The Frontier.
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KING A CRONIN. Editors.
Tbe Ord Quiz suggests M. P. Kinkuid
for supreme judge. Let him slone nml
he’ll go to congress.
It is about conceded all along the
line that Maxwell will be tbe pop nomi
nee for supreme judge.
Lynchino in tbe south goes merrily
on: each succeeding daily furnishes a
complete roster of coons that have
passed In the night.
Amelia Hives Chandler will spend
tbe summer at Hot Springs, and write a
book. Her surroundings will be con
ducive to tbe production of some gosd
literature.
One can notice between tbe lines in
the Atkinson Graphic that Bro. Jeness
does not cntertaiq the same high per
sonal regnrd for tbe populists that he
once did. He’ll find 'em out.
The present session of the supervisors
i reminds ua that In Auguat twenty-three
familiar namea will be dropped from the
pay-roll. Thla will be a earing to the
county of thouaanda of dollars. It la a
piece of republican legialatlon.
Judge Kinkaid haa been chosen one
of the delegates to the National Repub
lican League meeting, to be held at Cleve
land, Ohio, June 10-20-21. On account
of the Boyd county term of court we
preaume he will not be able to attend.
It la safe to aay that after the comple
tion of the Short Line bridge at Sioux
City there will be some tinkering with
thia end of the line. The company can
not afford to build that bridge for the
accommodation of 180 mllea of track.
We believe the line will be extended to
Julesburg, in conformity with the
original survey.
A fire will soon be kindled under
, the local political caldron, and when its
contenta begin to boil and bubble there
will be toil and trouble for those seeking
preferment at the hands and feet of the
various conventlona. It will be a lively
campaign and none will enjoy it more
than the newspaper fellows. News will
then be plentiful and luxuriant.
The men charged with that dastardly
murder of last December will be on
trial at Butte thla week. The Frontier
hopes that even and exact justice may
be done. We do not want an innocent
man convicted, nor a guilty man to
eacape. A fair and impartial trial la a
right of the accused, and a conscien
tious verdict a right of the state.
Division agitatora are not aleeping,
neither are they dead. They are float
ing about the county getting in their
little work to their own beat advantage.
In our present poverty-stricken condi
tion It looks like foolishness to divide,
hut If the arms and legs are determined
to sever connections with the body we
suppose there will not be enough votes
to say .them nay.
Bro. Bates la laboring under the
hallucination that It is humiliating to a
man to be termed a “Hawkshaw.” The
"Hawkshaws” are the people who say it
is wrong to commit murder, and in so
saying have gained the enmity of some
populists who appear to think—and
almost say—that to accomplish their
own-selfish ends any means are justifia
ble. Ridioule is all right in its place but
it has no place in these serious matters.
If aome magician could by a wave of
his wand blot the name of Barrett
Scott from the county records and oblit
erate the recollection of him from the
mlnde of the people, what would the
popullstgparty of Holt county have to
stand upon? To every charge that is
made against their administration they
answer, "Barrett Scott." The party is
mistaken that thinks it can perpetuate
its power by keeping green the misdeeds
of a dead man. Every tub must stand
upon its own bottom.
jsditor HOWARD, or rapillion, bu
declined to become i colonel upon the
governor'* staff. He hs* no herd feel*
logs toward the governor, but 1* opposed
to the militia. He thinks the hoys in
blue should be suppressed because they
occasionally injure rioters and do not
exterminate the greedy capitalists. A
man who has such conclusions certainly
deducts them from a false premise, but
when he has the courage of his convic
tions he may be admired for expressing
them. We congratulate Bro. Howard;
ditto the Nebraska National Guard.
Thk Northwestern Catholic, Sioux
City, is for silver at IS to 1. We
wonder if the Hon. John Brennan still
moulds thought for that excellent jour
nal. If he does we are at a troublesome
loss to reconcile the position of the paper
to a speech made by him in O'Neill last
fall. If we are not mistaken, during
his speech he exhibited two Mexican
dollars and told the audience that he
purchased them with one American sil
ver dollar, which was explained by the
v fact that the American dollar could be
exchanged for gold, which was not true
of the Mexican com. His paper new
admits that free coinage would "Hexi
canixe” our finance. Has Mr. Brennan
changed his views upon this question}
It ii important that some steps be
taken, and quickly, to repair our side*
walks. We realize that the city purse
is in anything but a plethoric state, yet
it seems to us that a council, .such as
ours, tilled with inventive minds, could
devise some remedy. The walks
should be repaired or removed. They
have become so dilapidated that they
arc actually unsafe for a sober man to
walk upon after sunset. They will re
sult In broken limbs if allowed to go in
their present condition, and then will
come damage suits and judgments large
enough to build brick walks. A little
closer observance of the ordinance
which makes it a misdemeanor to drive
horses and cattle over the walks would
be a wholesome thing. Reprimand
violators a few times and then, if they
do not desist, give them an opportunity
to bribe the police judge.
Tint late lamented republican legis
lature voted tax burdens on the people
greater by 9575,801 than the preceding
one under populist control. Subtracting
the $250,000 voted for necessary relief
still shows an extravagance in excess oi
the populist management of $215,801.
This, too, in the year that Nebraska
was forced to beg charity all over the
east and south.—Wealth Makers.
We have been expecting some pop
organ to spring these figures. Why
does the Wealth Makers not be honest?
Why does it not show that a great deal
of this money was appropriated to pay
the shortages of the last pop assembly?
which was so economical that some
state officers had to forego the conven
ience ot telephones, and pay their own
postage. And when it has given these
facts as forcibly as it has the above de
ception, let it compare the last session
to the first pop gathering and truthfully
tell its readers how they stand in point
of appropriations.
Tns Sun admits that "our taxes are
higher to-day than they ever were.” It
would not concede that before the last
election. It attempts to trace the cause
to the Scott defalcation, but in so doing
gives the lie direct to the populist
orators who last fall made the school
house welkins ring with stories of pop
ulist retrenchment. They went into
Shields, Emmett, Chambers and other
townships and told the voters that tbeir
taxes were being reduced under populist
control. That was after the Scott de
falcation. Now if the populists at that
early date had overcome the shortage so
far as to be able to reduce taxes, an ob
serving public will not allow them, at
this late day, to plead that cause in de
fense of taxes that “are higher than
they ever were.” If the populists were
responsible for the reduction in the first
instance, why are they not responsible
for the increase in the second instance?
The logic of the Sun surely is hot stuff.
Tns sale of the little ditch Is, we be
lieve, a matter of greater importance to
this city than most people at present
realize. It is plain that the purchasers
have some object in view, otherwise
they could not have seen their way clear
to pay a large price for the plant. We
see but one way for them to make a big
paying business of it, and that is to col
onize it from end to end. It traverses
territory sufficient to maintain several
hundred families, and these families
once located would mean considerable
to O'Neill as well as the ditch company.
The owners of the plant are men of
means and business ability and we are
more than pleased to welcome thesn to a
seat among us. The company which
conceived and executed the idea of
building the ditch is deserving of
praise and our people generally will be
pleased to learn that it withdrew
with a little profit on its investment.
It built the ditch at a considerable
cost, when to borrow money was almost
an impossibility; and after construction
maintained it against fearful odds.
It lacked the means—but not the ability
—to properly handle the enterprise, and
the change is doubtless a good thing all
around.
EXONERATE CORBETT.
I desire to stats that Mrs. Notson se
cured leave of absence from her school
in August before she had ever seen Mr.
Corbett or communicated with him at
all. After his election she asked me to
write a letter in her behalf. At that
time she distinctly told me that he had
never promised to appoint her as his
deputy, but that she most earnestly de
sired the position, and I inferred from
what she said that she thought she had
earned it from the party. I have it
from the gentlemen themselves that she
told two others precisely what she told
me—that Mr. Corbett had never prom
ised her the deputyship. From all her
eonversation with me it appeared that
she simply hoped to induce him to ap
point her, although he bad made her no
promise whatever.
Mr. Corbett was the choice of the
people of this state and is filling an im
portant position with credit to himself
and advantage to the schools of the
state. There is certainly nothing in
this matter which should call for his
condemnation or for the withdrawal
from him of public confidence.
A. P. Marble,
Supt. Omaha City Schools.
CHANCELLOR CANFIELD’S ENDORSEMENT.
I entirely concur in Superintendent
Marple’s conclusions. From all the in
formation obtainable there certainly
seems a strange injustice in attempting
to make Superintendent Corbett at all
accountable for Mrs. Notson’s death.
Jambs H. Canfield,
Chancellor University of Neb.
Awarded
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