the Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BT
THK FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
WILLIAM Jl'KINLBY.
For Vice-President:
GARRKTT A. HVBART.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor..JOHN H. MacOOLL.
For Lieut. Governor.ORLANDO TEFT.
For Secretary of State.J. A. PIPER.
For Auditor.P.O. HEDLUND.
For Treasurer.CHAS. E. CASEY.
For Superintendent.H R. CORBETT
For Attorney General.... A. S. CHURCHILL.
For OommlMloner.H. 0. RUSSELL.
Supreme Judge, long term.R. RYAN.
Supreme Judge, abort trm...M. P. KINKAID.
Regent..W. G. WHITMORE.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Congressman:
A. E. CADY, of Howard.
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SENATORIAL TICKET.
For Senator:
L. P. GLASS BURN, of Wheeler.
OOUNTT REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Representatives:
JOHN TROMMBRSHAUBSER, of Ewing.
J. A. RICE, of Stuart.
For County Attorney
E. H. BENEDICT, of O'Neill.
For Supervisor Third District;
JOHN HARRINGTON, Jr., of Grattan.
For Supervisor Fifth District:
0. V. FERGUSON, of Inman.
For Supervisor Seventh District:
"■ W. N. COATS, of Stuart.
Nebraska will be in line for Mc
Kinley, MaoColl and soand money.
A vote for A, E. Cady is a vote
for a good, clean and able man to
represent this dutriot in congress.
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Wheat is still going np and silver
down, and every jump upward that
it takes oosts Mr. Bryan a few thou *
sand votes.
Bavin's man agent have become
downhearted They have given
up Illinois and will make their death
straggle in Michigan and Indiana.
Bicm and Trommershaoaaer will
represent this district in the next
session of the legislature. Their
election is a settled fact, it is now
only a question of majority.
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Tbs Penny Press, of Minneapolis,
says that Mark Hanna is responsible
for the rise in the price of wheal
This is the only good act the popo
cratie press have accused that gentle
man of doing.
Wbbm making up your ballot do
not forget to vote for John Harring
ton for supervisor. He is a young
man who has grown to manhood in
this county and is competent to look
after the interests of the people, and
he will doit.
Oubskcs Sblab, president of the
Bryan free silver club, says that
protection has increased the price of
agricultural products and raised the
wages of the American laborer.
He does not deny that it would do it
again. He thinks that the free and
' unlimited coinrge of silver at the
ratio of 18 to T would do the
same. It is merely a supposition.
That protection would do it is an
“unanswerable fact” How then can
■ l man advocate a policy which he
thinks will bring about a certain
state of affairs in opposition to a
policy that he is positive will accom
plish the desired result?
£/';; ■ k . '
Our candidate for county attorney,
E. H. Benedict, is well qualified to
fill the position to which he aspires.
He is a graduate of the law depart'
mentof the Iowa State University
and has been engaged in the practice
of his profession since graduation,
fourteen years ago. The citizens of
Holt county need a lawyer to look
after their interests and if they de
sire a faithful and able servant they
will elect E. H. Benedict.
The article in another column
under the caption “About Mexico,’
should cause every fair-minded man
to consider well before he votes for
Bryan and free silver. The article
in question is taken from the Herald
of Hurley, S. D. Mr. Balch is an
old friend of O. O. Snyder, of this
city, and is one of the most promi
nent business men in that section of
the state, and his statements can be
relied upon. The investigation he
made was not that of a politician
but of a conservative business man
seeking knowledge of the condition
of the people in that free silver
country. The condition of affaire
there is such that no man
should wish to bring this country to
the level of Mexico.
Governor Holcomb made an ad
dress at Norfolk a few days ago.
Among other things which the News
of that city asked the governor to
explain when he got to talking of
the economy of his administration,
is whether he draws from the state
treasury each year the sum of $750
for “house rent.” in addition .to his
stipulated salary of $2,500. This is
an item that both Gov. Cronnse and
Gov. Boyd refused to accept, and it
can hardly be possible that a great
reformer like the present governor,
who was elected to see that no pub
lic money was squandered, would
draw a rake-off of this amount from
the taxpayers of the state. He was
asked to explain whether the state
pays his house rent, and if so how
much does it cost the taxpayers to
keep a roof over his head ? It seems
as though $750 a year would rent a
pretty comfortable mansion for a
“man of the common people.”—
Fremont Tribune.
Oua friend T. V. Golden evidently
has enough of the open letter busi
ness. In his letter in the last issue of
the Sun he enters a denial to the
statements made, but it is so weak
that it amounts to about an admission
of statements made in The Frontier
two weeks ago, so there is no chance
for an argument there. About the
only difference we can see is in the
language used in his coversation
with J. L. Coppoo which he says
was not as stated in The Frontier and
the interpretation of the democratic
platform of 1802. The people who
drew up the platform and who were
instrumental in securing the nomi
nation of Mr. Cleveland say that his
policy on the financial question is
right and in accordance with the
platform. We suppose they knew
what they wanted and we acoept
their interpietation of it The
democratic party has always been
for sound money, until this year, as
anyone can readily see by reading
the platforms of that party.
Evkby voter should vote for the
proposed constitutional amendment
to be fonnd at the head of the con
stitutional amendment ticket for the
increase of the number of supreme
judges from three, the present num
ber, to five, the number proposed,
thus dispensing with the three
supreme court commissioners, be
cause:
First—The large amount of
work of the supreme bench renders
such an inorease necessary.
Second—Because it is more in
accordance with the principles of our
government that judges be elected
than that commissioners be ap
pointed by the court
Third—Because by the substitu
tion of two judges for the three com
missioners there will be a saving in
salary of $2,500 for one commis
sioner and $1,000 for his stenog
rapher, amounting to $3,500 pei
annum.
Fourth—Unless the constitution
can be thus amended at this election
a constitutional convention will be
provided for, occasioning an expense
of at least $150,000.00.
ABOUT MEXICO.
Hon. C. J. Bach has some inter
esting experiences to relate since his
return from his southern trip.
After the adjournment of the Sover
eign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., at
Dallas, Texas, a party of 125, rep
resenting nearly every state in the
union, went on an excursion to
Monterey, Mexico. Mr. Bach says
he does not know how many Bryan
or silver men there were in the
party when they started from Dallas,
but he says he does know that there
was not a single one when they
crossed the Bio Grande river on
their return.
When he asked the amount of his
bill at the hotel in Monterey, the
reply was “six dollars.” He laid
down a United States $5 gold piece,
and in change received 14 in Mexi
can silver money; the gold piece
passing for $10 in Mexican money.
He went to one of the banks and
asked for a $5 Mexican gold piece,
and had to pay for the same $10.50
in Mexican silver money. After
reaching Laredo, on the Bio Grande,
he went into a cigar Btore and
bought a quarter’s worth of cigars,
offering in payment therefor the $5
Mexican gold piece, and received in
change $475 in United States
money.
■tie tnererore had proof positive
that our gold coins are worth double
their face value in Mexico in Mexi
can silver; that Mexican gold is
worth in Mexico double the face
value of Mexican silver coin, (be
sides a liberal percentage to ex
change the same to make allowance
for the constant fluctuating of the
white metal), and that Mexican gold
coins are worth their faoe value on
United States soil. He also dis
covered that one of our silver dollars
was worth two of the Mexican make.
And that the real value of the Mexi
can dollar changes from day to day
as the price of silver bullion fluctu
ates in the markets of the world.
Expert laborers get good wages,
as they do everywhere, but common
labor is very low. A contractor, who
was paving one of the^streets in
Monterey, paid 36 cents a day in
Mexican silver for his common
laborers, while the men who laid the
brick received $100 per month in
Mexican silver. Carpenters in the
same city were getting 75 cents a
day, stone masons 75 cents, street
car drivers 35 cents, stationery engi
neers $40 per month, hired girls $3
a month.
Through the courtesy of the land
lord of the hotel at which he stopped
he copied from bills of goods some
of the prices paid for the necessaries,
as follows:
Ham, per pound..# 45
Bacon, do . 38
Lard, do . 24
Butter, do . 75
Beef, do . 15
Pork, do . 15
8ugar, do . 12
Rice, do . 12
Am cheese do . 45
Green coffee do . 37
Chicken do . 8l
Oat Meal do . 15
Flour per 100 .... 8 50
Corn meal do . 7 00
Ice do . 1 00
The poor laborers buy shelled
corn, black beans and lard; a day’s
rations costing them about three
cents for eaoh person.—Hurley (S.
D.) Herald.
Nourish
Him.
That’s the whole secret In a
word* We can cure no disease
unless we can keep up the pa
tient's strength. And there's
only one way to do that—Iced
him. But if the system refuses
food? Then use SCOTT'S
EMULSION of Cod-liver Oil
with Hypophosphitcs. It goes
STRAIGHT TO THE BLOOD,
stops the wasting, rekindles
the vital flr^ makes new flesh
and so renders a hooeful fight
possible against ANY disease.
Especially is this so in bron
chial and lung troubles, in the
relief and cure of which Scott’s
Emulsion has won its reputa
tion. Book about it free.
Scott's Emulsion is no mySoiou
mixture. It is non-nauseat
ing and Infinitely preferable to the
plain ofl. The genuine has our trade
mark on salmon-colored wrapper. Gat
the genuine.
Foe sale at SO cts. and $M)0 by all
druggists.
SCOTT a BOWNB, It«w York.
UP TO THE SAME OLD TRICK8.
Aa Attempt to Palm Off Old Forgeries ud
Fakes On German Voters,
The Democratic state central commit*
tee of Nebraska has just put in circula
tion, at so late a day in the campaign
that it was hoped the fraud would es
cape detection, a pamphlet printed in
the German language which reprints all
of the exploded forgeries and fakes of
the campaign. Utterances of Lincoln,1
Grant, Garfield, Blaine, McKinley, and
others, are garbled so as to misstate
their position. Then the old Financial
News forgery is trotted ont again to do
service in a new dress, and the Bismarck
letter which was printed by the silver
press under a forged translation, is pnt
ont as new and original and genuine, j
Although the pamplet is issued by the
Democratic state central committee, the
evidence exists that the expense of
printing was borne by Guy Barton of
Omaha, a life-long Republican until
this year, and manager of the Omaha
smelters, owned by the Omaha and
Grant Smelting company, with smelters
at Denver and Omaha. Mr. Barton’s
interest in the matter, and his unusual
generosity, ore explained by a conversa
tion had with him by a close friend
since the campaign opened. He was
asked if he had "gone crazy” on the sil
ver question. He replied that his com
pany owned nearly one million ounces
of silver; that if the price of bullion ad
vanced under free coinage, the rise in
value would be clear profit; that if it did
not advance, the company could pay its
employes in dollars costing but fifty-two
cents; and that, figured from this stand
point, he would be “in it” either wayJ
The Democratic state oentral commit
tee and "Silver Baron” Barton may be
good teachers for the Nebraska voters;
with their fakes and forgeries and stale
chestnuts, and they may be able to fool
a few of our German citizens, but the
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Nebraska has never had a more care
ful, prudent or conscientious secretary
of state than J. A. Piper, the present
incumbent of that office and candidate
for re-election. He is well equipped,
both by education and experience, for
the position, and the best proof of his
ability and good character is shown in
the fact that he was nominated for
county clerk of Harlan county four
times unanimously, and generally
elected. He has given the state an
economical administration. A part of
his economies was the saving to the
state in the publication of the constitu
tional amendments to be voted on at
the approaching eleotion. Under the
law he could have printed the amend
ments so they wonld have oest about
$80,000, this sum to be distributed
among Republican newspapers, but he
was prudent and careful in this as in
other matters, the result being that the
publication will oost the state about
one-half of that amount. Under his
pruning knife the incidental expenses
of the last legislature were about $9,000
less than they would have been by fol
lowing old precedents. As keeper of
the “great seal” and the records of the
state Mr. Piper has in every wav proven
himself worthy of a great public trust.
A Farmer** Political SpMch.
Some Lancaster county farmers were
recently discussing the money question
and endeavoring to get at the cause of
low prices of farm products. Captain
Baird, himself an old farmer, listened
for a long time and then joined in, as fol
lows: “Boys, let’s see if;We can’t get
at the facts right here among ourselves,
without calling in any evidence from
outside of Lancaster county. Let’s
don’t take anybody’s word for anything
that we don’t know by our own observa
tion. All of you remember that during
the three years of drouth, covered
wagons were moving out of the state,
and some of the men whp owned land
began to be afraid that there wouldn’t
be renters enough. Renters around
here thought there would plenty of
farms to rent and so they didn’t hustle
for the leases. Hew did it turn out?”
It was remarked that land was scarcer
than ever and that some farmers in the
neighborhood hadn’t been able to find a
foot of land to rent for this season.
“Now what is the cause?” asked the
captain. “Here we have all seen snoh
a competition for land as we never saw
before, and farming we all know isn’t
profitable. Why? Since the election
in 1892 hundreds of men in Linooln
have been thrown out of work. They
were busy before in building houses,
making publio improvements, working
in factories and on the railroads. All
at once they find there is no more work
to do. They needn’t go to other towns,
for the same thing is true everywhere.
They have to live, and so they have
been flaring around and renting farms
out from under you renters out here.
Horses are cheap, and they have fitted
themselves out for farming, and here
they are, competing with you for land
and selling grain instead of buying, as
they did when they were at work in
town.”
A hum of approval followed this tell
ing point. One of the farmers said:
“I have heard a lot of speeches about
silver and everything, but nobody ever
made the case so clear as Captain
Baird.” Others agreed with him that
what the country needs is the opening
of the mills and not.the mints.
elKHorn valley
PLOW FACTORY.....
O’NEILL, NEB. EMIL SNIGGS, Prop.
-Manufactures the Hamnell Open Mould-Board Stirring
Plow. Also general blacksmithing and practical horseshoer.
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.
THE•STATE■BANK
OF omiliL.
CAPITAL $30,000.
Prompt Attention Given to Collections
DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Chicago Lumber Yard
Headquarters for . . .
LUMBER
1 COAL and
BUILDING MATERIAL
The Stock is dry, being cured
By the largest dry-sheds in the world.
(O'Neill,
Yards < Page,
( Allen.
0.0. SNYDER & GO,
U NblLL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
J)B. J. P. GILLI6AN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in Holt County - building.
All work cash in advance. Night work
positively refused.
O’NEILL, . » ' . NEB.
ABNEY STEWABT,
PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Address, Page, Neb,
J^H. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Office in the Judge Roberts building, north
of O. O. Bnvder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
O’NEILL m SOTS COTOTT STABS
Stage leaves O'Neill at 8:39 a. m., arriving at
Spencer at 1 p. m.; at Butte. 5:30 p. x.
DeYARMAN'S BARN.
S. D. Gaixbktinb, Prop.
B. A. DbYARMAN, Manager.
PUitW* MMWW^.IL’B1!—■
1d-Y ARMAN’S I
PfWfPPfIMB
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Finest tnrnonts in the city.
Good, careful drivers when
wanted. ALo run the O’Neill
Omnibus line. Commercial
trade a specialty.
HOTEL
—-£ VANS
. Enlarged
Refurnished
Refitted
Only First-class Hotel
In the City.
W. T. EVANS, Prop.
PurohiM Tlokata and Consign . pour
Freight via tho
F. E.&M.V.andS.C.&P
Freight east, • • - 8:10 p. m.
qoxhq was*.
Freight west, - •.. 2:10 P. m
Passenger west, • , 9:27 p. m
Freight, - . 2:10 p.m.
The Elkhorn Line is now running Itecllnlng
Ohalr Cars dally, between Omaha and Dead
wood, jree to holders of first-clast transpor
tatlon.
Fer any Information call on
Wa J. DOBBS, Agt.^
RAILROADS.
TRAINS DEPART!
GOING UlT.
Passenger east,
Freight east.
9:80 a. m
10:80 a. m
O’NEILL. NEB.