate industry
has managed to survive. But, of course,
had the Wilson bill been passed in 1890
instead of the McKinley bill there would
not have been a tin plate mill in the
United States. The plants were put in
previous to the democratic triumph of
1892 and that catastrophe so. completely
knocked out the laboring man that lit:
haB been compelled to agree to work for
anything he can get etfen if he has to
come down to the level of the wages in
Wales and Scotland. But it is a won
derful thing to listen to Mr. Bryan
sounding the trumpet over the tin plate
Industry called into being by Major Mc
Kinley and giving employment already
to 12,000 hands, and think of the brief
time that has elapsed since he declared
on every stump in the state that the
man who claimed that there were any
real tin plate mills in the country was a
falsifier and a fraud, and that the pre
tended tin plate factories were “stiffs"
put in with republican campaign funds
to stamp imported tin with their trade
mark and pretend to be doing a legiti
mate business, for political purposes.
Of course he Will not now claim that
any new mills have been started up
under the impulse of the Wilson tariff
aet.—State Journal.
The comparison made by us of the
administration of the county clerk’s
office while under the management of
Butler and Bethea, causes the pop Sun
to twist like the trained contortionist
that it is. It squirms backward and for
ward in a column article in an attempt
to make it appear that Butler turned in
but $95 excess, while we credit him
with $295. We have not much space to
argue with a man who does not knoW
when he is refuted, but we desire to*call
the Sun man’s attention to the report of
the settlement committee, ot which Mr.
Bethea was chairman, which says that
Mr. Butler had an excess of $295. After
this report was adopted the board &1
lowed a bill ot $300 for making road
books, and decided that instead of
drawing a warrant for the same tbe clerk
be allowed to “retain" that amount ot
his excess. Then does that in any way
effect his $395 excess? The $300 claim
allowed Butler was never paid by war
rant and if the county isn’t winner
thereby we are certainly off on our
arithmetic. There is another interesting
point here: While the board allowed
Butler but $300 for making road books,
it allowed Bethea $300. Bethea was
chairman of the committee which rec
.ommended that Butler be not allowed
anything for work that he himself af
terwards drew $300. The Sun argues
against itself. While we might admit
that Butler turned in an excess of but
$95, the fact still remains that Bethea
did not only turn none, but drew on the
county for $596.22 in order to make
both ends meet; and further, Bethea
paid out more money for assistants than
was paid out by Butler. The Sun
promises to review some other of our
statements. If it cannot succeed better
with them than it dii with those under
consideration, it better let the job out
to Whiskers, who is a much more fluent
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