I The Frontier.
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THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KINO ii CRONIN. Editors.
Mart women size ups man’s liberal
Ilf by the Easter outfit of bis wife and
daughters.
Wk refuse to believe that votes were
bought in the Arkansas legislature as
low as 1100 each.
Tits drop from deputy oil inspector to
police judge must be a bard thing for
old Whiskers to bear.
Mr. Cleveland has quite enough to
answer for without charging him with
being a drunkard, as a Massachusetts
Methodist minister recently did.
Senator Palmer lost no time in con
demning the calling of that democratic
silver convention in Illinois. He doesn't
want the party to commit itself in an off
year. _, _ _
The Clevelandltes are meeting the de
mands for a southern man at the bead of
the democratic ticket next year with the
offer of second place on Grover’s ticket
to the south.
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Hon. D. B. Hill’s indorsement of the
suggestion that a southern man may be
nominated next year by the democrats
was merely a grand stand play for Sena
tor Gorman's especial benefit.
The supreme court has no executive
clerk to make a scapegoat of, as the U.
S. senate did when unable to discover
the method by which the proceedings of
its secret sessions got into the newspa
pers. _ _
The Atkinson Graphic is now under
the management of Representative Jen
esa, formerly of Douglass county. The
paper will continue to be republican in
politics. Tnn Frontier whishes him
Success.
Iv tlie claim of England—that the
United States has nothing to do with her
encroachments upon the territory of
Venesuela—be admitted, all the south
and central American governments may
p as well prepare to go out of business.
Something must be out of joint in
Arkansas when a governor and a mem*
her of the legislature attempt to annihi
late each other with tobacco juice, when
guns or bowle knives would have been
more in keeping with the traditions of
the state.
Shalt, this country maintain its pres
ent boundaries or shall it reach out and
include everything that will be necessary
to the greatest commercial nation the
world has ever seen? Upon the decis
ion will depend whether we remain
merely a great nation or become the
greatest._
Accohding to the official figures,
which are slightly more reliable than
Secretary Carlisle’s alleged expectations,
the average daily receipts of the govern
ment are 1865,000, and the average daily
expenditures $1,015,000. Thesameratio
up to June SO will make the expendi
tures of the current fiscal year exceed
the receipts by $55,000,000.
Tun Sun says the decision of the su
preme court on the income tax question
"is not satisfactory to the public." The
.. supreme court does not sit for the pur
pose of deciding questions "satisfactory
to the public:” they are supposed to de
eldq everything according to law. If
the,laws are not "satisfactory to the
public,” the public knows how to repeal
them.
Thb New York grand jury evidently
' doesn't believe in the philanthropby of
Mr. Nathan Straus, the introducer of
sterilised milk for the poor, and the man
whe was too smart to run against Strong
for mayor, last year. At any rate, he has
been Indited for improper acts while
holding the office of park commissioner.
Mr. Straus is a member of the big busi
ness firm known as R. H. Macy, & Co.;
also a personal friend of Mr. Cleveland.
'When a prisoner in a New York
court pleaded hypnotic influence in de
fence of a theft, the judge took a very
different view from that taken by the
Kaneae court. After sentencing the
fellow to ten years’ imprisonment he
told him he might send for the hypnot
ist and hare himself made unconscious
for the period of ten years. "The
same power," said the judge, "which
enabled you to commit burgarly, and
not knowing it, ought also enable you
to suffer Imprisonment with hard labor,
and not be aware of it. At any rate
this is the best I can do for you.”
The governor has signed the bill au
thorising the investment of moneys in
county sinking funds in registered
county warrants. *This is a good bill
and will fill a long-felt want. The
Dodge county board of supervisors au
thorised the county treasurer to do this
two or three years ago, during Treasurer
Dem’s administration and at his request.
The law did not then justity the pro
ceedure but the new law legalizes it and
business sagacity and sense justify it.
It js a senseless fiscal policylfor a county
or any other division of government to
pay interest on outstanding warrants
when it has large sums of idle money in
the treasury.—Fremont Tribune.
' »
Koh the benefit of the Hun and Smudge
vc repeat that in answer to our charges
ngainst populist officials, it is not suffi
cient for them to assert—and prove for
that matter—that “they are doing no
more than republicans did.” The pops
Hie supposed to be a party of reform
nud have no license to do as republicans
did. llefore they were elected they said
republicans were “thieves” and “bood
lcrs,” and now that they are in power
the people have a right to see an altera
tion In the policy of administration.
In the light of the populist county plat
form and in consideration of the talk
they have been making for years, in
order for us to provo a breach of faith
on their part it is sufficient to show that
they are simply following in republican
footsteps. We would like to see the
color of that promised reform before the
republicans clean out the court-house
next fall.
Men who denounce the action of
Attorney General Churchill in taking
the Scott trial to Boyd county, and
thereby attempt to create sympathy for
the men no w under arrest for the mur
der, on account of the expense that will
be incurred in the trial, aro somewhat
near-sighted. The Boyd county people
who allow themselves to be caught in
this sirup are not wise. There is an
other and vastly mora sensible and pa
triotic way of looking at the matter.
They should consider that if Scott had
not been murdered his body would not
have been dragged across the border
by red-handed villains and dumped upon
Boyd county. Then again, if a certain
class of Boyd county's citizens would
display less inclination to sympathize
with the murderers, but denounce the
crime as it should be denounced, the
men who are accused of the deed would
consider Boyd an unsafe locality in
which to go to trial and ask for a change
of venue. The man who kicks at a
slight taxation for the enforcement of
the laws of hie country and the preser
vation of the constitution-guaranteed
rights of himself and his fellow citizens
is not a very good citizen anyway.
Tub Sun, whlbh is the chief defender
of populiam in this county, last week
devoted a column and a half to the
defenae of the “chief clerk" ateal. The
article la ao fearfully compoaed that it
la difficult to find any aenae, logic or any*
thing elae reaaonable in it, except sev
eral admissions of pop snap-grabbings.
This is just what we have been for a
long time laboring to have the Bun do
and we know of no better way that the
object could have been accomplished.
\Ye like to see the Sun defend the action
of the board in giving the treasurer’s
“chief clerk" 9700, which is the limit of
the law quoted by the Sun. Such action
on its part verifies the language used byi
us two weeks ago, at which time we
said: ‘‘They were not alow about show
ing their displeasure when republicans
were guilty of the same offense and they
must now apply the rule or admit pub
licly that they are craven hypocrites.”
Now the trutn is, and all who are famil
idr with the subject know, that when
our county was in its most prosperous
condition, the main cry of the populists
was for reform; to reduce salaries and
cut down expenses; and upon a platform
of this kind they went before the people
and solicited their support.' The salar
ies paid assistants by republicans ranged
from $600 to $700, more frequently six
than seven. This was called extrava
gance by the populists. In those dayB
such a thing as “chief clerk” had never
been ^thought of. It is purely a pop
invention and they draw $100 a year
royalty on the discovery. As we said
before, the Sun article is incomprehen
sible, It reads as though written by
some person afflicted with jim-jams, or
jam-jims, or something of that kind.
We quote: “If Treasurer Mullen should
keep ail the clerks allowed to him at
work at full pay during the present
year, the expense would amount to $2,
600, or $S0 lean than that of last year.”
Now how many clerks were allowed
him? Let the Sun answer again: “A
sufficient number of clerks to properly
perform the office work, salary of chief
clerk to be $700 per annum, all other
ciei-as At w>u per month.” The last quo
tation is from the recommendation of
the committee upon assistants. • How
does the Sun presume to say what the
saving would be it Mullen should avail
himself of the liberties extended by the
board? He is unlimited, although the
statute says the board “shall in all cases
prescribe the number of deputies or assist
ants, the time for which they may be
employed, and the compensation which
they are to receive.” This little matter
of illegality and favoritism escaped our
notice until the Sun called our attention
to it. Although this was not intentional
upon the part of the Sun, we extend
thanks anyway. There is nothing like
keeping the people educated in these
trivial matters. There is no use to make
a long drawn out controversy of this
independent sin. After all has been
said that can be said one fact remains,
and that is this: Holt county populists
are not reformers. They are imita
tors and exaggerators. Where it is con
venient they take all that was custom
ary for republicans to take, when that is
not convenient or adequate they take
enough more to make it so. This fact
is interwoven in their history in this
county, and the $100 grab under discus
sion but emphasizes it. The extrava
gance complained of by populists when
republicans were in power never was a
circumstance to what it has been under
this administration. The tax payers'
cry of hard times now has a genuine
ring and the county should not blow its
money in for expensive clerks, espec
ially when “good men can be found who
are willing to work for $30 or <30 per
month.”
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