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FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Pot District Judges:
; M. P. KINK AID, of O'Neill.
ALFRED BARTOW, of Chadron.
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COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For County Treasurer:
O. F. BIOLIN, of O'Neil.'.
‘ For Clerk of the Court:
JOHN SKIRVINO, of Stuart.
For County Sheriff:
JOHN BRADY, of Atkinson.
For County Clerk:
F. W. PHILLIPS, of Steel Creek.
or County Superintendent:
A. T. BLACKBURN, of Atkinion.
For County Judge:
Jt. 0. WHY. of Chumbere.
For County Surveyor:
R. E. BOWDEN, of Paddock.
For County Coroner:
C.O. EIGLER, of Ewing.
CITY TICKET.
For AueMor:
E. H. THOMPSON, of O’Neill.
For Juitloe* of the Penoe:
B. H. BENEDICT, of O'NeUl.
O. E. DAVIDSON, of O'Neill,
p For Constables:
§f JOHN HOBBISKY, of O'Neill.
TOWNSHIP TICKET.
:: For Supervisor, Third District:
E. J. HACK, of O'Neill.
For Township Assessor:
ABTHUK BABBBTT. of Grattan.
For Bond Overseer Dlst. No. 4:
JOHN ENBIOHT, of Orattan.
; For Boad Overseer Dlst. No. 90:
CHABLES SHOEMAKER, of Grattan.
For Justice of the Peaoe:
HENRY HEK8H1SER, of Grattan.
For Constable:
JOHN HOBBISKY, of O'Neill.
For Judges of Election:
PATRICK BARRETT, of Grattan.
JOHN HEENAN, of Grattan.
BYBON O. PARKER, of Grattan.
For Clerks of Election;
ELI HEB3HI8RR, of Grattan. *
p PATRICK HcNICHOLS, of Grattan.
LOOK OUT FOB VAKS8.
This being the last week before elec
tion yon may expect the opposition preas
y to teem with new and heretofore unheard
, of stories regarding republican candi
' dates. .These fakes will also be drcu
lated in :pSmphlet form between now
and electibhl and you may depend upon
t' It that eadh p'nd every one of them ia a
M bare-faced lie they were afraid to tell
earlier .in the campaign when the can
: dldates attacked would have time to re-,
lute It- We have it direct from hea'd
J quarters that the populists are now pre
y paring a pamphlet for general distribu
- tion on election day, to be used against
'John Brady,
Our informant says they ate using a
letter purporting to have been written
by Joif; Bartley to the Exchange Bank,
p Atkinson, telling them to trade every
j thing ‘ for Brady as he has some fore-'
elosuies to make In Holt county. It Is
a campaign lie of the first water. Bart
ley has not written the bank, nor has he
any real estate loans in Holt county.
This scheme shows that the gang Is
desperate. They realise that they are
S beaten unless they can spring some
? thing of this kind to turn the Ude, and
they, Will probably attackAothera besides
7, Brady. Look out for tham.
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: A> honest count is all the republi
cans ask. They have a clean majority
In the county.
It is known to be a fact that H. R.
Henry has promised his deputyahlp to
.three different men: one In O'Neill, one
in Atkinson and one In Stuart.
Toe County republican central com
/ mittee met last Saturday afternoon in
p Chairman Washes' office. It was an en
thusiastic gathering. The county was
well represented and the concensus of
opinion was that the outlook for repub
' Ucau victory had not been so bright for
. years. . .....v .
Hakiltoh'* deficiency record U not
: denied, but on the other head la admit*
tad; and it ie farther admitted that hia
^ ineord in thla line waa the eauae of the
hard fight made on him In the conven
; lion. Almoet half of the delegatea
■ rated againat him on thla ground. They
:v admitted, that hia cloae relatione with
: the loan oompaniet waa enough to de*
feat him. Will they reverae themaelrea
at the' polla and rote to euatain him in
Mf treachery to the peopleT
K'f
laan Surra, the populiat treaaurer
' of Inman townahip haa been exported
I' had found to be ahort in hia accounta
4 MU. He refuaea to aettle, and although
* requeeted to realgn, refuaea to do that.
The balance of the board, except the
■ Math, are aleo pope and refuae to ouat
Mm, oonaequently he reataeaay. Bar
rett Scott waa found guilty of atealiag
f fM,000, which, divided equally among
all of the townahlpe of the county,
would amoont to but little more to In
Waa townahip than thla diadple of re
■ fata baa beaten her out of. All the
|> nrtuoof thla world le not confined to
. oae Individual, aor all the honeety to
1M political party*
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Ip any man tells you that an increased
valuation is responsible for our increas
ed rate of taxation, just tell him that he
is a-. It has been less than
two years since tbe assessors met in reg
ular session and reduced tbeyaluation
of real and personal property ohe-tbird.
When a man lies to you about one thing
you will always find it to your advantage
to believe nothing be says.
Hamilton is promising the people
that in the event of bis election (here
will be no mure deficiency judgments.
He is not entitled to be credited. He
has been weighed in the balance and
found wanting even during his first
term, and who can say what be would
not do In his second term, when he
would expect no re-election? Brady is
the man for whom loyal citizens should
vote.
W. W. Bethea and Frank Phillips
were both members of the county
board during the years 1893 and 1898.
The warrant register shows that during
those years Bethea drew a salary of
$537.85, as against $350.50 drawn by
Phillips. Had Phillips been Inclined to
farm bis job he could have drawn as
great a calary as did his competitor in
the present contest. Frank Phillips has
served on the county board for a num
ber of years and has made a record that
entitles him to the clerkship. He is
honest, capable and familiar with the
duties devolving upon the county clerk.
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This issue closes the campaign so far
as the newspapers are concerned, and
there never was in Holt county a cam
paign in which the newspapers took
such an active part. If voters have
read both sides of the question and
have been keen enough to detect the
false and receive the truth they are now
well posted on existing conditions and
(prepared to vote intelligently. Tnic
Frontier has endeavored to treat the
opposition fairly and publish nothing
but facts that could be proven by the
records. If we have been personal in
isolated eases we justify ourselves on
the ground that we were not the first to
adopt that kind of a campaign and fol
lowed su>t in self-defense only. The
populist press, backed up by a corps of
editors at the court-house, were wise
enough to discern at the outset that
they must draw public attention from
the official records of their candidates,
and that accounts for the personal
abuse—libelous at times—heaped upon
the republican nominees. But the voter
who votes for an honest and economic
administration will not be misled by
this lgnis-fatuus; he will investigate the
records of the men seeking his vote and
support the ones he finds most worthy
.of public confidence. This is all repub
licans ask, and when this is done they
have nothing to fear.
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Hcoh O'Neill sidetracked his Age
of Savagery last week and devoted the
*P«oe to an explanation of the Mullen
Henry letter written by him during the
campaign of two yearr ago, and pub
lished recently in The Frontier.
There is perhaps no voter‘ in Holt
county who makes as big pretentions,
politically, and cuts such an insignifi
cant figure as this same Hugh O’Neill,
yet with chosen words and rounded
periods ho'dafuuds his gyrations with
as much gravity and concern as Cleve
land writing a message. We do not
care to follow his article through its
Wearisome entirety, as lime so employed
would be utterly wasted, but we desire
to ask thogentleman a question Or two.
He'says that during Scott's last cam
paign he worked for his election and
borrpwed money from the banks at H
per cent, for campaign expenses. He
also says he teceived no remuneration
fromScott. Now we want to ask him
if ha doesn’t remember the talk he had
with Scott the very day he started out
campaigning for him, and if he doesn’t
remember that the junior editor of The
Frontier was present and a witness to
the agreement? And we want to ask
him if it is not a fact that Scott gave
him money for his work, and in addi
tion loaned him $150 in spot cash,
Which, to this day, he has not repaid?
And we want to ask him further if it is
not a fact that J. P. Mullen is favoring
him in a similar manner this fall? If
O’Neill would spend a little less money
campaigning and apply his spare change
to the.payment of that note it would uo
doubt be greatly appreciated by those
most directly interested.
PROMISE AMD PRACTICE.
If the populists bed lived up to the
promise* they made before their election
they would be entitled to another term,
and many terms thereafter; but they
didn't do it. Far from it. They prom
ised that each and every one of them
would run his respective office upon the
tees of the office; and they promised that
the clerks should receive less wages and
work more hours, and that the peoples'
.money should not be reckl essly squan
dered. Have they been true to these
pledges? Let us see: The sheriff started
in with, two deputies while his predeces
sor found it necessary to employ but one.
The treasurer employed a small army
of help In his office and only reduced
his force when this paper exposed bis
methods; he also invented the word j
“chief-clerk,".whereby his name-sake
draws an extra hundred per year. In
order to pay this tlOO—and other things
—he found It necessary to overdraw his
fees over 9900; see his last statement.
When an opportunity presented itself
whereby he could reduce the taxes of
those whose lands must be advertised, he
violated the instructions of the board of
supervisors and instead of advertising in
160-acre tracts he advertised in 40-acre
tracts so that the printer receives 80
cents for each description instead of 20
cents. The man whose land is adver
tised must pay 60 cents additional in
each case for the treasurer’s partiality to
Ham Kautzman, the printer. It is said
that the treasurer owns an interest in the
paper. Besides this the great apostle of
populism deposited the county money in
the First National bank at 3 per cent
when other banks bid 4 and 5 per cent,
lie simply robbed the tax-payers out of
1 and 3 per cent, on this money for two
years.
The county clerk hired an office full
of clerks to begin with, even importing
one from Iowa, the son of old Honest
John. He drew about $700 from the
county to make the receipts and dis
bursements of his office balance for the
year 1804. Does that look like running
an office ou the fees of the office?
So much for the individual record of
these officers. Now let us glance at the
general record of the party. We will
note a few instances where they not
only violated their promises, but in
dulged in extravagance such as was
never before seen in the county under
any administration:
The populist board of supervisors per
mitted its members to draw pay for the
day befoie the board met and the day
after it adjourned.
When they awarded the printing of
the delinquent tax list lo the Beacon
Light at almost legal rates when other
papers offered to do the work for less
than half they robbed the poorest people
In the county of the difference. The
several amounts taken from the people
In this way will aggregate 93,000.
The large amount of money paid John
Morrow as assistant expert was thrown
away and paid out in violation of law.
The statute makes no provision for an
assistant expert.
When the populists invalidated the
official bond of Barrett Scott they at
once became responsible for all moneys
lost thereby. The amount lost, accord
ing to the expert’s statement, was $04,000.
Scott and his bondsmen offered to turn
id cash and securities to the amount of
$30,000 and settle the case, but the prop
osition was rejected by the board. Did
they then not lose to the county that
amount, to say nothing of the $04,000
they lost in the first place by invali
dating the bond?
The large attorney fees paid to Mike
Harrington for doing the work properly
belonging to the county attorney was
nothing but a steal. The supreme court
has emphatically said that no assistant
county attorney cun be paid out of the;
county funds.
The legal committee handled thous
ands of dollars, and where it went no
man knows. The statute makes no
proyision for a legal committee and it
was made in this case so that a few
favorite ones migh receive large salaries
and perhaps get a chance for a rake-off
occasionally. v
The county attorney was sent on two
junketing tours, one to Mexico and one
to California. It cost the county lots of
money, but the people have thus far
been unable to locate the benefit derived.
Campbell’s trip to Mexico was devoid
of results, yet it cost.
When the county board paid an Omaha
attorney to defend Henry Murphy in
the case bronght against him for false
imprisonment, they surely perpetrated
another steal. They had no more right
to pay tor Murphy’s defense than they
had to pay for the defense of Barrett
Scott, John Skirving, Chever Hazelet,
Hank McEvony or even the three com
missioners from whom they sought to
recover $1,500 claimed to be short on
the sale of those old bonds.
The board paid Judge Roberts for act
ing county attorney while Mr. Murphy
was visiting in the east last January.
Both Roberts and Murphy are certainly
not entitled to pay for the same work.
Office rent and fuel allowed the county
attorney is a little out of the usual order/
When the last county attorney, who. by
the wey, was a republican, asked for
these trimmings he was polite
ly informed that he could occupy a
portion of the sheriff’s office.
The court docket is full of cases
started for no other evident purpore than
to make an attorney fee for Mike Har
rington, and upon which the county has
realized nothing but a 'big bill of ex
pense.
lhis is a partial list of the reforms in
augurated by the populists, and upon
which they go before the people this
fall and ask endorsement and. vindi
cation. The people cannot afford to
gratify them. They wanted a change
and the got it, and with it a little costly
experience. There is but one thing to
do, and that is to "turn the rascals out”,
and elect a set of officials who will give
the public an administration having at
least the color of a lawful one.
Down in Rock county they take the
scalps of beasts of prey in payment of
taxes. If this rule was adopted in Holt
county there would soon be a thinning
out of the rank of populist office seek
ers.—Ainsworth Star-Journal.
Mullcn’s failure to comply with the
law in regard to quarterly statements is
a thing-that cannot be overlooked.
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