, 'v <"f • ■£* 'C' • #' /' . • • " • ' - 1 ■ ^ i \i :k.%^ ■ ,■«? . ' .■ !::: - - . . |P PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. VOLUME XVI. ;#■, O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 17, 1895. NUMBER 1 •UBBORIPTION. El.M PER ANNUM. NEWS SANS WHISKERS Item* of IatorMt Told Ai They Ar# ^ Told to Us. ■ WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED i toad Happenings Portrajrsd For General Idifleatlon nd dmunuit, _ Fresh fruit and candies at Adam's. Jim Davis is quite ill with the typhoid fever. _»_ ' Apple-butter and sorghum cheapest Adam’s. . 14-8 Joe Mann was over from Spencer S>rtkday. __. Editor Jenness was down from Atkin son Monday. Wm. Penow is back from bis summer’s visit lu Illinosis. Sanford Parker was over from Spen cer last Friday. 7*r Ben Deyarman^ made a business trip to Fulterton last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mullen are the parents of a baby girl born last Monday. kerosene and Bring you gasoline. cans 14-2 for Adah &Co. Miss McHugh has returned after a protracted visit with relatives in the east. Ed Gallagher and J. P. Mann were in Iowa on business the fore part of this week. Our dried fruits are a very nice quality this fall. Come in and inspect them. * 14-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. Miss Edna Stafford,, of Norfolk, was in the city Sunday, the guest of Miss Kittle McBride. Mrs. Ed Gallagher and Miss Mattie Mann went down to Omaha Wednesday, tpr a few days’ visit. Read the advertisement of the Sullivan Mercantile Company this week and note 'the liberal premiums given away. 14-8 The ninth annual campfire of Gener al Coburn post, G. A. R., will be held at the Lyonia school house on October 19th, at ten o’clock, a. m. 1895. Catharine Donlin, wife of Stephen Donlin, who resides north of this city on the Eagle, died Sunday after a short illness. The funeral occurred Tuesday from the Catholic church in this city. For a limited time the Sullivan Mer cantile Company are giving away sugar free of charge. Read their ad in another column this week. 14-8 Well, if you are going to purchase a Winter Cloak don’t forget that I am "right in it" for Latest Styles, Good Val ues and Low Prices. Truly yours, P. J. McManus. Nobles Dramatic Company entertained large audiences in the opera-house on Friday and Saturday evenings. This \ is a company composed of good artists and those who attended their perform ances here were well satisfied. A. When in need of ear corn, oats, bran, middlings, chop feed or chop wheat, give us your order and we will sell it to you right. 14-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. Thursday evening, Oct., 10, Mrs. Jeanette Taylor of O’Neill, addressed the people of Inman. Her audience was highly instructed and appreciative, Mrs. Taylor is well posted, enthusiastic, entertaining and deserving of full houses. As the- Butter and Egg Co., have closed their business for the season, we will buy butter and eggs at our store, paying the top price for No. 1 stock. 14-8 O’Neill Grocery Co. t t Our celebrated flap jack flour, and Yoe'e absolutely pure maple syrup has arrived, and a trial will convince you that they are the finest in the market. -14-2 O’Neili, Grocery Co. Great rush to the Sullivan Mercantile Company’s store; everybody is taking advantage of the great bargains offered by this firm to cash purchasers.' Sugar given away at the Sullivan Mercantile Company’s store. 14-3 Have you seen those new, all Wool Suits at Mann’s tor only $7.50? They are beauties for the money. Also the better ones at $8.50 and $10.00 in blaek, blue and grey Cheviots. 41-2. Next week The Frontier will de vote a litte attention to the affidavit of one Mrs. Lois Bader, published last week in the Beacon Light. She charges Frank Phillips with gross neglect, as supervisor, in looking after the welfare Of her paupered mother. Responsible parties living in that neighborhood tell us that the affidavit is not only false but malicious, and promise to furnish us the proof of their charge in time for pub lication in our next. The Valle family, consisting of seven members, mentioned in these columns last week as all being bedfast with typhoid fever, were removed to this city last Friday and located in a residence house in Mathew^’ addition. The oldest girl died last Thursday and was buried Friday. ' McCafferty ha4 written a communica tion explaining why his name appears on those notes owing to Barrett Scott and it will appear this week in the Suh. It tickles McCafferty almost to death to get a chance to air himself In print, al though we understand it galls him some what to submit the production to Har rington for revision. \ Ewing and Atkinson divislonists were in O’Neill last Saturday to get an in I junction restraining the county clerk from submitting the present plan of di vision. They were represented by ex-As sistant Attorney -Oeneral, Summers. It was agreed to call in a judge from some other district to bear the case and it will probably come up in a short time. According to the Beacon Light the Jew was the attraction of attractions at the Ewing fair. The masculine horse, speckled cow, Crumpled-horned rams and boar black pigs were all left in soli tude when the stork from O’Neill was espied by the maddning throng. Well, we don’t doubt it. A walking cadover would attract attention almost any place. THE WAT OF BEFOBKEBS. Following is a circular that is being sent broadcast over the state by the populist state central committee. They give away the campaign secret rather recklessly, it seems to us: Lincoln, Neb , Oct., 1,1895, To members of the Slate Central Com mittee: Since the campaign now upon us must be short,it^ must be made aggressive. To make it so, we ask your cordial co operation. No man should accept the position of state committeeman, who is not prepar ed to do all in bis power for the success of the party, which has honored him. In that way only can we achieve success We therefore ask you to act upon the following suggestions, promptly and in detail: Fill out the inclosed blanks (No’s 1 and 2), for county central committee, county officers and candidates and at once return to this office. . As time is too short for a complete poli of the county, we ask you to fill out blank No. ^.concerning relative strength of parties in your county, dwelling es pecially on Judge Max well’s probable vote. Give these estimates to the best of your judgment and belief. Do not over-estimate, as that will only mislead us. . At once communicate with your county central committee and have each precinct committeeman instructed to send us the names and post-office address of all republicans and democrats in his precinct, who he thinks can be influenc ed to vote for Judge Maxwell. We de sire to to send literature to these men. If you poll your county, send us the poll list instead. We now have on hand a large num ber of populist hand books, prepared by the chairman, showing up republican rottenness, and the good things the pop ulists have done for the state. Invalu able as a campaign document, this book retails for ten cents, one dollar per doz en, or seven dollars per hundred, should be thoroughly circulated in each county. We can furnish Coin’s financial school in English, German, Sweedish or Bohe mian, for ten cents a copv straight. Cash must accompany all orders, as the books are shipped direct from Chicago; this saving express charges. We will soon have prepared a state ment of Judge Maxwell’s decisions and the strong points of his candidacy. This will be printed in large quantities and is designed to be sent to doubtiul voters. It will be free. We have already called your attention to the Lincoln Freie Presse, a German paper, which will do ue valiant service among that nationality. We again urge you to avail yourselyes of their liberal offer. Speakers' It is not our intention, this all, to make a speakirtg campaign. However, where a county wanta a state rally and will designate the time and place, we will do our best to supply the demand. We recommend this fall, how ever, a school-house and still hunt cam paign; aided by a liberal circulation of literature. runas: me usual assessment oi nve dollars per delegate to the state conven tion. has been levied on every county. While we do not ask that this entire amount be raised at once, we do ask that a part of it be raised and forwarded as soon as possible. The money can be gotten from present populist county of ficers, candidates and those interested in the cause. All that is required is that you go and ask them for it. Let us hear from you: We want to know the situation in your county. Let us know if there is any way in which we can help you. and we will do it gladly and promptly. We must elect Judge Maxwell this fall. The future of the party depends on it. The cause of good government depends on it. The railroads now have complete control of our supreme court. We must rescue it from them. Yours for success, J. A. Edobrton, Frank D. Edobb, Chairman. Secretary. CLOAKS AKD CAFES. Don’t forget the place to get your winter cloak. Largest line to select from; latest styles and lowest prices at 18-8 P. j. McManus*. THU CHVBCH TOM. The Beacon Light last week made a strong plea for the church vote. It charged the republicans with being in sympathy with saloons and of using 11* quor in their campaign. Among other remarks we find the following: If the church members and ministers of O’Neill city, Methodist, Catholic Presbyterian, and all other denomina tions are in favor of electing the fusion candidate of the old boodle gang and the saloons, the result of the election this fall in the city will be about the same as that of last spring. But if they are not hypocritical in their pretenses, and moral worth and integrity is held dear toitheir hearts, O. F. Biglin cannot possibly get eighty votes in the city of O’Neill. we nave got tbe city pretty well “pol led.” We know how worldly tinners will vote. Now we propose to learn just how many church membees will vote the fusion ticketf which is pouring men full of whiskey to destroy their bet-' ter sense and judgment and sent ,'n a loathsome and slobbering condition, to their wires and children. It church members can swallow that kind of can didates then Ood help the religious hypocrite. It is a well known fact that the pop ulists have used and are using more liquor for campaign purposes than was ever used by any other party in Holt county. They buy it by the gallon and distrib ute it promiscuously, and for them now to cry “stop thief I” is a piece of most despicable hypocrisy. Tha Froktika is making no idle talk. It knows ex actly what it is saying and invites the attention of the temperance class to the following affidavit: State of Nebraska, Holt County, ss. Miles Gibbons, of lawful age, be ing first duly sworn deposes and says that: During the year 1893 I was running a saloon in O’Neill, Neb.; that during the oampaign of said year W. W. Bethea, who was then, and is now, a candidate on the populist ticket for the office of county clerk, came into my saloon and made the agreement that he would pay me ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for the liquor to be used in securing Me election to th% office of county clerk. The proposition and agreement made by said Bethea was accepted by me and I have since said election of 1893 been paid the $100. $95 of which woe paid me by said W. W. Bethea, county clerk, by checks drawn by him on the Elkhorn Valley Bank of O’Neill. Twochecks for $25 each and one for $45. The remaining 95 was paid me in cash by another candidate on the populist ticket. MILES GIBBONS. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 15th day of October, 1095. J. H. Me reditu, Notary Public. My commission expires March 25, A. D. 1901. ( How do you like itf One hundred in cold cash for liquor “poured down men to destroy their better sense and judg ment.” Was ever greater demagoguery seen I Does Rev. Lowerie s conscience justify him in his support of a combina tion that is a party to such debauchery? This is just what one man did. There were seven men running for office on tbe county populist ticket that year, and the reader can figure out for himself just about how much money went for their whiskey. There is no doubt that some of Superintendent Jackson's money went tbe same way. People say he put more money in the campaign fund than any other man. Truths as prominent as these call for no comments. Tbe “church votes,” for whlch'the Beacon Light pleads so long ingly, has facts before them and they are a class intelligent enough to do the rest. WEDDING CHIMES. MARSH—MENI&l—Married, at the Catholic church, in this city, on Tues day morning, October 15, 1805, Mr. Robert Marsh to Miss Kittie Menish, Rev. M. F. Cassidy officiating. The ceiemony was witnessed by a targe number of friends and relatives of the young couple. Mr. William O’Con uor was groomsman and Miss Susie McManus bridesmaid. After the cere mony the bridal party drove to the resi dence of the brides parents where a sumptuous wedding feast was prepared, and where they were presented with many beautiful and costly presents. The groom is a young man who has resided here for several years and has numerous friends who recognize in him a young man of sterling worth.' The bride is an estimable young lady who is loved and esteemed for her many virtues by a large circle of friends. The young couple have gone to house keeping in the Hyne’s residence, corner of Qrant and Third streets. The Frontier joins their many friends in wishing them a long, happy and prosperous voyage down the path way of life. A LITTUE AAGTJIQKT. Shields, Oot., 19, 1895. Editors Frostier: To the honeet end respectable voters of Holt county, we wish to any e few words to you through the columna of oui pnaa. The time for election is drawing near and we must do our beat to redeem our county tbit fall. All men of com* ffion sense can see the ruination the in dependent party has brought on our oounty. They promised to redeem us, to lower our taxes, to make ua rich, to give us equal rights,to lower the salaries of our county officers, to pay our county ddbtp, and I would like to know what they'did not promise ns, but tell us how the*’, fulfilled those promises. Have they redeemed us, or lowered our taxes? TotheflrstDo.no, no; to the last yes, yes, yea a thousand times. They have 'caused the outside world to look on ua an murderers and that Holt county is no place for honest men to bring their fam ilies to live in. In speaking of making a land deal in some other state when ask ed where in Nebraska is your Jand, say Holt county, and tha^ puts an end to your deal immediately. No, no, I would not go there to live, Holt county is the home of the pops and vigilanters, why, they think no more of shooting or hang ing a man in Holt county than they wbuldadog. Now this is the way the pops redeemed Holt county. Have they lowered our taxes? Sinee they have been in office our county debt haa rais ed. Who raised this debt? who put the party into power? who said no republi can ehall save a cent of his salary four years ago? who kept our county in law and raised our taxes to pay the costs of the courts and'not' being satisfied with sinking Holt .county, they must put Boyd county in debt. They will say it was Scott’s trial thaf caused this debt, but who was it that caused Sott’s trial. They will say Scott stole WO,000 of Holt county money but did they return that money to Holt county? Did the killing of Scott return it? Did all the lawsuits they were the cause of bring that money back? No, no, nor can it be brought back till it is again paid by honest, l#nrd working taxpayers, and by causing Ihose lawsuits, killing Scott the pops have nearly doubled our taxes yearly and H the pops were to be in power two mW&yeaM'W* will-be as tenants, sur taxes will not leave us enough to eat and put shoes on our children. Let us one and all look for our own interest and vote for the party who will look to ours; we all know that it is not the reformed independents; great reformation they have mdde, if they call this reformation. We call it disgrace, Have they made us rich? If they have all the riches are in their own pockets, we have none of it. Have they given us equal rights to com pel men to do and say just as the pops tell them to ilo,and say is it equal rights? If a man says I am not going to vote for Mullen this fall, to send him‘a letter with a minature scaffold and rope hang ing to it with warning to leave till after election or receive the same dose Scott did# Is it equal rights to have men run ning around the country organizing the pops and sending Lints out that any one who does not Vote the independent tick et this fall will' wish they bad if it is found out who they are after election# We call equal rights where no man Is called upon to tell for whom he is going to vote or why be is going to vote for any certain person, not compelling peo ple to cast their votes where they know it is not right and where they know it is doing themselves and family harm;where every one is to have a mind of their own and not a mind like every hangman has. Have they lowered the salary of our countv officers? Just read the anner. vigors proceedings and see bow much they allow every officer, then read the treasurer's report and see bow much each clerk draws. Have they drawn a, salary lower than any other party? No, they have overdrawn their saleries, but perhaps they know this to be the only term they will have, so they are trying to get all they can. Have they paid our county debt or will our children or grand children live to pay the debt the reform ed independents have put on Holt and Boyd counties? If they do they will be lucky. Before the pops started their ignoramus prattle, our county warrants were wcrth 90 cents, now we cannot sell them for 50. If we get 80 or 40 cents we are lucky. I heard a man remark not long ago: “Why I cannot pay SO cents on the dollar. I could buy a bushel basket full of Holt county warrants if I would pay that price for them.” That is the way our debt is getting paid off. What are the pops any way but the refuse of the republican and democrats? Men that could not get an office from the two old parties, so they start a new party giving it a great name, hoping to mislead the poor, hard working people. They have misled them as long as they can now and this fall will see the court house swept clean of reformed rascals once more, and our times will improve again; grain will be a better price and we will raise double next year what we did this year. Mb. Nick. HUGH O’HXILL XJT IMS. For yean past the people haVe been paying taxes and many who could not pay their taxes had distress warrants is sued and their property sold and the ex pense of the sale added to the tax. The poorer the people the more liable they were to'be distressed. Such collections for the past number of years has placed a surplus in the county treasurery of the county of from $00,000 to $90,000. This surplus belonged to the tax payers and was only on deposit in the public cus todian’s hands awaiting to be applied on the public debt the people owed. Tho custom has been for years that the treasurer place bis money in the banks of the county. It is and has been loaned to the people who owned it at 9 per cent, a month in advance, that is 94 per cent a year, but when taken out In adrabce it amounts to nearly 88 per cent a year: Following we give an illustra tion. Ita farmer cornea into town and bor rows *100 at 9 per cent, a month In ad vance he will give his note for 9100, $94 will be taken out, leaving 976. This will be given the farmer. At the end of the year he will pay 9100 or will have paid 994 interest, that is, 994 for the use use of 976, or nearly one-third, which, when counting the cost of filing, will be 884 per cent; of the amount the farmer used. Some seven or eight years ago the peo ple in the north part of the county de nounced this system of collecting by force the tax money from the poor peo ple and giving it to the banks for the pur pos of creating a banking capital while the banks loaned the same back to the farmer and charged 88 per cent, on the faimer’s owp money. They held meet ings and decided to make the treasurer promise to loan the money to the people and not to the banks. They made one treasurer promise to do so and for that reason voted for him, but failed in his election. Those people knew that cheap money was what they needed and the only chance was to get their own sur plus as cheap as possible. About this time the alliance came into the country and expounded the cause of the people and the farmers interests, ex hibiting a constitution which pledged the members to be nonpartizan end their motto on the out side read “equality' of all men before the law. Justice to all men by the law." They began agitating a campaign and fixing np a ticket under the beading of “Independent.’’ The other societies of the farmers assisted the alliance in the vote but did not asso ciate with their conventions, only those who chanced to belong to both. The independent nominee for the leg islature was J. P. Mullen and we all worked hard for him. This was one year after the nominee for treasurer had agreed to loan the money to the peo ple If elected, for four times'its value in security. The banks knew that - it was the intention to have the treasurer not let them have .the money any more and and that the power was in the hands of those men to elect a treasurer who would promise to let the people have it. The only thing the banks could do, was to have a law passed that the people could not have it, and that law must be passed in the next session of the legisla ture before another treasurer vu up for election. Just as the money power always has i done, it went to our legislature and thus got the law passed that the banks must have the money at not less than 8 per cent a year. This was the reform legis lature with Mullen and Henry repre senting the interest of the farmer and not' the bank, but still they worked for that law. »y mat law me people who were try ing to get their no oney cheep end give se cority to the county instead of to the banks for the saiae money, were bended off and they found the six or seven years work they had quietly done in that di rection completely turned over. By whom? By Mullen and Henry. By the two men they had worked so bard for. By the men who had pledged themselves to the farmer’s interests. They had vot ed to let the banks take the people’s money, forced from the people in some cases by distress warrants—and from the people at a less rate of interest than the same banks could borrow it from Jay Gould—and loaned it back to the same people from whom they took it at 33 per cent a year, clearing 80 per cent. But it was to be let to the highest bid der, and suppose the banks were to bid 8 per cent a year, they then would clear 25 per cent of the amount loaned. If the whole surplus ot 90,000 were loaned at this rate which was the Intention, it would be a clean steal of 25 per cent of that amount from the people, or one fourth of it which is 822,000 annually. That amount of money stolen from the people by the banks which theft was legalized by the men who pretended tq be against the banks, J. P. Mullen and i H. R. Henry. I How must those voters have felt who had been working for six or (even years to let the security go to the county and ' the people’s money go to the people an it did anyhow, without it passing' through the banks first, and then the bank keeping one-fourth of all the sur- : > plus from the people as it passed through. How did those people feel when they went to the next nominee for treasurer / and asked him to promise that he would not side in with the banka to steal such an interest from the people for the net of their own money, and be pointed to a law that said, I hare got to, the legisla ture passed a law that I must give your money to the banks. Think of . ft, such " a treacherous law never darkened the statutes of Nebraska before. Those people said that the alliance was organised to knock out men that would not be true to their promisee when in office, and they mm would tote for uuueu ifun, nun iney would not ▼otu for him they were called traitors. What a great thing to be a reformer! Under the name of reformation the moit dastardly treachery ie alwaye en acted. Think of Pizzaro in Mexico; think of England In India; of the ma raudere In Ireland; of Henry VIII of England, who, under the cry of refor mation killed six of hie own wlvea and had the aentence for theseventh written. And again hie daughter Elisabeth, un der the aame cry, by her qneenly man date, led the form of Mary, queen of Scota from a 17 year darkness and sticking her bead on the block chopped it off amid the ringing cheers of refor mation. There ia nothing in hietory that parsl ele the treachery of the people of Nsb raaka, taxing them only to create a cap* iial for the banks to oppreee them with, and the legislature passing the law that they had to do so. no individuals are equally and historically as treacherous, .■ unless it be the devil and Jndas Iscariot. If the banks lend the surplus at>88 per cent, then they would steal 180,000 an nually from the taxpayers of Holt county. This is the theft that was empowered ; and legalised by Mullen and Henry. Have you been deceived farmerst Will tome one answer. [The foregoing article was written’ by Hugh O’Neill during the campaign of 1808, was printed in circular form by Thu Fboxtisu, and paid for by Mr. O'Nelli. The gvntlsman is a Mallew man in this campaign,! Free Sugar! Tax Patuu Attxntiox—There ia no ixslitics in this. For a limited time the Sullivan Mercantile Co. will give away sugar free of charge to purchasers of the following amounts. Any person buying 000.00 worth dot goods at our . store in one day’s purchase and paying ■pot cash for them will get, free of charge 60 pounds of granulated sugar. Any person or persons buying 080.00 worth will be entitled to 86 pounds of . granulated sugar. Persons buying 080. 00 will be given 10 pounds of sugar. Persons buying 010.00 .worth of goods will get 10 pounds of sugar and persons buying 010.00 worth of goods will get 8 pounds of sugar free of charge. We have a full line of dry goods Just ; new from the market and bought for ■pot cash—taking advantage of the cash discount which enables us to give your ‘ prices that defy competition. Look at our dry goods and we will surprise you with the bargains in them. We have %: A, complete line of shoes and we can seUtW - them at astonishingly low figures. ‘ We %|; will sell you a good plow shoe for 81.10 ' and onr other shoes in proportionate v prices. We have hats, caps, gloves and mittens. Come and see them for your- ^ ■elves and we will guarantee to save you ' money on any purchase you may make. We have a line of genfe furnishing goods mat surpasses anytning in tut line ever shown in the cilr end at prices which no other firm can duplicate. We l will guarantee to sell you groceries cheaper than any bargain house in Chi cago, Omaha or any other city if you $ will only give us a chance to figure on your bill. Do not buy of us if you do not find that there is money it for you.' Having had many years experience in the mercantile business we know where to find the best and cheapest market in ' the world to purchase our stock In and by paying spot cash we get a liberal dis count and are therefore in a position to give you the benefit of that discount on any and every purchase you may choose to make. We have everything you want in the way of groceries, dry goods, blan kets, gent’s furnishing goods, boots, ■£ shoes hats and caps, glovel, mittens, and clothing. We sell all goods for spot cash. Positively no credit will be given to anyone. We pay spot cash and we must have cash for our goods,when they leaye our shelves. Don’t neglect the above bargains. You wilt save money. We only offer these Inducements for a limited time. Come early and get the , free sugar. Sullivan Mkbcantil* Co. A,1 O’Neill, Neb, ■' <£&&& v,.'