The Frontier
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING OOMPANI
KING A CRONIN. Editors.
IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Prohibition national convention,
Pittsburg, May 30.
Republican national convention, St.
Louis, June 16.
Democratic national convention, Chi
cago, July 7.
Populist national convention, St.
Louis, July 22.
Republican state convention to send
delegates to national convention,
Omaha, April 15.
Hard money democrats will meet in
convention at Lincoln April 20.
Republican district convention for
election of national delegares, Broken
Bow April 18; for the nomination of a
congressman, North Platte August 10.
Senator Allen says he will not be
a candidate for the presidential nom
ination at the populist national con
vention. _ _
Tee Son claims authorship of the
expression, “Drove his turkeys to a
poor market." The phrase is as old
as the seven hills of Rome.
The Ord Quiz was fourteen years
old last week and celebrated the oc
casion by an all-at-home print,
which feature will be permanent.
Lent is over and a great many
people who have observed it with
sanctimonious mien and sorrowful
expression now rush again into the
open arms of the world, the flesh
and the devil.
WxvutR has called upon the
Spanish government at Madrid for
40,000 more soldiers. This will
give him an army of nearly 200,000
men. It begins to look as though a
war is in progress in Guba.
Siobitaby Mobtoh has complied
with the law and expended about
$78,000 for seeds to be distributed
gratuitously. Might as well have
thrown the money straight up. We
don’t think much of this free seed
business.
Mb. Reed is causing to be circu
lated his speech made on the tariff
question when it was under consid
eration by the house. • We suppose
this is done to show that Mr. Mo
Kinley is not the only protectionist
who aspires to the presidency.
Judge Kimkaid should not have
any difficulty in seouring the nomi
nation for congress. If the repnb
licans of the district are sincere in
their expressions of hope that the
Big Sixth may be redeemed from
the blight and rast and smnt of
populism they will see to it that he
is nominated. It is not necessary to
speak of his qualifications or his
great popularity with voters of all
classes and all parties. The repub
lican party of this district needs a
Moses to lead it out of the wilder
ness, and there is nothing the matter
with Moses P. Kinkaid.
A bipublioan has been defeated
in O’Neill by a populist, the first
time anything of the kind has oc
curred in the history of the city,
and of com Be the populists will
sound the tom-tom and the hew
gaw, blow the sackbut and claim
that they are making great gains in
the home of the enemy. Let our
brethren throughout the county be
not deceived by their bombast; Mr.
Brennan was wounded in the house
of his friends. Electors who have
no earthly use for a populist voted
for Mr. Murphy; they could not rise
above their personal animosities and
see out beyond the confines of the
city; a chance for revenge was to
them more important than party
supremacy. Some men may con
. aider this kind of work legitimate,
but we are free to confess that we
do not. There may be two kinds of
republicanism, but we are of the
other kind.
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The republicans of Dixon county
assembled in convention last Friday
and whereased that A. £. Barnes, of
Ponca, would make a good attorney
general and in view of his unswerv
ing fealty to the party for the six
teen yean last past he ought to
have the nomination. We acknowl
edge receipt of a copy of the reso
lution and also a request to publish
it. We do not exactly see why we
are expected to devote a half-column
of space to boom Mr. Barnes for
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this office. Let him get his favors
at the same office he gets his legal
notices published He has now for
several years seen fit to have this
class of work done at the Hun
office. Let the Sun do his work
among Holt county republicans. Of
course the Sun is a populist paper,
but that won’t make any difference
to Mr. Barnes, as it was good
enough for him to pay his money to
and it ought to be good enough for
him to trust his political future in
this county with. The Frontier
has no use for any republican who
furnishes the opposition with muni
tions of war, and Holt county re
publicans are a unit on this propo
sition.
POINTED AND PERTINENT.
Don Dickinson will find chasing
rum more expensive and dangerous
than chasing rainbows.
Harrity thinks ex-Govemor Patti
son might be made to accept that
democratic presidential nomination.
There are still a few democrats
who think that a majority of voters
in this country do not favor a pro
tective tariff, but they are getting
fewer all the time.
1 bat “revolt” against the authority
of Speaker Reed over the house
iilled much more space in news
papers unfriendly to Mr. Reed than
it did in the house.
Spain has only spent $100,000,
000 in trying to put down the Cuban
revolution. A mere bagatelle when
compared with the cost of maintain
ing a democratic administration.
Hoke Smith has once more under
taken to explain to the Georgia
voters why he changed his mind
about silver, and Mr. Crisp has taken
the job of showing up the errors in
the explanation.
While the democrats are taking
part in the celebration of Jefferson’s
birthday at Montioello, Va., they
might utilize the opportunity to
select a site for the grave of the
democratic party.
Charges of having purchased
$100,000 worth of bad typo have
been filed against the democratic
public printer, at Washington, by
one of the ex-foremen of the govern
ment printing office.
Colonel Henry Watterson gives
his one time friend this side swipe
in his lecture on Lincoln: “1 gather
from what I have seen of Lincoln
that he was no civil service reformer
of the style of Grover Cleveland.”
The New York Herald registers
the following guess at the first bal
lot of the St. Louis convention:
McKinley 393, Allison 38, Morton
09, Reed 152, Quay 58 and doubtful
103. 455 votes will be required to
nominate.
Senator Faulknor, of West Vir
ginia, whose rainbow chasing
afforded the republicans so much
amusement in the last congressional
campaign, has again been put at the
head of the democratic campaign
committee.
John Bull gets it from every
direction. Just now he is being
awfully abused by the Russian
newspapers, and France is giving
hints of an intention to hamper his
Egyptian campaign if it doesn’t
antagonize it.
Think of seriously discussing the
probability of Texas going republi
can. That is just what those who
are best informed about politics in
that statu are now doing. It all
depends upon the success of a pro
posed fusion with the populists.
The republicans in congress have
done all in their power to secure
legislation to provide the govern
ment with the revenue it needs;
now let them hurry up with the
appropriation bills and adjourn.
The right legislation will be adopted
when the republicans control both
branches of congress and have a
president
The duke of Varagua, the gentle
man who accompanied the Spanish
Infanta during her visit to the
world’s fair at Chicago, and who,
later, indicated his willingness, as a
descendant of Columbus, to accept a
purse from our citizens, has been |
criticising the action of congress on
Cuba He has never .forgiven us
for not getting that purse. i
PRESS COMMENTS.
The few papers throaghont the
state which have supported Mandcr
son on account of state pride, have
had to take water on account of
Manderson’s surrender. Well, we
believe they are not much hurt after
all, as they were really McKinley
men at heart.—Nance County Jour
nal.
Now comes F. W. Smith, of Alli
ance, and states that he will endeav
or to be selected at the convention
at Broken Bow as a district delegate
to the national convention. As he
also states General Manderson is his
choice for president, we are of the
opinion that he will not have the
pleasure of representing us at St.
Louis.—North Platte Telegraph.
Jack McColl’s chances for secur
ing the republican nomination for
governor are getting better and bet
ter every day. Jack has long had
his eye on the gubernatorial chair,
and it’s only a question of time when
he will occupy it. Congressman
Meiklejohn, who for a long time
seemed to have the inside track,
bids fair to be lost in the shuffle by
the time the nominating convention
is held.—Shelton Clipper.
“What does John M. Thurston
expect of a McKinley administra
tion?” asks the Dakota County
Democrat. He expects^ the present
democratic times will change; that
the empty dinner pail upon the wall
will be full of good wholesome food,
and that it will accompany its owner
to the work he is now looking for
ward to when the present bungling,
mis-managing, anti-American admin
istration is removed from the power
which it has obtained through a
mistake. That is what John M.
Thurston expects from a McKinley
administration; that is what the
American people expect from a
McKinley administration, and that
is what they will obtain.—Windside
Tribune.
Some of the press boys have been
chuckling over the supposed fact
that they had Tom Majors killed off
as candidate for governor. When
Tom’s name was spoken of. early in
the year, in connection with the
governorship, the press gang jumped
him hard. The stillness that fol
lowed and reigned in Nemaha nat
urally led to the conclusion that
Tom had succomed to the shafts of
the pencil men. But this was only
a ruse on the part of the hickory
shirt statesman, for at the Nemaha
county republican convention Majors
was endorsed for governor in a set
of resolutions, wherein it is shown
that “Our Tom,” as he affectionately
called, in 1894 polled 94,618
votes as against 78,000 votes for
Orounse in 1862 and 68,000 for L.
D. Richards in 1890. Majors heads
the delegation to Omaha April 15,
and has a front seat on the delega
tion to the congressional convention.
—Hebron Republican.
The common people of the state
are supposed to abide by and be law
abiding citizens, and yet the state
makes no provision for them to be
come acquainted with those laws.
Each session of the legislature enacts
a lot of laws and only a few lawyers
and favored ones ever learn what
those laws are. The laws go into
effect any time from the date of
their passage up to July 1 of the
year in which they are enacted, and
the session laws published by the
state seldom are ready before Octo
ber following, it seems that there
ought to be provisions made by the
legislature for a more general knowl
edge of what the people are expected
to conform to than under the pres
ent system. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars are expended annually by
the masses in defending themselves
against breaches of laws that they
never had any means of knowing
were in existence; this should be
remedied. It can be done by an
act of the legislature authorizing the
publication of all acts passed in at
least two papers in each county in
the state. It would be a matter of
economy to the people, and would
go a long ways toward preventing
the passage of pernicious acts, in
that the people would know just
what their representatives were do
ing and could hold them responsible
for anything favoring oppression
or wrong in any maimer.—Wayne
Republican.
O’NEiLLBUSINESS DIRECTORY
JJR. .T. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Holt County bank building.
All work cash in advance. Night work
positively refused.
O’NEILL, - - NEB.
R. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O’NEILL, NEB.
JJAKNEY STEWART,
PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER.
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Address, Page, Neb.
P^II. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Office In the Judge Roberts building, north
of O. O. Suyder’s lumbor yard,
O NEILL, . NEB.
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Stage leaves O’Neill at 8:30 a. m., arriving at
Spencer at 4 p. m.: at Butte. 5:30 p. m.
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Checker ® Barn,
B. A. DbY ABU AN, Manager.
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Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Finest turnouts in the city.
Good, careful drivers when
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The Finest and Largest stock of good in the Hardware and.
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Riding and walking cultivators,. harrows,
Glidden wire, stoves, oils, cuttlery, tinware.
ELKHORN valley
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PLOW FACTORY,
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EMIL SNIGGS, Prop.
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Wagon and Carriage woodwork carried on in connection.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Also dealer in
Farm Implements. Handles the Scandi implements and
the Plano Bakes, Mowers and Binders. Parties wishing
anything in this line call and see me.
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V-Pres.
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier. .
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