The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVKKY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY KINO A CRONIN. EDITORS. The sewer broke again last week and another half-column of sulphureted gas escaped. -- It is not essential that Bro. Hates should concern himself about King's compiusation. Virtue is often its own reward. It looks as though somebody has been doing a little fo’cing on the divis ion question. If that be true somebody has been fo'ced. --■••--* The man who says this paper ever supported the Atkinson plan of division, If not a deliberate liar is a muchly mis taken individual. This paper said ‘that the Atkinson proposition had less to recommend it than the one advooated by O’Neill, and further, that the only division that could carry would be a straight two-county cut west of Emmet. That's exactly what we said. Fkw weekly papers possess editorial merit equal to that which has made the North-Western Catholic a brilliant light in the constellation of religious publications. Mr. Brennan, its editor, is a scholar and a writer whose produc tions are pleasingly destitute of ambi guity, while his religious arguments, permeated with tolerance and fairness, cannot put challenge admiration. ,-«■<•»< Tub press gang is roasting the state fair officials to a nicely. They hick be cause they have not been furnished a season ticket. Tub Frontier arises to remark that the state fair will get no favors in these columns, nor will the editors ask any odds of the fair. If we want to see the pumpkins, the sheep, the parsimonious officials and the black boar pig we will present ourselves at the gates and make a tender of a coin of the proper denomination. The fair should be made a success, but the boys who do the advertising should not be treated as unwashed mendicants. If the country press of Nebraska would be respected it must respect itself. Tub editor of the Atkinson Graphic went down to Lincoln last week and told to the State Journal a pitiful tale concerning the manner in which the board submitted the question of county division. From its interview with Mr. Jeness the Journal gathered and pub lished among other misleading state ments, the following: Acting under the new law the people of Atkinson and Ewing recently set to work and secured what they claim was a * majority petition for a proposition to divide the county into exact quarters, to be called Adair, Fountain, Elkhorn and Holt counties. This proposition would leave O’Neill the county seat of Holt, Atkinson the seat of Adair, Ewing the seat of Elkhorn and no settled seat for Fountain county. Those who favored this plan of division presented the mat ter to the county board and asked that the proposition be submitted to the peo ple, and then the trouble commenced. The board had a plan of its own, in tended, it is claimed, to defeat all plans of division, and if that failed to at least have the division after their own hearts and in such a way as to leave Atkinson in the same county with O'Neill and powerless to do anything by ballot. So when the Atkinson plan was presented the board refused to receive the petition but did receive the other proposition and has gone so far as to vote for its submission to the people. We see no reason why the editor of the Graphic should so terribly mutilate the facts. Thb Frontier has no love for the board of supervisors but it ob jects to having them misrepresented: the good Lord knows that the truth is always bad enough. Now the facts are simply these: Stuart and Chambers filed a petition praying that the three-county division be submitted. Atkinson and Ewing filed a petition which besought the submission of a four-county proposition. The board appointed a committee to investigate the merits of the two peti tions. The committee worked night and day for a week and finally reported that the Stuart and Chambers petition was first on file; that it had the most signers and in the judgment of the com mittee was the only legal petition, on file. This report was adopted by a vote of 16 to 4 and the proposition submitted by a vote of 18 to 13. The statement that the board refused to consider the Atkinson petition is wholly falso. The Journal says further that Billy Summers has been employed by Jeness to open up the case in the supreme court and that action would be com menced Friday in the supreme court against the board of supervisors. “The exact nature of the suit has not been decided upon,” says the Journal, "but it will probably be a suit to compel the supervisors to open up the matter and investigate the petitions of both factions, or in the nature of an injunction to re strain them from submitting the propo sition set forth in the alleged fraudulent petition.” " This action comes with mighty poor grace from Atkinson. She made her fight and lost and should take defeat philosophically. Supervisor Wine, who led in the fight for Atkinson, sized the situation up about right when he said, after the battle: “Boys, we’ve no kick coming. They are too smooth for us, that's all.” The legal committee refuted to make a detailed statement of its transactions as per order of the board. The boaid in structed the committee to prepare and submit a statement showing the amount of money received by it; the amounts paid uut and to whom and for what; the amounts contracted to be paid; the amount of salary drawn by each mem ber of the committee for committee work performed. The committee, hav ing absolutely refused to throw any light on its business, gives the tax payers ample license to infer—as Tuk Frontier always has—that something is putrid in Denmark; that the business methods of the committee have been such as to excite the indignation of the peoplo should they stand revealed; that too much cash has been paid to Mike Uarrlngton and the governor of Chi huahua, and that in the matter of per sonal remuneration it had too freely scratched the chronic eruption in the palm of its own band. This committee has no legal existence. Warrants drawn in its favor were in direct violation of the statute which makes no provision for a simple appropriation, but says all claims against a county must be filed with the county clerk. In this case no claims were filed, but numerous war rants were drawn payable to the chair man of the legal committee, and now the people are denied the right to even learn what has become of them. It the tax payers would pay less attention to the leak at the spigot and watch the over-burdened bunghole they would get their eyes open after awhile. A certain O’Neill paper says the people or the cattle thieves will have to leave this part of the state. We see no reason for an exodus on that account. A greater number of men have been murdered in Holt county the past year than there were cattle stolen. “FRIENDS” OF THE PEOPLE. The politician, who gets a living out of politics, and by far the greater part of whose business it Is to influence votes, Invariably poses as the “friend” of the people. Most of the people are poor and bard run; it is natural for them to feel that something or some body is to blame—sometimes one or the other is—and the designing politician shrewdly turns this condition to his own account. He abuses without stint or distinction the lender whom these peo ple owe; he rails at the property owner, whose lands they till, and whose houses they occupy; he slurs the seller from whom they obtain supplies; he de nounces the employer who gives them work; he throws mud savagely at every class, and at every individual toward whom he can hope to direct the preju dice of unfortunate voters. He is a hypocrite. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He wonld, if it served his interests, blast the people he professes to serve. He goes to the legislature or to cougress and accepts favors and bribes from unholy corporations and unscrupulous schemers whom he so savagely denounced when talking to the people. For a railroad or a street car pass, or a few shares of stock in a corporation, or in consideration of a “tip,” as to the course of a stock on the stock exchange, to be manipulated by his bribers, he barters the people’s rights, and lays upon them heavy bur dens. To placate one class of voters he hurls epithets at another, to favor one class he levies tribute on and oppresses others, feeling sure always that the wronged ones are in the minority. To advance himself he betrays all, conceal ing as far as possible his treachery under the cloak of innocence. It just now suits the purpose of most of these “friends” of the people to pose on what they believe to be the popular side of the silver question in their re spective districts or states. The ques tion itself begets prejudices, and they are making the most of those that are natural. They are trying to array class against class, interest against interest, the poor against the rich and well-to-do, sowing seeds of dissatisfaction, social ism and communism. They are trying to make it appear that the interests of different business classes are widely dif ferent, and have nothing in common, and that stagnation, contraction and loss will cheer and prosper one class, while it impoverishes and depresses all others. One must keep a pretty clear head, or he will conclude that the worm u really out or joint when the preaching of such doctrine by such well known kind of preachers finds eager and attentive listeners. Right thinking and prudent men should denounce in stead of embracing such dangerous heresies. Unjust and iniquitous combi nations of capital do undoubtedly exist; combinations largely promoted and en couraged in secret by the bribe-taking “friends” of the people; and in the na ture of things they will pontmue to ex ist until human nature changes or the millennium comes. But they are con fined to no business class or condition of men. And even these unrighteous combinations are vitally interested in the prosperity of the country. It is a seiious mistake to assume that any body or any class can prosper on tbe general misfortunes of the country. It is a mistake fully as great to permit the judgment to be influenced by any office seeker whose integrity and manhood are not known to be grounded on a rock. How many such did you ever know? How many do you know today? The “friends” of the people are humbugs.— Dollars or What. O’NEi LL BUSI NESS DI RECTORY J£ R. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Referenoe Fine National Bank O'NEILL, NEB. C.SMbOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OIOARB. ETO. pR. EDWARD 8. FT7RAY, PHY8ICAN AND SURGEON. Day and night calls promptly attended to, Offloe in Holt County uank building. , O'NEILL NEB. jj^H. BENEDICT, LAWYER, Offloe in tbe Judge Roberts building, north of 0. O. Snyder’s lumber yard. O NEILL, NEB. w. B. BUTL.BR, ATTORNEY. AT-LA W. Agent for Union Trust Go’s land in Bolt County. Will practice In all the courts. Special at tentlon given to foreclosures and collections DR B. T. TRUKBL.OOD PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Diseases of the Eye and Ear and fitting glasses a specialty. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m, Office first door west of Belnerllcson’s O’CON NOR & GALLAGHER DEALERS IN Of all kinds. A specialty made of FINE CIGARS. If you want a drink of good liquor do not fall to call on us. Checker® Barn. B. A. DbYARMAN, Manager. CHECKER (WWPPPHW Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. Finest tnrnonts. in the city. Good, careful drivers when wanted. Also rnn the O’Neill Omnibns line. Commercial trade a specialty. A. J, HAMMOND ABSRACT CO Successors to R. R. DICKSON & CO. Abstracters of Titles. Complete set of Abstract Books. Terms reasonable, and absolute ac curcy guaranteed, for which we have given a $10,000 bond as required under the law. Correspondence Soliced O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY NEB. THE OMAHA WORLD -HERALD Edited bj Ex-Congressman W. J. BRYAN Js the greatest newspaper west of the Missouri Jtiver. It advocates FREE SILVER at the present ratio of sixteen to one. Its news service is the. best to be obtained. Daily, $6.00 per year; 50 oents per month. Weekly, $1.00 per year. Subscriptions fcr the WORLD-HERALD received at this office M CklcliMte^i English Diamond Brand. Pennyroyal pills urifinai unij ueaain«. •Arc, alwaya reliable, ladies ask i i Druggist for Ckickeattr* Knglitk Dia A S»»vna Brand in Ke4 nod Gold nietnllioY flboiei. » of MoGaCerto'a. O'NEILL, NEB, Always Buy the Best. The . 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