The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, July 11, 1895, Image 4
The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTINO COMPANY KINO St CRONIN. Editors. CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING. Tbe Holt county republican centrrl committee is hereby called to meet in O’Neill on Saturday, July 13, 1S95. for tbe purpose of fixing a date for the county convention and tbe transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Neii, Hiiknnan, Chairman. Clyde King, Secretary. —--— M. E. Hoot has succeeded A. R. Lee dom as editor and proprietor of the Page Now Era. The Sun does not believe in convict ing men on perjured evidence, soitsuys, but does it believe in acquitting men on perjured evidence? Thriie seems to be a great discrep ancy between tbe new statute and tbe session laws in regard to tbe vote re quired to divide counties. Tbe statute, as quoted by us last week says, “If it shall appear that a majority of nil tbo votes cast at sucb election,” while the bill as given in the session laws says, “If It shall appear that a majortiy of all the votes cast on the question.” In a case of this kind we presume tbe bill as it passed is the law. The money plank adopted by the prohibitionists is a lather peculiar thing, especially when we consider that ' they claim free silver by right of dis covery. It reads: “The money of the country should be Issued by the general government only, through government banks of loan and deposit directly to the people upon adequate security and at a uniform rate of interest. It should be a full legal tender for the payment of all debts public and private, without ex ception in favor of contract stipulation.” -- The evidence Introduced at the Scott trial tending to establish the venue was of the weakest and most technical kind and we have failed to find any who ex press surprise that the jury should dis miss the defendants upon that ground alone. It is a well established princi ple of law that a man charged with crime must be tried in the county where the crime was committed, and in this particular case when the state failed to clearly establish its allegation that Scott was killed in Boyd county its case was sure to fail. The evidence in regard to the place was barely sufficient to allow tbe case to go to the jury at all. --.— And now the pop supervisors are dis cussing the idea of refusing to redistrict and give up their fat jobs to seven com missioners in accordance with the law in such cases made and provided. We understand that they, in their infinite wisdom and unlimited understanding have decided that the law is wholly un constitutional. You may always de pend upon a pop to kick when he is called upon to unhand a good thing. The average pop pops for revenue any . way and never pays any attention to the groans of Jones who pays the trans portation. The pops have a majority and it they refuse to redistrict we pre sume that will settle it, but they will hear from the people later on; tbe same people who are tired of keeping a con gress as large as the senate of tbe state. The decision of the jury on the Scott murder esse at Butte last week, but again sustains the careful and consider ate judgment of our worthy county judge, and his action at the prelim inary hearing.—Plain Dealer. Roll It sustains nothing of the kind, but demonstrates what disastrous re sults may follow the “slipshod ways of ' our courts,” about which the pops are continually howling. Had "our worthy county judge” been possessed of that "careful and considerate judgment” with which the Plain Dealer credits him, it is easy to imagine a different ending to this case. Had be refused to release them on bail, which was tho only proper course in the light ot the testi mony introduced at the preliminary, they would have had less opportunity to buy beer for Boyd county farmers and work up sympathy and evidence for their trial. That he afterwards became a witness for the defense, coupled with the nature of bis testimony, is a straw that indicates the direction of his in clination. Come, Horatio, my boy, sit down for a few moments while the old man talks to you again. He has an apology to make, and hopes' you will forgive him for the false teachings he gave you in your younger days. You remember, Horatio, the old man always taught you by precept and example to be honest, law-abiding and God-fearing in your relations with your fellow man and fel low sister, at the same time holding up to you the beauties and possibilities of such a life and the probabilities of its faithful observance leading you in a maze of glory to the presidential chair. You have not forgotten? No. Well, the old man has learned that his phi losphy is principally fiat. If you seek honor and notoriety throw away all thoughts of righteousness and conse crate yourself to the world, the flesh and the devil: join the populist party, which is controlled by passion instead of reason, howl against the courts, join a vigilance committee and murder a man and then the local paper will print your biography, make virtues of your Ring, and while you may never be presi dent, perhaps your name will be mentioned in connection with some county office. In the last issue of the Beacon Light was a column and over devoted to Lieu tenant King of the Bartley Guards. The theme was an expression imagined by the writer to have been made by the lieutenant in regard to the inspection of tlie guards recently made in this city by Adjutant General Barry. The lieuten ant is quoted as saying that he “would not be inspected by a Paddy.” Now to our people who are capable of seeing the other meaning in that article the object of its publication is obvious enough to spoil its effect. It is evident that this man desires to see a religious and factional fight stirred up in O’Neill, believing that such a calamity would tend to draw tiie lines oi business, society and politics more closely and that the populists would be the bene ficiaries. He has not made this senseless tirade because he has any love for Gen | eral Barry or the militia, as for the past two years he has unrelentingly exerted himself to disorganize our company and cause its disbandment. The article in question is really not worth a second thought and we would not stoop to notice It were it not to shut off a few backcappers who would construe our silence to be an admission of the offence. It is true that King refused to be inspected, and while his reasons therefor are not proper matter for news paper discussion they are sufficient and fully understood by the general, who has had in his possession for the past two months the resignation of King as first lieutenant of the Bartley Guards. The idea that we refused to be Inspected by the general because he happens to be an Irishman is preposterous and is laughed to scorn by our Irish friends. Fact is King did not know the nation ality of Mr. Barry until he read the article in the Beacon Light. We do not care to discuss the merits or demerits of any man’s nationality or religion, as neither is of interest to us. We believe one man is as good as another, no matter what religious creed claims his faith and devotion, or under what sky he first beheld the light of day. The writer devotes this space in reply to the accusation, not to clear himself of a charge that is untrue, but because he has been publicly, and with malice, charged with showing disrespect, as a member of the national guard, to its commander, who is a gentleman and a soldier deserving a denial as public and as forcible as the accusation, and while we are upon the subject we desire to brand the material statements of Kautz man’s libel as both false and cowardly and defy him to produce one reliable person who will substantiate his asser tion, one who heard us make the remark by him credited to us. We suppose we will be considered unwise for noticing this attack, but theie are men, as Paul says, filled with unrighteousness, wick edness, covetousness, maliciousness, envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, without understanding, covenant-breakers, implacable and un merciful who make us very tired. “DEMONETIZATION” OF SILVER. "Demonetization” is a word used in this connection with much looseness, and is generally misunderstood. It is a j favofite word with writers and speakers careless of what they say, or who inten tionally deceive and misrepresent the facts, All silver dollars now in circulation are a legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private, and the government makes no discrimination whatever against silver or gold. [The old trade dollar is not a legal tender, and for that reason went out ot use. It is not supported by the gold re serve, and consequently it cannot be changed for a gold dollar nor tor a legal tender silver or paper dollar. It is, therefore, worth only about 50 cents, although it has the dollar stamp of the United States upon its face. This is clear proof of what our silver money would be worth if it were not inter changeable with gold. The mere stamp of the United States, or ot any other country, could not make it worth in purchasing power, more than about 50 cents, its commercial value in weight.] The repeal of the Sherman law did not in any way affect the $625,000,000 of silver now in the treasury, and in circulation, unless, indeed, it strength ened its value and its position as good money. The “gold bugs” are not try ing to destroy the use of this silver. On the contrary all advocates of sound money want to continue silver in safe quantities in use as good money. The government has simply quit mak ing any more silver dollars. That is all the “demonetizing” that has been done. The silver we have is as good, as money, as it ever was, and will remain so, unless the free coinage people succeed in put ting us on a free silver basis, in which event it would not be worth more than half its present value, if, indeed, it would be worth that. There is absolutely no “demonetizing” of silver in the sense the word is under stood by the mass of -voters. It is used merely to deceive and mislead.—Dollars or Wbat. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, DR BAKING POWDffl MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Crape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. O’NEILL BUSI NESS DI RECTORY JJ R. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Reference First National Bank O'NEILL, NEB. C. SMOOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OIOARS, ETO. • JJR. EDWARD S. FUR AY, PHYSICAN AND SVBGBON. Day and night calls promptly attended to. Office In Holt County Bank building. O’NEILL NEB. g^H, BENEDICT, . 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