The Frontier. ’■ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY ,'V HE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY * D. H. CBONIN, Editor. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. All our subscribers who are owing us on subscription are requsted to call and settle their account Do not put off the payment of your sub scription, but come and pay up at once. We need the money to keep our business going, and if our sub scribers do not come in and pay up we will have to employ a collector. Please call and settle. Thebe isn’t'the slightest doubt that the senate ’will ratify the arbi tration treaty, after slightly amend ing it. Jebby Simpson made his re-entry into congress by declaring himself in favor of free tariff and direct taxatiom -..■. Little Davie Hill seems to have crawled into a hole and polled the . hole in after him, since he dropped oat of the senate. -.... Scott Jackson and Alonzo Wall ing were hanged at Newport, Ky., . last Saturday for the murder of Pearl Bryan in 1896. Wondeb if any of the Nevada tourists, except the managers of the big skin-game, think they got the worth of their money. Pebhaps Senator Daniels does not value the endorsement given him by the Virginia populists as highly as they thought he would. It is just as well for Mr. Bayard to get all the eulogies he can from the English, as he will get none on this Bide of the Atlantic. President McKinley wasted no words in telling' congress exactly What it was oalled in extra session to do, and the people have a right to expect that congress will waste v no time in doing it When the democrats sneer at the Dingley tariff-hill as “only another McKinley bill,” they pay the new bill a decided compliment It was another McKinley bill that the peo ple ordered last November. 0: How would it do to make the democrats in offloe, who are olaim , ing protection under Mr. Cleveland's extensions of the civil service rules, 0 pus the same examination required of outside applicants for the same positions ? S. J. Young has disposed of the Hartington Herald. 8. J. has pnb lished one of the neatest oountry papers in the state, and The Fbon tieb is sorry to see him leave the ranks of Northwestern Nebraska journalists, but wish him success wherever he may cast his lot - Ip Mr. Cleveland hadn’t shipped ; wine to his Princeton house, five men then in the employ of the Pennsylvania R. B. would not be hunting jobs. The men drank the wine, got drunk, and have been dis charged. Another temperance object lesson, and from an unex pected quarter. War did the populist legislature refuse to investigate the specif io l charges made by Hedlond against the reoonnt commission? Can it be possible that this great party of re form, whose members have been continually harping about republi (v cans palliating and condoning the offenses of officers of their party, de sr* sire to shield this board in its ne farious work? It looks that way. Tbsbx is not the slightest excuse for a long debate in the senate on the new tariff bilL The country thoroughly understands the under lying principles of the measure— protection to American industries and revenue to meet the deficit Any attempt on the part of the democrats and assistant democrats in the senate to lengthen the debate in that body will be made solely to delay the putting iu effect of the ’.measure,. . , , k . ,! . > '-v r ' .i h . ■ AT LINCOLN. Lincoln, Nkb., March 22—Special Correspondence: Blackstone, if I can quote from memory correctly, defines law as being “a rule of action prescribed by the chief power of the state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.” In Ne braska, the cbifef power of the state is the will of the people expressed by the ballot The majority rules. They make the rule of actions which governs, not only the citizen but the public official. We have three do partments in our state government; the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. The people by their constitution, have prescribed the limits of power which each of, these departments may exercise. Neither may trespass upon the other. No two of them can rule the state without the other. If the legislature enacts a measure that measure is law so long as it goes unchallenged. But if any citi zen challenges the measure, then it stops, and its force is held, in abey ance until the judiciary decides that it is within the constitution. If it were not for this check upon the legislative power, it might, if in accord with the executive, go on en acting laws without limit until the constitution, the essence of the people’s will, would be set aside. Such a condition would be revolution. The humblest oitizen of the state,the poorest man, the weakest woman, or the smallest child, may stand before a legislative enactment and deny its force until the court has pronounced it law. In n community like ours, the pro gross of the people toward higher civilization is measured by their tendenoy to proceed with their gov ernment along the prescribed lines as laid down by the constitution. If a large proportion of the people at any particular time, for any particu lar partisan purpose, manifests a disposition to over-ride their own constitution by changing it in an irregular way to Buit some particular present political situation, then it is fair to say that the community is in a disorderly, lawless, and revolution ary mood. Eaoh state in the union has a char acter, an individuality, which is the basis of its reputation. Ohio has a good reputation, because its people are orderly and law-abiding. Mis sissippi has a bad reputation, be cause the people there break their own laws by common consent. The reputation of a state affects also the reputation of eaoh individ ual in the state. An honest farmer or business man in Ohio has a better standing than the same kind of a man has in Mississippi. If it were wired to Nebraska to day that a hundred thousand families of Ohio people were ready to come to this state and be citizens, that a like number of families from Miss issippi were also ready to come, and that it was left to Nebraska to choose which it would accept, what would be the choice? The people, who have homes and farms and business interests to protect and who want to live peaceably under the law, would undoubtedly choose the Ohio famil ies. But if the choice was left to the present governor, the present legislature, the present fusion cauous and the omnipresent private secre tary, the Mississippi people would be inviteded, because they would be natural allies in the lawless and revolutionary proceedings now going VII* The Ohio people if they were here would Bay, “Submit the recount act to the coutt and see if it is constitu tional before you put it into force” The Mississippi people would say, “Sam the court! Whenever we get hold of a rope let’s pull on it, court or no court” Now, Nebraska has come to the parting of the ways. We will pro ceed either by the Ohio or the Mis sissippi method. There is a collision between law and lawlessness. The engines are rushing together with tremendous force. If the engine of law is borne down and crushed by the shock, then the train of state government is on a down grade toward Mississippi conditions. The people here at Lincoln begin to see the issue now as they did not at first The scnnd of the clash is in every ear. Never before did the question come bo squarely before the people, “Is there a constitution, is there a conrt, is there law, and is there re straint upon the governor and the legislature as well as upon the peo ple?” Let us retrace the steps which have brought us to this dan ger line of anarchy, and which today attracts the attention of every reading man in the United States. First the people, years ago, by their votes, adopted a constitution which is the basis of all statutory law, and governs the governor, the courts, and the legislature as well as the common people. In this con stitution is provided that it cannot be changed except the people, by their votes, signify their consent. Twelve amendments to this con stitution were submitted to the peo ple. The people voted on the^e amendments, counted and returned their votes and declared by these returns that they did not want the amendments." Then the governor and legislature, being in coptrol, said: “It would be a great advant age to ns to have this one particular amendment adopted. We will there fore set aside these returns which the people have made, will create a new counting board of our own, and will count these ballots and make a return of our own.” Then they passed house roll No. 8. '..They gagged the mouth of every protestor in their caucus. They put the cau cus collar about the neck of every honest man, locked it, and the gov ernor held the key. All this time the people looked on indifferently. They had been be trayed by republican officials, and the tendency of the people, when they have been betrayed by one set of politicians, is to give their confi dence to some other set of politicians without being very particular as to just what becomes of it. The people said, “Yes, this fusion legislature is ring ruled and reckless, just as republican legislatures were, but they can’t be much worse.” This is the kind of philosophy with which ;he average citizen Bolaces himself intil the downward trend is so pre npitous that he becomes alarmed. Thousands of people who con doned the acts of this legislature a tew weeks ago are now wrought up .0 the highest tension, and are watching every new move with the keenest interest. All the time they were preparing to defile the ballot and seize the supreme court by force, they beat the tom tom of honest pretentions in the ears of the publio. They played the peoplo with the confidence game ef “Canada Bill.” Maret whispered the secret wishes of the governor to to the ring bosses, but to the public he declared that the governor had only the most honorable intentions. The governor himself, on every possible ocoasion, took pains to say over and over again that he was honorable in bis intentions. Ed mundson, the oil inspector, and tho oil ejector, spewed out this oil of honest pretentions over the troubled waters from morning till night, week in and week out. No legal restraint was attempted against this conspiracy until every pacific means was exhausted. They refused a nonpartisan board. They refused au open count. Every one of the ballots had been counted openly before the publio at the time of the election. Now they were to be counted in secret The court was appealed to. A restraining order was issued, commanding the coun ters to desist and hold the ballots until the constitutionality of the act was decided. Then the spirit of Mississippi rose tip in Nebraska and said: “We will count these ballots and count tHem our way, court or no court, constitution or no constitu tion—damn the constitution.” Then a committee of the house broke into the room where the ballots were and seized them by force. They are not our ballots now. They are bastard ballots, disowned, discredited, and tainted with fraud. Hedlund’s ex posure has startled the. whole state. He says thousands of ballots were miscounted. He boldly charges fraud and asks the gobernor to in vestigate. The governor promptly dismisses Hedlund, who exposed the fraud, but retains the others who committed the fraud. Republicans la the hoase moved for investiga tion bat the populists voted it down. This is the way reform goes on at the state capital. You who think I have been too severe on the popu lists, and have put too much stress on this recount matter, come and see for yourselves. J. W. Johnson. The new tariff bill is all right. Now let congress get it throngh as early ps possible. Then the busi ness of the country will have a chance to improve. ' The charges made by Ole Hed lund, one of the members of the cnnvassing board appointed by Governor Holcomb, are serious and should be thoroughly investigated. 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